Repairing, remanufacturing, and refurbishing high value metal components are crucial to move towards a more sustainable economy. Nowadays, repairing operations on parts, such as dies, generally performed using time-consuming manual approaches that rely the operator’s expertise. The research idea of this paper is develop retrofit kit provide additive capabilities an existing milling machine, all...

The purpose of this research paper is to study the tool wear and surface roughness of AISI 8620 material using coated ceramic tool by turning process. Ceramic cutting tools have outstanding material hardness, resistance to high temperatures, wear resistance, chemical stability and hot hardness. Ceramic tool with Al2O3 + TiC (golden) coating was used to investigate the surface roughness and tool...

The present work analyses different parameters of end milling to minimize the surface roughness for AISI D2 steel. D2 Steel is generally used for stamping or forming dies, punches, forming rolls, knives, slitters, shear blades, tools, scrap choppers, tyre shredders etc. Surface roughness is one of the main indices that determines the quality of machined products and is influenced by various cut...

Tooling in the die and mould industry is subjected to high-wear high-temperature environments, which often leads premature failure of this high-added-value tooling. When severe damage occurs, an alternative replacing whole component consists repair by laser-directed energy deposition (L-DED). For that end, intermediate layers are commonly employed as buffer material, where introducing a functio...