b'Productive Timesthem to cut in all the time, Schwi-erking said.Afteralittlemorethantwo months and testing four or five it-erations, he said Concept Metals Group had the thread chaser that it needed with no gauging or surface Concept Metals Groupfinish issues. Concept Metals Group reduced its tool costs and lead times by switching to custom thread The threading cycle time is thechaser inserts from Quality Chaser.same as when applying the origi-nal chaser, and tool life is compara- would have been considering how ex- Although it took some back and blemaybe even better, Schwi- pensive the chasers were getting andforth, Schwierking said Concept erking said. also the lead time, Schwierking said. Metals Group has thread chasers He conceded that Concept Met- He said the shorter lead timethat meet its cost and lead time re-als Group would not have lost theallows Concept Metals Group toquirements and perform effectively.job if it had failed to find a replace- avoid keeping as much inventory ofProbably better than they would ment thread chaser. the chasers as the company main- like because I havent had to order But I dont know how profitable ittained previously. many of them, he said.CTEAd IndexADVERTISER NAME PAGE # ADVERTISER NAME PAGE # ADVERTISER NAME PAGE #Agathon Machine Tools 22 JM Performance Products Inc.50 Rush Machinery 40Allied Machine and Engineering 17 J.W. Done Co. 46 Sandvik Coromant Co. 43ANCA CNC Machines 34 Kennametal Inc. 5 Scientific Cutting Tools 38ARCH Cutting Tools 9 Koma Precision Inc. 51 SMW Autoblok Corp. 25Beckett Packaging, a div. of MOCAP 36 Lang Technovation 53 Star SU LLC 39BIG DAISHOWA Inc. 24 Marubeni Citizen-Cincom Inc. Cover 4 Strausak Inc. 37Ceratizit USA Inc. Cover 2 Mate Precision Tooling 18-19 SW North America Inc. 31Erowa Technology Inc. 28 Mazak Corporation 3 UNISIG 11GF Machining Solutions 10 MIKRON TOOL 14 Vargus USA 29Greenleaf Corporation 32-33 Mitee-Bite Products LLC 29 Vektek Inc. 27The Grinding Doc 59 NSK America Corporation 23 Vollmer of America Corporation 26Guhring Inc. 45 Platinum Tooling Technologies Inc. 49 Walter USA LLC 35GWS Tool Group 44 Rollomatic Inc. 55 Widia North America 7Haimer USA LLC 41 Royal Products 57, 59 Zoller Inc. 13Iscar USA 15, 47The Advertisers Index is provided as a courtesy to advertisers. Every effort is made to avoid errors, but should one occur, CTE is not responsible.Reviewed by the Engineering Index.Cutting Tool Engineering (ISSN:0011-4189) is published monthly. Copyright 2023 by CTE Publications Inc., 1 Northfield Plaza, Suite 240, Northfield, IL 60093-1213. All rights re served. Periodicals postage paid at Winnetka, IL 60093 and additional mailing offices. Circulated in the U.S.A. to qualified individuals concerned with the material-cutting function in industry. For others, subscrip-tions are $85 per year in the U.S.A.; $145 in Canada. Other foreign subscriptions are $145 per year; overseas delivery via airmail, $225. EditorialProduced in the U.S.A.and advertising offices: 1 Northfield Plaza, Suite 240, Northfield, IL 60093-1213. Phone (847) 498-9100; Fax (847) 559-4444. This magazine is protected under U.S. and international copyright laws. Before reproducing anything from this publication, call the Copyright Clearance Center Inc. at (978) 750-8400. CTE Pub lications makes every effort to ensure that the processes described in Cutting Tool Engineering con-form to sound machining practices. Neither the authors nor the publisher can be held responsible for injuries sustained while following procedures described herein. Postmaster: Send address changes to Cutting Tool Engineering, PO Box 1487, Cedar Rapids, IA 52406-1487. Canada Post: Publications Mail Agreement #40065725. Canada returns to be sent to 2835 Kew Dr., Windsor, ON N8T 3B7. 60APRIL 2023 ProTimes.indd 60 3/16/23 2:04 PM'