A cutting tool includes a shaft portion. The shaft portion includes an increased-diameter portion having a diameter larger than a diameter of other portion of the shaft portion. The increased-diameter portion has a recessed portion formed in a peripheral surface of the increased-diameter portion.

A double-sided cutting insert for milling which has eight main cutting edges and eight wiper edges. The cutting insert includes top and bottom faces and four side faces. Each side face includes first and second sub-faces inclined with respect to each other. The first sub-face has a main cutting edge adjacent to the top face and a wiper edge adjacent to the bottom face. The second sub-face has a wiper edge adjacent to the top face and a main cutting edge adjacent to the bottom face. The wiper edge of the second sub-face is inclined inwardly relative to the cutting insert with respect to the main cutting edge of the first sub-face. The wiper edge of the first sub-face is inclined inwardly relative to the cutting insert with respect to the main cutting edge of the second sub-face.

A cutting insert is suitable for 90° shoulder milling. The cutting insert includes two end surfaces: first and second end surfaces; a peripheral side surface extending therebetween; and a cutting edge formed at an intersecting ridge portion between the first end surface and the peripheral side surface. The cutting edge is formed so that the first end surface functions as a rake face and a part of the peripheral side surface functions as a flank. A side surface portion of the peripheral side surface adjacent to at least a part of the cutting edge includes a first flank portion adjacent to the cutting edge, a second flank portion, a third flank portion, and a fourth flank portion in this order from the first end surface side toward the second end surface side.

The objective of the present invention is to provide a cutting insert which reduces cutting load and can be accurately positioned at a coupling part of a cutting tool even if cutting edges are broken or deformed. To this end, the cutting insert of the present invention includes an upper surface, a lower surface, a plurality of lateral surfaces connecting the upper surface with the lower surface, and a plurality of upper cutting edges formed between the plurality of lateral surfaces and the upper surface. In addition, the cutting insert coupled with the coupling part of the cutting tool includes: first and second upper cutting load reducing portions formed on the upper surface and provided at each side coming in contact with first and second upper cutting edges of the plurality of upper cutting edges facing each other so as to reduce the cutting load; and a one side position setting portion provided on a first lateral surface of the plurality of lateral surfaces not coming in contact with the first and second upper cutting edges so as to set the position of the cutting insert in the coupling part.

A cutting tool, system, method and computer program product for increasing traceability of at least a first cutting edge of a cutting tool. The method includes detecting at least a first identification marker on the cutting tool, reading the at least first identification marker, decoding the at least first identification marker to determine at least a first cutting edge information data included in the machine readable code of the at least first identification marker, generating a first cutting tool identification data based on at least the at least first cutting edge information data, and storing at least any of the at least first cutting tool identification data and the at least first cutting edge information data in a memory.

An internal milling cutter includes a carrier disk having a centre axis defining an axis of rotation of the milling cutter, a plurality of separated tool holder segments removably mounted at the inner circumference of the carrier disk, and at least one clamp for each tool holder segment mounted either on the carrier disk or on the tool holder segment. Each of the tool holder segments at its inner circumference includes at least one cutting insert seat with a mounting element for a cutting insert or at least one cutting edge. The clamp is located and arranged such that it generates a force in the axial direction pressing the axial contact surface of the tool holder segment onto the axial abutment surface of the carrier disk, and the clamp is mounted movably in a radial direction of the carrier disk between a locking position and a releasing position.

The disclosure relates to a method, computer program product and system for decreasing the risk of erroneously handling a tool in a machine operation. The system includes a reader device for reading a machine readable code arranged at a tool part and an electronic device having a processing circuitry configured to cause the system to receive desired operation data indicative of a tool part to be used during the machine operation. The method includes the steps of receiving desired operation data indicative of the tool part to be used during the machine operation, detecting the identification marker at the tool part, reading, by the reader device, the machine readable code of the identification marker, identifying the tool part, and determining if the identified tool part corresponds to the tool part according to the desired operation data, the identification marker being a machine readable code associated with the tool part.

A system, method and computer program product arranged for managing the operation of a machine and tracing the use of a cutting edge of a cutting tool used in the operation of the machine. The method includes the steps of reading an identification marker of a cutting edge of a cutting tool inserted into the machine, decoding the identification marker to determine a cutting edge information data associated with the cutting edge, obtaining machine operation data associated with the operation of the machine from the machine, and generating a first association data indicative of the cutting edge information data and the machine operation data.

A compacting device and a method for producing a cutting insert green body by compacting a powder is provided. A die contributes to defining a die cavity that defines the shape of the green body to be formed. The die includes an upper die part defining an upper part of said die cavity together with an upper punch, a lower die part defining a lower part of the die cavity together with a lower punch, and intermediary die members, which are moveable in a plane perpendicular to a pressing axis and which define an intermediary part of the die cavity. The intermediary part of the die cavity defines an undercut portion, which extends circumferentially around the green body to be formed and which includes three or more peripheral indexing grooves in the green body.

An internal milling cutter includes a carrier disk having a centre axis defining an axis of rotation of the milling cutter, a plurality of separated tool holder segments removably mounted at the inner circumference of the carrier disk, and at least one clamp for each tool holder segment mounted either on the carrier disk or on the tool holder segment. Each of the tool holder segments at its inner circumference includes at least one cutting insert seat with a mounting element for a cutting insert or at least one cutting edge. The clamp is located and arranged such that it generates a force in the axial direction pressing the axial contact surface of the tool holder segment onto the axial abutment surface of the carrier disk, and the clamp is mounted movably in a radial direction of the carrier disk between a locking position and a releasing position.