Measuring systems for tool monitoring

High productivity combined with low production costs and high workpiece quality are the essential prerequisites for cost-efficiency, competitiveness and sustainability in the machining industry. Requirements for machining are extremely strict across different industry sectors and can vary greatly depending on the production process or workpiece.

Since machines today often operate unmanned and around the clock, and since there are multiple influencing variables that impact machining processes, these processes must be monitored continuously. Cutting force monitoring offers the advantage that it takes place where the action happens, so both tool-side and workpiece-side anomalies stand out. 

Continuous monitoring of machining processes, cutting tools and machine tools provides valuable real-time data and establishes the basis for predictable, productive and reproducible production processes. Ideally, this monitoring allows users to react immediately to deviations in the process: identifying tool wear early on and preventing tool breakage in order to entirely avoid time-consuming and costly consequences like unplanned machine downtime, damage to machines, quality loss and scrap.

As experts with many years of experience in dynamic measurement technology, we offer practical, tailored and sustainable solutions for a variety of different machine tools and machining applications. Our systems for tool, process and machine monitoring rely on highly sensitive piezoelectric sensors that, integrated either into the tool or the machine structure, make it possible to measure complex machining processes in real time.

Benefit from our wide-ranging application expertise. We are your partner for machining – from retrofitting equipment in existing machinery pools all the way to collaborative development of a new system with integrated sensor technology. Discover the application-specific solutions Kistler has developed for industry.