Benefits

CuttingEdge offers you a wide range of application possibilities. Whether you want to benefit from the visualization of process monitoring, introduce inline quality control, aim for new business models (e.g., pay-per-use or pay-per-stress) or compensate for the shortage of skilled workers, we will be happy to advise you.

Raise Optimization Potentials

Increase productivity and quality and save resources at the same time, that’s the promise of CuttingEdge.

Data-based process monitoring of every single manufacturing step in your production enables you to increase your cost efficiency, improve quality and reduce your carbon footprint.

Up to 20% increased performance and efficiency

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What can CuttingEdge World do For You?

Extended Tool Life

Tools and operating resources can be used better and longer.

Increase Productivity

Increased throughput and possible shorter delivery times create competitive advantages.

Optimize Quality

Quality variations in raw materials and workpieces are detected. Quality data is automatically collected in the process.

Compensate for Shortage of Skilled Workers

Work steps can be eliminated or become significantly less labor-intensive thanks to inline quality control.

Enhance Sustainability

Thanks to increased efficiency in the processes, fewer rejects are produced, resources are used more efficiently, energy and materials are saved.

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Who Can Benefit From CuttingEdge World?

Component Producers

Analyze, compare, and optimize processes using detailed actual data. Together with your suppliers for systems and cutting tools, you will improve your processes based on data. You benefit from production planning and control, optimize processes, increase efficiency, and reduce maintenance costs. Simplify the management of any supplier and customer complaints.

For Plant Manufacturers

Improve the service for your systems thanks to a data-based predictive maintenance from your customers’ production. Gain powerful insights on how your customers use your devices and avoid over-engineering. Introduce flexible maintenance intervals for your devices.

Additive and Operating Equipment Manufacturer

Gain access to data of your products used by component producers. Optimize your cutting tools using data from both your manufacturing and the usage by your customer.

Raw Material Producers

Component producers generate a lot of information when machining your workpiece, e.g., about blowholes, hardness differences, or surface geometry data. Benefit from this information to optimize your production and product quality. Together with the component manufacturer, you also create the basis for a data-based, automated complaint management.

Computer-aided Manufacturing (CAM) Software Provider

Contribute to further development of the cutting technology by implementing process monitoring impulses in your software and thus improving it. Together with the machine control, for example, an improved control of the CAD data to the cut product is possible.

Discover the Possibilities with CuttingEdge

Visualization of Process Monitoring for Milling and Drilling

3D visualizations of the process allow visual tracking of the milling and drilling process incl. possible anomalies (blowholes, hardness jumps). 2D visualizations for long-term observations, e.g. wear behavior over the path and comparison of a variety of milling tools.

Cross-company Collaboration

Structured data exchange with simultaneous know-how protection and visualization in project rooms, without data being transferred to third parties, enables cross-company teams to work together on process and product optimization. In addition, this results in feedback to the respective R&D departments and the downstream application technology incl. work preparation.

Inline Quality Control

Actual process data with the influences (wear, displacement) give an impression of the geometry of the created component/workpiece. Quality information is generated in the process and does not have to be collected separately downstream.

Pay-per-use or Pay-per-stress as a Business Model for Milling Tools

Based on the real usage data available via tools, new business models will be made possible, e.g. usage- or wear-dependent billing (pay-per-use/pay-per-stress). A billing module will be provided via the platform in the future.

Successful in Practice

Over a total of three years, the precursor of today’s CuttingEdge portal was developed and tested as part of the research project “Inline production and quality control in the milling of metallic and CFRP products” (MAI ILQ2020 for short). During this project, the partners BMW, HUFSCHMIED, Fraunhofer FIT, inno-focus, the University of Augsburg and others worked out how the quality in milling processes can be improved through the cross-company exchange of data. The project has successfully achieved goals such as reducing quality assurance costs, increasing efficiency, using resources more sparingly, decentralizing the deployment of skilled workers, and many others.

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In the MAI ILQ2020 project, we have analyzed in detail the impact chains – from the findings in data analytics to the economic potential. In particular, automated inline quality control, predictive maintenance and process optimization show the greatest potential.

Prof. Dr. Henner Gimpel, University of Hohenheim, Fraunhofer FIT

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