Digital Machining

The PoliMill course is aimed at staff and engineering department managers of manufacturing companies involved in milling. Participants will use a modern, digital workflow to design and implement a milling cycle. The goal is to lower the barrier to entry into the world of Digital Machining and Industry 4.0 applied to machining.

The course enables the use of state-of-the-art Digital Machining software such as Sandvik Coromant ToolGuide®, Siemens NX®, CGTech Vericut® and Bruker Alicona MetMaxX® by making PCs available to participants.

LESSONS

Lesson 1: Introduction to the world of chip removal

This lesson introduces the basics needed to approach the industrial world of chip removal with a focus on milling theory.

Lesson 2: Tool Holder

This lecture introduces tool gripping systems, the various types of standardized spindle interfaces, types of clamping and their characteristics.

Lesson 3: Coolant fluids

This lecture introduces the theoretical basis of lubrorefrigeration, the distinction between the various types of lubrorefrigeration, their characteristics and applicability.

Lesson 4: Set up operations on CAM

This lesson introduces the basics of being able to properly set up the basic operations of the milling process, such as: face milling, contouring and making pockets from solid. The Siemens NX® CAM program will be used at this juncture.

Lesson 5: Simulating Processes with CGTech VERICUT®

In this lesson we introduce the basics in order to fully understand what functions and capabilities a high-level simulator like VERICUT® can offer. Starting with process verification and arriving at the optimization of the process parameters themselves.

Politecnico di Milano
PoliMill Laboratory
Building B23
Via G. La Masa 1,
20156 Milano
Italy