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5Toolmaking
The operational core of the company:
Our own in-house toolmaking department
The economic benefits of cold forging are only fully leveraged if the tool design envisages combining materials to achieve the maximum possible loading capacity and fatigue strength. The selection of hardness level is also a key criterion when it comes to a tool’s durability. Using wide-ranging different coating methods (application of a hard material layer by means of PVD or CVD treatment), it is possible to further optimize tool service life.
Achieving a long service life for tools calls for tool reinforcement. The tools are clamped together in such a way that they are pushed and pressed into each other with a certain allowance. Even where extreme degrees of deformation are called for, this means that high internal pressure levels can be controlled.
The toolmaking department represents Walter Schneider’s operational nerve centre. Whatever our designers specify is implemented by our skilled specialist team. Milling, profile grinding, cylindrical grinding… Using these and other machining steps, complex precision tools are produced for our production department – with almost a 100% vertical depth of production and to the most stringent standards of durability and dimensional accuracy.