Tooling

Before a new forging can be produced, the necessary tooling must be manufactured. Tooling design governs both the quality and economic effiiciency that can be achieved.

At RÜBIG, new tooling is always made using HSC milling. The necessary milling programs are derived directly from the 3D-construction and so extremely precise shapes can be produced, with no deformation due to hardening and no transfer defects caused by engravers.

Cavity-sinking is used for tool maintenance or for applying identification markings such as forged logos, part numbers or batch numbers. Graphite or copper electrodes are also made in-house by HSC milling, using the same 3D-design data as for the new forging.

HSC (High-Speed Cutting) makes high demands on tooling, milling machines and machining strategy. RÜBIG pioneered HSC technology and in 1995 was the first company in Austria to introduce this method of producing forgings, which was then still viewed rather sceptically. We would be pleased to show this technology to anyone interested in “Röders” HSC-machines.

All the necessary tooling is manufactured in-house at Rübig, in our own tooling department – this way we can guarantee to produce each individual item of tooling in good quality and on-time, and dies can be modified quickly. Heat-treatment such as hardening (plasma), nitration etc is done in our very well-equipped heat-treatment division.

As all information, tooling and forgings remain in-house, we can guarantee absolute confidentiality for our clients’ innovative products – from the enquiry stage right through to delivery.