Seminars
Elevate Your Cutting Skills with Expert-Led Machining Seminars
Hands-on training designed to improve productivity, optimize tool selection, and enhance machining performance through expert-led instruction, real-machine demonstrations, and practical problem‑solving sessions. Hosted at our European Design & Engineering Center in Lauchheim, Germany, these seminars provide exclusive access to advanced machining technologies and the expertise of our engineering team.
European Design & Engineering Center (E-DEC)Industriestr. 2, 73466 Lauchheim, Germany
3 Key Benefits of Our Seminars
Structured, Application-Oriented Training
The systematically structured seminars include practical application examples directly related to the lecture topics. Demonstration videos, group discussions, and machining exercises on actual machines complement and reinforce the training program.
Designed for a Wide Range of Professionals
Our seminars are designed for professionals across the machining industry. They are particularly suitable for trainees, work planners, programmers, purchasers, process developers, machine operators, machine conditioners, application engineers, production managers, and others involved in machining operations. The optimal group size is 10 participants, with a maximum capacity of 20.
Learning Materials and Certification
In addition to the knowledge gained during the seminar, participants will receive seminar materials to help integrate the learning into their daily production processes. A certificate of attendance will also be issued, which can be used within your organization to verify your level of knowledge.
Options for Seminar Types
| Seminar Type | Who It’s For | Key Learning Points |
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| Basic Seminar | Beginners / Trainees |
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| Advanced Seminar | Intermediate Users |
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| Professional Seminar | Experienced Professionals |
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| Individual Seminars | Everyone | Check below |
Individual Seminars for Your Specific Goals
For your individual training course, we tailor both the seminar content and schedule to address your specific machining challenges and operational requirements. Technical and specialized topics are conducted privately and can be fully adapted to meet your needs.
Upon request, we also perform production analyses and develop tooling solutions to optimize your cutting processes.
Simply assemble your seminar from the listed themes and include your company's specific requirements. To ensure an optimal learning environment, we recommend a group size of 10 to 20 participants for each individual seminar.
Let’s work together to identify the best solutions for your challenges.
Discover detailed topics for each machining process
Efficient machining of workpiece materials
- Fundamentals of machining
- Current cutting materials and coatings
- Machining environment and machine requirements
- Selection of inserts according to application
- Select chip breaker geometry and determine cutting parameters
- Identify and eliminate process malfunctions during turning
- Special turning processes such as grooving and threading
- Wear detection and countermeasures to improve tool life
Optimization of drilling processes
- Fundamentals of machining
- Basics and problems in holemaking
- Machining environment and machine requirements
- Drill selection according to application
- Cutting parameters, tool life, and wear detection
- Strategies to increase productivity
- Identifying and solving process faults during holemaking
- Drilling by milling
- Deep hole drilling process
- Creation of fitting bores with high-feed reamer
- Customer-specific solutions with special, step, and combination tools
Milling 1 - The optimum milling process
- Fundamentals of machining
- Basics of milling
- Selection criteria for milling tools, cutting materials and coatings
- Use of coolant lubricants
Milling 2 - Milling strategies for productivity efficiency
- Central chip thickness as a success factor
- Develope and optimize milling strategies
- Identify types of wear and initiate countermeasures
- Optimization of production times and process stability (high feed milling)
Professional workshop
- In-depth knowledge and expertise for the advanced seminar
- Identify milling problems and develop solutions
- Performance-optimizing milling strategies
- Primarily practical milling tasks directly at the machine
- Process optimization methods to increase efficiency
- Considerations of economic viability
Please note: Attendance of the advanced milling seminar is required to participate in the professional workshop.
Learning from the global benchmark
- What is hard turning?
- Basics and advantages of hard machining
- Applications of CBN cutting materials
- Requirements for a stable hard turning process
- Selection of CBN grades and cutting edge designs
- Hard machining process
- Composition of CBN cutting materials
- Machining accuracy during hard machining
- Special application methods for CBN such as grooving, slab,
- HFT and hard thread turning
- Further CBN applications in cast iron, powder metal, superalloys and hardened steel
- CBN Optimization Guide
What is the Tool Engineering Center for?
Sumitomo Electric Group provides systematic tool engineering services to ensure customer satisfaction with their machining needs. To facilitate the delivery of the localized services to customers, we utilize our Tool Engineering Centers (TECs) based in 11 countries worldwide. To find information about other areas, go to our Japanese headquarters website.
Key functions:
- Seminar planning and hosting
- Technical support such as troubleshooting for machining issues
- Proposal of machining strategies
- Cutting tests
Feel free to contact us with any requests or questions.