Setup development
A new part, a new machine, or both. Workholding, tooling and sequence developed together instead of discovered one crash at a time.
MS² Applications engineering — the defining work
The part runs. Now make it run right.
Applications engineering is what sits between owning a machine and getting parts out of it. Setup development, process prove-out, tooling selection, cycle-time work, difficult materials, machine transfers, production launch. It is the work that makes the difference between a machine and a manufacturing process.
01 Where we get called
Six problems, and they are almost always the same six.
Process prove-out
Running it until it is proven, not until it works once. Tool life, chip behaviour and dimensional stability watched across enough parts to mean something.
Cycle-time reduction
Your part already runs; we make it run faster. Toolpath, tooling and process reviewed as one, and the saving written down in seconds per part rather than adjectives.
Difficult materials
Nickel and cobalt alloys, precipitation-hardening stainless, titanium. Grade selection, SFM, coolant strategy and cutting approach — the levers that actually move tool life.
Machine transfers
Moving proven work onto a different platform without relearning it from scratch. Program translation, workholding, tooling and a prove-out package.
Unattended production
Getting a process stable enough to run lights-out. Tool life management, chip control, bar feed behaviour and the failure modes that only appear at 2am.
02 How it usually goes
We look before we recommend
The machine, the fixture, the tool and the part all get examined. Recommendations that skip that step are guesses with confidence.
Tooling advice is not a sales pitch
Sometimes the answer is a different insert grade you already have on the shelf. We would rather be right than book an order.
The numbers get written down
Before and after, in seconds and in tool life. If it did not improve, that gets said too.
It transfers to your people
The point is that your setup man can repeat it after we leave. Documentation and a walk-through come with the work.
What is it doing?
Tell us the machine, the material, the feature and what is going wrong. Chatter, tool life, finish, cycle time, an unattended run that will not stay unattended — all of it is the same conversation.