Tap Testing Benefits for Distributors
Just Milling?
Price per Part vs. Price per Tool
Milling is the largest cutting segment accounting for 40.2% of all tools purchased. It also removes the most material and therefore has the largest impact on your customer's profitability. It is the most difficult of all metalworking applications and is the most prone to chatter. Win milling and you win the customer.
Price per Part vs. Price per Tool
Price per Part vs. Price per Tool
Tap testing will show your customer the value of increasing performance rather than focusing on just the purchase price. Cutting tools will transform from a commodity bought from the lowest bidder to a highly engineered solutions. You will be able to increase your profit margins.
Sell More Tools
Speeding up will not cause you to sell fewer tools. According to Taylor's Equation higher velocity increases tool consumption. They will buy more endmills and inserts, along with more cutter bodies and toolholders for redundant back-ups. They will be more competitive and win more work.
Private Label
Your most profitable products may be private label carbide endmills. You want to sell more of them. Tap testing will allow you to get high performance premium-brand results without a factory's support.
Reduce Inventory
Controlling chatter and creating stable, robust processes will reduce the need for safety stocks in vending machines and on your shelves. Consumption will be more predictable and consistent month to month.
Resharpening/Special Tools
If you offer resharpening or special tools, tap testing is a vital service. You can tap test new and resharpened endmills to find a stable speed for both so both can be co-mingled in inventory. No more huge performance drop offs with regrinds. Special tools have no speed and feed data. Tap testing will give you the correct parameters before the first cut.
Integrated Supply
Integrated Supply
Integrated Supply
If you have an integrated supply agreement that requires annual cost reductions, you can find gains in performance rather than reducing prices and margins. If you are doing gain sharing, tap testing provides definitive baselines and performance improvements.
Sell SpeedCast
Integrated Supply
Integrated Supply
You can resell SpeedCast tap testing kits and software subscriptions to your customers. You can customize the databases to only show the brands you represent. You can even add your SKUs. We offer resell discounts to verified distributors. Fill out the form at the bottom of this page to get a quotation.
