Coatings to Optimize Your Punch Performance

OPTIMA® COATING FOR PUNCHING

COATINGS TO OPTIMIZE YOUR PUNCH PERFORMANCE

Cutting Edge Coating Technology Today’s high-speed punch presses demand higher performing, longer lasting tooling than ever. Wilson Tool International has responded to this need by developing Optima®, a revolutionary coating technology that set the benchmark for punch press tooling performance. Optima coating provides a surface hardness, wear resistance and lubricity unmatched by any other coated or uncoated punch press tooling.

Number of Hits before Optima is a custom-engineered Punch Tip Corner Wear First Sharpening .030" 12 (0.76mm) TiCN coating developed by Wilson Optima® .025" 10 Tool engineers to significantly (0.64mm)

enhance punch press tooling .020" 8 (0.50mm) performance. With a hardness of .015" (at 25,000 hits) 25,000 (at 6 95 Rockwell C, Optima far exceeds (0.38mm) .010" the hardness levels that can be (0.25mm) 4

achieved with conventional tool .005" Number of Hits (x 100,000) TiN

Wear Amount Wear (0.13mm) 2 M2 steels. ® D2 D2 M2 TiN Optima 0 0 Using a 0.250" (6.3mm) Square Punch Using a 0.312" (7.9mm) Round Punch Optima Coating Provides:

• Longer tool life Material Adhesion (Galling) Punch Life on Punch Tips 10 • Increased wear resistance .080" Optima® (51.61mm) 9 • More hits between sharpenings Gray = Results achieved .070" through three tool (45.16mm) • Reduced adhesion (galling) 8 sharpenings of .010" .060" (0.25mm) each (38.7mm) 7 • Reduced slug pulling Blue = Projected results .050" with a total of .250" (32.25mm) 6 • Reduced corner breakdown (6.3mm) removed for sharpening

(at 20,000 hits) 20,000 (at .040" 5 • Improved special tooling (25.8mm) performance .030" 4 (19.35mm) 3 • Lower overall tooling costs .020"

(12.9mm) Number of Hits (x 1,000,000) 2

• Faster delivery and higher in. (mm) Square TiN .010" quality control due to in-house (6.45mm) 1 M2 D2 M2 TiN Optima® D2 coating facilities 0 0 Using a 0.250" (6.3mm) Square Punch Using a 0.312" (7.9mm) Round Punch • Less downtime Tests performed under laboratory conditions at Wilson Tool using correct die clearances, with all tools properly sharpened, and all turret stations properly aligned. Actual results may vary depending upon the application.

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