Singapore: Seco continues its strong focus on educating, training and informing those in the manufacturing industries with the release of four metal cutting books in a new series called ‘Metal Cutting – Best Practices’. The books cover current trends and techniques in metal cutting and will be published throughout 2015.

Patrick De Vos, corporate technical education manager of Seco Tools, AB and Jan-Eric Ståhl, a professor in the Division of Production and Materials Engineering at Lund University, Sweden, collaborated to write the books. The series offers practical guidelines to help customers tackle metal cutting challenges and achieve maximum productivity in their machine shops. The four topics covered are: tool deterioration; machinability and workpiece materials; cutting materials and geometries; and tool compensation techniques.