Manufacturing Technology

With the Walter GPS App, all functions that were already offered for standard drills are now for the first time also available for special tools – with users able to generate application-specific tool solutions.

When using the Walter GPS App, if no standard tool is available for a given application, Walter GPS will display the ‘Walter Xpress button’. This can be used to configure special drilling tools and order them online. 

 Users enter the application, machining method and material and are immediately given suggestions for a suitable tool solution – including cutting data tailored to their specific machining objective. In the default setting, this is always the most cost-efficient solution. However, the objective can vary from one application to another, for example if the priority is surface quality, productivity or process reliability instead.

After selecting the tool, Walter GPS first creates a dimensioned sketch as a standard drawing. After an order is placed, within around 20 minutes, this sketch is replaced by a quotation drawing based on the SAP data of the tool in the shopping basket. 

With the new function, Walter GPS users can order solid carbide and indexable insert drills and directly compare them. In addition to the drill bodies for indexable insert drills, the compatible indexable inserts can also be configured and ordered directly. What’s more, Walter GPS offers advanced options for intermediate diameters and step tools, which have not been available until now. When ordered online via Walter GPS, Walter Xpress tools are delivered in around two to four weeks. Plans are in place to extend the new function so that it covers threading and groove turning in 2023.