EST offers a variety of services to keep your operations running at optimal capacity. These services include:
- Broach Tool Sharpening
- Inspection/Diagnosis
- Repair/Reconditioning
- Other Services
- Tool Optimization
- Broach Machines
Broach Tool Sharpening
EST offers CNC sharpening at our Michigan Service Center facility. Our highly skilled technicians use state-of-the-art, ultra precision Klink CNC sharpening machines to restore tools to their optimal sharpness. Size envelope ranges from .250″ – 12.0″ diameter by 120″ long, with 10 ton overhead crane.
Inspection, Diagnosis & Repair
Don’t let a broken tool or poor part quality leave you with lengthy and costly down time. Our team of highly skilled and experienced technicians and engineers can inspect your tools and parts, perform root cause analysis and propose solutions to get you back up and running quickly!
Our repair services include:
- Inspection for wear under magnification
- Strip coating
- Straightening for runout
- Heat straightening
- Manual de-galling
- Weld repair of broken tools and chipped teeth
- Complete reconditioning of pot broach tool inserts
- Disassembly/reassembly of hard broach tools
Other Services
With our extensive experience and technical expertise, EST offers recommendations on number of parts to broach per tool change and sharpening frequency – guided by tool wear – to help customers achieve their tool life management goals.
If a customer needs assistance measuring a specific part feature, our engineers will evaluate and design a gauging solution to meet the need.
And EST can also quote your next turn-key broach machine & broach tool package to fit your manufacturing production line footprint. We will develop a solution to match or beat your current cycle time with improved cost per piece.