What are the various advantages offered by digital machining from the operational as well as business perspectives?

With digital machining, manufacturers would be able to connect the production value chain. In a connected value chain, the design is done with insight to the value chain. By having this transparency, you are able to design for manufacturing. For example, choose the most appropriate hole size based on what tools you have in stock, and that your hole placement is suitable for CAM operations and eventually for machining.

In CAM, there are a number of tasks that you need to perform. For example, you need to choose machining process, tooling solutions and create your virtual tools for simulation and process preparation. If these tasks are made with digital access to digital recommendations and tool data, great productivity gains can be made - resulting in a highquality CNC codes.

How easy or difficult is it for companies to start their digital journeys? And how do you help them in this journey?

India has been in the forefront when it comes to their contribution
and leadership in the cyberspace. We believe that the change has already started to happen, and many companies have started early in embracing this technology. It would not be a big challenge for companies to adapt. This is going to be an exciting journey during which we would be walking together with many of our customers and partners. The learning curve would be interesting, and we would be involved in educating the industry in this initiative during which it is also an opportunity for us to learn from our customers and partners. We will also utilise our state of the art Sandvik Coromant Centre in Pune for running customer training programs
and also use the latest technology of Digital Live streaming across the country to transfer knowledge.

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