Tipped tool

Common materials for the cutters (brazed tips or clamped inserts) include cemented carbide, polycrystalline diamond, and cubic boron nitride.

Entire catalogs of solid–high-speed steel (HSS) and solid-carbide end mills, for example, play prominent parts in some areas of milling practice, including diesinking, moldmaking, and aerospace job or batch production.

Inserts are removable cutting tips, which means they are not brazed or welded to the tool body.

This saves time in manufacturing by allowing fresh cutting edges to be presented periodically without the need for tool grinding, setup changes, or entering of new values into a CNC program.

This standard aims to make the naming, specifying and ordering of inserts a simple, consistent and traceable process.