Seco and Golden Egret tooling, chosen against the part — not the catalogue

Liuzhou Dongben Machinery Equipment Co., Ltd. supplies Seco turning, milling and hole-making tooling, and Xiamen Golden Egret carbide inserts and solid carbide tools. Both lines are supported on site with tooling trials and cost-per-part analysis.

Coverage

Two lines, one selection logic

Seco and Golden Egret sit at different price points and different application ranges. Having both means we can recommend on merit rather than push whatever is in stock.

Application	Line	What we evaluate
Aluminium milling	Seco · Golden Egret	Edge geometry and rake for built-up edge, coolant-through capability, surface finish at high feed
Steel and cast iron turning	Seco	Grade and coating against interrupted cut, depth-of-cut stability, insert cost per edge
Hole making	Seco · Golden Egret	Drill point geometry, hole tolerance and straightness, chip evacuation at depth
Threading	Seco	Thread profile accuracy, tool life in gummy materials, cycle time at the required pitch
General milling, cost-sensitive	Golden Egret	Cost per edge against achieved tool life, availability of the insert geometry locally

Specific grades, geometries and item numbers are quoted per application. Published catalogue data is a starting point; the trial is what settles the choice.

Method

How a tooling trial actually runs

Baseline

Record the current tool, cutting parameters, tool life in pieces per edge, and cycle time. No baseline, no proof.

Trial cut

Run the proposed tool on your machine, with your fixture and your material. Production conditions, not a test block.

Measure

Tool life, surface finish, dimensional drift, power draw and chip form. Where relevant, a wear photograph per edge.

Decide

Compare cost per part, not price per insert. If the trial loses, we report that and keep the existing tool.

The number that matters

Price per insert is not cost per part

What a cheap insert can cost you

Shorter tool life raises the number of tool changes per shift
Unpredictable wear forces conservative parameters, which lengthens every cycle
Edge breakage on an interrupted cut can scrap the part, not just the insert
Inconsistent batches make tool-life planning impossible for the operator

What we measure instead

Cost per part = (tool price ÷ pieces per edge) + (cycle time × machine rate) + scrap and rework cost. Insert price is one term in that expression, and rarely the largest one.

We run the arithmetic with your machine rate before recommending a change.

Have a part that eats tools?

Tell us the material, the operation and the current tool life. We will propose a trial.

Request a tooling trial