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Next Generation Tooling Opens Two Offices in California to Provide Technical Support During the Pandemic.

8/3/2020

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by Bernard Martin
Next Gen Tooling SoCal 22343 La Palma Ave, Yorba Linda, CA
Next Generation Tooling's new SoCal Office, Showroom, Warehouse & Training facility is located at 22343 La Palma Avenue, Suite 126, Yorba Linda, CA 92887
Sacramento, CA. -  Next Generation Tooling, LLC, a manufacturer's representative agency, founded in 1995 and servicing the California Nevada Arizona, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico CNC manufacturing markets has just opened TWO offices in California.
Most of Next Generation Tooling's customers know them as "the Next Gen guys" according to Chris Savolainen, the Founder and President of 'Next Gen Tooling'.

What was the rationale of opening not one, but two offices when the entire team has worked out of their own home offices for years?
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"We've grown our market service area quite a bit since we started out servicing just Northern California.  We now include most of the Western States of the US.  We've s been adding some of the best technical CNC application people we can find to support the unique mix of principles we represent. The products that we represent are what are considered very high performance tooling and workholding.  It's some of the premiere products in our entire industry! We determined that we really needed a place to provide on-site technical training.  We also needed to carry some inventory to support the unique needs of the aerospace, medical, electronics and defense industries that we support." Said Savolainen.

Rob Aldama, Vice-President of Next Gen Tool picks up the story,  "At first we thought that one training and showroom might be good enough, but as we started talk to our distributor, machine dealer and end-user manufacturing customers, we discovered that there was a real need for facilities in both Northern and Southern California. None of our competitors are providing the deep technical service that has helped us gain market share, so we really felt we should just take it to the next level and open two facilities."
Next Generation Tooling NorCal Office Showroom
Next Generation Tooling's new NorCal Office, Showroom, Warehouse & training facility is located at 8171 Alpine Ave, Suite A, Sacramento, CA 95829

But what about the Pandemic?

With the Covid-19 pandemic raging there are not a lot of companies expanding. Most are cutting costs and employees. When asked about this both Chris and Rob stated that their team of people have remained pretty busy throughout this entire period. 

Chris said "We get asked in to shops to provide technical support pretty often. Putting on the full body PPE suits has been kind of common for us during the past few months." 

Rob picked it up from there, "I think we may be some of the really select few that have been asked to come into shops because we're not just taking orders, we're reducing cycle time and we're improving efficiency"

Chris jumped back in, "And maybe its a little bit self serving,  We can have the equipment set-up at both locations instead of trying to bring it into a facility.  It's actually a lot easier, faster and safer to bring people to one of our locations rather than try to move things with lots  of sweat and heavy breathing in PPE." 

"Yea, We can bring people to either location and do the training.  There are far less interruptions and the I think people learn a lot more, and learn it faster" stated Rob.

NGT Warehouse and Training

What types of training do they provide at Next Gen's new buildings?  They start off with a lot of fundamentals that people running CNC machines may never had any formal training about. That's where their basic Training Classes fit in.
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  • Machining 101
  • Basic Boring
  • Basic Chamfering
  • Basic Drill Training
  • Basic End Mill
  • Basic Indexable
  • Basic Tap Training
  • Basic Tool Holders
  • Basic Work Holding / Fixturing​

But they also can go much deeper with their Advanced Part Manufacturing training series
  • Programming Tool Path – Climb versus Conventional
  • Material Machinability – Cubic Inches of Stock Removal
  • Part Set Up / Workholding  & Fixturing
  • Tool Holder Selection, Collet, Solid, Hydraulic, Shrink Fit
  • Cutting Tool Selection – Substrate, Geometry, Coating, Speed and Feeds 
  • Estimating Part Cycle Time
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MUST SEE: IMTS 2018 Show Planner

8/22/2018

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Join us at #IMTS2018!
We'll be learning about new products at our principals booth. 
Check out our schedule, come join us and we'll learn some new things together!

Next Generation Tooling IMTS 2018 Booth Tooling Workholding
Wednesday September 12th
10:30 - 11:30 AM - NTK Cutting Tools Booth W-431664
1:00 to 3:00 PM - Big Kaiser Booth W-431610

Thursday September 13th
10:00 to 11:00 AM - Heimatec Booth W-433427
11:00 to 12:00 PM - 5th Axis Booth W-431158
1:00 to 2:00 PM - Precision Cutting Tools  W-432164

Friday September 14th
10:00 to 11:00 AM - Carmex Booth W-431480
11:00 to 12:00 PM - OSG Booth W-432080
1:00 to 2:00 PM - Techniks Booth W-431075

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David Edge joins Next Generation Tooling

11/2/2017

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David Edge Next Generation ToolingDavid Edge
We are very excited to announce that David Edge has joined the Next Generation Tooling team. David has a wealth of experience from his 45+ years in the metalcutting industry.  He not only knows the technical aspects of cutting tool applications but also the procedural functions that are important to manufacturers, Industrial distributors and machinery dealers.

David began his career in 1972 as a manufacturing engineer in turning applications, with Pneumatic Auto Turret lathes, Tracer lathes and manual Turret lathes.  He cut his teeth in sales for 11 years as a cutting tool specialist for Valenite in the Bay area.

He moved north to work for RTW and Iscar where he managed
Washington, Oregon and Western Canada for the many aerospace applciations in that area. In 2012 he moved back to the Bay area to manage Northern California for Tungaloy. 

David also brings first hand experience as a distributor from his time at J&L Industrial Supply and Aronson-Campbell Industrial Supply as a carbide application engineer.  He has a deep understanding of what the expectations are of a industrial distributor from a manufacturer.  

David also has an inside knowledge of the expectations of a machine tool dealer from his time back in the late 1980's working at Selway Machine Tools. 
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David and Helen live in Pleasanton,  CA.

He has three children and four grandchildren.

In his spare time he enjoys martial arts, cycling and target shooting. 
Please welcome David to our team. He can not only help run tools at the CNC Spindle, but he can also bridge the gap between the manufacturer and Industrial distributor as well as the the gap between the manufacturer and machinery dealer.

​Give him a call & say hello!


David Edge
cell: 925.784.2969
david@nextgentooling.com
Manufacturer's Represented
5th Axis
Big Kaiser Precision Tooling Inc
​Blue Photon
​Carvesmart

Earth Chain
Heimatec

Modern Industries mPower
NTK Cutting Tools
OSG Tap & Die
PCT - Precision Cutting Tools Inc.
Performance Micro Tool - PMT
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Western Tool Open House, San Jose 2017

9/22/2017

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Western Tool & Supply Open House 2017 San Jose
Western Tool Open House 2017 Next Generation Tooling Booth
We where very excited to meet and greet many of our customers at the 2017 Western Tool & Supply Open House.

 It was held at their San Jose, CA. on September 21- 22, 2017.
We featured quite a few featured products from our principals during the two day event. It was great discussing lots of technical applications that machinists brought to us! ​
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Masa Introduces the new F20M10 Cartridge for Swiss Lathes at #IMTS 2016

7/26/2016

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Masa Tool has just introduced the F20M10 Cartridge as the latest expansion of  the Microconic™ system . The System was developed specifically for holding workpieces from Ø0.15mm to 10mm (Ø0.006" to 0.390") in any machine that has a collet-type chuck.
The push type F20 Cartridge replaces the standard TF20 collet in your CNC spindle. This enables you to use the Microconic collets to achieve concentricity guaranteed to be within 5µm (0.0002") in production use.

The system consists of two major components: The Microconic™ cartridge, replaces the standard TF20 collets and  fits into your CNC machine with no modifications to the spindle required.  The second component to the system is the  Microconic™ collets which have capacities of 0,22mm - 10,00mm ( 0.0086" - 0.3949") and -Over-Grip collets which can open up to 4mm over the chucking diameter and run within 5 µm/.0002" TIR
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F20M10 Microconic Cartridge
The new F20M10 Cartridge is compatible with spindles that accept Schaublin F20,  Southwick & Meister TF20, KEB (MasWerks) MC20,  Hardinge TF20 / 4611 collets to name but a few.
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F20M10 Cartridge. Standard single piece construction extended nose
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F20M10 Cartridge with a UM10 Collet installed
The Microconic™ system and F20M10 Cartridge has unsurpassed concentricity: Our manufacturing tolerance is 3µm(.0001") and we guarantee  our cartridges to be within 5µm (0.0002") in production use in your machine.  

The 
F20M10 Cartridge fits the  following models of Swiss Machines as well as several others.
  • Citizen Models:  A16, C16, K16, M16.
  • Maier Models:  ML-16A/16B, ML-16C/16D.
  • Star Models:  ECAS 12/16, JNC16, KJR16B, RNC16 & II, RNC16B & II, SA12, SA16/16R, SB16/16S, SE12, SE16, SH12, SH16, SI 12/12C, SNC15DX, SR16/16R, SST16 STM32, SV12, VNC12.
  • Tornos Models: DECO 2000 13, Elector16, ENC16, ENC162, ENC164.
  • Traub Models: TNL-16G
  • Tsugami Models: NMP16II, NP16/16 II, NT12, NT16 II/16 III, 600, 600P.​ 
  • Tornos CAM Models: M15, R16
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F20M10 Cartridge with standard TF20 Pull Type closing system

Micrograd™ Face Dial Wrench permits accurate clamping pressure adjustment

​As with all Microconic Cartridges, the F20M10 comes standard wit a Micrograd™ Face Dial Wrench.  The Micrograd wrench  gives you the ability to to set your collet clamping pressure. 

The Micrograd™ Face dial Wrench provides a method of precisely setting clamping pressure on both the Microconic collets and an Microconic overgrip collets .  It can be adjusted in metric increments of 0,02mm and imperial increments of .001"
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Micrograd Face Dial Wrench to to set clamping pressure
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Welcome 5th Axis Workholding to our Product Team

5/2/2016

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We are very excited to announce a new partnership with 5th Axis Workholding located in San Diego, CA.  5th Axis has created a very nice dovetail workholding system for use in 5 axis milling and can also be used in turning.  Please give them a big welcome to out family of principals!
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5th Axis Workholding was created out of shear necessity.  When Co-CEO’s Steve Grangetto and Chris Taylor started 5th Axis Inc. in 2005, they immediately recognized the need for quality workholding that addressed many of the common issues machinists encounter when moving into the 4th and 5th axis machining.

“Fixturing may be the ultimate in problem-solving,” he continues. “If you don’t start with a good, solid fixture – in either 3- or 5-axis work – you’re not going to end up with a good part. More axes just add more layers of complexity.”  “A lot of people still aren’t used to thinking in 5 axes when it comes to fixturing,” observes Chris. “They often design them to get a part on and off quickly, without stopping to think about clearance issues.” In 5-axis work, A- and B-axis movement can seriously impact Z-axis clearance. Careless designs invite costly crashes. Longer tools lessen some clearance issues, but introduce problems of their own.

“What we really like to do, though, is mount once, and clean up a part on all sides,” Steve explains. “We’ll eyeball a generous-sized blank to the edge of the fixture, then machine all around it in 5 axes to produce the part. Coming in from all five sides with just one mounting is a big advantage. Everything is established in one operation, and we never have to worry about initial mounting accuracy.”  “We’ve designed our own line of fixtures and clamps that are made to mount directly to the Haas trunnions,” adds Chris. “They self-center, and are installed with just a couple of bolts. And they have a low-profile design to maximize clearance and part size.”
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“Fixturing may be the ultimate in problem-solving. If you don’t start with a good, solid fixture – in either 3- or 5-axis work – you’re not going to end up with a good part. More axes just add more layers of complexity.”  “When the fixture is right at the beginning,” Steve continues, “we can let the machine take care of most other problems. But, there are one or two areas that require further attention . . .”
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Microconic Cartridges now available for 5C spindles

2/17/2016

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Masa Tool introduces a 5C Microconic cartridge that maintains 5 µm concentricity and is now available for machining centers, CNC lathes, CNC mills, gang-tool lathes, like Omniturn, CNC mill/turn, like Nakamura, Miyano, Mori-Seiki, and even rotary indexers as well as tool and cutter grinders!
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Microconic 5C cartridge replaces a standard 5C collet to provide extended nose reach and 0.0002" concentriciy
​5C collets are some of the most widely used and versatile clamping methods used in metalcutting lathes and mills today but have never been able to provide the accuracy and rigidity often needed for small diameter parts. Until now...
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Development of the the 5C cartridge dates back to the late 1990's but this newly introduced version is manufactured using our unique "Microconic" production methods that provide more accuracy and rigidity than was ever possible with any other "off-the-shelf" rotating clamping system.

The “Microconic System” is a miniaturized collet system that consists of two major components: the Microconic “cartridge” that fits directly into 5C spindles and the Microconic collet that is a “right size” style collet.

The major features of the new 5C cartridge include:
  • Solid extended nose, giving superior access for tooling and coolant, with minimal overhang.
  • The 5C Cartridge's core diameter is a single piece construction that will maintain 5 µm/.0002" concentricity at the extended nose tip.
  • Micrometer dial control of collet closure regardless of the machines hydraulic or pneumatic collet closing force. 
  • Versatility & Standardization. Microconic UM10 collets fit any M10 series cartridge on any machine permitting your to standardize your small part workholding regardless if the machine has a 5C or TF25 spindle.
  • Ideally suited for small diameter part size range from .2mm/.008" to 10mm/.3934" diameter
  • 2-days shipping on all cartridges and collets​.
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Applications:
  • CNC Machining centers
  • CNC Lathes like Bost, Haas, Hurco & Okuma
  • Swiss Machines like Citizen, Cincom, Miyano, Nakamura
  • CNC desktop mills for 3D printing
  • Gang-tool lathes, like Omniturn 
  • CNC mill/turns like Nakamura, Miyano, Mori-Seiki.
  • Rotary Indexers like Haas HA5C's.
  • 4th Axis Tables like Haas, Kitagawa & Nikken
  • Tool and cutter grinders like Star & LeBlond
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Microconic 5C cartridge with overgrip collet
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