Case Study: Aarbakke optimizes cutting tool usage with Cognite Data Fusion

How Aarbakke and Cognite Are Optimizing the Use of Cutting Tools

Aarbakke, a Norwegian manufacturing company that manages end-to-end customer projects from engineering and machining to testing and documentation, faced inefficiencies in its CNC cutting tool usage. With more than 22,000 unique cutting tools in use, operators lacked a clear overview of tool performance and often discovered suboptimal cutting processes only after parts were completed. Aarbakke worked with Cognite, using Cognite Data Fusion™, to address this challenge.

Cognite helped Aarbakke liberate data from separate machine-operation and work-order systems, combine it in Cognite Data Fusion™, and visualize it in a dashboard for production managers, team leaders, and operators. The solution provided insight into tool usage by material and frequency, enabling better optimization of cutting processes. Aarbakke expects to reduce tool assemblies by up to 60% and increase cutting tool efficiency by 10%.

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