Allen Benjamin Now Available on MachiningCloud

MachiningCloud, an Industry 4.0 solution provider helping customers make better tooling decisions, is proud to announce the immediate availability of Allen Benjamin, a leading provider of high performance carbide and premium high speed steel taps.

Allen Benjamin’s customer can now find Allen Benjamin taps on MachiningCloud, eliminating the need to search through printed catalogs, telephone calls and multiple websites to find optimal tooling.

MachiningCloud represents a new channel through which customers can obtain digital product data to run today’s data-hungry shop. Allen Benjamin customers will be able to increase productivity and achieve greater accuracy by easily downloading descriptive, usage and geometric information directly into their shop floor software, such as CAM, simulation, and tool management systems.

“By utilizing cloud technology and industry standards, including ISO13399, STEP, GTC and MTConnect, MachiningCloud is capable of serving up-to-date product data to Allen Benjamin’s customers using virtually any shop floor software or system”, says Pierre-Francois Tavard of MachiningCloud.

“North American Tool is proud to be a part of such an innovative concept in our industry. We see this platform assisting our industrial distribution channel by allowing subscribers to MachiningCloud to learn about our special capabilities and to specify our products to enhance their projects with greater productivity”, says Phil Samuels, Director of Sales & Marketing.

About Allen Benjamin

Allen Benjamin, sister company to North American Tool, is a leading provider of high performance carbide and premium high speed steel taps. Made with high tensile strength carbide, these taps are highly efficient when tapping abrasive materials such as space age alloys, exotic materials and aluminum. HSSE (premium high speed steel) taps deliver dependable performance and uncompromising quality to machinists who often tap challenging materials. Color coding simplifies the selection process to match the tap to the right job. Allen Benjamin taps can be ordered from local distributors or through their e-commerce site. For more information, visit www.allenbenjamin.com

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About MachiningCloud

MachiningCloud is dedicated to leading a digital shift within the discrete manufacturing industry to deliver a new level of operational efficiency. Cloud-based applications, resources, services, knowledge, and digital product data from the world’s leading manufacturers of cutting tools, machine tools, workholding and specialty products are providing efficiency improvements by facilitating the flow of data to and from today’s data intensive shop-floor.

For cutting tool manufacturers and their customers, the MachiningCloud app is an Industry 4.0 solution delivering up-to-date cutting tool manufacturers’ product knowledge and data, fast-tracking cutting tool selection, CNC programming, simulation and shop floor operations. By providing data from the world’s leading suppliers, MachiningCloud eliminates the hassles of searching through printed catalogs, telephone calls and multiple websites to find optimal tooling, while also removing the burden of manually typing tooling data into CAD/CAM software.

For more information about MachiningCloud, Smart Manufacturing and Industry 4.0 solutions, please visit www.machiningcloud.com.

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