DeHart/Kincaid Furniture

The plants use a combination of carbide and high speed steel cutting tools as well as insert tooling. "We mainly use insert tooling at Plant 6," says Jack Greene, plant manager. "We recently switched to insert tooling, which we purchase from DeHart, for a number of reasons.

"One of the big benefits of insert tooling is the repeatability," he adds. "When you need to replace the tool, you’re putting on a (new) tool that hasn’t been sharpened, hasn’t been altered. You also get a high level of accuracy and refinement with insert tooling."

Based on a recommendation from Anthony DeHart, Greene says the plant now uses Solid Edge software to create its profiles. "We can then send them to DeHart through e-mail to have them made."