In 1986, Claude BARLIER began a research work in the field of direct and continuous control of the cutting tools wear by incorporated micro-probe that led to the development of the basic principle of the Actarus process, patented in 1987.
Patented Actarus®process - Patents and trademarks C. BARLIER - CIRTES – France
Among the machining monitors currently available on the market, the Actarus® patented process is the only one that allows the temperature to be measured directly at the heart of the cutting process: on average, depending on the configurations adopted, the measurement point is a few hundredths of millimetres directly under the cutting edge, at the interface tool-part and / or chip-tool. The Actarus® system with TWS 5® software manages the wear and the tool life, optimizes cutting conditions and helps to eliminate tool breakage.