The tooling know-how behind India's biggest plants, now for every machine shop.
Quoting by the kilo and waiting on one senior programmer holds good shops back. Send a drawing and Quads returns the setups, the cutters, a rupee quote and a verified program, drawing on 30 years of Prosec tooling for Bharat Forge, Cummins, BHEL, Mahindra and Tata.
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One part, end to end.
Twenty-four seconds, start to finish, on a real bracket. The file goes in, the setups get planned, the thin wall gets flagged, the job gets costed, the program gets written — and then the program gets checked back against the part.
One file in. Six things out.
Most tools stop at one of these. A quoting engine gives you a price and no program. A CAM package writes a program but needs someone to drive it. Quads takes the part from end to end, and every step is derived from the geometry rather than typed in.
The engineering laws, written down.
A good machinist carries these in their head: how thin a wall can go before the cutter pushes it away, how deep a hole before the chips jam, how hard a spindle can pull before it stalls. When that person is on leave, so is the knowledge.
Quads writes each one down as a law with a number on it, and runs every one against every part you send. You see all of them on the quote — the ones that passed as well as the ones that fired — with the limit each one used.
Plus seven that fire on sight: square internal corners, undercuts, islands, overhangs, flat-bottomed holes, faces no setup can reach, and work on faces nobody planned for.
Worst case across every operation on the part — one cut over the line is one cut that stalls or misses size, so an average would hide it. Cutting energy kc is set per material.
Checked against the vice you picked, on every quote.
Every program is read back line by line against the block and the machine before you see it.
Thirty years of picking cutters, written into the engine.
Knowing a job needs a 10 mm flat end mill is the easy half. Knowing which one, in which grade, for Inconel at that depth of cut, is the part that takes a career.
Quads is built on Prosec, a cutting-tool business that has been solving exactly that problem for Indian manufacturers for three decades — including Bharat Forge, Cummins, BHEL, Mahindra and Tata. The engine specifies the cutter. Prosec supplies it, and regrinds it when it’s worn.
Every cutter resolves to something you can order
Each operation is matched against the catalogues Prosec carries — checking the geometry agrees and that there’s a real part number behind it — so what comes back is a tool list you can buy, not a shopping brief.
Where a cutter isn’t something we carry, you still get the full specification — diameter, geometry, grade, reach — so you can order it anywhere. We’d rather tell you that than steer the plan towards what’s on our shelf.
Generated code you can actually run.
The reasonable objection to automatic programming is that nobody wants to find out it was wrong when the tool is already in the material. So the program doesn’t just get written — it gets read back and checked against the part it came from.
Every step shows its working: which feature drove which operation, which operation called which cutter, and why the plan is in the order it’s in. If you disagree with a decision, you can see the one to change.
Maintaining original geometries and performance.
Prosec runs its own regrinding facility, so a cutter Quads specified doesn’t end its life in a scrap bin. It comes back, gets returned to its original geometry and recoated with a global premium coating partner, and goes out again. You keep running the same parameters you always did — with shorter processing times, you hold fewer tools in stock.
Why this matters beyond the cost
A tool that comes back tells us how the tool we chose actually performed — how it wore, how long it lasted, and whether the plan asked too much of it. That goes back into the engine, so the next part of the same kind gets a better answer.
Latest-generation Zoller and Vollmer machines. Regrinding is a Prosec service — see the facility.Send us a part you’re already running.
Pick something in production now. We’ll send back the setup plan, the cutter list with part numbers, the cost and the program — and you can hold every one of them against what your shop actually does today. One file is enough.