Let Gabby guide your next move in tool selection
Reduce the time spent choosing tools, searching catalogs, checking past machining records, and reorganizing conditions. Gabby is Tungaloy’s AI agent that helps with these everyday confirmation tasks through a conversational interface.
Whether you are not sure which tool to start with, want to check specifications for an item number, need similar machining records for a head-exchangeable drill, or want to find a Tungaloy option close to a competitor item, Gabby reads your request and guides you to the next action while checking any missing conditions.
1. What is Gabby?
Gabby is Tungaloy’s cutting tool support AI agent. When a user enters a machining or tool-related question, Gabby interprets the request, checks the required conditions, and guides the user to tool recommendations, catalog checks, machining record searches, and other useful next steps.
Instead of looking through catalogs and documents one by one, users can proceed through a conversation: what they want to check, which conditions are missing, and what they should review next.
Gabby organizes the starting point of a machining consultation
For example, when a user enters “I want to select a drilling tool for SUS304,” Gabby checks conditions such as hole diameter, hole depth, hole type, and priority. Once the conditions are available, the consultation can move to tool candidates. If an item number is already known, Gabby can move directly to catalog information.
Input
User request
Operation, material, dimensions, and more
Gabby
- Understands the request
- Checks missing conditions
POINT
Understand the request and guide the next check
Gabby is an AI agent that helps users move to the right next step, such as tool selection, catalog confirmation, or machining record review.
2. What Gabby can do as an AI agent
Gabby does more than answer a single question. It organizes machining conditions, checks the required information, and helps the user move toward the next practical action.
- Consult tool candidates from machining conditions: Share material, operation, dimensions, hole depth, thread standard, and priority to discuss candidates for each application area.
- Check item numbers and series information: Gabby can help confirm Tungaloy item numbers, series names, grades, dimensions, compatibility, and catalog URLs.
- Check machining records for head-exchangeable drills: For DrillMeister, DrillForceMeister, and related tools, Gabby can help review past machining examples and tool life reference information.
- Search for Tungaloy alternatives to competitor items: If a competitor item number or series is known, Gabby can help look for a close Tungaloy candidate.
- Continue the conversation and change conditions: Users can continue from a previous request and ask for material changes, catalog checks, machining records, or different priorities.
Gabby
POINT
Search, ask, compare, and confirm
Gabby helps make tool-selection-related checks easier to handle within one conversation flow.
3. Tool-selection applications you can ask about
Gabby supports multiple application areas, including turning, grooving, milling, holemaking, tapping, and thread milling. Even if all conditions are not available at the start, Gabby can ask for missing information and help move the consultation forward.
| Application | What you can ask | Useful conditions to prepare | Example question |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turning | Tools, inserts, and holders for external and internal turning | Material, OD/ID, depth of cut, feed, finishing or roughing | I want a stable insert for external turning of S45C. |
| Grooving and parting | External grooving, internal grooving, face grooving, and parting | Material, groove width, groove depth, diameter, hand, operation type | I need a tool for 3 mm external grooving in SUS304. |
| Milling | Face milling, shoulder milling, high-feed milling, TungMeister, and solid end mills | Material, tool diameter, ap, ae, operation type, overhang | Shoulder milling in SUS304. Tool diameter around 20 mm, ap 3 mm, ae 10 mm, stable machining preferred. |
| Holemaking | Drills, indexable drills, deep-hole machining, and reaming-related consultation | Material, hole diameter, hole depth, through/blind hole, L/D | I want tool candidates for a dia. 12 mm, 60 mm deep hole. |
| Tapping | Tap recommendation, tap type, and pilot-hole-related information | Thread standard, thread depth, tolerance, material, hole type | I need a tap for M8x1.25, S45C, blind hole, 15 mm thread depth. |
| Thread milling | Consultation for metric, unified, and tapered pipe threads | Thread standard, nominal size, pitch/TPI, material, hole type, overhang | Select a thread mill for M30x2.5, P material, through hole, 20 mm thread depth, 30 mm overhang. |
Gabby
4. How to ask effective questions
You can ask Gabby questions in natural language. The more specific the machining conditions are, the easier it is to reach a useful answer. The first message does not have to be perfect. Start with what you know, then add missing conditions when Gabby asks for them.
- Describe the operation: Turning, grooving, shoulder milling, drilling, tapping, thread milling, and so on.
- Describe the material: S45C, SUS304, SCM440, aluminum alloy, and so on.
- Describe key dimensions: Tool diameter, hole diameter, hole depth, groove width, thread depth, and similar values.
- Add application-specific conditions: Hole type, thread standard, tolerance, overhang, L/D, and related information.
- State your priority: Stability, productivity, tool life, low cutting force, or another goal.
Good question examples
Milling
Shoulder milling in SUS304. Tool diameter around 20 mm, ap 3 mm, ae 10 mm. Please suggest a stable option.
Holemaking
I will drill a dia. 12 mm, 60 mm deep through hole in S45C. I want to discuss stable drill candidates.
Tapping
I need a tap for M8x1.25, S45C, blind hole, 15 mm thread depth, 6H.
Thread milling
I want to select a thread mill for M30x2.5, P material, through hole, 20 mm thread depth, 30 mm overhang.
Machining records
I want to check similar machining records and tool life information for DrillMeister in SCM440, dia. 12 mm. If possible, I want conditions around Vc120 and f0.18.
POINT
When conditions are missing, Gabby asks for them
If you only write “select an M8 tap,” the thread depth, tolerance, material, and hole type are still missing. In that case, Gabby asks for the required conditions.
5. Continue the conversation and change conditions
Gabby is not limited to one question. After the first consultation, you can change conditions, check catalog information for a recommended tool, or search for similar machining records.
- Use the same conditions, but change the material to SUS304.
- Show me the catalog URL for the first tool you recommended.
- Check machining records similar to these drilling conditions.
- Check again if the overhang is 45 mm.
- Suggest again with productivity as the priority instead of stability.
Sample conversation
6. Use Gabby for catalog checks, machining records, and competitor alternatives
Gabby can be used not only for tool recommendations, but also for catalog checks, machining record searches, and competitor alternative research. Because users can switch the purpose of the consultation, tool-selection-related confirmation work can proceed in the same conversation flow.
When you want to check item numbers or specifications
If you know a Tungaloy item number or product name, Gabby can help check specifications, dimensions, compatibility, catalog URLs, and related information.
Please show the specifications and catalog link for MTEC1414D332.5ISO.
When you want to check machining records for head-exchangeable drills
For head-exchangeable drills such as DrillMeister and DrillForceMeister, Gabby can help review similar past machining examples and tool life reference information.
For SCM440 and a dia. 12 mm DrillMeister, please check similar machining records and tool life information.
When you want to find a Tungaloy option close to a competitor item
If a competitor item number or series is known, Gabby can help look for a close Tungaloy candidate.
I want to find a Tungaloy item close to competitor item XXXX.
Note
Machining records are reference information from past examples
Machining record search currently applies to head-exchangeable drills. The displayed information is reference information from past examples and does not guarantee final tool selection or cutting conditions.
7. Notes before use
Gabby’s answers are support information based on available functions, catalogs, machining record data, and search results. In actual machining, suitable conditions vary depending on machine rigidity, workholding, coolant, tool overhang, and other shop-floor factors.
Recommended tools and cutting conditions should be checked against actual machine conditions. Machining record information is also reference information from past examples and does not guarantee final tool selection or cutting conditions.
For exact specifications, availability, and the latest catalog information, please check the official catalog or contact your local Tungaloy representative.
Note
Always verify final conditions on the shop floor
Gabby is an AI agent that supports tool selection. Final machining conditions should be confirmed based on the actual machine, fixture, workpiece, and coolant conditions.
Summary – make the starting point of tool selection smoother with Gabby
Gabby changes cutting tool consultation from a search-only workflow into a conversational process. When machining conditions are entered, Gabby checks missing information and guides the user to the next useful check, such as tool recommendation, catalog confirmation, machining records, or competitor alternative research.
- Consult tool candidates from machining conditions.
- Check catalog information for item numbers and series.
- For head-exchangeable drills, review past machining records and tool life reference information.
- Search for Tungaloy alternatives to competitor items.
- Continue the conversation to change material, change conditions, check catalogs, or review machining records.
When tool selection is uncertain, start by asking Gabby. It helps organize machining conditions and find the next practical step.