The standard drill was experiencing excessive wear on the cutting-edge periphery as seen in the image below. The first step in such a scenario is to reduce the speed with the understanding that lower speed should result in lower temperature and, hopefully, less wear. However, there are usually several factors that determine the wear. While the experimental testing is required to get the final design, the associated costs of the material, prototyping and the time it takes to arrive at the final design makes it difficult to respond to ever-changing customer demands. Louis Belet wanted to compress time-to-market for their products launches.