Surface Finishing Reaches New Heights

摘要

Mass finishing processes have long been widely adopted throughout industry as a preferred method for producing advanced edge and surface finish effects on many types of machined and fabricated components. American industry is at the forefront for aggressively deploying these methods to improve their edge and surface finishing operations. In his "Deburring and Edge Finishing Hand-book" (1999 edition)," Laroux Gillespie developed a comparative table which pointed out that in some mechanical finishing equipment categories, such as rotary barrels, vibratory finishing, and centrifugal barrel finishing equipment, American industry leads the world in terms of the number of equipment installations. Despite this, all too often situations still exist where archaic, even primitive hand or manual finishing methods are used to produce edge and surface finishing effects.