Helping Your Parts Shine On: Avoiding the drudgery of deburring and finishing operations

摘要

The deburring and finishing of machined and fabricated parts is a necessary but often disregarded step in the manufacturing process. As a result, some shops still approach this task much as they did in the previous century, relying on manual deburring and polishing methods over more modern, automated, and predictable means. This is time-consuming and wasteful. It leads to inconsistent part quality and even increased machine downtime as operators attend to buffing wheels and drill presses, their CNCs idle. Worse, a simple mistake at this stage of the manufacturing process can mean scrapping out a workpiece that took hours or even days to produce.