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- Finding Lost Profits In Your Finishing Line
- The finishing division of White Castle restaurants teamed with Profit Finders, a continuous improvement company specializing in data collection and analysis, to look at ways to increase process efficiencies.
Article Published: 5/1/2012
- Buffing & Polishing: The Need for Speed
- The correct peripheral speed is an important consideration in getting the right results from your buffing operation. A buff that is turning too fast or too slow may result in damage to the buff or to the workpiece.
Article Published: 1/1/2012
- Drag Finishing of Delicate Parts
- For complex parts with high surface finish specs, production deburring and surface prep can be done using the drag finishing process whereby the parts to be deburred and finished are mechanically dragged through the media while attached to fixtures—...
Article Published: 10/1/2011
- Increasing Vibratory Efficiency by Optimizing the Choice of Media Shape Relative to Part Geometry
- When choosing vibratory media, understand the size, shape, starting roughness condition and metallurgical structure of the part.
Article Published: 7/13/2011
- Making the Grade With Mechanical Media
- Understanding media grades is important to good mechanical finishes.
Article Published: 7/1/2011
- Chemically Accelerated Vibratory Surface Finishing (CAVSF) with Oxalic Acid-Based Solutions
- It has been shown that the inexpensive chemically accelerated vibratory surface finishing (CAVSF) process can reduce the average surface roughness.
Article Published: 5/18/2011
- Be All You Can Be
- For fabricators, the finishing line is just the beginning of a new era in today's market. The days of simply cutting, bending and welding metal components into assemblies and delivering them to a customer in two to three weeks just don't exist anymo...
Article Published: 3/1/2011
- Mass Finishing: What is it All About?
- Mass finishing refers to any deburring, edge breaking, or surface conditioning process in which the workpieces, although confined in a chamber, are not fixtured.
Article Published: 2/21/2011
- Buffing and Polishing— Looking to the Future
- While there may be alternative methods of finishing—buffing and polishing are two processes that are tough to duplicate with other methods.
Article Published: 2/18/2011
- Better Peening Shouldn’t Be a Shot in the Dark
- Almost any pilot will tell you that when it comes to airplane parts like wings or engine blades, failure is unacceptable. That’s why more aerospace companies have sought to reduce the possibility of metal fatigue in such critical parts, and why some...
Article Published: 12/1/2010
