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Deburring’s a Pain: Here’s Some Relief

Nobody likes deburring workpieces. In shops around the world it’s considered a necessary evil. Production engineers, tooling engineers, programmers and machine tool builders spend many hours trying to tweak the machining process to eliminate burrs. Sometimes they are successful, but often they are not.

If deburring parts is inevitable, why not consider automating the operation and incorporating it into you production flow? After all, most shops automate their programming functions—front office operations such as scheduling and quotation. Why not look into taking the human factor out of deburring. There are ways to do it.
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The Scoop on Cutting Tools

At ProductionMachining.com you can find special-emphasis Zones that directly relate to technologies of specific interest. The Cutting Tools Zone provides an assortment of tools that allow thorough research of cutting tools.

Here's how you can make the Cutting Tools Zone work for you. Let’s say you’re struggling with short tool life when working with a particular material. Do you want to hear what other shops went through when they faced a similar situation? Do you want to learn about the significance of feed rate in certain applications? Do you want to research new technology trends that tooling suppliers are developing? You’ll find articles that address all of these issues and more.
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Creating the Indexable Insert

In the shop, we are often told how to use a cutting tool, but not necessarily the mechanics behind the tool itself or how the tool is manufactured.

A few articles Production Machining has published in the past discuss this topic. Indexable inserts, in particular, have been the subject of these articles.

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