Editorial, News, and Products
Sunnen Electronic Bore Gage for Fast, Easy Monitoring
The PGE-6000 electronic bore gage is well suited for quick, simple, economical process control in almost any manufacturing environment.
Vertical Honing System for Increased Process Control
IMTS 2022: Sunnen’s SV-3000 series vertical honing system incorporates synchronized servo stroke and spindle motors that enable constant crosshatch finishes the length of the bore.
Making Tribological Improvements to Bore Surfaces
A new “mechano-chemical” process that impregnates tungsten into the surface of honed bores at a nano level improves wear resistance while reducing friction between mating components.
Sunnen Offers Mechanical Bore Gage Leasing Program
The company says the lease program is an easy, economical way for job shops to get in-line precision part inspection, increasing shop capabilities and opening new avenues of business.
Sunnen Engine Charity Sweepstakes Breaks Fundraising Record
Richard Petty stopped by Sunnen's booth at the Performance Racing Industry trade show, helping the company raise $120,000 for Victory Junction.
Sunnen Offers DirectDex line to Replace Sandvik Deep-Hole Drilling Tools
DirectDex line of drill heads and consumables are compatible and directly interchangeable with Sandvik’s CoroDrill 800 deep-hole drilling tools.
Sunnen Opens Manufacturing Plant in Monterrey, Mexico
The company recognizes that diversification of the labor pools from which it draws its highly skilled workforce needs to expand in order to meet the demands of its customers.
Friction and Wear Reduction Technology for Honed Parts
Sunnen Products Company and Applied Nano Surfaces (ANS) sign a joint development program focused on ANS Triboconditioning process that reduces friction and wear on a variety of honed parts and components.
Sonny Leonard Builds 2019 Sunnen Engine Charity Sweepstakes Prize
This year’s engine is 762 cubic inch and 1,400 hp and is even bigger than last year’s custom-built engine.
Sunnen Relocates its BTA Heller Division
Sunnen is moving the BTA Heller division to St. Louis, Missouri, enabling the development of tooling, systems and processes for precision bore applications.
Sunnen PG Bore Gage Measures Range of Diameters
PMTS 2019: Sunnen's PG-series bore gages are especially useful for process control in a lean manufacturing environment.
PMTS Tech Talks to Focus on Honing/Lapping Technology and Forging
The PMTS 2019 Tech Talk schedule includes presentations from Sunnen on improving bore shape, size control and surface finish with honing/lapping, and from Mueller Industries on the future in forging.
Sunnen Establishes Direct Sales in Canada
Sunnen brings direct sales and service to Canada, providing an enhanced customer experience and full access to the company’s total bore solutions.
Sunnen Breaks Its Fund-Raising Record with Engine Sweepstakes
Sunnen’s annual sweepstakes at the Performance Racing Industry trade show raised more than $100,000 for Victory Junction.
Sunnen Establishes Direct Sales Operations in Canada
Beginning January 1, all Canadian orders and service requests will be handled directly by Canadian sales representatives and technical personnel.
Honing Machines Reduce Setup Times
The Sunnen SV-30 honing series is for engine cylinder blocks, liners and other parts.
SVL-2115 Lapping Machine Laps and Air Gages in One Setup
SVL-2115 automated lapping machine laps and air gages bores in one setup, freeing operator time and increasing part consistency.
Single-Pass Skiving and Roller Burnishing for Hydraulic Cylinders
A newly introduced machine and tool combination from Sunnen streamlines skiving and roller burnishing by combining operations into a single stroke process on a single tool.
Why Honing Oils Matter
Like any metalworking process, honing relies on a systemized approach of components working in concert to deliver optimized results. Honing oil is one of these critical components, and this article examines the role it plays in a successful honing operation.
Sunnen Acquires BTA Heller to Expand Honing Expertise
Sunnen Products Co. has acquired BTA Heller Inc. with the aim of expanding Sunnen’s honing expertise to include tooling for initial hole creation and other complementary bore sizing and finishing processes.
Sunnen Products Co. Acquires BTA Heller
Sunnen Products Co. has acquired BTA Heller Inc., a U.S.-based manufacturer of deep hole tooling and systems for primary hole generation.
Tour of Sunnen Emphasizes the Importance of Honing
A tour of Sunnen reinforces a long and fruitful one relationship with the company and emphasizes the importance of honing.
Remote Honing Analytics
Remote honing analytics with MTConnect-compliant machines makes manufacturing activity and system conditions transparent, enabling rapid implementation of operational and maintenance excellence.
Win a Racing Engine
Entrants of the Sunnen Engine Charity Sweepstakes have a chance to win a custom-tuned Mopar 6.4L Gen lll Hemi racing engine built by Nick Ferri, co-owner of Patterson Elite Performance.
Prototype to Production-Volume Honing
Here's a machine designed to meet a variety of honing needs. It features all-digital, servo-stroke honing for volumes ranging from prototype to high production.
Finding Significant Increases in Honing Accuracy
Single Stroke Honing is a single-pass process that sizes and finishes a bore with a series of progressively larger superabrasive tools adjusted to a preset diameter.
Honing Products Produce Quality Finishes
Controlled-Force honing and the Flex-Hone tool.
Electronic Dial Bore Gage
It’s another one of those “necessary evils” that shopfloor employees often don’t appreciate the significance of.
Tool Feed Technology Enhances Production Honing
Nothing throws a wrench into a production machining operation like variation in the incoming parts.
What's New in Honing
At IMTS 2010, Sunnen was demonstrating multi-feed honing, a new technology that gives users a choice of tool-feed modes to help them achieve shorter cycle times, lower part cost and longer abrasive life.
Servo Honing System Automatically Profile Hones Diesel Cylinder Liners
Custom bore profiles for diesel cylinder liners are among the new capabilities introduced on the SV-500 Series vertical CNC honing system.
Attaining Ten-Millionths Bore Accuracy
Conventional honing has been continuously improved and automated, now allowing boring accuracies to be measured in millionths.
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Scalable Modular Honing Machine
The SV-1000 series vertical CNC honing machine is engineered to scale up from a single-spindle machine to a fully automated multi-spindle unit for ultra-precise bore sizing and finishing. Designed for part diameters ranging from 0. 120" to 2.
When The Bore Needs More
Somtimes high precision is mandatory. This artilce looks at honing as a process to meet tight specs.
A 'HOLE' New Ballgame With Multi-Spindle Honing Systems
Automating the honing process is key to high-volume precision bore production with sub-micron accuracy.
Expanding On Honing Options
While available both in horizontal designs and vertical designs, three different machining methods are used for honing operations. The most common method, effective on a range of diameters and materials, uses multistroke machines to hone with one or more abrasive stones attached to a single rotating spindle.