Previously, the customer used a full carbide drill for the hole and a front and back deburring tool for removal of the burrs. The cycle time for all 12 bores amounted to 320 seconds. Since the deburring tool failed to produce a consistent chamfer, the sprockets had to be reworked manually outside of the machine.
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Blog Entries - tag: 'Deburring'
Automating Deburring to Free Up Operator Time
Posted on: September 23, 2019
A manufacturer of agricultural equipment wanted to replace manual deburring. They were running all of their machines unattended with one operator, so they wanted to move deburring to the machine and free up time so the operator could monitor other machines and parts.
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Eliminating Manual Deburring and Improving Part Quality
Posted on: January 15, 2019
A manufacturer in the energy industry had to resort to time-consuming manual deburring when a competitor’s tool failed to do the job. Deburring the part outside the machine took approximately 9 minutes. This is a substantial amount of time and labor since they were producing more than 1000 parts per month. HEULE's COFA tool was the solution that cut production time and eliminated the need to manually deburr.
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Deburring Challenging Cross Bores on a Valve Fitting
Posted on: October 1, 2018
A hydraulics manufacturer was able to reduce production costs and eliminate manual deburring using HEULE's X-Bores technology to deburr complex cross bores.
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Combining Drilling, Deburring, Chamfering, and Countersinking on an Aluminum Wheel Valve Hole
Posted on: May 23, 2018
A manufacturer producing approximately 800,000 aluminum wheels for the automotive industry each year was looking for a more cost-effective and efficient solution to produce valve holes that would not require turning of the work piece.
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Deburring Bores in Composite Aircraft Parts
Posted on: March 7, 2018
There are two major challenges to machining composites: one is to cut the fibers neatly without fraying; the other is that the abrasiveness of the material leads to heavy wear on the cutting edge of the tool blade. HEULE worked with this aircraft manufacturer to develop a cost-effective solution (a tool with a long blade life) that would also deburr the bore neatly.
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Deburring Bores on Hard-to-Reach Irregular Surfaces
Posted on: February 12, 2018
A manufacturer of V-8 crankshafts was faced with the challenge of deburring a main bore that broke into seven different surfaces, some of which were angled/irregular. They needed a tool solution that would reach all the large exit bores on the hard-to-reach surfaces of the part.
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Saving 34% Cycle Time on a Sprocket Wheel
Posted on: January 11, 2018
A subcontracting company to the automotive and the fittings industry produces a range of components such as flanges, sprockets and drive shafts and was looking for a solution to reduce cycle time for drilling, deburring, and chamfering a sprocket wheel.
Eliminating Manual Deburring of a Steering Column Component
Posted on: December 6, 2017
A subcontractor to the automotive industry used to deburr a fork laboriously by hand. The fork is part of the steering column. Faced with the problem that the manual deburring was too time-consuming and that it became a bottle neck in the production process, the company set out to look for a new solution.
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A Better Quality Knee Replacement with Automated Deburring
Posted on: November 29, 2017
An artificial joint manufacturer in the medical technology field was not happy with the existing manual deburring solution of a crossbore in a knee replacement part and the quality of the parts being produced. As demand for the product increased and the manufacturer was faced with an increasing number of bores to be deburred, the quality of the product began to decrease.
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Deburring/Chamfering Polyether Ketone (PEEK) Bores of Back Implants
Posted on: November 29, 2017
The customer was looking for a solution to deburr/chamfer bores of back implants for the medical industry. The material, PEEK (Polyether ketone), posesses a very high continuous service temperature, stiffness and hardness as well as a unique high tensile strength. The material is very similar to the human bone.
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Deburring a Fuel Pump Component on a Rocket Engine
Posted on: October 9, 2017
This aerospace manufacturer was looking for a solution for deburring three through-holes with four bore edges each for a fuel pump component on a rocket.
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Automating Back Deburring in High Production Automotive Manufacturing
Posted on: October 9, 2017
A precision machining supplier to the automotive industry who produces more than 1 million common rails per year was looking for a solution to automate the back deburring of a low pressure bore.
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Cross Hole Deburring a Stainless Steel Pipe
Posted on: October 9, 2017
A Precision Machinist was looking for a solution to deburr the cross bores of a pipe for industrial cleaners automatically front and back. The difficulty here was the accessibility of the back bore edge.
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Replacing Manual Deburring of Inconel in the Machining of Aircraft Components
Posted on: October 6, 2017
A major manufacturer of jet engine and aircraft components wanted to replace the manual hand benching to deburr an Inconel part. Their goal was to automate that process to save both labor and time.
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Combining Operations to Machine a Mounting Bore
Posted on: September 28, 2017
A manufacturer in the automotive industry produces about 12 million aluminium wheels for passenger vehicles per year. The customer was looking for a solution to produce the wheel mounting bore cost-effectively in one operation without having to turn the workpiece.
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Saving Cycle Time While Drilling and Deburring Aluminum
Posted on: September 26, 2017
A manufacturer in the aerospace industry reduced their cycle time by eliminating manually deburring holes in an aluminum part. The HEULE VEX-S drill helped eliminate the long shavings that wrapped around the tool, followed by the SNAP tool to automatically deburr the front and back of the part.
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Replacing Time-Consuming Manual Deburring on a Brass Bushing
Posted on: September 11, 2017
A mechanical engineering company needed to automate this tedious manual deburring process. Using HEULE's COFA tool, they were able to deburr the inner and outer edges of cross bores located in the lubrication groove while eliminating their manual processes and saving cycle time.
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