From the first real time cinematic car chase in the movie Bullitt to the numerous Bond cars drooled over nearly as often as the Bond girls, Hollywood has banked on one key fact: fast, sleek cars sell tickets. NASCAR, Formula One and numerous other racing organizations no doubt confirm this notion. As a result, millions if not billions of dollars have been poured into the creation of the latest greatest technology in producing spectacular cars for the track and the screen. Specialized materials and engines aside, it’s a matter of aerodynamics; the smoother and less angular the car the better. While the shape of a vehicle is decided by the design team prior to manufacturing, the smoothness of each feature is often dependent upon machinery used at the end of production, deburring equipment. [Continue Reading Article]

As industrial manufacturing standards evolve, tried-and-true mass finishing processes must keep in lockstep with end-user demands. Mass media finishing processes have gained widespread acceptance in many industries, primarily as a technology for reducing the costs of producing edge and surface finishes. This is particularly true when manual deburring and finishing procedures can be minimized or eliminated. There are a number of different mass finishing processes in common use throughout industry. Among these are barrel, centrifugal, vibratory, and spindle finishing. Vibratory systems have become the predominant method due to advantages inherent to the method in terms of ease of use, automation, and material handling. When first developed in the 1950s, these systems were typically modest in size, and were used for deburring and finish processing of smaller components. Being able to process larger batch lots of modestly sized parts was important to competitiveness. [Continue Reading Article]