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.

I dug into our archives here at Production Machining and selected some articles that might be useful if you are interested in possibly automating or looking for alternatives for your deburring operation. They include "Getting More Bang for Your Deburring Buck," "Robotic Deburring Provides Flexible Alternative," and "Practical Deburring Provides Practical Alternative."

If you like these, there are many more. To see all the articles we’ve compiled through the years, do a search for “deburring” at productionmachining.com.