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Aerospace Aluminum Automotive Back Counterboring Brass BSF Cast Iron Chamfering Cobalt-Chromium Alloy COFA COFA-X Composite Counterboring Countersinking Cross Hole Deburring Deburring DEFA Drilling Energy GH/E Heavy Equipment Inconel Medical Nickel Polyether Ketone (PEEK) Precision Machining SNAP SOLO Spotfacing Steel VEX-P VEX-S X-BoresAutomating Deburring to Free Up Operator Time
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 f...
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 minute...
Deburring Bores in Composite Aircraft Parts
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 t...
Deburring Bores on Hard-to-Reach Irregular Surfaces
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...
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 a...
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 ...
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, s...
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.
Cross Hole Deburring a Stainless Steel Pipe
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 ed...
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 lub...