Mechanical processing
Whether stainless steel needs to be ground and polished, or whether cast skin or corrosion needs to be removed before coating - the mechanical processing of surfaces plays a decisive role in the functionality and value of many products. The spectrum ranges from angle grinders and shot blast machines to robotic polishing stations or other automated processes such as vibratory finishing.
Flake out abrasion during mass finishing with fewer chemicals
Recirculation reduces the use of chemicals, increases tool life and improves the quality of the mass finishing process
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Rösler: Paint pre-treatment of agricultural machinery
High-quality paint pre-treatment is crucial to protect agricultural machinery against all climatic conditions. The new plant of a major manufacturer of agricultural machinery uses a continuous overhead conveyor blasting system.
With its own surface centre from dependency to expansion
When a lorry needs to be able to do a little more, the Austrian company Dunst Kfz und Hydraulik comes into its own: the specialist for lorry superstructures equips the vehicles with additional units. To this end, the company has now built a new surface centre together with SLF Oberflächentechnik.
DeburringExpo 2023
More than 1,200 trade visitors travelled to Karlsruhe for this year's DeburringExpo with specific tasks and a high demand for information. The majority of the 107 exhibitors are expecting good follow-up business. With over 500 participants, the trade forum also proved to be a sought-after source of knowledge.
How Sentenso improves the fatigue strength of components
The residual stress in surfaces is a decisive factor for the fatigue strength of shot-peened components. A new measuring method and a fast and mobile X-ray diffractometer can significantly reduce the time required to develop and validate shot peening processes.
The art of separating dirt from patina
Restoring technical objects requires dedication, sensitivity and a lot of time. However, time is a factor that can be weighed against money in any industry, which is why restorers are always looking for ways to optimise their work processes without compromising the result.
Asis: Smooth Automation
When companies want to optimize manual mechanical machining processes, the uncertainties and effort involved in the changeover can be considerable. Digital tools make it much easier to plan automated machining.
Otec: Higher load capacity and service life
Functional reliability, economic efficiency and environmentally friendly technology were the requirements for the machining of electric drive shafts for a Polish automotive supplier.
DeburringEXPO: Surface finish for medical and pharmaceutical technology
In medical and pharmaceutical technology, increasingly higher demands are being placed on deburring and surface finishing. For these quality-critical production steps, DeburringEXPO will present new and further developed products and services from 10 to 12 October 2023 in Karlsruhe.
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Otec: Finish with a bite
Process optimization, cost-effectiveness, reliably high quality and easier handling for the production of custom-made aligners and bite splints - to implement these goals, a dental laboratory in Frankfurt invested in a customized machine concept.
Rösler: Selective and gentle
In many cases, implants must have distinctive surface properties. Selective machining to meet these requirements can be achieved using drag finishing equipment. A medical technology company achieved a 50 percent increase in productivity as a result.
Pantatec: 6-figure savings thanks to blast additive
More than a decade ago, a blast media additive came on the market that was supposed to improve the quality of blasting processes. Since then, many applications have proven that it works and helps to reduce operating costs - which is currently more important than ever.
Economical blasting of forged parts with blasting equipment from Trowal
By specifically controlling the abrasive delivery rate, new continuous blast machines reduce energy consumption by only using the amount of energy that is actually needed.
Deburring and finishing surfaces for automotive applications
Application-specific machined surfaces are essential for product quality in vehicles. Friction losses, fuel consumption and emissions can be minimised with the help of individually selected vibratory finishing, blasting and 3D post-processing solutions.
Auf dem Weg zum Kugelstrahlen 4.0
Shot peening is a special process with free-flying tools. The work of the blasting balls on the surface can therefore not be controlled as easily as in a machine tool. Accordingly, the digitalisation of process and quality parameters for the requirements of Industry 4.0 is difficult.
Preserve inline after blasting
To make a ship's hull suitable for seawater or to automatically preserve large-format steel sheets inline, various process steps have to be linked together. In a 180-metre-long plant with a sheet metal line and a profile line, large parts for cruise ships receive the necessary protection.
Detect false colors with LED technology
The quality of surfaces in the automotive industry can now be tested with a special LED luminaire. The in-house development uses LED technology for the first time, thus saving energy and exhibiting better luminous efficacy.
Gently remove stubborn fouling
When conventional cleaning methods don't get anywhere: Clean tube bundle heat exchangers and individual tubes gently, effectively and without the use of water, either manually or automatically.
Clean blasted surfaces for cranes
Two new blasting systems ensure high-quality blasting results at crane manufacturer Abus.
Clear conditions thanks to the cone hat
For the treatment of the process water after vibratory finishing, an automotive supplier has put a new flocculation plant into operation. Since only part of the process water passes through the filter press, it achieves high efficiency.
A combined solution for fine dust reduction
Particularly with very high-quality surfaces, incompletely cleaned fine dust is a problem and can lead to high reject rates. A combination of blow-off and Sword Brush can prevent this.
It's the surface that counts
In almost all industries, component-specific machined surfaces make a decisive contribution to product quality. Accordingly, increasingly higher demands are being placed on burr-free and clean surfaces as well as on shaping and surface finishing. Innovative and advanced solutions ensure that these requirements can be met reliably, reproducibly and economically.
Automation for process optimization
The automation of deburring and surface finishing processes is an optimal way to meet high demands on precision, reproducibility, throughput and economic efficiency. In the process, errors can be avoided with an automation concept adapted to the specific situation.
Deburring Expo 2021
Deburring Expo will showcase innovations and trends from the topic spectrum of deburring technologies and the production of precision surfaces in Karlsruhe from October 12 to 14, 2021. Additive manufacturing, new materials and digitalization are once again the exhibitors' core topics when it comes to component manufacturing.
Fast and reproducible - tooth by tooth
The deburring of gear components is such a complex task that until now it could only be automated at great expense or not at all. With the robot-based solution RZE - Robot Cell Deburring - from a special machine manufacturer in Rhineland-Palatinate, this is now different.
Sensitive grinding for large surfaces
For the machining of large surfaces, there is now an industrial-grade robot grinding solution whose contact pressure adapts sensitively to the specific nature of the surface.
Shot Peening
More power through less weight is the motto of e-mobility. Shot peening compacts the material of fragile components and extends their service life. A well-known contract service provider therefore invested in a new shot peening system.
Cleaning centrifuge instead of wet washout
For the paint sludge discharge in his paint shop, a contract coater switched to a modern cleaning centrifuge. The paint sludge processing became significantly more resource-efficient. The investment already paid for itself in the first year.