James Engineering featured in
Cutting Tool Engineering
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“Deburring is one of the drawbacks of CNC machining. Do you manually handle it with shop floor personnel using a knife, or do you program a machining center to do it?
If it’s the former, your machine operators or other employees must devote time to that instead of performing different — maybe more valuable — tasks. Plus, results vary from person to person.
If it’s the latter, the machine is tied up performing cleanup work when the machine could be on to the next complex part. Perhaps worse, swarf or abrasives from deburring operations can work their way down to the machine’s linear guides and ballscrews, which could reduce its positioning accuracy and eventually bring that critical piece of equipment down for repair…”