Continuous Improvement

Author John Harig
Published
May 01, 2003 - 12:00pm

Grinding shop demonstrates benefits of continuous-dress creep-feed grinding.

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Related Glossary Terms

  • creep-feed grinding

    creep-feed grinding

    Grinding operation in which the grinding wheel is slowly fed into the workpiece at sufficient depth of cut to accomplish in one pass what otherwise would require repeated passes. See grinding.

  • grinding

    grinding

    Machining operation in which material is removed from the workpiece by a powered abrasive wheel, stone, belt, paste, sheet, compound, slurry, etc. Takes various forms: surface grinding (creates flat and/or squared surfaces); cylindrical grinding (for external cylindrical and tapered shapes, fillets, undercuts, etc.); centerless grinding; chamfering; thread and form grinding; tool and cutter grinding; offhand grinding; lapping and polishing (grinding with extremely fine grits to create ultrasmooth surfaces); honing; and disc grinding.

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John Harig is president of Abrasive-Form Inc. (www.abrasive-form.com). He can be contacted at 630-893-7800; email: jharig@abrasive-form.com.