Grinding

Optimizing grinding and dressing with the dress speed ratio parameter.

Productive Times. End user: Specialty Carbide Products. Challenge: Productively and consistently grind carbide burs. Solution: A CNC grinding machine integrated with a robot for loading/unloading. Solution provider: Excalibur Tool Inc.

Grinding Doc column for December 2009 issue.

A further examination of the grinding process through the lens of an electron microscope.

Creating awareness about productivity boosting machining technologies and implementing them are playing a major role in making military parts.

Productive Times report covering dedicated wheel truing, includes a brief video report about Myles Tool using the Rush Machinery Wheel Truer.

Dear Doc: I grind small parts with intricate geometries. I’d like to get a handle on what kind of Ra values I’m generating and if the grinding process changes I’m making are improving or worsening the surface finish. I was told to purchase a profilometer. Is this the best route to go?

As the Grinding Doc column for June 2009 issue.

Shops seeking to true and dress superabrasive grinding wheels need solutions that move beyond 'tried-and-true' methods.