Inthe majority of manufacturing processes, metal pieces tend to become burred. This is when compression of the material and sharp edges that are not part of the design occur. This burring can affect the quality of the final piece, it can lead to errors during assembly or even the emergence of unprecedented safety hazards.

Burring is unavoidable to some extent, and so deburring machines are added to the manufacturing line, to correct any issues as another step in the process. This work was once completed by hand, a process which was very labor intensive.

Automated deburring allows manufacturers to correct these problems for a fraction of the cost and manpower of traditional, manual techniques. Automated deburring replaces the skilled workers who would previously have been responsible for deburring pieces as they rolled off the manufacturing line. In doing so, it offers manufacturing businesses an opportunity to improve the efficiency of their production line and save themselves some cash.

The Old Ways

Previously, manufacturing businesses were dependent on a team of fabricators, armed with the appropriate tools to carry out the necessary deburring work by hand. These fabricators could produce high-quality work, but at a limited rate and considerable expense when compared to automation.

Automation technologies have become more affordable and more widely available, so more manufacturers have begun to implement them to handle deburring. As this has become more common, it has become harder for businesses to justify the additional costs and manufacturing time involved in manual deburring.

Automated Deburring

Automation has evolved into the dominant deburring method in all manufacturing fields. Automatic deburring machines available have become more refined and sophisticated. As the machines available have improved, so has the quality and quantity of the work they are capable of producing.

Automated deburring machines are designed to handle a variety of different types and shapes of pieces. A human operator is needed to feed pieces into the machine to be deburred, to ensure that the machine is set correctly, and to ensure that the pieces have been completely deburred before they are allowed to carry on along the production line.

How Has It Changed Things?

One result of the ability to reliably automate the deburring stage of the manufacturing process is that manufacturers no longer need to hire skilled individuals to oversee it. Instead, less experienced workers can process pieces using an automatic deburring machine.Automated deburring, therefore, saves businesses money by reducing their need to hire skilled workers.

Automated deburring also increases the profitability of a production line by allowing more pieces to be deburred to a higher standard, in a shorter space of time. This has meant that manufacturing lines with automated deburring have a significant edge over the competition.

The result of both of these effects is that automated deburring edges out the traditional methods in every way imaginable.

Deburring has always been an important part of the manufacturing process. Without deburring to correct manufacturing imperfections, the pieces produced can cause problems with the integrity and safety of the structures or equipment they are ultimately used it. Automatic deburring greatly improves the efficiency of this process.