Today, mass production of components and parts has been made easy
and accurate by advanced automated machines. FINISHING of these
parts is very critical to the job which has been still left to hours of
laborious manual work. The manual work apart from consuming time
asks for more tolerances. MID range of products fit into the automation
process taking care of this finishing to provide consistent quality,
improved productivity thus reducing direct labor content.
MID brushes and wheels are made of heat
MID products can be used on set ups like bench
stabilised nylon filaments impregnated with
and pedestal grinders, hand drill, bench drill,
Aluminum Oxide or Silicon Carbide abrasives.
The abrasives range from coarse to nano fine.
The filaments like abrasive wheels do not remove any
material but removes only burs and can be used for
fine surface finishing. These are available in two
types - round and rectangular. Round filaments
are most commonly used and are mostly
crimped. Abrasive filament brushes have a
strong advantage in automated deburring
operations because brush conformability essentially
eliminates errors which can force a job to be scraped. The brushes
easily adapt to variation in surfaces on jobs, which eliminates the
milling, S.P.M., boring, presses or in setups
involving CNC machining centres, robots, and automated
workstations.
The brushes are now available with a complete range of
adapters absolutely ready to use on all these machines. The
operation of these brushes could be vertical or horizontal. Apart
from the readily available range we have the flexibility of catering to
customised types of requirements with regards to the sizes and
their adapters for mounting when required.
CHARACTERISTICS
stage wise process required by many other automated deburring
Abrasive filaments work like flexible files, conforming to part
systems.
contours, wiping and filing across part edges and surfaces. In
The compliant nature of brushes also makes them relatively easy to
implement because they do not require ultra precision fixturing or
programming.
normal circumstances these have an ability to return back to their
original form after they are deformed under pressure in action.
Because of the linear construction, sharp new abrasive grains
constantly come in contact with the work surface and wear off.
Another issue to be considered is the high value of parts. Most of
This provides consistent deburring action through out the length of
the value added to a part occurs by the end of the machining
the bristles. Nylon bristles are excellent in toughness and are
operation with deburring being the last step. Part destroying errors
moisture and chemical resistant up to a certain limit.
are more likely to occur if the deburring operation is manual.
Ergonomic problems associated with repetitive labour work, are
also driving users away from manual deburring. Continuous,
Automatic Deburring and Surface Finishing of the products in
process of production on existing automated machine would give
constant assured quality while taking care of speedy production.
Challenging operations demand use of coolants
which also enhance results. Coolants have
no adverse effect on MID brushes. They
prevent smear marks from appearing on
surfaces which demand aggressive