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Advantages of Precision Grinding Services

1. Cost-Effectiveness

Precision grinding is a cost-effective process because it can achieve precise dimensions in large volumes of parts. It is fast, versatile, and highly reliable, making it suitable for a wide array of materials, including hardened steel and non-ferrous metals. The process seldom produces non-conforming parts, ensuring high efficiency and minimal waste.

2. Accuracy

A significant advantage of precision grinding is its high degree of accuracy. While machining processes like milling and turning can achieve close dimensions, grinding enables manufacturers to remove tiny amounts of material to create extremely accurate parts, ensuring that the final dimensions are met with high precision.

3. Reliability

Precision grinding is a highly reliable process. It is easy to set up, highly efficient and applies less pressure to the workpiece compared to other precise dimension-obtaining processes like machining. This results in fewer defects and consistent quality in the finished parts.

4. Tight Tolerances

With precision grinding, DEZE can achieve tight tolerances as close as +0.00025”. Such tight tolerances are essential for parts used in the automotive, aerospace, and medical industries, where precise dimensions are crucial, especially for parts fitted to or implanted into the human body.

5. Smooth Surface Finishes

Precision grinding produces very smooth surface finishes, which are important for both functionality and aesthetics. In the medical industry, smooth finishes are crucial for surgical instruments, while in other industries, they enhance the visual appeal and performance of the finished product.

Applications of Precision Grinding Services

• ● Aerospace: Production of engine components, turbine blades, and landing gear parts requiring high precision and surface finish.
• ● Automotive: Manufacturing of crankshafts, camshafts, transmission components, and other critical parts.
• ● Medical Devices: Production of surgical instruments, implants, and precision components for diagnostic equipment.
• ● Tool and Die Making: Grinding of precision tooling, molds, and dies used in various manufacturing processes.
• ● Electronics: Production of components requiring tight tolerances and superior surface finishes, such as connectors and enclosures.
• ● Energy: Manufacturing of parts for renewable energy systems, such as wind turbine shafts and solar panel mounts.

Considerations for Precision Grinding

• Material Hardness: Can effectively machine hard materials that are difficult to machine with other methods.
• Setup Time: This may require careful setup and calibration for high precision.
• Coolant: Typically requires coolant to prevent overheating and maintain surface quality.
• Abrasive Wheel Selection: The choice of an abrasive wheel is critical for achieving the desired surface finish and material removal rate.

Precision Grinding Services

We can provide many different grinding processes. These include rotary grinding, surface grinding, bar grinding, regrinding, sharpening, and high-precision variations. We can perform work on common material forms such as bar stock, liners, plates, and blocks, but also support dies, moldings, shear blades, machine bases, and others. Materials we work with include aluminum, brass, bronze, cast iron, copper, steel, stainless steel, and exotics like Inconel, titanium, Hastelloy, and more. A full listing of our equipment capabilities and descriptions can be found in the table below.