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sPINner— Success
Stories
Stampings for Credit Card Printer
One of many success stories for the sPINner machine
is a company in San Diego which produces small stampings for a credit
card printer. These stampings are approximately 0.014" thick
and 1-1/4" square. The requirements of deburring this part
were that the overall flatness had to be maintained from the original
form and the small 0.030" holes in the stamping had to be deburred.
Until recently, the company employed 10 people to hand deburred
their small parts. The process was very time and labor intensive.
Quality and consistency suffered due to employee turnover and manual
limitations. The company saw the Techniks deburring and polishing
machine at a machine tool show in California and they were fascinated
at the process. They sent the parts to Techniks and the machine
demonstrated great results. The machine yielded 200 parts every
3 minutes with perfect results. All of their parts are consistent
and deburring is no longer the limiting factor in parts completion.
Bone Screws for the Medical Industry
Another success is a Colorado medical parts manufacturer
that produces small titanium bone screws for the medical industry.
The company was using a number of methods to debur their parts.
Critical criteria for the customer were that the parts had to maintain
the sharp tip and threads of the screw. Also, the surface of the
piece could not be dented or changed in any way. The company now
uses 9 Magnetic Deburring Machines to accomplish their deburring
work. The company cites the ability to adjust the machines aggressiveness
as reasons for the change and attributes the Techniks Deburring
System with speeding overall production times and helping the company
achieve a competitive advantage.
Bone Drill Manufacturer
Other medical devise manufactures such as bone
drill manufactures have taken advantage of this technology also.
Techniks recently had success on some stainless steel parts that
is a union body medical valve. The customer had a part that had
an ID hole of 0.010" through hole and needed the small burrs
machined off but not damage the part in any way. Techniks used a
.008" media to get into this through hole and deburred the
sharp edges on both sides of the through hole. The company was previously
hand deburring all of their parts because no technology was found
to do the job that was needed.
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