Abrasives

The article I chose to discus this week is entitled Applications of high-efficiency abrasive process with CBN grinding wheel. This article discusses the advantages to a new abrasive grinding wheel that can help the machining industry.

This is what one of these CBN super-abrasive machines look like.  They could be used in any sort of machine shop where fine detail is required.  Normally in these situations, a lathe and milling machine must be used.  This procedure invokes much more error from human operation as compered to the CBN computer controlled machining.

The article discusses the advantages of these proposed machines.  The new CBN grinding wheel used by these machines is extremely efficient.  These grinding wheels are optimal for companies that handle hard to machine materials.  Items such as ceramics are brittle and typically break when exposed to extreme force.  However, these CBN grinding wheels are capable of handling brittle materials.  The article discusses that these CBN grinding wheels also preferable in any "high-speed and super-high grinding, quick point-grinding, high efficiency deep-cut grinding, creep feed deep grinding, heavy-duty snagging and abrasive belt grinding" situations.

These CBN grinding wheels look very promising for the future.  They should become comparable in cost to already employed methods and may actually be financially beneficial as less man hours will be needed to complete a project.

Here is a video I found while I was perusing youtube the other day.  I thought it was pretty good, a good compilation of some of the best movie speeches.  Enjoy.