How Mass Finishing Can Improve Your Products
Mass finishing is becoming an essential process in modern manufacturing and can significantly improve the quality of your products. By using mass-finishing techniques, manufacturers can produce high-quality products that are quick and cost-effective. Let's discuss how...
Choosing the Right Media for Surface Finishing
Media choices play a significant role in the properties of each alloy and how it affects them during the finishing process. Media is commonly used for vibratory tumbling and produces an altered appearance or finish to another material or part to meet exact finishing...
Polishing Surfaces of Worm Screws and Worm Gears for the Automotive Industry
The success of the automotive and motorsports performance industry can be attributed to the Precise finishing of what is under the hood. Metal automotive parts, specifically worm screws and worm gears require a specific type of surface finishing to ensure they...
Orthopedic Parts and Implants: How Surface Finishing Effects a Patient’s Recovery and Quality of Life
With each orthopedic part having its own unique surface finishing requirement, the performance of polished parts play a critical role in performance within the medical industry. Finishing specialists must meet the appropriate requirements not only for...
Go Fish! How sculptor Roger Fowler cast about for a finishing partner and landed Mike Klein.
It’s not often that Mike Klein of ISO Finishing gets a call from an artist but as soon as Roger Fowler mentioned that he sculpts fish out of metal, Mike was hooked. As Roger went on to explain, he’s a lifelong fly fisherman and art enthusiast. Several decades ago, he...
Surface Finishing Complements the Additive Manufacturing Process
Additive manufacturing is an innovative manufacturing process that creates 3D printed objects. As the name suggests, material is only added when and where it is necessary. Parts are created using computer-aided-design (CAD) software or 3D object scanners to deposit...
Surface Polishing Improves Durability and Lifespan of Orthopedic Parts
Surface polishing plays a vital role in the performance of parts in a variety of industries, especially when it comes to orthopedic part polishing. From aviation and aerospace to performance motorsports, surface polishing influences how well parts perform. While...
Preparing Metal Parts for Surface Coating
Metal parts are used for a variety of applications and often require some level of surface improvement prior to being used. Surface finishing, or polishing, is essential because it ensures the metal parts are adequately prepared for their intended application. By...
Why is Precision Masking Important in Part Polishing?
Precision Masking of parts is common for industrial sectors such as aerospace, motorsports, firearms / defense and medical fields. Precision masking is used to protect part features during the CBF (Centrifugal Barrel Finishing) part polishing / mass finishing...
What is Deburring?
Burrs, which are a ridge or area of roughness, typically occur when the material used to create the part is cut, or pieces of the material are removed. Methods such as welding, molding, casting, and shearing tend to cause sharp, bumpy edges that affect part...
How Does Mass Finishing Help Manufacturing?
Before mass finishing became a commonplace method for finishing parts, the finishing process was accomplished by grinding or polishing parts one at a time by hand. Not only was this time consuming and costly, but it produced less than stellar results. The introduction...
What is Part Impingement?
Originally developed as a process for deburring, mass finishing has greatly impacted the manufacturing world to produce uniform, high-quality parts faster and at a lower production cost. As mass finishing has evolved with equipment, media, and technology advancements,...