Economic use of tools.

Tools can greatly affect the efficiency of your deburring machine. If you consider the hourly rates of a deburring machine, then depending on the configuration of the existing installation, manually placing and removing the sheets make up a large portion. The costs for abrasives contribute only a relatively small portion. While for new machines the machine configuration has the greatest impact on unit costs, for all existing machines it is often the tools that contribute significantly in increasing efficiency. For example, they deliver reliable processing results or help to increase parts throughput.

Manual vs. machine deburring.

Manual vs. machine deburring.

If manual deburring is compared to machine deburring, then a deburring machine becomes quickly economical. Most scenarios appear economical already at less than 500 hours per year spent on deburring, that does not take the other factors, such as the constant quality in mechanical deburring into account. The calculation is always customer-specific and - if you desire - with the help of our experts. Nevertheless, the example (on the right) is impressive, it is from a customer’s toll processing of flame-cut parts.

Unit costs

Unit costs.

At this point, we cannot give you any general unit costs for deburring. That is because the shares in write-downs, staff, maintenance or spare parts, etc. fluctuate with different machine configurations. Although, there are tendencies that apply to most applications. As an indication of the scale here: double-side processing in a single pass saves about 30% of the unit costs in deburring operations. Likewise the shares of tool costs are comparatively low, while their impact on quality and throughput is high. We like to highlight the potentials of your existing or planned deburring solution with you.

Abrasive consumption.

Abrasive consumption

The abrasive consumption depends largely on the material as well as the desired processing result. Large burrs are removed by using greater force and thus the abrasive wear-off is higher. In the case of edge rounding this means that abrasive consumption increases disproportionate to every increase in the edge radius. Therefore: as little as possible and (only) edge rounding as much as is necessary. This saves abrasives and increases the flow rate.

Additional information.

Contacts.

Andreas Hellriegel

Andreas Hellriegel
Head of Business Development
T: +49 7221 5009-78

andreas.hellriegel[at]arku.com

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