Metalworking terminology

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Grinding uses an abrasive process to remove material from the workpiece. A grinding machine is a machine tool used for producing very fine finishes, making very light cuts, or high precision forms using a abrasive wheel as the cutting device. This wheel can be made up of various sizes and types of stones, diamonds or inorganic materials.

the simplest grinder is a bench grinder or a hand-held angle grinder, for deburring parts or cutting metal with a zip-disc.

grinders have increased in size and complexity with advances in time and technology. from the old days of a manual toolroom grinder sharpening endmills for a production shop, to today's 30000rpm CNC auto-loading manufacturing cell producing jet turbines, grinding processes vary greatly.

grinders need to be very rigid machines to produce the required finish. some grinders are even used to produce glass scales for postioning CNC machine axis. the common rule is the machines used to produce scales be 10X more accurate than the machines the parts are produced for.

in the past grinders were used for finishing operations only due to limitations of tooling. modern grinding wheel materials and the use of industrial diamonds or other made-made coatings (cubic boron nitride) on wheel forms have allowed grinders to achieve excellent results in production enviroments instead of being relegated to the back of the shop.

modern technology has advanced grinding operations to include CNC controls, high material removal rates with high precision, lending itself well to aerospace applications and high volume production runs of precision components.