ANCA, Wixom, Mich., a manufacturer of precision grinders, is offering a five-part e-Course on bone drills for product designers, manufacturing engineers and purchasing agents, according to ANCA.

Topics in the series include:

geometry terminology,

manufacturing techniques,

reducing friction and heat,

drill materials, and

grinding wheels.

Designing a rotary instrument can be a difficult balancing act, particularly with the high length-to-diameter ratios common in many bone drill designs, according to ANCA.

ANCA’s course will teach how recent advances in industrial cutting tools can be adapted to improve rotary instrument designs, the company says. Specifically, the course will cover modern drill terminology used in prints, from web thinning to split pointing, and why they are used.