Finishing

Honing an engine's cylinder bores enhances their geometry, surface finish and dimensional accuracy, improving their fit and alignment with pistons and thereby increasing the engine's life and power density while decreasing its vibration, friction and emissions.

Drag finishing—fixturing parts and dragging them through abrasive media—can prevent part-to-part contact, achieve tight edge tolerances, impart fine finishes and be used on parts with a number of characteristics: delicate, high value, complex geometries and multiple contours.

Chemically assisted finishing for better part performance and durability. Microsurfacing is an alternative finishing process with benefits that extend beyond parts with supersmooth surfaces.

The role of microabrasive blasting when finishing implantable medical parts.

Files and rotary burs are common metalworking tools, but choosing and using them correctly takes practice.

Abrasive selection and automation are keys to successful finishing of artificial implants.

Guidelines and considerations when selecting a media for mass finishing.

Obtaining a fine surface finish when high-speed machining.

The finishing options for medical components.

The advantages of roller burnishing compared to abrasive finishing processes.