ATI Industrial Automation has announced that it has completed the purchase of the Speedeburr product line from the Norwegian-based Speedeburr AS. ATI has been selling the Speedeburr line of deburring tools under the name Axially-Compliant (AC) Deburring Tools since 1998.
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The Speedeburr deburring tools are a patented family of robust, high-speed, low-weight air tools with a floating rotary cutting burr for edge-deburring and chamfering of aluminum, plastic, steel, etc., with a robot or CNC machine. While spinning at high speeds, a rotary cutting burr or file (tungsten carbide, PCD, or CBN coated cutting burr) rides on a cushion of air that provides compliance while maintaining a constant contact force. Because the rotary burr has a 45° cutting angle, the compliance is both lateral and axial. This patented force control system provides a very high stiffness in the path direction and a low stiffness in the contact force direction that prevents chattering (a common problem with robotic deburring). Due to the extremely low inertia of the cutting burr, Speedeburr deburring tools can quickly deburr parts, greatly reducing cycle time.
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All manufacturing and support of the Speedeburr product line will take place at ATI's corporate and manufacturing headquarters in Apex, NC. ATI also offers a series of Radially-Compliant Deburring Tools, also known as Flexdeburr, that are robust, high-speed and lightweight air turbine-driven deburring units for deburring aluminum, plastic, steel, etc. with a robot or CNC machine and Axially-Compliant Finishing Tools, also known as VersaFinish, that are robust, low-speed, high-torque air tools with an axially-floating spindle, suitable for a multitude of robotic and non-robotic material finishing operations on aluminum, plastic, steel, and more.
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More information on our Axially-Compliant Deburring Tools can be viewed here.
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More information on our Robotic Deburring Tools can be viewed here.
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A video demonstration can be viewed here.
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