How deburring by Vibra Finish boosts worker and consumer safety

Vibra Finish recommends deburring as a way to make metal parts safer to handle.

Vibra Finish has offered world-class industrial finishing for decades, including deburring metal parts. Although finishing improves the aesthetic quality of parts, another key advantage of running them through a deburring machine is safety. This goes not just for metal, but also for plastic and wood. Deburring makes parts safer to handle, and it is necessary for any materials that are likely to have sharp edges after they have been cut.

Smoothing out the jagged edges

The deburring process helps to smooth out a material’s jagged edges after cutting, and using a deburring machine is essential to worker and consumer safety. This is because accidents are always possible when working with any material, especially metal. Metals leave sharp, rigid edges after cutting, so deburring is necessary to eliminate these edges and allow workers to handle the metals without getting cut or severely injured. Deflashing and descaling have a similar effect.

If manufacturers properly care for these materials during all stages of production, it minimizes the chances of consumers hurting themselves when they open their boxes to use their machines. A side benefit of this is the reduced hazard of lawsuits, which put financial strains on companies. In addition, deburring machines help to maintain the safety of other machines. Materials have to undergo deburring before they move on to the next manufacturing stage; otherwise, their sharp edges may get caught on various parts of other machines and cause damage or even breakdowns. Not only can this lead to unnecessary expense and downtime for the company that has to fix or replace the machines, it may also hurt workers who operate the machines or even just be nearby at the time.

This is why Vibra Finish highly recommends using a deburring machine to any customer that manufactures plastics, metal, or wood. To keep the deburring process running smoothly every time, it is vital to use the proper amount of finishing compound on a regular basis, and every machine must be degreased and cleaned at least annually. With deburring, parts not only look better, they are far safer.

To learn more, contact Vibra Finish.

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