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• Automate the polishing of hardened steel collets used in machine tools:
  • Achieve a smooth satin-like micro finish without any visual blemishes, pits or scoring
  • Achieve a cycle time equal or better then the current manual process
  • Setup and maintenance should be simple to perform
  • A minimum run should complete the polishing of 50 collets and allow for inconsistency of part tolerance

• A robotic polishing work cell that picks collets from a tray, moves them to the abrasive station and places them back in the tray.
• End Effector securely holds collet and rotates at a high RPM.
• Long life abrasive wheels with various grain sizes are rotated to match the path of the spinning collet.

Photographs courtesy of Hardinge Tooling.