"Deburring technologies and precision surfaces" conference 2024 - follow-up report
The 12th "Deburring Technologies and Precision Surfaces" conference in June 2024 offered everything on the subject of deburring. 18 specialist presentations, an industry exhibition and an evening event were part of the conference organized by trade fair and congress organizer fairXperts.
The 12th "Deburring Technologies and Precision Surfaces" conference once again attracted numerous participants to the Nürtingen town hall on June 13 and 14, 2024. The agenda included 18 presentations on the topics of non-mechanical deburring, mechanical deburring, cleaning after deburring, surface quality assurance, automated deburring and surface treatment. This covered practically the entire process chain during and after deburring and presented possible solutions and technologies for producing burr-free and clean components. Dipl.-Ing. Tim Mayer, Head of the Sawing Technology Group at Fraunhofer IPA, led the top-class lecture program. The conference was once again organized by fairXperts GmbH & Co.
In the first thematic block on non-mechanical deburring processes, participants were able to learn about various technologies and their application in practice. These included processes for deburring with ultrasound, plasma polishing, hydro-erosive machining or electro-chemical metal machining (PECM) from the companies Extrude Hone, UltraTec, 4MI, Plasmotion, Sonplas and EMAG. In the field of mechanical deburring, the tool manufacturers Kempf and Heule, the mechanical engineering company Spaleck and Chemnitz University of Technology presented their tools, technologies and deburring solutions. On the subject of cleaning after deburring, Vapic gave an overview of aqueous and solvent-based cleaning technologies, followed by Acp's CO2 snow blasting technology. Artificial intelligence for automatic optical surface inspection was on the agenda in Math & Tech's presentation, while Fraunhofer IPM addressed the topic of digital holography for measuring large functional surfaces. The last topic block, automated deburring, provided an overview of what is already possible today in terms of automation in the field of deburring, but also in other mechanical processing methods for surfaces such as grinding or polishing. The companies ArtiMinds Robotics, Joke Technology, Schunk and Boll Automation provided illustrative examples, for example from the areas of robot and cobot use, their programming and the advantage over deburring by hand. The accompanying industry exhibition and the evening event also offered good opportunities for networking and professional exchange among the participants.