Grinding Applications

Automotive Applications

OD and ID grinding of  brake cylinders, brake pistons, hydraulic steering pistons, selector shafts, spline and gear shafts, connecting rods, camshafts, and crank shafts are done.

Precision grinding of outside shaft diameters provides near-perfect fit between gears, bearings and other mating components. OD grinding of these components enhances concentricity of the shaft to its centerline while ensuring that accompanying diameters are concentric to one another. Offset ODs for non-concentric diameters, such as crank pin journals and cam lobes, are also precision ground. For this application, special crank and camshaft grinders are used.
ID grinding is required for precise fitting of brake cylinders, connecting rods and other applications.

Medical Industry

The medical industry uses grinding to produce surgical drills, dental drill bits, hip stems, hip balls, hip sockets, femoral knee joints and needles.

The aerospace industry

Turbine rings, turbine shafts, and inner and outer rings are a few of the aerospace components which are commonly precision ground.

Machine tool manufacturers

In machine tool components,  spindles, linear guideways, ballscrews, Hirth couplings in indexers and rotary tables, roller bearings, cams, racks, valve spools, and pistons are produced using grinding as a process.

Die/mold industry

In the die/mold industry,  thread dies, stamping dies, press brake tools, draw dies, thread rolling dies and mold inserts are some items that use grinding.  There are many other die and mold components that require grinding.

Tooling industry

The tooling industry that supports the die/mold and machine tool industries uses precision grinding to produce three- and four-jaw chucks, profile inserts, step drills, drill points, reamers, taps, ring gages and collets. ISO and HSK adapters and shanks for toolholding also require grinding.

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https://www.mmsonline.com/blog/post/buying-a-grinder-applications-for-grinding-machines