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Tool Enables Company to Overcome Production Stop mounted to fexible flaments. Te tool, which can be mounted in a hand drill motor or a machine tool chuck, is used for fnishing or resurfacing of the hard metals, ceramics and other tough materials used in items such as ports, sleeves and cylindrical bores. Quite often, the fexible hone is used instead of cumbersome conventional equipment such as CNC-based hones and anvil tools. In the case of Sikorsky, the fexible hone needed to be constructed with diamond crystal grit. Brush Research ofers a diamond Flex-Hone in a variety of mesh sizes that can easily produce fnishes on hard materials to a range of Ra of 0.1 to 0.15 micrometer, according to BRM. Sikorsky also needed the diamond hones in a very small size and large volume—yesterday. "Now that we had the frst success, we were going to need to produce thousands of these [fexible hones], since we were at a production stop," Mr. Lawrence continues. "We contacted Brush Research and explained our dilemma. Two days later, we had the frst production run of brushes, and we were able to ship our product again to customers all over the world." Grant Fowlie, Brush Research customer service manager, says custom orders such as this one require close coordination with his team and the customer, as well as some highly specialized equipment. "Quite often, the customer has a pretty good idea of what he is looking for in a fexible hone," Mr. Fowlie explains. "Tey know the size and hardness of the material they are dealing with and maybe even the kind of honing grit required. In cases like those, we may simply send one or two standard hones so they can see how the tools work for their application." Mr. Fowlie adds that in other cases his team requests samples of the material to be honed, and then performs tests on site to ensure that the company's recommendations are well founded. For this, sophisticated surface analysis equipment is often used. According to Mr. Fowlie, this free service for customers means Brush Research can run tests using a variety of tools to show the customer exactly what they are dealing with. "Surface fnish analysis will give you roughness [Ra] and a variety of other measurements as far as surface fnishing analysis goes, including peak height, valley depth, bearing areas and other specifcations that have their own importance in diferent applications," Mr. Fowlie says. For the Sikorsky project, production of the thousands of Flex-Hones put a slight strain on the BRM staf, but Mr. Fowlie explains that the company is oriented to quick turnaround. Because Brush Research's facilities are consolidated in a single location, orders are coordinated with efciency and are normally shipped within days and weeks. "Tis product worked better than expected, and these folks [BRM] were unbelievably responsive. It doesn't get any better than that," Sikorsky's Mr. Lawrence says. Tool Feed Technology Enhances Production Honing Nothing throws a wrench into a production machining operation like variation in the incoming parts. LINK :: short/productionmachining.com/toolfeed For more information: Brush Research Manufacturing 323-261-2193 :: brushresearch.com Sikorsky Helicopters :: Sikorsky.com Shop Management-ERP Software You Can Build On. "Iʼve always liked EstiTrackʼs real-time production information. Now, with the new quality module, Iʼm able to identify quality issues in the same manner. This satisfies our ISO record keeping." – Michael J. Reader, President Precision Plus, Inc., Elkhorn, WI. Henning can do for you what we did for Precision Plus, Inc. Our professional manufacturing and accounting software is designed specifcally for manufacturing operations. Visual EstiTrackTM Shop Management-ERP software and Visual BooksTM Accounting software are complete full-featured applications - yet they can be expanded to meet your unique needs. • Estimating • Sales Orders • Shop Orders • Scheduling • Inventory/Lot Control • Purchasing/Receiving • Shipping • Cost Accounting • Bar Coded Data Collection • New! iVETTM Mobile APP If you are tired of hearing you can't - Call Henning...WE CAN! Free Demo & Guided Tour - www.henningsoftware.com 330.650.4212 www.henningsoftware.com ©H n n e n i n g S o f w a © 2 0e0 7n i H g nS o ft w are , tI n c . r e , I n c . Manufacturing & Accounting Solutions Since 1990 productionmachining.com :: 47