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Precision grinding: a key technology for advanced manufacturing

Precision grinding: a key technology for advanced manufacturing
  • IDEKO presents a guide addressing the challenges and trends of one of the most important machining processes in modern industry.

Grinding is one of the fundamental pillars of high-precision industrial manufacturing. More than just a machining process, it is the decisive stage where the final quality of a part is defined: its geometry, dimensional tolerances, and surface finish. The precision achieved at this stage determines not only the functionality of the component, but also its reliability under critical operating conditions and its long-term service life.

Understanding how precision grinding is evolving and where it is heading is essential for those who seek not only to manufacture parts, but to build the next generation of industrial excellence.

For this reason, IDEKO, a member of the Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), has written a guide that explores the main challenges and current trends of this process — a process for which no alternative exists today capable of matching its ability to take a component to the highest level of technical accuracy.

What will you find in this precision grinding guide?

The guide presented by IDEKO offers an in-depth review of advanced grinding, focusing on its most critical areas, the points where effective action can be taken, and the technologies that are revolutionising the process:

  • Main challenges : achieving zero-defect quality, addressing the complexity of increasingly advanced materials, improving productivity, driving digitalisation, multitasking approaches, and sustainability.
  • Key points that define quality : geometric and dimensional precision, functional surface quality, and surface integrity.
  • Areas of intervention : the machine tool, the grinding wheel and its dressing, advanced and sustainable materials, the cooling system, or the key process variables.
  • New technologies for optimisation : advanced process monitoring, in-process and post-process measurement, Artificial Intelligence, and digital twins.
  • Drivers for a sustainabled process : energy efficiency, management of consumables, fluids and materials, resource optimisation, and a full life-cycle approach.

In addition, IDEKO’s document presents real success stories in sectors such as aerospace, where the optimisation of grinding has improved part quality, reduced production costs, or eliminated critical defects.

Discover the full precision grinding guide here.

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