... The range of de-flashing tool solutions from Tatern Industrial Automation Ltd has been extended to include Flexifile 2000 (see Plate 6). This is a high-spec compliant product which can be robot or even tool stand mounted. It has been designed for use in deburring, fettling and flash removal...

...B. Shirinzadeh; P.L. Teoh; M. Roberts Fettling is the process of removing excess material from castings. This excess material is often formed at the die’s parting lines during the casting process as molten material is injected into the die at high pressure. By using a robot as a positioning tool...

...Bijan Shirinzadeh; Michael Roberts Increasingly, the laborious task of removing burrs on castings is being automated with the introduction of robots. This is largely to ensure higher level of consistency and efficiency generally not possible with manual fettling. These burrs are unpredictable...

... to the industrial collaborators’ robotic workcell; however, the main concern is in developing an accuracy compensation method in order that “so called” off‐line programming software can be applied. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Deburring Fettling Neural networks Robots At the present time the majority...