In the medical industry, burrs can impact safety, fit, cleanliness, and regulatory acceptance as well as compliance measures.
For CNC machining medical parts, finishing touches mean more than just aesthetics. Every aspect of a CNC machined part with a medical application is focused on functionality, compliance, and performance.
Learn more from Industrial Support Inc. about why CNC machining medical parts requires a burr-free finishing strategy, and how to best achieve it.
Why Burrs Are a Deal-Breaker in the Medical Industry
Burrs — a raised edge, rough ridge, or excess material — on medical parts interfere with assembly, sealing, and precise mating features on medical parts. These blemishes on surface area finishes create defects and difficulties for applications such as implants, surgical tools, and fluid-handling components.
Depending on the medical component itself, burrs can also create biological risk for both medical professionals and patients by trapping contaminants or making a surface more difficult to clean and sterilize.
Why Finishing Operations Need to be Controlled
A burr-free strategy for CNC machining medical parts has to be the solution, but it’s more than just the blemishes on the surface and potential impacts in its applicable field. Medical parts traditionally feature tight tolerances, and where uncontrolled deburring happens, critical edges, threads, sealing lands, or microfeatures can be extensively damaged.
Ultimately, the end goal is to remove burrs without creating surface contamination or creating new geometric problems.
How to Create an Effective Burr-Free Strategy
A strong, effective burr-free strategy for CNC machining medical parts combines both process choices where burr formation at the source is reduced, and controlled secondary finishing. There are multiple avenues for engineering teams to divest into these combinations, including: sharp tooling, optimized cutting parameters, cleaner coolant or cutting methods, and selective deburring methods.
Strategy is also dependent upon material selection, and more advanced methods of deburring might have to take the place of standard operations. Key tactics include cryogenic deburring, ultrasonic micro-deburring, or even forms of electrochemical methods that ultimately reduce manual work.
Achieve Burr-Free CNC Machining Medical Parts Services With Industrial Support Inc.
Since 1995, Industrial Support Inc. has been the manufacturer that manufacturers trust with their projects. Serving OEMs across countless industries, our highly skilled and experienced team creates the parts manufacturers need but can’t create themselves.
Our CNC machining services extend to numerous industries and feature critical operations such as live tooling, which in turn allow us to mill, drill, tap, face, cross drill, and turn various metals, catering to the diverse needs of automotive, electronic, medical, dental, military, and aerospace customers. When your medical parts need to be burr-free, we can handle it.
Backed by multiple quality management certifications, including an ISO 9001 certification, when your projects leave our Buffalo, New York, facility, you can be assured that quality was central throughout the entire manufacturing process.
Contact our team today for more information on CNC machining medical parts and see how ISI can make a difference in your next operation.