It’s a Jungle Out There and We Want To Help You Get Through It

THE TOP OF MIND ISSUE  for most of our IMTS visitors was getting more quality parts out the door faster to satisfy unusually high levels of customer demand.

Better Grinding Performance Now!!!!

CLEAR A PATH to faster deliveries without sacrificing quality by making incremental changes that improve grinding performance.

Meister’s 2018 IMTS exhibit was the best yet in terms of the number of visitors to the booth and the  dozens of recommendations and quotes requested as a result of our “Ask the Meister Experts” program. There was one matter consistently on top of the minds of almost all our visitors: keeping pace with an almost unprecedented demand for parts in today’s hot economy. In short: Surviving in the jungle.

They were concerned about getting more parts out the door to keep up with demand. They wanted to know how it is possible to maintain high levels of quality at higher throughputs. They were also worried about how pushing grinding process throughput might result in burning through higher levels of consumables (like grinding wheels) and degrade profitability.

Boosting throughput, getting more parts per wheel, increasing dressing intervals, and maintaining high quality levels are objectives that fall under the broad category of Improved Grinding Process Performance. Improved grinding performance is, of course, always a laudable objective, but is it one that can actually be achieved in the heat of this current moment?  Based on our decades of experience helping customers tune up grinding processes, we believe that the answer to this question for many of our followers is YES!  To this end we offer several resources.

NEED TO BLAZE A TRAIL through perplexing grinding problems? Follow the links on this site.

1. How-To-Info: For over many years now, our blog, The Meister Toolbox”  has become an exceptionally useful repository of easily referenced “how-to” material. If you skim through it, or use the handy search vehicle, you are likely to find many ideas that would apply to grinding process improvements that would serve you very well today.

2. Handy Tools: The “Tools/Calculators” section of the Toolbox presently contains nine specific tools with which to set up efficient grinding processes and to troubleshoot problems. Four of the most appropriate for these times are:

Dressing Calculation Tool. Dressing better impacts every aspect of grinding performance. This tool is designed to assist the user in setting up the optimal parameters for rotary dressing of vitrified CBN and Diamond grinding wheels.

Dressing Tutorial. New to dressing or looking for a refresher? This tutorial uncovers some of the mysteries of this very important part of the grinding process.

Total Cost Calculation Tool. This tool is designed to help the user assess the total cost of their grinding process. Abrasive, machine, and labor costs are all considered.

Top 10 Bore Grinding Problems/Solutions. A comprehensive white paper, Top Ten Bore Grinding Problems ….and how to solve them TODAY” provides in-depth solutions to the ten most common problems encountered during bore grinding. A handy reference chart is also available.

MEISTER EXPERTS helping booth visitors resolve performance issues at IMTS 2018.

3. Challenge Our Meister Experts: At IMTS 2018 we made our entire team of Grinding Applications Engineers available to booth visitors to answer any questions they might have about improving process performance. Now we are extending the same offer to visitors of this blog. We invite you to challenge this team with your current grinding performance issues so they can help you as they have helped others. Solutions! Not product information. Our experts have decades of experience in all facets of grinding from the machines to the components and most importantly, the abrasive wheels and dressing tools. If they don’t have an immediate solution you can be sure they won’t rest until they find one.

Here’s How:   Simply email Pat Roberts, our Sales Manager. He’ll refer your question to one of his team members most familiar with your issues. You’ll get a prompt response.  If you prefer, you can also call us directly at (401) 294-2530.

The above suggestions should provide the path toward getting a firm handle on improving grinding performance now…and surviving in the jungle of increased demand. Then we’ll have a discussion about the exciting innovations introduced at IMTS as well as all our other best-in-class, custom-tailored performance enhancing abrasive products.