|
Burrs and foreign object damage are consideration that are increasingly critical as precision machined parts are engineered from more challenging materials and to demanding geometries and applications.- Guest Post by John Halladay of Vectron, Inc.
Burrs are unwanted raised material remaining on a machined part as a result of prior manufacturing operations. Link here
 Looks like unwanted raised material to me!
FOD can be either Foreign Object Debris or Foreign Object Damage asdefined by the
National Aerospace FOD Prevention, Inc. (NAFPI),
Foreign Object Debris (FOD): A substance, debris or article alien to a vehicle or system which would potentially cause damage.
Foreign Object Damage (FOD): Any damage attributed to a foreign object that can be expressed in physical or economic terms which may or may not degrade the product's required safety and/or performance characteristics.
"Cause damage, degrade product's safety or performance characteristics, and economic damage" - These are serious issues to manufacturers and their customers making critical human safety reliant systems- like automotive, aerospace, fluid power, or medical devices or systems.
Editor's Note: CR4 would like to thank Milo for sharing this blog entry, which you can finish reading here.
| 
Re: Burrs, Deburring and FOD
