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Aerospace Aluminum Automotive Back Counterboring Brass BSF Cast Iron Chamfering Cobalt-Chromium Alloy COFA COFA-X Composite Counterboring Countersinking Cross Hole Deburring Deburring DEFA Drilling Energy GH/E Heavy Equipment Inconel Medical Nickel Polyether Ketone (PEEK) Precision Machining SNAP SOLO Spotfacing Steel VEX-P VEX-S X-Bores![COFA deburring tool result](https://www.heuletool.com/media/site/case-studies/Ziese Part COFA-116.jpg)
A manufacturer in the energy industry had to resort to time-consuming manual deburring when a competitor’s tool failed to do the job. Deburring the part outside the machine took approximately 9 minute...
![finished hole cross hole deburr](https://www.heuletool.com/media/site/case-studies/finshed hole 2-64.jpg)
A hydraulics manufacturer was able to reduce production costs and eliminate manual deburring using HEULE's X-Bores technology to deburr complex cross bores.
![crankshaft](https://www.heuletool.com/media/site/case-studies/crankshaft_photo-100.jpg)
Deburring 1:1 Ratio Oil Bores on a Crankshaft
A manufacturer was deburring the oil bores on these crankshafts by hand for a large automotive customer. After repeated complaints from the customer, the manufacturer set out to look for a more reliab...
![close-up of motorcycle wheel](https://www.heuletool.com/media/site/case-studies/motorcycle fork-90.jpeg)
A high-volume motorcycle manufacturer that was producing 480 lower fork arm brackets per day was seeking an efficient back counterbore tool. Their current tool was having issues with tool breakage an...
![cross bore with irregular surface](https://www.heuletool.com/media/site/case-studies/crankshaftchallenge-82.png)
Deburring Bores on Hard-to-Reach Irregular Surfaces
A manufacturer of V-8 crankshafts was faced with the challenge of deburring a main bore that broke into seven different surfaces, some of which were angled/irregular. They needed a tool solution that...
![sprocket wheel](https://www.heuletool.com/media/site/case-studies/sprocket wheel 2-74.png)
Saving 34% Cycle Time on a Sprocket Wheel
A subcontracting company to the automotive and the fittings industry produces a range of components such as flanges, sprockets and drive shafts and was looking for a solution to reduce cycle time ...
![steering column fork](https://www.heuletool.com/media/site/case-studies/forkCOFA-70.png)
A subcontractor to the automotive industry used to deburr a fork laboriously by hand. The fork is part of the steering column. Faced with the problem that the manual deburring was too time-consuming a...
![hydraulic fitting with cross bores](https://www.heuletool.com/media/site/case-studies/cofaxapp6-62.png)
A manufacturer of hydraulic components and fittings was looking for a more efficient and safer deburring solution for the cross hole of a ball valve. The goal was to automate the process and eliminate...
![tractor](https://www.heuletool.com/media/site/case-studies/tractorapplication-43.jpg)
Countersinking Bores for a Tractor Component
A major heavy equipment manufacturer was looking for a solution to produce countersinks on bores for a gear component on a tractor.
![common rail](https://www.heuletool.com/media/site/case-studies/common-rail-snap2-34.png)
A precision machining supplier to the automotive industry who produces more than 1 million common rails per year was looking for a solution to automate the back deburring of a low pressure bore.