Precision finishing

More and more demanding quality standards on the market are dramatically increasing the importance of precision surface finishing processes. These treatments improve the aesthetic appearance of metal parts, but also their mechanical and physical characteristics, corrosion resistance and lifespan, among others.

Mirror finishing

A mirror finish is a highly-polished finish, characterized by a bright, shiny, reflective metal surface. A high-quality mirror finish is not only visually appealing, but the gradual removal of surface scratches reduces indentations or grooves on metal, which may contain contaminants, such as dirt or bacteria.

Corrosion resistance

Surface roughness of AM parts can vary depending on the technology used and parameters applied, and affects fatigue, corrosion resistance and friction properties. In order to improve the surface quality, Dry electropolishing is postulated as the most promising treatment to reduce roughness and defects.

AM Post-processing

Surface roughness of AM parts can vary depending on the technology used and parameters applied, and affects fatigue, corrosion resistance and friction properties. In order to improve the surface quality, electropolishing is postulated as the most promising the treatment to reduce roughness and defects.

Aerospace

Surface finishing operations play an extremely important role in aerospace and energy sectors, since it helps to improve efficiency, while increasing reliability and durability. These parts must withstand high stress corrosive conditions, high loads with long-term lifespan and meeting demanding cycle life specifications.

Automotive

Surface finishing solutions are utilized at every level of the automotive pipeline, from garage maintenance and car restoration to manufacturers’ demands. One of the most challenging aspects has to do with safety, since the result of the surface finishing process is closely linked to the vehicle performance and reliability.

Dentistry

Dental laboratories use dry electropolishing to improve surface quality of cobalt-chrome and titanium dental parts. Smoothing, cleaning and eliminating small imperfections from removal dental prosthetics and other implanted dental parts expands their lifespan pieces and can extend the life of dental components from the inside out.

Food & Pharma

Metal components produced for food, beverages, packaging and pharma industries must comply with challenging surface finishing standards. Those surfaces should be ultra-smooth, precision finishing, thus avoiding areas for bacteria grow. DLyte achieves superior results than any other surface finishing method.

Jewelry & Fashion

These industries require a perfect surface quality as the purpose of the piece is mainly aesthetic and its value depends on a good looking. Complex geometries in jewels are hard to polish with traditional polishing methods and electropolishing is one of the techniques utilized for a better homogeneity and standardization.

Medical device

Cleanability, biocompatibility, corrosion resistance, pathogen resistance and a smooth surface without defects are crucial to comply with the function and demand on quality of the medical industries. Improving the surface’s quality on implants, instruments and equipment components increases functionalities as well as their lifespan.

Toolmaking

Overcoming the drawbacks of tool finishing is one of the main challenges in the field of surface finishing solutions, in order to achieve the lowest roughness on flat surfaces. This is why DLyte has specially created new electropolishing technologies to carry out the most challenging freeform surfaces polishing.

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THE COMPANY

TEAMZIEREIS GmbH is a milling center located in Engelsbrand in the Black Forest region of Germany founded 20 years ago. The company focuses exclusively on dental products and services connected with the digital work flow. TEAMZIEREIS has expertise in high level CAD/CAM operations and pursues an integrated digital manufacturing concept.

THE PROBLEM

TEAMZIEREIS was not able to internalize this process as the demand peaks happens quite often and the number of welltrained workers needed to perform the work effectively for a process with big demand variations was a barrier to offer it.

TEAMZIEREIS was looking for innovative surface finishing methods which allows them to offer the polishing service with outstanding quality and a smooth workflow which avoids bottle necks in the production.
A defined gloss, no change of the work piece geometry, dimensions and edges and, above all, a flawless surface finish, these were the results Ralph Ziereis demanded.

Unfortunately, all the current surface finishing solutions in the market are: 1) highly time-consuming if carried out through hand held processes, 2) extremely cost-intensive, and/or 3) render suboptimal results to meet functional requirements.
Current solutions can be classified as a) Hand processes (mainly mechanical, with abrasive polishing belts, pastes and tools) or b) by means of automated equipment (through mechanical or electrochemical processes).

THE SOLUTION

DLyte equipment uses the new patented DryLyte technology for the surface finishing metallic components. DryLyte leads to superior surface results, preserving the geometry of the component (without rounding edges), and ensuring excellent mechanical properties, optimal surface finishing and a highly controlled composition of the surface. It completely overcomes current customer’s pain point by:
+ Improving final results
+ Drastically reducing lead time and manufacturing costs
+ Reducing negative impacts on workers’ health and environment.

METHOD COMPARISON

THE CUSTOMER FEEDBACK

By using the DLyte 10D, processing time can be reduced by up to 80 % compared to manual work, depending on the application. Furthermore, several parts can be processed simultaneously.

Ralph Ziereis concludes: “The automatic polishing is an ideal addition to our service package and makes our manufactured components a lot more attractive for our customers.”