IMTS 2024 Conference: Automate Archaic Deburring & Surface Finishing Operation

Wednesday September 11 2:15 PM CST
IMTS46 Room W192-A

About the presentation
Many manufacturers have made improvements to machine programing, cutter design to optimize speed, fixturing design, robotic interface for part loading and stock loading. In many cases, the next step in production is often neglected – the deburring and or polishing operation. This is essential to make a product functional or aesthetically acceptable.

More often than not, you can find a manufacturing cell with the most sophisticated machining process – finish a product with the least sophisticated hand deburring or polishing station. Manufactures are finding bottlenecks, not in production speeds but in final post machining processing. In 2024, quality labor is harder to come by than ever before and the skill needed is vanishing from the work place. Integration of newly developed, automated mass finishing operations within the machining process is a key improvement. The attendees will walk away with a virtual tool belt of solutions to lean out this very important manufacturing step.

We will touch on five keynote solutions across a few industries and how the automation of deburring has:

• improved production throughput and efficiency
• improved product quality and reduced rejection rate
• cost savings and logistical improvements

We elaborate on the process before, the development, the final solution, and how the end user can work through this same process to automate their post machining operations.

Meet your presenter
Steve Alviti is the president and owner of Bel Air Finishing Supply, a North Kingstown, Rhode Island-based company that has been manufacturing equipment, services, and consulting to the metal finishing business for more than 65 years. His company has participated in mass finishing trade shows and seminars on 5 of 7 continents, and his equipment is in use worldwide. He is a mechanical engineer graduate from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, who writes and speaks with hands-on experience. Alviti is a well-decorated professional and has written more than 15 technical papers and presented at countless trade symposiums throughout the world.

Some memberships and events worth highlighting:

• Owner of 7 patents
• Lifetime member of Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME)
• Lifetime member of the Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT)
• Lifetime member of the Manufacturing Jewelers and Suppliers of America (MJSA)
• Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition: United States
• Apprenticeship Counsel Certification in the State of Rhode Island: Machinist/Toolmaker
• 3x Key Speaker at Additive Manufacturing Users Group (AMUG) Conference
• Speaker at the Santa Fe Symposium: Premier Conference for Jewelers
• High school Varsity Lacrosse and Football Coach in Rhode Island