Honing technology – What is it?
Honing is a precision stock removal process for practically all raw materials. The main application is the machining of bores, but it can also be used for plane surfaces, waves or untrue bores. The goal is improving size and shape, or rather, optimizing the tribological characteristics. This means defined surface properties which arise during friction processes, such as in bearings, engines, transmissions and machine elements.
- Comparison of diameters
The advantage is obvious: The better these characteristics are, the higher the savings in energy costs, material use, production and maintenance. Using the honing technology offered by us, reliability and security are substantially increased, energy and raw material resources are protected and environmental impact is minimized – a fact that we strongly ascribe to with our guideline "Gehring goes green".
With honing, bore accuracy of less than 1 µm diameter tolerance and surface accuracy of less than 0.04 µm are achieved. As a comparison, a human hair has a diameter of about 60 µm, and a paper clip is about 1,000 µm. Compared to other processes such as internal grinding, honing is not only easier, faster and more cost-effective, it is also more precise.
