TMD Drag Finishing machines basically consist of a stationary work bowl and a rotary turn-table with 12 rotating satellite stations for the fixtured work pieces. The many applications of the Drag Finishing technology and it's use for difficult work pieces are assured due to user-oriented, sophisticated technology such as;

• Infinitely variable speed adjustment for the turn-table and satellite stations.
• If required, separate drive of the turn-table and satellite stations.
• Programmable control centre providing a consistent process whilst still remaining flexible for process changes.

Drag Finishing machines can be adapted to solving individual problems by using a modular system. While the standard machine with one station offers a wide range of applications, multi-station machines offer various processing cycles of the same work piece with different processing media e.g cut-back then polishing in a fully automated process.

In a two-station TMD machine, as seen in the picture opposite, the work pieces are attached to the rotary turn-table once and two processing cycles follow automatically. In a three-station version, three processing cycles e.g cut-back, fine finishing and polishing can be performed successfully or alternatively two processing cycles can be run simultaneously.

Economic efficiency and through-put of multi-station machines is quite high due to greatly reduced time requirements for loading and unloading for inter-mediate process stages.

The single rotating stations are equipped with quick release couplings or custom built fixtures if necessary. The pre-fixtured work pieces are then manually inserted into the coupling and automatically locked in place. Optional work piece loading is possible by using robotic handling systems. By using an optional integrated rinsing and blow-off device, the work pieces are cleaned after the process cycle.