Grinding
Conventional abrasives, superabrasives and form wheels each carry their own marking, their own safe speed and their own service life. Kabaido reads the lot, prices it and tracks every wheel through re-profiling and balancing.
GRD-1A1-200-20-32-AO60K
1A1 200 x 20 x 32 vitrified aluminium oxide surface wheel A60K
Unit price
£38.00unit
What you make
Grinding centres on superabrasive wheels, configured from a marking and a form, with their own configurator, drawing engine and dedicated page, all priced through the rules you control.
Diamond and CBN wheels on a core or body, priced from the rim volume, concentration and price per carat. The core matches on diameter and bore, and the configurator draws the dressed form on the wheel.
Explore superabrasive grinding wheelsWheel marking
A wheel is described by a string of marks, and Kabaido reads each part in order: shape, then abrasive, then grit, then grade, then bond.
The shape comes first. A 1A1 straight wheel, an 11V9 flaring cup, a 6A2 dish: the ISO form sets the geometry and the dimensions that go with it. After the shape comes the abrasive itself, whether that is aluminium oxide, silicon carbide or one of the superabrasives, CBN and diamond.
Grit comes next, kept exactly as marked so 60, 120, B126 and D64 all stay verbatim rather than being rounded or guessed. Then the grade, the hardness of the bond holding the grit, and finally the bond type itself: vitrified, resin or metal. Each mark lands on a typed attribute, so a search for a 200 mm surface wheel at A60K narrows to the one that fits.
Maximum operating speed is a hard requirement, not a nice to have. A candidate wheel has to meet or exceed the stated speed, so an unsafe match is filtered out rather than offered. The abrasives knowledge pack and the rest of the typed schema sit behind the catalogue.
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Configure
When the wheel is ground to a drawing rather than picked from a shelf, the Custom form grinding wheel configurator prices it from your parameters and draws the dressed form on the wheel.
Set the blank diameter and width, the bore and the form you need on the periphery. The form is the heart of it: a flat dress leaves the face straight, a single radius carries a full radius nose at the face centre, and form to drawing overlays an uploaded DXF profile across the face, so a relief form or a thread form is priced from the drawing rather than estimated. Static balancing after profiling is a toggle that adds its own line.
The radial section on the left shows the hatched body, the bore and the dressed nose; the front elevation carries the outer and bore diameters. A bore past thirty per cent of the wheel diameter is blocked, and a face under 10 mm warns so the mounting flanges are checked. The 200 mm wheel here, dressed to a single 5 mm radius and balanced, prices at the figure beside it on a four day lead.
Price and lead time come from the same formula engine the rest of the platform runs, so a configured wheel and a stocked one are priced by one set of rules. The full configurator lives in the Design Engineer.
Custom form grinding wheel
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Configured price
Lead time 4 days
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Servicing
A grinding wheel is an asset with a working life, not a one off sale. Kabaido treats re-profiling and balancing as a first-class service, with every wheel serialised and tracked through its whole lifecycle.
Each wheel that comes in for service gets a serial and a QR docket. The wheel beside this is registered, inspected, re-profiled and returned, with the price and the turnaround held on the record at every step. The serial keys the whole history: who owns the wheel, what was done to it and how many services are left in its life.
Pricing is provisional until inspection. When the inspected price moves beyond the threshold you set, the wheel pauses and the customer is sent the recalculated price to approve before any work goes ahead, so nothing is reground at a price the customer has not seen.
The same rules drive the quote, the configured wheel and the service reprice, so a re-profiling job is priced exactly the way a new wheel is. The full register, the docket and the inspection workflow live on the Servicing page, and the template behind this is named in Grinding wheel re-profiling and balancing.
Grinding wheel re-profiling and balancing
200 mm vitrified form grinding wheel
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Turnaround 6 days
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Knowledge core
The knowledge packs beneath the work are part of the full AEI categorisation: seven categories, fifteen packs, applied per request. Grinding leans on the highlighted packs.
Start free, match your abrasives against the typed schema, configure a form wheel and price re-profiling from the same rules.