The Grinding Doc

Welcome to TheGrindingDoc.com, home site of  Dr. Jeffrey Badger,  an internationally renowned expert on grinding and abrasives and an independent consultant.

Current Items of Interest
November 2012		2012 Grinding Course Schedule The Grinding Doc's three-day High Intensity Grinding Course is scheduled for 2012 as follows: Course 1: 7th, 8th & 9th March 2012 in Columbus, Ohio Reduced-rate Deadline Feb 10. Space available. Click here to register. Course 2: 16th, 17th & 18th May 2012 in Stockholm, Sweden Course 3: 23rd, 24th & 25th May 2012 in Dublin, Ireland Click here to register. Course 4: 16th, 17th & 18th July 2012 in Goshen, New York Course 5: Fall 2012 in China, date pending
November 2011		Recruiting of engineers with experience in grinding. Are you an engineer with experience in grinding? I am receiving more and more phone calls from recruiters looking for people with knowledge in grinding, and there seems to be a lack of qualified people. If you have experience, and might be interested in new opportunities, send me an email with your resume. All emails kept confidential.
June 2011		FoxConn Technical Conference 27th, 28th & 29th September 2011 Shenzhen, China Dr. Badger has been invited to give a three-hour talk on new developments and trends in grinding and grinding of stainless steels.
May 2011		The Great Grinding Divide I recently gave a talk at the Swedish Production Symposium in Lund about the gap between grinding in academia and grinding in the real world. The paper may be downloaded here.
April 2011		The Grinding Doc Video Series The latest edition of the series: eliminating chatter and waviness in cylindrical grinding by avoiding the dreaded "integer value". Click here to view.
September 2008		Finding Granddad's War Not related to grinding, but interesting nonetheless. My recently published book on my search for my grandfather's war buddies.