Benefits: Attendees will learn several of the most important concepts in improving grinding productivity and quality. Badger pulls several key concepts from his High Intensity Grinding Course and presents them here, along with practical case studies demonstrating their successful application.

Speaker bio: Dr. Jeffrey A. Badger, known as The Grinding Doc, is an expert in grinding. Dr. Badger has worked in grinding facilities around the world and is well-known in his practical, down-to-earth approach to grinding.

Registration and Payment: Required. Send email to badgerjeffrey@hotmail.com with the names and email addresses of the attendees along with a brief description of the type of grinding they are doing. Then download the registration form from www.gcsm2009.iitm.ac.in. (See link "Post Conference Event" on the right of the page.)

Topics and Schedule:

9:00-9:15 -- Introduction
9:15-10:00 -- Cooling Fundamentals
10:00-10:30 -- Cooling case studies
10:30-10:45 -- Coffee Break
10:45-11:00 -- Cooling question/answer
11:00-11:45 -- Thermal damage
11:45-12:00 -- Thermal damage question/answer
12:00-12:30 -- Improving productivity
12:30-1:30 -- Lunch
1:30-2:00 -- Improving productivity continued
2:00-2:15 -- Improving productivity question/answer
2:15-2:45 -- Aggressive concept fundamentals
2:45-3:00 -- Coffee break
3:00-3:30 -- Aggressive applied to ceramic abrasives
3:30-4:00 -- Aggressiveness applied to tungsten-carbide grinding
4:00-5:00 -- Question/answer