A very important function of the medium is to separate parts during the deburring, cutting, surface improving or burnishing operations.

Manual deburring is the most common deburring process because it is the most flexible process.

Cryogenic deburring is a cryogenic process used to remove burrs and flash from plastic and die cast workpieces.

Another name for it is "maintenance reamer", referring to its use in the miscellaneous deburring and enlarging tasks often found in MRO work.

Electrochemical deburring is the use of electrochemical machining to deburr precision workpieces and edges that are hard-to-reach, such as intersecting holes.

Thermal energy method (TEM), also known as thermal deburring, is a deburring process used to remove hard-to-reach burrs or burrs from multiple surfaces at the same time.

Parts cleaners may be as simple as a stand-alone basket immersion washer, or they may be as complex as a five-step deburring, aqueous tumbling, rinsing, drying and paint coating machine.

There are many deburring processes, but the most common are mass-finishing, spindle finishing, media blasting, sanding, grinding, wire brushing, abrasive flow machining, electrochemical deburring, electropolishing, thermal energy method, machining, and manual deburring.