• Deburring involves removing any raised edges or small pieces of material that remain attached to a workpiece after it has been modified.
• Finishing is done to alter the surface of a workpiece, getting rid of any scaling, and pitting to enhance its quality or prepare it for a next step like painting.

Other common operations done with finishing machines can include calibration and stock removal (a machining operation done to achieve higher material removal rates and decrease variations), slag grinding (targeting slag produced by thermal cutting machines), and edge rounding (any action that breaks the edge of a metal part, but especially those that form an edge radius).