The purpose of annealing is to reduce the hardness of the workpiece and improve its machinability. The specific operation method is to heat it to a certain temperature, keep it for enough time, and then cool it at an appropriate speed.

Therefore, if the basic shaped workpiece is to be further processed (traditional cold working such as cutting and grinding), annealing is beneficial. As for the forming of the workpiece, it is generally to heat the workpiece to a certain temperature for forging forming (commonly known as the kind where the workpiece is red when the iron is hot). In this case, the workpiece should be shaped before annealing and surface treated after annealing.

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