Because of global competition, manufacturing industries today must provide high-quality products on time to remain competitive. High-quality mechanical parts include those with better surface finish and texture, dimension and form accuracies, reduced residual stress and burr-free. Burr formation is one of the most common and undesirable phenomenon occurring in machining operations, which reduces assembly and machined part quality. To remove burrs, a secondary operation known as deburring is required for post-processing and edge finishing operations. Since deburring is costly and considered a non-value-added process, the goal is desired to eliminate burrs or reduce the effort required to remove them. Because of non-uniform chip thickness, tool runout and complex interactive effects between cutting process parameters, milling burr formation is a very complex mechanism. Therefore, research and close attention are still needed in order to minimize and control milling burr formation. In this article, a review of burr formation and characterization is presented, along with burr formation modeling and control. An overview of factors governing milling burr formation is also presented.