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Grinding Wheel Technology Focuses on Speed, Efficiency and Time Savings... As gear manufacturing techniques become more precise and demanding, there is a growing demand for cleaner, higher quality steel.... The 2018 Gear Technology Buyers Guide was compiled to provide you with a handy resource containing the contact information for significant suppliers of machinery, tooling, supplies and services used ... To achieve the requested quality, most gears today are ground. The usual grinding process includes treating the gear flank but disengaging before reaching the root rounding area. If the gear is preman...

GRINDING

More on Gear Grinding
A different method to produce a sample that has a very consistent amount of thermal damage....

Standard Samples for Grinder Burn Etch Testing

June 2018
Jonathan R. Crow and Michael A. Pershing
"Documentation is not a Substitute for an Intuitive Interface." The author explores the development of modern controls for a CNC gear grinding machine....

Human Machine Interface (HMI) in Gear Manufacturing

June 2018
Yefim Kotlyar
With increasingly smaller returns from improving the speed of the actual gear grinding process, improving your setup time has become a primary way to keep improving efficiency. Here's the latest ...

Cutting Down on Setup Time

June 2018
Alex Cannella, Associate Editor
In order to improve load-carrying capacity and noise behavior, gears usually have profile and lead modifications. Furthermore, in gears where a specified tooth-flank load application direction (for dr...

Efficient Hard Finishing of Asymmetric Tooth Profiles and Topological Modifications by Generating Grinding

August 2017
Andreas E. Mehr, Scott Yoders
Grinding of bevel and hypoid gears creates on the surface a roughness structure with lines that are parallel to the root. Imperfections of those lines often repeat on preceding teeth, leading to a mag...

MicroPulse and MicroShift for Ground Bevel Gearsets

July 2017
Dr. Hermann J. Stadtfeld
Ground bevel and hypoid gears have a designed motion error that defines parts of their NVH behavior. The surface structure is defined by the hard finishing process....

Surface Structure Shift for Ground Bevel Gears

June 2017
Sebastian Strunk
New divisions, open houses and the continued rise of the Industrial Internet of Things - There's been a lot going on in gear grinding in the past year....

Gear Grinding Today

June 2017
Alex Cannella
Excessive machine tool vibration during a precision grinding operation can result in poor workpiece quality in the form of chatter, rough finishes, burn, etc. One possible reason for excessive vibrat...

The Role of Natural Frequencies in Grinding Systems Vibration

November/December 2016
John Hagan, corporate applications engineer, Norton | Saint-Gobain Abrasives

HEAT TREATING

More on Heat Treating
Furnaces North America Exhibition Highlights Future of Heat Treating....

FNA 2018

August 2018
Matthew Jaster, Senior Editor
The following article highlights some of the recent heat treat products, technologies and industry news articles for gear manufacturing....

Facing the Future - Emerging Technologies in Heat Treating

July 2018
Matthew Jaster, Senior Editor
The following article highlights some of the new heat treat products, technologies and industry news articles that have come across our desks....

What is the Latest in Heat Treating

March/April 2018
Induction hardening is becoming an increasingly popular alternative to thermochemical diffusion processes such as carburizing, and as it does so, manufacturers are on a never-ending quest to expand th...

Pushing Boundaries

March/April 2018
Alex Cannella, Associate Editor
When sending gears to be heat treated, manufacturers can end up unwittingly making mistakes that slow down turnaround time. We talked to some heat treaters to get their best advice on how you can hel...

Ask Not What Your Heat Treater Can Do for You...

July 2017
Alex Cannella, Associate Editor

 

PRODUCT NEWS

More Product News
The L.S. Starrett Company has introduced its AV450 Automatic Vision System. Versatile, accurate, fast, and American made, the new 3-axis ...

Starrett Introduces High Performance Automatic Vision System

December 14, 2018

The L.S. Starrett Company has introduced its AV450 Automatic Vision System. Versatile, accurate, fast, and American made, the new 3-axis ...

SMT, a globally integrated leader in mechanical transmission engineering services and software development, recently announced the next...

SMT Releases MASTA 9

December 13, 2018
SKF and KISSsoft have worked together to create a new interface that makes it much easier to develop gear units: when designing machines,...

SKF and KISSsoft Release a New Interface

December 12, 2018
Kennametal has developed a new boring system that boasts an effective anti-chatter mechanism, and also offers an extensive range of index...

Kennametal Develops Vibration-Free Boring System

December 6, 2018
Metrology software has challenges in most application environments—and LK Metrology’s new 8.5 version of their CAMIO CMM soft...

LK Metrology Launches Latest Version of CAMIO CMM Software

December 3, 2018
Mitutoyo America Corporation is pleased to announce the release of the LSM-6902H Laser Scan Micrometer to its sensor systems product line...

Mitutoyo Introduces Laser Scan Micrometer to Sensor Systems Product Line

November 29, 2018
In the 03/2018 release of KISSsys, you have the option of “group-based modeling”. Using it, individual finished assemblies ca...

Modeling Gears with Assembly Groups in KISSsoft

November 28, 2018


INDUSTRY NEWS

More Industry News


From February 27 – 28, 2019, Schunk Expert Days on Service Robotics, the leading symposium for applied service robotics will take p...

Schunk Offers Symposium on Service Robots

December 14, 2018
Heimatec Inc., recently announced that it will become part of a new corporation, Platinum Tooling Technologies, Inc. The announcement was...

Heimatec Inc. Combines With Other Tooling Lines Under Platinum Tooling Technologies

December 13, 2018
Ingersoll Cutting Tools is offering seminars in 2019 to learn how cutting tools can work for you. These seminars will include informative...

Ingersoll Offers Live Seminars in 2019

December 10, 2018
Once again, three candidates qualified for the CTI Young Drive Experts Award at the 17th CTI Symposium: "Automotive Drivetrains | In...

CTI Berlin Presents Young Drive Experts Award

December 6, 2018
The Coordinate Metrology Society (CMS) has announced it has formally issued a call for technical papers for the 35th annual Coordinate Me...

Coordinate Metrology Society Announces Call for Papers

December 5, 2018
In November, Seco/Warwick received the honorary badge for meritorious performance in the area of innovation. The badge award ceremony was...

Seco/Warwick Wins Innovation Award

December 3, 2018

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