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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
No. 934 is an 850°F (454°C), cabinet oven from Grieve, currently used for heat treating at the customer’s facility. Workspa...

Grieve No. 934 Oven Utilized for Heat Treating Applications

January 18, 2019

No. 934 is an 850°F (454°C), cabinet oven from Grieve, currently used for heat treating at the customer’s facility. Workspa...

EMAG recently introduced its TrackMotion automation concept, a technology that provides the same high levels of quality in terms of flexi...

EMAG Introduces Automation System for Modular Machines

January 16, 2019
Dillon Manufacturing specializes in premium chuck jaw products for large diameter (15-60 inch) chucks. Matching specialized workholding t...

Dillon Offers Large Diameter Chucks

January 14, 2019
Weiler Abrasives has expanded its offering of small diameter cutting and snagging wheels for high-speed die grinders to include Tiger AO,...

Weiler Abrasives Expands Small Diameter Cutting Wheel Offering

January 10, 2019
When it comes to machining times, combining various machining processes in one setup offers enormous savings potential. With the combinat...

EMAG Combines Vertical Turning Technology with Finish Grinding

January 8, 2019
Seco Tools has introduced 13 new full-profile threading inserts for internal UNJ and MJ thread profiles. Now a full range of UNJ and MJ t...

Seco Tools Introduces New Threading Inserts

January 2, 2019
The MT 733 series from Stama (Chiron Group) allows all six sides of a workpiece to be machined on a single five-axis center. The machinin...

Stama Highlights Vertical-Spindle Mill-Turn Series

December 26, 2018


INDUSTRY NEWS

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The American Gear Manufacturers Association (AGMA) is pleased to announce the promotion of Casandra Blassingame to vice president, educat...

AGMA Promotes Blassingame to Vice President, Education Services

January 18, 2019
WABCO Holdings Inc., a supplier of braking control systems and other advanced technologies that improve the safety, efficiency and connec...

WABCO Signs Transmission Agreement with Daimler

January 17, 2019
Mazak Corporation has announced it will invest $8.5 million in new manufacturing technology for its Florence, Kentucky, Mazak iSmart Fact...

Mazak Announces Kentucky Manufacturing Investment

January 16, 2019
Siemens PLM Software and Modelon recently announced a partnership to use Modelon’s OPTIMICA Compiler Toolkit as the default Model...

Modelon and Siemens PLM Software Enhance System Simulation Capabilities Through Partnership

January 10, 2019
Gear Motions is the proud owner of a new fiber laser marking machine which was recently installed at its Nixon Gear Division in Syracuse....

Gear Motions Installs Laser Marking Machine at Nixon Gear Division

January 8, 2019
Klingelnberg will continue to support customers in 2019 with comprehensive training and continuing education courses. For over ten years,...

Klingelnberg Presents 2019 Training Programs

January 7, 2019

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