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As coating technology improves to handle harsher conditions, cutting tool manufacturers are faced with new challenges during the resharpening process.... Back around 2005-2010, the most exciting things that were happening in broaching had little to do with broaching. What was happening - and continues to evolve today - was the emergence of on-the-edg... Gear Industry Steps Up to Automation Challenges in Auto Industry. Automotive parts are always moving. They are zipping across conveyors, smashing into each other in bins and traveling across the prod... Accurate prediction of gear dynamic factors (also known as Kv factors) is necessary to be able to predict the fatigue life of gears. Standards-based calculations of gear dynamic factors have some lim...

GRINDING

More on Gear Grinding
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
Gear Technology interviews Scott Yoders of Liebherr about the latest gear machining technologies of relevance to automotive manufacturers....

Updating Modern Production Processes

August 2016
Matthew Jaster, Senior Editor
In comparison to the visionary Industry 4.0 - or the Fourth Industrial Revolution - the machine tool industry can appear rather down-to-earth....

Innovations for High Productivity Generating Grinding

June 2016
Martin Witzsch
Looking for some simple yet useful advice heading into IMTS 2016? Never second guess your machine tool investment. Flexibility is a mandatory requirement in gear manufacturing today. Accuracy, reliab...

The Comprehensive Gear Grind

June 2016
Matthew Jaster, Senior Editor

HEAT TREATING

More on Heat Treating
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
Suppliers are working hard to make sure their heat treating equipment is controllable, repeatable and efficient, and manufacturers continue to incorporate technology that gives heat treaters and the...

Heat Treating 4.0

March/April 2017
Randy Stott
What quality and performance characteristics should you look for? ...

Checking Up on Your Heat Treater

July 2016
Matthew Jaster, Senior Editor

 

PRODUCT NEWS

More Product News
FlexArm Inc., will feature a mobile tapping package which yields mobility, productivity and efficiency by allowing operators to tap holes...

FlexArm GH-18 Tapping Arm Improves Shift Productivity

May 14, 2018

FlexArm Inc., will feature a mobile tapping package which yields mobility, productivity and efficiency by allowing operators to tap holes...

On April 23rd, 2018, the Industrial Fair in Hannover opens its doors. At the same time, the new version of KISSsoft 03/2018 will be relea...

KISSsoft Releases 03/2018

April 23, 2018
Houghton International has developed a new versatile soluble oil metal removal fluid for the manufacture of automotive parts including en...

Houghton International HOCUT 8750 Oil Metal Removal Fluid Improves Operational Efficiency During Manufacture of Automotive Parts

April 6, 2018
Innovative technologies in automated production and precision measurement - these have been the hallmarks of the A&T (Automation &...

Klingelnberg P 16 Precision Measuring Center To be Presented at A&T Exhibition and Expomaq 2018

April 5, 2018
Dillon Chuck Jaws introduced an 18" diameter boring ring. Its relatively light weight allows customers the same ease boring out 18&q...

Dillon Chuck Jaws Large Diameter Boring Ring Added to Roster of Lightweight Jaw Boring Rings

April 3, 2018
The current KISSsoft version, 03/2017, provides you with a range of different options for calculating and inputting asymmetrical toothing...

KISSsoft Offers Calculations for Asymmetrical Toothings

March 23, 2018
In addition to the aerospace, automotive and energy industries, the defense industry is one of the key sectors where Seco/Warwick Group p...

Seco/Vacuum Technologies Vector Vacuum Brazing Furnace Systems Sold to Defense Contractors

March 14, 2018


INDUSTRY NEWS

More Industry News


More than 300 executives gathered in late April to connect and network with peers at the 2018 AGMA/ABMA Annual Meeting in Naples, Flori...

Highlights from the 2018 AGMA/ABMA Annual Meeting

May 23, 2018
COD student Josie Suter has gained industry experience and leadership opportunities through the engineering program at College of DuPag...

Engineering Student Finds Leadership Opportunities at College of DuPage

May 18, 2018
Experimental proof of load carrying capacity, excitation behavior or efficiency is obligatory in the development process of most transm...

Gear Testing at Fraunhofer Center for Manufacturing Innovation Delivers Timely, Efficient Results

May 7, 2018
Forest City Gear has hired Erik J. Spurling as director of sales to oversee the activities of the company’s network of direct and...

Forest City Gear Adds Director of Sales

April 16, 2018
Wind energy is breaking records in the Midwest. Wind provided 60 percent of the region’s electric needs earlier this month. America...

Windpower 2018 Celebrates Success in Midwest

April 5, 2018
Rochdale-based Holroyd Precision Rotors had cause to celebrate when one of its apprentices secured a top honor at Rochdale Training's...

Holroyd Precision Apprentice Receives Advanced Engineering Apprentice of the Year Award from Rochdale Training

April 4, 2018

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