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The latest technological solutions help keep chamfering and deburring operations in-line -- often without increasing cycle times.... Deburring or chamfering of gear teeth is gaining attention in practical settings. And with a view to make the production sequence as efficient as possible, it is becoming increasingly important to be ... Lubricant experts are doing more than ever to make their products less toxic and harmful to everything from the environment to the people using them — which comes with plenty of extra benefi... Powder metal (PM) gears normally sell due to the lower cost and their relatively high mechanical performance. The reason behind the lower cost is that most of the machining is omitted due to the net-s...

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
Additional features have been implemented in the Shaft Editor, which make it much easier to input shafts (WPK module). Users can pull on ...

KISSsoft Offers Shaft Calculation and the Shaft Editor

October 22, 2018

Additional features have been implemented in the Shaft Editor, which make it much easier to input shafts (WPK module). Users can pull on ...

The new Genesis 160HCD Hobbing Machine for cylindrical gears integrates a newly developed process for chamfer cutting. Chamfer Hobbing ...

Gleason Announces Hobbing Machine with Integrated Chamfer Hobbing

October 19, 2018
Based on its LGG 280 generating grinding machine, Liebherr recently presented the larger LGG 400 M model at IMTS in Chicago. The new L...

Liebherr Introduces New Gear Grinding Machine

October 19, 2018
The latest Sandvik Coromant grades provide the ability to perform medium-to-heavy interrupted cuts and remove the hardened layer (depth o...

Sandvik Coromant Expands Hard Turning Operations

October 19, 2018
Kennametal recently released its newest helical milling cutter, the Harvi Ultra 8X.Using a 95 mm (3.74 in.) axial depth of cut, 20 mm (...

Kennametal Releases Latest Helical Milling Cutter

October 17, 2018
Forest City Gear can now perform fast, comprehensive analysis and verification of metal alloys for quality assurance and control using ...

Forest City Gear Adds Metal Alloy Analysis to Gear Inspection Capabilities

October 16, 2018
The L.S. Starrett Co. has introduced its DFC and DFG Series of Digital Handheld Force Gages. Depending on the series, advanced automati...

Starrett Digital Gages Offer Diverse Force Measurements

October 12, 2018


INDUSTRY NEWS

More Industry News


Walter Surface Technologies recently announced two senior level appointments naming Marc-André Aubé to chief executive offi...

Walter Surface Technologies Announces Senior Level Appointments

October 22, 2018
Zachary Cobb, director of engineering and R&D in North America, Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence, was the keynote speaker at the ...

Hexagon Keynote Speaker Discusses Connectivity and the Changing Workforce

October 19, 2018
The Mitutoyo Institute of Metrology now provides free online standards-based calibration video training with the opportunity to earn ce...

Mitutoyo Offers Free Online Standards-Based Video Training, Certified Credentialing

October 17, 2018
In an effort to serve customers in the United States, Canada and Mexico better, Eldec LLC unveiled a new website for manufacturing prof...

Eldec LLC Launches New Website

October 16, 2018
Kapp Technologies L.P. (KTLP), Penta Gear Metrology LLC (PGM) and Koepfer America LLC (KA) have entered into an agreement for technical s...

Kapp Technologies, Penta Gear and Koepfer America Announce Technical Sales Collaboration

October 12, 2018
Seco Tools has named Tyler Martin as its new manager of engineering services. Formerly the manager of technical services, Martin previo...

Seco Tools Announces New Manager of Engineering Services

October 12, 2018

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