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The enormous productivity and quality benefits of the Gleason Power Skiving process are now available for a wide range of applications. Whether you're producing small or large, internal or external cylindrical gears, soft cutting or fine-finish machining - there's a 'total' solution to fit your needs. This includes machines for small, medium and large workpieces, automation, tooling, cutter pre-setting, as well as simulation and technology software. CMM Inspection vs. GMM Inspection. Speed is the name of the game.... 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... 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... Gear hobbing is one of the most productive manufacturing processes for cylindrical gears. The quality of the gears is a result of the tool quality, the precision of the workpiece, tool clamping and ki...

GRINDING

More on Gear Grinding
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
Could you explain to me the difference between spiral bevel gear process face hobbing-lapping, face milling-grinding and Klingelnberg HPG? Which one is better for noise, load capacity and quality?...

Hard-Finishing Spiral Bevel Gears

March/April 2016
Generating gear grinding is one of the most important finishing processes for small and medium-sized gears, its process design often determined by practical knowledge. Therefore a manufacturing simul...

Local Simulation of the Specific Material Removal Rate for Generating Gear Grinding

September/October 2015
Christian Brecher, Fritz Klocke, Markus Brumm, Florian Hübner

HEAT TREATING

More on Heat Treating
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
The oil industry is (pardon the pun) tanking. That may conjure up horrific images of other industries following suit in a domino effect of collective collapse into the overabundant oil slick the indus...

Defying the Oil Ripple

March/April 2016
Alex Cannella, News Editor
Questions to Ask Your Heat Treater Provided by Justin Lefevre (Joyworks LLC, Ann Arbor, MI), Kathy Hayrynen (Applied Process, Inc., Livonia, MI) and Vasko Popovski (Applied Process, Inc.)...

Dont Get Burned

July 2015
Erik Schmidt, Assistant Editor
In this special section, our editors have gathered recent news and information related to the heat treatment of gears. Here you’ll find a comprehensive assortment of news and upcoming events that will...

Things Are Heating Up in 2015

March/April 2015

 

PRODUCT NEWS

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Walter will demonstrate its focus on digitization, networking and connectivity at EMO 2017, in Hanover, September 18-23, 2017. The meta...

Walter AG Digital Solutions to be on Display at EMO 2017

July 12, 2017

Walter will demonstrate its focus on digitization, networking and connectivity at EMO 2017, in Hanover, September 18-23, 2017. The meta...

Third Wave Systems has successfully developed and simulated the complex processes involved in spiral bevel gear machining. With this Adva...

Third Wave Systems AdvantEdge Software Expanded to Include Gear Machining

July 11, 2017
In a move designed to greatly improve efficiency and quality in CAM operations, the CoroPlus ToolLibrary and PrimeTurning ...

Sandvik Coromant Introduces CoroPlus Suite of Solutions for Mastercam 2018

July 10, 2017
Affolter has recently unveiled the AF71, a new multi-axis part load and unload system. The loading head is equipped with a double gripper...

Affolter AF71 Universal Loading System Offers Three Methods for Part Feeding

July 7, 2017
Heule Tool Corporation introduces new COFA-C Series tooling for deburring elliptical or contoured surfaces in larger diameters. Replacea...

Heule Tool COFA-C Series Carbide Coated Blades Designed for Deburring Elliptical and Contoured Surfaces

July 6, 2017
When EMAG launched the new TrackMotion automation system in 2015, they quickly realized that it not only focused on transporting parts, b...

EMAG VL 3 Duo Vertical Turning Machine Offers Extremely Compact Machining Solution, TrackMotion Compatibility

July 5, 2017
No. 852 is an 850°F (454°C), high temperature walk-in oven from Grieve, currently used for heat treating and baking varnish at th...

Grieve No. 852 Walk-In Oven Designed for Customer for Heat Treating and Baking Varnish

June 30, 2017


INDUSTRY NEWS

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APMI International's most prestigious award recognizes APMI members for their significant contributions to the goals, purpose, and mi...

APMI Announces 2017 Fellow Award Recipients

July 6, 2017
Niagara Gear, a division of Gear Motions, Inc., recently completed the installation of its first machining cell. The in-house machining c...

Niagara Gear Completes First Machining Cell

June 29, 2017
Machine Tools Builders has launched a spinoff company to build a new line of heat treating furnaces to better service their customers. Th...

Machine Tool Builders Launches Diablo Furnaces Heat Treating Company

June 27, 2017
The winners in the 2017 Powder Metallurgy (PM) Design Excellence Awards competition, sponsored by the Metal Powder Industries Federation ...

MPIF Announces Award-Winning Powder Metal Parts

June 27, 2017
April U.S. cutting tool consumption totaled $168.03 million according to the U.S. Cutting Tool Institute (USCTI) and AMT - The Associatio...

April CTMR Report Finds Cutting Tool Consumption Down from March, Up from 2016

June 15, 2017
The American Gear Manufacturers Association (AGMA) announced two new member-driven committees:  Emerging Technology and Industry Voi...

AGMA Announces Two New Member-Driven Committees

June 14, 2017

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