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Klueber white paper on hydro lubrication Overall, the gear industry enjoyed a very strong 2018, and the optimism expressed by survey respondents is the highest in recent years. When asked about their optimism regarding their companies&rs... For this year’s exercise in large gears, we’re not going to dwell on size range or length, merely look at the fundamental challenges and latest technologies required to manufacture... Gear skiving is here to stay, and as a result of this industry shift, it’s become paramount to improve how well machining spindles synchronize with each other.... Automotive gear manufacturers have implemented significant improvements in external planetary gear manufacturing yielding quieter gears. In addition, process stability has increased due to the post-he... In many gear transmissions, tooth load on one flank is significantly higher and is applied for longer periods of time than on the opposite one; an asymmetric tooth shape should reflect this functional...

GRINDING

More on Gear Grinding
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...

The Influence of a Grinding Notch on the Gear Bending Strength Rating

November/December 2018
Ulrich Kissling and Ioannis Zotos
Grinding Wheel Technology Focuses on Speed, Efficiency and Time Savings...

Spin City

November/December 2018
Matthew Jaster, Senior Editor
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

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. 807 is a cooling chamber from Grieve, currently used for cooling oven trucks of steel parts at the customer’s facility. Works...

Grieve Offers Cooling Chamber

March 21, 2019

No. 807 is a cooling chamber from Grieve, currently used for cooling oven trucks of steel parts at the customer’s facility. Works...

Mayekawa Manufacturing Company, the global industrial refrigeration specialist headquartered in Japan, has purchased one of Holroyd Preci...

Holroyd Precision Grinding Machine Cuts Manufacturing Time at Mayekawa

March 20, 2019
The Swedish company Ovako is a producer of engineering steel for customers in the bearing, transport and manufacturing industries, and a ...

GWJ and Ovako Collaborate on Gear Modules

March 18, 2019
Helios Gear Products (formerly Koepfer America) now exclusively offers the Helios Hera 90 CNC gear hobbing machine from YG Tech for the N...

Helios Gear Products Introduces Hera 90 CNC Gear Hobbing Machine

March 14, 2019
At Hannover Messe from April 1-5 2019 attendees can take a first look at the latest developments in KISSsoft and KISSsys.The beta version...

Hannover Messe Preview: KISSsoft

March 13, 2019
Headlined as “Control 2019 – Networking Science and Actual Practice,” the 33rd international trade fair for quality ass...

Klingelnberg Offers Complete Portfolio at Control 2019

March 8, 2019
Dillon Manufacturing specializes in premium chuck jaw products for large diameter (15-60 inch) chucks, which will be featured in Eastec B...

Eastec Preview: Dillon Manufacturing

March 6, 2019


INDUSTRY NEWS

More Industry News


Manufacturing roles are changing more profoundly than ever, requiring new skills needed to deploy technology on the plant floor. It's...

Rockwell Automation Webinar Addresses Workforce Skills Gap Challenge

March 22, 2019
Dr. Robert F. Handschuh has retired from NASA, concluding a more than 35-year distinguished career as the Chief of the Rotating and Drive...

Robert F. Handschuh Ends 35-Year Career at NASA Glenn Research Center

March 20, 2019
In support of its continued growth, Modern Heat Treat, a commercial heat treating operation located in Richland Hills, Texas (USA), has a...

Modern Heat Treat Expands Production Capability with AFC Holcroft Equipment

March 18, 2019
Forest City Gear has hired Bob McClain as quality assurance manager to oversee the activities of the company’s world-class qualit...

Quality Assurance Manager Joins Forest City Gear

March 15, 2019
Machine Tool Builders, Inc. is pleased to announce that Dale Bridgewater has recently joined Machine Tool Builders, Inc. as the shop, ser...

Dale Bridgewater Joins MTB as Shop, Service and Engineering Manager

March 14, 2019
Applied Automation Technologies, Inc. (AAT) and DMG MORI USA recently announced a partnership for on-machine measuring software.AAT and D...

AAT and DMG MORI USA Announce Partnership for On-Machine Measuring Software

March 12, 2019

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