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Single Piece Flow Streamlines Production for High-Volume Gear Manufacturers.... Workholding Systems Continue to Focus on Speed and Efficiency to Improve Machining Operations... The latest advances in gear manufacturing automation all seem to revolve around a common theme: automated loading.... Question: I am a gear engineer for a motor manufacturer in China. I am writing about noise generated from cross-helical gear assembly error. I want to learn the relationship between the misalignment (...

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

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It is no secret that e-mobility is a growing market. A current study by the consulting firm Strategy Analytics, predicts the production o...

EMAG VLC 200 GT Offers Diverse Machining Concepts for Transmission Components

April 18, 2019

It is no secret that e-mobility is a growing market. A current study by the consulting firm Strategy Analytics, predicts the production o...

Commercial heat treater Specialty Steel Treating in Fraser, Michigan (USA) has invested in new AFC-Holcroft UBQ (Universal Batch Quench) ...

Specialty Steel Invests in AFC-Holcroft Equipment

April 17, 2019
FVA has released the beta for FVA-Workbench 5.5 offering faster, better, and more user-friendly features. The new FVA-Workbench is easier...

FVA Releases FVA-Workbench 5.5 Beta

April 15, 2019
Dillon Jaw Forming rings, or Jaw Boring Rings, provide uniform pressure on jaws for a more consistent bore on large diameter chucks. They...

Dillon Jaw Boring Rings Allow Better Grip on Large Diameter Chucks

April 12, 2019
Solar Atmospheres announces the order of a new 12’ long car-bottom vacuum furnace with advanced pumping system and rapid cooling ...

Solar Atmospheres Adds Vacuum Furnace to South Carolina Facility

April 11, 2019
For more than three decades, Kennametal’s KM brand of quick-change tooling has been making machine shops more efficient. As thous...

Anthony Machine and Kennametal Team-Up to Reduce Setup Times

April 9, 2019
KISSsoft provides a number of useful tools for gear manufacturing throughout the design process. When grinding helical gears an unwa...

KISSsoft Provides Additional Tools for Gear Manufacturing

April 4, 2019


INDUSTRY NEWS

More Industry News


Weiler Abrasives, a provider of abrasives, power brushes and maintenance products for surface conditioning received the People's Choi...

Weiler Abrasives Recognized for "Leading a Warriors Charge" Campaign

April 17, 2019
The American Gear Manufacturers Association (AGMA) announced the publication of an emerging technology document, Additive Manufacturing T...

AGMA Announces Additive Manufacturing Publication for Gear Making

April 16, 2019
To maximize customer engagement and satisfaction, Seco Tools has named Bill Barcelona as director of customer experience. In this new rol...

Seco Tools Names Director of Customer Experience

April 15, 2019
The American Gear Manufacturers Association (AGMA) signed a partnership agreement with Richard J. Daley College, one of the City Colleges...

AGMA and Richard J. Daley College Partner on National Training Center in Chicago

April 12, 2019
Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence recently announced it will host the second annual Production Software Users’ Group meeti...

Hexagon to Host Second Annual Production Software Users' Group Meeting at HxGN Live

April 9, 2019
Atlanta Gear Works has named Bill Hoose to fill its newly created position of vice president of field services. It is the second newly ...

Atlanta Gear Works Welcomes New Vice President of Field Services

April 2, 2019

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