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Klueber white paper on hydro lubrication More than any other field, IIoT overlaps directly with metrology's mission to analyze and measure as much of the manufacturing process as possible, and it's no surprise that the latt... Despite the development and availability of a number of newly engineered, rugged materials intended for plastic gear applications, some engineers/designers continue to believe metal is better.... The following article highlights some of the recent heat treat products, technologies and industry news articles for gear manufacturing....

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
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
At IMTS 2018, Meister Abrasives (Booth N-237341) will be displaying innovative products that can be custom-tailored to provide users with...

IMTS 2018: Meister Abrasives

August 16, 2018

At IMTS 2018, Meister Abrasives (Booth N-237341) will be displaying innovative products that can be custom-tailored to provide users with...

Mazak (Booth S-338300, W-432000, N-215317) will further expand its multitasking technology when it unveils the new VC-500A/5X AM HWD Mult...

IMTS 2018: Mazak

August 15, 2018
The new generation of Waveline W800 roughness and contour measuring devices, designed to meet a variety of customer requirements for flex...

IMTS 2018: Jenoptik Automotive

August 14, 2018
MAG (Booth S-338129) will be debuting its MMH 500 Horizontal Machining Center for the general market at IMTS 2018. MAG engineers designe...

IMTS 2018: MAG Automotive

August 13, 2018
In order to truly showcase the new age of digital manufacturing, Heidenhain will use its control systems during IMTS to connect equipment...

IMTS 2018: Heidenhain

August 9, 2018
Index (Booth S-338136) will introduce its MS40-8 multispindle automatic lathe with 8 CNC spindles, two back-working spindles for rear-end...

IMTS 2018: Index Corporation

August 9, 2018
Fixtureworks will showcase several new product lines at IMTS (Booth W-432377). Highlighting the exhibit will be its lineup of all-new bea...

IMTS 2018: Fixtureworks

August 8, 2018


INDUSTRY NEWS

More Industry News


Sandvik Coromant will open a center in Renningen, Germany that will include a showroom, training facilities, and a design and project off...

Sandvik Coromant Center to Open in Germany

August 10, 2018
To further support its Midwestern customers, clamping and gripping provider Röhm Products of America has announced that George Burle...

Rohm Appoints Illinois and Wisconsin Sales Manager

August 9, 2018
Methods Machine Tools, Inc., North America's foremost supplier of leading-edge precision machine tools and automation, has announced ...

Methods Machine Tools Names Director of Financial Services

August 8, 2018
Walter Surface Technologies recently announced the acquisition of the Fastenal Blackstone supply agreement and all related inventory from...

Walter Surface Technologies Acquires Blackstone Supply Agreement from Sundisc Abrasives

August 7, 2018
Bourn & Koch is expanding their distributor network for these brands across the U.S. and into Canada. The company is happy to announc...

Bourn & Koch Expands Distributor Network

August 6, 2018
This year, besides showcasing its latest technology, ANCA is set to celebrate the art of toolmaking. The perfect tool requires a combin...

ANCA Unveils Art of Toolmaking Competition

August 3, 2018

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