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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

More Product News


Based on a highly efficient and productive two-in-one concept, Walter Helitronic Vision Diamond 400 L, Helitronic Power Diamond 400 and H...

United Grinding Expands Two-in-One Grinding Concept

May 13, 2019

Based on a highly efficient and productive two-in-one concept, Walter Helitronic Vision Diamond 400 L, Helitronic Power Diamond 400 and H...

More than 55 plastics are available for the gear design of KISSsoft. The material database of KISSsoft has been extended by additional pl...

KISSsoft Adds LEHVOSS Material Data to 2019 Software Release

May 9, 2019
During this year’s Chicago Innovation Days in Hoffman Estates from May 13th - 16th, 2019, DMG MORI will once again demonstrate late...

DMG MORI Chicago Innovation Days Features Latest Machining Technologies

May 7, 2019
Star SU LLC is pleased to announce it has expanded its comprehensive gear manufacturing product offering to include a line of horizonta...

Star SU Announces Hobbing and Shaping Machine Lines from Samputensili

May 3, 2019
Radix Technology Solutions, a division of the AIS Technologies Group, released  a new vision application at the Automate 2019 trade ...

Radix Technology Releases Gear Tooth Alignment Analytics

May 2, 2019
FVA-Workbench Version 5.5 of the simulation platform for transmission systems, released in May, accelerates development processes and pro...

FVA-Workbench 5.5 Offers Detailed Transmission Calculation Results

May 1, 2019
The new S31 performs complex and varied grinding tasks precisely and reliably. It can be used to produce small to medium-sized workpieces...

Studer Offers Versatile Grinding Machine for Large Tasks

April 30, 2019


INDUSTRY NEWS

More Industry News


Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division recently announced it has broken ground on the construction of a new expansion projec...

Hexagon Breaks Ground on New Center of Excellence in Greater Detroit

May 9, 2019
Exact Metrology was present at two career events, one at Northern Kentucky University and the other at Cincinnati State University. In Fe...

Exact Participates in Career Fairs at Various Universities

May 7, 2019
Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division has announced the 2019 MSC Software Global User’s Conference will be held at Hx...

Hexagon to Host MSC Software Global User's Conference during HxGN Live

May 2, 2019
Forest City Gear has expanded its turning and milling operations with a state-of-the-art facility designed to greatly improve lead times ...

Forest City Gear Launches Advanced Turning and Milling Facility for Gear Blank Production

April 30, 2019
Helios Gear Products has announced that Dennis Hillary has taken the new leadership position of senior service engineer for the company&r...

Helios Announces New Technical Leadership

April 29, 2019
Open Mind Technologies USA, a developer of CAD/CAM software solutions worldwide, has announced a joint 5-Axis Machining Technology Semina...

Open Mind and Grob Systems Announce Joint 5-Axis Machining Seminar

April 26, 2019

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