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The latest technological solutions help keep chamfering and deburring operations in-line -- often without increasing cycle times.... Deburring or chamfering of gear teeth is gaining attention in practical settings. And with a view to make the production sequence as efficient as possible, it is becoming increasingly important to be ... Lubricant experts are doing more than ever to make their products less toxic and harmful to everything from the environment to the people using them — which comes with plenty of extra benefi... Powder metal (PM) gears normally sell due to the lower cost and their relatively high mechanical performance. The reason behind the lower cost is that most of the machining is omitted due to the net-s...

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
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
CMI Time Management, a global provider of innovative workforce and resource management products for companies in a variety of major indus...

CMI Time Management Releases TouchTime III Management Terminal

November 13, 2018

CMI Time Management, a global provider of innovative workforce and resource management products for companies in a variety of major indus...

Marposs Corp. has announced its new M62 Flex manual bench gauge system for the production floor, which provides the flexibility to meas...

Marposs M62 Flex Gauge Inspects Wide Range of Gear Sizes

November 2, 2018
To support reliable production, the Automation Systems division of Liebherr has developed a range of four applications that support Ind...

Liebherr Develops Apps to Support Smart Automation

October 30, 2018
Additional features have been implemented in the Shaft Editor, which make it much easier to input shafts (WPK module). Users can pull on ...

KISSsoft Offers Shaft Calculation and the Shaft Editor

October 22, 2018
The new Genesis 160HCD Hobbing Machine for cylindrical gears integrates a newly developed process for chamfer cutting. Chamfer Hobbing ...

Gleason Announces Hobbing Machine with Integrated Chamfer Hobbing

October 19, 2018
Based on its LGG 280 generating grinding machine, Liebherr recently presented the larger LGG 400 M model at IMTS in Chicago. The new L...

Liebherr Introduces New Gear Grinding Machine

October 19, 2018
The latest Sandvik Coromant grades provide the ability to perform medium-to-heavy interrupted cuts and remove the hardened layer (depth o...

Sandvik Coromant Expands Hard Turning Operations

October 19, 2018


INDUSTRY NEWS

More Industry News


Ricardo has committed a further £1.5m in state-of-the-art spiral bevel grinding capability from Klingelnberg, building on the inves...

Ricardo Invests in High Performance Transmission Manufacturing

November 15, 2018
Index has announced the hiring of 15 new employees over the past five months, with 12 of those filling newly created positions. Represent...

Index Significantly Expands North America Team

November 14, 2018
Tracy Dougherty has been named vice president of sales at AFC-Holcroft. The announcement was made by William Disler, president and CEO.Ac...

Dougherty Named Vice President of Sales at AFC-Holcroft

November 13, 2018
SMT's next webinar will be presented by Dr. Tom Harvey, technical lead - software engineer/analyst at SMT, and will look at new funct...

SMT Presents MASTA 9 Overview Webinar

November 8, 2018
United Stars, Inc. has announced it has acquired Precision Gears, Inc., a nearly 100-year old producer of custom gears for agriculture, f...

United Stars Acquires Precision Gears

November 5, 2018
Dillon Manufacturing introduces their new website which combines expanded technical data, a comprehensive E-Catalogue, and videos to allo...

Dillon Manufacturing Launches New Website

November 2, 2018

Latest Videos

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Gear Honing Technology with Jörg Schieke of Präwema | Revolutions

What it Means to be an AGMA Member with Jim Bregi of Doppler Gear | Revolutions

Bevel Gear Grinding & Machine Automation with Uwe Gaiser of Gleason | Revolutions

Simple Twist Control Grinding with Antoine Türich of Gleason | Revolutions

Tool Storage 4.0 with Dietmar Moll of Zoller | Revolutions

Laser Gear Inspection with Douglas Beerck of Gleason | Revolutions