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State of the Gear Industry Perspectives: Helios Gear Products

February 6, 2023

State of the Gear Industry Perspectives takes an in-depth look at the challenges and opportunities in gear manufacturing today and in the future. Our fifth installment online is an interview with Adam Gimpert, president, Helios Gear Products.

Nidec Machine Tool Launches Robot Cameras for Hobbing and Broaching Machines to Help Automate Visual Inspections of Cutting Tools

December 22, 2022

Nidec Machine Tool Corporation announced today that it has launched Robot Camera SPEED, visual inspection equipment for cutting tools (hobbing machines) to process gears and other components, and Robot Camera MAX, visual inspection equipment for broaching machines.

Seco and Partners to Host First Hybrid Aerospace Innovation Event

August 31, 2022

Seco and its technical partners will host the company’s first hybrid (physical and virtual) Inspiration Through Innovation (ITI) event on Wednesday, September 28, 2022. The event will be focused on the aerospace manufacturing segment, with machining demonstrations, an inspiring seminar program, and networking opportunities.

Variables to Consider for Broaching on CNC Lathes, Mills, and Machine Centers

February 23, 2022

Aaron Fagan

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Broaching is an unusual machining process, because it has the feed built into the tool, which effectively makes it a collection of single-point cutting tools arrayed in a sequence. Analogous to the multiple passes of a shaper, a relatively new class of CNC tooling and programming allows broaching operations to be done without the need for a second operation, thus greatly increasingly quality control and reducing time, space and cost.

CNC Broach Tool Offers Spline Broaching Inserts in Seven to Ten Days

August 25, 2021

Many machine shops vend out the broaching process to specialty broaching houses when there are splines required in the part they are manu...

ANCA Provides Complete Skiving Cutter Solution for EV Transmissions

April 26, 2021

Matthew Jaster

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ANCA's TX and MX machines offer skiving cutter sharpening

2021 State of the Gear Industry

January 1, 2021

Reader Survey Results. Gear Technology's annual State-of-the-Gear-Industry survey polls gear manufacturers about the latest trends and opinions relating to the overall health of the gear industry. As in years past, the survey was conducted anonymously, with invitations sent by e-mail to gear industry companies – primarily in North America, but also including some respondents from around the world.

The Latest in Broaching

January 1, 2020

From standardization to automated, Industry 4.0 capable broachers, here's the latest in what's being developed in the field of broaching.

Retail Management Career to Gear Manufacturing: Who Would Have Guessed?

January 22, 2019

Charles D. Schultz

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In 2012, Rj Link International hired Matt Rossiter as a gear machinist and entered him into the Rock River Valley Tooling & Machining Associati...

Beautiful on the Inside

January 1, 2019

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-heat treatment finishing processes employed. This article explains various complete solutions for cutting and finishing internal ring gears.