gearproduction
GMTA Gear Cutting System Features Modular Design
The Profilator 300-V modular machine platform is individually configurable for various machining processes (for example, scudding, hobbing, cycloidal milling, pointing, chamfering and deburring).
Chris Pasion
Managing Editor, Modern Machine Shop | Production Machining
Speeding Up Splines
Moving small- to medium-batch production from outsourced, dedicated hobbing operations to in-house, CNC multitasking machines helps job shops achieve quick turnarounds and flexibility in supplying splines for the heavy-vehicle industry. Inserted disc cutters make this transition possible.
Read MorePower Skiving Enables Smaller, Precise Robotics Machining
Power skiving tools like Sandvik Coromant’s CoroMill 178 can increase productivity, precision and flexibility when machining gears for applications such as industrial robotics.
Read MoreProfilator S Machines Capable of Various Gear Machining Operations
GMTA, the North American distributor of Profilator, has added S-type machines using the process modules it already supplies.
Read MoreThe Hera 90 Gear Hobbing Machine Features Conversational Programming
Helios Gear Products (formerly Koepfer America) offers the Hera 90, a gear hobbing machine equipped with aFANUC 0i-MF control and servo motors, direct-drive hob and work spindles, and a Heidenhain linear scale on the X axis for repeatable size control.
Read MoreGear Manufacturers Association Partners with Chicago College to Establish Training Center
The 10,000-square-foot facility at Richard J. Daley College will have the capacity to train more than 600 students per year, covering a variety of topics, from basic gear making to gear failure analysis.
Read MoreEyeing Automotive Machining Applications in Taiwan
I took time to check out machining equipment geared toward components for automobiles—electric vehicles in particular—at the recent TMTS show in Taichung.
Read MoreGear Solutions For E-mobility
A demand from industries for high-quality tooth flank surfaces has brought on its heels a need for durable gear components to withstand stress from higher engine rpm. Liebherr is attempting to address this need by using experience with the production processes and technologies to find solutions to these issues.
Katie Leesemann
Former Editorial Assistant, Gardner Business Media
ERP System Enables Gearmaker to Achieve Needed Agility
ERP software enabled a New York gearmaker to improve scheduling practices to meet the increasing demands of customers.
Read MoreGrinding Machine Processes Longer Shafts
Liebherr has introduced the LGG 400 M model grinding machine that fits the same footprint as the previous, smaller LGG 280 M.
Read MoreManual Gear Gage Reduces Risk of Damaging Part
Marposs has released its M62 Flex manual bench gage system for the production floor, which provides the flexibility to measure gears with different diameters without mechanical retooling.
Read MoreKapp Technologies, Penta Gear Metrology, Koepfer America Enter Sales Collaboration
This collaboration is intended to ensure that gear manufacturers have swift access to the latest technologies available.
Read MoreStream Finishing Confines Friction to the Racetrack
To improve component finish as well as engine and gearbox performance for its customers, this racing motorcycle rebuild company based in the UK has gears and other components treated with a super-finishing process common to jewelry and aerospace applications.
Read MoreBourn & Koch Adds Distributors of Gear Hobbers, Shapers, Grinders
The company has selected five companies to expand its sales and support network across the Midwest, West and Northwest United States as well as Alberta, Canada.
Read MoreGear Hobbing Machines Support Job Shops and End-product Manufacturers
After a soft launch in 2020, Helios Gear Products debuts two of its manufacturing solutions from the Hera series of gear hobbing machines, the Hera 90 and Hera 350.
Katie Leesemann
Former Editorial Assistant, Gardner Business Media
Bourn & Koch to Host Open House During IMTS Week
Bourn & Koch is hosting an open house at its Rockford, Illinois headquarters during IMTS in September, 2018.
Read MoreCollet Chucks Overcome Distortion for Automated Gear Machining
To accommodate its customers’ need for just-in-time orders of small batches of gears, this company’s automated manufacturing cells rely on collet chucks that overcome a common distortion issue arising from tapping and heat treatment.
Read MoreBourn & Koch Hires National Sales Manager
Bourn & Koch adds Rob Swiss to the company as national sales manager for gear manufacturing machinery.
Read MoreUpdated Gear Machines Increase Speed, Productivity
IMTS 2018: Bourn & Koch Inc. adds the 100H-T gear hobber and updated Fellows 10-4 gear shaper to its lineup of gear manufacturing and precision grinding machines.
Read MoreSkiving Machines Offer Alternative to Gear Hobbing
IMTS 2018: Liebherr Gear Technology’s LK series of gear skiving machines operates similarly to large hobbing machines but offers greater rigidity and more powerful spindles.
Read MoreTransfer Line Reduces Lead Time for Car Maker
To make bevel gears of different sizes with a three-minute line-cycle time, WMZ integrated three of its V300 machines with automation and measuring systems for reduced total lead time of 30 percent.
Read MoreFlexible Approaches to Gearcutting
Multitasking machine performs multiple gear-cutting processes without the need for a dedicated hobbing machine, providing high-mix gear producers with improved flexibility.
Eli Plaskett
Senior Associate Editor, Modern Machine Shop
Segmented Collet Clamps Cylindrical, Bevel Gear Bores
Gleason has introduced a segmented collet designed to improve the clamping of cylindrical and bevel gear bores from 20 to 100 mm in diameter.
Read MoreSenator Visits Niagara Gear to Discuss Employee Stock Ownership
U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand will use what she learned at the plant to support legislation encouraging employee stock ownership in the country.
Read MoreGear Hobbing Machine Provides Versatility for Short-Term Production
Liebherr has released the LC 280 α gear hobbing machine for short-term production jobs.
Read MoreHow Dry Grinding Permits Coolant-Free Gear Making
Grinding the external forms of automotive gears came to be the last step still needing coolant. This machine eliminates cutting fluid by combining gear grinding with dry skiving in the same cycle.
Read MoreMultitasking Machines Perform Gear Work, Traditional Machining
Gear Expo 2017: Mazak will demonstrate its multitasking equipped with the latest Mazatrol Smooth CNC and Mazak Smooth Gear Cutting Solutions for making precision gears of all shapes and sizes.
Read MoreGrinding Machine Includes Software for Parameterization
Gear Expo 2017: Kapp Niles will release its KNe3G grinding machine.
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