Gleason will introduce a host of advanced new machines, tooling, and global customer support services at Gear Expo 2013, covering a wide array of processes for the complete production and inspection of all types of bevel and cylindrical gears. On display for the first time in North America will be:
• The Gleason 100PS Power Skiving Machine: Delivering significant productivity and quality gains for cylindrical external gears up to 100 mm in diameter, and internal gears up to 150 mm in diameter.
• The Gleason 300GMS® Analytical Gear Inspection System: Up to 45% faster complete inspection of automotive transmission gears and other smaller gears, gear cutting tools, and non-gear parts.
Visitors to Gleason Booth #423 will also be introduced to a number of other significant products, technologies, and services, including:
• The industry’s most complete line of gear cutting tool solutions: On display will be advanced new bevel gear cutting tools for cutting and grinding straight, spiral, and hypoid bevel gears. For cylindrical gear production, visitors will find a full array of hobs, form relieved milling cutters, shaper cutters, chamfering and deburring tools, shaving cutters, honing tools, coated diamond and CBN grinding wheels, diamond dressing wheels, and diamond dressing rolls.
• Advanced workholding solutions: Gleason designs and produces a complete series of quick-change, tool-less workholding equipment for bevel gear, and cylindrical gear, and non-gear production machines. These systems range from the Gleason X-Pandisk® systems, which automatically align workpieces weighing up to 2,000 kg to reduce changeover time by up to 70%, to Quick-Flex® and a large variety of quick-change workholding solutions that significantly reduce change-over times for the production of both bevel and cylindrical gears up to 200 mm in diameter. For inspection systems, Gleason offers the high-precision Gleason LeCount® expanding mandrels line, renowned for accurate, easy, extremely rapid location of all types of bore parts.
• Gleason Global Services: Gleason customers can rely on 250 factory-trained service professionals located in over 50 countries throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia, working around the clock to deliver the full range of aftermarket service and support capabilities. Among the most recent of these is the new Gleason Connect™ Remote Service Technology, which enables Gleason Service Specialists from anywhere in the world to quickly and cost-effectively identify, diagnose, repair, and monitor products, minimizing costly downtime.
For more information on Gleason products and services, visit www.gleason.com.
