Richardon has become EMAG Richardon
Since May 1, Richardon has been a part of the EMAG Group, a move that will enable it to offer an even broader range of gearing solutions and supplementary technologies in the future.
For more than 40 years, the name Richardon has stood for development and construction of high-quality and innovative machines for gearing solutions. Over this time, Richardon has developed from a small company repairing and overhauling gearing machines into a machine tool builder for individual gearing solutions.
The VLC 200 GT features a separate diamond-coated dressing roll. (Courtesy: EMAG) The goal is to develop production systems together, which will offer customers added value.
“We are convinced that the technologies from Richardon and EMAG supplement one another optimally in this regard,” said a company spokesman. Günter Richardon and his team will continue to develop Richardon machines and gearing solutions within EMAG Maschinenfabrik GmbH in Salach.
EMAG offers new solution for machining automotive gears
EMAG now offers the VLC 200 GT — a new custom-fit turning and grinding solution for the machining of automotive gears.
The production of a large volume of parts with extremely high quality has been a key feature in the production of automotive transmissions for decades. Developments in both the marketplace and technology, however, are continuing to change production at a very fast pace. For example, the number of gears needed for the production of cars has been rising. This increase in quantity is pushing the production volume of gears even higher. At the same time, the competition from new market participants in Asia is intensifying.
What can the transmission builders of OEMs and suppliers do in their production areas to address these developments? The EMAG Group’s VLC series offers customers multifunctional machines that perform an array of hard-machining processes on the transmission components in quick succession. The company — headquartered in Salach, Germany, with its U.S. location in Farmington Hills, Michigan — specializes in turning and grinding, and has now added another important element to this portfolio: the new VLC 200 GT. This machine was developed by EMAG engineers especially for the chuck machining of automotive gears. Users benefit not only from highly efficient turning and grinding processes in a single clamping operation, but also by receiving excellent value for their money.
Today’s transmissions are generally becoming smaller (and therefore lighter), but can simultaneously offer more gear ratios and therefore have more gears and gearing components. This produces optimum speed ranges, and reduces fuel consumption. Each individual gear must be manufactured extremely quickly and very precisely. Given the high unit volumes, the production technology is virtually always a concern for production planners. With the VLC 200 GT, presented at last year’s AMB in Stuttgart, EMAG has introduced a new machine that ensures major advances in productivity, especially in the machining of automotive gears.
“The high unit volume and quality requirements of gears make them ideally suited to our approach,” said Peter Loetzner, president and CEO of EMAG L.L.C. “We now offer users a machine that is completely tailored to these components’ every detail.”
EMAG has received several pre-orders from OEMs and tier 1 suppliers. “This is an endorsement of our approach,” Loetzner said, who attributes this success in part to the machine’s small footprint and its ability to flexibly integrate into interlinked factory systems.
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