Gleason Corporation has announced the completion of the Gear Solutions Forum at its Gleason-Pfauter facility in Ludwigsburg Germany. Gleason hosted approximately 600 visitors from 30 countries over a three day period with a comprehensive display of the latest technologies in gear production and a series of leading experts from the gear industry and academia presenting on significant trends and developments in gearing.
Introduced were brand new machine developments and technologies, including the Genesis 200GX double spindle threaded wheel gear grinder, the Genesis 210HCD gear hobber with dual loading stations and integrated chamfering and deburring, and the 100S small gear shaping machine, which was dry shaping with capability up to 3000 strokes/minute. Demonstrated were new gear production processes like Power Skiving, on-board part inspection using Gleason’s own GAMA metrology software, the new Phoenix 280G bevel gear grinding machine, and the 300GMS analytical gear inspection machine. In total were more than 15 gear production machines providing live demonstrations, along with the industry’s largest and most diverse offering of gear cutting tools and workholding. Complementing products and processes were service and support capabilities, including machine rebuilds and retrofits, training and service programs.
Joining Gleason at the event was a host of partners and technology providers to the gear industry who exhibited at the Forum. This included companies providing software, heat treatment, coatings and machining solutions.
The next Gear Solutions Forum will be held in September 2015 in Rochester New York, home of the company’s corporate headquarters and of The Gleason Works facility. 2015 will be the 150th anniversary of the company.
In other Gleason news, the company recently announced that its Gleason Cutting Tools Corporation has earned Partner-level status in the John Deere Achieving Excellence Program. This status is Deere & Company’s highest supplier rating. Suppliers who participate in Deere & Company’s Achieving Excellence program are evaluated annually in several key performance categories including quality, cost management, delivery, technical support, and wavelength, which is a measure of responsiveness. John Deere created the program in 1991 to provide a supplier evaluation and feedback process that promotes continuous improvement.
Partner-level status was awarded to Gleason Cutting Tools Corporation for all cutting tool products and services provided by Gleason to the John Deere operations in Waterloo and Des Moines, Iowa.
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