Long hob cost savings over the length of a job
Manufacturers consider many factors when shopping for a gear hob solution: What material is being cut? What is the pitch […]
Effects of Asymmetric Cutter Tip Radii on Gear Tooth Root Bending Stress
By Dr. Abdullah Akpolat, Dr. Nihat Yildirim, Burak Sahin, Omer Yildirim, Bulent Karatas, and Fatih Erdogan Tooth root fillet is the […]
Intelligent Process Monitoring Is Advancing Gear-making Productivity
Gear-making technology has been advancing at an extremely rapid pace. By many accounts, developments in tooling and machine technology have […]
New Hobbing Solutions for Faster Production of Automotive Transmission Gears
Today’s consumers take for granted that their cars’ transmissions — whether manual, automatic, or differential, luxury or entry level — […]
Changing the Game with an Innovative Machine Concept: Dry Hard-Gear Finishing
Despite the many high-speed, high-torque direct-drive technologies developed over the past years, the overall efficiency of gearboxes is still state-of-the-art. […]
TOOLING & WORKHOLDING: Making the Most of G90’s Advantages
In his article, “Uncover Hidden Potentials in Hobbing,” which appeared in the June 2014 issue of Gear Solutions, Dr. Friedrich […]
Uncover Hidden Potentials in Hobbing
Companies in today’s competitive environment are always looking for opportunities to improve their manufacturing productivity. Turning, milling, and drilling operations […]
Go Big, Go Indexable
Indexable carbide inserted tooling continues to push large gear productivity. As manufacturers of big gears are further pressured by increased […]
A New Material for High-Speed Hobbing
Without them, our world would not move. Watches, cars, boats, wind turbines—they are all driven by gears. For more than […]
A New Paradigm in Gear Hobbing
The transmission of rotating movements without gear wheels is unthinkable. Whether in mechanical engineering, in automotive and transport technology, in […]
Case Study: Allison Transmission Test Drives Gleason Genesis
Somewhere in Europe a driver is enjoying his new Renault refrigerated truck, and the particularly quiet, smooth–shifting automatic transmission running […]
Face-off: Face Hobbing vs. Face Milling
Less than 10 years ago the selection of machinery was a system decision; presently continuous indexing (face hobbing) and single […]
