Case Study: Company: Wenzel / Customer: Gibbs Gears
The gear manufacturer Gibbs Gears, located in UK-based Stoke Mandeville, met the challenge and extended their machinery with a gear […]
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 […]
Topological Gear Grinding Methods
The word “topological” is often an over-used and misapplied adjective for design philosophies and manufacturing methods of gears. In the […]
Cubitron II: Precision-Shaped Grain (PSG) Turns the Concept of Gear Grinding Upside Down
To date, grinding, according to the German DIN Standard 8580, is “machining with geometrically undefined cutting edges” while other machining […]
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Case Study by Doc Ardrey
Allied Specialty Precision Gains Competitive Edge by Looking Past the Obvious Look beyond the obvious, and you may well find […]
A Unique Turning Application for Gear Manufacturers
From traditional hobbing machines to modern indexable carbide inserts, much has changed in gear technology over the years. As innovative […]
The Dynamic Art of Gear Broaching
Conventional Broaching: Be a Broaching “1%-Er” By Matt Egrin, President of Broaching Machine Specialties After giving a 15-minute plant tour of […]
Multi-Sensory Capability in Gear Inspection
In today’s competitive manufacturing environment, especially for products as specialized as gears, many of the world’s leading gear OEM’s and […]
Advances in Abrasive Technology for Grinding Gears from Solid
Past reviews of the status of grinding for the gear industry have inevitably focused on the process as one of […]
Economics of Machining Bevel Gears on Multi Tasking Machines
Bevel gears have been made for over 50 years. There have been several incremental improvements to the initial methods, but […]
Go Big, Go Indexable
Indexable carbide inserted tooling continues to push large gear productivity. As manufacturers of big gears are further pressured by increased […]
Squeezing Productivity Out of Gear Milling Operations
Gashing in gear milling applications is basically a slotting operation. Whether it is a gear tool such as a CoroMill® […]
Gearing Up to a Better Chamfering and Deburring Process
As with any machining process, the manufacturing of gears by hobbing or shaping results in burrs on the front edge. […]
Complex Form Grinding Technology for Advanced Abrasive Technology
The grinding industry is seeing major advances in abrasive technology and in the machine tool capabilities to enable this technology […]
Hobbing Large Gears with Custom Workholding Let ROI Blossom
Savvy gear manufacturers not only look at new machines and cutting tools but also focus on and invest in their […]
Micro Skiving: Precision Finishing of Hardened Small Diameter Fine Module/Pitch Gears, Splines, and Serrations
The skiving process, which means “to slice,” with respect to cylindrical spur and helical gears and some limited spline hobbing […]
Add Big Gear Sets to the Multi-Tasking List
Many shops increasingly incorporate full 5-axis multi-tasking machine tool technology because it allows them to handle any kind of part […]
Good Things Need Some Time
On March 1st, 1910, Wilhelm von Pittler registered a patent that was to revolutionize the manufacture of internal gears. His […]
Meeting the Challenges of Measuring Large Parts
Overall Equipment Layout Even though the measuring principles on very large equipment are the same or similar to small ones, […]
Case study: The Gleason Works
The Gleason Works sought to create a dynamic, torque-controlled lapping solution with responsive, real-time feedback to create better quality gears […]
