Gear Cutting Machines
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How Hard Scudding is Shaping New Horizons
This process development is a viable and very cost-effective alternative to conventional grind-and-hone operations for automotive powertrains and other gear market segments, yielding a highly attractive cost per piece, extended tool life scenario, reduced capital outlay and more consistent end product bode.
Next Generation Tool Grinding and Advanced Gear Hobbing
The compact NXT CNC 5-axis tool grinder and the FFG Werke Modul H 80-200 vertical gear hobbing machine from Star SU are suited for automotive as well as job shop applications.
Forest City Gear Hires New Managers
Erik J. Spurling is now their director of sales and John Young is their quality assurance manager.
DVS Focuses on Automation
They acquire automation supplier rbc robotics, which specializes in camera-guided robot systems for machine tools.
Flexible Next Generation Gear Hobbing
The LC 280 α gear hobbing machine from Liebherr offers shops the unique opportunity to machine gears and shafts with a workpiece diameter up to 280 mm and a shaft length up to 500 mm, the range of the most typical machining sizes required for a gear.
How to Finish High Precision Steel or Brass Worms Four Times Faster than Worm Hobbing
The AF110 plus 7-axis CNC gear hobbing machine from Affolter Technologies uses innovative Worm Screw Power Skiving technology to finish a high precision steel or brass worm in only six seconds – four times faster than traditional worm hobbing, which takes 25 seconds.
Whittemore Expands Sales Territory
They now serve Kansas and Missouri with tools for metal cutting, broaching, gauging, workholding, part marking and managing swarf.
Senator Visits Gear Motions Facility to Discuss ESOP
U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand met with employees in the ESOP to learn more about how they share in the success of their company.
Gear Motions Partners with Southeast Industrial Solutions
SEIS now represents Gear Motions in manufacturing cut or precision ground gears.
Machining Highly Complex Powertrain Gears
Ideal for dry machining of gears up to 500 mm diameter, the compact, modular Profilator S-500 vertical single-spindle pick-up gear cutting system from GMTA is built with components designed for especially high static stiffness and optimal dynamic behavior.
U.S. Machine Tool Orders Accelerate
June manufacturing technology orders climbed 6.5 percent over May to $373.2 million.
One Fine Surface: Getting Into Gears
Take a closer look at how these innovative, flexible and highly productive gear grinding and shaping systems reduce changeover times and floor space required for job shops competing in the hypercompetitive aerospace, automotive and other high precision sectors where speed and costs are crucial.
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