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Gear Technology’s annual State of the Gear Industry survey polls gear manufacturers about the latest trends and opinions relating to the overall health of the gear industry.... Oil-out conditions, or conditions in which an aircraft is operating without any oil in its gearbox or transmission, are devastating for an aircraft's hardware. Even the sturdiest gears ... What is the best tooling to use when hard milling a gear tooth on a 5-axis machining center? And what makes it the best? We have just bought a DMG Mori mono-block and are not getting the finishes at t... Multiple possibilities are available to increase the transmissible power of girth gears. These solutions include: using a larger module, increasing of the gear diameter through the number of teeth, en...

GRINDING

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Excessive machine tool vibration during a precision grinding operation can result in poor workpiece quality in the form of chatter, rough finishes, burn, etc. One possible reason for excessive vibrat...

The Role of Natural Frequencies in Grinding Systems Vibration

November/December 2016
John Hagan, corporate applications engineer, Norton | Saint-Gobain Abrasives
Gear Technology interviews Scott Yoders of Liebherr about the latest gear machining technologies of relevance to automotive manufacturers....

Updating Modern Production Processes

August 2016
Matthew Jaster, Senior Editor
In comparison to the visionary Industry 4.0 — or the Fourth Industrial Revolution — the machine tool industry can appear rather down-to-earth....

Innovations for High Productivity Generating Grinding

June 2016
Martin Witzsch
Looking for some simple yet useful advice heading into IMTS 2016? Never second guess your machine tool investment. Flexibility is a mandatory requirement in gear manufacturing today. Accuracy, reliab...

The Comprehensive Gear Grind

June 2016
Matthew Jaster, Senior Editor
Could you explain to me the difference between spiral bevel gear process face hobbing-lapping, face milling-grinding and Klingelnberg HPG? Which one is better for noise, load capacity and quality?...

Hard-Finishing Spiral Bevel Gears

March/April 2016

HEAT TREATING

More on Heat Treating
What quality and performance characteristics should you look for? ...

Checking Up on Your Heat Treater

July 2016
Matthew Jaster, Senior Editor
The oil industry is (pardon the pun) tanking. That may conjure up horrific images of other industries following suit in a domino effect of collective collapse into the overabundant oil slick the indus...

Defying the Oil Ripple

March/April 2016
Alex Cannella, News Editor
Questions to Ask Your Heat Treater Provided by Justin Lefevre (Joyworks LLC, Ann Arbor, MI), Kathy Hayrynen (Applied Process, Inc., Livonia, MI) and Vasko Popovski (Applied Process, Inc.)...

Dont Get Burned

July 2015
Erik Schmidt, Assistant Editor
In this special section, our editors have gathered recent news and information related to the heat treatment of gears. Here you’ll find a comprehensive assortment of news and upcoming events that will...

Things Are Heating Up in 2015

March/April 2015
Contact fatigue and bending fatigue are two main failure modes of steel gears, while surface pitting and spalling are two common contact fatigue failures -- caused by alternating subsurface shear stre...

Innovative Induction Hardening Process with Pre-heating for Improved Fatigue Performance of Gear Component

July 2014
Dr. Zhichao (Charlie) Li

 

PRODUCT NEWS

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Several innovative tooling, rotary table and gear making solutions will take center stage at PMTS 2017 on April 25-27 to be held at the G...

Exsys Tool Offers Innovations at PMTS 2017

March 3, 2017

Several innovative tooling, rotary table and gear making solutions will take center stage at PMTS 2017 on April 25-27 to be held at the G...

Röhm Products of America will highlight its broad range of end-of-arm tooling for robots, including a special focus on the company&r...

Automate 2017 Preview: Rohm Products of America Booth #2053

March 2, 2017
The large Powermill machining center from Mecof, part of EMCO Group, provides users precision, high dynamics, operational flexibility and...

Mecof Powermill Machining Center Offers Ideal Solution for Aerospace and Large Workpiece Handling

March 1, 2017
Blackstone-NEY Ultrasonics, a division of Cleaning Technologies Group LLC, introduces its popular PROHT ultrasonic cleaning tanks with ne...

Blackstone-NEY Ultrasonics PROHT Ultrasonic Cleaning Tanks Designed for Small Scale Production Cleaning

February 28, 2017
Solar Atmospheres of Western PA recently added a very unique piece of equipment to its fleet of furnaces - a brand new, state of the art ...

Solar Atmospheres Molybdenum Hot Zoned Vacuum Furnace Equipped with Unique Oversized Pumping System

February 27, 2017
Controx-Neuhauser is presenting a full line of standard saw blades and side chip clearance saws suitable for a wide range of precision cu...

Controx-Neuhauser Saw Blades and Side Milling Cutters On Display at PMTS

February 24, 2017
Marposs announces the introduction of Optoquick 3.0, its latest addition to the industrial gauging solutions portfolio. Optoquick is a hi...

Marposs Optoquick 3.0 High Precision Gage Delivers Both Tactile and Optical Measurement Technology in One Package

February 23, 2017


INDUSTRY NEWS

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Hainbuch America has announced that Brian Eaton has joined their team as regional sales manager for the northeast region, covering the st...

Hainbuch America Hires Brian Eaton as Regional Sales Manager for Northeastern U.S.

March 3, 2017
Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence recently announced that its portable metrology solutions are instrumental in driving optimization unde...

Hexagon Optimizes Driving at Hendrick Motorsports

February 28, 2017
Bodycote announced that its Chesterfield, UK Hot Isostatic Pressing (HIP) location earned, for the second time, the highest level of Nadc...

Bodycote Chesterfield Location Receives Nadcap Reaccreditation

February 27, 2017
Dr. Tony Bannan, 52, chief executive officer of Rochdale‐based Precision Technologies Group (PTG), received the OBE from HRH The Pr...

PTG CEO Dr. Tony Bannan Appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire

February 24, 2017
After completing an intensive three-day audit, Solar Atmospheres Southeast is pleased to announce its addition to the Boeing approved pro...

Solar Atmospheres Southeast Added to Boeing Approved Processor Listing

February 23, 2017
ANCA Machine Tools (AMT) has named Keith Grillot sales manager for its U.S. and Canadian markets, according to Russell Riddiford, ANCA pr...

ANCA Machine Tools Promotes Keith Grillot to Sales Manager for U.S. and Canada

February 22, 2017

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