Gear Cutting

The Bell Helicopter Drive Systems Center (DSC) in Arlington, Texas, can never be confused with anything "little." It's a huge facility, filled with the latest milling, drilling, and boring technologies. In fact, some newly installed equipment is making some of the company's biggest components in its history.

Kratzer GmbH & Co. is a Offenburg, Germany-based precision manufacturer of components made from a wide range of materials that must meet the exacting standards required by its high-tech cuustomers. The company meets these specifications in part through investing in state-of-the-art equipment including grinding machines, machining centers, lathes, metrology equipment.

Rochester, New York. In March, Gleason Corp. staged its first Home Trainer webinar for gear technology as a free customer service in response to COVID-19. Overwhelming success encouraged further webinars in this series.

ROSCOE, IL (May 5, 2020) - Forest City Gear Co. is proud to announce that its employees have raised $1,300 to support Rockford Rescue Mission's efforts to respond to the increased need brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Forest City Gear committed to match employee donations dollar for dollar, raising the total for this most recent fundraiser to $2,600.

Tungaloy has expanded its T9200 CVD grade insert series to include T9205 and T9235 grades as well as the -TSF and -TM style chipbreakers.

NUM AG is helping Taiwanese machine tool company Chien Wei Precise Technology Co. Ltd. develop CNC grinding machines for manufacturing specialized gears used in robotics applications. Based on NUM's Flexium+ 68 CNC platform, Chien Wei's machines are designed to speed the production of both involute and cycloidal profile precision gears.

Make mill/turn lathes and multitask machines into gear-cutting workhorses.

Get with the Program: InvoMilling, a flexible method for machining external gears and splines, cuts lead times.

Aero Gear's Doug Rose discusses machining gears and the company's facility expansion

When it comes to hobbing auto gears, dry machining dominates. "There are no new automotive applications that are being done wet," said Tom Ware, product manager for gear tools at Star SU Co. LLC, Hoffman Estates, Ill.

With respect to the norms of the 19th century, Kate Gleason was way ahead of her time. In honor of Women's History Month, CTE remembers groundbreaker Catherine "Kate" Anselm Gleason (1865-1933). During the restrictive culture of her time, she helped shape the global cutting tools industry as a sales engineer for her family's gear cutting machinery business.

Gear makers embrace indexable-insert tools.