Abtex Corporation has designed and built the largest and most technologically advanced Tri-Ten deburring system in its 34 year history...

It's not easy being big. Maybe that's not exactly how the phrase goes, but it's applicable, particularly when discussing the quality requirements of large gears. The size alone promises unique engineering challenges. BONUS Online Exclusive: Big or Small - Inspection is Key to Success.

Readers respond to our "Job Shop Lean" column and the "My Gear is Bigger than Your Gear" article.

The complete Product News section from the January/February 2013 issue of Gear Technology.

The objective, according to Dr.- Ing. Hansjörg Geiser, head of development and design for gear machines at Liebherr, was to develop and design a combined turning and hobbing machine in which turning, drilling and hobbing work could be carried out in the same clamping arrangement as the hobbing of the gearings and the subsequent chamfering and deburring processes.

Banyan Technologies introduces a robotic chamfering device suitable for deburring, chamfering and radiusing the edges of slew bearing ring gears.

The complete Product News section from the January/February 2010 issue.

Compass Automation unveiled its Robotic Deburring System at Gear Expo 2009.