In co-operation with Voith, a major transmission manufacturer in Germany, Heller has developed a process that significantly enhances the productivity of pre-milling and gear milling operations performed on a single 5-axis machining center.
Capitalizing on a burgeoning new
technology where gears are of great import, the gear community gathered en masse at the American Wind Energy
Association’s Windpower Expo 2010.
Easily one of the central issues
affecting U.S. manufacturing is what one might call the exports deficit—the inability of American companies to sell products to, for instance, Asian markets, developing countries and other ports of call—due to what they perceive to be unfair trade agreements and or policies.
Is economic relief on the way? This was the general consensus coming out of Indianapolis after Gear Expo 2009
closed its doors in September. Though the numbers were slightly down—2,539 exhibitors and attendees compared to
2,992 in 2007—it appeared to be steady as she goes at the gear industry’s biennial main event, good news considering the state of the gear industry since Gear Expo 2007 in
Detroit.
"One of the reasons AGMA has been
successful over our 93-year history is
that the association’s agenda, programs
and activities reflect the voices of our members," says Joe T. Franklin, Jr., AGMA President.