Christopher Janßen concluded his bachelor studies and his subsequent master studies in mechanical engineering at RWTH Aachen University. Since 2018, Mr. Christopher Janßen is a research assistant at the Laboratory for Machine Tools and Production Engineering (WZL) where he is responsible for software development and investigates the power skiving process.
Gear skiving is used for both soft and hard finishing. As a quality critical final step in hard finishing, the process can be used to create modifications to the tooth flank. At present there is no knowledge of the extent to which topological modifications can be applied by gear skiving. In this report, the feasibility of manufacturing topological modifications on an external gear through adapted kinematics for gear skiving has been investigated.