Stylianos Tsakiris works as a research assistant in the gear department at RWTH Aachen University's WZL. He previously worked there as a student assistant for over 4.5 years. He graduated with a master's in mechanical engineering, specializing in production technologies, focusing his thesis on manufacturability of topographies for gear skiving.
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.