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INDUSTRY NEWS | 2024-02-23

Murata Machinery USA Celebrates 50 Years of Automation in North America

Murata Machinery USA (Muratec), a manufacturer of industrial automation, celebrates its 50^thanniversary across North America. Various activities are planned throughout 2024 to commemorate Muratec's golden year. Operating as a subsidiary of Kyoto, Japan-based Murata Machinery Ltd., Murata Machinery USA provides sales, service, and support for the Muratec brand. Muratec has a rich history in North America of offering automation solutions.

INDUSTRY NEWS | 2024-01-26

Southern Gear Adds Automation to Gear Blanking Operation

Southern Gear has equipped two Doosan CNC Horizontal Turning Centers with advanced RoboJob Turn-Assist robots, thus reducing workpiece load/unload times by 50 percent and allowing skilled machine operators to perform many other tasks.

INDUSTRY NEWS | 2023-03-23

Fisher Barton Expands and Builds The Turning Center of Excellence

Fisher Barton has selected MSI General Corporation for the design and construction of our new industrial building and site development for Accurate Specialties’ Turning Center of Excellence on Bluemound Road. To kick off construction, a groundbreaking ceremony took place Tuesday, March 21 at 10:00 AM.

INDUSTRY NEWS | 2022-06-29

TCI Precision Metals Offers Machine-Ready Blanks at IMTS 2022

TCI Precision Metals will be showing its precision Machine-Ready Blanks capabilities to customers at IMTS 2022, McCormick Place, Chicago, IL, September 12-17, 2022, West Building, Booth #432123.

FEATURE ARTICLES | 2022-04-25

The New Age of Bronze

Supply chain constraints and fast-rising commodity prices are taking their toll. Here’s how one Midwest producer of bronze gear blanks is helping gear manufacturers ”re-shore”—and shorten the distance from bronze blank to finished gear.

TECHNICAL ARTICLES | 2020-08-01

Gear Blank Tuning

The design of gear blanks or flanges has traditionally been driven by weight reduction. Recently innovative companies have started to use the gear blank design to tune the system dynamics to reduce gear whine.

FEATURE ARTICLES | 2020-07-01

Supply Chain Management Users Guide

We asked a few industry suppliers to provide some insight into gear manufacturers' supply chain challenges during the pandemic.

FEATURE ARTICLES | 2020-07-01

Gear Blanking Gets Bigger at Forest City Gear

Forest City Gear is doubling down on its strategy to produce most of its critical gear blanks in-house by adding new capacity, and capabilities, to its state-of-the-art 8,500 sq. ft. precision gear blanking facility.

FEATURE ARTICLES | 2019-08-01

Taking the Wait Out of High Quality Gear Blanks

Forest City Gear makes the investment to bring gear blanking in-house, giving it complete control over quality and delivery: because failure’s not an option.

TECHNICAL ARTICLES | 2019-07-01

Bevel Gear Blank Drawing Procedure

With this first installment we begin a series of randomly excerpted chapters from Dr. Hermann J. Stadtfeld's new book — Practical Gear Engineering.

GEAR TALK WITH CHUCK | 2019-01-30

From Co-op to Vice President: Octave A. LaBath

I was attending the University of Cincinnati in the college of engineering. After my freshman year in 1960, I started my co-op job with the Cincinn...

TECHNICAL ARTICLES | 2018-01-01

Globalization's Effect Upon Gear Steel Quality

Background on the development of a high-speed, automatic hardness tester for gear steels.

FEATURE ARTICLES | 2017-11-01

Material Assets

You get one shot to make a first impression. One opportunity to show your customers, vendors and suppliers that you provide a steady, reliable product that will generate repeat business. How do you make this happen? What tools and strategies are available to get gear materials (forgings, gear blanks, etc.) shipped faster and more efficiently in today's tech-heavy, fast-paced, manufacturing environment?

TECHNICAL ARTICLES | 2016-07-01

Improved Broaching Steel Technology

Broaching is a machining technique commonly used to cut gear teeth or cam profiles for the high volume manufacture of power transmission parts used in vehicles (Refs. 1–2). This article shows how the right gear blank material can make all the difference if you want to get more parts out of each tool.

GEAR TALK WITH CHUCK | 2016-02-09

Discovering Gears

Recently, an attorney told me that his eleven-year-old daughter had “discovered” gears in a science class and was excitedly learning all she could ...

GEAR TALK WITH CHUCK | 2015-07-30

New Ways to Make Old Parts

My last post discussed reviewing the ratings and designs of “legacy products,” those venerable parts and gearboxes still being ordered twenty, thir...

FEATURE ARTICLES | 2015-03-01

Solving the Forgings Paradox

The process of forging metal into shapes possesses a surprisingly long and storied history. For example, the method of hot rolling can trace its protracted existence all the way back to an enigmatic Italian polymath named Leonardo da Vinci (you may have heard of him), who reportedly invented the rolling mill one lazy day in the 1400s.

GEAR TALK WITH CHUCK | 2014-05-01

So How Much is This Going to Cost?

[starbox] Estimating is a necessary evil in every shop. Nobody wants to do it, but if it doesn’t get done there is no business. Fortunately, we ...

REVOLUTIONS | 2004-01-01

Revolutions

"Magnetic Filtration" and "Better Blanking from Bar-Stock"

TECHNICAL ARTICLES | 1995-07-01

How to Avoid Errors When Measuring Step Gears

There are problems in dimensional measurement that should be simple to solve with standard measuring procedures, but aren't. In such cases, using accepted practices may result in errors of hundreds of microns without any warning that something is wrong.

TECHNICAL ARTICLES | 1992-05-01

Gear Blanking

The term "blanking" refers to the initial metal cutting operations in the process planning sequence which produce the contour of a part starting from rough material. The scope of blanking is: To remove the excess material To machine the part to print specifications, except for those surfaces with subsequent finishing operations. To leave adequate machining stock for finishing operations. To prepare good quality surfaces for location and clamping of the part throughout the process.

TECHNICAL ARTICLES | 1987-11-01

Good Gears Start With Good Blanks

The quality of the finished gear is influenced by the very first machining operations of the blank. Since the gear tooth geometry is generated on a continuously rotating blank in hobbing or shaping, it is important that the timed relationship between the cutter and workpiece is correct. If this relationship is disturbed by eccentricities of the blank to its operating centerline, the generated gear teeth will not be of the correct geometry. During the blanking operations, the gear's centerline and locating surfaces are established and must be maintained as the same through the following operations that generate the gear teeth.