Gleason to showcase cylindrical & bevel gears at EMO 2019

At this year’s EMO show, Gleason Corporation will showcase a wide array of new design, manufacturing and inspection technologies for cylindrical and bevel gears. Highlights include: world’s first Power Skiving Machine with Integrated Sharpening, new Chamfer Hobbing Technology, Hard Finishing of Gears in the Closed Loop, the new Gear Honing product line and the latest release of KISSsoft Transmission Design Software.

The market leader will demonstrate the current KISSsoft® Release 2019 with numerous new highlights: Among other things, “KISSdesignTM KISSdesignTM”,an instrument that allows intuitive concept design at system level, is now available. SKF and KISSsoft have also created a new interface to simplify the gear development process.

This interface enables engineers to perform calculations using the latest bearing data from SKF via a direct connection to the SKF cloud.The manufacturability for Power Skiving can now also be evaluated in KISSsoft. After generating a special report with workpiece and tool data, this report can be transferred to Gleason if required, which makes data exchange between the designer and the tool supplier much easier and less error-prone.

The interface between GEMS® and KISSsoft provides an exchange of gear and system information between the two software packages. This allows the user to realistically evaluate and optimize every type of spiral bevel and hypoid gear – with a Closed Loop between the design and manufacturing software.

The latest edition to the Genesis® Gear Hobbing Machine family combines the state-of-the-art technology in gear hobbing with newly developed Chamfer Hobbing, which produces precise chamfers according to customer specifications, while minimizing tool cost-per-piece. Gleason will also demonstrate live the seamless integration of tool and machine workflows, reducing manual data input and minimizing input errors, tracking every aspect of tool information from supplier to machine, to crib, to sharpening, to end of tool life.

It will also showcase the World’s First Power Skiving with Integrated Tool Sharpening. The 300PS Power Skiving Machine is wellsuited for soft cutting and hard finishing of cylindrical internal and external gears. The 300PS is now available with a brand-new feature, which premieres at EMO: the integrated Tool Sharpening functionality for spur and helical cutting tools, enabling continuous gear production without frequent tool change at consistently high quality, while greatly reducing both, tool cost-perpiece and tool inventory.

The 300PS is “Closed Loop ready”: it can directly interface with Gleason GMS® Metrology Systems for seamless data transfer and automatic corrections.It will also demonstrate closed Loop, high accuracy and excellent surface finish with the Genesis 260GX Threaded Wheel Grinding Machine. The GX series takes gear finishing to a new level, with features like twist-control and polish grinding as well as integrated automation and software-guided single
tool setup.

The machine comes “Closed Loop ready”: interfacing directly with the Gleason GRSL Gear Roll Testing System with Laser Technology for fast, reliable, automatic data transfer and corrections.