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Ask Not What Your Heat Treater Can Do for You...
By Alex Cannella, Associate EditorWhen sending gears to be heat treated, manufacturers can end up unwittingly making mistakes that slow down turn-around time. We talked to some heat treaters to get their best advice on how you can help them help you.
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Single-Piece Flow Vacuum Furnace Streamlines Gear Production
New continuous vacuum furnace from SECO utilizes low-pressure vacuum carburizing in combination with 4-D® high-pressure gas quenching. Every part is heat-treated in an identical manner using the same process parameters and part movement, resulting in consistent, repeatable, high-quality parts.
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PTC ASIA is a genuine "world fair". It ranks as the most important showcase for power transmission and control technology and, every years, is a magnet for international market leaders, innovative SMEs, start-ups, as well as for more than 80,000 visitors from more than 70 countries.
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PITTLER Power Skiving for highly efficient gear cutting
Power Skiving by pioneering PITTLER T&S allows for highest-quality internal and external gearings to be machined fast, flexible and at low tool costs. Based on its PV 5-axis turning center, PITTLER T&S offers Power Skiving for rotation-symmetrical components up to a diameter of 50" either as complete or individual machining solution.
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Achieving Increased Profits and Response Times with Modular Vacuum, Atmosphere Heat-Treating Systems
This customer was relocating their existing facility to a new location so they could continue to grow and advance. As such, any new equipment they chose needed to be able to handle the everyday range of requests, from different processes and part geometries to different load sizes. Read the customer story.
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GEMS™: Next-Generation Bevel Gear Engineering and Manufacturing
With GEMS™ Gleason has introduced the next-generation design and manufacturing system for bevel gears and some specific types of cylindrical gears. It's a powerful new software platform that provides highly desirable gear design and analysis capabilities, seamlessly connects with all your existing Gleason design software — and helps optimize the complete bevel gear manufacturing process.
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Gear Nitriding in Vacuum
Vacuum gas nitride processing from Solar Atmospheres can significantly increase the fatigue strength and service life of your parts. Benefits include case depths up to 0.025" and improved wear and anti-galling properties due to a 40 - 70% increase in surface hardness. Corrosion resistance is increased through nitrogen-enrichment.
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