Gear-shaft manufacture: Automated lathe joins gear hobber and gear shaper in production cell

摘要

To streamline the manufacture of a family of 12 hydraulicpump components for the yellow-goods industry, a Traub automated turn-milling centre has been installed alongside a Gleason hobber and a Pfauter shaper to form a production cell on the shopfloor of the sub-contract manufacturer Muffett Gears. The Tunbridge Wells-based company specialises in hobbing, shaping, skiving and grinding gears with pitch circle diameters (PCDs) ranging from 4 to 400mm and with modules from 0.25 to 5.0. The mainly bespoke products are produced to JIS, DIN, ANSI or customer specification.