Gleason Reduces Gear Manufacturing Time by 30% Using Viewpoint Systems
Viewpoint and Gleason created a patent-pending system that produces higher quality gears in 30 percent less time
Bevel and cylindrical gears can be found virtually everywhere – from automobiles and airplanes to trucks and tractors, and from giant wind turbines that can power a thousand homes to lawn mowers and power tools.
Gear tooth surfaces and spacing are never perfectly machined, and consequently, noise and vibration are often present in applications where the gears are later used. Gears, after the typical heat treatment process, are commonly lapped or ground to smooth the gear teeth surfaces and improve operational characteristics. This should reduce the surface and tooth spacing deviations that produce noisy gear sets.
The Gleason Corporation and The Gleason Works, a global gears solution provider, enlisted Viewpoint Systems to help create a torque-controlled lapping solution with responsive, real-time feedback to create better quality gears and reduce cycle time for its gear lapping machines.
The result – Viewpoint and Gleason created a patent-pending system that produces higher quality gears in 30 percent less time. The new system, founded on embedded control and dynamic real-time process monitoring technologies, creates the unprecedented ability to improve gearset quality during lapping, and to do so at higher speeds.
Download the case study to learn how Viewpoint Systems developed the solution using NI LabVIEW and NI CompactRIO hardware.
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