CNC is a universal language, but machine builders still require programming expertise to make their systems achieve optimal performance. Automation experts at NUM helped a Chinese machine builder, ...

For its in-the-field gear-cutter or hobber retrofit, Drake quickly installs new, updated CNCs to get equipment back in production faster. If needed during a retrofit, Drake upgrades a machine's ...

Ordinarily, when we need gears, we pop open a McMaster catalog or head to the KHK website. Some of the more adventurous may even laser cut or 3D print them. But what about machining them yourself?

The entire gear is cut as part of a single process, without interim removal/reinsertion of the gear blank or manual tool changeover. NUM China has helped Betek to accelerate the development of a ...

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Machine Tool Co., Ltd. (MAT), a group company of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI)(TOKYO:7011) based in Japan, is ramping up its proposals of ...

Makers, engineers and hobbyists who would like to automatically manufacture a variety of different size plastic gears you might be interested in a unique machine built using a little Arduino hardware, ...

Since a gear is a product of the cutting tool, the gear-cutting machine and the operator, it can be no more accurate than the combined accuracy of these fundamental factors. All gear manufacturers aim ...

Hypoidal ring and pinion gears are the most efficient way to transfer rotational power at right angles, from a vehicle’s engine to its wheels. These gears, having curved, angled teeth, were conceived ...

Gears keep the world moving. Available in a variety of shapes and made from a wide range of materials, gears are found absolutely everywhere. From the tiniest and most delicate gears used by ...