Traditional gear-cutting machines may run faster. However, the tooling economics, increased accuracy through one-setup machining and improved process control, make the overall costs of 5-axis machines ...

Its Gleason 782 gear hobber was showing its age, becoming unreliable, especially in regard to its process controls. Gleason Corp. specializes in gear-making machinery, or “hobbers.” Typically, these ...

Common materials used in CNC machining include: Aluminum: Lightweight, corrosion-resistant, with good conductivity and ease of machining. Used in the aerospace, electronics, and automotive industries.

For most CNC machines with a rotary axis, the A axis is treated as such — a rotary axis. For the Rotomill, [Adam] and [Matt] are generating G Code like it’s a normal Cartesian machine, only ...