Gear grinding is a precision finishing operation for gear-tooth flanks in which profile geometry, surface quality and control of thermal effects are decisive. Grinding wheels and tools are selected according to the gear type, grinding technology and machine used.
Main benefits
- Continuous generating grinding
- Profile grinding
- Bevel-gear grinding and power honing
- Worm grinding wheels
- Profile and CBN grinding wheels
Main gear-grinding processes
Continuous generating grinding uses worm grinding wheels. Profile grinding uses profile wheels matched to the tooth geometry. Tools for bevel-gear grinding and power honing are selected according to the technology, gear geometry and machine.
Typical applications
Spur gears, helical gears, large gears, automotive transmissions, energy applications, wind turbines and general mechanical engineering.
Grinding tools
Confirmed tool groups include worm grinding wheels, single-profile grinding wheels, vitrified CBN profile wheels for confirmed applications, and honing tools for power honing.
Abrasives
White high-grade aluminium oxide, special aluminium-oxide blends, sintered aluminium oxide and vitrified CBN.
Machine applications
Solutions are selected for the particular Reishauer, KAPP NILES or Gleason machine model, grinding technology and gear geometry. These machine names do not mean that the supplied tools are original products of those manufacturers.
Grinding objectives
The tool and process must support the required profile and involute, surface quality and limitation of undesirable thermal effects.
Technical specifications
- Processes
- Continuous generating, profile grinding, bevel-gear grinding and power honing
- Tools
- Worm, single-profile, vitrified CBN profile and honing tools
- Machine applications
- Reishauer, KAPP NILES, Gleason
- Selection basis
- Gear geometry, technology, machine and required result
Available sizes and variants
| Information required for specification |
|---|
| Gear module and pressure angle |
| Tooth width and tooth profile |
| Gear type |
| Grinding-machine manufacturer and model |
| Required application and result |
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