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Gleason-Pfauter gear hobbler for gear-cutting of shaft- and wheel-shaped workpieces with all the profiles and shapes that occur regularly on the circumference of cylindrical workpieces. Feeding of all parts with a horizontal axis and two vertical axes with parallel gripper. Deposit of workpieces on an indexing chain belt integrated in the machine. Read more ...

Caterpillar manufactures the gear rings used in its crawlers and excavators. The manufacture of gear rings was to be automated all the way from blank to finished product. The production steps to be integrated are two Liebherr gear hobblers, a Rausch deburring machine and a Laborex washing station as well as the feeding and removal processes via RDL Engineering conveyor belts. All the processing steps will be automated via GÜDEL linear portals. Read more ...

Production of bevel pinions for drive trains of construction equipment. In full automation mode the cell has to be able to produce parts with a cycle time of 3 minutes. Included in the cell are two shaping, one deburring and a washing machine. A further difficulty is to handle 200 different parts with a maximum setup time between products of under ten minutes. Finally the available height of the building is limited so that a special solution has to be found to be able to load the machines from the top side. Read more ...

Loading and unloading workpieces and also the diamond dressing gearwheels of a honing machine in the automotive industry.
The workpieces weigh 5 kg and have a diameter of up to 250 mm. The workpieces arrive lying on a circulating belt and must be loaded into the machine standing up.
The workpieces are loaded onto a hydraulic expansion chuck and the loading must, therefore, be very precise. Read more ...