March 2014—7
F E A T U R E
A Breakthrough
in Power Skiving
Advances in machine design, cutting tools and process simulation
software have fnally converged, making it possible for Gleason to offer a
practical and highly productive power skiving solution. Here's how the new
process can revolutionize the way internal gears are produced.
W
hen Wilhelm von Pittler fled his skiving
patent in 1910, no one could have
imagined that such a promising new
process for producing internal gears would take
about 100 years to fnally realize its full potential.
It's true that, along the way, some in our industry
have made brief forays into skiving. For example,
Pfauter, which was aquired by Gleason Corp.
(Rochester, N.Y.) in 1997, introduced skiving
machines in 1968, 1985 and, most successfully,
1999, with its PF 200, a machine that used
skiving as a hard fnishing process. Yet none of
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