Written by a manufacturing professional with extensive worldwide experience, this unique and complete guidebook places emphasis on teaching beginners and advanced planners how to process gears, and will enable manufacturing engineers familiar with machine shop practice to be specialists in the gear manufacturing field. The first few chapters are devoted to common gear nomenclature and analysis of processing of six typical gears, including explanations of the logic and reasoning for every sequence of operation. Subsequent chapters thoroughly describe production, selection of materials, heat treatment, plating, methods of cutting, hobbing, shaping, and grinding. Gear designers and entry-level manufacturing and processing engineers in the machine shop field will find this reference extremely helpful and valuable.
Provides beginners with sufficient information to independently process six typical gears step by step.
Presents model numbers, capacity and addresses of gear machinery manufacturers and suppliers at the end of each process description.
Offers gear designers practical and useful hints on reducing fabricating costs.
Contains useful tables from commercial catalogs, including cross-references of different U.S. standards and American stainless steel materials with equivalent German, British, French and Italian materials.
Discusses heat treatment in an easy-to-understand manner.
