Okuma and Sandvik bring gear machining back in-house

hop “Gear Up” was hosted in cooperation with Swedish tool manufacturer Sandvik Coromant.

In multiple live demonstrations the hosts presented ways to economically perform gear cutting on Okuma multitasking machines, thus effectively eliminating the need for expensive additional machines.

An increasing number of manufacturers are outsourcing gear machining to subcontractors, believing this to be the only way to balance quality and productivity. With their three-day workshop, the two companies set out to bring gear cutting back in-house.

Live machining included gear hobbing on an Okuma MULTUS B750 – a process that traditionally requires a dedicated hobbing machine – as well as power skiving, bevel gear machining and Sandvik Coromant’s patented InvoMilling. The latter enables cutting of many different gear profiles with a small number of tools to effectively reduce set-up time. The presentations served to show that Okuma multitasking machines increase productivity while machining various types of gears and splines with supreme accuracy.

Over the course of three days, 221 visitors were welcomed from over a dozen countries and from a wide array of industries.

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