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Gear manufacturing using power-skiving method on six-axis CNC turn-mill machining center

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Power-skiving is an efficient method for the manufacturing of high accuracy gears, particularly internal gears. However, dedicated power-skiving machine tools are normally very expensive. Accordingly, the present study proposes a simple methodology for automatically and systematically generating the NC code required to manufacture gears using the power-skiving method on a conventional six-axis CNC turn-mill machining center. The main factors determining the linear cutting speed of the power-skiving tool are analyzed and a modified D-H notation is used to evaluate the error characteristics of the machine tool system. The validity of the proposed methodology is demonstrated by machining an internal gear on a DMG MORI NTX1000 six-axis CNC turn-mill machining center. The results confirm that the proposed approach provides a simple yet effective method for implementing the power-skiving technique on a conventional six-axis CNC turn-mill machining center.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support provided to this study by the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan under grant no. MOST 105-2622-E-150-010-CC3.

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  1. Department of Mechanical and Computer-Aided Engineering, National Formosa University, 64 Wunhua Road, Huwei, Yunlin, 632, Taiwan

    Chung-Yu Tsai

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, 70101, Taiwan

    Psang Dain Lin

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Tsai, CY., Lin, P.D. Gear manufacturing using power-skiving method on six-axis CNC turn-mill machining center. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 95, 609–623 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-017-1154-8

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