Gleason has introduced a new line of TITAN Grinding Machines designed to reduce finish grinding times by as much as 5 0% on cyl indr i c a l gears up to 1,500mmin diameter. “Titan machines are unique in their ability to offer users, on a single platform, both pure profile grinding for the greatest flexibility when producing single parts and threaded wheel grinding and profile grinding working together formuch faster fullyautomated large-scale production,” said a Gleason spokesperson. “This new process, called POWER GRIND, enables users to reduce grinding production times by as much as 50%, by first using threaded wheel grinding to ‘rough’ gears much faster and then profile grinding to achieve optimal gear quality, surface finish and complex gear modifications in the finishing operation. “The POWER GRIND process can optionally include an external set-up table to allowtheworkpiece andworkholding package to be set-up up in parallel with primary production, rather than sequentially.Workpieces then can be loaded automatically through use of an optional workpiece changer. These features, plus an innovative new highspeed tool changer that automates the exchange of threaded wheel for profile grinding wheel, greatly reduce nonproductive time. “TITAN 1200G and 1500G machines, forworkpiece diameters of 1,200 and 1,500 mm respectively, are also equipped with a patent pending universal dresser. This enables the user to dress both threaded grinding wheels and profile grinding wheels right on the machine using a single dressing tool, thus eliminating the changeover time and expense of multiple dressing tools. “TITAN machines also greatly reduce the time required for the production of individual parts through pure profile grinding. A unique, patented dual-flank twist-free grinding option is available that can create highly desirable asymmetrical tooth trace modifications in half the time normally required when conventional single flank grinding is used.” For more information contact: Gleason Corporation 1000 University Avenue P. O. Box 22970 Rochester, NY 14692-2970 585-473-1000 www.gleason.com