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Gear Hobber
Re-Manufacture Controlled axes are:
We tear the "old" hobber down to bare castings. We clean, inspect and paint them. After which, we begin the reassembly process. Slides are fitted by hand scraping to the original specifications. Power flaking provides renewed surface lubrication. Servo driven precision ball lead screws are added. Change gears and associated mechanisms are eliminated. We pay particular attention to the lubrication scheme, and typically install lube systems with fail safe monitoring. All bearings and seals are new. Bearings are usually the same as factory originals (i.e. high precision.) All hydraulic components are new. All electrical components are new. The electrical enclosure is AIR CONDITIONED and NEMA 12. Advanced circuit protection is utilized. Below is a Pfauter 400 after stripping down.
Below is
the Pfauter 400 just prior to shipment to our customer. It has been painted to
the customer specifications
and is undergoing tests with the customer's tooling and blank work-pieces. Parts are
checked for accuracy and conformance to tolerance. A "runoff" is done with the
customer's
representative present. Normally we do operator training at this time.
However, when the machine is installed, we also train other operators as well as
the maintenance personnel.. See what it's like to work with us
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Shown
here are results of our Gear Hobber program. The original machine is
remanufactured, with our modern control system retrofit.
This utilizes field proven components such as Programmable Logic Controllers
(PLC), Motion Controls, and Operator Interface Terminals (OIT). All
are
networked together to operate the hobber seamlessly. The operator enters gear parameters via the OIT using an interactive scheme.
