Tooth for tooth: fast, reproducible and specification conformant

The deburring of gearing components is such a complex task that it has hitherto only been possible to automate it at an enormous cost, if at all. This has now changed with the robot-based RDC (robot deburring cell), a solution evolved by special engineering company Klaaßen Technologie GmbH from Rhineland-Palatinate. Besides sophisticated technical processes, the Yaskawa Motoman robots thus used offer speed, reproducible precision and simple operation while guaranteeing the highest standards. The first practical applications of the new RDC technology are already underway.

Whether spur, bevel or heavy planetary gears for wind turbines, with their complex geometries, gearwheels place exacting requirements in everyday production. That applies in particular to the deburring and chamfering of tooth and workpiece edges. For this reason, this process stage is difficult to automate – and only at great expense, e.g. with CNC machine tools.

Reversely, this means that in the majority of cases, gearing components are still being deburred by hand. This procedure is time-consuming as well as labour-and cost-intensive, not to speak of the physical demands at the workplace. But not only that: purely manual processing is a stochastic process, i.e. the results are always liable to a degree of variation. Workpiece edges cannot be exactly and reproducibly defined. Furthermore, the workpiece is never equally accessible to the operator from all sides.