IJSRP, Volume 2, Issue 10, October 2012 Edition [ISSN 2250-3153]
Amar Raj Singh Suri, A.P.S. Sethi
Abstract:
The design of a fixture depends a lot on the designer’s expertise and experience and hence no solution is optimal or near optimal for a given workpiece. For a Gear hobbing fixture also there are multiple designs possible. This paper is about redesigning of a hobbing fixture to make it common for the other gears’ manufacturing and reduce the no of settings of the fixture on the hobbing machine. There by, reducing company’s cost & time. The design was checked and validated for safety under the action of cutting forces.