Integrated software platform for efficiency

• More effective tool design

• Standardisation of a core process

• Added value for customers thanks to 3D visualisation prior to production

Reishauer requests Zühlke’s help in revolutionising one of its core processes using an integrated software platform. Customers benefit from increased planning security and cheaper, faster production.

A core process made perfect

Reishauer is the world’s leading provider of gear grinder technology, which represents the final step in the shaping process for most transmission gears. The perfect gear surface allows for the ideal rolling motion between two gears that you need for efficient, quiet transmission with high output density. One crucial core process that Reishauer has optimised and improved over the years is tool design and calculation of the associated grinding process.

Creating a sustainable platform with Zühlke

To better support this process, Reishauer works with Zühlke to develop a new software platform. It replaces more than five existing applications and guides the user from tool design to gear production at the grinding machine with no media discontinuity. The platform pools mathematical and expert knowledge from disparate sources in its core and is now available in a standardised version to all users for every step of the process.

Benefit for Reishauer

By simplifying and standardising the core process, the new software platform enables consistently higher gear quality. Using the same mathematical core for both design and production minimises the design iterations, which saves time and costs. Additional 3D visualisations and customer documentation also enable initial coordination alignment with the customer before the first gear goes into production. Combined with the simultaneous proof of producibility, this means that Reishauer can offer new USPs, adding a new dimension to its leading market position.