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.
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.
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.
Exploiting the full potential of digitalisation: Learn how we support the industrial sectorBy 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.
Rolf Höpli is Partner of the Zühlke Group. He is responsible for the business development in the Swiss industrial sector. Based on his educations in machine manufacturing and computer science he has always felt fascinated by the infinite possibilities of the combination of clever software and ingenious machines. Rolf Höpli focuses on the transformation of customer experience, interdisciplinary product innovation and monetization of data science use cases. He passes on his experience as a speaker (MEM congresses) and lecturer (FFHS & BFH).
