Patent ID: 8353739

Claim:
A large-scale production process for making gears, comprising: (a) establishing tolerances for the amount of material removed from stock to form the gears; (b) selecting a grinding wheel that maximizes cutting efficiency and requires infrequent dressing; (c) determining the number of passes the grinding wheel will make to remove material from the stock during a grinding operation; (d) establishing the amount of coolant flow to be dispensed during the grinding operation; (e) grinding the stock with the grinding wheel during the grinding operation; (f) making gears out of the stock; (g) determining a condition favorable for generating grind burn on the gears is present before, during, and after the grinding operation; and wherein, when the condition favorable for generating grind burn is determined, adjusting one or more parameters of the grinding operation to eliminate the condition and then repeating steps (e)-(g).