Patent ID: 8527085

Claim:
A method for operating a gear grinding machine, comprising the following separate operating steps (1)-(3) of the gear grinding machine: (1) machining a workpiece clamped on a workpiece mount on the gear grinding machine with a grinding disk and/or grinding worm clamped on a working spindle, (2) separately profiling the grinding disk and/or grinding worm on the gear grinding machine with a profiling tool rotationally clamped on a profiling spindle, and (3) separately dressing the profiling tool for profiling the grinding disk and/or grinding worm on the gear grinding machine by one of the steps of (a) clamping the profiling tool on the working spindle and clamping a dressing tool on the profiling spindle, (b) clamping the profiling tool on the profiling spindle and clamping the dressing tool on the working spindle, or (c) clamping the profiling tool on the tool mount and clamping the dressing tool on the working spindle, wherein all three steps (1)-(3) are carried out separately from one another on the grinding machine.