Patent ID: 8715036

Claim:
A grinding center for simultaneously grinding main bearings and rod bearings of crankshafts, said grinding center having a first station in which a number of main-bearing grinding wheels is arranged axially on a main-bearing grinding spindle, which is arranged on a main-bearing cross slide, in such a manner that a number of main bearings corresponding to the number of main-bearing grinding wheels is ground at the same time in a time T 1 , and having a second station in which two rod-bearing grinding wheels at the same time grind two rod bearings of the crankshaft in a time T 2 at the same time to T 1 and are mounted by their respective rod-bearing grinding spindle on a rod-bearing cross slide in such a manner that a first rod-bearing grinding spindle in the infeed direction is arranged in a positionally fixed manner on the rod-bearing cross slide and a second rod-bearing grinding spindle in the infeed direction is slightly adjustable relative to the first rod-bearing grinding spindle only in the direction of a dimensional or roundness correction axis.