The dressing of grinding worms for continuous generating grinding by Reishauer serves several purposes. Primarily, it serves to produce the exact threaded grinding wheel profile and to maintain the cutting ability of the abrasive tool. Secondly, dressing removes the impurities that the grinding process generates. By removing these impurities, diamond dressing creates sufficient space for the chips that result from the high material removal rate of the Reishauer generating grinding process.

Diamond is the ideal material for dressing tools as it is many times harder than the aluminum oxide abrasive material of the threaded grinding wheels, aka grinding worms. Only rotating diamond tools are used for the dressing of Reishauer threaded grinding wheel. Reishauer offers a comprehensive range of rotary dressers, the selection of which depends on individual customer requirements such as flexibility in the generation of gear geometries and the desired level of productivity. The range of dressing tools stretches from dressers for the production prototype gears to mass production of gears in the automotive industry.

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