Kinematics of Continuously Indexing Methods of Gear Machining Processes

Methods of gear machining featuring continuous indexing are widely used in industry. Gear hobbing, gear shaping, gear shaving, etc., are good examples of gear machining operations of this type.

Numerous efforts had been undertaken to investigate the surface generation process using continuously indexing methods of surface machining (e.g., [4, 18, 138, 143, 180, 181, 186]).