Gear Hobbing

Direct drive type gear hobbing machine, YK series direct connection type gear hobbing machine, provide professional gear manufacturing, different customer's tooth making scheme. With hundreds of processing examples, it is trustworthy.

Hobbing is a machining process for gear cutting, cutting splines, and cutting sprockets on a hobbing machine, which is a special type of milling machine. The teeth or splines of the gear are progressively cut into the material (a flat, cylindrical piece of metal) by a series of cuts made by a cutting tool called a hob. Compared to other gear forming processes it is relatively inexpensive but still quite accurate, thus it is used for a broad range of parts and quantities.