{
  "title": "Automotive gear preparation insight",
  "kind": "reference",
  "company": "Struers",
  "category": "Lapping, honing & superfinishing",
  "parameters": {
    "Language": "English"
  },
  "language": "en",
  "source_url": "https://www.struers.com/en/automotive/gear",
  "content_html": "<h2>THE GEAR CHALLENGE</h2><h2>Learn how to prepare and test surface hardening on heat-treated helical gears using an automated and reproducible process.</h2><figure><img src=\"/files/struers-file-ef17b5f7f2dbf09cce8bafc1/gear-challenge-673x680-px.jpg\" alt=\"Gear\" width=\"495\" height=\"500\" loading=\"lazy\">\n<figcaption>Gear</figcaption>\n</figure>\n<h2>Solution</h2>\n<p>Using highly-automated equipment and special clamping methods for cutting, it is possible to avoid pinching of the cut-off wheel and conduct a successive hardness tests on even the most difficult gear surfaces in a process consisting of:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cutting with a Axitom-5 using special clamping methods</li>\n<li>Grinding and polishing with an AbraPol-30 in 4 automated steps using a specific selected sequence of surfaces</li>\n<li>A fully automated CHD-measurement of 15 indentations with Duramin-40AC1</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Tell us who you are and you may download a materialographic solution report of one of our many method solutions. Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you have a specific problem that you would like us to help you with.</p>\n<p><a href=\"/files/struers-file-ff69fe73248976f5d55bea19/gear-materialographic-solution-report.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">See the solution</a></p><h2>Automotive gear preparation insight | Struers.com</h2><p>Learn how to reliably prepare and test surface hardening on heat-treated helical gears. Our application specialists outline the latest metallographic methods for the automotive industry.</p>",
  "summary": "Learn how to reliably prepare and test surface hardening on heat-treated helical gears. Our application specialists outline the latest metallographic methods for the automotive industry.",
  "sections": [],
  "updated_at": "2026-10-17"
}