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Minor modifications can help to make gears more robust and durable or improve their running properties. Appropriate design software helps with this.
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Minor modifications can help to make gears more robust and durable or improve their running properties. Appropriate design software helps with this.

Markforged has introduced the new Blacksmith software for Markforged 3D printers.

CNC specialist NUM has expanded the functionality of its NUMgear family of gear manufacturing technologies with an extremely flexible software option for gear skiving.

The Sevias software is intended to make the creation of physical models of design drafts superfluous.

Kisssoft's 2020 release contains numerous new features, including additional methods for evaluating the reliability of transmission concepts.
Mechtop in the north of Switzerland builds special machines and systems. Solid Edge and Tecnomatix from Siemens help to design and maintain sophisticated conveyor systems.

In the past, designing even simple elements and products was very time-consuming. Item's online engineering tool shows that this no longer has to be the case. Christian Thiel, Product Manager for online tools at Item, explains how the design process is changing in an interview with Andreas Mühlbauer.
The Paul Kauth Group operates its own toolmaking facility in Frittlingen. This is where progressive tools with a length of up to 6 m and up to 50 stations are produced, which would be impossible to manufacture without a CAM system.

Item has added important design details to its engineering tool. For example, the design software now allows the distance between two parallel profiles to be measured.
The digital twin processes sensor data generated from a system in operation and uses simulation to predict errors and diagnose inefficiencies.