Abstract: The present invention relates to a picking system for a job-related picking of goods in output bins, said picking system comprising a plurality of automated picking cells; comprising a first conveying system for the supply and/or discharge of the supply bins to and/or from the picking cells; and a second conveying system for the supply and/or discharge of the output bins to and/or from the picking cells, and a job management control for working through a plurality of picking jobs by controlling the first and second conveying systems and the plurality of picking cells, wherein at least one first picking cell has different goods handling properties than a second picking cell; and/or in that the job management control uses at least one first picking cell for working through different jobs and/or partial jobs than a second picking cell.

Abstract: The present disclosure comprises a gear manufacturing machine comprising a workpiece holder and a tool holder, which can each be caused to rotate by means of a drive, wherein the tool holder is arranged on a machining head, which can be moved relative to the workpiece holder by one or a plurality of motion axes of the gear manufacturing machine for gear manufacturing machining a workpiece held in the workpiece holder by means of a tool held in the tool holder, the tool holder having a counterholder. According to the present disclosure the counterholder is movable by a motion axis from its working position to an inactive position and/or is arranged on the machining head of the gear manufacturing machine in a releasably connectable manner.

Abstract: The present application discloses a method for calibrating a measuring probe in a gear cutting machine by using a workpiece received in a workpiece holder of the gear cutting machine, wherein the measuring probe includes a measuring probe tip which is movably arranged on a measuring probe base, wherein the deflection of the measuring probe tip relative the measuring probe base can be determined via at least one sensor of the measuring probe, and wherein the measuring probe is traversable relative to the workpiece holder via at least two axes of movement of the gear cutting machine. The method comprises rotating the workpiece via an axis of rotation of the workpiece holder and traversing the measuring probe via the at least two axes of movement of the gear cutting machine such that in the case of a perfect calibration the touch point of the measuring probe tip on the tooth flank would remain unchanged.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to generating a modified gear flank geometry on an active surface of the workpiece by generation grinding or honing. In at least one example, the modified gear flank geometry of the workpiece may be generated on the active surface of the workpiece by variation of an engagement depth of a tool into the workpiece in dependence on an angle of rotation of the tool. Additionally, the workpiece may comprise a cylindrical spur gear, a helical gear, a spherical gear, or a conical gear. Further, in one or more examples, the modified gear flank geometry of the workpiece includes at least one of a profile waviness or a defined periodic flank waviness.

Abstract: The present application relates an apparatus for chamfer-machining at least two edges of a toothed workpiece, wherein the apparatus comprises at least one workpiece spindle with a rotatably mounted workpiece holder for receiving the workpiece and a machining head movable relative to the workpiece holder via at least one axis of movement, wherein on the machining head at least one first tool spindle with a first rotatably mounted tool holder is provided for receiving at least one first chamfer milling cutter for chamfer-machining a first edge of a toothing of a workpiece received in the workpiece holder, wherein on the machining head a second tool spindle with a second rotatably mounted tool holder is provided for receiving an end milling cutter for chamfer-machining a second edge of a toothing of a workpiece received in the workpiece holder.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for chip-removing gear manufacturing machining of a workpiece by means of a tool, where a rotation of the tool takes place in generating coupling with a rotation of the workpiece, in particular gear manufacturing machining of a workpiece by skiving, wherein the gear manufacturing machining is carried out in a plurality of machining steps, wherein the center distance and/or a rotational angle between the workpiece and the tool superimposed on the generating coupling is/are changed between two machining steps, so that the tool will cut in the machining steps a respective contour that extends alternately closer to a first and a second flank of the target toothing of the workpiece. According to the present disclosure, the same rotational angle may be used for a plurality of machining steps taking place closer to a second flank.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for gear skiving a workpiece, wherein: in a first step, the geometry of a tool, in particular of a skiving wheel, is measured for the machining of the workpiece in a state clamped in an apparatus for gear skiving machining; and in a subsequent further step, machining kinematics are determined for the gear skiving in dependence on the measured geometry of the tool characterized in that the absolute location of a cutting edge of the tool in the apparatus is determined in the first step.

Abstract: The present invention shows a telescopic rail having at least one inner, middle, and outer rail element, wherein the inner and outer rail elements are each longitudinally displaceably supported at the middle rail element over rolling members that are guided in a rolling member cage. Provision is made in accordance with a first aspect that the rail elements are mechanically force-coupled via a rail synchronization arrangement such that on a longitudinal displacement of the outer rail element with respect to the inner rail element, the middle rail element is longitudinally displaced with respect to both the inner rail element and the outer rail element.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a picking cell for a job-related automated picking of goods that can remove different goods from supply bins and can transfer them into an output bin in an automated manner, said picking cell comprising: an object detection device for detecting the goods in a supply bin; a gripper for removing the goods from a supply bin; and a cell control for evaluating the data of the object detection device and for a path planning and a control of the gripper, wherein the cell control controls the gripper such that different goods of a job or of a partial job are placed at a predefined position and/or with a predefined orientation in the output bin.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for the gear manufacturing machining of a workpiece in which a hobbing machining of the workpiece takes place to generate a gearing geometry of the workpiece, wherein the workpiece is gear manufacturing machined by gear skiving in addition to the hobbing machining.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a picking system for order-related picking of goods stockpiled in racks, with an automated picking cell including a gripper for gripping and picking the goods and a cell control unit for actuating the gripper, with a transport system for conveying the racks to a picking position near the picking cell, wherein the racks have shelves and/or containers on and/or in which goods are stored, wherein at least one shelf and/or container of a rack arranged in the picking position can be conveyed from a storage position inside the rack into a removal position in which the at least one shelf and/or container is at least partially arranged in front of the rack, wherein the gripper is actuated by the cell control unit to grip the goods stockpiled on the shelf and/or in the container while the shelf and/or container is in the removal position.

Abstract: The present disclosure shows an apparatus for the automated removal of workpieces arranged in a bin, said apparatus having a first object recognition device for detecting the workpieces in the bin; a first picker for picking and removing the workpieces from the bin; a controller for evaluating the data of the first object recognition device, for path planning and for controlling the first picker; and a transport device on which the workpieces removed from the bin are placed. Provision is made that a robot arm that is used for placing the workpieces on the transport device is arranged on a pedestal above the transport device.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for chamfering at least one edge of the gearing at the front side of a workpiece having internal gearing comprising at least one rotatably supported workpiece holder for holding the workpiece and comprising at least one rotatably supported tool holder for holding at least one chamfer hob, possibly a chamfer cut hob, wherein the tool holder is arranged and/or arrangeable next to a workpiece held in the workpiece holder and a chamfer hob held in the tool holder is arrangeable by means of a tool arbor in the region of the center opening of the workpiece formed by the internal gearing to be brought into engagement with an edge of the internal gearing on the upper side and/or on the lower side of the workpiece.

Abstract: A method of producing a workpiece having a modified gearing geometry by a generating method includes generating machining the workpiece in at least one machining stroke with a tool having a modified gearing geometry and a topological modification. Provision is made that the contact path with the workpiece is not shifted on the tool during the machining stroke. In one example, a cylindrical workpiece is machined by an axial generating method. In another example, a conical workpiece is machined by a diagonal generating method, and the diagonal ratio is selected such that the contact path does not shift on the tool during the machining stroke.

Abstract: The application relates to a method for the automatic determination of the geometrical dimensions of a tool having a machining region in worm thread form, in particular of a grinding worm, in a gear cutting machine, wherein at least one parameter of the tool is automatically detected and/or determined by means of at least one sensor.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for chamfering at least one edge of the gearing at the front side of a workpiece having internal gearing comprising at least one rotatably supported workpiece holder for holding the workpiece and comprising at least one rotatably supported tool holder for holding a chamfer hob, possibly a chamfer cut hob, wherein the tool holder is arranged at an internal hob arm whose free end can be traveled by a machine axis of the apparatus at least partly into the center opening formed by the internal gearing of the workpiece.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a storage and retrieval vehicle for a pallet storage system having at least one racking system and having at least one floor rail for moving the storage and retrieval vehicle, wherein the storage and retrieval vehicle comprises at least one linear guide, in particular a telescopic linear guide, outwardly coupled via at least one vertical guide to a base body of the storage and retrieval vehicle, and wherein the base body is rotatably arranged, in particular by 360°, about the vertical axis. The present disclosure further relates to a pallet storage system having a corresponding storage and retrieval vehicle and to a modular floor rail for a pallet storage system.

Abstract: A method of producing a workpiece having a desired gear geometry by means of a suitably dressed tool may include specifying a desired gear geometry of the workpiece and selecting a combination of a dresser and a tool, such that the desired gear geometry of the workpiece can be produced by the selected combination at least within one permitted tolerance. The method may further include dressing the tool with the dresser in line contact for producing a suitable gear geometry of the tool and machining the workpiece with the dressed tool for producing the desired gear geometry of the workpiece at least within a permitted tolerance.

Abstract: In a method of producing a toothed workpiece having a modified surface geometry by a diagonal generating method by means of a modified tool, a tool may be used whose surface geometry comprises a modification which can be described at least approximately in the generating pattern at least locally in a first direction of the tool by a linear and/or quadratic function, with the specific modification of the tool producing a corresponding modification on the surface of the workpiece by the diagonal generating method, with the modification of the workpiece produced by the specific modification of the tool having a profile modification and/or a modification caused by a change of the machine kinematics during the machining process of the workpiece superposed on it.

Abstract: The present invention shows a process for gear manufacturing machining a workpiece by a tool on a gear manufacturing machine, wherein the workpiece is machined by a generating machining process in which the tool for gear manufacturing machining rolls off on the workpiece at a predefined center distance and axial cross angle, wherein the gear manufacturing machining preferably takes place on two flanks, with a desired tooth trace shape and/or tooth thickness of the gearing being generated by the generating machining process. The process is characterized in that an additional condition is predefinable and in that the center distance and the axial cross angle are determined in dependence on the desired tooth trace shape and/or tooth thickness of the gearing and on the additional condition.