Abstract: A crankshaft production machine for manufacture of crankshafts (15) having centric and eccentric surfaces to be machined, the said crankshafts being chucked rotatably around a C axis (5, 6), comprises a headstock, a counter spindle or tailstock, at least one displaceable longitudinal slide (17, 18), and drive units with motors for the drive motion of the crankshaft around the C axis and for the feed motion of subassemblies for tool spindles (8, 11) as well as the tools, wherein the respective motors in at least one drive unit used to drive the workpiece spindles (1, 3) and in at least one drive unit used to drive the tool spindles (8, 11) are configured as torque motors (2, 4, 10, 13).

Abstract: A crankshaft production machine for manufacture of crankshafts (15) having centric and eccentric surfaces to be machined, the said crankshafts being chucked rotatably around a C axis (5, 6), comprises a headstock, a counter spindle or tailstock, at least one displaceable longitudinal slide (17, 18), and drive units with motors for the drive motion of the crankshaft around the C axis and for the feed motion of subassemblies for tool spindles (8, 11) as well as the tools, wherein the respective motors in at least one drive unit used to drive the workpiece spindles (1, 3) and in at least one drive unit used to drive the tool spindles (8, 11) are configured as torque motors (2, 4, 10, 13).

Abstract: An apparatus for profiling a wheelset comprised of a milling cutter with a first axis of rotation, driven friction rollers for rotating the wheelset about a second axis of rotation, and computer numerical control apparatus for rotating the milling cutter about its first axis of rotation while disposing it so that the first axis of rotation is substantially perpendicular to the second axis of rotation.

Abstract: A technique for aligning a wheelset using a wheelset truing machine is disclosed. Using the technique, the wheelset may be aligned by roughly aligning the wheelset truing machine, placing each wheel of the wheelset on at least one roller, determining the distance of tread points on each wheel on the rollers relative to the center of revolution of each wheel by forming measurements and calculations, and coinciding the center of revolution of each wheel with the corresponding setpoint of the machine center. The measurement is taken of the periphery and of the concentricity error and a distance of the tread points determined by the triangulation principle.

Abstract: An apparatus for measuring the contours of a railroad wheel which contains a tool slide, a measuring arm pivotally attached to the tool slide, a measuring wheel rotatably attached to the measuring arm, a device for moving the measuring arm horizontally, vertically, and pivotally, a marker, an optical sensor, and a device for sensing the movement of the measuring arm. The apparatus also contains a first encoder for determining the degree to which the measuring arm moves during any particular time during the rotation of the railroad wheel in any particular rotation cycle, and, additionally, a second encoder for determining at what point in said particular rotation cycle said measuring arm has moved.