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29.7 Consolidation Example

From the example of Figure 8 the individual blade grinding summary of Job
No. 102 is printed to the left in Figure 10, next to the consolidated blade grind-
ing summary. The red arrows between the two summaries mark the input data
for the blade grinding machine which are different. Those differences would
cause a significant change in the flank surfaces as well as the root depth and
tooth thickness if the original cutting summaries of each individual job were
used in connection with the new consolidated blade geometry. As explained in
the earlier paragraphs of this paper, the individual cutting summaries for each
job of the consolidation variety are changed in the course of the consolidation
calculations in order to accommodate the new, consolidated blade summary
without significant changes to the flank form and the tooth thickness. One ex-
ample of the differences between the original cutting summary and the consol-
idated summary is shown in Figure 11 for Job No. 102.

Figure 10: Comparison of original and consolidated blade grinding summary

The left side printout in Figure 11 shows the original cutting summary of Job
No. 102. The right-side printout is the cutting summary for the consolidated
Job No. 102C. The significant differences in the tooth geometry defining basic
settings are marked with blue arrows. In this example, the differences between

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