GEAR CUTTING ATTACHMENT IN LATHE MACHINE

Job shops and small scale industries are heavily constrained to use general purpose machines due to financial limitations. Machines such as Lathes and Milling machines are versatile with these groups as they required minimum funding and are easy to maintain.Lathe is a very important manufacturing subsystem in many sectors. Even though it is a versatile machine, it has some limitations while performing a certain operation like gear cutting. The use of milling machines in the production of gear cutting is well recognized. If an attachment on general purpose lathe is made available, the cost of production of a product could be reduced