Genesis™: Gleason's new family of gear production equipment, built on a common platform to optimize capabilities - and better serve the world of gearing. The Genesis™ 130H Hobbing Machine is a vertical hobber capable of producing gears and shafts with an outside diameter as large as 130 mm. The Genesis Hobber was designed as a totally new product incorporating the most modern features andcapabilities required by today's gear production. These include: • Small footprint: 7 sq. meters (73 sq. ft.), including all hydraulics, lubrication, chip removal, coolant, and pneumatic systems. • Fully self-contained machine, easily moved as a single unit without disconnecting auxiliary support. • Easy Access Service Module to consolidate hydraulics, lubrication and pneumatics into one location. • Single-piece, mineral cast polymer composite base/frame providing superior vibration damping and thermal stability. • Designed for wet or dry hobbing, with a clean uncluttered work chamber to more effectively contain cutting and divert chips. • High speed hob and workspindles capable of utilizing the most advanced cutting tools. • High speed loading system to reduce load/unload cycles to as little as 2 secs. • New ‘D-drive’ hob drive system with dramatically higher mounting accuracy, stiffness and torque. • Direct-drive spindles for reliability and wide speed and torque range. • SIEMENS or FANUC CNC controls. • Windows® based user-friendly software and PC front-end. • Quick-change workholding tooling for fast, easy changeover. • Optional chamfering and deburring capability. • Common design with common parts shared by all the models in the Genesis family.