AGMA Gears

Gear Types

• Ground – 245 mm (9.645 in) maximum O.D. / 28 DP – 8 DP / AGMA Class 11
• Helical – 355 mm (14 in) maximum O.D. / 50 DP fine pitch – 4 DP
• Spur – 355 mm (14 in) maximum O.D. / 50 DP fine pitch – 4 DP
• Plastic

Gear Capabilities

• Ground gears are manufactured to AGMA Class 11 using a state-of-the-art Gleason 245TWG high-speed CNC threaded wheel grinder, providing the utmost consistency and hard finishing with significantly shorter turnaround times versus conventional CNC grinding
• Various grinding processes include:
  • CNC cylindrical grinding (10.5″ diameter x 59″)
  • Surface grinding (20″ x 40″)
  • Rotary grinding to 36″ diameter
• Global gear manufacturing in US, UK and Australia
  • Full service gear making capability
  • FEA / CAD / CAM engineering support
  • Metric and imperial gearing
• Mori Seiki CNC lathe (17.7″ diameter x 51:)
• CNC vertical mills – 3 and 4 axis
  • Haas VF8 40 tool (X 40″ x Y 20″ x Z 28″)
  • Haas VF4 Super Speed – 40 tool
  • Haas VF3 20 tool
• In-house heat treatment capabilities:
  • Induction heat treating (to 10.5 in diameter)
  • Ferritic nitro-carburizing (to 12.0 in diameter)
  • Fluidized bed heat treating (to 14.0 in diameter)
  • Vacuum heat treating (to 18.25 in diameter)
• External preferred supplier heat treatment (24/48 hour delivery with aerospace capability)
• Sunnen Automatic Hone EC-3500 (6 in stroke) and Sunnen Cylinder King Hone (9 in hone)
• CNC gear inspection to 13.78 in diameter
• Keyway cutting (1.25 in wide)
• High precision environment (HVAC)
• In-house hob sharpening, broaching, gun drilling, laser marking and black oxide surface coating
• Class-leading ERP systems, safehouse disaster recovery, emergency electricity generators