Gears

RotoMetrics Gears

An industry leader in high precision rotary tooling, RotoMetrics has been manufacturing world-class quality gears for over 50 years. The combination of our manufacturing expertise and customer focus has created new opportunities for RotoMetrics to offer a variety of precision gears to industries beyond printing and converting. Ground gears, helical, spur, plastic and fine pitch – RotoMetrics provides the quality you expect and the delivery times you need. As a member of the American Gear Manufacturers Association (AGMA) and certified to ISO 9001:2000 standards, RotoMetrics is committed to being your full-service gear supplier.

Gear Types

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

Capabilities and Equipment

  • 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 (2 sites) , UK and Australia
    • - Full Service Gear Making Capability
    • - FEA / CAD / CAM Engineering Support
    • - Imperial and metric 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" diameter)
    • - Ferritic nitro-carburizing (to 12.0" diameter)
    • - Fluidized bed heat treating (to 14.0" diameter)
    • - Vacuum heat treating (to 18.25" diameter)
  • External preferred supplier heat treatment (24/48 hour delivery with aerospace capability)
  • Sunnen Automatic Hone EC-3500 (6" stroke) and Sunnen Cylinder King Hone (9" hone)
  • CNC gear inspection to 13.78" diameter
  • Keyway cutting (1.25" 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

For more information about RotoMetrics Gears, please contact a RotoMetrics sales representative.

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