This integrated and coordinated development of thermoforming machines and tools is our most significant customer benefit and unique on the thermoforming market. With the comprehensive know-how of our experienced experts in both tool and machine engineering, our clients benefit from a unique synergy effect that leads to an increased service existence of both machine and tools, as well as an optimal formed part quality. We aim to surpass your anticipations and make sure your success with this quality.
For years, a machine tool builder had produced their very own precision gear racks to attain ultra-precise positioning on their machines. They also needed this because their crucial customers demanded that their devices maintain gear rack for Machine Tool Industry accurate positioning with no mistake compensation on the axis.
To save costs, they wanted to find a gear rack provider who could achieve the same tight rack tolerances and performance level that they had come accustom to.
Choosing from their wide variety of standard rack & pinion drives, ATLANTA offered a Ultra-High Precision DIN 4 (UHPR) equipment rack, which acquired a total pitch deviation of less than twelve microns (< 0.012 mm) over a a single meter length. The actual pitch deviation was measured at 20º C and marked on each rack. To achieve the high rack power the customer required, the main of one’s teeth were hardened along with the tooth flanks. Finally, precision grinding was utilized to achieve the needed flatness tolerances on the trunk and sides of the rack.
At Industrial Sprockets & Gears, Inc., we are capable of manufacturing complex gears and sprockets that no various other manufacturers can produce. The part shown this is a helical gear rack that is used on a Maag gear manufacturing machine. The gear rack is 6′ long, has a nominal cross-section of 3” by 2”, and is made from 4130 steel.

The customer needed an upgraded part which is necessary to the operation of their machine and had previously been struggling to find someone with the capacity to cut the required size of helical rack. Often customers contact us because OEM parts are no longer available or are price prohibitive. Often, customers have found that the grade of replacement parts produced by us exceed the quality their OEM parts.

Quite a few projects are exclusive within the market and represent probably the most challenging sizes and geometries of gears produced today. We maintain a wide range of rare gear shaping gear along with advanced CNC milling and turning centers, that allows us to make a vast array of gear, sprocket, work, and rack sizes, shapes, and patterns.

The rack was manufactured on a specialized CNC gear rack milling machine to tolerances as tight as ±0.001″. The client was not only very happy to find a manufacturer with the capacity of producing the component; they remarked that the product quality far exceeded their objectives. We produced this helical gear rack with a business lead time of only two weeks. For additional information about this custom equipment rack machining project, contact us directly.
A rack and pinion drive system consists of a rack (or a “linear gear”) and a pinion (or “circular gear”). One’s teeth of a rack and pinion drive could be directly or helical, although helical tooth are often used because of their higher load capability and quieter operation. For a rack and pinion drive program, the maximum force that can be transmitted is largely determined by the tooth pitch and the size of the pinion.