This integrated and coordinated development of thermoforming machines and tools is our most significant customer benefit and unique on the thermoforming market. With the considerable know-how of our experienced experts in both device and machine engineering, our clients benefit from a distinctive synergy effect leading to an increased service lifestyle of both machine and tools, along with an optimal formed part quality. We aim to surpass your anticipations and ensure your success with our quality.
For a long time, a machine tool gear rack for Machine Tool Industry china builder had manufactured their own precision gear racks to accomplish ultra-precise positioning on the machines. They also needed this because their critical customers demanded that their devices maintain accurate positioning without any error compensation on the axis.
To save costs, they wanted to look for a gear rack provider who 
could obtain the same restricted rack tolerances and performance level that they had come accustom to.
Choosing from their wide selection of regular rack & pinion drives, ATLANTA offered a Ultra-High Accuracy DIN 4 (UHPR) gear rack, which got a complete pitch deviation of significantly less than twelve microns (< 0.012 mm) over a a single meter length. The real pitch deviation was measured at 20º C and marked on each rack.
To achieve the high rack power the customer required, the root of one’s teeth were hardened along with the tooth flanks. Finally, precision grinding was utilized to achieve the necessary flatness tolerances on the back and sides of the rack.
At Industrial Sprockets & Gears, Inc., we can handle manufacturing complex gears and sprockets that no other manufacturers can create. The part shown here is a helical equipment rack that is used on a Maag gear manufacturing machine. The apparatus rack is 6′ long, includes a nominal cross-section of 3” by 2”, and is constructed of 4130 steel.
The customer needed an upgraded part which is essential to the procedure of their machine and had previously been struggling to find someone with the capacity to slice the required size of helical rack. Often customers e mail us because OEM parts are no more available or are price prohibitive. Often, clients have found that the quality of replacement parts made by us exceed the quality their OEM parts.
Quite a few projects are exclusive within the sector and represent probably the most challenging sizes and geometries of gears produced today. We maintain an array of rare gear shaping equipment in addition to advanced CNC milling and turning centers, which allows us to produce a vast selection of gear, sprocket, work, and rack sizes, styles, and patterns.
The rack was produced 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 producer with the capacity of producing the component; they remarked that the product quality far exceeded their targets. We produced this helical equipment rack with a business lead time of only fourteen days. For additional information regarding this custom equipment rack machining project, e mail us directly.
A rack and pinion drive system includes a rack (or a “linear gear”) and a pinion (or “circular gear”). The teeth of a rack and pinion drive could be directly or helical, although helical teeth are often used because of their higher load capability and quieter procedure. For a rack and pinion drive system, the maximum force which can be transmitted is basically dependant on the tooth pitch and how big is the pinion.