The growing demand for precision gears across industries has led to new innovations that are changing the way some manufacturers think about creating gears which has not changed in many years. These modern and new methods of gear manufacturing which are aimed at streamlining the process of making high quality gears through CNC technology and sophisticated machines. The conventional techniques of manufacturing high volume of gears do require tools and machines specific for gear production and in several cases to the gear size itself. These include gear hobbing, scudding and gashing.
Our strength is to the ability to accommodate virtually any request from single gears and spline shaft orders to long production runs. All our gears and splines are manufactured in-house so as to ensure complete control over the quality process.
Depending on the material and design of the gear being cut, these traditional gear manufacturing methods may need very skilled operators. Meanwhile, there has been also an increasing demand for high quality gears providing tough wear performance and better surface quality. These higher-efficiency gears are ideal for automotive transmissions, marine vessels, heavy equipment, wind turbines and airplanes.
This means more manufacturers are doing their best to make more gears more efficiently and much faster. While most of them are sticking to their tried-and-true manufacturing processes instead of investing in those new manufacturing methods, big share of gear production is performed by contract manufacturing which may not require high volume gear manufacturing most of the time. As a popular saying goes in the gear manufacturing industry, “the key to everything is a good gear is geometry”.
Advanced and sophisticated software programs are developed to create high quality gears with standard tooling and machine. They allow for a complete machining of different types and sizes of gears. Coupled with a variety of gear machines, any size or shape of gear you want to have is possible. This is very much true in the case of True Gear & Spline, one of the leading gear and spline manufacturers in Canada. Our greatest strength is the ability to take on any request from single gears to long production runs. All of which are manufactured in-house, meaning there’s a complete control over the quality of our gear manufacturing processes and the end result.