This integrated and coordinated advancement of thermoforming machines and tools is our most important customer benefit and unique on the thermoforming market. With the considerable know-how of our experienced experts in both tool and machine engineering, our clients benefit from a unique synergy effect that leads to a higher service existence of both machine and equipment, along with an optimal formed part quality. We aim to surpass your goals and ensure your success with our quality.
For a long time, a machine tool builder had manufactured their own precision gear racks to achieve ultra-precise positioning on their machines. They also needed this because their crucial clients demanded that their devices maintain accurate positioning with no mistake compensation on the axis.
To save lots of costs, they wished to find a gear rack supplier who could achieve the same tight rack tolerances and performance level that that they had come accustom to.
Choosing from their wide selection of regular rack & pinion drives, ATLANTA offered a Ultra-High Precision DIN 4 (UHPR) gear rack, which had a complete pitch deviation of less than twelve microns (< 0.012 mm) over a one meter length. The actual pitch deviation was measured at 20º C and marked on each rack. To achieve the high rack strength the customer required, the main of the teeth were hardened combined 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 additional manufacturers can create. The part shown this is a helical gear rack that can be used on a Maag gear manufacturing machine. The apparatus rack is 6′ long, has a nominal cross-section of 3” by 2”, and is made from 4130 steel.

The customer needed a replacement part which is necessary to the operation of their machine and had previously been struggling to find someone with the capability 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, customers have found that the gear rack for Machine Tool Industry quality of replacement parts made by us exceed the quality their OEM parts.

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

The rack was manufactured on a specialized CNC gear rack milling machine to tolerances as tight as ±0.001″. The customer was not only very happy to find a manufacturer with the capacity of producing the part; they remarked that the quality far exceeded their targets. We created this helical gear rack with a business lead time of only fourteen days. For additional details about this custom equipment rack machining project, e mail us directly.
A rack and pinion drive program 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 capacity and quieter operation. For a rack and pinion drive system, the maximum force that can be transmitted is basically dependant on the tooth pitch and how big is the pinion.