This integrated and coordinated development of thermoforming machines and tools is our most significant customer benefit and unique on the thermoforming market. With the extensive know-how of our skilled experts in both tool and machine engineering, our customers benefit from a unique synergy effect leading to a higher service life of both machine and tools, along with an optimal formed part quality. We aim to surpass your expectations and make sure your success with our quality.
For a long time, a machine tool builder had manufactured their own precision gear racks to attain ultra-precise positioning on their machines. They also needed this because their critical clients demanded that their machines maintain accurate positioning without any error compensation on the axis.
To save lots of costs, they wanted to look for a gear rack supplier who could obtain the same restricted rack tolerances and performance level that that they had come accustom to.
Choosing from their wide range of standard rack & pinion drives, ATLANTA offered a Ultra-High Precision DIN 4 (UHPR) equipment rack, which gear rack for Machine Tool Industry acquired a total pitch deviation of less than twelve microns (< 0.012 mm) over a one meter length. The real pitch deviation was measured at 20º C and marked on each rack. To achieve the high rack strength the customer required, the root of the teeth were hardened combined with the tooth flanks. Finally, precision grinding was utilized to achieve the necessary 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 produce. The part shown here is a helical equipment rack that is utilized on a Maag gear manufacturing machine. The gear rack is 6′ lengthy, includes a nominal cross-section of 3” by 2”, and is constructed of 4130 steel.

The customer needed a replacement part which is essential to the procedure of their machine and had previously been unable to find someone with the capacity to cut the required size of helical rack. Often customers contact us because OEM parts are no more available or are cost prohibitive. Often, clients have found that the quality of replacement parts produced by us exceed the product 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 along with advanced CNC milling and turning centers, which allows us to produce a vast array of gear, sprocket, function, and rack sizes, shapes, 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 part; they remarked that the quality far exceeded their targets. We created this helical equipment rack with a lead time of only fourteen days. For additional details about this custom gear rack machining project, contact us directly.
A rack and pinion drive program contains a rack (or a “linear gear”) and a pinion (or “circular gear”). The teeth of a rack and pinion drive can be directly or helical, although helical tooth 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 determined by the tooth pitch and how big is the pinion.