The Gear Cells
Fine and medium pitch gear hobbing and shaping — plus everything around it to build complete gears, transmissions, and machinery: deburring tools, heat treating ovens, NIST-certified hand tools, Zeiss CMM, gear-specific inspection machines, and analysis software.
Every great gear starts with a highly concentric blank, so our 2025 and 2026 capex campaigns went deep on the turning side: a new M08SY-II lathe with 7-axis robot tending and bar feeder for lights-out blank production, and upgraded programming with ESPRIT — a true digital twin from CAM to chips. A Zeiss CMM closes the loop early, catching deviations at the blank stage — before they become scrapped gears — and feeding corrections back into the process so quality compounds with every run.
2026 is not over, stay tuned for more expansion.
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Equipment
Our Machines
Featured Machines
SMT SH-210 Vertical GEAR HOBBER
Great for hobbing instrument gears
- WORKING RANGE (FULL)
- Diameter: up to 350 mm
- Length: up to 370 mm
- Module: up to 6
CNC TSUGAMI M08SY-II DUAL SPINDLE BARFED LATHE
Great for small-to-large quantity precision: turning, threading, and boring of complex gear blanks. The Y-axis turret stations help make the blank complete in one machine. Bar-feeding makes quick work on high quantities and temperature compensation ensures repeatability.
- Turning Limitations
- 6.5" x 15" envelope
- BARFEEDER
- IEMCA
Gear Cutting
PFAUTER RS00 and RS00S HOBBERS
Great for small to medium pitch production of: external spur, helical, ratchet, sprocket gears. Four machines for manufacturing flexibility.
(Pinion and Gear)
Helical (Left and Right)
- WORKING RANGE (BEST)
- Diametral pitch: 16 and finer
- Outside diameter: up to 10"
- Machine Index Constants
- Elk 8, Jersey 16, Santa Fe 16, Olive 32, Aberdeen TBD
MIKRON 102 GEAR HOBBER
Great for hobbing cylindrical spur, helical and wormgears
Hydraulic Machine Operation
- WORKING RANGE (FULL)
- Diameter: up to 4-3/4"
- Module: up to 2.0 (12 DP)
- Length: up to 5-1/8"
- Tooth count: 6 and up
MIKRON 132.02 GEAR HOBBER
Great for hobbing instrument gears and small motor gearshafts
Hydraulic Machine Operation
- WORKING RANGE (FULL)
- Diameter: up to 4"
- Module: up to 1.6 (16 DP)
- Tooth count: 6 and up
MIKRON 79 EP GEAR HOBBER
Great for hobbing instrument gears
- WORKING RANGE (FULL)
- Diameter: up to 40 mm with 24 mm hobs
- Diameter: up to 46 mm with 18 mm hobs
- Module: up to 1 (26 DP)
- Tooth count: 6 and up
SMT SH-210 Vertical GEAR HOBBER
Great for hobbing instrument gears
- WORKING RANGE (FULL)
- Diameter: up to 350 mm
- Length: up to 370 mm
- Module: up to 6
GLEASON 2A BEVEL GEAR MACHINE (CONIFLEX)
Great for small-to-medium production of bevel gears
- WORKING RANGE (FULL)
- Diametral pitch: 16 and finer
- Cone distance: up to 2.25"
- Face width: up to 0.43"
MIKRON 120 Type 12C BEVEL GEAR MACHINE
Great for small-to-medium production of small bevel gears
- WORKING RANGE (FULL)
- Diametral pitch: 26 and finer
- Cone distance: up to 40 mm
- Tooth count: 6 and up
MIKRON 104.01 THREAD MILLING MACHINE
For thread milling worms and threads
This is a work in progress...
- WORKING RANGE (FULL)
- Diameter: up to 2-3/8"
- Pitch: 64 to 6 TPI
Turning & Automation
CNC TSUGAMI M08SY-II DUAL SPINDLE BARFED LATHE
Great for small-to-large quantity precision: turning, threading, and boring of complex gear blanks. The Y-axis turret stations help make the blank complete in one machine. Bar-feeding makes quick work on high quantities and temperature compensation ensures repeatability.
- Turning Limitations
- 6.5" x 15" envelope
- BARFEEDER
- IEMCA
CNC TSUGAMI M08J-II LATHE
Great for small-to-large quantity precision: turning, threading, and boring of simple gear blanks, fixtures and custom shafts.
- Turning Limitations
- 6.5" x 15" envelope
Productive Robotics OB7 Max 12
Great for more complex and larger gear blank loading.
- PAYLOAD
- 12 kg (26 lbs)
- REACH
- 1.3 m (51.1")
- DOF
- 7
OKUMA MANUAL LATHE
Great for small quantities of large pieces: turning, threading, boring, especially for pipes, tubes, and long shafts
- WORKING RANGE (BEST)
- Diameter: 3/4" to 11"
- Length: up to 72"
- WORKING RANGE (FULL)
- Diameter: up to 11"
- Length: up to 72"
SCHAUBLIN 102N MANUAL LATHE
Great for small quantity precision turning and boring
- WORKING RANGE (FULL)
- Diameter: up to 5/8"
- Length: up to 4"
Inspection
Zeiss DuraMax CMM
Great for at-line measurement directly in the gear cells. High quality blanks make high quality gears. For FAI, and for final inspection.
- WORKING RANGE
- Size: 500 × 500 × 500 mm
GEAR MEASUREMENT Roll Testers
- Fellows Gear Center Distancing Tools
- Gleason Bevel Gear Checkers
- Vari-Roll GC-4
- Parkson 9N Tester
- Mahr Nr. 544
- S & F
- OVERALL WORKING RANGE
- Diameter: 2 mm to 4"
- Module: 0.2 (128 DP) to 1.6 (16 DP)
Mahr Dual Flank Gear Inspector
For spur, helical, and worm
- OVERALL WORKING RANGE
- Diameter: up to 7"
- Length: up to 18"
- Module: 1 to 10
Milling
CNC HAAS TM3-P MILL
Great for small-to-large quantity: milling, engraving, drilling, and cutting with complex geometries, curves, and 3D features
- WORKING RANGE (3-AXIS)
- Size: up to 40" x 20" x 16"
- WORKING RANGE (4-AXIS)
- Diameter: up to 3.5"
- Weight: up to 20 pounds
SIXIS MANUAL MILL
Great for small quantity milling and drilling
- WORKING RANGE (FULL)
- Size: up to 6" x 4" x 3"
Grinding & Sharpening
MIKRON 121 HOB SHARPENER (Q2)
Great at grinding hobs to restore sharpness
- WORKING RANGE (FULL)
- Diameter: 16 to 50 mm
- Width: up to 25 mm
- Number of flutes: 10, 12, 15, 20, 30
MIKRON A60 HOB SHARPENER
Great at grinding hobs to restore sharpness
- WORKING RANGE (FULL)
- Diameter: 3"
- Number of flutes: 10, 12, 15, 20, 30
Tsugami TUG 300 Cylindrical Grinder
Cylindrical grinding for fixtures, bearing journals, precision fits
Manufactured in Tokyo 1952
- WORKING RANGE Estimate
- 5C workholding in spindle
- Swing 8" Diameter
- Between Centers estimate 14"
- Main Wheel Swivel 10" wheel
- Swivel Table
Heat Treat & Prototyping
MULTIPLE HEAT-TREAT OVENS
Great for: single item and batch process heat treating: hardening, quenching, annealing, tempering
- WORKING RANGE (FULL)
- Size: up to 10" x 10" x 12"
- Temperature: up to 2000°F
Bambu X1-Carbon
Great for small quantity prototypes, proofs-of-concept and quick testing
- Build Volume (WxDxH)
- 256 x 256 x 256 mm