Why Atlanta Gear Works

We Invest in You by Investing in Us

You have high expectations, and so do we. So, we invest in quality throughout our organization – from our people to our plant to our processes.

Our People

Everybody at AGW – from the shop floor to the front office – gets training. As a result, we have earned some of the most prestigious certifications in the industry.

To foster accountability and responsibility throughout the company, we offer performance bonuses to the people in our shop, and our leadership team follows the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS), which involves quarterly training throughout the year.

In addition, our leaders all participate in industry organizations, including TAPPI, AGMA and AIST.

Our Plant

Our 44,000-square-foot plant is a work in progress. We invest in new equipment every year with four main goals:

  • Improve our quality
  • Increase our capacity
  • Reduce our response time
  • Solve more complex problems

Some of our recent acquisitions, for example, are a gear checker that enables more precise reverse-engineering, a CNC horizontal boring mill and a 1.2-meter CNC gear hobber.

Our Processes

Years ago, we decided the only way to deliver the quality we know you want and need was to vertically integrate. So, we have a full in-house machine shop that can handle everything from machining new shafts and spacers to re-machining bores in a gearbox housing and can cut spur, helical, double-helical and worm gears.

We also have a full engineering department that enables us to rebuild all makes and models of gearboxes and create new gears and gearboxes from samples and/or prints. And we do it all using only U.S.-made steel – the best steel in the world.

Facility

  •  44,000 sq. ft. on 2.3 acres
  • 45-ton overhead crane capacity
  • In-house machine shop

Cranes

  • 30-ton overhead crane
  • 15-ton overhead crane
  • (2) 10-ton cranes
  • 5-ton bridge cranes
  • 15 Jib cranes up to 2 tons
  • 26-foot under hook

Fork Lifts

  • One 35,000 lb. capacity
  • One 18,000 lb. capacity
  • Two 6,000 lb. capacity

Gear Cutting

  •  5 Gear cutting machines capable of up to 96″ in diameter, 3/4 DP
    • 5 Gear hobbing machines (3 CNC)
      • Gleason Titan 1200H CNC Gear Hob – ∅1200mm (47 ¼”)
      • S&T GHO350 CNC Gear Hob – ∅350mm (13″)
      • S&T GHO500 CNC Gear Hob – ∅500mm (20″)
      • Pfauter 1501 Gear Hob – ∅1500mm (59″)
      • G&E 72 Gear Hob – ∅1830mm (72″)
      • G&E 96 Gear Hob – ∅2440mm (96″)

Gear Grinding

  • 4 profile gear grinders: up to 94.5″ (2,400mm) in diameter, 1 DP, up to AGMA Class 15
    • Niles ZE 400 – ∅400mm (15 ¾”)
    • Niles ZE 1200 – ∅1200mm (47 ¼”)
    • Niles KNG 12P – ∅1200mm (47 ¼”)
    • Niles ZP 24 – ∅2400mm (94 ½”)

Gear Checking

  • Pentagear Next Dimension ND 300 gear checker
  • Kapp Niles KNM 9X high-precision analytical measuring machine, from 300mm to 49″ (1,250mm) in diameter
  • Parkson Roll Tester
  • 300+ outside and Inside micrometers, calipers, surface roughness testers, pin & ball gauges, etc., to precisely measure AGW-manufactured parts
  • Parker Research DA-400 Contour Probe Yoke: used during the NDT process, along with several other handheld components
  • Faro Edge Portable CMM
  • Faro Quantum M Max Portable CMM
  • SciAps X505 XRF Analyzer (material analyzer)
  • Elecometer 456 Model B coating thickness gauge
  • Technomark Multi4 V3 dot peen marker (to mark each part manufactured by AGW for identification)
  • Proceq DL Hardness Tester

Machine Shop

Lathes

  • Manual lathe 26” diameter x 120” L
  • Manual lathe 22” diameter x 90” L
  • Fryer Easy Turn CNC lathe, 30” diameter x 120” L
  • Mazak QT400 CNC lathe, 24” diameter x 80” L
  • Mazak QT350 CNC lathe, 16” diameter x 60” L
  • Mazak QTS300 CNC lathe, 16” diameter x 40” L
  • Mazak QT250 CNC lathe, 12” diameter x 40” L
  • Mazak Slant Turn 550M, 40” diameter x 125” L

VTL’s, Boring Mills & Vertical Machining Centers

  • HNK HB-130C CNC horizontal boring mill – 130 mm spindle 88” x 118” travel
  •  HNK VTC-16/20R CNC vertical turning center S&T ST10/14VM VTL – 78.70”diameter x 63” turning height
  • Sharp CNC vertical machining center
  • Youji YV600ATC+C, 24” diameter VTL with live tooling
  • S&T 10/14 VM, 51” diameter

General Equipment

  • Parts washer with 60″ working height, 84″ table diameter, and 15,000lb load limit
  • Paint and grinding booth
  • 400-ton horizontal press
  • (2) Mitts & Merrill key seaters up to 3” keyway
  • MIG welder
  • Stick/Tig welder
  • SIFCO selective plating machine
  • (2) 150-ton vertical presses
  • LX Precision Machinery Co LC-2000 laser cleaning machine
  • Hytoc 10 NXT hydraulic torque wrench 10,000 lb-ft to accurately torque large bolts and nuts
  • Hytoc 5 NXT hydraulic torque trench 5,000 lb-ft to accurately torque large bolts and nuts
  • Schaeffler MF-GENERATOR3.0-44KW-500V induction Ccoil heater

      Inspection

      • Faro Edge Portable CMM (Coordinate Measuring Machine)

      Testing

      • Test motors from 10 to 60 HP
      • Dewesoft Krypton 16 temperature DAQ (data acquisition system): captures live thermocouple data from up to 16 channels during the gearbox spin test operation
      • Dewesoft Sirius ACC DAQ & triaxial accelerometer: captures Live vibration data up to 16 channels during the gearbox spin test operation
      • A custom AGW motor fixture to position the test motor in multiple orientations

          Dynamic Balancing

          • 2-plane dynamic balancing up to 8,000 lbs.

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