Why Your Routine Maintenance Should Include a Gearbox Inspection
Not long ago, we performed a scheduled annual inspection at a paper mill. No one expected anything out of the ordinary. But we found a bearing on a paper machine in failure mode with the potential of causing the mill many weeks of downtime and the loss of millions of dollars in production.
What did we do next?
Jack Conway elected to AGMA board!
Congratulations to Atlanta Gear Works President Jack Conway on his election to the board of directors of the American Gear Manufacturers Association! AGMA board members serve a 3-year term providing fiduciary guidance and advancing industry standards. This important position is but one example of Atlanta Gear’s support of the most important organization in the gearing industry.
We’re Growing!
Our customers are keeping us so busy we’re proud to announce we’ve added 2 engineers and 15 machinists and assembly technicians to our team. As a result, we’ve added a much-needed second shift!
The latest addition to our machine shop – a monster of a machine!
To continue our commitment to providing you with the quality and reliability you deserve, we’ve doubled our gear grinding capacity by adding a massive Kapp Niles Gear Profile Grinding Machine ZP 24.
Welcome to Chelleigh Cuddy, our new Human Resources Specialist
We’re growing and have just hired our first Human Resources Specialist. Chelleigh Cuddy will apply her 15 years of HR experience to helping us be sure our employee programs are the best in the business.
Reactive Maintenance Has Its Advantages AND Its Costs
Since a single failed gearbox can shut a plant down, the tangible downtime costs for a failed gearbox at a large manufacturer can be as much as $20 million per day.
Our Newest Asset for Reducing Downtime
We’ve added a level of awareness, credibility and protection to everything
we do.
the next step to meeting customers’ expectations
In our pursuit to maintain the highest quality, reliability and productivity in every repair and rebuild in our shop, we’ve added a new Kapp Niles KNM 9X analytical measuring machine to our arsenal of reverse-engineering tools. This new gear checker offers a host of benefits to our customers.
AGW engineer wins prestigious AGMA award.
At the 2023 American Gear Manufacturers Association (AGMA) annual meeting in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, Atlanta Gear Works Applications Engineer Corinna Draghi received one of only three prestigious awards presented at the annual meeting.
See How Our Latest Machine Shop Investment Is an Investment in You
In December we took delivery of our latest investment – an HNK VTC-16/20R CNC Vertical Turning Center. This amazing lathe updates and increases our in house turning capacity. While most manufacturers rely on third parties for this kind of machining, we’re bringing it in house…