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Project Arrangements:
Teamwork & flexibility are both priorities at AKGears. Select the business arrangement that works best for your design team:
  • Project based consulting, when whole project or its stages are quoted upfront
  • Hourly based consulting, when a project scope cannot be defined upfront (typically R&D and failure analysis)
  • Exclusive consulting agreements
  • Other project arrangements are possible per customer request
Gear Design and R&D:
AKGears provides its consulting services, which vary from complete gear train design (for customers without sufficient gear expertise) to just retouching (typically tooth and fillet profile optimization) of existing customer’s design to maximize gear train performance.

Provided services include:
  • Traditional or Direct Gear Design
  • Current design refinement
  • R&D, failure and testing analysis
  • Gear drive design optimization for:
    • Increased load capacity
    • Size and weight reduction
    • Noise and vibration reduction
    • Higher gear efficiency
    • Backlash minimization
    • Increased lifetime
    • Higher reliability
    • Cost reduction
  • Gear ratio modification and adjustment
  • Other related services
Gear Fabrication:
AKGears’ Genetic Molding Solution® provides:
  • Corrected tool cavity geometry for the precision plastic parts
For your convenience, the following services are also available through our affiliate subcontractors:
  • Gear prototype fabrication (gear cutting, grinding, wire EDM, plastic injection molding)
  • Gear and tooling inspection
Free Services:
  • AKGears’ slide show presentation
  • Initial project discussion
  • Advising for students

For a quote of consulting on your gear project, to ask questions or send comments, please fill form below:
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AKGears, LLC   ak@akgears.com   phone: 651-308-8899   fax: 651-486-2716