PRECISION GEAR CUTTING: EXPERT SOLUTIONS FOR YOUR INDUSTRY
Whatever industry you are in, if you use machines or build them you will need a gear cutting company that have been cut to your precise requirements. This is a field where precision matters a great deal.
If a gear is slightly too large or too small - and this is a matter that is measured in fractions of a micron – it will not work at full efficiency, or perhaps simply not work at all. If one gear does not work effectively there is an impact on the machine as a whole.
There is a reason that the idea of being “a small cog in the machine” has become such a popular metaphor. If a single small cog does not work well the whole machine can be stopped, impacting on your productivity or even causing costly damage.
It is important, therefore, that your gears are cut to a very high degree of precision. You need a gear cutting company that can work within exacting parameters and produce consistent results.
In short, you need a gear cutting company like ours.
At Highfield we put precision at the heart of everything we do. We always have.
For nearly a century we have been cutting gears for clients for every industry imaginable – positioning ourselves at the cutting edge of technology and taking advantage of every advancement in the field.
That is why our clients have always been able to be confident in the quality of the gears that we supply; we have always been leaders in the delivery of precision solutions.
We have been a CNC Machine Specialist firm since the earliest days of computer control, which makes our experience in the programming of computer controlled machining completely unparalleled. We have grown as the technology has developed from the days of punch cards to the most modern digital systems.
Everything starts with your requirements. Our team then takes your instructions and utilises Computer Aided Design, or “CAD” to generate a detailed 3D model of the required components in the virtual space.
This is much faster than creating a physical scale model and has the added advantage that if changes - from the smallest tweak to the most radical redesign – are needed they can be undertaken instantly and the effectiveness of any design change can be assessed almost instantly.
Not needing to fabricate physical models saves money as well as time. Perhaps the key advantage of the CAD approach is the fact that it removes any limits on the number of times that a gear or other component can be redesigned.
We can keep going until everything is perfectly designed for optimal performance. Only then do we feed the design into our manufacturing equipment and produce the final gear.
As you would expect this level of precision is attractive to a great number of industries. We have worked with the automotive industry since our very beginnings back in the interwar years when a fault with a motor car was as likely to be dealt with by a blacksmith as a mechanic and a garage was a place of dirt and oil all the way through to the modern days of advanced computerised transmissions and car workshops that are as clean and hightech as our own computer centre.
Our ability to produce extremely precise components quickly has also earned us a large number of orders from companies engaged in aeronautical engineering.
Aviation is a field that has to work within exceptionally small tolerances, so the degree of precision that we can deliver at a small scale is always appreciated.
But precision is also required at the large scale too. Our clients in oil drilling, mining and electricity generation may be working with machines that weigh in at several tonnes, but they still need accuracy of manufacture within microns.
Be assured that whatever your industry we have the expertise to deliver the solutions you need.