Niagara Gear Adds In-House Machining Capabilities

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Niagara Gear, a division of Gear Motions, Inc., recently completed the installation of its first machining cell. The in-house machining capabilities were added to reduce lead time and provide more flexibility and control to meet customer delivery requirements. The machining cell consists of two turning centers, a vertical machining center, and marking capabilities. Products will be produced for the Niagara Gear division, as well as other divisions of Gear Motions.

“Having this new capability has allowed us to control lead times for gear blanks” on new or existing projects with extremely tight delivery schedules, said Paul Andruszko, vice president of Buffalo Operations. It was this capacity that allowed Niagara Gear to help a new customer in the flexographic printing industry by providing complete hardened and precision-ground gears with a lead time of less than three weeks.

“Before we made the investment, outsourcing the turning would have resulted in a lead time closer to seven to eight weeks, unless other customer commitments were pushed out,” Andruszko said. “With our new in-house capabilities, we were able to meet the extremely tight delivery required to help make the project

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