Precision Gears: All the Advantages of Gandini Products

Gandini Gears: A Benchmark for Industrial Gear Production
Precision gears are essential components in many industrial applications, ensuring high performance and reliability. Seemingly simple in form, they are the result of complex design and meticulous manufacturing, where the precision of each tooth, profile, and dimension is crucial for the proper functioning and reliability of the entire system.

Gears are used in various sectors, including agriculture, steel manufacturing, automotive, construction machinery, and aerospace. In every context, quality is a key factor to ensure high performance, efficiency, longevity, and operational safety. This is why it’s particularly important to rely on manufacturers with extensive experience in the field, such as Ingranaggi Gandini. The experience gained over the years translates into a deep understanding of materials, production technologies, and quality control processes, allowing the creation of precision gears that meet the highest quality standards and the specific needs of each application.

Care at every stage of production, combined with technological innovation, ensures the highest dimensional accuracy, flawless surface finish, and wear resistance—crucial factors for the proper functioning and long lifespan of gears.

Let’s take a closer look at what precision gears are, how they are made, and the main advantages of the products offered by Ingranaggi Gandini.

What Are Precision Gears and How Are They Produced?
Precision gears are mechanical components designed and manufactured with extremely high accuracy, ideal for applications that require minimal tolerances and high performance.

The production of precision gears requires advanced technologies and high technical expertise. The process begins with selecting the most suitable materials, such as alloyed or hardened steels, to ensure resistance and durability. The main manufacturing techniques include:

• Gear cutting: Performed using specific machinery, such as CNC gear cutters, to ensure perfect compliance with design specifications.
• Slotting and broaching: Used to create grooves and complex internal profiles.
• Grinding: A finishing process that ensures perfectly smooth and precise surfaces.
• Heat treatments: Such as hardening and carburizing, to enhance the hardness and resistance of the gears.

Each stage of the process is carefully monitored to ensure that dimensional tolerances and the required characteristics are met.

Ingranaggi Gandini: Excellence in the Design and Production of High-Precision Gears
Ingranaggi Gandini stands out as a company specialized in the design and production of high-precision gears. With an operational facility covering 3,000 square meters and a state-of-the-art machine park, the company offers customized solutions to meet the specific needs of its clients. Thanks to a wide range of advanced CNC machines, such as gear cutters, slotters, lathes, and grinders, the company is equipped to meet the most demanding requirements.

The company’s production and processing activities include:

• Spur gears
• Internal gears
• Chain gears
• External crowned gears
• Toothed pulleys
• Spline shafts, ground upon request
• Straight and helical racks
• Broaching and slotting
• Ground worm gears
• Turning and milling
• Grinding gears with module sizes from 0.5 to 5 mm in diameter, up to a module of 22 and diameters up to 1,800 mm.

The company can produce both individual pieces and small or medium production runs, always ensuring the highest quality. Ingranaggi Gandini’s products are known for their reliability and durability, and are used in various industrial sectors. The solutions offered are designed to meet the needs of highly specialized sectors, including:

• Automotive: For transmissions and motion control systems.
• Energy: For wind turbines and generators.
• Aerospace: For critical components in aircraft.
• General mechanics: For a wide range of industrial machinery.

Advanced Technologies for High-Quality Standards
Ingranaggi Gandini continuously invests in cutting-edge technologies to maintain high-quality standards. The company has two internal metrology rooms, equipped with a series of instruments that allow for highly precise dimensional and geometric checks:

• Kapp KNM 5X involute tester
• MDM involute tester
• MDM CATRIM 3D
• Roughness tester and precision intermeshing gauges
• Gear analyzers

In addition, non-destructive testing is performed using magnetic particle inspection and penetrant testing to ensure a thorough check of the product quality. Quality control charts provide a detailed analysis of the product performance.

Quality Management Certification
Ingranaggi Gandini has obtained ISO 9001:2015 certification, an international recognition that confirms the adoption of a quality management system compliant with regulatory requirements. The certification, issued by TÜV NORD CERT GmbH, is valid for three years and specifically refers to the production of mechanical parts and precision processing based on customer drawings, as well as the marketing of transmission components.

Ingranaggi Gandini is also a member of Federtec, an industrial association that represents and supports Italian companies operating in mechatronics, pneumatics, automation, and innovative technologies for power transmission and motion control. Being part of this association means participating in research and development projects and accessing industry studies.

Thanks to advanced technologies, a constant commitment to quality, and a range of highly specialized products, the company remains a reliable partner, ready to meet the specific needs of every client.

If you want to discover how Gandini Precision Gears can improve the efficiency and reliability of your applications, contact us. Our team is at your full disposal to provide you with all the information you need and support you in selecting the best solutions tailored to your needs.