// AI for gear manufacturers
AI for gear manufacturers, tested on prints and inspection packages you already closed.
For job-shop and specialty gear makers cutting and grinding custom gears and building or rebuilding gearboxes for industrial customers. Start with gear print quote requests, or with the inspection report file a customer expects with the job. Either becomes a free AI proof of concept on copies of 20 to 30 old jobs. Nobody logs in to your shop system or your gear analyzer. The call on whether it passed belongs to your reviewer, the colleague who knows that desk best.
- First job
- Print quote requests, or inspection report files
- From you
- Copies of 20 to 30 finished gear jobs, after the NDA
- Never
- A job priced, a measurement judged, a report signed
- Approvals
- Estimator on quotes, quality manager on reports
- Left out
- Defense and aerospace
- Price
- A range before it starts
// Jobs we would test
The desk where a gear job starts, and the one where it ends
Gear print quote requests
A customer's drawing and data block read into a draft sheet for your estimator: teeth, module or diametral pitch, angles, face width, material and heat treat as called out, the quality class named, the report asked for, and what a person must decide.
See the gear print pageGear inspection report files
The customer's package gathered from your records for one job: analyzer charts, hardness and case depth, material certificates and the print's stated class, plus a list of what is missing, for your quality manager to review and sign.
See the inspection report pageReplacement gears from worn samples
A customer ships a worn gear and no print. Your measurements and notes laid out as a draft data block, with every inferred value marked for your gear engineer to confirm.
Hob and cutter checks
The pitch, pressure angle and plane on a won job held against your tool room's list, so a missing hob surfaces before the job reaches the schedule.
// Why these two first
A gear print is coded, and old codes keep coming back
A print outlives the document it cites. The gear standards now sit with the Motion + Power Manufacturers Alliance, formed in 2025 when the American Gear Manufacturers Association merged with the bearing makers' association, and they keep the AGMA name. Its catalog traces the line of accuracy documents: AGMA 390.03, then AGMA 2000-A88, then ANSI/AGMA 2015-1-A01, since replaced by ANSI/AGMA ISO 1328-1-B14. A repeat order can bring back a drawing from any of those years, and the class on it means what its own document says.
One state put the trap in its bridge manual. Louisiana DOTD's movable bridge chapter calls for Accuracy Grade A9 or better on open gearing under ANSI/AGMA 2015-1-A01. Its commentary explains that the AASHTO movable bridge specification it supplements, through the 2014 interim revisions, used AGMA 2000-A88, where a rising number means better quality. It repeats AGMA's caution to be very careful when comparing tolerance values between them. Drop the letter or the document name from a quote sheet and the number stops meaning anything.
Old gears come back. A 2014 Gear Technology column tells of a never-used turbo-compressor pinion from 1969, certified to AGMA Q10 when it was made. New charts confirmed that claim 45 years later, and the owner still had it ground to Q13, which the column also writes as A4. Rebuild and replacement work carries that history straight to your desk.
Public buyers write their own clauses. San Diego's 1992 Clean Water Program guidelines for a circular clarifier want worm gears to AGMA 6034-A and a drive head gear rated at a minimum of AGMA 5 under 908-B and 2001-B. Galveston's December 2021 addendum for its Pirates Beach plant asks for the same rating under 2001-C95. The letters after a standard's number are editions, so a draft copies them exactly.
Gearboxes add a layer. A 2022 paper to the Heavy Movable Structures symposium notes that older special provisions for bridge reducers may name ANSI/AGMA 2001 Grade 1 material where the maker prefers Grade 2, with calculations almost always going in for approval before detail drawings. It adds that special provisions almost always call for a no-load spin test followed by a load test. Your closed quotes and files show how your shop answered clauses like these, and that is the answer key your reviewer scores against, line by line.
One limit covers both jobs. The proof of concept never opens your shop system, a gear analyzer, a live quote or a live inspection report. It never prices a job, judges a measurement or signs a report. An estimator approves every quote and a quality manager signs every report. Everything cited here is a public document, and none of it is legal or engineering advice.
// How the test runs
Three steps on work you already finished
- Step 01
Choose the gear desk and its reviewer
The owner chooses the job and the reviewer, usually your lead estimator for quotes or your quality manager for reports. Success criteria and a price range for the live job go in writing, and the NDA is signed, before a single print moves.
- Step 02
Test on copies of finished gear work
Send 20 to 30 quoted prints with their quote sheets, or 20 to 30 signed packages with the records behind them. If prints can't leave the building, we build look-alikes with your team that keep the same data blocks and callouts.
- Step 03
After a yes, live gear work for about 30 days
New prints or finished jobs go through the same draft for about 30 days, and a person approves each one before it goes anywhere. A second job, if you want one, is priced on its own.
Priced per job. You get a range before the proof of concept and a fixed price before you sign.
On the call Rob sets the range from how many gear prints reach your estimators each month, how many jobs ship with an inspection package, and how your charts are kept.
// Questions
Questions gear shops raise first
Does the test connect to our shop system or our gear analyzer?
Will the AI price a gear or say whether a gear is in tolerance?
Our old prints say Q10 and our newer ones say A7 or class 7. Does that break it?
We do a lot of rebuilds and replacement gears from samples. Does this fit?
Some of our gearing is defense or aerospace work. Can we still take part?
Rob Eason, founder
// Book a proof of concept call
Bring the gear print your estimator read twice.
Thirty minutes with Rob on your shop, your role, the job you'd test first and roughly how many gear prints arrive each month. Prints, charts and certificates stay with you until the NDA is signed.
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