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Plastic Gear Design and Engineering

Start Your Gears Turning In the Right Direction!

We know plastic. We know gears. We know plastic gears. With more than 50 years of experience, ABA-PGT has a dedication to plastic gear engineering that's unparalleled in the industry. Quality plastic gear design requires the right resources, knowledge, experience and methodology. Since writing the book on plastics gearing back in 1967, thousands upon thousands of ABA-PGT gear designs have met and exceeded our customer’s expectations.

Trust Our Experience

Plastic gears require some very unique considerations. These include an in depth knowledge of plastic material properties including thermal expansion, moisture absorption, temperature resistance, and wear and friction. We precisely incorporate these considerations into your design using computer analysis that is backed by our real world experience.

Need a Compete Gear Train Design?

With just some basic input and output parameters, ABA-PGT gear engineers can design a complete gear train solution for you complete with finished gear specification sheets, CAD geometry, inspection gauging requirements, material specifications and recommendations on Design for Manufacturability (DFM).

Already have a Gear Design In Mind?

That’s great. Trust our gear engineers to use our many software tools to analyze your design to be sure you will get the absolute most out of your gear design.

Every Gear Design that Comes in to ABA-PGT will receive the following:

1. Gear mesh analysis – including backlash, contact ratio, and balanced tooth strength calculations
2. Tolerance review
3. Material review and recommendations
4. Evaluation of the environmental effects on your gear mesh
5. Tabulated Gear Specification Sheet for Each Gear

Our Gear Designs Expertise Can Save You Money

We can help in the following endeavors:

1. Metal to Plastic Conversion
2. Robust Gear Design allowing for lowest cost materials to be used
3. Minimizing Gear Size
4. Improving Gear Efficiency allowing the use of smaller motors

Click here for the ABA-PGT Sample Gear Data Sheet (Adobe PDF)
Click here for the ABA-PGT Gear Mesh Analysis Information Sheet (Adobe PDF)
Click here for the Elemental Gear Check Chart (MS PowerPoint)
Click here for the ABA-PGT Engineering Software and Metrology Equipment List (Adobe PDF)

Contact Us with Your Requirements Today!

ABA-PGT Plastic Gear Design Engineering, Injection Molding and Manufacturing services are frequently used for a variety of applications, including appliance, automotive, electric motors, HVAC, irrigation, medical and surgical instruments, printers, OEM captive molders, architectural / building / construction, batteries and more.