Custom design

Let us design your gearbox

Reckon designs gear stages and gearboxes, using the lastest and most efficient tools.

Safe standards and tools

 

  • All components are designed following the latest updates of the ISO / DIN / AGMA standards. We recommend the ISO 6336-2 standard for gears and the ISO/TS 16281 for bearings as they offer the safest results.
  • Our software suite includes Romax and Solidworks.

 

Our comprehensive approach:

When a gearbox is designed by our engineers, gears and bearings are not calculated / designed separately, but as a system, as they interfere with each other. For instance:

 

  • helical gears generate axial loads on the bearings, thus reducing their load capacity and / or lifespan
  • bearing compression adds to the tilting of the shaft to deteriorate gear flanks
  • bearing damage will accelerate gear deterioration

 

 

 

What differenciates us is the ability to :

 

  • Quickly assess system and component loads, deflections and misalignments and size and refine the gearbox layout
  • Integrate your existing system in the design, so the loads generated by your output gear / pulley etc are taken into account in the calculation
  • Calculate component ratings over duty cycles according to common engineering standards
  • Perform detailed stress analysis on components such as loaded tooth contact analysis (LTCA) and root stress analysis and optimise details like micro-geometry while accounting for manufacturing
  • Run parametric studies to find optimum designs, assess sensitivity and predict robustness to manufacturing variability
  • Collaborate with peers internally and externally, who may use different tools, while maintaining data accuracy with ease through various import and export options

 

What you can expect from Reckon:

 

  • Understanding: Reckon will work with you to understand your technical requirements which describe your application
  • Dedicated project manager: Reckon will provide an experienced, single point of contact ensuring the successful delivery for the entire project
  • Robust engineering life cycle: our simulation software allows us to integrate every small step of your application's movement into the calculation
  • Delivery, communication and trust: teams / real-life meetings will be organized alongside the development process, so you know exactly how your design is going.