Company Profile Nixon Gear, Inc.

In 1920

George Nixon founded the Nixon Broach and Tool Company with the intention of selling general machining and special tooling.

In Early 1977

Gear Motions purchased the assets of the nearly defunct company, and began rebuilding it, by focusing on High Precision ground gear markets, and investing heavily in state of the art equipment.

In 1992

The company designed and built an award winning, special purpose 45,000sq ft climate controlled factory to accommodate it's growing business.

In 1994

We began implementing Statistical Techniques in our manufacturing Process. We can give you process capability studies for your product, as well as gauge R&R studies, and Computer Generated Gear Analysis from the Zeiss Höfler.

In 1998

We saw the arrival of the newest "state of the art" threaded wheel gear grinder, the Reishauer 362AS.

In 2000

One of our shop teams developed the most extensive cellular manufacturing processes to date. When complete it would produce a hardened and ground gear set in about 15 DAYS!

In 2002

The next cell was designed and included the first Koepfer Robotically loaded gear hobber and "hands free" Mazak twin spindle bar fed lathe to produce preheat treat gears at a 3000pcs per week rate.

In 2003

SO 9002 Registered Since 1996,

Upgraded to ISO 9001:2000 in 2003 ... read more

In 2004

We will begin production on the newest Reishauer, the RZ400. This state of the art technology will include our first Robotically loaded gear grinder allowing us much greater up-time, and process ...

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