New Hobbing Machine Shifts Buffalo Manufacturer into Higher Gear
Buffalo Gear recently partnered with Helios Gear Products to install a new Hera 350 CNC gear hobber, and the result has been a 50% improvement in efficiency. Watch how they did it.
Buffalo Gear specializes in high precision gears for highly specialized projects.
Buffalo's Bob Kasperek looks forward to the future, where he "can only imagine what it's going to be like once we get more equipment, more people, and more jobs."
Recently, the experts at Helios visited Kasperek and his colleagues Matt Davis and Russ Jagow in Buffalo, NY, to see how their processes and productivity have improved since the installation, and to learn about what they have in store for the future.
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"I would say we're about 50% more efficient with our set ups," explains Matt Davis, Owner of Buffalo Gear. "It also helps because the guys don't need to bend down to put in change gears. With this new machine you put it in the part [blank], you program it, and you're saving someone's back. Not only that, but with the bigger gears you can run, it's just unbelievable."
"Right now, we're very busy, and this machine is going to be one of our selling features of Buffalo Gear. We've got the equipment and we're not stale, we're moving forward." Helios continues to support gear manufacturers like Buffalo Gear with expert applications engineering support for machines, consumable tools, and automation systems.
Helios Gear Products specializes in the parallel axis gear industry, offering machines, consumable tools, and automation systems for gear hobbing, worm and thread milling, shaping, power skiving, and deburring and chamfering.
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