Automotive components
Shafts, gears, bushes, axle shafts and flywheel rings, at production rate.
We build induction systems for auto component production, where repeatable heat treatment and production rate matter. We design the process around the regions you need to harden and the properties you need to retain elsewhere in the part.
Almost every process we supply has an automotive application. Shafts and axle shafts are hardened on vertical scanners. Flywheel starter rings are hardened and then shrink fitted. Bearings and gears are shrink fitted onto shafts. Subassemblies are brazed. Billets are heated for forging.
The reason the same equipment recurs across so many different components is that automotive manufacturing keeps asking the same engineering question in different shapes: how do I make this surface last, without making the whole part brittle, at the rate the line runs?
Worth knowing
- Repeatability is usually the binding constraint, not capability. A machine that can harden a part is not the same as a machine that hardens ten thousand of them identically, which is why PLC control and closed-loop temperature measurement matter more here than raw power.
- The scanner capability window covers most automotive shaft work directly: 20 mm to 120 mm diameter, 0.8 mm to 5 mm case depth, 10 mm to 1500 mm of travel.
Related processes
- Induction hardeningA hard, wear-resistant case on a tough core, in seconds, with the heat placed exactly where you want it.
- Induction temperingTrading a little hardness for a lot of toughness, in line with the hardening machine.
- Induction shrink fittingAssembling interference fits by expanding the outer part instead of forcing it on.
- Induction brazingJoints that come out the same every time, because the heat is placed by a coil and timed by a machine.
- Induction billet heatingSteel at forging temperature in seconds, paced to the press, with far less scale.
- Induction bondingActivating an adhesive or bonding layer by heating the metal it is bonded to.
Related products
- Induction hardening machinesVertical and horizontal hardening machines for shafts, gears, bushes, axle shafts and flywheel rings.
- PLC controlled vertical hardening scannersA scanning hardening machine: the part traverses through the coil while quench follows behind it.
- Flywheel ring hardening and shrink fitting machinesTwo processes on one component: hardening the starter ring gear, and shrink fitting it onto the flywheel.
- Induction brazing machinesRepeatable brazed joints with heat placed only where the filler must flow. Single and double station.
Tell us about the part.
Send a drawing, the material, the case depth or temperature you need, and your production rate. Our engineers will help define the right machine for your process.