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US Planetary Drive Parts Manufacturer
Northern Industrial Manufacturing is one of the world’s foremost manufacturers of premium made-in-USA planetary drive parts. We are proud suppliers to the automotive OE, aftermarket and heavy-duty industries, and honored recipients of the GM Supplier Quality Excellence Award every year since 2013.
Our vertically integrated parts manufacturing facility, and state-of-the-art engineering, research and design operations, are located in the Metro Detroit area – the epicenter of the North American automotive manufacturing industry. We can supply parts for any type of front or rear axle, including industrial and commercial applications.
By embracing today’s most advanced and innovative parts manufacturing processes we offer greater efficiency and higher machining productivity – enabling us to offer the highest quality planetary drive part manufacturing, at the lowest costs, with the shortest lead times.
Planetary Drive Parts Manufacturing
Northern Manufacturing works with automotive customers like General Motors, Daimler, and ZF on a daily basis ensuring they have the correct inventory needed to keep their assembly lines running. We also ensure that our shims are of the highest quality, with reduced lead times.
While our competitors traditionally have 20 week lead times, in many cases we are able to offer delivery windows below 2 weeks. With a goal of being the automotive industry’s “go to” source for high quality rear axle parts manufacturing, we would love to provide you a competitive quote.
US Front Axle Parts Manufacturing
In the automotive industry, the planetary gear assembly is an assembly of parts used in a couple of other components in an automobile. The components it’s integrated in includes the transmission and the automotive transfer case. The planetary gear assembly consists of a sun gear, a few planet gears, a ring gear, and a gear carrier to hold all the planet gears in place. The sun gear and the carrier are both connected to shafts on either side of the planetary gear assembly. This is so they both can turn at the same time or at least one of them can turn while the other remain stationary.
Because the planetary gear assembly uses several gears, hence its name, it will need a couple of high quality precision metal shims. These precision shims will be used to ensure that all the gears in the planetary gear assembly are fully enmeshed and remain locked in place. Without these precision shims, the gears will slide back and forth, which can cause slippage, and then mechanical failure. The precision shims will also prevent the gears from grinding against any surfaces due to friction simply by occupying the space between the gears and surfaces and either side of the gears.
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