Manufacturing
Manufacturing
TAFE - Gears Division

TAFE Gears Division is a modern facility that manufactures Gear Rear Axle Drives (Ring Crown Wheel) and Pinion Rear Axle Drives with three variants for tractors in the 25-75HP range. The factory at Pudupakkam manufactures transmission components for the three factories of TAFE and exports to the European Markets


State-of-the-art Production Facilities
TAFE Gears division has world-class manufacturing facilities which include Gleason CNC Gear Generation Machine, Hypoid Gear Roughing Machine, Universal Gear Finishing Machine and VMC Drilling.

The Heat Treatment Shop comprises of Continuous Gas Carburising Furnace, Sealed Quench Furnace and Gleason Press Quench Machine.

The Grinding at Pre/Post Heat Treatment stage comprises of Angular Plunge Grinding Machine and CNC Bore Grinding Machine. The Lapping of Matched Hard Gears is done by Swing Pinion Cone 516 Gleason Lapper.

The testing of Gears, Tooth Contact Pattern Analysis and development of near Gear Ratios are done by 511 Gleason Tester while Resharpening of Gleason Cutters with Gleason Resharpening machine. Finally the truing of cutters are done to an accuracy of 2 microns
Certifications
QS 9000:1998 III Edition