Manufacturing  

   
Located throughout Minnesota and North Carolina, our six facilities provide more than 850,000 square feet of technologically-advanced manufacturing space. All have attained or are seeking ISO 9001:2000 compliance or certification. In addition, we have manufacturing engineers at every facility who ensure that we are using the latest manufacturing and management procedures to deliver maximum manufacturing efficiency and quality.

 More than 250 CNC machining and turning centers provide flexibility in choice of equipment and scheduling to meet customer's needs, as well as maximum productivity and cost effectiveness. Milling and contouring is available with up to 5 axes. Twin spindles, live tool milling, gantry and other robotic part handling offer productivity enhancements. TEAM offers more than 15 CNC cylindrical, centerless, internal, and surface grinders for post heat-treat finishing of bearing journals and other features.

 TEAM offers 12 CNC parallel-axis gear hobbers, 5 Gleason 175 hypoid machines, CNC and manual gear honers, shavers, and shapers. We utilize 8 broaches up to 15 ton, 13 spline rollers for cold forming splines up to 5" in length, and a variety of thread rolling and other equipment for cold forming threads or similar external features. 

Additional services offered include:

  • Die-Casting  
  • Squeeze Casting
  • Fässler Honing
  • CNC Machining
  • CNC Gear Honing
  • CNC Hobbing
  • Gear Shaving
  • Gleason Phoenix Hypoid Gear Cutting
  • Spline Rolling
  • Precision Grinding
  • In-Line Induction Heat-Treating
  • In-House Carburizing
  • Sourcing


 Dimensional Inspection:

  • Nine Zeiss CNC coordinate meas. machines
  • Six Sheffield Cordax CMMs
  • Two M&M four axes CNC gear analyzers
  • Eight Gleason, M&M, & ITW gear rollers
  • Optical comparators, laser micrometers
  • Automated gages and SPC systems

Metallurgical Laboratories:

  • Three complete metallurgical labs with Buehler saws, mounting presses, & polishing equipment
  • Leco glow discharge spectrometer
  • Tukon micro-hardness testers, numerous Rockwell and Brinell testers
  • Magnetic particle & ultrasound testing stations