Our team has a long history of not only manufacturing, but optimizing and even reimagining complex precision gears, drivetrains, and actuators. With deep expertise and vertically integrated capabilities, you can be certain we’ll deliver the performance, quality, and innovation you expect. Our breadth of experience and capabilities support a full suite of products, material choices, and applications including robotic and minimally invasive surgery, infusion pumps, connected care devices, and other life-impacting applications.
You handle the device.
We’ll handle the black box.
Deep expertise in precision gears, drivetrains & actuators.
Delivering advanced performance and speed to market.
Engineered for optimal efficiency & reliability.
Gears
Helical, Spur, Worm, Bevel & More
Connecting Components
Housing, Frames, Pulleys, Threads & More
Motors
Direct Current, Wound / AC
Complex Assembly
Drivetrains, Pumps & Actuators
Driving mission-critical applications for over 70 years.
How we deliver ‘under the hood.’
When you partner with us, you benefit from our full range of in-house processes and resident knowledge that accompanies your project from start to finish across our global network.
Reliable performance & quality
Decades of experience in optimizing mechanical performance, mesh analysis, and material selection, including backlash, pressure angle, sideroll ratio, root clearance, and contact ratio to account for stress and fatigue performance and thermal and humidity expansion.
Smooth actuation & low vibration
Deep expertise in gear design, DFM, material selection, and plastic gear manufacturing further supported by in-house coating expertise
Low noise & optimized weight
Highly skilled in a range of polymers (including glass-filled polymers) in addition to full DFX services
Speed to market
Comprehensive design to rapid prototype to initial production using the turnkey Q-drive or similar platforms
Cost effective
Streamlined end-to-end approach, beginning with a focus on design for cost (multiple processes in one, material choice & more)
Consolidated, stable supply
Vertical integration with advanced plastic injection molding technology further supported by complementary processes including extruded tubing, assembly, and motors, as well as a global manufacturing presence with facilities in the U.S., China, and Mexico
What our customers are saying
One particular capability where they really stand above competitors is project management. This is done in a professional way, and we have quite high complexity involved. They are doing an outstanding job.
Global Commodity Manager / Multi-national Medical Device Company
They’ve been a good partner – good communication and meeting our needs…Open and honest. Good partnership.
Business Unit General Manager / Global Medical Device Company
The Aptyx team did an excellent job converting brass gears to plastic. Because of the design challenges, deep expertise in gears and over-molding was crucial. They also converted an expensive, labor-intensive part with quality issues to two-shot molding, which dramatically reduced cost, improved quality, and easily met the production needs. Apytx came through for us because of very good program management and good technical expertise.
Lead Principal Engineer / Global Medical Device Company
Working with your team has been one of the best contract manufacturing interactions ever. They made the whole thing happen even when it was chaos on our end.
Director of Regulatory Affairs/Product Development Manager / Medical Device Startup
The team at Aptyx is a pleasure to work with. They understand & act like true partners. I routinely hold them up as the model of the type of supplier that we need.
Site General Manager / Specialty Electronics Manufacturer for the Life Sciences
Products with
Precision Gears
Infusion Pump System
One of the mechanical drive systems we manufacture precisely regulates all the pump modules. We also provide numerous plastic components and assemblies that perform other functions.
Laparoscopic Surgery Multi-tool
Driven by an Aptyx-produced planetary gear retracting system, this versatile device comprises five functions in one minimally invasive instrument.
Robotic Surgery Systems
Our team plays a role in the design optimization and production of the mechanical drive systems for numerous robotic surgery systems on the market, from the reusable control arms to the disposable end of arm devices.
Plastic Gears
Leveraging our expertise in high-performance plastic components, we manufacture high-strength plastic gears that drive the precise operation of equipment including medical infusion pumps, financial equipment, and automotive and building climate control systems.
Vertical integration delivers speed, efficiency & risk mitigation.
Solution consultation
Design support
Material guidance
Tool design
Q-drive™ Rapid Tool Manufacture
In House Tool Room
Single cavity prototype molds to multi-cavity class 101 molds
Injection molding
Precision gears, components, housing
Motors
Assembly
Gear boxes, drivetrains, actuators & more
Packaging & Sterilization management
High-performance plastic components for critical devices.
Capabilities & specifications.
Gear sizes
.125” - 7” gear diameters
Tolerances
+/- 0.001” (Depending on geometry, size & resin)
Teeth
Typically plastic profiles: PT-PT4 or any required for performance
Materials
Full range of thermoplastics including highly engineered materials such as Ultem®, Radel®, PEEK, Nylon & Delrin®
Qualification Grade
Up to AGMA Q10
Assembly
Drivetrains
Technical Resources
Capability Brief
Precision gears, drivetrains & actuators: Driving mission-critical applications for over 70 years
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