Upgrade your high-speed gearboxes to meet your extreme demands, environments, and throughputs.
As a member of the American Petroleum Institue (API), Standard Machine® delivers the expertise and advanced facilities to meet the toughest demands of the Canada’s power generation, gas and oil exploration, refining, and pipeline and pumping industries.
Higher speeds demand greater precision
There’s no room for error with high-speed gearbox applications, which undergo more cycles in a few days than conventional gear drives experience in years. At these speeds, gearing can fail quickly and catastrophically. Gears, bearings, shafting, and other components must be perfectly integrated with one another — especially when operating in the world’s harshest operating environments.
That’s why Standard Machine offers skilled technicians and machinists trained to use state-of-the-art equipment to meet the toughest API specifications, ensuring reliable performance and peace of mind.
The reliability to meet higher throughputs
Run your rotating machinery harder and faster to transmit more power. At Standard Machine, our experts understand maintenance and plant engineers’ constant challenge to do more with less.
Using advanced gear design and manufacturing capabilities, plus field experience and repair expertise, we meet your toughest requirements and provide emergency service. Standard Machine builds units for extreme applications rated as high as 80,000 HP, with shaft speeds as high as 70,000 RPM, delivering long-term reliability at a competitive cost.
This is high-speed gearbox design done right
Keep your operations running with gearbox designs and parts built to last.
Our rugged designs add strength and rigidity, helping to maintain precise alignment of gears and bearings. Custom cast or fabricated housings available.
Split, steel-backed, Babbitt-lined precision journal bearings with thrust faces engineered to account for axial loads
Machined from heat-treated, high-quality alloy steel. Oversized to maintain gear alignment and protect from overload.
Designed, manufactured, and assembled with state-of-the-art technology; through-hardened, or case carburized steel forgings; precision-hobbed and ground for accuracy and superior finish.
Integral with shafts, precision-hobbed and ground in either case carburized or through-hardened versions per specifications.
Aluminum labyrinth seals to prevent shaft leaks at extreme temperatures.
Achieve over 98% efficiency running at full capacity.
Keep all rotating elements running smoothly at high speeds.
Built to API standards as required, with a wide range of instrumentation options that satisfy any application requirements.
Stronger testing to ensure optimal performance
Get peace of mind knowing your gearbox will run reliably after installation. We test high-speed drives at full speed under variable conditions, using sophisticated instrumentation to analyze vibration, sound levels, lubrication and gear mesh frequencies.
Our experts monitor shaft vibrations on both X and Y axes to ensure reliability and acceptable levels of sound, oil, and bearing temperatures, and thoroughly check and document gear tooth patterns. Even after installation, each gearbox is backed by our industry-leading five-year warranty — regardless of how demanding the application or operating environment.
