Gear Inspection AI

Catch nicked teeth, grinding burn, and handling damage on every gear before it becomes the whine in someone's cabin.

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Gear Inspection AI Across Hobbing, Grinding, and Assembly

Deploy Anywhere, Run Everywhere
Run gear inspection on the edge, on-prem, in your VPC, or via API, wherever your hobbing cells, grinding lines, and gearbox assembly bays need it.
One Platform, Full Adoption
Tools every gear team can adopt, from hobbing and grinding operators to heat treat techs, assembly leads, and quality engineers, no separate ML team required to ship and own inspection models.
Secure, Compliant, and Audit-Ready
Data stays safe with SOC 2 Type II compliance, encrypted data, and an uptime SLA, with per-gear records that support IATF 16949, AS9100, and customer-specific PPAP audit requirements.

“Roboflow has been instrumental in accelerating our deployment of innovative AI solutions.”

Travis Turnbull

Vice President & CIO, Pella Corporation

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A nicked tooth that becomes a whine at highway speed, grinding burn that becomes micropitting a year into the warranty, or a handling ding picked up between the grinder and the assembly bay can mean a noise complaint traced through a whole gearbox, a field failure with a teardown report, and claims in the one component drivers hear every day. Bring us your toughest gear inspection problem and we'll map a working solution.

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Solution architecture for IATF 16949, AS9100, and customer-specific PPAP environments
Live demo on your gear imagery, tooth photos, or grinding line footage
Deployment options: edge, on-prem, air-gapped, or VPC, with integration into hobbing cells, grinders, PLCs, and MES
ROI modeling against noise-bench rejects, whine warranty claims, scrapped gears, and manual inspection stations

Over 16,000 organizations build with Roboflow.

Rivian
Pella
Chobani
USG Corporation
BNSF Railway
American Woodmark

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Vision AI is transforming businesses

Customers across the board are solving complex challenges and driving meaningful impact.

Automotive customer
$10 million
Saved by automatically detecting defects on the production line
Logistics & freight company
90%
Less time spent manually tracking shipping inventory
Building materials supplier
60%
Lower customer return rate with improved product quality

Inspect Every Tooth on Every Gear, with Vision AI

Add a real-time inspection layer to every gear with vision AI for gear inspection. Built for the operations where one damaged tooth hides among ninety identical ones, grinding burn shows itself a year later as micropitting, and the ding that fails the noise bench happened somewhere between the grinder and assembly. Whether you're hobbing and grinding gears, running heat treat, or building gearboxes and drive units, Roboflow inspects every tooth, flank, and spline at line rate, with per-gear records behind every build.

Teeth and Surfaces:

Catch nicks, dings, and handling damage on tooth flanks and tips, the one bad tooth hiding in dozens of identical ones
Screen grinding burn discoloration and finish anomalies at grind exit, on every gear rather than the etched sample
Detect hob tears, chatter, and surface anomalies before heat treat locks them in

Splines, Bores, and Features:

Inspect splines, keyways, and snap-ring grooves for damage, debris, and completeness
Verify chamfer and deburr condition on tooth edges and bores, so the edge that was broken stays broken
Check tooth completeness and chips on powder metal and fine-blanked gears at press and sinter exit

Lines, Cells, and Systems Integration:

Run consistent visual judgment at final inspection, with the same standard on every shift
Trend findings by hob, wheel, and machine, so a dulling hob or a wheel due for dressing shows up as a trend before it shows up at the noise bench
Route gears in real time through PLC and MES integration, with per-gear records tied to serial that support IATF 16949 and AS9100 documentation

Bring intelligence to every gear today. Stop gear defects from becoming whine claims, noise-bench rejects, or the field failure a teardown traces back to one tooth.

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More About Gear Inspection

What is gear inspection with Vision AI?

Gear inspection with vision AI uses computer vision models to inspect gears through machining, heat treat, and assembly: nicks, dings, and handling damage on tooth flanks and tips, grinding burn discoloration and finish anomalies, spline, keyway, and groove condition, chamfer and deburr verification, and tooth completeness on powder metal gears. Models trained on your actual gears inspect every unit at line rate, with per-gear records tied to serial that support IATF 16949 and AS9100 documentation.

Can Vision AI catch one damaged tooth among dozens of identical ones?

A gear is repetition made of steel: dozens of identical teeth, specular machined surfaces that throw highlights, and geometry that repeats so perfectly a single nick hides inside the rhythm. Deep-learning models trained on your actual gears, finishes, and lighting learn what a healthy tooth looks like in every position around the gear, flag the flank that breaks the pattern, hold that judgment across part numbers and modules, and route borderline gears to a bench check instead of guessing, a standard that matters more as EVs strip away the engine noise that used to cover a marginal gear.

Does this replace our gear checkers and roll testers?

No. Analytical gear inspection machines keep owning lead, profile, index, and runout, roll testers keep owning mesh and noise, and nital etch stays the referee for grinding burn under ISO 14104. Vision AI adds the visual layer those instruments don't cover: the nick no profile trace happens to cross, burn discoloration screened on every gear instead of the etched sample, chamfer, deburr, and spline condition, and the handling damage that arrives after metrology has already signed off. Visual findings and gauge data land in the same per-gear record.

Can it integrate with our hobbing cells, grinders, PLCs, and MES?

Yes. Roboflow Inference exposes a standard API and supports common industrial protocols, so gear inspection events flow into your existing systems: hobbing cell and grinder PLCs from Allen-Bradley and Siemens, MES and ERP platforms like SAP and Oracle, and SCADA and HMI platforms like Ignition and AVEVA, through REST, MQTT, OPC UA, and direct database writes. PLC-level integration routes a flagged gear the moment a check fails, and every event carries serial, machine, hob, imagery, and disposition, with a full audit trail behind every build.

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