Providing production exibility in machinery design, to manufacture or process dierent product sizes for example, is becoming more of a necessity with today’s desire for shorter runs and quicker deliveries. With our consultative approach and some unique capabilities, we were able to help a recent customer achieve the exibility he needed. A prospect recently contacted us with interest in our spiral bevel gearboxes with hollow output shaft. His task was to feed material through two counter rotating drums or rollers. The kicker was that dierent material sizes where required, meaning the center distance between the rollers had to change by several inches, sometimes a couple of times a day. His idea was to insert a connecting shaft with key inside the hollow bore of two boxes. Then when the

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