Automatic Transmission
PMG creates ideally tailored solutions for automatic transmissions. Thanks to decades of experience, our global production footprint and a high level of automation, we can offer you cost-effective solutions that support your success.
Key Facts
- Development, Design, Production, Testing, and Assembly: Comprehensive solutions for One-Way Clutch systems
- Durability Testing: Ensuring reliability through stroking fatigue and high-speed overrunning endurance tests
- Advanced Assembly Cell: Featuring laser marking, component insertion, balance, and functional testing
- Award-Winning Design: 2020 MPIF Design Excellence Grand Prize for our 8-speed transmission stator One-Way Clutch Assembly
- Notch Plates: For automatic and hybrid transmissions, as well as e-axle applications
- Sintered Ring Gears: Suitable for automatic transmissions and single or two-speed transmissions for e-axles.
- Patented DENSIFORM® Technology: Selective surface densification providing full density in highly stressed areas of root and flanks as well as lower density in the core for weight reduction and improved damping.
Product Overview
- More than 2 million stator OWCA for 8 and 9-speed transmission torque converters supplied since 2015
- Cost-effective roller OWCA with robust designs employing Densiform® races for torque converters and planetary systems
- Design, prototype and manufacture to customer specifications
- Durability in stroking fatigue and high-speed overrunning endurance testing
- Assembly cell including laser marking, component insertion, balance and functional checks
- 2020 MPIF Design Excellence Grand Prize for an 8-speed transmission stator OWCA
- Densiform® outer and inner races for torque converters and transmissions
- Full density in active, functional areas while maintaining lower density in component core
- Torque capacities ranging from 250 Nm at low end to 1,200 Nm for heavy-duty applications
- Case-hardened Densiform® races with high contact fatigue resistance to meet stringent fatigue requirements
- Conversions from sprag-based OWC with wrought steel to roller-based OWC
- Optimization of cam geometry through FEA and supported by fatigue testing
- Superior surface finish with tight dimensional control
- MPIF Awards of Distinction for Densiform® outer races in 2006 and 2010
- For automatic and hybrid transmissions as well as e-axle applications
- Designed for PM, with large surface areas requiring high pressing tonnage
- Net-shape precision on ramps and locking surfaces of active, functional notch plate areas
- Net-shape precision on external locating features such as pads and lugs
- Sintered ring gears for automatic transmissions and single or two-speed transmissions for e-axles
- Patented PMG selective surface densification – Densiform®, full density in highly stressed areas of root and flanks
- Lower density in core, offering weight reduction opportunities, porous material affords better damping characteristics
- Improved surface finish over broached ring gears, high gear quality since surface-densified
- Complex geometry can be achieved through net shape
- Housings, slides and rotors
- Net-shape technology and optional finishing for best precision with critical surfaces
- Steam treating and finish height grinding