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Integrated Gear Software: Setting the Standard in Gear Design Technology
Whether you’re designing metal, plastic, or powdered metal gears, Integrated Gear Software (IGS) is the most comprehensive gear knowledge system for eliminating noise and premature failure, reducing trial and error, lowering design and production costs, and speeding time to market.
With over 75 programs and a broad range of expert consulting services, Universal Technical Systems, Inc. has over 60 years of combined design experience representing a multi–million-dollar commitment to developing industry–standard technology that empowers engineers to design with confidence.
Think of what that means for designing springs and gears or for studying how variables such as loads, pressure, heat, or even loan calculations behave as other inputs change. Setting up problems is fast and easy with TK Solver.
From A to Z
From initial sizing, gear design and analysis, and modeling of environmental extremes, to full optimization with tolerance analysis and manufacturing specs — Integrated Gear Software does it all!
What’s more, a powerful math engine with the unique ability to solve for a variety of combinations of input and output variables — known as backsolving — allows you to easily test what-if scenarios, develop accurate specifications for manufacturing replacement gears, and optimize designs without hours of tedious calculations or programming. Just point, click, and solve.
Managing Expert Knowledge
One of the biggest challenges for many companies in an era of greater employee mobility becomes managing expert knowledge, a valuable resource. Most companies have a core group of long-standing employees that represent the collective repository of gear knowledge. But what happens when that “expert” knowledge walks out the door? With IGS you can capture and share design data, and even reverse-engineer designs, effectively leveraging expert knowledge throughout your organization.
IGS can help you solve manufacturing problems like designing cutting tools, calculating measurement over pins, analyzing batch variations, or locating the appropriate cutting tools from your inventory. You’ll also be able to reuse tools such as hobs, shaper cutters, shaving cutters, and grinding wheels — for big cost savings!
Bottom Line: IGS provides you with everything you need to help you maintain your competitive edge.
Powerful Technology
IGS was developed by gear people, for gear people and combines more than 75 individual programs—each representing a particular stage in the gear design and manufacturing process—into one, interoperable, user-friendly knowledge environment that calculates, shares data, archives designs, performs tolerance analyses, and provides users with virtually unlimited design flexibility.

Other key components of IGS include a relational database that stores all programs and design data and a powerful, comprehensive reporting engine for producing detailed and insightful reports. Data can be connected horizontally—one program to another—and vertically, by project and program.
IGS Packages
- Advanced Gear Design and Manufacturing
- Basic Gear Design and Manufacturing for Metal Gears
- Basic Gear Design and Manufacturing for Plastic Gears
- Crossed Axis Gear Design
- Epicyclic Gear Design
- Spline Design and Manufacturing
UTS offers classroom training in beginning and advanced plastic and metal gear design at its corporate headquarters and an interactive fundamentals training course via the web. In addition, we offer extensive consulting services in gear design and manufacturing as well as customer site training.
Integrated Gear Software is a powerful solution at an affordable price and is available in both Standard and Premium (includes the TK Solver Solution Optimizer) editions. IGS supports Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 8, 8.1 and Windows 10 platforms.
Bottom line: TK Solver focuses on the math, so you can focus on your business. Imagine that!
Integrated Gear Software [IGS]
60-050: First Gear
60-100: AGMA Gear Classification
60-101: Cylindrical Gears - ISO System of Accuracy - ISO 1328
60-102: Lead Mis-Match - Gears in Housing
60-103: Profile Shift Coefficients - External
60-104: Mesh Geometry & What-If - External
60-107: Profile Shift Coefficients - Internal
60-108: Mesh Geometry & What-If - Internal
60-124: Crossed Axis Contact - Cutters
60-125: Crossed Axis Helical Gears
60-126: Crossed Axis Helical Gears - Capacity
60-132: Tooth Thickness at Any Diameter
60-136: Tooth Thickness From Chordal Dimensions
60-145: Tooth Thickness - Effective vs. Measured
60-146: Center Distance - Temperature Effect
60-150: Angular Position Variance
60-151: Synchronic Index of Gear System
60-164: Centers - Idler Gears
60-166: Centers - Gear Mesh With 3 Gears
60-180: Preliminary Sizing - Gear Set
60-196: Involute Properties
60-400: Mesh Geometry & Tooth Plot - External
60-410: Tooth Coordinates - External Gear
60-411: Hobbed Tooth Generation - External Gear
60-450: Mesh Geometry & Tooth Plot - Internal
60-460: Tooth Coordinates - Internal Gear
60-470: Face Gear - Spur - On Center
60-540: Gear Set Stress / Life - B88
60-541: Gear Set Stress / Life - C95
60-542: Gear Set Capacity - ISO 6336
60-543: Worm Gears - Cylindrical
60-546: Worm Gear Reducers - Cylindrical
60-548: Worm Gears - Double Enveloping
60-552: Worm Gear Reducers - Double Enveloping
60-554: Worm Gear Analysis - Cylindrical
60-560: Scoring Analysis - External Gear
60-610: Gear Design & Analysis - Plastic
60-710: Involute Splines - ANSI B92.1-1970
60-720: Involute Splines - ANSI B92.2M-1980
60-740: Involute Splines - Load / Stress Analysis
60-750: Involute Splines - Set Geometry and Plot
60-1103: Shaper Cutter Contact - Internal Gear
60-1111: Tip Relief - External Gear Set
60-1161: Simple Epicyclic Gears
60-1162: Compound Epicyclic Gears
60-1163: Simple Epicyclic Differential Gears
60-1164: Compound Epicyclic Differential Gears
60-1165: Gears - Coupled & Series Epicyclic
60-1441: Measurement Over Pins - External Gear
60-1442: Measurement Between Pins - Internal Gear
60-1443: Measurement Over Pins - Worm Gear
60-1961: Hob Change Gears - B.C. - "D" & #10
60-1962: Hob Change Gears - G & E Machines
60-1963: Hob Change Gears - B.C. - 6-10 & 16-16
60-1964: Hob Change Gears - Given Ratio
60-5405: Yield Stress - Steel Gear
60-5406: Crowned / Straight Tooth - Gear Stress
60-5408: Crowned / Straight Tooth - EHL Oil Film
10-1941: Minimum Values Simplex Method
10-1942: Minimum Values Gradient Method
20-172: Woodruff Keys
20-176: Tapered Shaft Calculations
20-184: Moment of Inertia & Weight for Cylindrical Parts
20-188: Moment of Inertia & Weight for Solids of Revolution
20-300: Bearing Speed & Contact Frequency
20-302: Anti Friction Bearing System Reliability
20-303: Timken Tapered Roller Bearings
20-304: Taper Roller Bearing Kit
20-305: Angular Contact Ball Bearing Press Fit
20-310: Centrifugal Force & "G" Loading
20-340: Branched System - Natural Frequency Vibration
20-350: Shrink Fits
20-370: Exponential Mean Loads Due to Duty Cycle
20-420: Torsional Spring Rate for Shafts
20-3301: In-line System - Natural Frequency Vibration
20-3302: Forced Vibration Response: In-line System
20-5403: Stress / Life Analysis - With Miner's Rule
Program 500
Program 500 is a gear analysis program for external involute gears and involute splines. It is based upon American Gear Manufacturers' Association (AGMA) Standards.
The program analyzes spur or helical gear sets to be sure that each gear is compatible with its mate and with the tools which will be used in manufacturing the gears. You may verify that tools (such as hobs, shaper cutters, shaving cutters, grinding wheels, etc.) will produce the gears without problems in the gear shop.