Abstract: An assembly facilitation apparatus for assembling and seating bearings on a gearbox pinion. The apparatus includes a bearing cup support for holding a bearing for assembly onto a pinion and an arm operatively connected to the bearing cup support. The arm is configured to engage the pinion and seat a bearing on a first portion of the pinion by moving the pinion axially in a first direction relative to the bearing.

Abstract: An assembly apparatus including a bearing support mechanism configured to hold a bearing for assembly into a housing and a housing register mechanism operatively connected to the bearing support mechanism. The housing register mechanism receives and aligns a housing with a bearing on the bearing support mechanism when the housing is placed over the housing register mechanism.

Abstract: An assembly apparatus includes a frame and a contact structure connected to and supported by the frame. The contact structure is configured to receive and secure a workpiece having a plurality of working locations. The contact structure and the workpiece are capable of movement relative to the frame such that each working location of the workpiece has an assembly position proximate to an assembly substation and another position that is distal from the assembly substation, and such that the working location at its assembly position is substantially equidistant from assembly substation relative to the other working locations in their respective assembly positions.

Abstract: An assembly apparatus that includes a frame and a load plate operatively connected to the frame. The load plate is configured to support a workpiece and is selectively extendable from a first position in which at least a portion of the load plate is positioned over the frame, to a second position in which the load plate is extended from the frame such that the workpiece is transferable from the load plate to a sub-assembly.