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Gear Lubrication-Gear Protection Also At Low Oil Temperature

In practice, industrial gears are often operated with lower oil temperatures than would normally be generated in a fully-loaded gearbox. […]

How to Minimize Downtime, Repair Costs, and Inventories by Extending the Life Expectancy of Your Gearbox

Just like typical cars, gearboxes have gotten smaller over time. The catch phrase is ‘power-dense’, meaning that from equal sized […]

Understanding and Preventing Surface Distress

In many industrial applications that have lubricated rolling/sliding contacts such as rolling bearings, power density has steadily increased over time […]

Gear Lubrication – Stopping Micropitting by Using the Right Lubricant

Micropitting formation is often reported to occur in field applications even though industrial gear oils with a high micropitting load-carrying […]

Protecting Massive Gears

As a manufacturer of motor oils and additives, LIQUI MOLY specializes in the automotive sector and is the most popular […]

Cryogenics Comes of Age

Manufacturing innovations that impart better performance, cost savings, and longer component life are typically expensive, require new equipment, and new […]

Advances in Molded Polymer Gears

The performance of molded polymer gears continues to improve with new design solutions, improved materials, and higher-accuracy molding. As a […]

Special Report: New England Gear

According to Jeff Barnes, founder and president of New England Gear, there’s a very good reason why his company is […]

Thin Rims for Internal Gears

In today’s applications it is increasingly important to use space and resource-saving gears. One possibility is to design the rim […]

Magnetic Filtration Technology

Wind power is the world’s fastest-growing source of renewable energy that is capable over time of significantly reducing our dependence […]

Alternatives to Gear Grinding

Stringent NVH requirements, higher loads, and the trend toward miniaturization to save weight and space are forcing transmission gear designers […]

Refurbishing Wind Turbine Gears

Multi-megawatt wind turbine gearboxes operate under demanding environmental conditions including considerable variation in temperature, wind speed, and air quality. It […]

Reducing Gear Rattle

Work trucks are getting quieter, driving the need for axillary power to do the same. While gear noise, whine, and […]

Increasing Efficiency with Synchronized Systems

Every manufacturer is faced with the decision at some point: is it time to upgrade equipment and expand my capabilities? […]

Essential Lubrication Aspects

Empirical studies prove that 70-85 percent of the expected life cycle costs of a machine are determined during its development […]

Recommendations for Reverse Engineering

Reverse engineering is a necessary activity in the modern industrial world. Rather than mount a defense against those who label […]

Take a PEEK at Polymer

Much has been written about PEEK polymer’s ability to withstand extreme temperature environments and other key properties including strength and […]

Troubleshooting Gear Noise

NVH engineers are used to measuring things. Any NVH—for “noise, vibration, harshness”—lab you visit will likely as not be stuffed […]

A Solution for Gear Bore Accuracy

Did you hear about the amazing new technology that enables gear makers to achieve bore accuracies measured in ten-millionths and […]

A Seal of Approval for Gearboxes

Fixedstar Power Transmission Group, the leading small sized worm gear reducer manufacturer in China, has extended the performance of a […]

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