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Performance Gear Systems

Performance Gear Systems was founded in 1997 with the mission to be a world leader in the design, engineering and […]

Moore-Addison Co.

Our company machines and fabricates non-metallics/laminates/plastics, and has been growing the business since its inception in 1953. Whether our clients […]

Winzeler Gear

Driven by analytics and a natural sense of curiosity, we are not a traditional injection molder. Instead, we challenge the […]

Intech Corporation

The aim of our efforts is to produce machine components that run maintenance-free at higher speeds and with less downtime. […]

Finding the ideal materials for gears

When designing an individual gear or a gear train, the choice of material will either be the primary factor on […]

Experimental tests to predict plastic gears’ lifetime

One of the major problems of plastic gears is the lack of data about their lifetime. Literature doesn’t contain numerous […]

Design features of worm gearing composed of plastic and/or powder-metal components

This article deals with worm gearings in cases when the worm-gear pair is composed either of plastic or of powder-metal […]

Measuring Root/Flank Stress in Plastic Gears

The number of plastic gears used in different applications is increasing every year, mostly due to their cost effectiveness for […]

Numerical Thermal 3D Modeling of Plastic Gearing

This paper will primarily focus on the prediction of gear temperature of plastic gears using a numerical heat transfer model […]

Accelerated Testing and Temperature Calculation of Plastic Gears

Plastic gears have been in use since the 1950s, and their popularity has increased significantly in the last few years. […]

Polymer Composite Bases for Machine Foundations

A properly designed base foundation is crucial to the success and longevity of the machine. Designers have historically resorted to […]

Advantages of Direct Gear Design For Automotive Polymer Gear Drives

Invention of the gear-generating machining process that uses the gear rack shape tooling cutting edge (as shown in Figure 1) […]

ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Gear Molding – Where It’s Heading

Plastic gears are growing larger, more precise, more complex in geometry and more powerful. High performance resins and long-fiber compounds […]

A Plastic Gear Design Update

Plastic gears have a long history in autos, appliances, office equipment, tools, and elsewhere. Designers continue to extend their use […]

Exploiting the Potential of Plastic Gears

Plastic gears afford appliance designers dramatic opportunities to reduce drive cost, noise, and weight. However, due to the properties of […]

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 […]

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 […]

Molded Plastic Gear Design

Gear design and development is a complicated art. Ignore or miscalculate the operating and environmental effects and the likely result […]

A Study in Asymmetric Plastic Spur Gears

The basic weakness of plastic spur gear teeth is tooth fracture brought on by the accumulation of stress at the […]

Tooth-Bending Effects in Plastic Spur Gears

This paper describes the investigation of a steel-plastic gear transmission, using both numerical (FE) and analytical methods. The aim was […]

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