Company Profile
Walter USA
For some companies, being the “customers’ choice” is just words. But for Walter USA, it’s a philosophy the company lives by.
High-precision tools are an...
Circle Gear & Machine Co.
When a company has been manufacturing gears for almost a century, it’s a good bet that it knows what it’s doing.
And that longevity and...
Tooling Profile: Tormach
Much like in any industry dealing with manufacturing parts, a lot of those parts, including gears, need to be prototyped or produced in small...
The meta-stable microstructure of martensite
In this column, we will discuss martensite and its formation.
Heat treating steel involves heating the component into the austenite range. Once the part is...
A deeper dive into perils of white papers, pseudo-technical articles
In our last Materials Matter column, I covered some of the risks associated with giving too much trust to gear surface finishing white papers...
Noncircular gears, though not common, can play critical role
With the new year begun, many people are making resolutions regarding their health. The desire to “get into shape” is a popular resolution. The...
Q&A with Santosh Plakkat
What is peel grinding?
Cylindrical grinding is broadly classified into “external” and “internal” grinding of cylindrical surfaces; there are many methods of external cylindrical grinding of which plunge, traverse, and centerless are the most common.
Peel...
The importance of associations in manufacturing
A business decision that all industry executives and leaders should make is participation in a manufacturing association. The benefits are many, and they extend...
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