Michel Pasquier

(co-author) is a graduate of the Ecole Supérieure de l’Energie et des Matériaux d’Orléans (France) where he has studied gears.  He started in 1990 in the automotive industry, where he worked on automatic gearboxes for heavy vehicles and special differentials based on planetary gears.  He joined CETIM in 1991.  He has worked until 2002 in the Gear Department where he was an expert on gear unit failures and he worked with mechanical industries in the design of mechanical power transmissions. He joined CMD Engrenages et Réducteurs in 2002 where he is, since that date, Technical Support Manager. He is former member of the French delegation for ISO TC 60 (gears) in Working Group 2 (accuracy), working group 6 (gear rating), working group 10 (enclosed gear units) and 13 (bevel gears) and now member of AGMA committee 7e (6014).