Heat treatment techniques overview
Editor’s note > This is the fourth in a five-part series.
In this fourth installment of my series on heat-treating techniques, I will discuss the pros...
Heat treatment techniques overview
Editor’s note > This is the third in a five-part series.
In this third segment of my series on heat-treating techniques, I will discuss the pros...
An overview of heat treatment techniques
Editor’s note > This is the second in a five-part series.
In this second segment of my series on heat-treating techniques, I will discuss the...
An overview of heat treatment techniques
Editor’s note > This is the first in a five-part series.
I recently had the wondrous experience of being invited to tour a very modern state-of-the-art heat-treatment...
A little deeper look at epicyclic gear trains
As we know, epicyclic gear trains are very versatile and compact. They have multiple configurations, able to give you as many as seven ratios...
Tackling EV noise reduction
Electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids are becoming a larger segment of the vehicles on the road every year, and with government incentives to purchasers...
Coordinate transformation and why it is important to gear measurement
Often, the results from different measurement systems must be combined to provide useful results in terms of our measurements. The coordinate transformation is used...
Additive manufacturing and gears
The American Gear Manufacturers Association’s (AGMA) Emerging Technologies Committee (ETC) recently organized a show floor tour of the Rapid + TCT Exhibition (Rapid). The...
Using profile shift in gearing
We all pretty much know that profile shifting is used to create gears with tooth thicknesses that are different from standard gears. By making...
Vibratory bowl media attrition: Part 2
In my previous article, I introduced you to the inefficiencies caused by the result of media attrition when vibratory processing gears. If you recall,...
Vibratory bowl gear polishing inefficiencies
Increasing numbers of gearing projects are specifying isotropic superfinishing processes due to the demonstrated performance and durability increases generated by the reduced roughness and...
A guide to select ratio split in a multi-step geartrain
There are many variables and considerations that must be taken into account when you try to determine the optimum ratio spread, which are defined...
Worm gearing twists its way into our design suite
Worm gearing has many benefits and usable attributes that are unique to this geometry. Gearing of this type dates to 4000 B.C. The “worm”...
Oil, lubricant, lubrication – what is this all about?
Two months ago, I presented readers with a primer on lubricants and lubrication. That begins a discussion that can go one of two ways....
Oil, lubricant, lubrication – what is this all about?
This month I want to slide into a column discussing lubrication (Sorry). We all intuitively know that we must lubricate any “joint” where there...
Angle of approach and angle of recess: What are all these angles?
Geometrically speaking, these two angles have a fairly straightforward definition.
The angle of approach is the angle or arc that the point of contact...
Concepts of motion control and load-holding technologies
As a lead-in to the upcoming Motion + Power Technology Expo, my article this month will focus on load-holding technologies. The theme of this...
The importance of gear inspection and the meaning of the data
A topic near and dear to my heart, I am often tasked with answering the question; “What went wrong?” As we all know, there...
An overview of differential function and gearing
This month’s article is going to take a slightly different point of view and discuss the use of a particular type of gear compared...
Dissimilar material and/or hardness as a function of gear size
Some say that metallurgy is a “black art.” Actually, it is a very skilled art, demanding in its precision and consistency. The people who...
