Additive Manufacturing: Challenges, Possibilities, and the Gear Industry
Additive Manufacturing (AM) is a technology that has the potential to fundamentally alter manufacturing, specifically metal manufacturing. The ability to design complex shapes, which...
Factors That Affect Hardenability
Steel is a mixture of iron, carbon from 0.0 to 1.2 percent, and alloying elements. Carbon provides the hardness, and the alloying elements provide...
Nitriding’s “White Layer” and Isotropic Superfinishing
Developed in the early 20th century, nitriding has evolved into a standard process across many industrial applications. Often considered the simplest technique for case...
Micropitting
Micropitting is a topic that has generated a lot of interest, discussion, research, and many technical papers in the last few years, but it...
Q&A with Allen Williston
Please tell us a little about your background.
I graduated from University of Missouri-Rolla, now called Missouri University of Science and Technology, with a Bachelor...
Evolution of Heat Treating Furnaces for Gears
It’s the mid ’70s, the phone rings, and I’m told that Ford wants to upgrade their heat treat equipment at the Rouge facility. Driving...
Gear Corrosion in the Manufacturing Process
No matter how well gears are designed and manufactured, gear corrosion can occur during the manufacturing process, which may, in turn, result in catastrophic...
Achieving Gear Design Success
After a gear design is completed, enough of the gear, stress, and life data is established so that the gear set can be completely...
Q&A with Matt Croson
Please tell me a little about your background.
For the past 23 years, I’ve been developing the communications, meetings, membership, human resource, and general management...
Thermochemical Surface Technologies Applicable to Gears
Hardening of the gear surfaces has a profound effect on their performance. Reduction in friction, enhancing rolling contact fatigue resistance, and other tribological properties...
Comparing Surface Roughness Parameters
Effective gear design must account for a range of potential failure modes. As discussed in previous Materials Matter columns, gear failure modes can be...
Requirements for Gear Design
A gearbox design program includes technical and non-technical requirements, including legal and regulatory as well as commercial considerations. The process starts with a description...
Trend Talks: Virtual Reality
Science fiction has done a lot to inspire and influence aspects of everyday life. Engineers and industrialists look to what fiction writers have thought...
Q&A with Thomas J. (Buzz) Maiuri
Tell me a little about yourself and your career with The Gleason Works.
A week after I graduated from high school in Rochester, New York,...
Q&A with Rick Miller
Please tell us a little about your background.
My background and experience is in gear and gearbox system design, analysis, and application in a number...
Q&A with Matt Panosh
Please tell me a little about your background and how your company got started.
The company was founded in Germany in 1945 by Friedrich Schunk...
Lambda Ratio
The lambda ratio was originally developed to quantify the quality of lubricant operating regimes relative to bearing performance . Starting around the 1990s, the...
Driving Creativity and Innovation
Even in the best design teams, day-to-day repetitive tasks can foster stagnation and diminish creativity and efficiencies. Without creativity and new approaches, your team...
Trend Talks: Social Media Marketing for Gear Manufacturing
When it comes to marketing and the gear manufacturing industry, social media may be more important than you think.
And it’s an easy component to...
Purchasing Tips
Purchasing an atmosphere or vacuum heat-treating system is much like purchasing a new car or a home — a lot of thought, research, and...
