Q&A with Shawn OBrien
Tell us a little about yourself and how long you’ve been with McInnes Rolled Rings.
I’ve been with McInnes Rolled Rings for 22 years, starting...
Gear Surfaces and Operational Performance
In the search for increased performance and durability, gear and bearing design has sought to make use of improved steel grades combined with enhanced...
Gear Expo 2015 Recap
Most of you know that the gear production machines today are much more capable and productive than those of even 10 years ago. However,...
Convection Phase
Anyone who has attended a technical seminar on quenching has heard of the three stages of oil quenching: the vapor phase, the film boiling...
Trend Talks: Year in Review
In 2015, we saw strides being made in several areas, including an increase in research and development efforts paired with a demand for more...
Q&A with Tim Hardwick
Please give us a brief overview of Thermotech and your background with the company.
Thermotech is a high-end custom injection molding manufacturer. We do approximately...
Q&A with Jenny Blackford
AGMA is celebrating its centennial anniversary. Tell us more about the celebration.
As part of Gear Expo 2015 and our 100th anniversary, we debuted a...
Isotropic Superfinishing
Increasingly stringent operational requirements from customers coupled with enhanced global technical standards have heightened the focus of gear designers on a wide array of...
Recycling and Reusing
Unfortunately, every company makes scrap parts, and many of these parts are kept long after all MRB (Material Review Board) efforts to sell the...
Heat Treating and Unintended Consequences
Load size, total weight, and surface area are important considerations for several reasons when heat treating. First, surface area must match the carbon content...
Trend Talks: Research and Development
Research and development are crucial components in any industry that continues to grow and adapt to changing times and technologies, but that is especially...
Q&A with Milton Guerry
Tell us about Schunk and its role in the gear manufacturing industry.
Schunk is the worldwide leader for clamping technology and gripping systems, designing and...
Trend Talks: Anna Claire Howard
In gear manufacturing, high-quality parts, machinery, and services are important elements to an efficient production process and a long-lasting end product. However, in an...
Q&A with Jeff Barnes
Now that New England Gear is celebrating its 20th year in business, tell us about yourself and how you got where you are today.
I’m...
History of Bending Fatigue, Part VI
In the sixth and final part on the impending factors of fatigue design, we illustrate the process of Weibull failure analysis. In engineering, we...
Streamlining Processes
In the gear manufacturing world, there are many ways to design and make gears. In the quest to compete, many companies are not satisfied...
Heat-treat troubleshooting
The following discussion is not about six-sigma or even three-sigma practices. It focuses on my experience assisting a recent heat treater. The calls I...
History of Bending Fatigue Part V
In this succession of papers, we have looked at the history, failure life models, and the impending factors that contribute to bending fatigue. The...
Making Time to Work on Your Business
I’ve been involved in manufacturing since I was in high school when I was working part time at my family’s gear business. Since then,...
Brazing as a heat-treating process
Brazing is a genre of heat treating that doesn’t receive a lot of attention unless it’s related to aerospace or commercial aviation. However, a...
