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...
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...
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...
Scuffing
Gear meshing is one of the most complex areas of study in tribology. Meshing consists of both sliding and rolling motion and can be...
Attending Industry and Association Trade Shows
Every two years, the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) is held during the month of September in Chicago. It is one of the world’s...
Trend Talks: Industry Standards
To say that standards are crucial could be the understatement of the century.
And the word “century” becomes particularly symbolic — not to mention, appropriate...
Energy Efficiency
“Hey, close the door — what do you think, we’re heating the neighborhood?” These are words I heard uttered by Mom and Dad over...
Q&A with Curt Christensen
Please tell us a little about yourself and your role at Fanuc America.
I have been with Fanuc for over 25 years in a variety...
Micropitting
Micropitting is a gear failure mode that typically occurs when higher contact stresses are applied to hardened gear teeth. Unlike most other failure modes,...
Recruiting Millennials
If you’ve attended any industry function lately, you’ve noticed that conversations invariably include discussions about the shortage of skilled gear designers and the difficulty...
Trend Talks: Cost Savings
For many customers, saving money isn’t just a luxury, it’s a necessity. So when companies can offer options that can cut costs as a...
