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...
Q&A with Sanjai Keshavan
Will you describe the product lines that Nagel offers?
Nagel is a diverse company. Automotive OEMs are our primary customers. We offer automatic honing machines...
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...
Trend Talks: Anna Claire Conrad
According to a release by the U.S. Census Bureau published earlier this summer and to the new estimates released at that same time, there...
History of Bending Fatigue, Part IV
The influence of frequency for monotonic or reversing load applications should not be underestimated. Natural frequencies must clearly be avoided. In single tooth fatigue...
How To Find Qualified Employees
Wouldn’t it be great if when you needed to hire some employees, you put an advertisement in the paper and 100 qualified candidates lined...
Metal alternatives — ceramics and ceramic composites — are achieving real-world applications
Ever since iron-bearing meteorites were discovered on earth, metal has been the material of choice for making almost anything requiring greater strength than wood....
Trend Talks: Anna Claire Howard
In an industry as competitive and quality-oriented as gear manufacturing, meeting the latest and greatest industry standard and sporting a seal of certification on...
Q&A with Peter Riehle
Wittenstein was awarded the 2015 Hermes Award at the Hanover Fair in Germany for its new Galaxie Drive System. What does it mean to...
History of Bending Fatigue, Part III
In rotating machinery, bending and contact fatigue life is a principle concern in design life. In all wrought and powder metal gearing and mechanical...
Buying Used Equipment: Do’s and Don’ts
For those of you who didn’t attend the recent American Gear Manufacturers Association (AGMA) annual meeting, you missed a great opportunity to network and...
Critical and non-critical aspects of achieving expected results in heat treating processes
There have been thousands of scholarly articles and how-to books written about heat treating and its related metallurgy. In past columns, I’ve opined that...
Trend Talks: Anna Claire Howard
Here in the United States, the word “apprenticeship” isn’t in the vernacular. Students often feel pressured to attend a four-year university straight out of...
Q&A with David Adams
Calico Coatings was founded by Tracy Trotter, owner and former racer, so it makes sense that the company got its start in the motorsport...
Trend Talks: Anna Claire Howard
It happened.
You did everything you could to prevent this sort of disaster, but it still happened.
You’re on track for production and everything seems to...
Q&A with Jerry Hendrickson
Could you tell our readers about the genesis and history of Willman Industries?
The company has been around since roughly the late 1800s. It was...
History of Bending Fatigue, Part II
Safety factors cannot replace appropriate evaluation of impending dynamics in fatigue design. Determining the design life model is where the process must begin. Using...
Protecting Critical Infrastructure
Information is the most valuable commodity any company has. Whether it is held in a persons mind, a cabinet, or a computer, the information...
