Trend Talks: Anna Claire Conrad
Ahead of the recession, Smiths Machine did what many machine shops were doing at the time. They were riding the wave of automotive parts...
Q&A with Dan Agius
Tell us about how Nordex got to where it is today and the role it plays in this industry.
Nordex was incorporated in Connecticut in...
The Factor of Safety as a Statistical Design Variable
Classic Factors of safety – sometimes called service factors
According to NEMA, a Motor Service Factor (SF) is the percentage of overload the motor can...
Dealing with Parts Rejection
You got the call or the email, or maybe the box just showed up. One of your customers rejected some parts. The box winds...
(LPC) furnaces employ strategically positioned jets, and atmosphere furnaces must use the proper fan
When it comes to carburizing or protecting parts subjected to an atmosphere, fan- and gas-injection methods become the critical factor. Vacuum furnaces have air...
Trend Talks: Anna Claire Conrad
This is my first “real world” job after graduating from college, and in the six months I’ve been here, I’ve learned a lot more...
Q&A with Chris Van De Motter
Could you give us a look into the history of Ohio Broach?
In 1955, my father Charles “Bud” Van De Motter started Ohio Broach in...
Trend Talks: Anna Claire Conrad
In any business where a product is made available for consumers, that company’s livelihood, longevity, and wellbeing all come down to one thing—successful sales.
And...
Q&A with Marvin Nicholson
Would you please provide a brief history of your company?
I started my career in the gear industry in 1983, and I created Pentagear in...
Using Master Gears
In the design of generated and molded gears, it is common to specify a total composite error (TCE) tolerance for in-process inspection, especially for...
Executing a Quality Product
As a former owner of a mid-sized gear manufacturing facility, I understand the pressures that owners and their staffs endure to satisfy their customers....
Achieving low ppm oxygen levels: Pumps are slow to remove water vapor while an...
Vacuum furnaces rely on the lack of an atmosphere to protect heat-treated parts from surface oxidation or decarburization. The quality of the atmosphere required...
Molded Plastic Gears
A designer never wants to mold a standard “generated” gear design. Why? Because the molding process gives us several opportunities to optimize the gear...
Preliminary Results of Testing of Low-Tooth-Count Bevel Gears of a Novel Design, Part III
For the manufacturing purpose, a simplified approach can be used for the development of the CAD models of the gear and the pinion in...
Trend Talks: Anna Claire Conrad
Growing up, my parents made sure I understood the value of education. I attended the best schools in my area, studied hard, and always...
Q&A with Jeannine Kunz
It seems as though, nowadays, education is key in whatever industry people find themselves. Why is workforce development and education so crucial in today's...
Exploring today’s heat-treating process involving furnaces, pumps
Depending on their specific heat-treatment application, atmospheric and vacuum furnaces use pumps. In this column, the pumps I reference refer to any device designed...
The Casting Process for Gears, Part III
THE FORMATION OF THE GRAPHITE
Control of the physical properties of a cast iron is normally aimed at exercising some degree of control of the...
Preliminary Results of Testing of Low-Tooth-Count Bevel Gears of a Novel Design, Part II
In the proposed approach, the tooth flanks of the gear, G, and the pinion, P, are generated by means of a desirable line of...
Why heat-treating equipment suppliers are unclear as to what the future may hold
It was early October while I was listening to the Paul W. Smith morning radio show on WJR when I couldn’t believe what I...
