Grading the strength of steel
Vehicle manufacturers are faced with a difficult task of significantly improving fuel economy and safety while maintaining competitive position in the market. This can...
Measuring Tooth Flank Roughness
Gear performance has continuously increased over the past two decades. Improvements in metals, heat treatments, geometry, and lubrication are just a few of the...
The Root Cause for Gear Noise Excitation
This article is about noise excitation and vibration generation in gear drives when the gear drives operate. It is shown that transmission error is...
How Polyketone Polymers Improve Gear Performance
Engineers have been using thermoplastic resins to produce gears used in assemblies for the automotive, appliance, business equipment, and other market segments for many...
Psychoacoustic Methodology for the Noise Reduction of Bevel Gears
The relationship between FFTs and gear quality as well as gear noise is investigated with some surprising conclusions, which leads to the discovery of...
The critical role of deburring
Autonomous steering and brake systems, hydro-pneumatic chassis, or radically improved gas mileage — these buzzwords represent a technological change that is triggering a domino...
Heat treating low alloy PM steels
Tempering is a heat-treatment technique used to improve the strength, ductility and toughness of hardened carbon steels. Tempering occurs by heating the steel to...
Calculation of Tooth Flank Fracture Load Capacity
1: Introduction
Due to improved material qualities, new surface finishing methods and increased heat-treatment process reliability, flank surface damages, such as pitting or micropitting,...
Advances in the Production of Double Helical Gears
Double helical gears (herringbone gears) are characterized by a symmetric arrangement of two identical gear teeth with exactly opposite helix angles. As a result...
Flexibility is Key to Aftermarket Success
Staying lean and profitable has always been a challenge for aftermarket gear manufacturing. Expedited delivery demands, legacy product support, unpredictable product volumes, limited warehouse...
Modular Sealing Solution Ideal for Automation
Across every industry, today’s state-of-the-art manufacturing environment emphasizes variable batch sizes, flexible processes, and high availability. These factors are placing higher demands on individual...
Areal Evaluation of Involute Gear Flanks with 3D Surface...
With the evolution of size, weight, surface structure, and tolerance requirements in gear production and application, gear metrology is challenged at the same time...
The Effects of Shrouding on reducing Meshed Spur Gear Power Loss
Gearbox efficiency is reduced at high rotational speeds due to windage drag and viscous effects on rotating, meshed gear components. A goal of NASA...
A driving force in workholding
Over the years, companies performing turning operations have come to realize the versatility of using face drivers as a complete workholding solution. Along the...
Precision measuring with hand tools
Developments in precision measuring have made modern hand tools more accurate and easier to read. Reviewing basic tips for “how to” use precision instruments...
Why customized workholding?
With manufacturing operations using higher cutting speeds that place greater force on workholding equipment, choosing the correct system to hold your work is trickier...
Heat Treatment of Steel Gears
Gears enable motion through power transfer in key sectors, including automotive, aerospace, marine, off-highway, and industrial applications. The gear manufacturing industry is estimated to...
You Say You Want a Lubrication Revolution?
By using water as a functional component in specialty lubricants, there is a whole new range of opportunities that can employ the revolutionary properties...
Forward thinking about reverse engineering
When approaching a project requiring reverse engineering, questions must be asked that may seem simplistic, but will determine the failure or success of your...
New technologies pay major dividends
In order that productivity can be realized, gear producers need systems designed for simplifying and automating common tasks so that less experienced workers can...
