Tribological Coating Wear and Durability Performance Guideline for Gear Applications
For decades, the performance of tribological coatings has been studied with the goal of developing practical surface treatments to enhance the friction and wear...
Case Study: National Bearings Company and a Power Tool Manufacturer
National Bearings Company — a U.S. bearing manufacturer specializing in custom thrust bearings, radial bearings, angular contact bearings, subassemblies, and bearing components — was...
A Look at the Intersection of Thermal Processing and Industry 4.0
Technology continues to advance at anaccelerated pace with the development of lean manufacturing processes, the growth of the Internet of Things (IoT), and the...
TOOLING & WORKHOLDING: Working with Workholding Suppliers
There have been and continue to be many technical improvements in the workholding industry. These improvements keep up with the evolution of faster and more...
INSPECTION & METROLOGY: Case Study: Forest City Gear and Keyence Corporation
Quality inspector, Amy Sovina, is one of the operators at Forest City Gear who has been using an optical comparator multiple times a day...
INSPECTION & METROLOGY: The State of Measurement Technology
What are the trends you have seen in measurement technology in recent years?
Due to an increasing national demand and growing shortage of specialists in...
INSPECTION & METROLOGY: Today’s Technology for Gear Metrology
Regardless of size or application, all gears depend on some degree of precision to prevent avoidable wear, power loss, and noise, and industry trends...
Simulation of Hobbing and Generation Grinding To Solve Quality and Noise Problems
Due to its high productivity and accuracy, generation manufacturing of gearing is widely used in gear production . When deviations occur, however, it is...
New Hobbing Solutions for Faster Production of Automotive Transmission Gears
Today’s consumers take for granted that their cars’ transmissions — whether manual, automatic, or differential, luxury or entry level — will operate quietly, smoothly,...
Influence of Surface Finishing on the Load Capacity of Coated and Uncoated Spur Gears
In order to increase the power density of tribologically stressed drivetrain components, different approaches are being pursued in material and production technology. In addition...
The Benefits of Asymmetric Gears
Gear wheels often rotate in only one direction throughout their entire service lives. This applies particularly in the case of cars, commercial vehicles, ships,...
Polish Grinding of Gears for Higher Transmission Efficiency
The established continuous generating method was used as the base technology for the polish grinding process, which is distinct from the vibratory superfinishing used...
State of the Art in Microstructure and Metallurgy Modeling
Anticipating the microstructure evolution during the manufacturing process has long been a major concern for specific industries such as aerospace. More recently, with the...
Selecting the Proper Gear Milling Cutter Design for the Machining of High-Quality Parallel Axis,...
There are a number of decisions the manufacturing engineer faces when planning the necessary processes for producing parallel axis, cylindrical spur or helical gears...
An Experimental Evaluation of the Procedures of the ISO/TR 15144 Technical Report for the...
Recently, ISO 15144 has been approved by ISO as a technical report that presents an analysis procedure, which is designed to predict whether...
Taking the Wait out of Workholding To Speed Up Bevel Gear Development
The bevel gear manufacturing landscape has changed extensively in recent years, particularly for producers of driveline components for the light truck and automotive markets.
The...
Investigations on the Efficiency of Worm Gear Drives
Due to a wide range of properties, worm gears are an indispensable element on the current transmission market. Next to a huge gear ratio...
Shear Stability Is Key to Proper EAL Gear Oil Selection
Selecting a gear oil for use in marine thrusters or a stern tube lubricant for use with propeller shaft bearings is typically based on...
An Update on Broaching Technology
The world of broaching has certainly changed since the 1850s when it emerged as a viable production metalworking process. Advancements have been made in...
Analysis of Tooth Interior Fatigue Fracture Using Boundary Conditions from an Efficient and Accurate...
This paper demonstrates a modification to the analysis of Tooth Interior Fatigue Fracture, as implemented in SMT’s MASTA software, in which Loaded Tooth Contact...
