High Performance Gear Milling
Sandvik Coromant has made significant strides in helping gear manufacturers overcome the challenges they face as quality, efficiency, and repeatability become more critical than...
Extending Broach Tool Life
If you’re like me, you scan every issue of this magazine and read the first few sentences of each article in order to quickly...
Bevel Gear Cutting Blade Measurement
Traditional bevel gear cutting blade inspection machines have three linear axes for setup. One of the three axes is used for advancing the blade...
Protecting Massive Gears
As a manufacturer of motor oils and additives, LIQUI MOLY specializes in the automotive sector and is the most popular brand of lubricant in...
Helix Angle and Root Stress
The ISO and AGMA Gear Rating Committees have for several years been comparing the results of different rating methods for several sets of gear...
Cryogenics Comes of Age
Manufacturing innovations that impart better performance, cost savings, and longer component life are typically expensive, require new equipment, and new or complicated manufacturing techniques...
Convoloid Gearing Technology
Convoloid® tooth forms and the technologies that are integral to its ultimate economic success—including design, rating, manufacture, and inspection—have been developed by Genesis Partners...
Processing New Gear Steels
Carburized steel gears are widely used for power transmission in rotorcraft, transportation vehicles, agricultural and off-road equipment, industrial rotating equipment, and thousands of other...
Eliminating Gear Whine
The intrusive noise known as gear whine is caused by vibrations generated by gears as they mesh as a result of imperfections caused by...
Gearing Up for Efficiency
The operating efficiency of linear drives is of growing concern to machine designers. Here’s a look at three common linear actuators—linear induction motors, rolled...
Advances in Molded Polymer Gears
The performance of molded polymer gears continues to improve with new design solutions, improved materials, and higher-accuracy molding. As a result, designers now use...
Cyclocut Bevel Gear Production
Low-quantity bevel gearsets can be manufactured with the Cyclo-Palloid® method. The Cyclo-Palloid uses interlocking face hobbing cutters with five starts in most cases. For...
Gripping Systems for Increased Versatility
Those in the automotive industry who want to stay flexible in manufacturing need space for gripper storage stations and changing systems. Gripper changes often...
Controlling the Process
Gear manufacturers have always embraced the latest technologies, constantly fine-tuning their operations to eliminate glitches and optimize efficiencies. This has become even more important...
Cryogenic Treatment of Gear Steel
Case carburized steel (En 353) is the material commonly used for making crown wheels and pinions. The reasons for the frequent failure of these...
A New Paradigm in Gear Hobbing
The transmission of rotating movements without gear wheels is unthinkable. Whether in mechanical engineering, in automotive and transport technology, in railways, in shipbuilding, and...
Thin Rims for Internal Gears
In today’s applications it is increasingly important to use space and resource-saving gears. One possibility is to design the rim of internal gears as...
Single-Source Solutions
The quality requirements of the automotive industry for gears and transmissions are rising steadily. Compact designs and the trend toward higher-torque engines result in...
Special Report: New England Gear
According to Jeff Barnes, founder and president of New England Gear, there’s a very good reason why his company is known as the go-to...
Contour Hardening Bevel, Hypoid, and Pinion Gears
Traditional gear heat treatment involves gas carburizing in batch or continuous furnaces for an extended time, and then oil quenching. The gears are typically...
