New Opportunities with Open Die Forging
True, the unsteady recovery and realigning markets mean business is more difficult for the entire gear industry. Order volumes are lower, sales in historically...
The Benefits of Bio-Based Lubricants
If your company is interested in increasing factory throughput, reducing tool costs, and improving product quality in a safer environment, you may want to...
A New Edge On Gear Milling
What does a new generation of indexable inserts mean to the gear manufacturing industry? Minimizing lead times in gear production is becoming an increasingly...
A Study in Asymmetric Plastic Spur Gears
The basic weakness of plastic spur gear teeth is tooth fracture brought on by the accumulation of stress at the root of the tooth...
Fixturing and Workpiece Articulation
It would be unwise to challenge some companies in the Rockford, Illinois area to an engineering contest if the subject is machining metal parts....
Synthetic Gear Lubricants Go Green
With global industry moving toward environmentally friendly “green” lubricants, some very challenging issues have been created for lubrication in gearing applications. Over the last...
Small Package, Big Broaching Results
In a customer-driven pursuit of design concept solutions to make broaching relevant to lean manufacturing, the lower lot sizes associated with reduced work in...
Black Oxide Finishing for Gears
The True Cost of Outsourcing
Due to the hazardous nature of most black oxide processes, manufacturers have traditionally been forced to ship parts to an...
Troubleshooting Wind Gearbox Problems
As the growth in wind energy continues, the average size and capacity of wind turbine generators is also increasing, stretching designs and materials to...
Designing a Bulletproof Manual Transmission
The following paper provides a detailed look at the creation of an innovative, brutally strong manual transmission for high performance street-driven cars and trucks....
BIG GEARS Better Inspection
Even in this tough economic environment opportunity continues to knock on the doors of companies like Schafer Gear Works Rockford LLC. This division of...
Cutting Out the Whining
After celebrating the 20th anniversary of the founding of Romax Technology last year, long-time chief engineer Barry James recounts his experiences of noise, vibration,...
Gas Carburizing vs. Contour Induction Hardening in Bevel Gears
This paper examines the impact on distortion of two processes using traditional gear measurement techniques. It will discuss design considerations involved with switching from...
Best-Practice Gearbox Lubrication
Modern gears are performing heavier work and carrying greater loads than ever before. Gear manufacturers are redesigning, modernizing, and using finer steels to produce...
Better Bevel Gearing
Above a ratio of 2.5 it is common gear design practice to convert a gearset from two generated members into a generated pinion and...
Nanomaterials for Gear Lubrication Solutions
In this article we report on a new product, NanoLub, which is used as a performance-enhancing additive to gear lubricants for extended lifetimes, lower...
Noise Reduction in Plastic Gears
Gear noise reduction is best addressed in the design phase. Establishing optimized tooth counts, ratios, pitch, pressure angle, helix angle, tooth proportions, and modifications...
Programmed to Enter New Markets
As anyone in the gearing world knows, Oerlikon Fairfield Manufacturing is a leading provider of engineered gear and transmission systems for off-highway and original...
Fatigue Performance of Prealloyed PM Steel
Powder metal (PM) materials that exhibit excellent heat treated properties and achieve good fatigue performance are needed to convert wrought components and gears to...
Robotic Gear Processing
Henry Ford once said “If you need a new process and don’t install it, you pay for it without getting it.” Nowhere is this...
