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Drewco Workholding

We serve over 1,000 major manufacturers, machine tool builders, and commodity buyers with application specific workholding solutions. We are experts […]

IMT Forge Group

IMT Forge provides world-class, seamlessly integrated, single source closed-die forging service to customers across North America and around the world. […]

Koro Industries, Inc.

Koro Industries is a custom manufacturer of fine and medium pitch gears and other components. Open gearing is our specialty. […]

Broadwind Energy, Inc.

To be the preferred provider of integrated solutions for global energy and infrastructure customers. Mission Through the technical expertise and […]

Comparison of Tooth Interior Fatigue Fracture Load Capacity to Standardized Gear Failure Modes

Introduction Gears are case hardened to produce residual stresses at the surface — improving wear resistance, bending fatigue, and contact […]

INSPECTION & METROLOGY: The Payoff from Deploying Smart Gear Inspection Systems

A quality-control plan for parallel-axis gear manufacturing requires significant investment in analytical and functional inspection equipment, labor, and production cost. […]

Influence of Contact Conditions on the Onset of Micropitting in Rolling-Sliding Contacts Pertinent to Gear Applications

Micropitting is a type of surface damage that occurs in concentrated, rolling-sliding contacts, such as those between gear teeth, through […]

New Refinements to the Use of AGMA Load Reversal and Reliability Factors

The American Gear Manufacturers Association (AGMA) rating standard, ANSI/AGMA 2101-D04, “Fundamental Rating Factors and Calculation Methods for Involute Spur and […]

Optimizing Gear Macro and Microgeometry To Minimize Whine and Maximize Robustness for a Diesel Engine Application

The desire for engines that provide more torque and power is driving higher loads into the gear train. At the […]

Pitch Factor Analysis for Symmetric and Asymmetric Tooth Gears

In comparison with traditional gear design based on pre-selected, typically standard generating rack parameters and its addendum modification also known […]

Application of Advanced Mesh Analysis To Eliminate Pinion Failures

Through a case study involving pinion failures on plastic extruder drives, this paper covers failure analysis, gear rating review, application […]

Adopting Vision Systems: Technology Geared Toward Cost Savings and Boosting Quality

First-tier gear manufacturers are now embracing machine vision technology to streamline production lines, which, of course, ultimately leads to significant […]

Analysis and Optimization of Asymmetric Epicyclic Gears

The design objective of asymmetric tooth gears is to improve performance of the primary drive flank profiles at the expense […]

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. […]

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 […]

An Experimental Evaluation of the Procedures of the ISO/TR 15144 Technical Report for the Prediction of Micropitting

Recently, ISO 15144 [1] has been approved by ISO as a technical report that presents an analysis procedure, which is […]

Prediction of Airborne Radiated Noise from Lightly Loaded Lubricated Meshing Gear Teeth

Automotive transmission gear noise has received increased attention in recent years. The phenomenon is considered as a major noise source […]

Advantages of Direct Gear Design For Automotive Polymer Gear Drives

Invention of the gear-generating machining process that uses the gear rack shape tooling cutting edge (as shown in Figure 1) […]

An Improved Load-Equalizing Means For a Multi-Flow Gear Train

This paper relates to the load-equalizing capabilities of planetary gearboxes, and more generally, addresses the load-equalizing capabilities of multi-flow gear […]

Gear Tooth Root Stresses of a Very Heavily Loaded Gear Pair

For aerospace applications, there is a high premium on minimizing the mass of all components while meeting operational and safety […]

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