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The Power of Powder

Market demand for more cost-effective processes to produce higher-performance product continues to increase. To meet this reality, manufacturers who often […]

Fine Pitch Powder Metal Gears Using Stainless Steel Alloys

While the AGMA Powder Metallurgy gear committee has referenced 48 pitch as a working limit for fine pitch powder metal […]

Form Rolling for Finishing Powder Metal Gears

In this article we introduce a finish rolling process for sintered Fe alloy gears using a new CNC form rolling […]

Terry McDonald: Site Safety

Did you attend Gear Expo 2003 in beautiful downtown Columbus last October? It certainly was a show worth attending. The […]

Inside The ISO Certification Process

Avon Gear Company commenced operations in 1974. The company started as a gear manufacturer in a 10,000 square-foot facility in […]

Terry McDonald: Site Safety

This was a hot and dry fall in most areas of our country. As I wrote this column, the heat […]

Harnessing the Internet for Sizzling Service

In 1998, the Philadelphia Gear Corporation — a century-old gearing and power transmission manufacturer — conducted a business evaluation of […]

High-Performance Grinding Solutions for Small or Large Lots

It used to be that if you needed to grind gears, your decision was limited to a slow-form grinder that […]

Terry McDonald: Site Safety

Today, as I was having lunch, the television was on a station showing a half-hour newscast. During the course of […]

Transforming Design with Integrated Gear Software

S.M. “Jack” Marathe, the president of Universal Technical Systems, Inc., isn’t exactly modest when he talks about the power and […]

Terry McDonald: Site Safety

What is safety? According to my Funk & Wagnall's, safety is "freedom from danger or injury." Wouldn't it be great […]

Nachi’s Dry-Cutting Philosophy

As with all manufacturing processes, the focus remains on piece cost and workpiece quality. Piece cost is primarily composed of […]

Terry McDonald: Site Safety

“It’s the little things that matter.” How many times have we all heard this and chuckled to ourselves, thinking of […]

Terry McDonald: Site Safety

I would like to expand on my comment in the last column concerning cleanliness of the work area. You may […]

Software Solutions for Unknown Gears

Ever have a gear that you wanted to inspect, but didn’t have drawing data to define the part? M&M Precision […]

The Next Dimension in Detecting Tooth Distortion

The conventional CNC gear inspection machine will measure and evaluate helix and involute tooth flank deviations that are relative to […]

Terry McDonald: Site Safety

This month, my column is kind of a “hodge-podge” of thoughts on various techniques that I’ve seen used in plants […]

The Simultaneous Dual Frequency Method of Inductive Gear Hardening

Inductive surface hardening is an attempt to harden only the surface of a structure without affecting the inner portions of […]

Terry McDonald: Site Safety

This column is dedicated to safety in the gear-cutting industry, and while safety is of the utmost importance, it is […]

Terry McDonald: Site Safety

“To begin with, kill all the lawyers.” This paraphrase from Shakespeare is apropos, to some extent, in our industry. All […]

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