Gear Expo 2017: What Drives You
Why attend? Explore new technologies from more than 200 exhibitors driving the market. Interact with leading suppliers of gears and […]
Pre-Nitriding: A Means of Significantly Increasing Carburizing Throughput
Carburizing is a surface-hardening method that uses heated metal in a carbon-rich environment to increase carbon levels on the metal, […]
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 […]
Turning to Rolling Bearings for Industrial Gearboxes
Rolling bearings play vital roles in supporting the shafts and gear wheels of industrial gearboxes and, often, several different […]
INSPECTION & METROLOGY: Investing in Yourself
Everyone should make an effort to improve themselves. One of the best ways this can be done is through education. […]
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. […]
TOOLING & WORKHOLDING: The Perfect Symbiosis
The Swiss company, Reishauer, has shaped industrial history since its foundation in 1788. Originally, the company was set up as […]
Impact of Surface Condition and Lubricant on Effective Gear Tooth Friction Coefficient
The impact of gear tooth surface roughness and advanced coatings on frictional losses in a gear mesh is of significant […]
The Internet of Gears: New Perspectives Through CMS
During the past decades, the capacity of production machinery increased continuously in nearly all industries. A doubling of the capacity […]
Worm Screw High-Speed Manufacturing
This paper shows how to produce worm screws when your actual gear hobbing machine configuration has the hob axis perpendicular […]
Introducing a New Machine Concept for High-Productive Gear Grinding
The increasing demand for efficiency and noise emission of gears pushes the grinding process to its limits. With the widening […]
Review of Microstructure and Properties of Non-Ferrous Alloys for Worm Gear Application and Advantages of Centrifugally Cast Gears
Worm gears are used for large gear reductions. Gear ratio ranges of 5:1 to 300:1 are typical. Generally, worm gear […]
Case Study: How Advanced Gearbox Testing Drove the Need for the Lost Foam Casting Process
For decades, powertrain test systems incorporated custom test stand gearboxes constructed with fabricated gearbox housings. In some cases, fabricated housings […]
The Whirling Process in a Company that Produces Worm Gear Drives
The worm geometry of worm gearboxes, especially the thread profile and the shape of the thread flanks, depends on the […]
Developing an Energy-Efficient Industrial Gear Oil
Gearboxes found in mining and manufacturing sectors encounter a variety of harsh conditions. Heavy loading, longer duty cycles, and high […]
Not All Broach Tools Are Created Equal
Broach tools may look alike at first glance, but they don’t always perform the same. Some work the first run […]
Parametric Geometric Modeling of a Spur Gear Using SolidWorks
For a spur gear as a mechanical element, the design and sketching of the involute guarantees optimum functionality. This paper […]
Intelligent Process Monitoring Is Advancing Gear-making Productivity
Gear-making technology has been advancing at an extremely rapid pace. By many accounts, developments in tooling and machine technology have […]
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 […]
Gear Design Relevant Cleanness Metrics
The “Metallurgical Specifications for Steel Gearing” information sheet (AGMA 923-B05) [1] details non-metallic inclusion limits to meet AGMA grade expectations […]
