INSPECTION & METROLOGY: Case Study: Forest City Gear and Keyence Corporation
Quality inspector, Amy Sovina, is one of the operators at Forest City Gear who has been using an optical comparator […]
INSPECTION & METROLOGY: The State of Measurement Technology
What are the trends you have seen in measurement technology in recent years? Due to an increasing national demand and […]
INSPECTION & METROLOGY: Today’s Technology for Gear Metrology
Regardless of size or application, all gears depend on some degree of precision to prevent avoidable wear, power loss, and […]
Simulation of Hobbing and Generation Grinding To Solve Quality and Noise Problems
Due to its high productivity and accuracy, generation manufacturing of gearing is widely used in gear production [1, 2]. When […]
New Hobbing Solutions for Faster Production of Automotive Transmission Gears
Today’s consumers take for granted that their cars’ transmissions — whether manual, automatic, or differential, luxury or entry level — […]
Influence of Surface Finishing on the Load Capacity of Coated and Uncoated Spur Gears
In order to increase the power density of tribologically stressed drivetrain components, different approaches are being pursued in material and […]
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 […]
Polish Grinding of Gears for Higher Transmission Efficiency
The established continuous generating method was used as the base technology for the polish grinding process, which is distinct from […]
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. […]
Selecting the Proper Gear Milling Cutter Design for the Machining of High-Quality Parallel Axis, Cylindrical Gears and Splines
There are a number of decisions the manufacturing engineer faces when planning the necessary processes for producing parallel axis, cylindrical […]
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 […]
Taking the Wait out of Workholding To Speed Up Bevel Gear Development
The bevel gear manufacturing landscape has changed extensively in recent years, particularly for producers of driveline components for the light […]
Investigations on the Efficiency of Worm Gear Drives
Due to a wide range of properties, worm gears are an indispensable element on the current transmission market. Next to […]
An Update on Broaching Technology
The world of broaching has certainly changed since the 1850s when it emerged as a viable production metalworking process. Advancements […]
A Procedure To Determine the Unknown Geometry of External Cylindrical Gears
Gear engineering requires professional skills in several action fields such as design, production, operation, maintenance, repair, and recycling. Generally, the […]
Changing the Game with an Innovative Machine Concept: Dry Hard-Gear Finishing
Despite the many high-speed, high-torque direct-drive technologies developed over the past years, the overall efficiency of gearboxes is still state-of-the-art. […]
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 […]
Developing a Lighter, Stronger, and Cleaner Air-Melt Steel for Critical Applications
Steel components, particularly those used in critical applications such as bearings and fuel injection systems, are increasingly expected to be […]
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 […]
