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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Troubleshooting Wind Gearbox Problems
As the growth in wind energy continues, the average size and capacity of wind turbine generators is also increasing, stretching […]
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 […]
BIG GEARS Better Inspection
Even in this tough economic environment opportunity continues to knock on the doors of companies like Schafer Gear Works Rockford […]
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 […]
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 […]
Best-Practice Gearbox Lubrication
Modern gears are performing heavier work and carrying greater loads than ever before. Gear manufacturers are redesigning, modernizing, and using […]
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, […]
Better Bevel Gearing
Above a ratio of 2.5 it is common gear design practice to convert a gearset from two generated members into […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Robotic Gear Processing
Henry Ford once said “If you need a new process and don’t install it, you pay for it without getting […]
A New Approach to Shop-Floor Gear Inspection
Gear production is one of the most difficult tasks to be found in modern manufacturing. Producing complex, non-linear, three-dimensional geometries […]
Axis of Rotation Metrology for Improved Gearing
In the history of machine tools, spindles have been very good relative to other bearings and structures on the machine. […]
