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Prospects of Asymmetric Gears in EV Gearbox

The paper examines how optimizing asymmetric gear tooth geometry through Direct Gear Design can improve load capacity, efficiency, and compactness in EV gearboxes, surpassing the performance limits of conventional symmetric gears.

Precision Under Pressure

Meeting the demands of modern gear grinding

Keeping Tomorrow Moving

Highlights and innovation at MPT Expo + Heat Treat 2025

Eliminating Gear Noise Before It Starts with Inline Process Monitoring

Detecting micro-deviations on gear geometries at an early stage to eliminate increased noise emissions

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Technical Articles

Nanocomposite Coatings for Gears

This work aims to demonstrate the potential benefit of applying nanocomposite coatings to gear teeth to reduce operating friction and wear by presenting tribological test data.

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Experimental Study on the Performance of Plastic Worm Gears

This study examines the implementation and experimental validation of state-of-the-art plastic worm gear design methods, focusing on the VDI 2736 guideline as the most comprehensive reference for load-carrying capacity calculations.

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Durability and Performance Rating Procedures for Plastic Gears

High-performance plastic gears are increasingly replacing metal gears in several applications due to the many advantages they exhibit. The main ones are lower weight, no need for lubrication, cheaper mass production, significantly better noise, vibration and harshness (NVH) behavior and chemical/corrosion resistance. Most plastic gears are produced by injection molding, which enables great design flexibility, e.g., joining several machine elements into one molded part, while gear geometry modifications like enlarged root rounding or altered profile shapes are also possible (Ref. 1).

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Electric vs. Combustion: A Comparative Analysis of Gear Design for Commercial Vehicle Applications

This paper examines the transition from internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles to electric vehicles (EVs), highlighting the distinct gear design requirements for each and presenting a comparative case study of gearbox configurations in a 14-ton commercial vehicle.

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Design

Gleason's Coniflex® Pro Design and Manufacturing System for producing stronger, quieter, and more reliable e-drive differential gears in high volumes, for automotive, truck, bus and off-highway transmissions. It‘s the differential difference!


Grinding

The world of bevel gear grinding is a complex topic. How do you determine which grinding and dressing parameters to select for a desired surface finish? What type of grinding wheel should be used? What type of dresser should be used? How do all these factors affect the gear noise and quality levels? These are some questions that will be addressed in this article.

Inspection

When electric drives are used in vehicles, the masking effect of an internal combustion engine disappears, allowing the noise behavior of the transmission to take center stage. At the same time, peak power and torque increase, engine speeds increase, and power must be transferred optimally in both directions due to the regenerative braking system. Conventional design parameters remain important, however: The build space is limited, durability must not be compromised, and the product must still be cost-efficient. Optical metrology as part of a hybrid measurement concept helps to overcome all these challenges.

Heat Treating

Quality control, EV components, energy consumption and material influences are just a handful of topics being discussed in heat treating today. New heat treat methods and global trends will be the topic of conversation later this year at Heat Treat 2023. Here’s a round-up of some stories circulating across key market segments.

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Leveraging Simmerring® Seals for Better Performance - Webinar

GEARBOX INNOVATIONS: Gearboxes are found everywhere from robotics to agriculture, but getting peak performance from your gearbox requires some serious expertise. Join us to explore how Simmerring® seals are revolutionizing gearbox design and performance.

Industry News

Gleason Corporation’s Prof. Dr. Hermann J. Stadtfeld, Vice President of Bevel Gear Technology and R&D, has been awarded a new patent for his latest invention, “Psychoacoustic Tooth Flank Form Modification”—also known by its working name MicroForm. The innovation marks his 70th patented invention, continuing a career dedicated to advancing the science and manufacture of bevel gears. Gear Technology caught up with Dr. Stadtfeld to field a few questions about this latest milestone.

Product News

The KISSsoft System Module allows you to predefine virtually any possible combination of shifting positions and boundary setups in a transmission or gearbox. They are then combined into Operating Modes.  These operating modes specify which clutches, switching elements, or brakes are active and which load is applied at specific system boundaries at a given situation.  A typical example is when a gearbox is driven by multiple motors, like in a Dual Motor EV gearbox and different load combinations and/or power flow directions (changes from driving to coasting condition or from motor to generator mode) need to be analyzed. 

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Feb 10, 2026 - Feb 12, 2026

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Jan 6, 2026 - Jan 9, 2026

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