More than any other field, IIoT overlaps directly with metrology's mission to analyze and measure as much of the manufacturing process as possible, and it's no surprise that the latter is utilizing the former.

Despite the development and availability of a number of newly engineered, rugged materials intended for plastic gear applications, some engineers/designers continue to believe metal is better.

The complete industry news section from the June 2018 issue of Gear Technology.

With increasingly smaller returns from improving the speed of the actual gear grinding process, improving your setup time has become a primary way to keep improving efficiency. Here's the latest on how you can do that today.

Gear Industry Steps Up to Automation Challenges in Auto Industry. Automotive parts are always moving. They are zipping across conveyors, smashing into each other in bins and traveling across the production chain before ending up inside an automobile. For gears, this can be a somewhat precarious situation as they tend to run best when they're free from nicks, abrasions, cracks or other damages.

As coating technology improves to handle harsher conditions, cutting tool manufacturers are faced with new challenges during the resharpening process.

Call it new wine in old bottles, or old wine in new bottles, but gear skiving has certainly aged well over time. Gear skiving's evolution, perhaps gaining momentum most dramatically since around 2004, has ultimately led to rather dramatic technological advancement and cost saving in the manufacture of certain gears.

The author compares the standard two-face blade technology with the three-face blade technology for manufacturing bevel gears.

A reader asks about ion-nitride finished shafts and the proper friction coefficient to be used for calculations.

This special edition of Product News includes highlights from Gear Expo 2017 of new products that caught the editors' eyes.