Material Grade in Gears

One of the scariest things a gear designer can face is a blank sheet of paper. This is why most of our products are “derivative” rather than “revol...

Our international readers are no doubt chuckling over this silly, American “long addendum” terminology. The “civilized world” has long relied on a ...

How did that over pin calculation work out? My congratulations if you managed to work your way through it without tearing your hair out. Guess what...

When I started writing my gear book back in 1986, the mission was to provide enough information for a person new to the gear trade to tell if someo...

Faithful followers of this blog can complete that mantra without prompting, but for new readers — the beginning of wisdom is calling things by thei...

To an engineer there are no accidents, only unanticipated consequences of situations that need to be better understood. We even have a rule about i...

Soon you will be reading lots of stories about the 2017 AGMA Fall Technical Meeting and Gear Expo in our magazine and online reports. BUT, the info...

For many years, “robust” was a popular business buzz word. The idea was to make certain your procedures and processes were “strong” enough to withs...