Delta College Receives CNC Equipment Entrustments March 31, 2016 Delta College recently received several large entrustments of equipment from leading manufacturers, allowing them to upgrade their CNC fa...Read More
GMTA Offers Rasoma Machine Tools in North America March 11, 2016 German Machine Tools of America (GMTA) now offers a full line of Rasoma machining centers, including vertical turning centers, four-axis ...Read More
When Do We See the Gears? March 3, 2016 Charles D. Schultz No Comments In 1971, the American gear business was far different from today. I am unaware of any modern company with a formal gear cutter’s apprenticeship; at...Read More
Plastic Gearing Continues Converting the Unconverted March 1, 2016 Plastic gears are everywhere today - throughout your car, at the oceans' lowest depths, in deep space. The question, when is a metal gear a candidate for plastic conversion, can be addressed in three words, i.e. what's the application?Read More
Reviving Old Ideas February 23, 2016 Charles D. Schultz No Comments My last blog may have sounded like I didn’t think there was anything really new to be found in the gear trade. Actually I think there are numerous ...Read More
Something to Look Forward to February 18, 2016 Charles D. Schultz No Comments With Super Bowl 50 behind us, the sporting public can turn its attention to basketball and hockey while baseball teams start spring training. Those...Read More
Discovering Gears February 9, 2016 Charles D. Schultz No Comments Recently, an attorney told me that his eleven-year-old daughter had “discovered” gears in a science class and was excitedly learning all she could ...Read More
Room for Improvement January 28, 2016 Charles D. Schultz No Comments Previous blogs here have celebrated the great advances made in gear industry design capabilities and machine tools. As the “paper of record” for th...Read More
Nostalgia Time January 21, 2016 Charles D. Schultz No Comments I am less of an airplane fan than most engineers, but the news reports of Air France scheduling special “last flights” for its retiring Boeing 747 ...Read More
Better Tools, Better Gears? January 14, 2016 Charles D. Schultz No Comments Previous blogs have discussed how fortunate we are to live in an age with the very best in gear making technology. Modern gear grinding m...Read More