Another week — another interesting conversation with a concerned company president. Bookings are down and he has been thinking of ways to broade...

Could you explain to me the difference between spiral bevel gear process face hobbing-lapping, face milling-grinding and Klingelnberg HPG? Which one is better for noise, load capacity and quality?

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?

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 ...

Previous blogs here have celebrated the great advances made in gear industry design capabilities and machine tools. As the “paper of record” for th...

  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...

One last thought before we leave the subject of evaluating incoming quotes — doing nothing is risky. The gear business may seem like a stable, well...