Long time readers of this blog know that my “gear career” has included plenty of non-gear-related assignments. Of course, if you are a deeply entre...

Big equipment often requires special processing equipment. Those 300-ton locomotives used unique heat treatment on the gears which required the des...

Recalling Solidarity protests while watching the Hong Kong Airport occupation reminds me that change is messy. As much as we Americans would like t...

Roman Cisek’s journey from Poland to the United States is an example of how the gear trade has become one big international community. A few weeks ...

I was lucky to get a job as a design engineer – drive train department with a big construction equipment manufacturer (HSW) in Poland, right after ...

Forest City Gear makes the investment to bring gear blanking in-house, giving it complete control over quality and delivery: because failure’s not an option.

Polymer gears find increasing applications in the automotive industry, office machines, food machinery, and home appliances. The main reason for this success is their low cost. Their low weight, quietness of operation, and meshing without lubricant are also interesting. However, they have poor heat resistance and are limited to rotational transmission. In order to improve the gears' behavior, glass fiber is added

With this first installment we begin a series of randomly excerpted chapters from Dr. Hermann J. Stadtfeld's new book — Practical Gear Engineering.

Plastic gears still have an entire frontier to explore, and how they measure up against their steel cousins is a question still being investigated.