One of my “beefs” with sports terms taking over business discussions is the annexation of perfectly good words. A few days ago a national sports ta...

Twenty years ago, a colleague devoted many hours to developing an all-inclusive computer program that would convert a twenty-question form into fin...

Noted gear consultant and gear educator Ray Drago is fond of saying that a consultant’s best answers usually start with “it depends.” Those of you ...

One of the first things you hear upon becoming a parent is that “children keep you young.” Once, I foolishly thought this referred to your physical...

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Faith — paraphrasing the gospels of Matthew and Mark — can move mountains. But it helps if you have precision geared equipment.

As mentioned in my last blog, Formula 1 gearboxes are now highly integrated into the overall car design. The days of a “spec” transmission from a t...

“All memorable quotations referring to gearboxes involve expletives.” Peter Wright

            The author of Fo...

My previous posting on engineering vs. science reminded me of a professor who insisted “real engineers” had to be able to reason things back to “fi...