The U.S. heat treat industry is in the middle of a labor shortage. Here's a look at what companies in the industry are doing about it.

Finding capable, dependable machinists is one of the great challenges of modern manufacturing. Most gear manufacturers we talk to would hire more machine operators - if only they could find them. They lament the fact that their workforce is getting older and grayer, and they don't know what to do.

For most of human history, skills were passed from one generation to the next by some form of apprenticeship. Only in the last couple of centuries ...

Here is the first of our guest blogs on the topic of how you entered the gear trade. Chris Trochelman (pictured above, fa...

The complete industry news section from the June 2018 issue of Gear Technology.

The complete industry news section from the May 2018 issue of Gear Technology.

It is difficult to know where to start when writing about worm gears, because this market segment has defied “standardization” within the United St...

Last issue, when I went over the results from our annual State of the Gear Industry survey, I was being too nice. Sure, there's still a lot of optimism about the business climate. Gear manufacturers are mostly busy. For most, 2018 looks like it will be at least a little better than 2017. But there are dark clouds ahead, and they've been building for some time.