Civil or transport engineering failures are very public. They tend to get investigated far more thoroughly than typical mechanical engineering prob...

There are many benefits to attending Gear Expo, but if you're not taking advantage of the educational opportunities, you're missing out.

I have been following developments on gear making in general-purpose CNC machines with great interest. The advent of affordable gear grinding seems...

I used to tease our maintenance staff that there were only two reasons a machine went down: it went down because we worked on it or because we did ...

How do we educate the next generation of gear industry employees, and how do we train the ones we already have?

I have great admiration for people who can speak multiple languages, a skill that had eluded me despite two fairly serious efforts to learn a secon...

Gear Technology and its sister publication, Power Transmission Engineering, have FaceBook pages...

A current project has reminded me just how difficult it is to pull cost estimates together. You would think that with business being slow due to th...

One of the perks of being a “public” gear person is the opportunity to interact with interesting people in and around our industry. Gear Techno...

One thing that struck me during the Gear Expo was the large amount of grey hair on the heads of those in the exhibit hall. While it was great to se...