Every gear engineer ends up with a shelf full of reference books. Depending upon your age and experience level these may be books you bought or boo...

I'd like to apologize to the dedicated people working on revisions to the AGMA 925 standard and the Technical Report ISO 15144-1, both of which deal with the issue of micropitting. In the March/April issue of Gear Technology, we published an opinion piece in our Voices column that harshly criticized the methods for predicting micropitting outlined in ISO 15144-1.

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?

Before going on an extended blog series on my “points system” for evaluating business opportunities, I want to talk about the importance of issuing...

The guys who taught me to estimate all had great memories for part shapes, features — even part numbers. It takes years to develop that kind of tal...

The American Gear Manufacturers’ Association [AGMA] will celebrate its 100^th Anniversary in 2016. The party will begin with the Fall Tec...

Back in 1987 I wrote a book about gears aimed at the novice engineer or purchasing agent. An Introduction to Gear Design was originally a work assi...

One of the consequences of growing older is saying good bye to friends you have made along the way. Word reached me this week that one of the best ...

The complete technical calendar from the March/April 2015 issue of Gear Technology.

[starbox] My last blog concerned project management and the problems of staying on schedule. I thought it only fair to pass on some techniques I...