The Importance of Scut Work December 19, 2017 Charles D. Schultz No Comments At the risk of permanently cementing my curmudgeon status, today’s blog is a defense of scut work as a necessary tool for training young engineers....Read More
Engineering Safety (Part Two) December 14, 2017 Charles D. Schultz No Comments To an engineer there are no accidents, only unanticipated consequences of situations that need to be better understood. We even have a rule about i...Read More
Engineering Safety (Part One) December 12, 2017 Charles D. Schultz No Comments Watching the movie Deepwater Horizon got me thinking about current attitudes on workplace safety. (Full disclosure — I am a bit of a cr...Read More
Still Pumped About Herringbones November 30, 2017 Charles D. Schultz No Comments I rambled on about herringbone gear in my last posting but still have more to share on these once commonplace gears. Today we’ll cover the use of c...Read More
Department of Corrections November 28, 2017 Charles D. Schultz No Comments It was brought to my attention that the graphics used in my recent “herringbone” postings actually show double helical gears. I have a great suppor...Read More
Herringbones 102 November 16, 2017 Charles D. Schultz No Comments Imagine for a moment that your boss invented the herringbone tooth form and tasked you with building machines to cut them. This was the situation P...Read More
Herringbones 101 November 14, 2017 Charles D. Schultz No Comments I try to avoid technical matters here in the blog on the grounds that we have an entire magazine to cover the “hard stuff.” Besides, very few topic...Read More
KISSsoft and Gleason Offer Two Software Solutions, One Design Interface November 13, 2017 KISSsys is KISSsoft‘s system add-on that enables you to model complete gear units and drive trains. KISSsoft calculates the service...Read More
Write it Down November 9, 2017 Charles D. Schultz No Comments Gear Expo was a wonderful opportunity to meet old friends and make new ones. While I was out collecting swag, purely in support of my reporting dut...Read More
Swag of the Expo Awards November 2, 2017 Charles D. Schultz No Comments My last blog covered the motivation for the Swag of the Expo award and my inspiration in creating it. Top contenders that did not quite qualify for...Read More