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Dwight Smith

Dwight Smith is vice president at Nidec Machine Tool America LLC. Formerly, he was the Sales Manager for Kapp Technologies, and product manager for the R&P Metrology line of large gear measuring equipment, which Kapp Technologies distributes in North America. He has over twenty-five years of experience in the gear industry and gear metrology. He has chaired an AGMA committee and is an instructor for the AGMA Basic Gear School.

Articles by Dwight Smith

INDUSTRY NEWS | 2018-11-15

Beautiful on the Inside

Higher Quality Internal Gears

TECHNICAL ARTICLES | 2015-07-01

I Like Big Gears and I Cannot Lie!

Many years ago, when asked how the five-meter gear was checked, the quality manager responded, “When they’re that big, they’re never bad!” That may have been the attitude and practice in the past, but it no longer serves the manufacturer nor the customer. Requirements have been evolving steadily, requiring gears to perform better and last longer.
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