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Charles D. Schultz

Chuck Schultz is a licensed engineer, Gear Technology Technical Editor, and Chief Engineer for Beyta Gear Service. He has written the "Gear Talk with Chuck" blog for Gear Technology since 2014.

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Taking on the Impossible

August 8, 2017

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Those multi-trillion-dollar figures thrown around for infrastructure repair make progress seem impossible without huge tax increases and a long com...

Aging Infrastructure

August 3, 2017

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After seeing the fallen Kinzua railroad viaduct (see Aug. 1 posting), my vacation continued into some of the scariest bridges and tunnels ...

Failure as Tourist

August 1, 2017

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

A New Quoting Model?

July 28, 2017

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Anyone actually enjoy quoting? For such an important part of daily business the process of establishing prices to offer a customer seems universall...

Changing Business Models?

July 26, 2017

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A few weeks ago I blogged about a disappointing shopping experience at a once-pre-eminent retailer. I must not have been the only unhappy customer ...

Authority and Responsibility

July 20, 2017

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We all got a lesson in leadership from that unfortunate collision between a U.S. Navy destroyer and a container ship off the coast of Japan. The Na...

Dangerous Waters

July 19, 2017

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When a consultant’s phone rings they never know what the client or potential client may need. Sadly, calls frequently involve sorting out messes th...

Continuous Improvement

July 13, 2017

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Much of my gear career has involved the oil patch, so it was a treat to tour the Drake Oil Well Museum near Titusville Pennsylvania recently. Colon...

Origin Stories

July 11, 2017

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Once in a while we need to take a break from the “honey do” list and start becoming familiar with our community. A trip to a nearby state park that...

The Internet Never Forgets

July 5, 2017

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Another one of those graduate student requests turned up in my e-mail inbox this week. This one referenced one of my AGMA Fall Technical Meeting pa...

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