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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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How Reliable is Our Information?

September 22, 2015

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How much can we trust our understanding of how things work? There was a special joint web ex meeting this week between two AGMA committees that got...

Questions Should Not Be Disruptive

September 17, 2015

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Continuing my rant on disruptive employees: a few posts ago I mentioned the ill will I engendered early in a new job by questioning the large perce...

Disruptive is Not Necessarily Bad

September 15, 2015

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There has been some discussion on-line recently about how to deal with “disruptive employees.” As a charter member of this group I feel compelled ...

A Century of Gears

September 10, 2015

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

Ratio Analysis

September 8, 2015

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For many years my employers participated in AGMA’s Statistical Analysis Program. Member companies would fill out monthly reports on sales and vario...

When Good Employees Screw Up

September 3, 2015

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A friend of mine is the inspection department for a custom machine shop. He is also the process engineer and, occasionally, a machine operator. Rec...

Keeping Impossible Promises

September 1, 2015

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Ever been handed a completely impossible promise by your boss with the expectation that you will find a way to “make it happen?” If so, you are in...

Has School Started Yet?

August 27, 2015

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Based on television ads, Facebook posts, and the number of school buses on the road it appears school has started for the fall term. It seems a bit...

Oil Price Quandary

August 25, 2015

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Like most curmudgeons, I can do a five minute ramp on how cheap gasoline was when I was a kid and how outrageous the price is now. Living in Chicag...

Specialization is for Insects

August 20, 2015

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A few more thoughts on Alexander Graham Bell; he was so much more than the “inventor” of the telephone. Like many other creative people, he had a w...

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