Robert Errichello heads his own gear consulting firm, GEARTECH, and is founder of GEARTECH Software, Inc. He has over 50 years of industrial experience. He has been a consultant to the gear industry for the past 37 years and to over 50 wind turbine manufacturers, purchasers, operators, and researchers. He has taught courses in material science, fracture mechanics, vibration, and machine design at San Francisco State University and the University of California at Berkeley. He has presented numerous seminars on design, analysis, lubrication, and failure analysis of gears and bearings to professional societies, technical schools, and the gear, bearing, and lubrication industries. A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, Errichello holds BS and MS degrees in mechanical engineering and a Master of Engineering degree in structural dynamics. He is a member of several AGMA Committees, including the AGMA Gear Rating Committee, AGMA/AWEA Wind Turbine Committee, ASM International, ASME Power Transmission and Gearing Committee, STLE, NREL GRC, and the Montana Society of Engineers. Bob has published over 80 articles on design, analysis, and application of gears, and is the author of three widely used computer programs for design and analysis of gears. He is technical editor for GEAR TECHNOLOGY and STLE Tribology Transactions. Errichello is recipient of the AGMA TDEC Award, the AGMA E.P. Connell Award, the AGMA Lifetime Achievement Award, the STLE Wilbur Deutch Memorial Award, the 2015 STLE Edmond E. Bisson Award, and the AWEA Technical Achievement Award.