Business or Art? October 4, 2016 Charles D. Schultz No Comments Continuing with the Manufacturing Month theme… Darle W. Dudley referred to the gear trade as an “art.” This reminds me of the early days of Ge...Read More
One Step at a Time September 29, 2016 Charles D. Schultz No Comments My first drafting class involved a lot of pencil sharpening. It was a boring exercise that the students found somewhat insulting. There were pencil...Read More
Each One Teach One September 27, 2016 Charles D. Schultz No Comments I have posted before about the many people who helped me along the way to becoming a productive member of the gear community. Today I would like to...Read More
Articles Wanted September 22, 2016 Charles D. Schultz No Comments In a short chat in the Gear Technology booth at the International Machine Tool Show the topic came up of what sort of articles o...Read More
Book Reviewers Needed September 20, 2016 Charles D. Schultz No Comments Every gear engineer ends up with a shelf full of reference books. Depending upon your age and experience level these may be books you bought or boo...Read More
Important Travel Skills September 15, 2016 Charles D. Schultz No Comments A cable TV movie brought a chuckle here at the world headquarters for an opening scene of two soon-to-be-dead characters arguing over a road map. A...Read More
Reinventing the Factory September 13, 2016 Charles D. Schultz No Comments McCormick Place will be transformed into a wonderland of machinery and tooling this weekend for the 2016 version of the International Machine Tool ...Read More
What if God Were One of Us in Sozhou China? September 6, 2016 Charles D. Schultz No Comments The familiar words of Joan Osborne’s “What if God Were One of Us?” wafted out of the lounge when we returned from a long day of touring s...Read More
Contingency Planning September 1, 2016 Charles D. Schultz No Comments I got caught up in a messy but foreseeable travel delay coming home from my first trip to China. Foreseeable because airplanes are machines and mac...Read More
Hear it First at FTM 2016 August 30, 2016 Charles D. Schultz No Comments Gear Technology has a long history of publishing and archiving important technical papers from the American Gear Manufacturers’ Associatio...Read More
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