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TCI Precision Metals A36 Carbon Steel Blanks Now Available Online

November 1, 2023

TCI Precision Metals announces that its A36 Carbon Steel, Ready-to-Ship blanks are now available from OnlineMetals.com, an e-commerce metal and plastics supplier. The pre-machined blanks allow customers to order flat, square, and parallel materials to close tolerance specifications.

TCI Precision Metals Expands Sawing Services for Flexible Material Processing

September 26, 2023

TCI Precision Metals announced the expansion of its precision sawing services to meet the demands of customers wanting more flexibility in materials processing. Customers with needs ranging from precision sawing to six-sided precision machine-ready blanks can now be accommodated. Computerized precision sawing helps TCI to serve more of the customer’s materials needs. TCI sources aluminum, stainless steel, and other alloys mill-direct, which supports customers needing value-added materials, but the Company also works with customer-supplied materials.

Gear Blank Tuning

August 1, 2020

The design of gear blanks or flanges has traditionally been driven by weight reduction. Recently innovative companies have started to use the gear blank design to tune the system dynamics to reduce gear whine.

Gear Blanking Gets Bigger at Forest City Gear

July 1, 2020

Forest City Gear is doubling down on its strategy to produce most of its critical gear blanks in-house by adding new capacity, and capabilities, to its state-of-the-art 8,500 sq. ft. precision gear blanking facility.

Supply Chain Management Users Guide

July 1, 2020

We asked a few industry suppliers to provide some insight into gear manufacturers' supply chain challenges during the pandemic.

Taking the Wait Out of High Quality Gear Blanks

August 1, 2019

Forest City Gear makes the investment to bring gear blanking in-house, giving it complete control over quality and delivery: because failure’s not an option.

Bevel Gear Blank Drawing Procedure

July 1, 2019

With this first installment we begin a series of randomly excerpted chapters from Dr. Hermann J. Stadtfeld's new book — Practical Gear Engineering.

Globalization's Effect Upon Gear Steel Quality

January 1, 2018

Prof. h... Aizoh Kubo

Background on the development of a high-speed, automatic hardness tester for gear steels.

Material Assets

November 1, 2017

You get one shot to make a first impression. One opportunity to show your customers, vendors and suppliers that you provide a steady, reliable product that will generate repeat business. How do you make this happen? What tools and strategies are available to get gear materials (forgings, gear blanks, etc.) shipped faster and more efficiently in today's tech-heavy, fast-paced, manufacturing environment?

Improved Broaching Steel Technology

July 1, 2016

Michael E. Burnett

Broaching is a machining technique commonly used to cut gear teeth or cam profiles for the high volume manufacture of power transmission parts used in vehicles (Refs. 1–2). This article shows how the right gear blank material can make all the difference if you want to get more parts out of each tool.