March/April 2006

The Premise and the Promise

March 1, 2006

Gear Technology was founded 22 years ago on a very simple principle: to provide the best possible educational articles and information for the gear industry.

Blue Skies for Aerospace Parts Manufacturing

March 1, 2006

Aerospace manufacturing has seen quite a turnaround in the past few years. The world's manufacturers of airplanes, helicopters, missiles, space vehicles and satellites are all extremely busy right now--and that's keeping quite a few gear manufacturers busy as well.

Medical Device Manufacturing Keeps Gear Industry Healthy

March 1, 2006

When Forest City Gear started manufacturing gears for medical components in the 1980s, it was a minuscule part of the company's business. Today, the medical device industry represents 18-20%.

Wind Energy: An Established Industry with Emerging Opportunities

March 1, 2006

"An industrial business with a very important growth potential for the next decade." That's the wind energy as described by Ivan Brems of gear manufacturer Hansen Transmissions International.

Proposal for Tip Relief Modification to Reduce Noise and Sensitivity to Meshing Conditions in Spur Gears

March 1, 2006

In this article, a new tip relief profile modification for spur gears is presented. The topography proposed here is a classical linear profile modification with a parabolic fillet.

Detailed Computer Model of Gearbox Reduces Design Time

March 1, 2006

LMS International helped a Fiat subsidiary develop a new, dynamic vibro-acoustic prediction method to reduce design time and engineering costs through accurate prediction of gear noise in the design phase.

What's the Right Tolerance

March 1, 2006

Charles D. Schultz

Charles Schultz of Brad Foote Gear Works discusses some of the finer points of engineering tolerances--and muscle cars.

What's on Your iPod

March 1, 2006

Songs with gear-related lyrics, courtesy of the Addendum team.

Letters: Readers Respond

March 1, 2006

The following letters were written in response to the Publisher's Page editorial, "Is Gear Expo Worth It?" which appeared in the November/December 2005 issue.

Shorter Cycle Times for Carburizing

March 1, 2006

Dana Corp. is developing a process that carburizes a straight bevel gear to a carbon content of 0.8% in 60 fewer minutes than atmosphere carburizing did with an identical straight bevel.