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Supply Chain

INDUSTRY NEWS | 2024-08-06

Role of Forging in Supply Chain Resilience

The success of manufacturing critical components, such as ship shafts, gears, artillery or adaptor plates/rings, depends on their design and how well that design can be translated into a tangible, cost-effective, high-quality product. This is where Design for Manufacturability (DFM) comes into play. The significance of DFM rests in the forging process's role in creating a robust and resilient supply chain.

INDUSTRY NEWS | 2023-10-20

Forest City Gear Attains Level 2 CMMC 2.0 Compliance

Forest City Gear has updated its technology infrastructure and policies in compliance with Level 2 Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) 2.0. The CMMC program ensures the protection of federal contract information and controlled unclassified information for suppliers within the U.S. Department of Defense’s supply chain. Through self-assessments aligned with NIST SP 800.171, Forest City Gear policies have proven to meet the 110 practices required for CMMC 2.0 compliance.

INDUSTRY NEWS | 2023-03-01

Lockheed Martin Enters Long-Term Agreement With Ronson Gears

Lockheed Martin Space has entered into its first-ever international Long-Term Agreement with Melbourne-based manufacturer Ronson Gears under its Global Supply Chain (GSC) Program agreement with the Commonwealth of Australia. This Long-Term Agreement will supply multiple gear and gear sets across various Space programs to enhance lead times while decreasing administrative burdens. 

FEATURE ARTICLES | 2022-02-23

2022 State of the Gear Industry

Gear Technology’s annual State-of-the-Gear-Industry survey polls gear manufacturers about the latest trends and opinions relating to the overall health of the gear industry. As in years past, the survey was conducted anonymously, with invitations sent by e-mail to gear industry companies — primarily in North America, but also including some respondents from around the world. Nearly 200 individuals responded to the survey.

FEATURE ARTICLES | 2020-07-01

Supply Chain Management Users Guide

We asked a few industry suppliers to provide some insight into gear manufacturers' supply chain challenges during the pandemic.
INDUSTRY NEWS | 2020-06-02

IMTS Offers Resources to Rebuild the Supply Chain

For the manufacturing industry, “We’re all in this together” means rebuilding fragile supply chains and rethinking part...
INDUSTRY NEWS | 2019-08-20

Thyssenkrupp Materials Services Introduces Digital Supply Chain Technologies

Thyssenkrupp Materials Services is continuing its digitalization offensive with the introduction of a flexible IT infrastructure for smar...
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TECHNICAL ARTICLES | 2017-01-01

Repair of Large, Surface-Degraded Industrial Gears - a New Approach

This paper presents a new approach to repair industrial gears by showing a case study where pressure angle modification is also considered, differently from the past repairing procedures that dealt only with the modification of the profile shift coefficient. A computer program has been developed to automatically determine the repair alternatives under two goals: minimize the stock removal or maximize gear tooth strength.
FEATURE ARTICLES | 2016-03-01

Plastic Gearing Continues Converting the Unconverted

Plastic gears are everywhere today - throughout your car, at the oceans' lowest depths, in deep space. The question, when is a metal gear a candidate for plastic conversion, can be addressed in three words, i.e. what's the application?
GEAR TALK WITH CHUCK | 2015-08-25

Oil Price Quandary

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...
GEAR TALK WITH CHUCK | 2014-07-31

Management vs. Leadership

[starbox] Recent posts about the management training “movement” of the late 20th century got me thinking about why those efforts — no matter how...
GEAR TALK WITH CHUCK | 2014-05-01

So How Much is This Going to Cost?

[starbox] Estimating is a necessary evil in every shop. Nobody wants to do it, but if it doesn’t get done there is no business. Fortunately, we ...
INDUSTRY NEWS | 2012-12-21

Micro Precision Joins Aerospace Supply Chain Program

In line with its policy of continually improving all aspects of its operations, Hemel Hempstead based Micro Precision has signed up to th...
EVENTS | 2012-03-01

Technical Calendar

The complete Technical Calendar from the March/April 2012 issue of Gear Technology.
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FEATURE ARTICLES | 2011-05-01

The Global Gear Industry - Insights, Projections, Facts and Figures

A series of short reports on global manufacturing growth and the gear industry's role.
FEATURE ARTICLES | 2010-01-01

Tapping into the Wind Gearbox Supply Chain

Although typically considered a late bloomer in the call to wind energy arms, the United States is now the number one wind power producer in the world with over 25,000 MW installed by the end of 2008, according to the Global Wind Energy Council in January 2009.
VOICES | 2007-11-01

Responding to Market and Customer Needs

For many in the gear and gear products business, these may seem like the best of times...
ADDENDUM | 2006-03-01

What's on Your iPod

Songs with gear-related lyrics, courtesy of the Addendum team.
PRODUCT NEWS | 2005-11-01

Product News

The complete Product News from the November/December 2005 issue of Gear Technology
TECHNICAL ARTICLES | 1996-07-01

Noise Reduction in Plastic & Powder Metal Gear Sets

The data discussed in this article was taken from an upright vacuum cleaner. This was a prototype cleaner that was self-propelled by a geared transmission. It was the first time that the manufacturer had used a geared transmission in this application.
TECHNICAL ARTICLES | 1987-05-01

Gear Roll-Finishing

In this discussion of gear roll-finishing particular attention is called to the special tooth nomenclature resulting from the interaction between the rolling die teeth and the gear teeth. To eliminate confusion the side of a gear tooth that is in contact with the "approach" side of a rolling die tooth is also considered to be the approach side. The same holds true for the "trail" side. Thus, the side of the gear tooth that is in contact with the trail side of a rolling die is also considered to be the trail side.
INDUSTRY NEWS | 1984-08-01

Industry News and AGMA Calendar

Herman Riccio, Chicago Gear Works President, to Retire; Gleason Opens MI Sales Office; American Pfauter hires Steve Peterson; plus AGMA's technical calendar for the Fall of 1984.
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