An InTech Corporation customer was experiencing a problem with one of its new paper handling machines. The customer wanted to know how to maintain precise timing between two shafts with corrugating ...

Designing a functionally interchangeable gear requires accounting for a number of subtle factors beyond pure geometry.

Design engineers face continuous pressure to enhance product performance while driving down costs. For many devices, converting metal components to plastic is an effective way of achieving both goals.

Gears make the industrial world go ’round. And RIT engineering faculty and doctoral students are working to keep them moving efficiently. Gears transmit the motion necessary to operate the equipment ...

Gears are the unit of choice for transmitting rotational force. New applications and new materials are affecting gear making and gear finishing. Here’s a look at a few of those applications. Sometimes ...

So you need a plastic gear set. Just crack open a catalog or design handbook. With a little basic information about center distances, pitch, and pressure angles in hand, you pick some matching gears.

In the first of this two-part series, we explored how new computer-based modeling of geared systems is allowing the design of gear microgeometry for durability and lower noise, vibration, and ...

Existing methods for analyzing gear system dynamics fail to accurately elucidate the response mechanisms of gear surface wear—manifesting as forms such as interference friction wear and tooth surface ...

If you’re into CNC machining, mechanical tinkering, or just love a good engineering rabbit hole, you’re in for a treat. Substack’s [lcamtuf] has written a quick yet insightful 15-minute introduction ...

This is a part focusing on landing gear design from the article Three Commercial Autogiros: The Pitcairn and Kellet machines, - a comparative study of their proportions and structure from the July ...