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5 Things To Consider Before Buying Spiral Bevel Gear Drives
Right angle gearboxes are complex mechanisms whose specification can demand close collaboration. This white paper explores 5 important questions to vendors.
How to Analyze Gear Failures
When an important gear failure occurs, someone becomes responsible for analyzing the failure, determining its cause and recommending a solution. A company can select its own engineer, an...
How to Set Up a Planetary Gear Motion with SOLIDWORKS
Discover how you can set up a planetary gear assembly in SOLIDWORKS that demonstrates realistic motion of three drive types using gear mates, as well as mates between reference geometry and sketches.
Demonstration on How to Properly Install a Shaft-Mount Gear Unit
Proper shaft mounting reduces the load on bearings and extends the life expectancy of your equipment. In this short video clip, learn the tools necessary and...
Simple Animations Show How All Kinds of Gears Work
Duc Thang Nguyen has spent his retirement rendering new machine gears in 3D design software. The results are hypnotic.
How Do Spiral Separators Work?
See how Profile Industries uses spiral separators to create shape classification solutions for a variety of agricultural and industrial needs.
Keeping the Gears in Motion: How IIoT Drives Predictive Maintenance
Unplanned machine downtime can disrupt operations, diminish employee productivity, and generate high costs for emergency repairs. IIoT devices offer an effective solution by transmitting data on temperature, vibration, friction, and other factors, enablin...
Making one-step beveling a reality in the metal fabrication shop
A plasma cutting system that uses laser scanning of parts aims to eliminate the two-step beveling process for metal fabricators.
Understanding Gears, Gear Metrology, & Gear Measurement
Have you ever driven a car? Ever used an elevator? What about watching the wing flaps move up and down while staring out the window on a boring flight from Detroit to Des Moines? Whether you know it or not, these things all rely on gears to translate forces into rotational motion. The list doesn’t …
CNC Machine Shop Reaps Benefits of Hiring an IT Person
A database guru combined off-the-shelf technology with an elaborate proprietary shop management software to drive efficiency throughout all areas of a machine shop.>
What is the Most Important Piece of Information Needed for Vibration Analysis?
Is it bearing information, number of poles, frame size, number of gears, impellers, blades, horse power, operating voltage, motor type, manufacturer, number of belts, sheave size, or tooth count? Nope! None of the above. All of the above information is great to have when analyzing vibration data, but the single most important item that is …
Why Bother With Retractable Gear?
Planes with retractable gear cost weight and money, not to mention the risk of gear-up landings. So why pilots are still infatuated with them?
When to choose a worm or helical gear
It may be conventional wisdom that using a helical gearbox design will lead to more system efficiency than using a worm gear design.
What Are the Key Approaches in Gearbox Selection?
Over the years, gears and gearboxes have been used for several industrial operations. They are not only an excellent tool to increase the operational output, but also transmit rotational force required for a device to move. Considering the increasing demands, most of the businesses choose high-quality, branded gearboxes for consistent and smooth operations. Thus, selecting a gearbox is an important task. There are various types of…
STEM Made Easy: Gearing Up for Robotics
From robots that vacuum your floor to those that can cook you dinner or perform surgery, robotics plays an important part in our lives. Learning how to program, design, and maybe even compete with …
When it Comes to Custom Team Gear, Let Technology Help
There’s a tongue-in-cheek saying going around these days in the tech world that, at some point in the not-so-distant future, we’re all going to lose our job to robots.
Tech Gear Setup Problems Continue to Deter Customers: Study
Approximately 90 percent of consumers who have a problem setting up a new technology product will return it within seven days if it is too tough to install.
How to Calculate the RPM of a VFD
How do you calculate the RPM (Revolutions Per Minute) of a Variable Frequency Drive (VFD)? This is what we will go over in this post. A Variable Frequency Drive, which is most often abbreviated as VFD, is a type of mechanical drive system used to control AC motor speed and torque by varying motor input …
Sync Gear: How World War I Fighters Avoided Damaging Their Own Propellers
Did you ever wonder how World War I machine gun operators were able to fire from the air without damaging their propellers? Sync gear, also known as an int
Ten Dos and Don'ts of Applying Variable Speed Drives
Inefficient energy allocation, heat generation and noise are<br>typical concerns among facility engineers in manufacturing<br>environments. Parker’s new...
