Defining the Tooth Flank Temperature in High-Speed Gears May 19, 2022 Robert Errichello, John B. Amendola, and John B. Amendola III The objective of this paper is to improve the methodology for determining the tooth flank temperature. Two methods are proposed for assessing scuffing risk when applying AGMA 925 for high-speed gears. Both methods provide similar results.Read More
SMT Announces Bearings in MASTA Webinar November 5, 2021 SMT’s November webinar discusses the implementation of bearings in MASTA and aims to give an overview of methodology along with ava...Read More
The Book of Knowledge December 9, 2020 Charles D. Schultz No Comments Gears are wonderful things. Unfortunately, they require support from shafts, bearings, and some sort of housing to be useful. Without these things,...Read More
The Fun Part December 2, 2020 Charles D. Schultz No Comments In the last blog posting, I covered the importance of developing a Product Specification and getting all the “stakeholders” to agree on what a succ...Read More
It All Depends ... October 21, 2020 Charles D. Schultz No Comments Regular followers of this blog know whenever I say “it all depends,” that I am compelled to credit industry legend Ray Drago for stealing his catch...Read More
Closing the Gap October 14, 2020 Charles D. Schultz No Comments We left the gear tribe arguing over how to solve the problems that were cropping up with the new-fangled double helical or herringbone designs. Fas...Read More
Playing the Angles October 7, 2020 Charles D. Schultz No Comments When we cannot even agree how to pronounce “helical” it should not be a surprise that there is so much confusion about “proper” limits on helix ang...Read More
Ask the Expert: 5/20/20 Edition May 20, 2020 Charles D. Schultz No Comments From time to time I’ll be doing some brief Ask the Expert questions and answers. These questions will be on topics that might be very familiar ...Read More
Building on Solid Ground November 14, 2019 Charles D. Schultz No Comments Continuing my rant on over-reliance on commercial software The gears are the easy part. My clients and students have grown tired of my ...Read More
Thoughts on Team Building September 26, 2019 Charles D. Schultz No Comments The last post suggested constructing a fighting robot machine as a team building exercise. As a sole proprietor for the last eleven years, I am a b...Read More