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GS: You purchased the company along with your partners in 1993, but Colonial Tool had been around for a long time by then, hadn’t it? BF:Yes, it had. It was originally founded in 1934 as th...

Trained as a chemical engineer —and having spent some 25 years with Uniroyal—Bipin Doshi was looking for a new challenge; namely, going into business for himself. His last assignment wi...

For three generations members of his family have overseen the legacy created by Gordon Walker in 1950. Having worked for Walker Manufacturing—which was also owned by his family and produced a...

Well, IMTS 2006 is now behind us. I sincerely hope that you all had a good experience at the show, and I really hope that you took the time to review the safety aspects of the equipment that intere...

Over the past 100 years there has been a remarkable improvement in gear capacities. This increase in the density of a power transmission unit has been brought about by improved materials and machin...

GS: Give us a little background on the company.JR:DECO Products has been in business since 1960, and we’re based in Decorah, Iowa. I’ve been with the company for the past 12 years. We ...

In the early 1900s the maintenance engineer at a textile plant in Göteborg, Sweden, found himself puzzling over a problem. The land on which the facility was built had a tendency to shift due ...

The application of electrolytic metal removal technology to medium through high volume production in automotive, aerospace, medical, computer, and other markets has continued to expand as advanceme...

Surface densification provides the opportunity for PM technology to advance into the manufacture of highly stressed product groups, such as automotive transmission gears. A key durability design re...

Last month we discussed the importance of safety meetings and related materials. Since then I have come across a company that maintains a portfolio on safety meetings. The company is named Business...

Bronze Bronze Forgings and CastingsGear bronzes are designated according to their major alloying element. Only the aluminum and beryllium copper bronzes can improve their mechanical properties by h...

GS: Tell us about your own research at the Turbomachinery Lab. DC: Most of my work has to do with stability problems in high-performance rotating machinery, and that includes pumps, tu...

Back in the late sixties a successful power transmission supply salesman struck up a friendship with one of his customers. The owner of the company was a brilliant scientist, but not quite as adept...

With a reputation for manufacturing some of the strongest and quietest automobile axle assemblies, production at the Getrag Axle Plant in Newton, North Carolina, has grown steadily over the years. ...

Designing and manufacturing custom gearboxes for the automotive industry requires the careful combination of opposing criteria if the manufacturer is to increase torque while simultaneously reducin...

The variation of the tooth meshing stiffness is a primary source of noise. In production lines for gear manufacturing in large volumes, such as for the automobile industry, a gear is produced using...

Imagine curing the coatings on your gears with the flip of a light switch, and being able to handle and examine the end results only a few moments later. Think of the time savings, and also the inc...

Regularly scheduled safety meetings are an important means of keeping everyone aware of the companyís policies, and also of gathering information from the front lines in the ongoing battle a...

Popular practice is to mill the worm, heat treat, finish grind and, for best results, polish. Material for the worm requires a hard, smooth surface in combination with a high core strength. In gene...

GS: I’m curious about the company’s name, what is its origin?DJ:The company was founded in Germany about 80 years ago by Richard Glimpel—whose family still owns it—and Otto...

There was a time in and around Warren, Ohio, when the most welcome sight a manufacturer experiencing difficulties with a machine could see was a truck rolling through the gates with a magnetic sig...

Microscopic examination of the traditionally ground tooth surfaces of automotive transmission gears reveals a micro-roughness and unidirectional pattern corresponding to the direction of the gear t...

Forging is a diverse industry, and Seco has a number of different furnaces, atmosphere generating systems, and quenching systems to accommodate its many needs; not only in producing the forging pro...

The first National Machine Tool Builders’ Exposition was held September 19-23, 1927, in the Cleveland Auditorium. The show occupied 63,000 square feet and attendance topped 12,000. Many of th...

Its name has multiple meanings, having to do with such tenets as self sufficiency and entrepreneurial will. Founded by Kohki Imura in Toyama, Japan, the Nachi Fujikoshi Corporation has exemplified ...

How are you enjoying your summer so far? This is the time of year that causes many production difficulties due to vacations and other reasons for employee absence. We can easily understand their r...

The first scale for comparing the hardness of materials was devised by the German mineralogist Friedrich Mohs in 1820. The scale is based on a sequence of 10 carefully selected substances arranged ...

An active ISO Working Group (WG) typically meets two to four times a year during active project development. It is time again to review the current ISO gear standards activity with a brief report o...

GS: Tell us about your background with Inductoheat.GD: This marks my twentieth year with the Inductotherm Group, Inductoheat’s parent company, though I began my career with Thermatool—...

As president and founder of Pyromaitre, Mario Grenier has established a reputation for his creativity and problem-solving skills. Perhaps those seeds were sewn during his university studies, when h...

Planetary gears in heavy truck gearboxes are normally manufactured by forging a blank, turning, hobbing, shaving, and heat-treatment followed by grinding. Due to the size of the gear the net shape ...

It is well established that carburization of low alloy steels promotes compressive residual surface stress upon quenching, and that compressive surface stresses enhance fatigue life. Building upon ...

The single-pass bore finishing process was originally developed to improve the bore quality of cast iron components, such as hydraulic valve bodies. For many years it was thought that while ideally...