If you’re looking for a gear manufacturer, you might see various manufacturers discussing how much experience they have in the game, both in terms of business history, and in terms of collective engineering experience among their top employees. Intuitively, you can guess that more experience is a good thing, but why, specifically, does it matter …Continued

Spur gears are the “traditional” gear shape, with a cylindrical form surrounded by external teeth, but they certainly aren’t the only type of gear available. One of the next most common gear forms is the helical gear, is also cylindrical gear but with teeth that wrap around the gear in a helix. Helical gears compensate …Continued

Ideally, the gears in your machines will last forever. However, they’re moving parts made from earthly material, and eventually, they’ll experience wear and tear that interferes with their structural integrity. Most gears last for decades under the right conditions, far surpassing their intended needs, but there are some factors that can influence how long a …Continued

Have you ever heard of gear backlash? It doesn’t refer to a gear-based revolt against manufacturers. Instead, backlash is an error in motion that happens naturally in systems where gears change direction. If unaccounted for, backlash can cause major problems in gear degradation and can even compromise the entire system. So how do we prepare …Continued

Gear manufacturers produce far more than traditionally shaped spur gears. Bevel gears, which are conically shaped and most often mounted on shafts that are 90 degrees apart, but can be designed to work at other angles as well, are one of the lesser-known gear types, but they’re an important type of gear with a number of …Continued

There are many ways for a gear manufacturer to consider the gears they produce. You can think about the size and shape, the purpose they’re about to be used for, or even the materials they’re made out of. But one of the most efficient ways to categorize gears is based on the relative position of …Continued

Gears are produced in a number of different ways, so there’s no single gear manufacturing “process” that can be used to describe the creation of all gears. Why? Well for starters, there are many types of gears, including traditional “spur” gears, but also helical gears, whose teeth spiral around the center of the gear, herringbones, …Continued

According to a recent report, 9 out of 11 separate gear manufacturing markets in the United States are poised for growth in 2017. The report, released by the American Gear Manufacturer’s Association (AGMA), projects that demand for gears will grow 6.4 percent in 2017, to $40 billion in total sales (which includes domestic consumption, exports, …Continued

Gears are some of the most important simple machines we use in the modern world, even with the advances in technology we’ve seen unfold in the past decade. The magic of gears lies in the transference of directional power, and for that to occur as desired, gears need a proper “gear ratio” in relation to …Continued

Gears are necessary components for machines as small as your pocket watch and as big as the International Space Station. But when you’re considering the type of gear for your machine, or if you’re wondering how to budget for gear manufacturing for repairs and replacements, you may need to understand the life expectancy of a …Continued