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Room for Improvement
Previous blogs here have celebrated the great advances made in gear industry design capabilities and machine tools. As the “paper of record” for the past several decades, Gear Technology’s digital
Observations on Air Travel, Continued
My first airline trip of the New Year ended like the last one of the previous year: in a middle seat of a fully loaded plane fighting a respiratory bug
Nostalgia Time
I am less of an airplane fan than most engineers, but the news reports of Air France scheduling special “last flights” for its retiring Boeing 747 jumbo jets due to
A Wide World of Gears
Blogging from an American perspective can sometimes make me forget that the gear industry is active around the world. I get occasional reminders in the form of e-mail questions from
Better Tools, Better Gears?
Previous blogs have discussed how fortunate we are to live in an age with the very best in gear making technology. Modern gear grinding machines can reliably produce whatever
Storage Capacity
The management here at Beyta Gear Service’s world headquarters has ordered a clean-up of certain storage areas. Our now adult children left quite a bit of things behind as they
Who Offered the First Enclosed Gearbox?
Let’s start 2016 off with a joint research project. While visiting a client late last year we got to talking gear history and he recounted a story about the first
Happy to be Back to Work?
As much as I enjoy a bit of time off it gets boring if I am away from gears for too long. Since I have been in the consulting trade
