Month: August 2016

Gear Technology has a long history of publishing and archiving important technical papers from the American Gear Manufacturers’ Association (AGMA) Fall Technical Meeting (FTM). For […]

My recent blog on educating kids on gears coincided with a birthday party invitation for a great nephew. Not having grandchildren of our own — […]

  Has your e-mail inbox been full lately? It is a sure sign that the International Machine Tool Show (IMTS) is rapidly approaching. This years […]

The metaphor post got me thinking of just how much miscommunication occurs because people do not speak or write directly to the point. Aside from […]

  As one of our trade’s more accessible “experts,” I am happy to field questions from the general public, too. This week one of the […]

  A commercial touting the reboot of MacGyver just appeared on my office TV screen and I recall with fondness its tales of improvised solutions. […]

  Today begins my ninth year as a consulting engineer! It shocks me that I have now worked for myself longer than as an employee […]

Following up on my last blog concerning the now-defunct giants of mill building…the geniuses who designed those machines never got the individual acclaim they deserved. […]

  Our Facebook page recently displayed some great vintage photos of the old Mesta Machine shop. Back when American firms built the biggest and best […]