Starting a Life in Gears
“The gypsies know my future, the angels know my past, I roll around this big wide world to find a love that lasts.” — Excerpt, […]
Month: February 2017
Operator Error
The backlash discussion posted previously was inspired by the comments posted on a hobby website I frequent. The commentator was of the opinion that a […]
Unreasonable Backlash
Not to worry — no politics here. The “backlash” I want to talk about is the “lost motion” in gear systems. It sometimes seems to […]
Lowering That Overhead, Part II
How many of you have any idea what your company spends on perishable tooling? Working for small companies with tight wad owners perhaps made me […]
Faster is Not Always Better
That old “Overhead” article reminded me of what a shock it was when we first moved into cellular manufacturing. After years of investigating ways to […]
Engineering Economy in 1912
In the same issue of Industrial Engineering that Percy C. Day published his treatise on herringbone gears, Sterling H. Bunnell offered “Expense Burden: Its Incidence […]
Gear Technology in 1912
Continuing with that January 1912 issue of Industrial Engineering magazine … Imagine the courage it took to present a seven-page article on your gear system […]