At PACK EXPO Las Vegas, Nord Gear previewed its new DuoDrive and Nordac On and On+ drive systems. The DuoDrive will be available in North America in Q4 2021 and the On and On+ VFDs will be available ...

A senior design engineer explains how engineering advancements are improving gearbox performance. Insights include how precision machining, improved materials and smarter ...

Harmonic drive systems represent a class of high‐precision, compact gear mechanisms built on the principle of strain wave transmission. Their unique design incorporates a flexible toothed component – ...

Quite a few years ago, Iskenderian Racing Cams introduced a gear drive setup for small-block Chevy engines to replace the somewhat undependable chain drive system. The main drawback with Isky's ...

On the left is the gear-drive cam and its distributor drive gear, while the pair on the right are for conventional chain drive. Notice the different helix angle of the gears. Shown here are the cam ...

When mounted as mid-drive units, these motors quite literally put inhuman amounts of torque through chain-and-derailleur gear systems that struggle to cope with it. This strain is multiplied when ...