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April 2020

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Leading through Crisis

Manufacturers are awesome. Over the past month, we've talked to a lot of manufacturers of gears, bearings, motors, gearboxes, couplings and other mechanical power transmission components. Despite the challenges brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic and the current economic crisis, they've been universally positive and remarkably confident about their current operations and ability to continue through the crisis and after.

Technical Articles

Limitations of the Timoshenko Beam Theory

FVA Offers FE Shaft Calculations in the FVA-Workbench

Phase Management as a Strategy to Reduce Gear Whine in Idler Gear Sets

This work explains why some idler sets produce so much gear whine. While transmission error must be managed, there is another tool in the gear whine management toolbox.

Feature Articles

Dynamic Performance

PTE Examines Gearmotor and Gear Drive Technology

Engineering Showcase - Gear Drives

Our special advertising section takes a look at leading suppliers in the gear drives space.

Navigating the New Normal

Power Transmission component suppliers discuss COVID-19 Threat and how their companies are responding to keep the supply chain connected.

Open for Business

Bearings Manufacturers Support Essential Manufacturing by Staying Open through the COVID-19 Pandemic

Romax Improves Reckon Drive Product Reliability with Drivetrain Structural Simulation Software

Durability requirements must be balanced with the need for lightweight and low-cost solutions which meet noise and vibration targets whilst also exhibiting excellent efficiency.

The Dynamic Drive Toward Vehicle Electrification

The Future of E-Mobility is a Mystery - One That Will Lead to the Same Innovation, Disruption and Ingenuity Found in the Early Days of the Automotive Industry

Power Play

A Classic Computer Cameo

Siemens products and technologies seem to pop up in the strangest of places.

Product News

Product News

The complete Product News section from the April 2020 issue of Power Transmission Engineering.

Industry News

Industry News

The complete Industry News section from the April 2020 issue of Power Transmission Engineering.