Whitepaper: Understanding Your Gear Drive Ratings

The power capacity of a gear drive is important to ensure successful operation of driven equipment with minimum downtime. Making sure that the unit is correct for the application can be a difficult task. Download the whitepaper to achieve a better understanding of your gear drive ratings.

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There Must Be 50 Ways to Reduce a Duty Cycle

By Norm Parker

Reducing a duty cycle is a very niche skill and for reasons that are beyond me, people get territorial and emotional about sharing their methods. Maybe it’s because they spent hours hammering out the calculations and they think their method is a mathematical secret; or it could be that in the process they made it so cumbersome, they couldn't re-create it if they tried. I’m not sure. Either way — we will cover a couple of simple methods to get you started off on the right foot.

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Power Transmission Technology Update May 9, 2017
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[sponsored content] Whitepaper: Understanding Your Gear Drive Ratings The power capacity of a gear drive is important to ensure successful operation of driven equipment with minimum downtime. Making sure that the unit is correct for the application can be a difficult task. Download the whitepaper to achieve a better understanding of your gear drive ratings. Read More
There Must Be 50 Ways to Reduce a Duty Cycle By Norm Parker Reducing a duty cycle is a very niche skill and for reasons that are beyond me, people get territorial and emotional about sharing their methods. Maybe it’s because they spent hours hammering out the calculations and they think their method is a mathematical secret; or it could be that in the process they made it so cumbersome, they couldn't re-create it if they tried. I’m not sure. Either way — we will cover a couple of simple methods to get you started off on the right foot. Read More
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