Did you loose the drawings of your helical gears? Let's see how to solve this problem in 2023
As manufacturers of helical gears, we often receive requests from our customers to produce parts with incomplete drawings. In these cases, detecting the geometry of the tooth can be very complicated [...]
Gear Customization: Custom design and manufacturing
Gears are a critical part of many mechanical systems and their quality and accuracy can significantly affect overall system performance. Choosing to customize your own gears can be an ideal solution [...]
Smart gears: how technology can improve the life and performance of machinery
Have you ever heard of smart gears?Gears are critical components of many machines and vehicles, but their function can be affected by failure or wear. Fortunately, this technology can help monitor [...]
Satellite for medium-large power reducers: how it works and how it is built
Today's article is inspired by a piece we are dealing with these days and I take this opportunity to talk about its features and how it is built to ensure efficient and silent operation. We are [...]
Effective corporate offering: how to minimize risks and maximize opportunities
The offer development process is crucial for any business to achieve success. However, the greatest risk is to discover too late that the offer presented differs from the real needs of the customer. [...]
Thermal treatment of nitriding: characteristics and applications
Nitriding is a heat treatment that is performed on some types of steel to improve their resistance to fatigue and wear. Today, we will explore the specific characteristics of nitriding, the reference [...]
Gears for the gear motor department: the importance of quality
The gears are fundamental elements for the operation of the gearmotors and their quality directly affects the performance and life of the system. The quality of the gears depends on several factors, [...]
As you know GSI specializes in bespoke gears for industrial projects and today we are talking about induction hardening. It is one of the heat treatments we offer to ensure maximum hardness and wear [...]
Radial Oscillation: How to deal with noise problems in gears
Today we go back to talking about gear noise and we do it through radial oscillation. This is the radial position difference of a measuring ball between successive teeth. That is, it means that during [...]
GEAR PROPELLER CROWNING: How to deal with gear noise in 2023
We start the new year with the intention of giving you more and more interesting and useful information to better understand the technical complexity behind the gears. Today we are talking about [...]
How to understand the main involute values shown on the control chart
Understanding the main involute values shown on the control chart is essential to be able to prevent possible problems on series production. From the graph we can also identify the main errors or [...]
Today I would like to pause our usual technical article and talk more about this year's changes for our industry. By now at the close of 2022, many projects for '23 are already in the pipeline, many [...]
Straight-toothed and involute gears are certainly the ones that are mostly used in the projects that are entrusted to us every day. The former are used to transmit power between parallel shafts. While [...]
Our work is changing profoundly, more and more often we find ourselves being consultants rather than mere executors of pieces. Even the engineering sector is starting to feel the need to specialize [...]
Straight-toothed and involute gears are certainly the ones that are mostly used in the projects that are entrusted to us every day. The former are used to transmit power between parallel shafts. While [...]
Gears correction: y-type, k-type, tip relief and semi topping
The topic of gear correction is among the hottest topics in our work. We recently received a request for a project where breakage and noise issues were repeating over and over again. The idea from [...]
Gears with involute profile have the peculiarity that motion transmission takes place between two conjugated profiles which exchange normal forces, except for small friction components. In a much less [...]
Measurement is an essential theme for the work of building custom gears. In particular, we want to tell you about a recent experience we have had, which has led us to reflect on the importance of [...]
FMEA (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis) is a fundamental tool in the engineering field, which allows you to analyze and prevent possible problems that could arise in a project. In a previous article [...]
The Beveloid gear is a helical cylindrical gear with non-parallel axes but inclined up to 15°, for this reason it is very useful to apply them when a slight inclination of the axis of use is [...]
Worm gear crown: all its particularities and how to control it
The worm gear is a very particular gear to be treated, in fact, not being regulated by law, each manufacturer has its own control specifications. You will understand well that therefore we are dealing [...]
How has the role of the sales department evolved in the mechanical transmission sector in 2022?
If you remember well a while ago we talked about how much our work has changed in recent times. Sales department must have the technical skills to be able to give targeted advice to the customer on [...]
Is the customer always right in mechanics in 2022?
In these days we almost all return from holiday so I thought it was the right moment to tell you about a thorny topic for all salespeople. We grew up with the mentality that the customer should always [...]
Sustainable development: how to adapt to global warming in the mechanical sector
Today we hear more and more of sustainable development and urgent issues that I believe affect us all firsthand. As a mechanical sector we have been hearing about emissions reduction and electric [...]
How to create, improve and maintain knowledge in mechanical sector in 2022
Have you ever wondered about which is the real value of your company? Often, from the inside we struggle to realize it, we are so busy managing the problems of daily routine that we never stop to [...]
Subcontract or verticalize the work? Let's see how it was for us
Today, we would like to talk you about a process in which GSI has been involved in past months: subcontract the work or verticalize everything in the company? Obviously, there is no universally [...]
Abnormal breakage of the crown for worm gearbox: here's how to solve the problem
We recently had to manage a very complex problem for one of our customers who produces worm gearboxes. The problem to manage was the breaking of the plastic crown of the initial project. The customer [...]
The importance of knowledge: here's how to generate, maintain and preserve it over time
Some time ago we talked about the importance of knowledge and in particular how we used technology to help our production sector. Today we want to tell you about what we did on a practical level in [...]
Find out how to reduce the roughness on the profile of the gears and save the lot you owe by now for lost!
We often have to work on new projects and sometimes it can happen that we are faced with problems that are difficult to solve as in this case. It recently happened to us that a gear for the [...]
Shot peening: how a surface finish can avoid fatigue stress cracking
The mechanical components are subject to atmospheric agents that wear them out. For this reason, a heat treatment usually comes into play to strengthen the piece. If you remember a while ago we talked [...]
Reverse engineering: we bring your unique pieces back to life
Why would you want to scrap a machine that could potentially still work for a broken gear? Surely there are many reasons to do it, but so are the reasons that push us to analyze this week's case [...]
Find out how to reduce the roughness on the profile of the gears and save the lot you owe by now for lost!
Often we have to work on unpublished projects and sometimes it can happen that we are faced with problems that are difficult to solve as in this case. It recently happened to us that a gear for the [...]
Are you wondering why to carry out a statistical quality and process capacity check? I have the right solution for you ...
The final control and validation phase of the production process is one of the most critical of all prototyping. How many times does the salesman have the pressure of the customer who wants the pieces [...]
Education and the world of work: when resources and companies are incompatible
In the past months, work has grown exponentially, we have had several employees who have retired or moved. Finding the perfect person especially in production is not easy. From before the summer, we [...]
Gear deformation: the most frequent causes and the most useful solutions
Certainly, deformations are the worst enemy of gear manufacturers because in the worst case they lead to declare the piece scrap or even the whole lot. Recently, it happened to us that a shaft [...]
Increase in the prices of heat treatments? What to do?
A very important issue for those who work in mechanics and in the construction of components to be assembled is certainly that of heat treatment.If recently steel prices seem to have stabilized, it is [...]
The customer is always right! 3 + 1 cases that happened to us and how we handled them
We have been taught that the customer is always right! In this article I have collected 3 + 1 cases of customers who are particularly difficult to manage. If many of us believe that our B2C colleagues [...]
FMEA: an effective strategy to improve your control processes by optimizing time and resources
You have surely heard of FMEA and perhaps many of you have already implemented it for years. However, it seems interesting to me to address the issue to give you food for thought on how to optimize [...]
Cracks from gear grinding? Practical tips for managing control
Managing grinding cracks or better known overheating cracks is the order of the day for all of us gear manufacturers. To be honest it is also one of the most critical situations to be dealt with both [...]
Guide to the optimization of production with power skiving
Surely one of the Achilles' heels of business is productivity and the question of every entrepreneur is how to optimize it at best?Often in this period we have experienced intense delays due to the [...]
Guide to managing non-compliance: how to turn it into an advantage for your company?
Having to manage a non-compliance is always a very delicate moment, it often generates discontent in the customer. But, what if I told you that there is a way to turn a stressful situation into an [...]
How do you repare a broken gearbox without spending a fortune?
Repairing a broken gearbox without spending a fortune is not impossible, very often the parts which break are the internal gears. So why not just change those instead of buying back the whole [...]
Gears for acricultural machinery: which direction is the market taking?
Lately, we hear a lot about the future of agricultural machinery gears and the direction in which the market is heading. From the end of 2020, the recovery scenario is clear. According to Machinery [...]
Is verticalization equal to innovation? Is this always true?
In the last months, we often hear about a well-known American automotive company that has based its success on a very enterprising and, at the same time, risky all-vertical business model to pursue [...]
Gears: are small and medium series always a disadvantage?
It is often believed that working on a small scale is not very profitable or disadvantageous, but in reality it is not always said, especially in the field of gears where the projects are varied and [...]
Industry4.0: will 3D printing replace the traditional gear manufacturing?
In recent years we have often heard of revolution 4.0 and 3D printing for the production of components and tools in the mechanical field. Now, technology is evolving at great speed, on the one hand it [...]
The hydrogen engine is almost certainly a reality for the future for heavy and marine transport, while for cars, perhaps the disadvantages are still too many compared to the advantages. Analyzing the [...]
The electric motor is the new frontier of the automotive industry, but will gears still be needed? In recent months, we have heard more and more of electric mobility and sustainable development, which [...]
What does it mean to communicate with B2B or B2C? Communicate [intransitive, transitive] to share or exchange information, news, ideas, feelings, etc. (See Oxford Dictionary)Starting from this [...]
How to take advantage of Digital Marketing in the world of mechanics
Mechanics and Digital Marketing two completely opposite worlds? Or can they meet and take advantage of each other? According to G.S.I. yes, the push of the last year has been important, because [...]
Why the price of steel is continuing to increase: circular economy
Circular economy is a topic that has been discussed a lot about in the last months, considered as one of the possible solutions to many of the environmental problems that afflict the Earth. Each type [...]
Walking through the production sheds of most of the small, medium and sometimes even large companies, you can see the machines 'of the past', which make you smile a little, especially when combined [...]
Spare partsfor old machine tools, earthmoving and construction machines
The world of spare gears for old machine tools, earthmoving and construction machines is an increasingly recurring and important issue for all those who work in the field of mechanics. Buying a [...]
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