Design engineers face continuous pressure to enhance product performance while driving down costs. For many devices, converting metal components to plastic is an effective way of achieving both goals.

The use of plastic gears is limited, largely because it takes special expertise to design them properly. Too, many engineers deal with gears so infrequently, The use of plastic gears is limited, ...

A semiconductor processor was having contamination problems from metal and plastic gears due to intense chemical, thermal and high vacuum conditions. They were considering technical ceramics for ...

Gleason Corp., a specialist in cutting tools and metalworking machinery to produce metal gears, is moving into plastic gear production by purchasing K2 Plastics Inc. of Bergen, N.Y. Bergen is near ...

It's usually safe to assume that steel is stronger and more wear resistant than plastic. But plastic gears have been shown to outperform metal ones in high-speed feeders that insert postcards inside ...

Makers, engineers and hobbyists who would like to automatically manufacture a variety of different size plastic gears you might be interested in a unique machine built using a little Arduino hardware, ...

It’s very likely that a majority of readers will have had a gear fail in a piece of equipment, causing it to be unrepairable. This is a problem particularly with plastic gears, which shed teeth faster ...

Even before the Industrial Revolution, gears of one kind or another have been put to work both for and against us. From ancient water wheels and windmills that ground grain and pounded flax, to the ...

Gears of War 4 hits Oct. 11 on the Xbox One and Windows PC and, if you’re willing to drop $450, you can get a spectacularly customized Xbox One S console and controller to go along with it. The Xbox ...