UTS four-day gear training, held at UTS Rockford, teaches you basic and advanced gear design and theory. An hour of gear consulting with UTS experts is given on the last day and is included free of charge.
Tuesday
 Basic Gear Geometry, Design and Manufacturing
The fundamental theory of gearing
Review of common terminology
Basic involute theory
How changing the generating rack form affects the tooth form
What gear geometry factors are most important to control
What gear parameters are most influential in improving a gear design
How to optimize a gear set
Advanced Gear Design and Manufacturing
Tour of Forest City Gear, a world-class fine-pitch gear shop in Roscoe, Illinois
Wednesday
Tour of Gleason Pfauter-Maag Cutting Tools’ gear manufacturing plant
Establishing preliminary design specifications
Designing and analyze the gear geometry
How to apply tip relief and crowning
Visual evaluation of the mesh
How lubrication affects your gear applications
Determining life and stress of gear sets
Sound plastic gear design methods for spur, helical and epicyclic (Planetary) gears
Thursday
Knowledge of robust design methods
Application of non-standard proportions
Making the best of material properties
Accounting for extreme conditions
Minimizing operational variation
Predicting tooth deflection at mesh temperature
Maximizing contact ratio
Applying proper tip relief
Design and selection of tooling
Use of grinding
Friday
Individual one-on-one time with instructor - one hour free! (A $250 value). Bring your prints and design problems.
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