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.

Plastic gears can bring many advantages to power transmission designs, says UFE Senior Product Engineer Andrew Ulrich. First among them is cost-effective manufacturing by molding rather than hobbing, ...

[Shane] made a project that speaks directly to our heart — combining laser cutting, cardboard, and gears. How could it be any better? Well, it could do anything. But that’s quibbling. It’s fun enough ...

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 ...

If anyone ever told me I would one day be able to ride a bicycle completing made out of cardboard and recycled parts, I would probably thought they were crazy, especially if you’ve ever seen a group ...