ALLISON TRANSMISSION has renewed its membership in the RIT's Gear Research Consortium for the second year in a row. We are looking forward to another year of active collaboration. Their support and feedback on IGD are invaluable to make it a reference software for advanced design and simulation of gear drives. IGD is providing solutions in those areas where any other software fails and we are committed to continuing its development in that direction.

This year, the AGMA's Fall Technical Meeting will be held in Chicago on November 2-3, 2021. Although some presentations will be pre-recorded because of continued Covid travel restrictions, most presentations will be in-person. The AGMA's Fall Technical Meeting brings together top researchers from across the globe who will provide the latest information on their peer-reviewed gear industry research.

Dr. Fuentes will be attending the 2021 AGMA's Fall Technical Meeting and presenting the paper entitled "Investigation of the Effect of Application of Non-Conventional Root Profiles for Reduction of Bending Stresses in Helical Gear Drives" in Session 1 on Tuesday, November 2, 2021. Click <here> for more information. The abstract of this work is included here:

We are very pleased to announce that EGILE has renewed their membership with the RIT's Gear Research Consortium for 2021/22. Thank you for your continued support during this difficult times. Your membership renewal will enable us to continue developing and delivering computational tools for advanced gear design to meet all your gear design and simulation needs.

The first RIT’s Gear Research Consortium Meeting was held on June 3^rd, 2021, via zoom, with 17 participants affiliated with seven different companies. This meeting, which intends to be held on the first Thursday of June every year, brings together consortium members, as well as collaborators and observers interested in learning about the latest developments and new features implemented in our software IGD – Integrated Gear Design. The developers of IGD introduced the new features of design and simulation available in the software as well as the results of the investigation of the effect of application of non-conventional root profiles for reduction of bending stress in helical gear drives. After that, members of the Consortium presented their companies as well as several examples of how IGD has contributed to improve their products and provide capabilities of design and simulation where any other software fails.

IGD – Integrated Gear Design – continues growing every day. IGD version 3.7 comprises more than 1.4 million lines of code distributed in 1,321 files. It provides solutions for advanced gear design and simulation of 22 different types of gear drives, based on 115 different geometries, that make use of 16 cutting tools, and simulated by the application of 6 different tools for analysis that includes TCA, FE modeling, optimization, geometry comparison, gerotor pump analysis, and reverse engineering.

RIT and the Gear Research Laboratory welcome Allison Transmission as a new member of the RIT's Gear Research Consortium. Allison Transmission is the world’s largest manufacturer of fully automatic transmissions for medium- and heavy-duty commercial vehicles and is a leader in hybrid-propulsion systems for city buses. Allison Transmission’s products are specified by more than 300 of the world's leading vehicle manufacturers and are used in a wide range of market sectors including bus, fire, construction, distribution, defense, and specialty applications.

Allison was founded in 1915 in Indianapolis, Indiana, where the company's global headquarters is still located. Allison Transmission has regional offices all over the world and manufacturing facilities in Indianapolis, Chennai, India, and Szentgotthárd, Hungary.

RIT and the Gear Research Laboratory welcome EGILE and its HIGH PRECISION MECHANICS Division (DMP) as a new member of the RIT's Gear Research Consortium. EGILE is a company with 30 years of history, committed to creating impact through products and solutions of high value in sectors where extreme precision is a fundamental requirement.

The workshop "Advanced Design, Simulation & Stress Analysis of Gear Drives" will be held for the first time at RIT Campus in Rochester, NY, on June 24-26, 2019. This practical 3-day workshop will bring you up to speed on advanced gear design and simulation utilizing state-of-the-art computational tools for virtual generation of gears and application of tooth contact analysis (TCA) and finite element analysis (FEA).