The RIT's Gear Research Consortium Meeting for 2023 is scheduled to be held on June 1st, 2023, at 9:00 AM (US EST Time) through Zoom. We extend an invitation to all individuals interested in gaining insights into our latest advancements and the enhanced functionalities introduced in IGD for advanced gear design and simulation. Attendance is open to all, and registration can be completed free of charge by following the link provided below.

Registration link: https://rit.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcrcu6vrD0tHtMgUMIigk86vS1cjeakSheu

Upon successful registration, you will receive a confirmation email containing detailed instructions on how to join the meeting.

Simulation tools are now available to simulate complex gear measurements after heat-treatment simulation. This is the focus of the feature article that has just been published in Thermal Processing, and that is available online here.

Heat treatment simulation provides a cheaper and faster alternative to physical testing but is lacking the capabilities to relate the predicted distortion back to gear measurements made on the shop floor or in the metallurgical lab. In general, diameter distortion predictions are easily understood and correlated back to actual measurements, but simulated predictions on parameters such as tooth thickness, tooth profile, and runout can be more daunting to evaluate and are often ignored in published analyses. To bridge this gap, two software programs can be used to provide common gear measurements on the simulated, heat-treated gear. IGD  - Integrated Gear Design - developed at the Rochester Institute of Technology, is used to design the gear geometry and post-process the heat-treatment simulation results. DANTE, developed by DANTE Solutions, is used to simulate the heat treatment of steel components.

The Power Transmission and Gearing (PTG) Committee of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Design Engineering Division invites you to participate in the ASME 2023 Power Transmission and Gearing Conference. The conference will be held in conjunction with the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conferences (IDETC/CIE) in Boston, Massachusetts, on August 20-23, 2023.

We are very pleased to announce that ALLISON TRANSMISSION has renewed its membership with the RIT's Gear Research Consortium for the year 2023. We want to express our deepest appreciation for their continued support for so many years. Their membership renewal will enable us to continue developing and delivering computational tools for advanced gear design to meet all their gear design and simulation needs. We are looking forward to completing another year of successful collaboration.

The second RIT’s Gear Research Consortium Meeting was held on June 2^nd, 2022, and brought together consortium members, as well as collaborators and observers interested in learning about the latest developments and new features implemented in the software IGD – Integrated Gear Design. The developers of IGD introduced the new features of design and simulation available in the software as well as a new approach for the analytical determination of basic machine-tool settings for the generation of high-reduction face-hobbed hypoid gears. Members of the Consortium presented their companies as well as an update of recent projects and examples of how IGD has contributed to improving their products.

We are very pleased to announce that EGILE has renewed its membership with the RIT's Gear Research Consortium for 2022/23. We want to express our deepest appreciation for their continued support for so many years. Their membership renewal will enable us to continue developing and delivering computational tools for advanced gear design to meet all their gear design and simulation needs. We are looking forward to completing another year of successful collaboration.