Course Description
Format: In-person Course
Where: Philadelphia, PA
Date: May 6-8, 2025
(all times are ET)
- Tuesday, May 6 – 8:00am-5:00pm
- Wednesday, May 7 – 8:00am-5:00pm
- Thursday, May 8 – 8:00am-5:00pm
Reg. Deadline: April 28, 2025
Gear Manufacturing & Inspection: Methods, Practices, Application, & Interpretation for the Design Engineer
While function and rating are important factors in a successful gear design, to be truly optimal and successful, the gear designer must also design the gears to be manufactured and inspected. In this course, therefore, we will address key factors in a wide variety of manufacturing and inspection processes to enable the gear designer to better design optimal gears considering both rating and the necessary manufacturing and inspection processes to produce the gears as designed. We will also help the designer to understand how to interpret inspection data so that they can ensure that the gears meet the design. To be clear, this is not a course in how to operate the various machines. Rather it addresses the design provisions that are required to allow the gears to be optimally manufactured and inspected. The learner will develop a broad understanding of the methods used to manufacture and inspect gears, as well as interpret how the resultant information can be applied and interpreted in the design process.
This course includes a tour of the Chalmers & Kubek facility in Philadelphia, PA. Transportation will be provided.
How Many CEUs Will I Earn?
As an IACET-accredited provider, AGMA offers 2.0 CEUs for this class.
Learning Objectives
- Identify methods of manufacturing external and internal spur, single and double helical, and bevel and worm gears
- Describe the methodology and underlying theory for basic manufacture and inspection of each.
- Discuss the “features” associated with each manufacturing method regarding their impact upon and their ability to refine, guide and optimize the design process.
- Take two views of the same results: meeting a “specification” and determining acceptability for a specific application and interpreting the inspection data for purposes other than simply determining accept/reject status.
- Specify the data required to control both the manufacturing and inspection processes on an engineering drawing. This includes both the data to be defined and the presentation of the data on the engineering drawing.
- Discuss the basics of a variety of destructive and nondestructive inspection tests, including their underlying theory, application techniques and, most importantly, interpretation of the resultant data.
Registration Rates
Member Rates
First Registrant per Member Company
Early Bird*/Standard
$2,150/
$2,250
Additional Registrant per Member Company
$2,050
NonMember Rates
First Registrant per Non-member Company
Early Bird*/Standard
$2,650/
2,750
Additional Registrant per Non-member Company
*Rate ends 3/25/25
$2,550
Who Should Attend
Design, manufacturing and quality control engineers involved with design, manufacture and inspection of gears and gearbox systems.
Hotel Information
Kimpton Hotel Monaco Philadelphia
433 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
(267) 386-9432
Discounted room rates at the Kimpton Hotel Monaco Philadelphia are available for $199 per night. The special rate is available until April 5, 2025. Book Your Room in the AGMA block.
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Instructors
Raymond J. Drago, P.E.
Raymond J. Drago is Chief Engineer of Drive Systems Technology, Inc. (DST), a mechanical power transmission consulting organization that he founded in 1976. Mr. Drago also worked for the Boeing Company – Helicopters Division until his retirement after 37 years of service. Currently Mr. Drago is involved in the analysis, design, manufacture, assembly, and testing of many gear systems. In his role with DST, Mr. Drago is active in all areas of mechanical power transmission, including the design and analysis of drive systems in a very diverse field of application from heart pumps to very large mining & mill gears. He has used his 58 years of gear technology experience to prepare and deliver more than 150 Technical Papers and 385 courses dealing with various aspects of gear design and analysis.
I started working at Boeing in 1967 and continued until my retirement in 2004. I started Drive Systems Technology in 1976 as a part time activity while still working at Boeing (with Boeing’s knowledge and approval, under strict guidelines) which eventually grew to the point where I retired early from Boeing in order to pursue DST as a full-time activity.
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