Course Description

Format: Live Online Virtual Training

Date: June 3 – 4, 2025

• Tuesday, June 3 – 12:00-4:00pm ET 
• Wednesday, June 4 – 12:00-4:00pm ET 

Reg. Deadline: May 23, 2025

High performance plastic gears are increasingly replacing metal gears in several applications due to many advantages they exhibit. Main ones are having lower weight, no need for lubrication, cheaper mass production, significantly better noise, vibration and harshness (NVH ) behavior and chemical/corrosion resistance.

Design methods for plastic gears are in many ways different and more complex to those for steel gears. In major part the complexity is to be attributed to the material’s temperature-dependent properties. Also the production methods are different, which needs to be taken into account during the design phase. The majority of plastic gears are produced by injection molding, which enables great design flexibility, e.g. joining several machine elements into one molded part, as well as a wide range gear geometry modifications.

Learning Objectives

• Attendees will understand the differences in operation, design and production, between the plastic and metal gears
• Attendees will be able to appropriately select materials and lubrication type for a plastic gear application
• Attendees will be able to reliably design gear transmissions with plastic gears, taking into aspect all possible failure modes which could occur during operation of their product, as also other important customer requirements, e.g. NVH.

Who Should Attend

Suitable for gear engineers, gear/gearbox designers, mechanical engineers working in automotive, robotics, house appliances, power tools, medical.

The program is best suitable for engineers which are already proficient in basic gear design and have knowledge on basic gear theory.

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