Safety when riding a motorcycle is a bit of an oxymoron. Is straddling an engine attached to two wheels, and traveling between 4000 pound guided missiles driven by texting drivers ever really safe?

Invention of the gear-hobbing process about 150 years ago revolutionized not only gear fabrication, but also gear design. Basically, a hob or shaper cutter traverses the gear blank to generate teeth.

MSC Software (MSC) recently showed me its new Adams/Machinery program that works inside of the Adams/View interface (Adams lets users build and simulate models of any mechanical system with moving ...