Online Video Courses

Gear Failure Analysis, Detailed Gear Design, and Gearbox CSI: Gears Only are intended to provide an experience that closely resembles the courses that are offered in the Face-to-Face format. You will have 60 days to complete the course, pass the course assessment, and receive your certificate.

  • How to Read and Interpret a Gear Inspection Report - September 1-2, 2026
    Includes Credits

    This online seminar is intended to provide you with a thorough understanding of the information contained within a typical gear inspection report. Specifically, we will look at the contents and meaning of the information contained within the gear charts, as well as the techniques used by the gear measurement system to assess gear quality. An explanation of basic gear measurement techniques, how measurement equipment and test machines implement these techniques, and how to interpret the results from these basic measurements will be covered. We will also discuss how to interpret the results and what corrective actions may be considered if the quality of a particular gear is unsatisfactory.

    LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

    Upon completion of this webinar, students will be able to:

    • Describe the measurement and inspection techniques used to qualify a gear
    • Explain the major contributing factors to gear quality
    • Describe in detail the practical gear measurement and inspection techniques
    • Categorize the common tools and equipment used to measure and inspect gears
    • Discuss some of the new and automated gear design systems


    8 Clock hours awarded upon completion

  • Gearbox Systems Design - August 18-27, 2026
    Includes Credits

    This course focuses the supporting elements of a gearbox that allow gears and bearings to do their jobs most efficiently. Learn about seals, lubrication, lubricants, housings, breathers, and other details that go into designing gearbox systems.

    Who Should Attend:

    Gear design engineers

    Management involved with the design and manufacture of gearing type components

    Metallurgists and materials engineers

    Laboratory technicians

    Quality assurance technicians

    Furnace design engineers

    Equipment suppliers 

    Expected Student Learning (Course Level) Outcomes:

    Understand types of housing construction, housing elements (covers, inspection ports, sump, mounting, etc.)

    Apply drawing practices for housings and related components

    Bearing mounting, retention and sealing

    Understand election and role of gearbox accessories, such as breathers, filters, screens, sight gages, and other level indication devices

    Apply the appropriate lubricant selection

    Apply the lubricant to the rotating elements

    Describe the selection criteria concerning the basic lubricant chemistry. Since the best design is only as good as its implementation, drawing practices and tolerancing will also be addressed from the designers’ perspective.

    Learn about translating the general design from the design manual to the individual component drawings. 

    24 clock hours awarded upon completion

  • Operator Precision Gear Grinding - July 21-22, 2026
    Includes Credits

    Explore precision gear grinding processes, machine input variables, kinematics, machine alignment, setup errors, pitfalls, common gear fatigue failures and expectations related to finish ground gearing. Learn definitions of gearing component features, application loads and process steps from blanking, through heat treatment to finished part ready to ship. Study aspects of Quality Assurance, Inspection Documentation and corrective actions for measured non-conformances. Understand pre-heat treat, heat treatment distortion and post heat treatment operations including the how’s and why’s to produce finished gears that conform and perform to end user expectations. Calculate gear form grinding cycle times for real life examples for various accuracy levels on commercially available software.

    Expected Student Learning (Course Level) Outcomes:

    Review and challenge control of part datums for pre-heat treatment operations, use datum’s consistently through finishing operations given part prints

    Anticipate and correct for part distortion during heat treatment knowing the actual heat treatment process used.

    Ask questions of gear designers and manufacturing engineers to acquire all information required to produce conforming finished gears

    Accurately apply and inspect pre-calculated micro-geometry modifications derived from complex contact analysis software

    Perform component finishing machine setup, alignments, component inspection and calibrations to established ISO standards

    Select the optimum grinding wheel specification given part print and heat treatment used

    Achieve compliance with finished parts to meet print requirements and customer performance expectations

    Accurately measure pre and post finish gear tooth thickness given finished tooth thickness specifications

    Avoid and detect the presence of Twist Error

    Avoid and detect presence of grind burn temper

    Avoid typical gear fatigue failure modes

    Identify common non-conformances, apply problem solving techniques and corrective actions


    8 Clock hours awarded upon completion