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Continuous Training
In order to better serve our customers, ITW Heartland sent one of our Senior Quality Assurance persons to the CALYPSO Advanced Training class at the Zeiss headquarters in Maple Grove MN. This training will allow us to accurately check complex parts [...]
Top 5 Benefits of Spiroid & Helicon in a Professional Robotics Application
1. Power-dense form factor Within the context of professional robotics applications, Spiroid's power density is perhaps its most important attribute. This power density is rooted in its comparatively high percentage of gear teeth being engaged by the pinion at any given [...]
New Case Studies Compare Spiroid & Worm Gearing Technologies
At Spiroid, we're often asked to provide a high-level overview of how our gearing technologies compare to other right angle solutions such as worms. While it's easy to make generalizations about one technology versus another, it is usually a fool's [...]
The year in Rearview
As this year draws to a close, we Spiroidians thought it might be an appropriate time to look in the REarview and highlight five of our favorite moments, decisions and/or actions from the previous twelve months: 1. Re-commit 2016 saw [...]
Custom or COTS What’s Your Need?
Design and Mechanical Engineers make a series of choices when designing right angle gears into their products. One such choice is whether to incorporate existing off-the-shelf gear reducers (often referred to as COTS for 'commercial-off-the-shelf') or - alternatively - to [...]
Not Your Grandfather’s Manufacturing
On October 6th, ITW Heartland and Spiroid participated in the 'Dream It. Do It.' statewide tour of manufacturing. This initiative, conceived and sponsored by the Manufacturing Institute, is designed to increase awareness of the high paying, high quality career opportunities available in [...]
