Agenda for Digital GEARS 2020.
The British Gear Association is the UK Centre of Technical Excellence for gear design, manufacture & application technologies. The Annual Technical Awareness Event (GEARS) is the leading conference for the Gear Industry in the UK and this long running seminar is considered an essential event for manufacturers, distributors and academics involved in the UK Gears Industry.
For the first time in our history this event will be held online from 17th – 19th November 2020.
Registration for GEARS.
Attendance to Digital GEARS 2020 is completely free of charge to BGA Members. Non members can attend the first day of GEARS completely free of charge – subsequent days are charged at £100 per day.
To Register to this event please email Kirsty in the BGA office – admin@bga.org.uk
Agenda.
We have once again attracted the most pre-eminent gearing experts to present papers at Gears as well as some of the best and brightest newcomers, including the winner of the BGA/IMECHE Student prize, who we have no doubt will be making an impact on the Gearing Industry in the future. Please click the button below to download full abstracts for each presentation.
17th November Session 1
| 9:45-10.00 | Welcome and introduction | Graham Penning |
| 10.00-10.30 | Structural Optimisation of an EV Gearbox Housing to achieve reduction in gear misalignment | Barry James, Dr. Annabel Shahaj, Dr. Bartosz Lukasik, Romax Technology Ltd. Kyle Grubb, Martin Gambling, GRM Consulting Ltd |
| 10.40-11.10 | The Design and Analysis of a High Temperature Gear Test Rig | Reece Chohan |
| 11.20-11.50 | Gear efficiency | Jishan Zhang |
| 12.00-12.30 | Fault Detection in a Fleet of Trains by Identifying Outlier Gearboxes using Smart Oil Plug | N. Craig, S. Ellwood, S. Lowry, T. Rosinski, J. Rosinski and M. Nixon |
| 12.40-13.10 | Closing comments & intro to next sessions /Open for informal discussion | Graham Penning |
18th November 2020 Session 2
| 9:45-10.00 | Welcome and introduction | Graham Penning |
| 10.00-10.30 | GMaRC – Industrialists’ Roadmap Update | Ben Cook, Michael Farmery |
| 10.40-11.10 | Modelling Gear Production by Skiving. | M Fish / K Uriu |
| 11.20-11.50 | Optimising efficiency of Gear Manufacture Using design of experiments (DOE/DOX) | Denis Sexton |
| 12.00-12.30 | Power skiving – a step changing manufacturing process applicable to multifunctional 5-axis machine tools | Bethany Cousins, Chao Sun, Ben Cook. |
| 12.40-13.10 | Closing comments & intro to next sessions /Open for informal discussion | Graham Penning |
19th November 2020 Session 3
| 9:45-10.00 | Welcome and introduction | Graham Penning |
| 10.00-10.30 | Why we need to measure gears differently- an introduction to the Met4Wind project | Rob Frazer and Martin Stein |
| 10.40-11.10 | Holistic evaluation of involute gears. | Martin Stein, Anita Przyklenk, Robert Frazer. |
| 11.20-11.50 | Filtering effects on measured gear profile and helix errors. | Tom Reavie |
| 12.00-12.30 | BGA BSI standards and Special Interest Group updates | Various |
| 12.40-13.10 | Closing comments | Graham Penning |
| Open for informal discussion |