The current AGMA standards provide a lot of information about the calculations of loose gears and gearbox
components – shafts, splines, keys, etc. These recommendations are based mostly on the “traditional”
methods of mechanical engineering, found in many classical textbooks and research papers. Their accuracy
and reliability have been proven in many years of gearbox design and field tests. They are clear, concise, in
most cases easy to program and apply even by a small gear company with limited resources.
However new methods for calculations of mechanical engineering components like FEA (finite element
analysis) are becoming wide spread. Once these techniques were used only by big companies because of
their complexity and price but with the development of the computer technology they become more and more
accessible to small gear companies which are the majority of participants in the market.

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