Excel-Lent software, from a longtime builder of gears and gearboxes, quickly determines optimum gear parameters for various industries. The developer says it cuts hundreds of engineering hours off projects. Interested users can download a demo to see how easy it is to design a new gearbox. The most interesting section to design engineers will be…

In response to the gear market’s need for optimization software, which has been lacking many years, Excel Gear Inc, Roscoe, Ill., has developed Excel-Lent gear/gearbox design and analysis software. This program is written in Visual Basics.Net by engineers who also design and manufacture gears for their own use, according to company president N.K. “Chinn” Chinnusamy.…