ITW Heartland received their AS9100 Rev D certificate on 5/3/18. We completed our revision upgrade audit in February with no nonconformances. The purpose of the AS9100 registration is to help [...]

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.  [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Perceived backlash in a Spiroid gear set or gear box can usually be narrowed down to a handful of causes. The following list represents the top 5 most common [...]

For over 50 years now, the Spiroid family of gears have been serving a myriad of industries and applications. And while the pace of technological change has caused some technologies [...]