Dipl.-Ing. Maximilian Fromberger is with the calculation and software development department of RENK, a Germany-based company manufacturing transmissions for the industrial, energy and marine sectors, among others. Before that, he was research associate at the Gear Research Center (FZG) of the Technical University Munich. FZG’s research focuses on experimental and analytical investigations of endurance, tribology, NVH, materials and fatigue life analysis on gears, transmission components and drive systems. FZG is also developing software that many German gear-related companies rely on. Some of these software products solve mechanical problems; others implement standardized (DIN / ISO) calculation rules. Fromberger was software team leader at FZG. His personal research activities aimed at gear condition monitoring.