Share Your Expertise
One of the core missions of PTE is to educate the industry about power transmission technology—from the basics to the cutting edge. Our articles aim to help those just starting their careers as well as established engineers and MRO professionals.
There’s a couple of ways you can help us.
- Many of you out there have knowledge that needs to be shared. You’ve been working in the industry for years or decades, and you have a solid understanding of gears, bearings, electric motors, motion control and all the devices and components that go along with them.
Take a look at this issue’s article on linear actuators and rotary encoders (p. 14). This is a very back-to-basics article that explains several different types of linear actuators based on lead screws and stepper motors. The article describes how incremental or absolute encoders can be used to provide positioning feedback and control motion in different circumstances.
It’s information that anyone who’s been around the block already knows. But that new kid who’s just learning the ropes? He needs this.
Do you have similar basic knowledge that could be put down on paper to help the next generation of machine designers and plant engineers? Do you have practical, hands-on experience to share? If so, please reach out. Our industry needs this information, and we’re here to help get it out there. Learn more about how to write for us here:
powertransmission.com/pte-contribute - And that new kid I was talking about earlier? Help us make sure he’s getting this information, too. PTE should be part of the training regimen for every new employee involved with designing, installing, operating or maintaining mechanical power transmission or motion control equipment.
So don’t hoard PTE for yourself. Seek out the young people in your organization and help ensure they have access to this kind of information. Give them your copy of the magazine when you’re done with it. Or better yet, share the link for them to subscribe for themselves.
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These two things will go a long way to helping us achieve our mission and ensure that the industries relying on power transmission products will continue to thrive.
