161: Navigating AGMA’s Gear Industry Standards

Course Description

Format: Live Online Virtual Training

Date: April 27, 2027

• Tuesday, April 27 – 12:00-2:00pm ET

fundamentals of motion and power systems – 161

This is a practitioner’s guide to selecting and applying the right standard or information sheet. This two-hour course gives gear industry professionals a practical foundation for navigating the standards and information sheets published by AGMA, and their associated ANSI and ISO documents. Rather than treating the standards library as a fixed reference shelf, the course walks through how these organizations relate to one another, how documents are developed and kept current, and who maintains them. The centerpiece of the course is a decision framework for choosing the correct standard or information sheet for a given design, analysis, or review — helping participants avoid the common and costly mistake of citing the wrong, outdated, or misapplied document.

You will earn 2 clock hours upon completion of the course and they will be listed on your certificate of completion.

Learning Objectives

• Distinguish the roles of AGMA, ANSI, and ISO and how a document moves between them
• Explain how AGMA and ISO documents are developed, reviewed, reaffirmed, revised, or withdrawn
• Identify the AGMA Technical Committees and ISO/TC 60 working groups behind key documents
• Differentiate an AGMA Standard from an Information Sheet, and their ISO counterparts (ISO Standard, ISO/TS, ISO/TR)
• Apply a decision framework to select the correct standard or information sheet for a design, analysis, or review task