225: Understanding AGMA 917-B97

Format: Live Online Virtual Training

Date: April 28, 2027

• Wednesday, April 28 – 8:00 am – 5:00 pm ET

Intermediate Level – 225

This course provides a working, clause-by-clause understanding of AGMA 917-B97, the industry reference for designing fine-pitch spur and helical gears (20–120 diametral pitch). Rather than a passive read-through of the Information Sheet, the course builds attendees’ calculation skill directly: involute gear theory, standard and operating geometry, profile shift, tooth thickness, backlash, contact ratio, and bending/contact stress are all worked live using real gear examples.

Three running examples anchor the material — a fine-pitch spur gear, a case-hardened fine-pitch helical gear, and a coarse-pitch gear used to illustrate where 917-B97’s guidance is universal to involute gearing versus specific to the fine-pitch range. Attendees leave with a complete picture of the standard’s 15 clauses, from theory and design synthesis through materials, manufacturing, inspection, and load rating.

You will earn 7 clock hours upon completion of the course and they will be listed on your certificate of completion.

Learning Objectives

• Apply involute gearing theory to explain how pressure angle, base pitch, and contact ratio govern gear mesh behavior
• Calculate standard and operating gear geometry, profile shift, tooth thickness, and backlash for fine-pitch spur and helical gears
• Evaluate transverse and face contact ratio, and compute bending and contact stress using the AGMA geometry factor and Hertzian contact methods
• Select appropriate materials and heat treatments — including case hardening — for fine-pitch gear applications
• Distinguish which guidance in AGMA 917-B97 applies universally to involute gearing versus specifically to the fine-pitch (20–120 DP) range
• Navigate the full scope of the Information Sheet — design synthesis, backlash control, drawings and tolerancing, materials, manufacturing, inspection, lubrication, bearings, and load rating

Who Should Attend

Gear design engineers, manufacturing and quality engineers, and technical managers who design, specify, or review fine-pitch gearing and want a working command of AGMA 917-B97’s design equations and application guidance.

NON-MEMBER RATE

Early Bird First Registrant – $725
(Deadline until 2/2/27)

Regular First Registrant – $775
(Deadline: 2/3/27 – 3/31/27)

Late First Registrant – $800
(Deadline: 4/1/27 – 4/14/27)

Additional Registrants per Company Non-Member receive a $200 discount per person