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For more than 60 years, Hewland Engineering has been supplying clients with advanced, high-specification transmissions for the motorsport and high-performance automotive markets. Whether it’s automatic or manual, electrified or traditional, or for use in motorsport, aviation, defence or automotive, Hewland’s innovation can be seen in its tailored transmissions, no matter the application. A notable recent […]
Sam Thompson Engineering Manager Selecting tooth counts is one of the key decisions to be made at the early stages of any gearbox design. For a simple gear pair the maths and the scale of the problem is easily bound, enabling an experienced designer to make decisions and understand trends with relative ease. If we […]
Dr. Andrew Lockyer Technical CAE Specialist Left: An example of past computer mainframes needed for analysis Early in my career as a junior CAE analyst, I was often reminded by senior colleagues how fortunate I was. They had started out in the era of punch cards and room-sized computers—where running a finite element (FE) analysis […]
Although we have seen the automotive market move head long into the EV space, there is still a passion within certain automotive sectors for the analogue feel of an ICE and Manual gearbox combined.
There has been a particular resurgence in the High Performance and Resto-Mod sectors. Manual Transmissions and the need to refine them is not dead!
Hewland Technical Director, Mark Ingram explains how Hewland is equipped with the skills and expertise to develop, diagnose and fix manual transmission shift quality issues.
Sam Thompson Principal Engineer Accurate control of gear contact patches is fundamental to achieving durable and low noise gears – but does anyone ever check them via testing? Today, Hewland has performed such a test to validate that our micro geometry has been correctly designed and manufactured. By applying marking compound to the gears and […]
