About GearLab

An independent engineering practice for gears and power transmissions, founded in 2018 by Dr. Davide Marano.

Davide has worked on gears since his PhD in industrial engineering at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, carried out as an industrial doctorate with an automotive steering supplier. He then worked in transmission engineering in the automotive industry, where he was responsible for the design and calculation of gear transmissions and the simulation of hybrid powertrains.

GearLab brings that experience to companies of every size: from a single gear rating for a machine builder to validated NVH models for Tier-1 suppliers. Davide combines gear design and computational modelling with the verification and validation methods that make simulation results trustworthy.

He teaches the GearLab courses himself, publishes at the AGMA Fall Technical Meeting and the VDI International Conference on Gears, and wrote Cylindrical Gear Design.

Education
PhD (UNIMORE), MSc (University of Catania), MBA (ESMT Berlin), PMP®
Committees
ASME V&V 40 on verification and validation of computational models; previously AGMA spline committee and ISO working groups on gear calculation
Languages
Italian, English, German
Work with GearLab

Milestones

  1. 2015MSc in automation engineering, University of Catania
  2. 2018PhD in industrial engineering, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
  3. 2018GearLab founded; technical partnership with KISSsoft
  4. 2019First AGMA paper: spline design for misalignment compensation
  5. 2020Partnership with RecurDyn for multibody and NVH simulation
  6. 2025MBA, ESMT Berlin; PMP certification in 2023
  7. 2026Cylindrical Gear Design, in English and Italian

Technical partnerships

KISSsoft Technical partner since 2018

Consulting and training for gear, shaft and bearing calculation and for KISSsys system models.

RecurDyn Partner since 2020

Flexible multibody simulation of transmissions and mechanisms: kinematics, dynamics, vibration and noise.

Have a gear problem worth solving?

Describe the transmission and the question. Davide reads every message and replies personally.

Start a projectinfo@gear-lab.it