Engineering

To fulfill the Smalley philosophy of providing products to our customers with quality, integrity, precision, and reliability, Smalley is committed to supporting our customers with engineering excellence.

Smalley’s engineers have worked with over 25,000 application designs. As a Smalley customer, you are assigned an engineer that can help you troubleshoot your design and brainstorm on the best solution for your application when applicable. Smalley has experience in many industries including aerospace, medical, automotive, fluid power, oil, and gas, as well as general industrial applications.

Materials

Browse our extensive list of Standard and Special materials as well as our Material Finishes. To compare Material Thickness, Tensile Strength, Shear Strength, and Maximum Recommended Operating Temperature for our materials click here.

Ring Design 

Use this section to find out everything that goes into the design of a Smalley Retaining Ring. 

Spring Design

Use this section to find out everything that goes into the design of a Smalley Wave Spring. 

Part Naming

Not familiar with Smalley's products? Use this page to familiarize with Smalley's Part Naming. 

Manufacturing

Interested in Smalley's manufacturing process? Find out more here. 

Conversion Tool

Use this tool to convert popular spring units such as force, or retaining ring thrust capacities, into metric units with Smalley’s engineering tool. A simple conversion tool allows for units to be converted such as mass and weight, angular measurements, velocities, temperatures, pressures and densities, and more.

Glossary

Use this page to get acquainted with Smalley's terminology.