Design Unit offers a comprehensive range of training services to support both gear manufacturers and gear users, delivered in an informal manner. Typical courses include:
- How gears work and gear terminology
 
- Good gear design practice: balancing power density improvements and minimising risk and noise
 
- Gear specification
 
- Gear stress analysis, with ISO6336, scuffing risk
 
- Gear measurement and calibration
 
- Material testing
 
- Material analysis methods
 
- Failure modes and failure recognition
 
- Gear testing
 
These are often delivered in association with the British Gear Association (BGA).