2023 Emerging Technology Webinar Series

March 1—online

“Gearboxes in Electric Drivetrains—Requirements and Solutions” will be presented by Dr. Christof Gorgels, vice president technology and innovation at Klingelnberg. The presentation focuses on gears in electric drive trains for the automotive industry. Gears in the automotive industry is not a new application. But what makes the drive train of an electric driven car special? The presentation will focus on the additional and new requirements in the first part and present Klingelnberg’s solutions in the second part.
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Gearbox CSI

February 28–March 2—Philadelphia, PA.

A good understanding of individual failure modes and the failure scenarios that led to the actual system failure is an essential skill to designing gear/bearing systems that will operate properly for their full design life. In this course, we will define and explain the nature of many gear and bearing failures and we will also discuss and describe various actual failure scenarios.
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Loaded Tooth Contact Analysis

March 7—online course

Evaluation of loaded tooth contact and development of tooth modifications using commercially available software to improve Khb and optimize power density. Two real-life gearing examples will be presented in the course, one will have a cantilever-mounted pinion, the other a shaft pinion straddled non-symmetrically by bearings. Both examples demonstrate component deflections under load which significantly reduce tooth mesh contact which is then corrected with developed helix and profile modifications.
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Epicyclic Gear Systems

March 28–30—Marriott Clearwater, St. Petersburg, FL

Learn and define the concept of epicyclic gearing is including some basic history and the differences among simple planetary gear systems, compound planetary gear systems and star drive gear systems. Cover concepts on the arrangement of the individual components including the carrier, sun, planet, ring and star gears and the rigid requirements for the system to perform properly. Critical factors such as load sharing among the planet or star gears, sequential loading, equal planet/star spacing, relations among the numbers of teeth on each element, calculation of the maximum and optimum number of planet/star gears for a specific system will be covered. Provides an in-depth discussion of the methodology by which noise and vibration may be optimized for such systems and load sharing guidelines for planet load sharing.
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Basic Training for Gear Manufacturing—Spring

April 17–21—AGMA National Training Center, Chicago

Learn the fundamentals of gear manufacturing in this hands-on course. Gain an understanding of gearing and nomenclature, principles of inspection, gear manufacturing methods, and hobbing and shaping. Utilizing manual machines, develop a deeper breadth of perspective and understanding of the process and physics of making a gear as well as the ability to apply this knowledge in working with CNC equipment commonly in use.
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