Gear Industry News February 21, 2023
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AGMA Updates
Marketing 101—What Your Company Should Absolutely Be Doing in 2023 to Keep Competitive
February 28—Webinar
There are many ways that you can market your company and sometimes it can be confusing and daunting on where to start. We decided to bring in expert, Jennifer Cordeau, Integrate Marketing Advisor, Global Integration, Planning and Orchestration, Fed Ex and Adjunct Instructor, Hofstra’s Lawrence Herbert School of Communications to explain the must-dos for your marketing plan to help grow your business and brand recognition. Learn about social media, press releases, public relations and simple blast emails that can really make a difference.Register Today
Gear Boxes in Electric Drivetrains—Requirements and Solutions
March 1—Webinar
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.Learn More
Epicyclic Gear Systems
March 28–30—St. Petersburg Marriott Clearwater, St. Petersburg, FL
Learn and define the concept of epicyclic gearing, including some basic history and the differences among simple planetary gear systems, compound planetary gear systems, and star drive gear systems. 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.Register Today
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.Learn More
Reverse Engineering
April 25–26—Live Online Course
Reverse engineering a gear system is a not too unusual task and in many, but not all, cases the process goes fairly well, thus it is easy to become complacent. It is important, however, to fully understand the process and the best practice procedure for reverse engineering a gear system. Failure to fully follow best practice can result, at best, in an unhappy gear user, but in the worst case it can lead to very expensive, time consuming and reputation damaging litigation.Register Today
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Industry News
Forest City Gear Completes Annual AS9100 / ISO 9001 Quality Audit
Gear Technology
Forest City Gear recently completed and passed its annual AS9100/ISO 9001:2015 quality system audit. The third-party audit company, Quality Systems Registrar (QSR), evaluated Forest City Gear’s quality management systems to ensure compliance with AS and ISO standards.Read More
Boston Partners Cuts Stake in Altra Industrial Motion (AIMC)
Nasdaq
Fintel reports that Boston Partners has filed a 13G/A form with the SEC disclosing ownership of 1.11MM shares of Altra Industrial Motion Corp (AIMC). This represents 1.71% of the company. In their previous filing dated February 11, 2022 they reported 3.26MM shares and 5.02% of the company, a decrease in shares of 65.91% and a decrease in total ownership of 3.31% (calculated as current - previous percent ownership).Read More
Steeltec AG Mill in Düsseldorf Producing Ultrafine Grained Steel
ACHR News
When standard steels need to have specific characteristics, mills generally use expensive alloying additions and supplementary heat treatment. Steeltec AG, of the Swiss Steel Group, has developed an innovative, alternative technology. The company developed Extreme Performance Technology (XTP) and found a way to produce an ultrafine grained and tough high-grade steel, which makes the need for additional alloys and special treatment obsolete thanks to a controlled thermomechanical processing phase.Learn More
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Southern Gear Announces HUBzone Certification
Gear Technology
Southern Gear, a veteran-owned small business specializing in the manufacture of precision gears, is pleased to announce its certification as a Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) business by the United States Small Business Administration (SBA).Read More
Is KTM Contemplating A Semi-Automatic Gearbox For The 1290 Super Duke?
RideApart
On February 9, 2023, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published a patent application filed by KTM AG in Mattighofen, Austria on August 2, 2022. The application itself concerns a “manual transmission lock for parking assistance,” which sounds fairly innocuous on its own. However, when you start to delve into the details of the invention, you get a fairly clear glimpse into what appears to be KTM’s future plans for a semi-automatic gearbox on at least some of its 1290 Super Duke variants.Learn More
Using Combustion to Make Better Batteries
MIT News
An MIT team is working to harness combustion to yield valuable materials, including some that are critical in the manufacture of lithium-ion batteries.Read More
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Solar Atmospheres Obtains Boeing Approval for Vacuum Oil Quenching
Gear Technology
Solar Atmospheres of Western Pennsylvania is pleased to announce the approval of a critical Boeing specification for the oil quenching of alloy steels in accordance with Boeing’s specification BAC 5617.Learn More
Printable Food Safe Blue Material
CBN
Polymer manufacturer, igus, is launching a new food safe SLS printing material for 3D printers to assist manufacturers of machines and systems to develop parts more quickly and reduce reliance on classic manufacturing technologies like turning and milling. The new material is also FDA and EU 10/2011-compliant, thus increasing the safety of machines and systems in the food and beverage industry. The iglidur i6-BLUE is in no way inferior to the proven iglidur i6 in terms of strength and good gliding properties and is particularly suitable for the 3D printing of worm wheels, gear wheels and snap connections.Read More
Facile and Scalable Production of a Fuel-Cell Nanocatalyst for the Hydrogen Economy
EurekaAlert!
A simple and creative approach for the synthesis of platinum-based alloy nanoparticles through heat treatment. A fuel cell is an electric power generator that is capable of producing electricity from hydrogen gas while discharging only water as a waste product. It is hoped that this highly efficient clean energy system will play a key role in the adoption of the hydrogen economy, replacing the combustion engines and batteries in automobiles and trucks, as well as power plants.Learn More
New Powder Metallurgy Industry Roadmap Released
Power Transmission Engineering
The Metal Powder Industries Federation (MPIF) has announced the release of the 2023 PM Industry Roadmap. The update reviews current and future demands of key markets and identifies the technical barriers, challenges, opportunities, and priorities that will drive the powder metallurgy (PM) industry's continued growth. The current PM industry is driven by applications in the automotive market. Growth opportunities for PM technology over the next 10 years include energy, aerospace, medical/dental, electrical and magnetic, defense, and industrial and consumer products.Read More