Gear Industry News February 6, 2024
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AGMA Updates
Gearbox CSI
February 27–28—Live Online Virtual Training
A good understanding of individual failure modes and the failure scenarios that led to the actual system failure is an essential skill for 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. In addition, a detailed primer on bearing technology prefaces the failure scenario discussions. You will gain a better understanding of various types of gears and bearings. Learn about the limitations and capabilities of rolling element bearings and the gears that they support. Grasp an understanding of how to properly apply the best gear-bearing combination to any gearbox from simple to complex.Register Today
Basic Training for Gear Manufacturing – April 2024
April 8–12—AGMA National Training Center; Chicago, IL
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.Register Today
Detailed Gear Design
April 16–19—The Westin Arlington; Arlington, VA
There is a distinct difference between “designing” a gear and “optimizing” a gear design. In this course, we will address the optimization process via an understanding of those factors beyond basic banding and pitting ratings. Optimization may focus on load capacity, economy of production or minimization of overall gear system envelope. In this course we will learn how to improve gear designs via optimization and gain new insight into concepts presented through illustrations and demonstrations. Explore all factors that go into good gear design from life cycle, load, torque, tooth, optimization, and evaluating consequences.Register Today
Integration and Trade-offs in Gear and Bearing Systems
April 23–24—The Graduate Hotel; Ann Arbor, MI
The purpose will be to cover the concurrent design and analyses of gears and bearings in integrated systems like gearboxes, transmissions, and electric motor drives, so as to allow for good integration and faster optimization of the overall system. This will help gear engineers and suppliers better determine the trade-offs with the bearings, help bearing engineers and suppliers similarly with the gears, and system engineers better understand both. The examples covered are generic but should be useful both within and across industries that use these components and systems.Register Today
EV Automotive Transmission System Design
April 23–25—The Graduate Hotel; Ann Arbor, MI
This course will cover all aspects of gearbox concept, development, design, and through the initial stages of analysis as related to product requirements. We will review all the most common EV transaxle architectures, power flow and layout and the ‘whys’ of packaging as such. Independent of the architecture and/or layout, there are many similarities in the functional and operational requirements of an EV transaxle gearbox. We will work through all of those and develop a workable set of requirements that will then be used as the design basis. From a high-level point of view the ‘Big’ difference between transaxles for EVs (Electric Vehicles) and transmissions designed for more traditional Manual Transmissions (MTs) and / or Automatic Transmissions (ATs) is the lack of the ‘noisy’ internal combustion engine or ICE motor.Register Today
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2024 AGMA Foundation Scholarship Guidelines and Application Now Available
The AGMA Foundation awards scholarships to outstanding engineering students at the Associate/Technical, Undergraduate, and Graduate levels. The scholarship program was created to help fill the need for skilled employees in the gear industry.
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Read the February Issue of Power Transmission Engineering
The December 2023 issue covers Building a Better Bearing, Solid Edge 2024, Solar Energy Advantages, A Conversation with Roger Thomas from Flender and more!
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Industry News
ABB Selects Movu Escala for Automation System
Power Transmission Engineering
Movu escala is a compact ASRS (Automated Storage and Retrieval System) in which autonomous robots move freely in three dimensions to pick highly variable-sized goods. The system is designed to be an easy entry to complex automation while being more flexible than similar solutions, which are often very standardized in the kind of goods and boxes that can be handled.Read More
WFL Millturn Technologies Hosts Technology Days
Gear Technology
The WFL headquarters in Linz opens its doors, from March 5th to 7th, 2024, and will be hosting national and international guests of different industries related to complete machining. In three days, you can find out more about the industry’s current trends and developments in an exhibition area of more than 4,000 m². And you get your first-hand WFL experience getting to know its offerings.Read More
How Symmetry Can Come to the Aid of Machine Learning
MIT News
Behrooz Tahmasebi, an MIT PhD student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), was thinking about measuring the complexity of input data to a neural network, wondering whether that complexity could be reduced by taking into account some of the symmetries inherent to the dataset. Such a reduction, in turn, could facilitate — as well as speed up — machine learning processes.Read More
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2024 Trends in Asset Monitoring, Workspace Security and Data Management
Automation.com
In the fast-paced field of technological innovation, 2024 looks set to be a frontier for revolutionary breakthroughs, especially in sectors that rely on cutting-edge solutions. With this in mind, WILOC, world leader in the implementation of cutting-edge solutions for the digitization of processes in different industrial sectors, is at the forefront of innovation in areas such as IoT, worker and asset monitoring, workspace security and the management of large amounts of information, paving the way for transformative changes in various sectors.Read More
Former East Coast Sales Rep, Dave Wolfe, Joins ECM USA as Senior Sales Engineer
Gear Technology
ECM USA is excited to announce the addition of Dave Wolfe to our team as a Senior Sales Engineer. Formerly serving as an East Coast representative based in Pennsylvania, Dave brings a wealth of experience to our organization. His extensive sales background encompasses not only ECM vacuum furnaces but also spans 30 years of technical sales expertise, demonstrating a consistent track record in delivering customer-focused solutions for a diverse range of thermal processing equipment, including Photovoltaic/PV applications.Read More
RENK Tests Systems for Sustainable Advanced Air Mobility
RENK
RENK Test System GmbH (RTS) has been supporting the development and qualification of conventional helicopter engines with its test rigs for decades and has similar experience in developing test rigs for hybrid and full-electric drivetrains. This knowledge and our experience are now proving crucial in the field of electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing aircraft (eVTOLs).Read More
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Massive Caverns Dug 4,800 Feet Below Surface Ready to Host Neutrino Experiment in South Dakota
Mining.com
Excavation has been completed for the gigantic particle detector that will serve the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), which is located at a facility hosted in the former Homestake mine in South Dakota, the biggest and deepest gold mine in North America until its closure in 2002. Supported by the US Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, DUNE scientists will study the behaviour of mysterious particles known as neutrinos to solve some of the biggest questions about our universe. Why is our universe composed of matter? How does an exploding star create a black hole? Are neutrinos connected to dark matter or other undiscovered particles?Read More
Filling the Manufacturing Talent Gap
SME
The numbers are staggering: There currently are about 600,000 unfilled manufacturing jobs in the United States and the total is expected to balloon to 2.1 million by 2030, according to a recent study by the Manufacturing Institute. At the same time, many workers don’t have the skills needed to adapt to new technologies, and, in some cases, new candidates are ill-prepared to perform basic traditional manufacturing jobs. This makes finding and retaining skilled talent—both on the plant floor and in technical and engineering positions—a top priority and challenge.Read More
SEW-Eurodrive Supports Positive Disruption in Africa
Mining Weekly
Drive technology and automation specialist SEW-Eurodrive has a history of providing solutions for the mining industry and plans to contribute to the positive disruption and transformation of African operations. Environmental sustainability is becoming increasingly important in mining and SEW-Eurodrive supports mining companies in their efforts to reduce their environmental impact and embrace sustainable practices.Read More
5Ws of the Smart Yard Robot
Tech Briefs
Yarbo is a smart and autonomous yard-maintenance robot. It is designed to meet varied yard-care demands around the year, covering functions like snow removal, lawn mowing, leaf blowing, security patrol, daily picks, watering, etc. The robot is managed through a smartphone app or remote controller as well as can autocharge on a docking station, eliminating the need for any manual intervention or exposure to harsh weather conditions.Read More
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