Gear Industry News April 4, 2023
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AGMA Updates
Maximizing Manufacturing Efficiency: Using Additive Manufacturing to Consolidate Parts and Enhance Functionality
April 5, 1:00pm–2:00pm—Emerging Technology Webinar
In this webinar, Alastair Crowe, director of engineering, 3DEO, will demonstrate how 3D printing can help manufacturers achieve greater efficiency and improved component functionality. Specifically, we will focus on how additive manufacturing (AM) can be used to consolidate multiple parts into a single component, reducing assembly time and costs while still allowing for complex geometries.Register Today
What Bearing and Gear Manufacturers Need to Know About the Inflation Reduction Act’s Support for the Electric Vehicle Supply Chain
April 19, 1:00pm–2:00pm—Emerging Technology Webinar
Passed in 2022, the Inflation Reduction Act provides a range of subsidies designed to promote development of the US electric vehicle supply chain. The implementation of the Act has not been without controversy, and many of the key provisions that manufacturers need to be aware of are only now coming into effect. In this program, a group of tax, trade, and policy experts will pull back the curtain on this legislation and explain the key provisions and opportunities that are starting to reshape the competitive landscape for bearing and gear manufacturers.Register Today
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
Gear Manufacturing and Inspection
May 2–4—Marriott Cincinnati North, Cincinnati
While function and rating are important factors in a successful gear design, to be truly optimal and successful, the gear designer must also design the gears to be manufactured and inspected. In this course, therefore, we will address key factors in a wide variety of manufacturing and inspection processes to enable the gear designer to better design optimal gears considering both rating and the necessary manufacturing and inspection processes to produce the gears as designed.Register Today
Gear Failure Analysis—Spring
May 16–18—AGMA National Training Center, Chicago
While the spring class in May is sold out, there is space available for the November class at the AGMA National Training Center. Explore gear failure analysis in this hands-on seminar where students not only see slides of failed gears but can hold and examine over 130 specimens with the same failure modes covered in the seminar. Approximately half of the course time consists of students in groups identifying failure modes on failed gears and working on a case study. Microscopes are available to examine failed specimens.Register Today
Fundamentals of Gear Design and Analysis
June 6–8—Hilton Rosemont, Rosemont, Ill.
Gain a solid and fundamental understanding of gear geometry, types and arrangements, and basic design principles. Starting with the basic definitions of gears, conjugate motion, and the Laws of Gearing, learn the tools needed to understand the inter-relation and coordinated motion operating within gear pairs and multi-gear trains. Basic gear system design process, gear measurement and inspection techniques will also be explained.Register Today
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Industry News
GMTA’s Walter Friedrich Appoints Michael Rose as Successor
Gear Technology
After 32 years as president of GMTA (German Machine Tools of America), formerly American Wera, Walter Friedrich is stepping down, having appointed Michael Rose to be his successor. Mr. Friedrich was one of the first three employees when GMTA—American Wera at the time—was formed in 1991. He started his career at Pittler Maschinenfabrik where he advanced from tool maker to NC programmer, eventually transferring to Chester, Conn., in 1984 to support the NA operations. He later joined Liebherr in 1986 where he was project manager within the automation group. On January 30 of this year, he spoke with the company’s board of directors and decided to step down. The change was effective April 1st.Read More
MIT Creates New Way to Incorporate Sensors Into 3D-printed Designs
All About Circuits
Recently, a team of MIT researchers led by mechanical engineering graduate student Marwa AlAlawi, published a paper detailing a novel type of rotational mechanism that incorporates sensors into gear systems. Called a MechSense sensor, this device includes a 3D-printed gear with a portion of its interior built with a conductive material spun around a 3D-printed stationary component. This stationary component features three conductive patches that have the same area as the gear’s conductive segment, separated only by a couple of millimeters of nonconductive material.Read More
Bonfiglioli Completes Selcom Acquisition
Power Transmission Engineering
Bonfiglioli S.p.A, global leader in the market of drives for industrial automation, wind generators and mobile machinery in the construction, earthmoving and intralogistics sectors, following the communication released on February 7, 2023, is proud to announce that it completed the 100% acquisition of the share capital of Selcom Group S.p.A , a company specialized in the design, production and sale of electronic boards, electronic products, software and solutions for customers operating in the industrial, biomedical, automotive, intralogistics and home appliance sectors.Read More
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PowerSTAR Coffee Grinding Gearmotor Finalist for ‘Coolest Thing Made in Illinois’
Food Industry Executive
Bison Gear & Engineering Corp., a leader in the power transmission industry, is excited to announce that its PowerSTAR coffee grinding gearmotor finished as a finalist for ‘Coolest Thing Made in Illinois.’ Bison’s innovative product finished in the top 16 out of over 240 products manufactured in Illinois that were nominated for the Makers Madness Tournament, an annual contest presented by the Illinois Manufacturers’ Association and Comcast Business.Read More
Future Electric Vehicles: The EVs You’ll Soon Be Able to Buy
Car and Driver
Electric cars are the future, and each year we’ve seen automakers add more EVs to their lineups. Everyone is working on electric vehicles, from well-established existing manufacturers to new names such as Lucid, Canoo, and Rivian. We’ve compiled a list of every electric vehicle, from concept to production, that isn't available yet but will be soon.Read More
Starrett Names New Sales and Marketing Director for North America, Industrial Products
Gear Technology
The L.S. Starrett Company, a leading global manufacturer of precision measuring tools and gages, metrology systems and more, has promoted Mr. Michael Connor to Sales and Marketing Director North America, Industrial Products.Read More
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Russian-Ukraine War Alters the Metal Industry
American Recycler
According to Irina Tsukerman, business and geopolitical analyst, president of Scarab Rising, Inc., a media and security strategic advisory, both of the iron and steel industries in Ukraine have been disrupted by the war. Prior to the war, Ukraine was a major supplier of these metals to Turkey, China, and parts of the EU.Read More
Pritzker Administration and Flender Corporation Announce Manufacturing Expansion in Elgin
Illinois.gov
Governor JB Pritzker, Flender Corporation and the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) today announced that Flender will expand its current manufacturing facility in Elgin—creating 50 new full-time jobs and retaining 140 existing full-time jobs. New investments will enable the company to expand its manufacturing operations—including gear boxes for wind turbines—creating jobs and contributing to the economic development in the community.Read More
The EV Transition Is Harder Than Anyone Thinks
IEEE Spectrum
Volvo cars CEO JIM ROWAN boldly proclaims that electric vehicles will reach price parity with internal-combustion-engine (ICE) vehicles by 2025. Not likely, counter Mercedes-Benz’s chief technology officer Markus Schäfer and Renault Group CEO Luca de Meo. The International Energy Agency predicts that EVs will make up more than 60 percent of vehicles sold globally by 2030. But given the sheer tonnage of lithium, cobalt, and other raw materials needed for EV batteries, that figure is overly optimistic, suggests the mineral market analysis company Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, unless nearly 300 new mines and supporting refineries open by then.Read More
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Daimler Truck Collaborates with Siemens to Build an Integrated Digital Engineering Platform
Power Transmission Engineering
Siemens Digital Industries Software and Daimler Truck AG recently announced a new collaboration to implement a state-of-the-art digital engineering platform built using the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio of software and services. The new platform will enable Daimler Truck to explore a future of commercial vehicle innovation and the efficient product development and lifecycle management of trucks and buses and will be rolled out globally across Daimler Trucks’ engineering hubs, brands and business segments.Read More