Gear Industry News April 29, 2025
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AGMA Updates
Uncovering the Real Trajectory of the Humanoid Robot Market
May 8—Free Emerging Technology Webinar
The humanoid robot market has received a lot of attention in recent months, owing to an influx of capital and large addressable market. After six months of in-depth research, Interact Analysis reveals the true growth potential and market penetration, separating fact from fiction.Register Today
Advanced Concepts of Bearing Technology
May 12–15—The Royal Sonesta; Minneapolis
This course builds on the foundations of the essential course and challenges the experienced engineer in areas such as failure modes, friction and wear, fatigue life calculation methods and load distribution. This course is exceptional for engineers with 2–3 years of work experience in bearings or past attendees of the Essential Concepts of Bearing Technology.Register Now
Analytical Gear Chart Interpretation
May 20—Live Online Course
This course is an introduction to the methodology of analytical gear inspection and the evaluation and interpretation of the resulting data. The application of this information to identify and correct manufacturing errors will begin to be explored. Additionally, it reviews chart interpretation and applies inspection data to understand the causes and cures of manufacturing errors. Many chart examples are used to understand cause and effect.Register Today
Gear Failure Analysis
June 24–26—AGMA National Training Center; Chicago
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 Now
Gearbox Systems Design
June 24–26—Sheraton Sand Key Resort; Clearwater Beach, FL
This course focuses on the supporting elements of a gearbox that allow gears and bearings to do their jobs most efficiently. Learn about seals, lubrication, lubricants, housings, breathers, and other details that go into designing gearbox systems.Register Today
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Industry News
Ferrari’s First EV Might Have Synthetic Gears
Robb Report
Ferrari‘s first EV is coming this fall, likely in October, and, being an EV, won’t have any use for a manual transmission, though that isn’t stopping the automaker from possibly giving it gear-shifting abilities anyway.Read More
The AGMA Fall Technical Meeting Process
Gear Technology
AGMA’s Fall Technical Meeting (FTM) is the best place in the U.S. to share gear manufacturing research. If you want to write a paper and present, here is how it works. AGMA uses an online portal to streamline the process. Because we have less than a year for the entire cycle—from abstract submission to publishing the paper—we must have firm deadlines.Read More
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GM to Increase Production at Ohio Transmission Facility
Reuters
General Motors is increasing production of transmissions at its Toledo, Ohio facility, shifting away from EV drive unit manufacturing toward parts for gasoline vehicles, the company confirmed Wednesday. The transmission plant supports production of light-duty trucks made in Fort Wayne, Indiana, along with other facilities.Read More
Mayr Power Transmission Expands International Network
PTE
At the beginning of April, representatives from around 30 countries came together to find out more about new technologies, products and processes. This year, the focus was placed on robotics. In addition, the company announced an expansion: with the complete takeover of EME Motor 2008, S.L., Mayr Power Transmission now has its own subsidiary in Spain.Read More
DN Solutions to Celebrate Grand Opening of Chicago Technical Center
Gear Technology
DN Solutions, a global leader in the machine tool industry with a diverse product lineup of over 500 machines, will celebrate the grand opening of its new Chicago Technical Center (CTC) in Schaumburg, Illinois with an open house from April 29 to May 1, 2025.Read More
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Antikythera Mechanism's Intricate Gears
Phys.org
A pair of physicists at Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, in Argentina, have created a computer simulation of the famed Antikythera Mechanism and in so doing have found that manufacturing inaccuracies may have caused the device to jam so often it would have been very nearly unusable—if it was in the condition it is now. Esteban Szigety and Gustavo Arenas have posted a paper on the arXiv preprint server describing the factors that went into their simulation and what it showed.Read More
Multi-Objective Optimization of Design Parameters for Tractor Hydro-Mechanical Continuously Variable Transmissions
Scientific Reports
The design parameters of the transmission directly affect the vehicle’s dynamics and fuel economy, due to the complexity of the tractor’s working conditions and operating modes, the optimization of the transmission design parameters is more difficult. In this paper, an independently designed hydro-mechanical CVT transmission is taken as the research object, and the transmission design parameters are optimized based on the tractor’s whole life-cycle speed usage rate, and the Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm(MOGA) is used for optimization and solution.Read More