Fundamentals of Gear Design and Analysis

June 6–8—Hilton Rosemont, Rosemont, IL

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.
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Gearbox Systems Design

June 20–22—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. This course is intended for gear design engineers; management involved with designing and manufacturing gearing-type components; metallurgists and materials engineers; laboratory technicians; quality assurance technicians; furnace design engineers; and equipment suppliers.
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Design Basics for Spur and Helical Gears—Summer

June 27, 12:00 pm–4:00 pm (EST)—Live Online Virtual Training

Learn how to develop and understand customer gear drive application specifications and target performance expectations. Review, calculate and select basic gear terminology variables and design parameters which define tooth bending and contact rating safety factors on two real-life examples. Learn how to optimize gear fatigue Safety Factors for a given target design life and fit new gear designs and ratios into existing center distance using profile shift. Use commercially available software to develop gear geometry factors and calculate and optimize gear set power density and performance. Review common gear failure modes if the design or final accuracy does not meet application requirements. Discuss the time and cost of more than 20 other gear drive component functions and drive development steps through prototypes to shipment of compliant assembled production drives. There will be an opportunity to discuss gear design challenges that may be unique to participant industries.
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Advanced Concepts of Bearing Technology

June 5-8, 2023 | 8:00am - 5:00pm CT Each Day | Rosemont, IL

This ABMA course builds on the foundations of the essential course and challenges the experienced engineer in areas such as failure modes, friction & wear, fatigue life calculation methods and load distribution. This is an exceptional course for engineers with 2-3 years work experience in bearings or past attendees of the Essential Concepts of Bearing Technology. AGMA members can receive a discount. See registration page for details.
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Annual Gear Market Report Analysis—S&P Global—AGMA webinar

May 9 | 1:00pm – 2:30pm

Interest rates, a tight labor market, and continued war in Europe are just a few of the pressures facing manufacturers right now. What implications are there for sales and shipments in our industry? Will there be more supply chain pressures and bottlenecks? What is the latest on oil & gas and the metals industries? And what do gear manufacturers need to know now to plan for the next several months? These are the topics we will be discussing during this webinar. There will be a special focus on bearings during this presentation.
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Industry News

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Gear Technology

Wind power has emerged as one of the most important sources of renewable energy in recent years. The global wind power capacity was estimated to be 837 gigawatts in 2021 (statista.com). In the United States alone, wind is the largest source of renewable electricity, providing 10.2 percent of the country’s electricity and still growing. However, to ensure maximum power generation, the efficiency and reliability of the wind turbine are critical.
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Siemens and IBM Collaborate on Software Product Development

Power Transmission Engineering

Siemens Digital Industries Software and IBM recently announced they are expanding their long-term partnership by collaborating to develop a combined software solution integrating their respective offerings for systems engineering, service lifecycle management and asset management.
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Global manufacturing output CAGR of 3% to 2027

Interact Analysis

Updated research by Interact Analysis shows that the current economic turbulence will continue to have a dampening effect on the global manufacturing industry. Previously, a global slowdown in manufacturing was forecast for 2026, but having considered the current economic landscape, it is likely that this constriction of manufacturing output will occur in 2024, much sooner than originally predicted. Overall, the APAC region is performing particularly well and is ‘propping up’ the rest of the world. As a result of rising oil and energy prices, strikes and the continued conflict in Ukraine, Europe is likely to suffer most over the next few years, with a significant fall in total manufacturing output predicted.
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Czinger Has Unveiled the First 3D Printed Aluminum Gearbox

3Dnatives

American car manufacturer Czinger is making a splash in the additive manufacturing market once again: it has unveiled a gearbox that was made using 3D printing and topological optimization. To do this, it worked with Xtrac, a British company that specializes in developing gearboxes for motorsports. The result? An automated 7-speed semi-sequential 3D printed gearbox, produced without any tooling with an aluminum alloy. Czinger can thus count on better structural performance but also significant savings.
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Nord Drivesystems Celebrates 35 Years of Manufacturing in Germany

Power Transmission Engineering

Since the early 1980s, Nord Drivesystems has produced its own electronics at their Aurich facility in northwest Lower Saxony, Germany. Over time, the production plant and product portfolio have been continuously expanded, increasing current staff to 180 with an additional 40 planned, as well as increasing manufacturing capacity to 400,000 units.
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The Automation Industry Sentiment – A Tale of Two Halves

Interact Analysis

The industry sentiment for material handling and logistic over the course of 2023 looks to be very mixed; with mobile automation set to have a strong year, whereas fixed automation vendors aren’t expecting much growth after a drop in order intake in 2022.
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Toyota Working on Manual Transmission for Performance Hybrids, Patent Reveals

Carscoops

The rise of electrified vehicles has been taken as one more nail in the coffin of the manual transmission. But Toyota could be working to ensure that hybrid vehicles don’t mean the end of selecting your own gears.
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Decisions, Decisions: Data and the Digital Manufacturing Decision-Making Process

The Association for Manufacturing Technology

Digital manufacturing uses operational data for more informed decision-making, which helps increase workflow efficiency. But a major challenge is the quality of data. Learn more about this crucial factor in digital manufacturing decision-making processes.
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5 Agricultural Robots Bringing Food to the Table

ASME

Agriculture continues to move further into automation. The trend began with self-driving tractors fitted with software and sensors to keep equipment moving throughout the day and into the night. It has expanded to include a range of robots, fitted with more sensors, software, lasers, and specialized grippers to harvest crops, weed the fields, and kill pests. Here are five new agricultural robots plying the nation’s farms.
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