Design and Performance Rating Procedures for Plastic Gears

June 3 – 4, 2025 | Live Online Course, Anywhere

This course focuses on all aspects of the design process of gearboxes with plastic gears. The covered topics were selected based on state-of-the-art industrial projects, working with stakeholders from automotive, micro-mobility (e-bikes), house appliances, aerospace, chemical, power tools and robotics sectors.
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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.
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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.
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How to Read and Interpret a Gear Inspection Chart

July 16, 2025 | Live Online Course; Anywhere

This half-day online seminar is intended to provide you with a thorough understanding of the information contained within a typical gear inspection report. Specifically, we will look at the contents and meaning of the information contained within the gear charts, as well as the techniques used by the gear measurement system to assess gear quality. An explanation of basic gear measurement techniques, how measurement equipment and test machines implement these techniques, and how to interpret the results from these basic measurements will be covered. We will also discuss how to interpret the results and what corrective actions may be considered if the quality of a particular gear is unsatisfactory.
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Sacred Gear Ratio

From a purely mathematical standpoint, 64 is a power of two (2⁶), making it ideally suited for systems that rely on binary logic, such as digital timekeeping, signal processing, and modern CNC controllers. But its elegance doesn’t stop there. Sixty-four divides cleanly into halves, quarters, eighths, and sixteenths, allowing for easy subdivision of time.

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ABB Highlights OmniCore at Automate 2025

ABB Robotics will unveil a powerful lineup of robotic demos at Automate 2025, May 12-15 at Huntington Place in Detroit (Main Booth #2632; Education Pavilion #8614), showcasing its new OmniCore controller — a transformative control platform delivering faster, more precise and more autonomous automation across ABB’s entire robot portfolio.

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Industry News

Cost-Efficient Manufacturing of Axial Flux Motors

Power Transmission Engineering

Lambda Resins isn’t a typical industry giant – and that’s precisely its strength. As a highly specialized resin manufacturer, the company has emerged over the past two years – under the umbrella of Nagel Technologies GmbH – as a sought-after technology partner for OEMs and innovation leaders. With powerful, thermally conductive casting resins, Lambda Resins GmbH (Germany) addresses some of the central challenges of electromobility, especially where conventional solutions reach their limits.
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Amazon’s Vulcan Robots Now Stow Items Faster Than Humans

IEEE Spectrum

At an event in Dortmund, Germany, Amazon announced a new robotic system called Vulcan, which the company is calling “its first robotic system with a genuine sense of touch—designed to transform how robots interact with the physical world.” In the short to medium term, the physical world that Amazon is most concerned with is its warehouses, and Vulcan is designed to assist (or takeover, depending on your perspective) with stowing and picking items in its mobile robotic inventory system.
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Rain and Sikorsky Test Advanced Aerial Firefighting Technologies Using Autonomous Black Hawk Helicopter

Aerial Fire

Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company (NYSE: LMT) and Rain, a leader in the emerging firetech industry, demonstrated and tested autonomous wildfire suppression techniques on both propane and burning brush piles using Sikorsky’s optionally piloted MATRIX flight autonomy system layered with Rain’s wildfire suppression planning software. Performed in late April in Southern California, the flight tests familiarized firefighters with the potential of autonomy to help crewed and uncrewed firefighting helicopters find and suppress early-stage wildfires.
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Sara Zimmerman Announced as the Inaugural Chair of the Motion and Power Manufacturers Alliance

Power Transmission Engineering

At the recently held AGMA/ABMA Annual Meeting, Sara Zimmerman, Vice President of Customer Experience and Product, Sumitomo Machinery Corporation of America, was announced as the inaugural Chair of the Motion and Power Manufacturers Alliance (MPMA). The MPMA is a newly formed organization, bringing together the strengths and legacies of the American Gear Manufacturers Association (AGMA) and the American Bearing Manufacturers Association (ABMA).
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IoT Threat Protection Is a Shared Ecosystem Responsibility

Tech Briefs

As a result of advancements to the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), companies across the globe are realizing the potential of smart manufacturing and connected business models. In fact, IoT connections are projected to more than double over the coming years: from 18 billion dollars in 2024 to 39.6 billion by 2033.
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CMT Warns Against AI Dependence in Engine Monitoring, Human Engineers Remain Critical

MarineLink

Condition Monitoring Technologies (CMT) has cautioned against placing sole reliance on artificial intelligence in ship condition monitoring, warning that human expertise remains essential to ensure safety and accuracy in maritime operations. As the shipping industry rapidly adopts AI-driven systems for machinery testing and diagnostics, CMT acknowledges the growing potential of these technologies to process vast quantities of data and assist with condition monitoring tasks.
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