Gear Industry News June 11, 2024
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Fundamentals of Gear Design and Analysis
June 25–27—Embassy Suites O’Hare; 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.Register Now
Advanced Concepts of Bearing Technology
June 24–27—Embassy Suites O’Hare; Rosemont, IL
This 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.Register Now
Operator Precision Gear Grinding
Live Online Virtual Training | July 24-25
Explore precision gear grinding processes, machine input variables, kinematics, machine alignment, setup errors, pitfalls, common gear fatigue failures and expectations related to finish ground gearing. Learn definitions of gearing component features, application loads and process steps from blanking, through heat treatment to finished part ready to ship. Study aspects of Quality Assurance, Inspection Documentation and corrective actions for measured non-conformances. Understand pre-heat treat, heat treatment distortion and post heat treatment operations including the how's and why's to produce finished gears that conform and perform to end user expectations. Calculate gear form grinding cycle times for real life examples for various accuracy levels on commercially available software.Register Now
Essential Concepts of Bearing Technology
August 6-8, 2024 | Cleveland, OH
This course will give you an overview of the bearing industry as well as basic bearing types and applications. Knowledge of the key players, bearing types and terminology will ensure that everyone has a basic knowledge of the industry upon arrival. This course is specially designed for engineers and others with technical backgrounds that have limited exposure to bearings and need to adapt their technical training to bearings or seek an upgrade to their technical knowledge. The Essentials Course focuses on understanding basic tribology, bearing attributes and applications and explores the basic concepts around manufacturing methods, loads, lubrication and failure.Register Now
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Embracing Efficiency: The Power of WORM Drives (CHUN YEH GEAR)
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Mitsubishi Electric Launches Pre-Engineered Robot Work Cell
ARIA (Automated Robotic Industrial Assistant) has a small footprint, is fully configurable, and offers a broad array of options and preprogrammed software packages that enable the unit to be tailored to the application.
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Industry News
The ANCA Group Celebrates 50th Anniversary at U.S. Headquarters
Gear Technology
On May 7-8, 2024 in Wixom, Michigan (Detroit), the team of the North American operation for Australian-based ANCA Group, a global leader in grinding machines and automated manufacturing technologies, celebrated the company’s 50th anniversary with company founder Pat Boland.Register Now
The Sky's the Limit: eVTOLs Paving the way for Advanced Air Mobility
Tech Xplore on MSN
Electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft are heralding a new era in transportation, combining sustainability with cutting-edge technology to transform how we move across urban landscapes. As we stand on the brink of realizing these futuristic air vehicles, a comprehensive analysis published in Green Energy and Intelligent Transportation outlines both the significant advancements and the hurdles that lie ahead.Read More
ABB Launches Next-Generation Robotics Control Platform OmniCore
Power Transmission Engineering
ABB Robotics has launched OmniCore, an intelligent automation platform that is faster, more precise and more sustainable, to empower, enhance and futureproof businesses. The OmniCore platform, the result of more than $170 million of investment in next generation robotics, is a step change to a modular and futureproof control architecture that will enable the full integration of AI, sensor, cloud and edge computing systems to create the most advanced and autonomous robotic applications.Read More
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Digital Twins are Helping Scientists run the World’s Most Complex Experiments
MIT Technology Review
In January 2022, NASA’s $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope was approaching the end of its one-million-mile trip from Earth. But reaching its orbital spot would be just one part of its treacherous journey. To ready itself for observations, the spacecraft had to unfold itself in a complicated choreography that, according to its engineers’ calculations, had 344 different ways to fail. A sunshield the size of a tennis court had to deploy exactly right, ending up like a giant shiny kite beneath the telescope. A secondary mirror had to swing down into the perfect position, relying on three legs to hold it nearly 25 feet from the main mirror.Read More
Gateway’s HALO Making Moves
NASA
The Gateway space station’s HALO (Habitation and Logistics Outpost), one of four modules where astronauts will live, conduct science, and prepare for lunar surface missions, is a step closer to launch following welding completion in Turin, Italy, a milestone highlighted by NASA earlier this year.Read More
Liebherr and Airbus Reach Additive Manufacturing Milestone with EASA-Approved Flex Shaft
Metal AM
Liebherr-Aerospace, Toulouse, France, has celebrated a new milestone with the approval of a metal additively manufactured flex shaft, a component with a high degree of complexity produced from titanium. The part will now enter serial production for Airbus, following approval by the aircraft producer and the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA).Read More
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Unleashing Potential: The Role of Software Development in Advancing Robotics
The Robot Report
In today’s fast-tech era, robotics engineering is transforming multiple industrial sectors. From cartesian robots to robotaxis, cutting-edge technologies are automating applications in logistics, healthcare, finance, and manufacturing. Moreover, automation uses modern software to execute multiple tasks or even one specific task with minimal human interference. Hence, software development is a critical player in building these robots.Read More
Manufacturing Execution Systems Create Quality Employees
Industry Week
Maurice Stallard, director of manufacturing and engineering at HJI Supply Chain Solutions, wasn’t thinking about short-term production gains when he assessed manufacturing execution systems (MES) options for the company. Stallard wanted a long-term training aid and software foisted on him wasn’t up to the task.Read More
The Machine of the Moment
American Machinist
There will be lots of new manufacturing technologies unveiled this year, particularly at IMTS 2024 in September. But the machine-tool enthusiasts at Tormach Inc. are well ahead of the crowd, recently revealing a new, three-axis machine and calling it “the apex of (its) engineering prowess.”Read More
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