Gear Industry News June 18, 2024
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AGMA Updates
5 Ways to Reduce Risk of an Organization Being Hacked
June 20—Free Emerging Technology Webinar
In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, the threat of cyber-attacks looms larger than ever before. As malicious actors continuously refine their strategies, businesses of all sizes find themselves at an increased risk of being compromised. “5 Ways to Reduce the Risk of an Organization Being Hacked” delves into strategies organizations can implement to bolster their cybersecurity posture.Register Now
Eliminate Distortion by Engineering your Heat Treatment Quench with 4DQ
July 10—Free Emerging Technology Webinar
It is well known that distortion has and continues to present a challenge to the heat treater when hardening/carburizing gears. However, recent advances in quenching technology are improving the opportunity for improved distortion control. 4 Dimension High-Pressure Gas Quenching (4DQ) is a unique gas quenching process that combines a special quenching chamber design with part rotation to minimize distortion during the quenching process.Register Now
Operator Precision Gear Grinding
July 24–25—Live Online Course
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
Bevel Gear Systems Design
July 30–August 7—Live Online Course
Learn how to design and apply bevel gear systems from the initial concept through manufacturing and quality control and on to assembly, installation, and maintenance. Engage in a practical hands-on guide to the bevel gear design, manufacture, quality control, assembly, installation rating, lubrication, and, most especially, application.Register Now
Gear Heat Treatment Operator & Operations
August 6–8—Hotel Cleveland; Cleveland
This course provides the heat treat operator and operations team, the means to perform the heat treatment of steel gears in a manner that meets the AGMA and customer requirements in a safe and efficient manner. The course identifies the key requirements for proper processing. Sufficient metallurgical background is provided to allow the student to identify how this information relates to the required processing and properties of the gear.Register Now
Reverse Engineering
August 14–15—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.Register Now
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With the WORM drives, everything is high efficiency
Worm drives, the most compact gear system; provide high-ratio speed reduction and greatly increase torque. To be effective, it’s crucial that they are manufactured with high-quality standards to ensure all requirements are precisely met. CHUN YEH GEAR can manufacture - Max. Module: M10, Accuracy Capability: DIN 1, AGMA 14, JIS 0.
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Preventing Corrosion in Gears
Gear Technology recently had the opportunity to sit down with Thomas White, Marketing Manager for Northern Technologies International Corporation, whose ZERUST line of corrosion prevention solutions includes specialized packaging, testing and comprehensive corrosion management services.
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Industry News
Kuka Robotics Announces Injection Engel as a System Partner
Gear Technology
Continuing a global relationship that spans more than 20 years, eight-year Kuka Strategic Partner Engel, a leader in plastic injection molding machines, technologies, and turnkey solutions, has become a Kuka Robotics System Partner. In its new relationship with Kuka, Engel will not only continue to incorporate Kuka robots as standard components in its injection molding solutions but also integrate and retrofit Kuka robotic products into existing plastic injection molding machines and systems.Read More
Flender Celebrates 125 Years of Future
impeller.net
When companies celebrate anniversaries, they often look back into the past. How did it all begin? What milestones were there? What successes and perhaps crises? Flender does the same. However, for the drive technology specialist, the 125th anniversary is primarily a reason to look towards the future.Read More
Driving Decarbonization in the Toughest Environments
hub-4.com
Heavy industries like quarrying and recycling have gone a long way toward reducing their greenhouse gas emissions. However, these sectors must continually improve to meet national and global climate targets. Switching to electrified conveyors is core to decarbonization, but this comes with challenges. David Strain, technical director at electric motor and gearbox provider Technidrive, explains why drum drive gearboxes must be part of the solution.Read More
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Jergens Appoints National Sales Manager for Workholding Solutions Group
Gear Technology
Jergens announces that Omar Andino will take the lead as the WSG national sales manager. Andino, who has been with the company since October of 2018, will leverage his wide range of manufacturing and engineering experience in his new position to continue the sales growth of the many workholding products.Read More
Gear Inspection Becomes a Smaller Deal
American Machinist
Gearmaking has always been a matter of precision—and of verifying the reliability and consistency of the precision cutting processes. As applications for gear products increase, so does the need to achieve and certify precision. According to Gleason Corp., its 175GMS nano gear metrology system signals “a new era” for dimensional assessment, “where nano-level inspection is no longer the exception, but the rule.”Read More
FVA GmbH Launches Online Tool for Machine Elements and Standard Calculations
Power Transmission Engineering
FVA GmbH has released mechanicus, an intuitive online calculation tool for machine elements and standard calculations. The new web application is available for free now here and marks a significant milestone in the world of drive technology.Read More
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National Motor Museum Engineers Restore Sunbeam’s Gearbox which Helped to Create a Land Speed Record
Express & Star
The three-speed gearbox built nearly a century ago for Sunbeam 1000hp to break the 200mph Land Speed Record barrier is being sympathetically cleaned and restored by National Motor Museum engineers.Read More
Interact Analysis Examines Industrial Robot Market
Power Transmission Engineering
Overall global industrial robot shipment volumes exceeded 500,000 units in 2023, according to global market research firm Interact Analysis. This was similar to that seen in 2022 but the average price of industrial robots decreased last year. After a record high in 2021, 2023 reached a low point in revenues and shipments but the long-term forecast remains positive. The global industrial robot market is expected to grow by 3.7 percent per year between 2024 and 2028.Read More
Hyliion Begins Additive Manufacturing of KARNO Generator Components at Its Texas Facility
Metal AM
Hyliion, a developer of sustainable electricity-producing technology, has begun Additive Manufacturing parts for its KARNO generator at the company’s headquarters in Austin, Texas, USA. Hyliion installed its first GE XLine Additive Manufacturing machine in April to manufacture aluminium parts, announcing plans to add more AM machines once production was established.Read More
A Newly Developed Method Will Ensure High-Quality Standards in Additive Manufacturing Processes
Securities.io
Additive manufacturing processes continue to improve thanks to innovative efforts and growing adoption. This week marks a major milestone for the industry as a group of researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign published a paper in the Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing that demonstrates a new method of training deep machine learning models to detect defects more effectively.Read More
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