Gear Industry News July 18, 2023
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AGMA Updates
U.S. Defense Policy Update
July 19, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm (EST)—Webinar
The annual debate surrounding our nation’s defense budget is kicking into high-gear in Washington as Congress looks to pass the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024. In this program, we’ll examine the programs likely to be funded, those on the chopping block, and what bearing and gear companies can expect for market opportunities in the aerospace and defense sectors in the year ahead.Register Today
Tradeshow Marketing—How to Get Your Customers to the
July 26, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm (EST)—Webinar
Getting a booth at a tradeshow is only the beginning to creating a successful sales strategy. To get the largest ROI for your booth, marketing your presence at the show is the only way you can ensure attendees will stop by to find out what you are doing. Carrie Schultz, vice president of strategy and client service at CSG Creative, will be giving you the best tools to help bring traffic to your exhibit at MPT Expo and other shows you might have a booth at. Find out how to gain followers, instigate interest in your showcased products and lock down sales meetings before you even get to the show floor!Register Today
Steels for Gear Manufacturing
August 8–10—Chicago Marriott Oak Brook; Oak Brook, IL
Gain a basic understanding of steel and its properties. Learn to make use of steel properties in an application and understand the potential that different steel and heat treatment options can offer. Explore how the performance of the material depends on how the steel is produced.Register Today
Essentials Concepts of Bearing Technology
August 8–10—Chicago Marriott Oak Brook; Oak Brook, IL
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.
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Involute Spline Design and Rating—Fall
August 15–16—Live Online Course
This course will address both geometry and rating of involute splines of various types. The types of spline joints and their applications will be discussed. Spline configuration variations, including half-depth, full-depth, and special function designs, will be addressed. Both fixed and flexible spline configurations will be examined in terms of usage and design. Lubrication methods, including grease, oil bath, and flowing oil, as well as coatings appropriate for various spline applications, are examined. Shear and compressive stress rating methods are discussed with analyses methodology presented in both equation and graphical methodology via various rating charts.Register Today
Detailed Gear Design
August 22–24—Morrison House Old Town; Alexandria, VA
There is a distinct difference between “designing” a gear and “optimizing” a gear design. In this course, we will address the optimization process via an understanding of those factors beyond basic banding and pitting ratings. Optimization may focus on load capacity, economy of production or minimization of the overall gear system envelope. In this course, we will learn how to improve gear designs via optimization and gain new insight into concepts presented through illustrations and demonstrations. Explore all factors that go into good gear design from life cycle, load, torque, tooth, optimization, and evaluating consequences.Register Today
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Industry News
Dr. Markus Nolte Takes the Helm as EMCO’s New CEO
Gear Technology
As of 1 July 2023, Dr. Markus Nolte began as CEO at EMCO GmbH. A total of 800 employees, five production sites, and a global sales and services network stand for high-quality machine tools “Made in the Heart of Europe,” for innovations and for customer proximity. Dr. Nolte will drive EMCO’s ambitious growth strategy. “I am looking forward to this exciting challenge in a highly dynamic market environment. Our team’s expertise and EMCO’s innovative product portfolio are the ideal prerequisites for expanding our market position as a provider of cutting-edge technology and top-class services.”Read More
Heli-One Announces Gearbox Maintenance Partnership with Airbus
Vertical Magazine
Heli-One, a leading global provider of helicopter in-service support services, has announced a partnership with Airbus to provide gearbox maintenance for its H175M helicopter in the event Airbus wins the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence New Medium Helicopter (NMH) competition.Read More
Tips for Wind Gearbox Inspections Using a Borescope
Windpower Engineering & Development
The global shift to renewable energy and expanded use of wind power has significantly increased the number of wind turbines, both onshore and offshore. The demand for wind turbine maintenance is also increasing, especially for critical components such as gearboxes. Borescope inspections of gearboxes are a cost-effective way to shorten the downtime of wind turbines and prevent early detection of defects leading to gearbox replacement.Read More
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LEGO Yamaha MT-10 SP Is a Mechanical Marvel with Functional Gearbox, Engine and Intricate Components
Yanko Design
LEGO Technic creations and iconic wheels have a long brewing association that every collector fancies. More so, if it’s a superbike that gets the scaled-down replica model every builder likes to invest time in and then sport on the living room shelf. The 1:5 scaled-down model of the bike has working gear components like a shifting drum, a shift fork, shift ring, and tensioner drum. Although you can only change three gears compared to the six on the real thing. That in itself is an intricate LEGO gearbox design to separately show off by the bike’s side.Read More
vHive Drone Technology Eases Wind Turbine Inspections
North American Windpower
vHive, a software company specializing in enterprise asset digitization, has created a turnkey capability to streamline the process of wind turbine inspections. Using its patented autonomous data-capture technology, vHive enables precise and rapid capture of wind turbines at scale, reducing downtime and improving operational efficiency.Read More
Lehigh’s Summer Engineering Institute Students Tour at Solar Atmospheres
Gear Technology
Solar Atmospheres hosted over 40 high school students enrolled in the Summer Engineering Institute (SEI) at Lehigh University. Under the guidance of Director Dr. Laura Moyer, the SEI program is a two-week residential program, running two back-to-back sessions. Students are nominated by faculty of local high schools, and the program specifically targets under-represented groups including girls, first-generation students, and students who might otherwise have limited opportunities to study in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).Read More
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New ASTM Standard for Maraging Steel in Powder Bed Fusion Released
3D Printing Industry
The upcoming standard, currently identified as WK82609, will be published under the name ASTM F3607. Notably, David Rosen, a member of ASTM, has emphasized the significance of this specification in enabling users to establish precise requirements and ensure the desired properties of additively manufactured maraging steel components.Read More
Technology Promises Big Boost in SA Cotton Production
Farmer’s Weekly
To date, no robotic cotton harvester has been commercialized. In a study by Fue et al (2020), a robotic cotton harvester with a prebuilt rover as the platform used suction-type end-effectors with rotating gears at the tips to grasp the seed cotton. The concept of linearly moving pins rotating around a finger led to the design and construction of multiple prototypes. The pins were attached to a belt driven with a 12V DC gear motor. This end-effector was designed to transfer the picked seed cotton backward and doff it. A plastic chute holds the seed cotton against the pins to help them transfer the seed cotton toward the doffing zone.Read More
Ceratizit Adds to Texas-Based Team
Gear Technology
Ceratizit has announced that Daniel Campos has joined the company as a Texas-based Technical Sales Engineer, bringing deep knowledge of machining and manufacturing to Ceratizit customers. Campos’ career spans more than 22 years in the machining industry with experience in vertical, horizontal/live tooling turning, full milling, and 3-, 4- and 5-axis machining.Read More
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Marines Have Successfully Demonstrated 3D Printing In-Flight for the First Time
3D Natives
It is no secret that the U.S. military is increasingly turning to 3D printing for a number of interesting applications in the defense sector. Indeed, in the past few years, we have seen a number of projects including the use of additive manufacturing for submarine manufacturing, dental 3D printing on board Navy ships, in the Marines and more. Now even more exciting news has come out of the Consortium for Additive Manufacturing Research and Education (CAMRE) at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS). According to a press release, CAMRE along with the Marine Innovation Unit (MIU) and Marine Aircraft Group (MAG) 39 worked together for the first successful demonstration of in-flight 3D printing aboard a U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft.Read More