Gear Industry News August 27, 2024
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AGMA Updates
Design Basics for Spur and Helical Gears
September 10—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 that define tooth bending and contact rating safety factors on two real-life examples. Use commercially available software to develop gear geometry factors, and calculate and optimize gear set power density and performance.Register Today
Condition Monitoring
October 16–17—Live Online Course
In this course, we will examine each of these questions and the interrelation of each with a primary focus on how this information can be used to define the actions required to keep the gearbox running properly and to allow maintenance planning. There are a variety of ways we can collect the data required to estimate remaining operational time and risk of premature failure. Even more importantly, however, our discussion of the “how” will address the relation of the function of the gearbox and the risks associated with parameters evaluated.Register Now
Gear Failure Analysis
October 22–24—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.Register Today
Lubrication & Wear: Advanced Concepts
October 1–3—University of Notre Dame; South Bend, IN
Designed for engineers and scientists in the rolling element bearing, gear, and power transmission industries who desire a more fundamental knowledge of component-relevant topics in the field of tribology. The purpose of this course is to bridge the gap between component design and component failure, as a result of relative motion between surfaces in contact.Register Now
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Now Arriving: Your Next High Performance Hobber
The SMG SH410 vertical hobber is the machine you’ve been waiting for: high performance, highly affordable, and delivering worldclass speed, accuracy and productivity for workpieces with diameters up to 410 mm. Custom packages include options for automation and on-board chamfer/deburring; provisions for extra-long shafts to 650 mm; and even hard skiving. Why wait? It’s on our shop floor, ready for demo and delivery.
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You are invited! Visit NIDEC at IMTS Booths 338948 & 237238
Discover the world of NIDEC machine tools at IMTS 2024. We’ll have two booths to show the combined global strength of manufacturing systems to improve your production. Be sure to visit Booths 338948 and 237238 to see the NEW ST40B gear shaper and the NEW CF26A cut chamfer machine.
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Embracing Efficiency: The Power of WORM Drives (CHUN YEH GEAR)
In today's pursuit of efficiency, worm drives combine worm gear and worm for unmatched power transmission. Compact and with high gear reduction, they're necessary for precision applications across industries.
CHUN YEH GEAR can manufacture - Max. Module: M10, Accuracy Capability: DIN 1, AGMA 14, JIS 0.
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Industry News
Emerging Technology Center Sneak Peek at IMTS 2024
Power Transmission Engineering
When manufacturing leaders, job shop owners, engineers, and designers want to see what their operations might look like in the near future, one of their must-visit destinations is AMT's Emerging Technology Center (ETC) at IMTS – The International Manufacturing Technology Show. IMTS 2024 runs Sept. 9-14 at Chicago's McCormick Place.Read More
Why Embodied AI For Manufacturing Applications Is Different From Digital AI
Forbes
Most of the AI that we experience in our daily lives is digital AI. It produces digital artifacts, decision recommendations or predictions that will either be used by a human or some other digital agent. Examples include generating a cover letter for a job application using ChatGPT, recommendations for watching a movie on Netflix, creating a painting using Dall-E and detecting a tumor in a medical image. But a different kind of AI—called embodied AI—is being developed to manage the behavior of physical systems.Read More
ABB Pioneers Workforce Development Program in Collaboration with Arkansas Tech University
Power Transmission Engineering
ABB is equipping the next generation of professionals for advanced technology manufacturing by partnering with Arkansas Tech University’s Ozark campus to launch a career-readiness program. This collaborative workforce development initiative will offer a curriculum focused on automation technology, air conditioning and refrigeration.Read More
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How AI tools can enhance manufacturing companies KYV processes and supply chains monitoring
Thomson Reuters
Increased globalization has meant a more dynamic, yet less stable supply chain for many corporations across the world, and recent global crises have thrown the problem of disruption into stark relief. However, when companies need to switch suppliers quickly or on-board new ones, disreputable or fraudulent vendors can more easily insert themselves into otherwise relied-upon supply chains. This creates risks for companies that go beyond manufacturing disruption and can include significant reputational and even legal risks. Manufacturers that are sourcing materials need to examine compliance not just in their own organizations, but throughout the entirety of the supply chain.Read More
Stellantis taps Rivian exec to lead North American manufacturing
ManufacturingDive
Stellantis named Tim Fallon, former VP of manufacturing operations at Rivian, as its head of manufacturing in North America beginning Sept. 2, according to an Aug. 20 press release. Fallon had been with the electric vehicle maker for over two-and-a-half years, leading its manufacturing operations in Normal, Illinois.Read More
5 of the World’s Largest Machines
ASME
The world’s biggest and most powerful machines in the world do the work that not so long ago took armies of people. They move and succeed in their tasks of helping mine for critical resources, build the construction of today’s renewable giants, and even transport other machines and people.Read More
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FANUC America Establishes $1M Scholarship Fund with SME Education Foundation to Elevate Advanced Manufacturing Skills
SME
FANUC America announced the establishment of the FANUC Automation Endowed Scholarship Fund in collaboration with the SME Education Foundation. As the largest automation scholarship in SME Education Foundation history, this initiative will foster the next generation of skilled professionals in advanced manufacturing and automation. The SME Education Foundation operates as the philanthropic arm of SME, the national nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of manufacturing.Read More
What Fed Chair Powell’s Address Means for Manufacturing
AMT
Fed Chair Jerome Powell gave the most concrete signal yet that interest rate cuts are on the horizon at his Jackson Hole press conference. For manufacturers closely watching the developments and anticipating IMTS 2024, the outlook is promising.Read More
Productivity Is the Ultimate Test for Automation
IndustryWeek
As manufacturers face the harsh realities of global competition and a dwindling labor pool, many are feeling intense pressure to automate. Their concerns are hard to dismiss – with automation advancing rapidly in China and other regions that already have a labor cost advantage, nobody wants to be a technology laggard with high labor costs.Read More
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