Reduce Costs by Improving Shop Floor Productivity with Rheo AI

Emerging Technology Webinar - August 6, 1-2pm ET

Discover how Rheo helps manufacturers optimize and manage their Shop Floor through AI-powered workflows: 1) Conduct experiments continuously on the shop floor using videos and AI-powered Kaizens. 2) Make your Training programs continuous and effective with visual, objective, action-based training. 3) Manage compliance, audit and standardization workflows across functions like Safety, Quality, Maintenance with one unified solution. 4) Manage day-to-day operations on the Production line with Adaptive prioritization and action recommendations on the shop floor using Rheo’s AI Copilot.
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Taming Tooth Deflection

August 26–Live Online Course

This course teaches how to calculate and manage tooth deflections under load to eliminate involute interference through proper profile modifications, improving both gear performance and durability. Participants will learn to optimize gear design for high-load applications while reducing noise and vibration, using real-world analysis and inspection techniques.
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Detailed Gear Design

September 16–25—Live Online Course

This course goes beyond basic gear design to focus on optimization strategies that enhance load capacity, reduce system size, or improve manufacturability. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of gear failure modes, stress analysis, and design trade-offs through interactive discussions, illustrations, and computer-generated simulations.
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Operator Gear Grinding

September 17–18—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.
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The Game Changers: SH Series Vertical Hobbing Machines

The SH Series from MTB offer the worldclass speed, accuracy and productivity you need for every job – at a price you can afford. Models available for parts as large as 425 mm diameter & custom packages that include ringloaders, chamfer cutting and provisions for extra-long shafts to 650 mm and hard skiving.

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Online Auction 8/7 – CNC & Manual Gear Machinery

Surplus to Falk Gear and Polco Metal Finishing - Featuring GLEASON CNC Gear Cutting Machines, Manual Gear Machines, HAAS and MAZAK CNC Lathes & Machining Centers, MITSUBISHI CNC Grinder, HOFMAN Balancing Machine, PLUS: Heat Treat Dept., Broaching Machines, Finishing Equipment, Robotic Polishing Cells, Presses, Toolroom, Shop Support & More!

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Over 27,000 Stock Metric Gears

KHK USA offers the broadest range of stock metric gears in North America. With over 27,000 configurations of spur gears, helical gears, internal ring gears, gear racks, bevel gears, worms & wormwheels and other related gearing products, KHK’s selection contains the gear you need.

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Industry News

MPT Expo Preview: Helios Gear Products

Gear Technology

Helios Gear Products, renowned for its machines, tools, services, and hands-on domestic support that power profitable gear manufacturing, invites attendees to discover its complete gear manufacturing systems at Booth #137 during the Motion + Power Technology Expo 2025. The exhibit will feature the company’s full workflow solutions for gear cutting, deburring, cleaning, marking, inspection, and automation, and a live gear cutting demonstration of the Hera 350 CNC gear hobbing machine.
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Engineers find new method for developing stronger, lighter 3D-printed parts

Techxplore

Engineers at the University of Maine are developing a new method to more accurately predict the strength of lightweight 3D-printed objects. This research, conducted at the university's Advanced Structures and Composites Center (ASCC), will enable designers to create more robust and reliable components by controlling strength when lightweighting virtually any plastic component.
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What Tariffs Reveal: A Wake-Up Call to Strengthen Manufacturing Skills

Automation.com

As manufacturers grapple with the uncertainty of tariffs and their potential impact, many are speculating whether digital manufacturing technologies–such as additive manufacturing–might be key to overcoming these challenges. Tariffs and their continued impact also highlights a related and pressing issue: the need to invest in workforce skills.
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Nidec Corporation Adopts Siemens’ Teamcenter X for Electric Motor Development

Power Transmission Engineering

Siemens Digital Industries Software has announced that Nidec Corporation, a Japanese manufacturer and distributor of electric motors, has adopted Teamcenter X software from the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio of industry software to achieve innovative motor development and supply to set new industry standards, including automotive.
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The Emerging Network of Mutualistic Technologies

Computer Weekly

Advanced sensors, artificial intelligence (AI), digital twins and extended realities (XR), and robotics will change technology-driven markets substantially, establishing novel applications and alter competitive environments. Not only will existing markets benefit tremendously by combinations of these technologies, but also will new markets materialize that are difficult to foresee at this early stage of development.
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Engineering the Blue Ghost: From Idea to Moon Landing

Tech Briefs

As part of NASA’s Artemis campaign, the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative, managed out of the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, is paving the way for conducting lunar science for the benefit of humanity.
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