2026 Education Catalog Now Available

MPMA Courses Announced

MPMA education classes are taught by long-time industry experts to pass on essential gear and bearing industry skills and knowledge. MPMA currently offers 25+ courses each year on topics from systems design and electric vehicles to inspection methodology and gear manufacturing processes for specific gear types. MPMA offers live courses and on-demand courses, in-person, online or in your facility.
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Analytical Gear Chart Interpretation

November 13—Live Online Course

This course is an introduction to the methodology of analytical gear inspection and the evaluation and interpretation of the resulting data. The application of this information to identify and correct manufacturing errors will begin to be explored. Additionally, it reviews chart interpretation and applies inspection data to understand the causes and cures of manufacturing errors. Many chart examples are used to understand cause and effect.
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Reverse Engineering

November 18–19—Live Online Course

Reverse engineering a gear system is not too unusual a 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. Failure to fully follow best practice can result, at best, in an unhappy gear user, but in the worst case, it can lead to very expensive, time-consuming, and reputation-damaging litigation.
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Condition Monitoring

December 2–3—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.
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MPMA Members completed their first PULSE market intelligence survey.

Join us tomorrow for the results. The North American manufacturing sector has faced significant uncertainty in 2025, with continued economic, supply chain, and workforce challenges testing even the most established companies. Gear and bearing manufacturers — along with the broader industrial community — have been pushed to adapt rapidly, finding new ways to stay competitive, improve efficiency, and protect margins.

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Industry News

SpinDrive Raises Funding to Scale Magnetic Levitation Bearing Technology

Power Transmission Engineering

SpinDrive, a Finnish company providing active magnetic bearing (AMB) systems, has raised new growth funding. The company’s frictionless machinery products enable industrial end-users and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to achieve higher energy efficiency and productivity, while reducing operational emissions, maintenance costs, and pollution from oil-based lubricants.
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Free-Floating Robots Find Ocean’s Carbon Storage Is Struggling

IEEE Spectrum

The surface ocean is a busy place, with ships crossing, storms churning, and satellites monitoring everything from above. But below the top 1,000 meters, a hidden fleet of robotic devices is listening for signs of stress inside the planet’s largest life-support system.
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Light-Powered Motor Fits Inside a Strand of Hair

Tech Briefs

For more than 30 years, researchers have been trying to create small gears in order to construct micro-engines. But progress stalled at 0.1 millimeters, as it was not possible to build the drive trains needed to make them move any smaller. But Researchers from Gothenburg University, among others, have now broken through this barrier by ditching traditional mechanical drive trains and instead using laser light to set the gears in motion directly.
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ABB Develops Next-Generation AI Data Centers with NVIDIA

Power Transmission Engineering

ABB announced it is accelerating the development of gigawatt-scale next-generation data centers in collaboration with NVIDIA. Innovation will focus on the development and deployment of cutting-edge power solutions needed to create high-efficiency, scalable power delivery for future AI workloads. The research and development projects will support NVIDIA’s planned introduction of 800 VDC power architecture for 1 megawatt server racks.
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Growing Role of AI in Manufacturing

Quality Magazine

AI is gaining fresh momentum nationwide, spearheaded by the Administration. On January 23, 2025, the President issued an AI Action Plan pursuant to Executive Order 14179, "Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artiﬁcial Intelligence." It called for the removal of regulatory barriers that impede AI innovation and directed the development of a plan to achieve the policy goal of sustaining and enhancing "America’s global AI dominance" to promote "human ﬂourishing, economic competitiveness, and national security."
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Applied Materials Makes ‘Strategic Investment’ in Augmentus

Robotics & Automation News

Augmentus, the Singapore-based pioneer in AI-robotics and adaptive automation, has announced a strategic investment from Applied Ventures, the venture capital arm of Applied Materials. This investment marks a significant milestone in Augmentus’ mission to enable intelligent, autonomous robotics for high-mix, high-variability manufacturing across the globe.
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