Analytical Gear Chart Interpretation

January 29, 2025—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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Design Basics of Spur and Helical Gears

January 28, 2025—Live Online Course

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. There will be an opportunity to discuss gear design challenges that may be unique to participant industries.
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Loaded Tooth Contact Analysis

January 30, 2025—Live Online Course

Evaluation of loaded tooth contact and development of tooth modifications using commercially available software to improve and apply a realistic load distribution factor Km in gear rating calculations and reduce transmission error. Two real-life gearing examples will be reviewed in the course, one will have a cantilever mounted pinion, the other a shaft pinion straddled non-symmetrically by bearings.
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Steels for Gear Applications

February 11–13, 2025—Live Online Course

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.
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MTB Names New Director of Sales and Marketing

Gear Technology

Machine Tool Builders Inc. has announced the addition of Ross Wegryn-Jones to the company’s sales and marketing team, to help lead the company’s expansion of new gear machine lines and its renowned rebuild and recontrol services.
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Regal Rexnord and Honeywell Announce Collaboration on Solutions for Advanced Aircraft Mobility and eVTOL Markets

Power Transmission Engineering

Regal Rexnord Corporation and Honeywell have announced that the two companies have entered into a multi-year collaboration to build technologies for the emerging Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) market and be installed on Electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft.
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IIoT: Driving The Future Of Manufacturing With AI And Edge Computing

Forbes

Automation is no longer a vision of the future—it’s the present driving force behind the next industrial revolution. As manufacturers adapt to an ever-changing technological landscape, the integration of the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), Industry 4.0 and advanced technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and edge computing are transforming the way industries operate.
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High-Volume 3D Printing Services Put to the Test

All3DP

How much do 1,000 metal parts and 8,000 nylon parts cost to be 3D printed at a service and how fast is the delivery? Five 3D printing companies give us their best quotes.
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Life-size, rideable Star Wars AT-AT walker comes to life with 3D printing

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The test proved the 3D-printed gears’ effectiveness and the design’s stability, with the chassis moving at 1 meter per second.
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Inaugural PTDA Foundation Employee and Student Scholarship Recipients Announced

Power Transmission Engineering

The PTDA Foundation recognizes the urgent need for skilled professionals in the power transmission and motion control (PT/MC) industry. As such, it is committed to helping PT/MC employers further the education of current and upcoming talent with the introduction of two new scholarship programs.
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