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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Gearbox CSI

February 25–27, 2025—Philadelphia

A good understanding of individual failure modes and the failure scenarios that led to the actual system failure is an essential skill to designing gear/bearing systems that will operate properly for their full design life. In this course, we will define and explain the nature of many gear and bearing failures and we will also discuss and describe various actual failure scenarios. In addition, a detailed primer on bearing technology prefaces the failure scenario discussions.
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A Practical Approach to Managing Gear Noise

March 4, 2025—Live Online Course

This course combines light theory with a heathy dose of practical testing and simulation techniques used to manage gear noise. Topics focus on insights into the mechanisms for both whine and rattle, the two most common categories of gear “noise”. The course presents clear explanations relating subjective evaluations of audible noise to objective actions, including troubleshooting and countermeasures, based on the instructors’ direct experience in industry.
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Happy Holidays from all of us at NIDEC Machine Tool America!

We wish you and yours a wonderful holiday season, and a Happy New Year! Let’s get more productive in 2025 – we have gear machines in stock. Call Scott Knoy 248-756-5017!

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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.
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They say necessity is the mother of invention. The arrival of a new generation of cylindrical gear chamfering solutions in recent years isn’t by accident. Gear manufacturers who might have turned a deaf ear to a new chamfering technology just a few years ago now welcome it with open arms. After all, the benefits of quality chamfering are now well-known, and their application is near-mandatory. Inadequate and uneven chamfers cause extraordinary costs when applying expensive hard-finishing tools down the value stream.
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Operational Improvements

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Since taking over as CEO of Solve Industrial Motion Group in June 2024, Ernie Lauber has focused on continuous improvement, predictive maintenance and growing the legacy brands within Solve. Combining brands such as IPTCI, MasterDrive, PTI and TRITAN together with the LMS, SST, SPB-USA and USA Roller product lines, Solve Industrial Motion Group is a provider of high-quality metric and American Standard power transmission components and industrial-grade bearings.
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Sandvik AB has acquired Universal Field Robots, or UFR, a developer of autonomous systems for the surface and underground mining markets. UFR will report to Digital Mining Technologies, a division within the Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions business area.
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Advanced manufacturing is a foundational capability toward building ready combat formations across the Army. That was the message at the first ever Advanced Manufacturing wargame at Rock Island Arsenal, Dec. 4-5, 2024.
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Bonfiglioli Advance Manufacturing Efficiency with Collaborative Robotics and Real-Time Decision-Making

Power Transmission Engineering

In today’s fast-paced manufacturing world, inefficiencies in repetitive tasks can slow down progress. That’s why Bonfiglioli is proud to be part of Moma-Flex, a pioneering project funded by EIT Manufacturing and the European Union, designed to revolutionize how production plants operate.
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