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Learn and understand fundamentals of gear manufacturing. Acquire knowledge and understanding of gear nomenclature, hobbing and shaping of spur and helical gears, and splines. Learn and understand hobber and shaper machine set-up, as well as gear tooth element inspection. Understand the manufacturing process before gear tooth cutting, as well as post cutting processes. Apply concepts to further finishing processes, i.e. heat treat, gear tooth shaving and grinding and/or skiving. Gain knowledge to establish a solid foundation for all basic gear manufacturing.

Take a deep dive into the gear industry at AGMA’s Fall Technical Meeting. This meeting brings together top researchers from across the globe who will provide the latest information on their peer-reviewed gear industry research. Network with the industry experts, academics, and engineers; ask your burning questions; and see what is in the future of this industry.

This course provides the heat treat operator and operations team, the means to perform the heat treatment of steel gears in a manner that meets the AGMA and customer requirements in a safe and efficient manner. The course identifies the key requirements for proper processing. Sufficient metallurgical background is provided to allow the student to identify how this information relates to the required processing and properties of the gear. 

Press release
SIMBA Chain, the technology company that has eliminated the complexities of blockchain app development and reduced energy usage thus opening the door to a world of users, has closed a $25 million Series A funding round led by Valley Capital partners.

Press Release
NASA plans to launch the James Webb Space Telescope into orbit Dec. 18, 2021, to serve as the premier deep space observatory for the next decade. The agency set the new target launch date in coordination with Arianespace after Webb recently and successfully completed its rigorous testing regimen. The new date also follows Arianespace successfully launching an Ariane 5 rocket in late July and scheduling a launch that will precede Webb. 

Manufacturing.net
The global destabilization of manufacturing organization due to the pandemic has made industrial control systems more vulnerable than ever to cyberattacks. According to one threat intelligence report, manufacturers saw a 300 percent increase in cyberattacks last year.

Manufacturing.net
Toyota announced it intends to spend north of $13.5 billion dollars on the development of batteries and its battery supply system by the year 2030.

Modern Machine Shop
Production efficiencies, setup efficiencies, plant utilization record, safety records, on-time delivery performance — all of these metrics and more place Forest City Gear among the elite when it comes to the use of ongoing improvement methodologies.

Modern Machine Shop
The R&D project will use the Zeiss 3D ManuFact Solutions to develop and commercialize a  comprehensive powder-to-part characterization methodology for additive manufacturing.

Metal AM
Boston's Desktop Metal, Inc., reports it has acquired Aidro, headquartered in Taino, Italy, a pioneer in the volume production of next-generation hydraulic and fluid power systems through metal Additive Manufacturing across a wide range of industries, including oil and gas, agriculture equipment, aerospace, and mobile and industrial machinery. 

AutoBlog
Just like the automotive industry, aerospace has its sights set on going electric — but flying with battery-powered engines is a tougher proposition than rolling. Wright is among the startups looking to change the math and make electrified flight possible at scales beyond small aircraft, and its 2-megawatt engine could power the first generation of large-scale electric passenger planes.

Tech Crunch
Back in July, YASA, a British electric motor startup with a revolutionary “axial-flux” motor, was acquired by Mercedes-Benz. The acquisition didn’t exactly garner enormous press attention, as scant other details were announced. But YASA is likely to be an entity worth watching.

Forbes
In Mike Nichols’s 1967 film The Graduate, Dustin Hoffman's character gets one word of career advice: "plastics." To Hoffman’s character, the advice sounds boring and out of touch — although, if you look at the state of industry today, it actually seems rather visionary.

New Atlas
New research from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health has found a correlation between air quality in office environments and workers’ cognitive function. The international study found low ventilation rates and increased levels of particulate matter were linked with reduced performance on cognitive tests.

New Atlas
Hypersonic aircraft that fly many times the speed of sound might one day carry people from the U.S. to Australia in just a few hours, but with all that velocity comes a lot of heat. One way scientists hope to prevent  overheating is by having the propellant do double duty as a coolant, keeping aircraft at safe operating temperatures as they blaze across the sky.

Gear Solutions
Bulk metallic could slash prices of collaborative robot and lead to advanced 3D printed metals.
Metallic glass gears up for ‘cobots,’ coatings and more. 

Gear Solutions
This article validates an analytical model for estimating load sharing of three-planet epicyclic gear sets that has been reformulated for wind-turbine gearboxes to consider the effects of gravity related to carrier-bearing clearance and moments from the rotor.

 

 

Gear Technology
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the first subsidiary of Italian drive specialist Bonfiglioli Riduttori in the UK. A good reason to celebrate, as Bonfiglioli development in the UK over the 40 years has been a true success story.

The Robot Report
A large percentage of small-to-medium manufacturers have missed out on the many benefits of industrial automation such as increased productivity, improved quality and enhanced competitiveness. Rapid change, however, is underway.