AGMA
"Huawai or the Highway: How New U.S. National Security Laws Aimed at China Will Impact Emerging Technologies and IoT Initiatives in the Bearing and Gear Industries" will take place at 1:00 p.m. Eastern time this Wednesday.

Electric Hybrid Vehicle Technology
RHIVA, a new brand in the electric vehicle market, is set to introduce its ASM motor technology that it claims will set the new standard for sustainable, high-power electrified motor technology.

Machine Design
The machine building industry has certainly changed: Extensive and sophisticated control programs contain the core know‐how and make today’s machines more flexible and productive. Although software and data is important for machine builders, control programs are usually first “tried out” on real machines without prior validation. 

Machine Design
Automation can introduce inflexibility that decreases value and productivity – but too little automation can drive up labor costs.

AGMA
This course focuses on the supporting elements of a gearbox that allow gears and bearings to do their jobs most efficiently. Learn about seals, lubrication, lubricants, housings, breathers, and other details that go into designing gearbox systems.

3D Printing Industry
In a transaction that values metal 3D printing company Desktop Metal at $2.5 billion, the Massachusetts-based enterprise will list on the NYSE. Proceeds from going public are anticipated as $575 million, funds that CEO Ric Fulop says will be used to drive internal growth but also growth via acquisition.

WBTV
Graduates with little to no manufacturing experience can become career-ready manufacturing professionals through the eight-week training program, which comes at no cost to the student thanks to scholarships provided by local employers. Students can earn the industry-recognized Certified Production technician designation from the Manufacturing Skills Standards Council, along with Career Readiness Certifications. The CPT curriculum covers safety, quality practices and measurement, manufacturing and production processes, and maintenance awareness.

EMA – Truck & Engine Manufacturers Association
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) approved sweeping new regulations affecting heavy-duty trucks sold in the state. The Omnibus LowNOX Rule includes a 90% reduction in tailpipe NOX emissions, plus nine additional regulatory requirements on new heavy-duty truck and engines. Those additional requirements include a 50 percent reduction in particulate matter emissions, stringent new low-load and idle standards, an unproven in-use testing protocol, unworkable extended deterioration requirements, a new California-only credit program, and extended and costly mandatory warranty requirements. 

AGMA
Learn the common, current and basics of the tools and techniques used to measure and inspect gears. There are four main categories by which a gear evaluated and classified. Gear design, manufacture and inspection are based on numerical scale that defines gear quality. The methodology to measure and techniques required to quantify quality of a gear tooth form will be thoroughly investigated and explained. It is often stated that quality cannot be inspected into the part, however inspection can tell us what to do to correct many issues.

Euroscientist
As manufacturing becomes more data-driven, manufacturers have a new threat to consider: cybercrime. When you think about hackers, you probably don’t imagine factories as their target, but cybercrime is a serious issue for any sector. Manufacturing companies can be particularly vulnerable to digital threats nowadays, even if it doesn’t seem that way at first.

Machine Design
Manufacturers don't want to have to push the big red button on their supply chain because of a global pandemic ever again. What adaptions should they make?

Wired Magazine
In February, A lobbyist friend urged Erik Satorius, the executive director of the Kansas League of Municipalities, to look at a newly introduced bill that would affect cities. The legislation involved “personal delivery device” — robots that, as if in a sci-fi movie, might deliver a bag of groceries, a toolbox or a prescription to your doorstep — allowing them to operate on any sidewalk or crosswalk in Kansas at speeds up to 6 miles per hour, the pace of a quick human jog.

Industry Week
In the 1990s Toyota’s principles of production equipment became “simple, slim and flexible,” which some people might interpret as “go slow and be cautious in adopting new technology.” The real message here is: “adopt and adapt technology that supports your people and processes.” The starting point is this: where are real needs that technology can address to help achieve your goals? This is a question of pulling technology based on the opportunity, instead of pushing the technology because it is the latest fad.

Robotics and Automation News
New force control sensors enable robots to accurately perform assembly tasks during final trim assembly, improving productivity, ergonomics and quality. Designed to offer a fast, accurate and safe automated solution for installing anything from seats, dashboards and carpets inside vehicle bodies, to doors, bumpers and wheels outside the vehicle, ABB’s new Dynamic Assembly Pack for Final Trim and Assembly (FTA) combines real time vision cameras on the robot gripper and arms with integrated force control sensors to allow the robot to precisely track the position of the car body as it enters the workstation.

Forbes
As airlines struggle through the COVID-19 crisis, it is inevitable that the aircraft manufacturing sector takes a hit. The two giant, Airbus and Boeing are not immune, nor are other manufacturers or the extensive supply chain. Massive job losses and furloughs have already been announced, sadly more can be expected.

3D Printing Industry
The Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials (IFAM) in Dresden has launched a new additive manufacturing facility. The Fusion Factory, developed by industrial equipment supplier Xerion Berlin Laboratories, is intended as a miniaturized production line for the FFF printing of metallic and ceramic parts. IFAM hopes the new equipment will “strengthen its competence” as an industrial and research partner.