Industry Week John May has been named John Deere CEO, after a brief stint as the company’s chief operating officer. May spent the previous six years as head of agricultural solutions and chief information officer. During that time, he led Deere’s deal to acquire Blue River Technology, a company that uses computer vision and machine learning to apply herbicides on a plant-by-plant basis, with the potential to dramatically reduce herbicides used.
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Advanced Manufacturing Earlier this decade, the auto industry moved to lighten cars and trucks. It was supposed to be a competition between steel, long the dominant vehicle material, and aluminum. The latter got a boost when Ford Motor Co., Dearborn, Mich., bet big on aluminum, making aluminum bodies for its F-150 and Super Duty pickups.
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Crain’s Detroit Business Students at University Prep Science & Math High School, and other Detroit youth, will gain exposure to careers in the advanced manufacturing sector and gain basic technical skills through a new program with Detroit testing facility Lightweight Innovations For Tomorrow. A $200,000 grant from the Skillman Foundation is funding the program which will connect University Prep students' in-school education with daily experiences at a new learning lab at LIFT's advanced testing and manufacturing facility.
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Automation World Unplanned downtime is a significant detriment to any business. In order to make sure that processes remain uninterrupted, consider implementing these resiliency protocols when designing your industrial network infrastructure.
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AGMA will provide 16 thought leader presentations this year at the Motion + Power Technology Expo. Presenters will provide talks on blockchain, cybersecurity, market info, supply chain, workforce, 3D metal printing, electric drive technology, IIoT and robotics with an emphasis on an audience of gear manufacturers suppliers and customers. We have made this accessible to all with a registration fee of only $295. Reserve your spot today.
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Machine Design The electric vehicle (EV) market is growing globally, with no apparent sign of stopping. In 2018, sales in the U.S. increased by 81% and according to CleanTechnica, EVs sales are up 70% across Europe. With a growing market, it's worth looking at the trends in the electrical vehicle industry to see how EVs will impact the supply chain, materials and driving.
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Associated Press Two surveys of Chinese manufacturing show demand is weak amid a mounting tariff war with Washington over trade and technology. A monthly purchasing managers’ index released by a business magazine, Caixin, rose to 50.4 from July’s 49.9 on a 100-point scale on which numbers above 50 show activity increasing.
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Gain a solid and fundamental understanding of gear geometry, types and arrangements, and design principles. Starting with the basic definitions of gears, conjugate motion, and the Laws of Gearing, learn the tools needed to understand the inter-relation and coordinated motion operating within gear pairs and multi-gear trains. Basic gear system design process and gear measurement and inspection techniques will also be explained. In addition, the fundamentals of understanding the step-wise process of working through the iterative design process required to generate a gear pair will be reviewed. Learn the steps and issues involved in design refinement and some manufacturing considerations. An explanation of basic gear measurement techniques, how measurement equipment and test machines implement these techniques, and how to interpret the results from these basic measurements will also be covered.
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AGMA Join us for the top gear research event of the year. The AGMA Fall Technical Meeting (FTM) held in conjunction with the Motion + Power Technology Expo in Detroit, October 14-16, boasts 26 presentations on peer-reviewed research in gearing. Session one will have papers on electric vehicle transmissions with hypoid gearsets; new spline research, optimizing polymer gear design and more. You can register for the whole event or single session. Complete information is available on the MPT Expo website.
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