Gear Technology
Industry data is the essential factor current leaders need for success in navigating through the uncertainty created by the pandemic and the resulting economic downturn.

AGMA
What does your advertising budget look like? Do you even have one? Do you know where to start? Our in-house experts are going to walk you through the print and online magazine advertising world. From why it is important to put money into your brand recognition to how you even begin the process of buying out pages of a magazine. Learn the right negotiating tools and how you can start getting your customers to see your products on a daily basis.

Institute for Supply Management
Economic activity in the manufacturing sector grew in November, with the overall economy notching a seventh consecutive month of growth, according to the nation’s supply executives in the latest Manufacturing ISM® Report on Business^®. 

MIT Work of the future
An MIT research team on manufacturing at the MIT Task Force of the Work of the Future has spent the past two years on factory floors in Massachusetts, Ohio and Arizona trying to develop an understanding of technology and workforce in manufacturing. They just released the research brief of their findings.
You can learn more about the paper in a video from Jim Anderton’s End of the line through the link below.

Wired
Millions of EVs will soon hit the road, but the world isn’t ready for their old batteries. A crop of startups wants to crack this billion-dollar problem.

Daily Sabah
Turkey is well on its way to becoming design and manufacturing center for all kinds of engines, especially in aviation, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said as the country moved closer to mass producing local turboshaft helicopter engines. "With these projects, we're entering a new era in the defense industry," Recep Tayyip Erdoğan told the handover ceremony for Turkey's first indigenous helicopter engine and opening of new design center via a live video link from the Vahdettin Mansion in Istanbul on Saturday.

Manufacturing Global
Over the past 20 years, quantum computing has evolved from a speculative playground into an experimental race. The drive to build real machines that exploit the laws of quantum mechanics, and to use such machines to solve certain problems much faster than is possible with traditional computers, will have a major impact in several fields, including manufacturing.

Gear Technology
A visit to the HMC Gears plant in Indiana kicked off an extensive project, which resulted in the creation of a unique solution for exceptional demands. With the LC 4000, Liebherr forges new paths in large-scale gear cutting production and unites diverse machining methods in one highly efficient machine for the American gear specialist.

All 3DP.Pro
Top industry thought leaders on the opportunities and challenges ahead for business and industrial 3D printing.

SME
Until now, the task of enabling communication among all the technology in a plant has fallen largely to systems integrators who create the computer-code translators, or bridges, from, say, a 3D camera to a robot or between two robots made by different vendors. It’s a process that takes a long time and costs a lot of money. There are many working on current efforts toward commonality and creating bridges that translate machine languages so a factory’s devices can talk to each other.

Manufacturing.net
The use of HoloLens technology has proven to be effective at streamlining and improving everything from factory acceptance testing to servicing. As Delta ModTech increases its use of this mixed reality tool, you get the sense that we are only scratching the surface of its potential.

Manufacturing.net
Tech giant Hewlett Packard Enterprise said it is moving its global headquarters to Houston area from California, where the company’s roots go back to the founding of Silicon Valley decades ago.

Business Wire
FANUC America and Plus One Robotics have successfully paired their industry-leading technologies to meet the needs of their mutual customers in e-commerce. The new flexible fulfillment solution incorporates a FANUC robot and Plus One’s AI-powered PickOne perception system to identify, singulate, and sort a wide range of conveyable items without the need for traditional vision training.

Power Transmission Engineering
AD has named Darin Davenport as vice president of its Bearings and Power Transmission Division. Davenport most recently served as president and CEO of P.T. International, an AD supplier partner. He will assume his new role December 28, 2020.

Modern Machine Shop
A primary answer to that is a place where there are a lot of experts in AI and machine learning. Digits are driving physics.

Industrial Machinery Digest
Taking care of any necessary equipment repairs, rebuilds or remanufactures now ensures that forgers and manufacturers will be ready for the economic rebound in 2021. In the forging industry, the recent economic slump, disruption of the international supply chain and consolidation among forge operations has created a potential opportunity for domestic operators to pick up new business in 2021.

Forbes
Small business owners are retiring in greater numbers as Baby Boomers age. We wish them a happy retirement, but small and medium businesses use other small businesses for vital goods and services. Many companies have made succession plans for their owners and top managers, but what about critical non-employees? For example, a manufacturer may use independent sales representatives. A timber company may use contract loggers. A health clinic may outsource its human resources function to a small, local firm. And businesses across all industries use accountants, lawyers and IT consultants.