AGMA has several great and free webinars coming up:
June 23 | 1:00 pm ET – AGMA Technical Division Webinar – learn more about the standards development process of AGMA
June 24 | 1:00 pm ET – Understanding NFTs, Blockchain and Other Emerging Issues in International Trade, Anti-Counterfeiting, and Supply Chain Security – the next AGMA trade webinar in the series.
July 7 | 1:00 pm ET – Harness the Power of Machine Data – a case study in machine learning implementation with Machine Metrics and AGMA Member company, Federal Gear

This course will provide a solid foundation for anyone going into gear inspection. Learn the common, current and basics of the tools and techniques used to measure and inspect gears. Understand the four main categories by which a gear is evaluated and classified. Gain proficiency in understanding gear quality by learning the numerical scale on which gear design, manufacture and inspection are based, and more. This course will provide a solid foundation for anyone going into gear inspection. Learn the common, current and basics of the tools and techniques used to measure and inspect gears. Understand the four main categories by which a gear is evaluated and classified. Gain proficiency in understanding gear quality by learning the numerical scale on which gear design, manufacture and inspection are based, and more. This course is taught at Daley College.

For another year, AGMA is joining NFPA to provide top-level economic speakers to industry. AGMA members will receive member rates to the Industry & Economic Outlook Conference which will be held August 16-18 at the Hilton Chicago/Oak Brook Hills Resort & Conference Center. AGMA has secured a gear speaker for the afternoon. But there are many great national and global economic presentations as well.

The Motion + Power Technology Expo is only a couple of months away and things are starting to get busy! Don’t miss out on this incredible opportunity to meet face-to-face with your industry supply chain and for the month of June, we are offering a free show floor registration. Use “MPTFREE” when you register.

In June 2016, Matt Croson joined the AGMA team in its 100th year. It was an exciting time for both Croson and AGMA. He writes about his last five years at AGMA and his hope for the next year in a blog on the AGMA website.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Verge
An interview with Jahmy Hindman, chief technology officer for John Deere, the world’s biggest manufacturer of farming machinery. Discussion is on farming, data and the right to repair.

Metal AM
Sciaky, Inc., a Chicago subsidiary of Phillips Service Industries, Inc., has received a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award from NASA. The company plans to use the award to enhance its wire-based Directed Energy Deposition (DED) technology, which it refers to as Electron Beam Additive Manufacturing (EBAM), with new machine-learning algorithms that will automatically identify and eliminate defects with titanium (Ti6Al4V) AM parts.

Manufacturing.net
The manufacturing industry has overwhelmingly embraced automation and digitization, capitalizing on the improved efficiency in controlling and monitoring operations. However, the efficiency comes with a catch: a higher risk of cyberattack from modern malware technology.

 

Manufacturing.net
After nine years of planning and $10 million invested by local taxpayers, county officials in Georgia’s coastal southeast corner have come a big step closer to winning federal approval of a project engineered to literally inject the local economy with rocket fuel.

New Atlas
This graphene-based aerogel is the lightest sound insulation material ever manufactured, say researchers at the University of Bath, who have demonstrated its ability to damp down noise by up to 16 decibels despite weighing just 2.1 kg per cubic meter (0.13 lb per cubic foot).

Tech Crunch
Most machine learning algorithms are shouting names in the street. They perform perceptive tasks that a person can do in under a second. But another kind of AI — deep reinforcement learning — is strategic. It learns how to take a series of actions in order to reach a goal. That’s powerful and smart — and it's going to change a lot of industries.

Business Wire
Fisker Inc. announced it signed a binding agreement supporting manufacturing with Magna International Inc. Along with the previously signed agreements on electric vehicles (EV) platform sharing and ADAS package, this news finalizes the framework established between the two companies beginning in October 2020.

 

Analytics Insight
Handling inventory carrying costs is a challenge in itself in today’s era. It refers to the cost of storing unsold goods or unfinished parts. This is one of the major reasons that the concept of on-demand manufacturing has risen to the platform of manufacturing engineering. With the onset of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the Internet of Things (IoT) and Cloud Computing are becoming stronger day by day and are changing the way manufacturing is carried out. On-demand manufacturing is a complete architecture to reduce delays in quotations, increase efficiency and transparency in supply chain management. In this article, we will discuss what advantages it brings to the table, a comparison between traditional and low volume manufacturing and its applicability in custom parts manufacturing.

Forbes
The year 2020 was not what any of us expected. The digital economy exploded. Teachers adapted to online learning models. And businesses and entrepreneurs invested in flexibility and found new and exciting pathways to growth. One option growing in popularity as a result of the pandemic is additive manufacturing. Wohlers Associates reports industry expansion of 7.5% to nearly $12.8 billion last year alone.

Gear Solutions
Forest City Gear is boldly going where no gear jobber has gone before, with the first Gleason GP300ES Gear Shaping Machine featuring a 40-percent faster cutter spindle speed.

Gear Solutions
The proposed method of identifying the content of corrective and warning actions allows for systematic identification of corrective actions to effectively improve the quality of cylindrical gears,.

Manufacturing Global
Showcasing the benefits of Industry 4.0 digitization for manufacturers, Intel, EXOR International and Telecom Intalia have joined forces building an end-to-end smart factory in Verona, Italy. With its foundations built on multiple Intel products, the factor highlights what can be achieved with the latest 5G and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, in an agile and modular application environment.

Modern Machine Shop
A new manufacturing cell at Mazak’s North American headquarters is one part machine tool production unit and one part demonstration facility. And it’s here to provide a lesson about how automation can tackle skilled-worker shortages and supply chain issues at the same time. 

Green Car Congress
Volkswagen is pressing ahead with the use of 3D printers in car production. For the first time, binder jetting is being used to manufacture components at the company’s main plant in Wolfsburg, Germany. Whereas conventional 3D printing uses a laser to build a component layer by layer from metallic powder, the binder jetting process uses an adhesive. The resulting metallic component is then heated and shaped.

Wall Street Journal
As the U.S. and its allies chase China in procuring critical minerals essential for modern technologies, they face a major hurdle: a lack of companies and projects with an established record. The U.S. has pumped millions of dollars into researching how to extract rare-earth minerals from abandoned coal fields, an approach some say won’t work. The Pentagon has invested in a U.S.-based rare-earth magnets manufacturer that sources many of its products from China. Canada has put money into a 21-year-old mining company that has never mined and handed an option to control its main asset to a business run by the chief executive’s son.

Morning Consult
The pandemic has ushered in an unintended consequence for workers across the country: an expedited timeline for more widespread adoption of automation. To account for the possibility of sick workers, companies have made investments in robotics and artificial intelligence. This trend is something Americans are increasingly likely to embrace, new polling indicates.