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.

Join AGMA’s Director, Emerging Technology, Mary Ellen Doran as she outlines for you the work of the four emerging technology committees. Learn all about 3D printing, Electric Drive Technology, IIoT and Robotics and Automation as it relates directly to the gear industry. This webinar is sponsored by the AGMA Foundation, and is free for AGMA members.

Join us for our first big live event in the gear industry. This is the perfect opportunity for you to talk directly with your customers and suppliers, listen to a compelling keynote, take a gear-centric education class, and network with your peers.

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.

National Law Review
For the past several months, the media have been reporting on the general labor shortage in the U.S. Most manufacturers have been understaffed in their factories for even longer than this news cycle, but current events have transformed what before 2020 was merely a typical challenge for manufacturers seeking to hire enough people, into a dilemma that for many is mission-critical. Even if understaffed manufacturers have been able to hit most or all customer deadlines this year, continuing to operate with staffing shortages for too long can cause short- and long-term damage to workforces and therefore businesses. 

Reuters
Production at U.S. factories surged in July, boosted by an acceleration in motor vehicle output as auto makers either pared or canceled annual retooling shutdowns to work around a global semiconductor shortage.

Automotive World
Volvo Trucks has agreed to acquire JMC Heavy Duty Vehicle Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Jiangling Motors Co., Ltd., which includes a manufacturing site in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, China, for an amount of RMB 0.8 billion . The objective is to start production of the new heavy-duty Volvo FH, Volvo FM and Volvo FMX trucks in Taiyuan for customers in China from the end of 2022.

Supply Chain Brain
People are shying away from factory work because they don’t realize what a great career opportunity it offers, according to says Ethan Karp of the Manufacturing Advocacy and Growth Network (MAGNET), an organization dedicating to drumming up manufacturing jobs for Cleveland and Northeast Ohio.

News 5 Cleveland
Alliance for Working Together (AWT) is breaking ground on its roughly $3 million Transformation Center, a training facility they’ll use to help train manufacturing workers in Northeast Ohio in the technology they need to know for the next generation of manufacturing jobs.

Car Buzz
Automakers are struggling to keep plants open to meet the demand for new cars as the pandemic continues to be problematic, in addition to the massive semiconductor chip shortage that’s affecting manufacturers. But there’s one industry still raking in the dough: The manufacturers that supply the robots building electric vehicles. 

Robotics and Automation News
The innovative HyFlexyBot project is the result of a partnership between the Venetian mechatronics company Automationware and the Modenese innovation hub Crit. Described as “an integrated solution that will improve and make more efficient the production and logistics of the food industry,” the HyFlexyBot project is in the top 10 of the Agrobofood-Horizon2020 community program and will be funded by the European Union.

New Atlas
A milestone was reached in decarbonization, as Sweden’s SSAB made the world’s first “fossil-free” steel delivery — created with green hydrogen instead of coal and coke — to Volvo, where it will be used in electric trucks.

New Equipment Digest
When considering the future of farming, it is important to understand the problems facing the agriculture industry. One of the most pressing issues is something that also haunts manufacturing — the availability of skilled labor. Unfortunately, when very narrow windows of opportunity exist to complete tasks, the challenge quickly becomes exponential, explains Dan Leibfried, director of automation and autonomy at Deere.

New Atlas
In the eVTOL air taxi world, eHang is an outlier. Where most operations are painstakingly doing thousands of unmanned flight tests, eHang is merrily flying people around in autonomous mode, including its own CEO and even members of the public. Where others are dotting every i and crossing every t to ensure they can attain commercial certification in multiple markets, eHang is going into production before anyone's got certification anywhere.

3D Printing Industry
Carl Zeiss Industrial Metrology, a leading manufacturer of multidimensional metrology devices, has partnered with the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory to advance the characterization of 3D printed parts using artificial intelligence and X-ray CT technology. The joint project, named “Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Enable Reliable Non-Destructive Characterization of Additively Manufactured Parts Using X-ray CT”, will be funded through the DOE’s Technology Commercialization Fund (TFC).

New Atlas
China’s MingYang Smart Energy has announced an offshore wind turbine even bigger than GE’s monstrous Haliade-X. The MySE 16.0-242 is a 16-megawatt, 242-meter-tall (794-ft) behemoth capable of powering 20,000 homes per unit over a 25-year service life.

Mining.com
A comparative study published by researchers at the University of Münster states that battery costs are expected to continue to decline, even under pessimistic raw material price scenarios.

Press release
The ExOne Company is collaborating with Tennessee-based startup Maxxwell Motors on development of a unique copper e-winding design for its innovative axial flux electric motors, which can be used in electric cars as well as a range of other heavy-duty vehicles and industrial devices. 

Forbes
The world continually goes through rapid transformation. In manufacturing, the role of transformational technology can be game-changing. Emerging technologies can improve companies’ productivity, cost, quality, time-to-market and product innovation; however, companies are in very different stages in terms of the adoption of these technologies.

 

Gear Solution
With the development of CNC machines with 5 or more axes and additive manufacturing processes, the design of double spiral bevel gears becomes feasible with the possibility of being applied in a wide range of applications.