AGMA will provide four informative keynotes at MPT Expo. On Tuesday, join us for information on the global automotive outlook by AutoForecastSolutions. Tuesday afternoon learn from Notoros on how blockchain can be used to create immutable peer-to-peer databases. Wednesday we start the day with an informative cybersecurity session with KnowBe4 and in the afternoon there is a Women in Engineering Panel.

Explore gear grinding processes, machine kinematics and set-up, pitfalls, failures and expectations related to finish ground gearing. Learn definitions of gearing component features, process steps from blanking, through heat treatment to finished part ready to ship. Study aspects of Quality Assurance, Inspection Documentation and corrective actions for measured non-conformances. Understand pre-heat treat, heat treatment and post-heat treatment operations including the hows and whys to produce finished gears that conform and perform to end user expectations.

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.

Press Release
Economic activity in the manufacturing sector grew in August, with the overall economy notching a 15th consecutive month of growth. The August Manufacturing PMI registered 59.9 percent, an increase of 0.4 percentage points from the July reading of 59.5 percent. This figure indicates expansion in the overall economy for the 15th month in a row.

IHS Markit U.S. Manufacturing PMI
August PMI data from IHS Markit signalled a marked improvement in the health of the U.S. manufacturing sector. Although slightly softer than seen in July, the expansion was supported by steep upturns in production and new orders. Nevertheless, output growth was reportedly hampered by capacity constraints and material shortages. Lead times for inputs extended further as cost burdens soared, with the pace of inflation reaching a fresh series high.

Aerospace Manufacturing and Design
Lockheed Martin has completed construction of an advanced manufacturing facility at its Palmdale, California, campus and headquarters to the Skunk Works^®.The 215,000ft² intelligent, flexible factory has digital foundations to incorporate smart manufacturing components, embrace the Internet of Things and deliver cutting-edge solutions rapidly and affordably to support the United States and its allies. This is one of four transformational manufacturing facilities Lockheed Martin is opening in the U.S. this year.

Press release
The Boeing Company board of directors announced that David L. Joyce has been elected to the board, effective immediately. He will serve on the Aerospace Safety and Compensation committees. The Boeing board today also announced that Admiral Edmund P. Giambastiani Jr. has informed the company that he will retire from the board at the end of 2021.

Press Release
Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc., a California-based global shared intelligent mobility ecosystem company, announced its new Vice President of Manufacturing, Matt Tall. Tall will be responsible for leading all facets of FF’s production and manufacturing, focusing on the Hanford manufacturing plant, where he will oversee the final phases of the plant upgrade, installation of component tooling, hiring and the production of the FF 91.

Press release
Six manufacturers in Connecticut will be receiving a total of $600,000 in grants to facilitate the adoption of additive manufacturing in their operations. Under the Additive Manufacturing Adoption Program (AMAP), each company will receive $100,000 matching grant to be leveraged with an equal or greater amount of company funding.

Forbes
Rather than await the perfect silver bullet from policymakers, the nation’s manufacturing boards and management teams must instead set about leading their organization’s own journey of continuous improvement.

 

Mining.com
Mining.com’s EV Metal Index set a new monthly record in June despite seasonal factors, jumping 36 percent in value from the previous month to edge past December 2020’s record tally. The EV Metal Index, which tracks the value of battery metals in newly registered passenger EVs (including hybrids) around the world, came in at $649.2 million in June an increase of 237 percent over the same month last year and bringing the year-to-date total of $2.68 billion.

Nanalyze
SpaceX has moved into IoT with their acquisition of Swarm Technologies and Elon Musk appears to have solved the IoT connectivity problem, meaning a whole slew of use cases will open up. Being able to talk to a satellite from anywhere in the world means that companies can now begin to monitor things in remote areas such as open-pit mining operations or oil and gas pipelines. Deploying IoT sensors to monitor critical functions sounds like a great plan today, but not so great when it comes time to start replacing batteries.

Security Magazine
While many organizations follow best practices and a standards-based approach to securing the information technology systems within their organizations, an industrial system’s operational technology can often be overlooked, ultimately opening the door to vulnerabilities and potential attacks on infrastructure, product safety and more.

Manufacturing Global
Constantly working to reduce its CO2 emissions and the emissions of its suppliers in the steel supply chain, Mercedes-Benz is committed to responsible steel supply. To this end, Mercedes-Benz has made another key step to achieve its green steel goals by partnering with Swedish steel manufacturer SSAB. Together the two companies aim to introduce green steel into the vehicles as quickly as possible, with the first prototypes for body shells made of CO2 free steel planned for next year.

Mining.com
BHP and Caterpillar announced that they are accelerating the development and deployment of zero-emissions mining trucks at BHP sites to reduce operational greenhouse gas emissions.

Entrepreneur
According to analysis by IHS Markit, the supply chain delays seen this year will carry on into 2022 and possibly 2023. The logistics crisis is worsening due to economic rebound, staff shortages, and the overstrain in transportation systems.

Metal AM
The ExOne Company, North Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, and the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials (IFAM), Bremen, Germany, report that they are deepening their partnership on binder and materials development projects, following the success of CleanFuseTM metal binder. Fraunhofer IFAM and ExOne’s collaboration on metal Binder Jetting (BJT) spans more than two decades, and in recent years, they have jointly refined and optimised CleanFuse, an ExOne binder based on a development by Fraunhofer IFAM. 

TCT Magazine
3D Systems has today added two new materials to its 3D printed metals line-up aimed at applications in aerospace, automotive, semiconductors, energy and mold making.

3D Printing Progress
Ceramic 3D printing is an emerging segment within the 3D printing industry that began its commercial journey in the past 10 years, making it a relative newcomer compared with polymer and metal 3D printing. However, increasing entrants into he field in the past few years, from major ceramics companies to small 3D printing start-ups, illustrates that interest in ceramic additive manufacturing is picking up.