Join us in Rosemont, IL, November 2-3 for our FTM back live and in person. As with all meetings with international speakers, we will have a combination at this event. Hear about the latest innovations in the gear industry with some live, in-person presentations and some pre-recorded presentations from all over the world.

November 9-10 – Oak Lawn, IL
This course provides the heat treat operator and operations team, the means to perform the heat treatment of steel gears in a manner that meets the AGMA and customer requirements in a safe and efficient manner.  The course identifies the key requirements for proper processing.  Sufficient metallurgical background is provided to allow the student to identify how this information relates to the required processing and properties of the gear.

November 10 – 1 p.m.
Ferrium® C64® steel is a novel ultra-high-performance gear steel that was designed and commercialized by QuesTek Innovations. C64 steel allows for increases in power density and light weighting of gears, and it has begun displacing AISI 9310 and Alloy X53 steel in demanding applications such as high-performance racing and next generation helicopter gear boxes. QuesTek recently completed a multi-year project to demonstrate C64 steel in additive manufacturing processing. Free for members.

December 9, 2021
Reverse engineering a gear system is a not too unusual task and in many, but not all, cases the process goes fairly well, thus it is easy to become complacent. It is important, however, to fully understand the process and the best practice procedure for reverse engineering a gear system. Failure to fully follow best practice can result, at best, in an unhappy gear user, but in the worst case it can lead to very expensive, time consuming and reputation damaging litigation.

We will discuss the basic types of reverse engineering projects (e.g. upgrading an existing system to increase power or extend operating life or improve noise level; replacing gear that has simply reached the end of its otherwise successful useful life; emergency, short term, interim gear replacement resulting from an unexpected failure; responding to a system that is not providing acceptable performance, etc.). The need for understanding the operation of the system in which the gears will be used, the conditions that led to the need for the project and especially, the specific nature of the failure that occurred, if that is the reason for the project, are key, often ignored, elements of the process. 

PR Newswire
Economic activity in the manufacturing sector grew in September, with the overall economy notching a 16th consecutive month of growth, say the nation's supply executives in the latest Manufacturing ISM® Report On Business®.

MxD Press Release
MxD announced the release of $1.5 million in funding for solutions in dynamic production scheduling and optimization, cybersecurity solutions for operational technology (OT) factory equipment, and digital twins for supply chain.

Reuters
Electric truck maker Rivian Automotive plans to build battery cells in-house, its filing for a U.S. initial public offering showed on Friday.

Stratasys Press Release
Stratasys Ltd. announced that the company has introduced a new data security solution to enhance the cybersecurity of additive manufacturing as its role in government and defense applications grows larger and more mission-critical. The new ProtectAM™ solution is the first additive manufacturing to use Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This platform is preferred by the U.S. government to help deliver continuous information processing security in accordance with requirements contained in the applicable Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) issued by the Defense Information System Agency (DISA) of the U.S. Department of Defense.

3D Printing Industry
Nano and microsatellite developer Terran Orbital has announced a $300 million investment to build what it claims will be the “world’s largest” commercial spacecraft facility in Florida. 

Spanning 660,000 square feet, the facility will be constructed on Merritt Island and leverage 3D printing technologies to enable the production of thousands of different types of space vehicles per year.

News Tribune
Thousands of students from across Missouri participated in the annual Manufacturing Day on Friday where they virtually toured factories across Missouri and learned about career in the manufacturing industry.

Manufacturing Minute
In 10 to 20 years, Honda wants its business to offer more than automobiles, motorcycles and power equipment. A part of its “2030 Vision,” the company from Tokyo is looking to the sky and to robots and sees these advancements being offered by the 2030s and 40s.

Manufacturing.net
Tesla says it delivered 241,300 electric vehicles in the third quarter even as it wrestled with global shortage of computer chips that has hit the entire auto industry. The Palo Alto California, company’s sales from July through September beat Wall Street estimates of 227,000 sales worldwide, according to data provider FactSet.

MSN.com
Across industries, augmented and virtual reality are adding a 21st century twist on standard operations and redefining business as usual. This ranges from mixed reality manufacturing to a more literal take on modern medicine, but AR and VR are also being implemented well beyond our Earthly confines as NASA and JPL tap these capabilities to reimagine space exploration and mission procedures.

New Atlas
Citroën has introduced an interesting mobility concept that brings together several forward-looking transport technologies into one versatile vehicle. The Citroën Skate is a self-driving electric vehicle platform that can be fitted with different types of pods depending on the job at hand and cuts a slender profile through the streets to keep disturbances to a minimum.

Mining.com
The world’s electric grids are creaking under the pressure of volatile fossil-fuel prices and the imperative of weaning the world off polluting energy sources. A solution may be at hand, thanks to an innovative battery that’s a cheaper alternative to lithium-ion technology.

Forbes
For much of the 20th century, manufacturing seemed like the industry most capable of grabbing the future with both hands, propelling itself forward and bringing the rest of the world along for the ride. Innovations that mass-produced the Model-T were only separated from advances in robotics and automation by a few decades, all while manufacturers created new mindsets and approaches to making things, from the Kanban production system to agile manufacturing.

TCT Magazine
Precision metal parts processor Brugmaier has established a hybrid manufacturing technique using various steels in partnership with SLM Solutions. Combining a self-developed system to clamp base bodies with the ‘standardized approach’ of additively manufacturing parts of SLM Solutions’ SLM 280 metal 3D printing system, Burgmaier believes its hybrid process will enable a ‘new world of hard-wearing designs.’