AGMA provides training for operator through gear engineering levels. Training is available virtually, in-person or we can bring training to your site. A complete list of next year’s line-up is available below.

The AGMA/ABMA Annual Meeting is coming up soon in the new year! Join your peers for a three-day event that will allow you to get out of the office, with a fresh perspective, to hear from subject matter experts while networking at a luxurious resort in Palm Beach, Florida. Not only will the meeting cover educational opportunities and committee meetings, but a host of special events designed with our members in mind. Our Early Bird Registration* deadline is fast approaching, register for the 2022 Annual Meeting today and save on registration. 

AGMA partnered with Interact Analysis (AI) earlier this year to provide AGMA members with more tools for market intelligence. The newest version (December 2021) of the MIO Tracker Report (Manufacturing Industry Output – Global Industry and Machinery Production Data and Forecasts) is now available for free download. This 60-page report is provided quarterly to AGMA members. IA is a leader providing information on industrial automation, robotics and warehousing, and commercial vehicles — three areas that are critical to the gear industry. Access the report by sending an email to doran@agma.org.

The AGMA Foundation provided $40,000 in scholarships in 2021 to students working toward degrees in the power transmission industry. Our application for 2022 candidates will be available on the Foundation website the first week of January. You can help us by directing prospective students to our site. You can also help by considering a donation to help us continue to fund these scholarships.

Technology is fundamentally changing the way manufacturing is done. The gear industry is faced with emerging trends and innovation that is challenging engineers to stay on course with cutting-edge technology to keep design, quality, materials and analysis efficient. It is imperative that researchers and gear engineers communicate ideas with fellow experts in the field. AGMA’s annual Fall Technical Meeting (FTM) is the perfect forum in which to share research and to disperse knowledge for the benefit of the industry at a global level. 

Manufacturing.net
On December 16, Georgia-Pacific announced a major investment for its paper mill in Green Bay, WI. The company will spend $500 million on upgrades that will boost GP’s retail consumer tissue and towel business.

Robotics and Automation News
A company called Ottonomy is providing a fleet of its fully autonomous delivery robots — called Ottobots — for food and retail at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG).

Motor Authority
Electric vehicle startup Rivian continues to go from strength to strength. After managing to raise $13.7 billion from an initial public offering in November, the company is now preparing to build its second vehicle plant.

 

 

Interesting Engineering
New York-based firm Pliant Energy Systems is building a marine system reminiscent of the cuttlefish with its rippling underwater motion, a report from the Economist reveals. The company’s biomimetic machine, called Velox, is based on the principle that propellers are nowhere near as efficient as the fins of sea creatures that are prevalent in nature.

Supply Chain Brain
Wedged up against the southern edge of the Rio Grande, the sprawling desert city of Juarez has seen its share of economic booms over the years. But perhaps none quite like the one that’s taken hold today as a long list of new factories have been ordered up by anxious CEOs across the world when the pandemic roiled their global supply routes.

 

Modern Machine Shop
The most popular articles of 2021 cover topics ranging from CNC machining to success stories and shop acquisitions. Here is where you can find a rundown of each article.

Mining.com
Prices for lithium, the building block of electric-vehicle batteries, shot to a record this year, amplifying concerns there won’t be enough of the metal to fuel the switch away from combustion engines. In that climate, now should be a prime time to build a mine.

Manufacturing Global
With more than 2 million manufacturing jobs expected to remain unfilled by 2030, AI can add, rather than eliminate new jobs across industrial sectors and empower employees to realize the potential of Industry 4.0.

EurekAlert!
Worn-out industrial milling tools and damaged materials cost the manufacturing industry billions each year. In manufacturing processes, components are shaped by removing chips from a bulk material, but a clear understanding of what factors control the size and shape of removed chips has remained elusive, limiting the manufacturing sector to incremental advancements based on trial-and-error approaches.

Engine Powertrain Technology International
Toyota has released a slew of concept EVs, setting out its electrification plans to 2030. “I believe that achieving carbon neutrality means realizing a world in which all people living on this planet continue to live happily,” said company president Akio Toyoda. “We want to help realize such a world. This has been and will continue to be Toyota’s wish and our mission as a global company.” 

Today’s Motor Vehicles
READY Robotics built a network of automated solution providers to spearhead the design and deployment of Forge/OS-powered automation solutions and its partnering with Futura Automation, a provider of automation solutions for robotics, material handling, automated assembly and AI-driven machine vision applications.

Gear Technology
Big Kaiser Precision Tooling will change its name to Big Daishowa, Inc. effective January 1, 2022. “Big Daishowa is a global leader of tooling systems, and we have been a member of the Big Daishowa group of companies for many years,” said Jack Bruley, president & COO. “The name change is a natural evolution in this relationship.”

Bloomberg
The industrial economy is entering a new stage of the recovery, with implications for everything from capital spending to equity valuations.

New Atlas
Back in January, General Motors launched a new spin-off named BrightDrop, centered on electric last-mile logistics vehicles, and has now completed its first delivery less than twelve months later. The company’s EV600s have been handed off to FedEx who will put them to work along its growing charging network in California.