March 2, 2022 – 1:00-2:00 pm Eastern
Learn about new sensor technology developed through Nikola Labs that provides end-to-end online vibration analysis service to more than 150 facilities using stationary rotating assets across the United States. Hear from Jaidev Krishnan, director of condition monitoring, how Nikola Labs is starting to eliminate unplanned downtime and provide in-depth prescriptive alerts. This webinar is free. Register today.

The webinar “Improvement of Gear Life and Performance” by Nitrex takes place Thursday, March 3, 2022. This presentation is a walk-through of a number of practical ways to optimize gears for greater results. Focusing on surface treatments, primarily nitriding and carburizing, the Nitrex speakers bring different perspectives and industry-specific know-how and practices to the topic – from the view of an equipment supplier and a commercial heat-treating services provider.

March 16, 2022 – 1:00-2:00 pm Eastern
The highest level of tensions in the U.S. relationship with China and Russia in at least the past 40 years has been described as a new “Cold War 2.0” and is rapidly reshaping the global security landscape.  For companies in the bearing and gear industries (and related areas), this means new challenges when exporting to key markets, sharing technology across borders, and expanding overseas sales.  In this webinar, a panel of practitioners will unpack these developments, explain what they mean in practical terms for your business, and help you prepare for further rises in global tensions throughout 2022 and into 2023.

March 22-24, 2022 – Philadelphia, PA
A good understanding of individual failure modes and the failure scenarios that led to the actual system failure is an essential skill to designing gear/bearing systems that will operate properly for their full design life.

Manufacturing.net
The leader of the Federal Aviation Administration, whose agency has been criticized for its oversight of Boeing and handling of questions surrounding 5G interference with aircraft, said last week that he will step down March 31.

Power Transmission Engineering
Balancing impellers and rotors saves money and improves performance and safety.

NBC News
Days after a Canadian border blockade was broken up, the auto industry is facing a serious dilemma. Over the past three decades, manufacturers have adopted “lean” manufacturing. Largely lifted from the Toyota production system, the complex strategy relies heavily on things like automation and other labor-saving steps. But the centerpiece is a system known as just-in-time, or JIT, production, which has sharply reduced the amount of inventory maintained at automotive factories. That approach, it turns out, is extremely vulnerable to disruptions that can quickly bring factories to a halt.

Engadget
Lamborghini hopes it can continue producing cars with internal combustion engines into the next decade, CEO Stephan Winkelmann told a German newspaper this week. “After hybridization, we will wait to see whether it will be possible to offer vehicles with an internal combustion engine beyond 2030,” he said in an interview with the outlet. “One possibility would be to keep combustion engine vehicles alive via synthetic fuels.”

Manufacturing.net
The site of a former coal-fired power plant in Somerset will be transformed into the first offshore wind manufacturing facility in Massachusetts, the governor announced last week.

Manufacturing Global
Jane Ren, CEO, and fonder of computer software company Atomiton explains how artificial intelligence can help achieve sustainability goals, by providing visibility into the carbon effect of production activities.

Industry Week
Using a different credit evaluation, potential manufacturing employees can get the training they need.

 

 

Engine + Powertrain Technology International
Yamaha Motor has been commissioned by Toyota to develop a 5.0-liter V8 engine that can run on hydrogen. In Japan, Toyota and other automotive-related companies are about to begin a collaborative effort to expand the range of fuel options for internal combustion engines. Toyota has already been running a hydrogen-adapted GR Yaris engine fitted to one of its Corolla models in the Super Taikyu race series in Japan.

Manufacturing Global
As the world plans to reconnect in the post-pandemic world, autonomous mobile robots have a role to play from manufacturing to hospitality to healthcare.

3D Natives
Additive manufacturing is spreading quickly all over the globe, but nowhere as much as where it all started, the United States. From 1987 when stereolithography was first introduced by Chuck Hull to the advent of the first metal AM technologies in the 1990, AM has only continued to grow over the years in the U.S., a country which consistently tops the lists for largest installed base of 3D printers in the world. 

Fabbaloo
It seems that Essentium could soon join the ranks of companies producing metal 3D printers. Metal 3D printers are in high demand due to the gradual transformation of certain industries towards additive approaches. In particular, the aerospace and automotive sectors have adopted AM as a standard approach for making certain types of parts for production.

Cutting Tool Engineering
“Before purchasing a Vicivision, we had to use a variety of different machines,” explained a representative for Didimo Zanetti, a leader in the production of gears, as he opens the doors of the workshop and details how quality control worked before investing in an optical measuring machine.

Forbes
Back in 2009, a TV documentary aired called The Crumbling of America. Its message was simple: the degradation of infrastructure across the US was putting our entire national economy at risk. A crisis, it said, was imminent.

Manufacturing Global
Douglas Woodruff, Director of R&D at JBT Diversified Food & Health Division, explores 2022’s food manufacturing trends, from sustainability to automation. 

Mining.com
Researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, UC Riverside, and Geologica Geothermal Group have launched a project to both quantify and characterize the lithium resource in the Salton Sea geothermal field in California.

Gear Solutions
Techniques to prevent, predict, and understand gear failure have improved in part due to advances in computing power and simpler approaches. 

Gear Solutions
The word “optimization” is becoming fashionable with regard to gear design. It is applied to both macro-geometry and micro-geometry. The approach can be of various types: analytical pre-optimization with different objectives, bulk generation of variants, multi-objective and multi-disciplinary commercial optimizers, generative optimization, and even artificial intelligence. However, these are all scenarios that assume the manufacturer will accept any geometry indicated by the designer. This is certainly not the case with the industrial gearboxes on catalog for which standard cutting tools are used to reduce cost and keep available the interchange of suppliers, nor with special gearboxes, “goods to order,” in which the producers try to use cutting tools already in the tool room.