March 16, 2022 | 1:00 pm
The highest level of tensions in the U.S. relationship with China and Russia in 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.

April 6, 2022 | 1:00 p.m.
Interact Analysis and AGMA partnered a year ago to bring more intelligence insights to the AGMA membership. They provide, for free, their quarterly Manufacturing Industry Output Report, the MIO Tracker. This presentation will walk you through the production data and forecasts as well and provide some new data sets that will be included in the reports moving forward. Manufacturers and suppliers are looking for more data to make smarter decisions and this webinar will assist them.

Gain a solid and fundamental understanding of gear geometry, types and arrangements, and design principles. Starting with the basic definitions of gears, conjugate motion and the Laws of Gearing, learn the tools needed to understand the inter-relation and coordinated motion operating within gear pairs and multi-gear trains. Basic gear system design process and gear measurement and inspection techniques will also be explained. In addition, the fundamentals of understanding the step-wise process of working through the iterative design process required to generate a gear pair will be reviewed. 

Next-Gen Transportation
Eaton’s Vehicle Group has formed a new ePowertrain business unit, which will focus on products from Eaton’s electrified vehicle (EV) transmission, reduction gearing and differential portfolios. Combining the product lines into a new ePowertrain business unit creates synergy among Eaton’s powertrain and EV experts and allows the vehicle froup to offer its global customers solutions for commercial and light-duty EVs.

Gear Technology
This annual survey polls gear manufacturers about the latest trends and opinions relating to the overall health of the gear industry. As in years past, the survey was conducted anonymously, with invitations sent by e-mail to gear industry companies — primarily in North America, but also including some respondents from around the world.

Market Watch
Activity in U.S. factories accelerated in February on strong demand and improving supply-chain bottlenecks, according to a survey of purchasing managers for the sector.

Press release
Ford is continuing to transform its global automotive business, accelerating the development and scaling of breakthrough electric, connected vehicles, while leveraging its iconic nameplates to strengthen operating performance and take full advantage of engineering and industrial capabilities. 

Today’s Medical Developments
In the midst of National Engineers Week, 3DEO hosted a hybrid press conference from their recently expanded 80,000 square foot facility in Torrance, California, to unveil their new 3D priting platform and patented technology, Saffron.

3D Printing Industry
MELD Manufacturing, a 3D printing technology developer based in Christiansburg, VA, has teamed up with Virginia Tech to advance its Additive Friction Stir Deposition technology. Having invented the metal 3D printing process, MELD Manufacturing continues to develop its technology.

Industry Week
A strengthening homebuilding market should give the North American operations of global construction and industrial materials manufacturer Saint-Gobain the chance to add to its growth run of recent years, North American CEO Mark Rayfield said recently.

Industry Week
After getting snarled up in German red tape, U.S. electric car pioneer Tesla at last got the final go-ahead from authorities, paving the way for production to begin shortly at its “gigafactory” outside Berlin.

ThomasNet
With cybersecurity at the forefront of concerns among manufacturers of all types, a key industry solutions provided is about to establish a new training hub in South Texas. The Cybersecurity Manufacturing Innovation Institute (CyManII) announced Feb 1 that it plans to form the Texas Manufacturing x Transformation Hub, or TxMx Hub, in a new facility at the Port San Antonio innovation campus.

Robotics and Automation News
One year on from his appointment as executive president of the robotics division at Stäubli, Christophe Coulongeat provides some insights into how things are going at one of the world’s largest and oldest industrial automation providers.

Modern Machine Shop
Here is a truism that manufacturers working close to additive manufacturing understand: The best opportunities for AM involve parts designed with additive in mind. But what if this principle extends farther than part design? To make a product additively is not just to replace some conventional operation with 3D printing.

Gear Solutions
KISSsoft features the calculation of the geometry of non-circular gears for different operating pitch lines. Non-circular gears are typically designed to have variable output torque and speed. It is also possible to design them with variable center distance. Nevertheless, to achieve more complex transmission ratio functions, modified elliptical shapes, n-lobed ellipses or own functions can be used in KISSsoft for the operating pitch lines of the gears.

Manufacturing Global
Automotive manufacturer Honda and entertainment titan Sony have formed an alliance in Japan to build an electric vehicle fleet in a "mobility evolution."

Today’s eMobility
The passenger version and dedicated cargo model will be created and tested. The 700+km (435+ miles) range significantly exceeds the maximum range of purely electric VTOL aircraft.

eMobility
Comau announced a strategic alliance with Mullen Automotive, Inc, an electric vehicle manufacturer for the build out of a vehicle body shop at Mullen’s Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering Center (AMEC) in Tunica, MS.

Engine Technology International
Cummins has released details of what it says is the world’s first range of fuel-agnostic engines, which will use engine blocks and core components that share common architectures and will be optimized for different low-carbon fuel types.