June 1 | 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm | REGISTER
e-Drive gears differentiate from other gears in two essential ways: higher quality and the need for an excellent noise behavior. This webinar will showcase a totally new approach of gear inspection using Gleason’s newly developed GRSL (Gear Rolling System with Integrated Laser Technology). Due to the very high measuring speed and the high amount of measurement data, it is now possible for the first time to carry out up to 100% in process inspection, including a noise analysis and thus eliminating the traditional statistical process control. In addition, the system can easily be integrated into a cell, the Hard Finishing Cell.

June 1-3 – Nashville, TN
The 2022 AGMA Strategic Resources Network event has been designed for the next-generation manufacturing leaders. We are providing presentations that address the agile skills that our current manufacturing environments require.

This course is an introduction to the methodology of analytical gear inspection and the evaluation and interpretation of the resulting data. The application of this information to identify and correct manufacturing errors will begin to be explored. Additionally, it reviews chart interpretation and applies inspection data to understand the causes and cures of manufacturing errors. Many chart examples are used to understand cause and effect.

Automotive Powertrain Technology International
Cummins and Daimler Truck North America (DTNA) are collaborating to upfit and validate the latter’s Freightliner Cascadia trucks with a Cummins’ hydrogen fuel cell powertrain for use in North America. Freightliner will use Cummins’ fourth-generation fuel cell powertrain, which the manufacturer says provides improved power density, efficiency and durability.

Gear Solutions
Extensive expertise and state-of-the-art solutions are required for the production of e-gearboxes that offer more than the technical standard of gearboxes used in conventional combustion engines — generating grinding using small tools is one of the building blocks.

The Plain Dealer Cleveland
Lordstown Motors announced that is has closed on a deal with Foxconn to sell its former GM plant to the Taiwanese manufacturer. Foxconn will now manufacturer Lordstown’s Endurance pickup truck and take on hundreds of the automaker’s employees. CEO Dan Ninivaggi told cleveland.com Wednesday that the deal gives Lordstown Motors scale, easing supply chain issues and getting vehicles to market quicker and cheaper.

Gear Solutions
Grinding can reduce noise and vibration and can help improve gear efficiencies for electric vehicles.

Gear Technology
Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR) has announced that Mark Joppru has joined the autonomous mobile robot first mover and global market leader as the vice president of sales for the Americas. The former VP of ABB USA’s Consumer Segments and Service Robotics division started May 2, joining an organization that experienced a 42% increase in sales in 2021 over 2020 and 22% growth in the first quarter of 2022 alone.  

Power Transmission Engineering
The range and flexibility of lubrication and sealing technologies continues to expand as companies look to scale down production times while increasing productivity. The industry is focused on environmental impact, automation and compact systems.

Industry Week
Guayente Sanmartin and Mariona Company talk about how their leadership styles have evolved and their “work with purpose,” from 3D printed tooling to mass-produce sustainable packaging to adaptive radiation shields for cancer treatment.

Automotive Powertrain Technology International
Mining company Anglo American has unveiled a prototype of what is claimed to be the world’s largest hydrogen-powered mine haul truck, designed to operate in everyday mining conditions at the company’s Mogalakwena PGMs mine in South Africa.

Automotive Powertrain Technology International
In a traditional ICE vehicle, the thermal management can be best summarized as the removal of excess heat from the combustion process. However, within fully electric or hybrid vehicles thermal management is significantly more important and therefore challenging. Thermal control of an EV starts with the very first step, charging of the battery. The battery itself needs to be controlled, especially during rapid charge, to prevent thermal runaway but also what is less well understood is that the efficiency, level and repeatability of the charge are all heavily influenced by the temperature of the battery during charging.

Reuters
Emirates airline has said that deliveries of the Boeing 787 Dreamliners it has ordered are delayed by at least a year, until 2024, and that it could be even longer due to the U.S. plane maker's continued delivery suspension over structural flaws. The Dubai-based carrier ordered 30 of the twin-aisle jets nearly three years ago as part of a broader deal that saw it cut the number of orders for larger 777X aircraft, now also delayed.

MarketScale
Attention-grabbing headlines and political stump speeches keep indicating that America no longer makes anything. But despite lots of transitions and evolutions in American manufacturing, the U.S. is still the number two manufacturer in the world in terms of output, second only to China. The industry is now seeing steady and substantial growth after declines, creating a manufacturing renaissance. Much of that new vitality is thanks to innovation, specifically the introduction of robotic automation in American manufacturing.

WIRED
The number of American workers who quit their jobs during the pandemic — over a fifth of the workforce— may constitute one of the largest American labor movements in recent history. At the same time, automation has become cheaper and smarter than ever. Robot adoption hit record highs in 2021. Will robots automate away the jobs of entitled millennials who “don’t want to work,” or could this technology actually improve workers’ jobs and help firms attract more enthusiastic employees?

Mining.com
Electric cars are expected to account for 79% of the EV market revenues and 83% of battery demand in the next two decades despite some current challenges, a new report by IDTechEx shows.

NIST press release
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded a total of $2.08 million to seven organizations in six states to develop manufacturing technology roadmaps to strengthen U.S. innovation and productivity across entire industry sectors.

Press Release
Markforged, creator of the integrated metal and carbon fiber additive manufacturing platform, The Digital Force, today announced a partnership with 3YOURMIND, a developer of additive manufacturing (AM) workflow software solutions, to integrate Markforged’s Eiger software platform with 3YOURMIND’s manufacturing execution software and other lifecycle management tools via API.

Press release
Desktop Metal, a global leader in additive manufacturing technologies for mass production, and Lumafield, a startup offering the world’s first accessible industrial X-ray CT platform, announced a complete solution to help manufacturers quickly and accurately produce high-demand parts with an easy system to scan and 3D print.