Learn how to develop and understand customer gear drive application specifications and target performance expectations.  Review, calculate and select basic gear terminology variables and design parameters which define tooth bending and contact rating safety factors on two real life examples.  Learn how to fit new gear designs and ratios into existing center distance.  Use commercially available software to calculate and optimize gear set power density.  Discuss time and cost of more than 20 other gear drive component functions and drive development steps through prototypes to shipment of compliant assembled production drives.  There will be an opportunity to discuss gear design challenges which may be unique to participant industries.

The AGMA National Training Center, in partnership with Richard J. Daley College, provides industry-focused training for gear manufacturing employees. The NTC will host classes year-round for all levels, from basic gearing to operators, to advanced courses for engineers. The Center will also be used for networking events, AGMA committee meetings, and more. Learn more and R.S.V.P. today!

Learn the fundamentals of gear manufacturing in this hands-on course. Gain an understanding of gearing and nomenclature, principles of inspection, gear manufacturing methods, and hobbing and shaping. Utilizing manual machines, develop a deeper breadth of perspective and understanding of the process and physics of making a gear as well as the ability to apply this knowledge in working with CNC equipment commonly in use.

Technology is fundamentally changing manufacturing. To keep up in today’s marketplace, designers and manufacturers need to follow the emerging trends and communicate the latest ideas with their fellow experts in the field. AGMA’s annual Fall Technical Meeting (FTM) is the perfect forum for this. Each year, 30 authors are selected by AGMA to write peer-reviewed technical papers on topics relevant to the gear industry. Topics include: design, analysis, manufacturing, quality, materials, metallurgy, heat treatment, operation, maintenance, efficiency, and gear failure. Authors present the results of their papers in a single-track conference, which means you don’t have to pick and choose which presentations to attend. With a full registration you receive copies of all papers, are able to see all the presentations, ask questions to all the presenters, and network with your peers over three days.

Gear Technology
The Smartforce Student Summit will be held at IMTS – The International Manufacturing Technology Show, Sept. 12-17, at McCormick Place in Chicago. Produced by the Smartforce Development team of AMT – The Association for Manufacturing Technology, which owns and operates IMTS, the Student Summit brings together students from elementary school through college, scout troops, robotics and STEM clubs, home-schooled students, and educators of all levels to explore the latest Industry 4.0 digital technologies driving manufacturing today.

Power Transmission Engineering
FANUC recently hosted a grand opening and technology open house at its new robotics and automation headquarters in Aguascalientes, Mexico.  The new 109K square foot facility will provide sales, demonstrations, training, engineering and customer service.  The grand opening included welcome remarks from the governor of Aguascalientes and FANUC corporate executives, followed by a ribbon cutting ceremony, facility tours, and a large showroom filled with robotic and CNC demonstrations. 

Automotive Powertrain Technology International
Alpine has released details of an all-electric version of its flagship sports coupe, the A110 E-ternité. According to the company, its mandate was simple: electrify the A110 and match the performance, balance and agility of the Alpine A110 combustion-engine car while capitalizing on the Renault Group’s strengths, experience and technologies.

EngineerLive
The Vertical Flight Society eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing) aircraft directory currently lists over 450 aircraft in development. These range from electric rotorcraft similar to today’s helicopters, to multi-rotor aircraft where the rotors are used for both lift and thrust. While many of these are desk-based studies unlikely to make it into service, some are serious undertakings with expectations of entering service by 2025. The creators of the latter designs can be broadly divided into two camps – new entrants who have raised substantial funding and more traditional aircraft manufacturers.

Automotive World
Testing transmissions can be a complicated business. Transmissions need to align with every other component of a car, while some parts are still in development and not available for testing. Which is where hybrid test beds come in. Here Punch Powertrain tests its transmissions in a partly physical, partly virtual set-up, where software simulates certain components. A state-of-the-art technology that allows for quick turn-around and flexibility.

Aerospace Manufacturing and Design
Ingersoll Machine Tools’ new manufacturing, assembly and testing center in Rockford, Illinois officially opened. The facility features North America’s newest, largest, and most advanced 5-axis MasterMill machine, offering new capabilities and capacity for customers.

Windpower Engineering & Development
President Biden announced three executive actions to turn the climate crisis into an opportunity, by creating good-paying jobs in clean energy and lowering costs for families. The executive actions include efforts to protect communities from extreme heat and dangerous climate impacts; lower cooling costs for communities suffering from extreme heat; and expand offshore wind opportunities and jobs.

3D Metal Printing Magazine
The U.S. Navy has operationally deployed a Xerox ElemX Additive metal-additive manufacturing (AM) machine at sea, reportedly a first for a metal-AM machine aboard a Navy ship. Following shipboard testing of metal-AM technology that began in 2014, the U.S. Navy has pursued it aggressively, with the USS Essex amphibious assault ship recently installing ElemX liquid metal printer and now undergoing sea trials, according to Xerox Elem Additive Solutions officials.

Today’s eMobility
Italian luxury sportscar maker Ferrari outlined an electrification strategy that calls for 40% full-electric vehicles and 40% hybrid models by 2030. CEO Benedetto Vigna confirmed the first electric car will be presented in 2025, with the first deliveries the following year.

Center for Automotive Research
Automaker investment in battery and Electric Vehicle (EV) manufacturing in North America is on the rise. For nearly two decades, the CAR Automotive Communities Partnership (ACP) has tracked announced automotive manufacturing investments In North America.  The ACP Book of Deals investment database illustrates the extent of the sector’s commitment to the transformation.

Manufacturing.net
Customers across the U.S. will begin to see custom electric delivery vehicles from Rivian delivering their Amazon packages, with the electric vehicles hitting the road in Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and St. Louis, among other cities. This rollout is just the beginning of what is expected to be thousands of Amazon’s custom electric delivery vehicles in more than 100 cities by the end of this year—and 100,000 across the U.S. by 2030.

SME
The automotive industry has been a frontrunner in the race to install Industry 4.0 into daily business processes. It is easy to see why: The technology opens up doors for significant improvements in efficiency and quality. Industry 4.0 is not about manufacturing assembly lines capable of producing more cars with fewer employees, or just decreasing product lifetime costs during production. It’s about adding value by integrating the supply chain in a new way that improves communication between all stakeholders involved.

Mining.com
In 2021, global electric vehicle sales hit 6.6 million – more than double the 3 million in sales in 2020 — meaning EVs made up 9% of the global car market last year. That’s the good news, from a decarbonization standpoint. Here’s the bad news. Just as it begins to gain momentum, the electrification of transportation could begin stalling as early as mid-decade.

Bloomberg
Sono Group NV said the price of its unfinished solar electric car will stay around $26,000 before taxes even as inflation bites. The Sion -- a boxy hatchback covered in solar cells for charging on the go -- has been revamped with features including new lights, door handles and a more spacious interior, the German startup said Monday.

Robotics and Automation News
The Ice Cream Shop, Unilever’s first-ever digital storefront, has partnered with Flytrex, an aerial food and retail delivery company, to offer ice cream delivery via drone across all of Flytrex’s US locations: Holly Springs, Fayetteville and Raeford, North Carolina, and Granbury, Texas. Orders from The Ice Cream Shop will be delivered via the skies to front and backyards of local residents with a flight time of “under three minutes.”