This course focuses the supporting elements of a gearbox that allow gears and bearings to do their jobs most efficiently. Learn about seals, lubricants, housings, breathers, and other details necessary for well designed gearbox systems.

Manufacturing.net This week is the world’s first international #MuseumWeek on Twitter. Some 2,800 museums and cultural institutions are taking part in it and removing restrictions on selfies and photography.

The Wall Street Journal Toyota Motor Corp. broke a two-year silence on a revamped manufacturing process—built on sharing components among vehicles — that the world’s best-selling auto maker says will produce half its vehicles by 2020 and slash costs.

Newark Advocate Forty-six students from Licking Valley and Heath high schools had a preconceived idea of what factory work in Licking County would be like: minimum wage, dirty, unskilled jobs. But a new program called Project Prepare allowed them to tour three local manufacturers.

Philly.com Dave Clarke, manufacturing director at a Kulpsville company, tried to capture the attention of teenagers as they walked through a hallway of Souderdon Area High School, which was lined with tables of other manufacturers trying to do the same.

Industry Week Salaries are up and satisfaction is high in the 2015 IndustryWeek Manufacturing Salary Survey of manufacturing management.

The purpose of this seminar is to prepare participants to design and apply bevel gears systems from the initial concept through manufacturing and quality control and on to assembly, installation and maintenance.

Business Insider China's manufacturing sector is in tatters. On Monday, the latest data from HSBC's flash manufacturing PMI showed that the sector slipped to an 11-month low at 49.2, missing the expectation of 50.2. (Any reading below 50 indicates contraction.)

Industry Week Swedish carmaker Volvo Cars announced plans to build its first factory in the United States, 60 years after it started selling cars in the country.

Crain's Cleveland Business It’s official — Independence-based Women in Manufacturing is now its own 501(c)6 national trade association.

Reuters Euro zone businesses ramped up activity in March as the European Central Bank started printing money to spur economic growth, while a slowdown among Chinese factories fueled expectations of more monetary stimulus.

Tulsa World Dave Rowland recently was named president and CEO of the Oklahoma Manufacturing Alliance. He directs the statewide economic development effort that helps companies become progressively more innovative, successful and profitable.

Cleveland.com Susan Helper, the chief economist at the U.S. Department of Commerce, says small businesses could offer more innovative solutions for manufacturing growth with better collaboration from the government and larger corporations.

Manufacturing Business Technology This week, Greg Goodwin of LNS research is counting down the top five asset performance trends in the manufacturing sector.

MyCentralJersey.com For a new manufacturing training program, Union County College is seeking unemployed machinists to train and employers to help launch the effort.

Manufacturing Business Technology A business economics group has boosted its outlook for U.S. economic improvement this year and next, particularly for job growth.

Aerospace Manufacturing and Design Since 1958, companies have used the High Speed Wind Tunnel (HSWT) in Grand Prairie, Texas, for subsonic, transonic, and supersonic research-and-development testing.

PR Newswire Ferrara Candy Company announced a series of enhancements to its manufacturing network, including increasing the manufacturing capacity and capabilities of its Bellwood, IL, manufacturing facility, and opening a new packaging center in Bolingbrook, IL.

The Economic Times Scania Commercial Vehicles India today said its first bus manufacturing facility in the country is set to be inaugurated.

PR Newswire A new study, "Understanding Risk Assessment Practices at Manufacturing Companies," uncovers complex business risks and disruptors facing manufacturers, and a pressing need for the industry to evolve their risk assessment capabilities.

Mining.com Years of declining efficiency in the coal industry may be finally coming to an end, especially in the U.S., where miners based in the country’s top producing regions have stabilized or even increased productivity at both surface and underground coal operations in the past two years, a study shows.

Manufacturing.net Henry Ford was fond of saying that "nothing was particularly hard if you divided it into small jobs." Engineers are now taking Ford’s advice to the extreme and breaking down the factory into even smaller pieces: bits and bytes.

Manufacturing.net A new report recommends that auto companies strengthen industry collaboration, worker training and career opportunities in order to resolve a worsening talent crisis in their supply chains.

Manufacturing.net Steel Industry leaders gathered to address Congress yesterday, voicing their concerns about domestic steel procedures, trade policies and plant closures. United States Steel Corp. President and CEO Mario Longhi was one of the industry leaders to testify in front of the Congressional Steel Caucus.

Manufacturing.net A few years ago, NASA sent a "Spaceward Bound" expedition to Australia’s remote Pilbara region. The region’s rugged and red-hued plains appeared to be a good analog for Mars. Up to a point.