Boeing and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries have announced an agreement to strengthen their collaboration to enhance the competitive edge of both businesses. This includes joint efforts to reduce costs in Mitsubishi’s production of wings for the 787 Dreamliner, plus studies into advanced aerostructure technologies for future generations of commercial aircraft.

This report is the third in a four-part series on the state of the manufacturing industry in 2017. We'll be releasing a new section of this exclusive report every week in October as part of Manufacturing.net's month-long celebration of Manufacturing Day. 

Ten students with a focus of a career in the gear industry received AGMA Foundation Scholarship awards for the 2017-2018 academic year. Each fall, the Foundation awards $5,000 scholarships at the Undergraduate/Graduate levels, and $2,000 scholarships at the Associate/Technical school levels. Eighty-six percent of scholarship recipients are employed in the gear industry!

Envisioning a day when millions of drones will buzz around delivering packages, watching crops or inspecting pipelines, a coalition is creating an airspace corridor in upstate New York where traffic management systems will be developed and unmanned aircraft can undergo safety and performance testing.

In the most recent Beige Book, the 12 Federal Reserve banks noted modest growth in all of its districts, but businesses in several regions cited disruptions in activity from recent hurricanes. Even with that drag, manufacturing production edged up 0.1 percent in September, bouncing back ever so slightly from declines across the past two months. 

A new finding by MIT researchers could have implications for how 3D printed surface coating is carried out. The technique employs the use of self-peeling metallic droplets and increased adhesion through thermal control of the surface. They can also increase the adhesive capabilities of the droplets by changing their relative temperature to the surface.

Gear Expo, the Drive Technology Show, continues to grow and serve thousands of drive technology experts and power transmission professionals. The show opened today in Columbus, Ohio. Come walk the show floor, take a gear education class, and meet your peers.

Tesla has reportedly made a deal with the government in Shanghai to open up a manufacturing facility in the city’s trade-free zone. Foreign car-makers traditionally partner with local manufacturers, but that will reportedly not be the case with Tesla, who will own the entire factory. 

Siemens PLM Software provides software for product life-cycle and manufacturing operations management to more than 140,000 customers around the globe. President and CEO Tony Hemmelgarn met in Chicago with Aviation Week editors Joe Anselmo, Graham Warwick and Lee Ann Shay for a wide-ranging discussion focused on aerospace. 

The French tech leaders are spreading their software message around the globe.

GE, Amazon and other leaders got started early with digitalizing their supply chains, but it’s not too late for you, if you start by empowering your operations team.

Gartner named the concept of a "digital twin" one of the top ten strategic technology trends of 2017, predicting that within three to five years, they will represent billions of physical assets, systems or processes.

Rice University engineer Sibani Lisa Biswal and her colleagues used their unique microfluidic devices, instruments that use a small amount of fluid on a microchip to perform a test, to examine four commercial chemical dispersants that curtail the buildup of asphaltene in wells and pipelines. The devices allowed them to watch how the dispersants react with asphaltenes.

Imagine you’re getting ready to leave on vacation. You hop in your car to gas up and a "check transmission" error message pops up. You head to the dealer, they find the problem, and the part will take five days to arrive at the shop. However, you’re leaving in one. Now, imagine your dealer has access to a local 3-D printer and can manufacture that part on demand, taking 1-2 days instead of five. It’s a future vision that’s on its way to becoming reality.

Dyson's CEO doesn’t care that Silicon Valley giants like Apple and Google’s Waymo have abandoned plans to make their own cars. That’s their problem. It’s no deterrent to Dyson’s ambitious plan to leap from vacuums to its own electric vehicle by 2020.

Japan’s flagship automakers will present their futuristic visions for the post-fossil fuel era at the Tokyo Motor Show that kicks off on Wednesday. If only the industry, reeling from a run of scandals, could forget about the here and now.

Learn how to improve gear designs and gain new insight into concepts presented through illustrations and demonstrations. Explore all factors that go into good gear design from life cycle, load, torque, tooth optimization, and evaluating consequences.