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McInnes Rolled Rings
Manufacturing.net
While many businesses view a fully digital supply chain as a pipe dream, they can start their journey through a small and non-intimidating step: implementing workflow automation. Starting small with workflow automation allows organizations to streamline simple manual process like contract signatures and work all the way up to more complex tasks, such as supplier performance management.
 
AGMA
For over 30 years, AGMA has been hosting a technical conference to highlight the newest emerging technology in the gear industry. The Fall Technical Meeting (FTM) is the top place to learn about the latest research in the gear industry from the researchers directly. Each year, the FTM provides an outstanding opportunity to share ideas with others in the gear industry on design, analysis, manufacturing and application of gears, gear drives and related products, as well as associated processes and procedures. Attendees get a chance to be on the cutting edge of gear research and network with other engineers.
 
Forbes
By 2025, the sector called Industry 4.0 — the Fourth Industrial Revolution — is expected to generate close to $1 trillion in economic value, much of it unlocked by the efficiencies and disruptions transforming factories and production lines around the world.
 
Emag
Star SU LLC.
Gleason Corporation
Kapp Technologies
Investor’s Business Daily
The ISM manufacturing index unexpectedly jumped to the highest since May 2004 as orders, production and employment all picked up, offering a positive sign for the economy even as trade tensions weigh on the outlook.
 
Manufacturing.net
The pace of hiring in the United States quickened in August, and wages grew at their fastest pace in nine years — evidence that employers remain confident despite the Trump administration's ongoing conflicts with its trading partners. The economy added a strong 201,000 jobs, and the unemployment rate stayed at 3.9 percent, near an 18-year low, the government said in the August monthly jobs report. 
 
Toyoda Machinery
High-Speed Axis Synchronization Technology – The Newest Innovation Redefining Gear Manufacturing
High-speed synchronization technology has reshaped standard gear manufacturing by producing parts with more accuracy, less time, and less cost. Built into Toyoda's Gear Skiving Machining Centers, this innovative technology takes five processes, traditionally spread across five separate machines, and integrates them into one compact machining center.
Learn more about gear machining with skiving technology
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CNET
A number of companies offer metal 3D printing, which creates products and components layer by layer with a computer-controlled system tracing its lineage to ordinary inkjet printers. But on Monday, print giant HP announced it’s entered the market with the ambition to dramatically lower prices, courtesy of a $400,000 product called Metal Jet. 
 
Bloomberg
Tokyo-listed Nidec Corp. makes motors of all sizes that show up in just about everything: cars, washing machines, even hard-disk drives from back in the day. This ubiquitous yet low-profile company has a knack for anticipating major business trends, so when Nidec starts ramping up investment in robots, an important trend could be in the offing.
 
All Metals & Forge Group, LLC
EurekAlert – Clemson University press release
A skills gap that could leave as many as 2 million manufacturing jobs unfilled by 2025 is one of the driving forces behind a new Clemson University program that matches graduate students with technical college students on an assembly line built for research.
 
Manufacturing Global
Siemens, alongside its development partner Verkehrsbetrieb Potsdam (ViP), will present their findings at InnoTrans 2018 to show how a tram will drive autonomously in real traffic. It is anticipated that the project will reveal the technological challenges of autonomous driving under everyday conditions, which can then be developed and tested to accelerate research.
 
Commodity Inside
Tata Steel has introduced an environment-friendly steel production technology known as Hlsarna. This technology is being tested at Tata Steel’s Ijmuiden site in the Netherlands. The current Hlsarna pilot plant can produce around 60,000 tons of liquid iron annually.
 
Cincinnati Gearing Systems Inc.
SME
The Smart Manufacturing Report Series helps manufacturers consider, evaluate and execute strategies to be prepared, engaged and strong as industry shifts to integrated advanced manufacturing technologies.
 
Engineering.com
3D printing simulation is a fairly broad term that covers any simulation aspect of the 3D printing process, ranging from the melting of particles in a feedstock to the actual toolpath simulation required to build a part. There is a range of different companies offering simulation solutions for each and every aspect of the process and the target demographics of each of these software packages are as wide and varied as the software products themselves. 
 
SKF (U.K.) Limited
Giving design engineers a competitive edge
With new SKF SimPro Quick single-shaft bearing simulation software you can quickly, easily, and accurately evaluate the design of your bearing arrangements and their field performance. Explore design alternatives, with more parameters, faster than ever before. Choose the best possible arrangement for your machine design, and validate directly with SKF bearing and application experts. See how much you could benefit from using SKF SimPro Quick.
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IndustryWeek
We asked our readership of manufacturing executives and managers how much they make, and more than 600 answered. A look at who got a raise this year, who’s taking a hit, and where the highest-paying jobs are in manufacturing.
 
AGMA
The 2018 SRN Meeting is the perfect place for members to gain knowledge on leadership, best business practices, AGMA resources, technology and professional development. The two-day conference is packed this year with industry experts covering topics on the latest drivetrain technology, workforce acquisition, automation in manufacturing and much more. Plus tour FANUC America and LIFT – Lightweight Innovations for Tomorrow. 
 
Forest City Gear Company
The Inquirer
MIT BOFFINS have created a system that enables robots to understand and manipulate objects they’ve never seen before. Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have presented a paper describing the new computer vision system called Dense Object Nets (DON).
 
Aerospace Manufacturing Magazine
JETcopter, a VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) aviation start-up, has launched tests of a new type propulsion system for VTOL aircraft. This new propulsion system consists of two centrifugal air turbines in enclosed housings, each 200cm in diameter, that will rotate in opposite directions at a high RPM to create thrust similar to 11m diameter helicopters rotors.
 
Naylor Association Solutions
Hartford Business
Pratt & Whitney, for generations an innovator in piston and jet-turbine airplane engines, is applying its innovation mien to recruiting, developing and retaining workers — and future leaders — at its engineering and assembly facilities in Connecticut, the U.S. and abroad.
 
MachineDesign
The use of a dedicated 3D input device, most commonly referred to as a 3D mouse, is key to adopting a two-handed workflow. The 3D mouse provides users with the ability to simultaneously pan, zoom, and rotate models while the traditional mouse stays in its regular place. More advanced models provide a built-in wrist rest for greater comfort and an array of buttons for fingertip access to a users’ most commonly accessed application commands.
 
 

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