AGMA offers a wide variety of advanced gear engineering courses including Gear Manufacturing and Inspection; Fundamentals of Worm & Crossed Axis Helical Gearing; Steels for Gear Applications; Gearbox CSI; Gear Failure Analysis; Detailed Gear Design and more. See the entire list of in-person classes available from AGMA today.

There are growing concerns that keeping up with the pace of the latest warehouse productivity technology is taking a toll on human workers’ health, safety and morale.

Manufacturing is key to securing America’s future and with Industry 4.0 in full swing, U.S. companies need to act quickly adopt automation and robotics to remain competitive. Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) seeks to ease this burden by identifying the most critical technology and workforce problems and issuing project calls to its base of 200-plus member organizations.

Machine tool builder Haas Automation is bringing advanced manufacturing jobs to Henderson. Now it needs the workers. The company has been working with Southern Nevada’s educational institutions to create a pipeline to transform students into machinists and engineers working on computer-guided equipment.

One of South Carolina’s largest industry sectors says it will be playing the policy long-game when Statehouse lawmakers reconvene Jan. 14. South Carolina and the nation has been enjoying the longest running period of economic expansion in history and manufacturers hope to use this time of prosperity to build up a larger employment base and a tax code that will carry them into the future.

The Federal Reserve has released a study that found the tariffs imposed by the Trump administration in 2018 led to higher prices and fewer manufacturing jobs. The study finds that overall, manufacturing production has not increased.

Join more than 300 of your industry peers at the Disney Grand Floridian Resort & Spa at Lake Buena Vista, Fla., March 19-21. Come to the one meeting where you can gather resources to grow every aspect of your company while staying up to date on the latest happening in the gear and bearing industries.

The threat landscape is expanding as IT and OT networks converge, understandably putting manufacturing organizations at risk. According to a recent IoT Analytic’s report, half of industrial assets in factories will be connected to some form of on-premise or remote data collection system. Unfortunately, many OT systems were never designed for remote or internet access. 

Digital Supply Chain
The emergence of concepts influenced by technology such as "drop and collect," digital logistics that facilitates paperless, high-speed, and secure dispatch/delivery of parcels through a widespread parcel shop network are today’s reality. 

Sumitomo Machinery Corp. of America (SMA), one of the nation’s leading industrial gearbox manufacturers, is pleased to announce the acquisition of LUFTEX Gears, Manufacturing & Services, headquartered in Lufkin, Texas. This represents the first domestic acquisition for Sumitomo Machinery Corp. of America since its creation in 1966.

The Additive Report
In a wide-ranging interview at FABTECH 2019, the Global Head of HP Inc.’s 3D Metals division, Dr. Tim Weber, spoke enthusiastically about how the company’s binder-jet technology is used across the company’s many lines of printers, from $100 home units to large, $10-million graphics printers to the new HP Metal Jet printing system.

Technology is an ever-evolving field, constantly mixing in new iterations and innovations to create exciting new opportunities for today’s manufacturers to reimagine their operations. In some instances, new technologies open the door for progressive manufacturers release truly innovative offerings of their own.

Spot Light Metal
Amorphous metals are highly elastic, hard, light and at the same time break-resistant. Thus they are ideal materials for high-tech applications. In additive manufacturing, these advantages can be used in a completely new way.

New Atlas
In a quest for safer lithium-ion batteries, a team of engineers at the University of Illinois has come up with a solid polymer-based electrolyte that can not only heal itself, but is recyclable without the need for high temperatures or strong acids. 

International Mining
Voith says it is planning to acquire 60% of the shares of ELIN Motoren GmbH as it looks to strengthen its position in the market for electrical drive systems. ELIN is a global high-tech company in the area of electric motors and generators and provides customized solutions for markets such as wind energy, plastic, tunnel construction and mining, iol and gas, plant engineering as well as power plants.

Electric vehicles have been helping Americans get around for more than a hundred years. At the start of the 20th century, a third of the vehicles on the road were battery powered. Ferdinand Porsche, founder of the sports car company that still bears its name, was among the first to develop an electric vehicle. Even Henry Ford dabbled with the technology in the early 1900s. Today, however, as American consumers face rising fuel prices and a deepening climate crisis, EVs are undergoing a resurgence in popularity.

DAF celebrates a milestone of 150,000 electric kilometers covered by its test fleet of six CF Electric 4x2 tractors, used by several customers.