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McInnes Rolled Rings
Take your Gear Expo experience to a whole new level. Available for iPad, iPhone, and android devices, the Gear Expo 2015 app offers a complete list of exhibitors with contact information, interactive exhibit floor plan, personalized scheduler, and more. Look for it in your app store.

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Manufacturing Business Technology
A new report estimates a majority of needed manufacturing jobs could go unfilled over the next decade without better cooperation by industry, government, and higher education.

Visit http://www.mbtmag.com/news/2015/10/report-manufacturing-skills-gap-could-hit-2m-jobs-2025 to view the full article online.

 
Machine Tool Builders
United Tool Supply
Gleason Corporation
Kapp Technologies
The Buffalo News
Manufacturers need to treat hiring the same way they treat their supply chain, by building relationships with the training centers and the schools that are providing many of their potential hires.

Visit http://www.buffalonews.com/columns/david-robinson/selling-manufacturing-jobs-starts-with-a-tour-20151011 to view the full article online.

 
The Manufacturer
UTC Aerospace Systems celebrated the delivery of the body and wing landing gear for the Airbus A380, anticipating the pending delivery of the 200th shipset of gear.

Visit http://www.themanufacturer.com/articles/utc-aerospace-systems-celebrates-200th-airbus-a380-landing-gear-delivery/ to view the full article online.

 
Manufacturing.net
BMW, Honda, and Yamaha will establish the Connected Motorcycle Consortium and cooperate on Intelligent Transportation Systems designed specifically for motorcycles.

Visit http://www.manufacturing.net/news/2015/10/bmw-honda-yamaha-cooperate-on-development-of-connected-motorcycles to view the full article online.

 
SCOT FORGE
Aerospace Manufacturing and Design
Please join us for a free webinar about advanced materials for 3D printing and additive manufacturing in the aerospace industry. Our second webinar on 3D printing features Alissa Wild, Senior AM Research Engineer with Stratasys, and Kim Choate, Mass Transportation Marketing Director with SABIC’s Innovative Plastics. They will discuss advanced technical compounds developed for 3D-printing objects for aerospace applications.

Visit http://www.onlineamd.com/article/3d-printing-advanced-materials-aerospace-100915 to view the full article online.

 
Manufacturing Business Technology
According to a University of Sydney researcher, the world’s most efficient ion engine has been built – beating out even NASA’s High Power Electric Propulsion engine, which holds the record for ion drive performance.

Visit http://www.mbtmag.com/videos/2015/10/engineering-newswire-worlds-most-efficient-ion-engine to view the full article online.

 
All Metals & Forge Group, LLC
Wired
The work of Reaction Engines, the Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine, or SABRE, is a new type of rocket engine that would allow a plane to reach orbit in around 15 minutes, release a payload, return to Earth, and land on an airstrip.

Visit http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2015/11/start/rocket-engine-planes-space to view the full article online.

 
Defense News
The US Air Force and the Army are moving full speed ahead toward next-generation engines the services hope will significantly increase fuel efficiency and power. And both endeavors pit two giants in the engine-building world against each other: GE Aviation and Pratt & Whitney.

Visit http://www.defensenews.com/story/defense/air-space/2015/10/10/pratt-ge-battle-future-military-engines/73201826/ to view the full article online.

 
Manufacturing Business Technology
Volvo announced it would accept liability for problems with its autonomous driving system as it urged the US to adopt nationwide standards for self-driving cars.

Visit http://www.mbtmag.com/news/2015/10/volvo-chief-company-assumes-liability-problems-self-driving-cars to view the full article online.

 
Sandvik Cormant Co.
Specialty Ring Products
ALD-Holcroft Vacuum Technologies Co., Inc.
Aerospace Manufacturing and Design
3D Systems is partnering with Pennsylvania State University to support operations in the Center for Innovative Materials Processing through Direct Digital Deposition.

Visit http://www.onlineamd.com/article/3d-systems-penn-state-partner-101015 to view the full article online.

 
3ders
The facility, which will measure 125,000 square feet, will be principally used to train designers and engineers in additive manufacturing design and production techniques.

Visit http://www.3ders.org/articles/20151007-ge-remain-confident-additive-manufacturing-research-centre-nears-completion.html to view the full article online.

 
Erwin Junker Machinery, Inc.
Motor Authority
The Cadillac ATS and CTS both see high-performance V-series models added for 2016, but buyers of the regular models also have some upgrades to look forward to. The big news is the addition of a new V-6 engine, along with the availability of an eight-speed automatic on most models that were previously offering a six-speeder.

Visit http://www.motorauthority.com/news/1066004_2016-cadillac-ats-and-cts-get-engine-transmission-upgrades to view the full article online.

 
Aerospace Manufacturing and Design
Two F-35C Lightning II carrier variants conducted their first arrested landings aboard USS Dwight D. Eisenhower off the coast of the eastern United States.

Visit http://www.onlineamd.com/article/f35c-landing-tests-aboard-eisenhower-101015 to view the full article online.

 
Omaha.com
A group of local manufacturers have partnered to make it possible for students at Hastings Public Schools to get early exposure and experience with potential career opportunities.

Visit http://www.omaha.com/news/nebraska/program-gives-hastings-students-path-to-manufacturing-careers/article_991096fd-b7f3-5c95-9327-e481c0898f32.html to view the full article online.

 
Carl Zeiss Industrial Metrology
Rave Gears, LLC
GERB Vibration Control Systems, Inc.
Manufacturing.net
Tesla Motors and other technology companies are coming to the town of Sparks, and along with them thousands of jobs.

Visit http://www.manufacturing.net/news/2015/10/tesla-switch-fuel-economic-boom-in-ex-railroad-town to view the full article online.

 
Aerospace Manufacturing and Design
Carnegie Mellon University has joined with The Boeing Company to establish the Boeing/Carnegie Mellon Aerospace Data Analytics Lab, a new academic research initiative that will leverage the university's leadership in machine learning, language technologies and data analytics.

Visit http://www.onlineamd.com/article/boeing-establishes-analytics-lab-carnegie-100715 to view the full article online.

 
Cincinnati Gearing Systems Inc.
The Wall Street Journal
Read up-to-the minute news, analysis, interviews, and explanatory journalism on logistics, supply-chain management, e-commerce, and more.

Visit http://www.wsj.com/articles/todays-top-supply-chain-and-logistics-news-from-wsj-1444645400 to view the full article online.

 
Canadian Manufacturing
Onshore wind and solar photovoltaics – the most widespread renewable technologies – have both become significantly cheaper this year, and, in some regions, are now actually cheaper than gas-fired and coal-fired generation.

Visit http://www.canadianmanufacturing.com/sustainability/cost-of-renewable-generation-drops-below-natural-gas-and-coal-in-u-k-and-germany-americas-could-follow-155763/ to view the full article online.

 
Specialty Steel Treating, Inc.
Albany Business Review
To meet growing demand, Hudson Valley plans to double the enrollment of its advanced manufacturing program to 288 by constructing a $12 million, two-story, 40,000-square-foot building that manufacturers say will churn out more skilled workers and serve as a model for the country.

Visit http://www.bizjournals.com/albany/morning_call/2015/10/hudson-valley-poised-to-expand-manufacturing.html to view the full article online.

 
3ders
Siemens announced it will expand its two-decade partnership with Georgia Institute of Technology with the goal of driving advanced manufacturing innovation through software, research, digital product development, and preparing students to enter the STEM workforce of the future.

Visit http://www.3ders.org/articles/20151009-siemens-georgia-tech-partnership-to-improve-additive-manufacturing-workflow.html to view the full article online.

 
Star SU LLC.
Bourn & Koch Inc.
Naylor Association Solutions
 
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