May 2-4 | Clearwater Beach, FL Explore the supporting elements of a gearbox that allows gears and bearings to do their jobs most efficiently. Learn about seals, lubrication, lubricants, housings, breathers, and other details that go into designing gearbox systems.
Visit https://www.agma.org/education/advanced-courses/gearbox-system-design/ to view the full article online.
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Consumer Think The explosion in connected devices and platforms, abundance of data from field devices and rapidly changing technology landscape has made it imperative for companies to quickly adapt their products and services, and move from a physical world to a digital world.
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Reuters A measure of factory activity in the U.S. Upper Midwest rose in March to its strongest level in over two years, marking a fifth straight month of manufacturing growth in the region, a private survey released on Friday showed.
Visit http://www.reuters.com/article/usa-economy-milwaukee-idUSL2N1H80KW to view the full article online.
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Manufacturing.net The U.S. trails Japan and Europe in producing the advanced technology increasingly needed by manufacturers around the world, according to a new report. The Wall Street Journal cited numbers from the Commerce Department indicating a trade deficit of more than $4 billion between the advanced factory equipment industry in the U.S. and those of the global market leaders — Japan, the European Union and Switzerland — in 2016.
Visit http://www.manufacturing.net/news/2017/03/report-us-lags-production-high-tech-factory-equipment to view the full article online.
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April 19-20 | Rosemont, IL AGMA enlists the support of experts in the industry to provide statistical reports, presentations and analysis on the current gear market conditions and future forecasts. Twice a year, AGMA invites members to meet to get the lastest data and discuss economic trends. (Open to members only.)
Visit https://www.agma.org/events/2017-spring-marketing-forecasting-conference/ to view the full article online.
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CNBC Mars Chocolate North America is upping its investments in U.S. manufacturing and creating about 250 new jobs in the process, President Tracey Massey told CNBC last week. The company plans to reinvest $70 million in existing factories across the country. The move ensures that more than 95 percent of Mars' chocolate products for the U.S. are made here, according to the company's announcement.
Visit http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/30/mars-plans-70-million-reinvestment-in-us-manufacturing-new-jobs.html to view the full article online.
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GSA Business Growth in South Carolina’s manufacturing sector is strong, with the value of its shipments and services topping $112 billion in 2015, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Visit http://gsabusiness.com/news/manufacturing/71823/ to view the full article online.
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Reuters U.S. drillers added oil rigs for an 11th week in a row in the best quarter for boosting the rig count since the second quarter of 2011, as a ten-month recovery gathers pace with energy companies boosting spending on new production.
Visit http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-rigs-baker-hughes-idUSKBN1722GA to view the full article online.
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Business Insider The new collaboration will let the companies offer solutions — primarily to industrial clients in sectors including manufacturing, oil and gas, and other utilities — that make use of OSIsoft’s real-time data analytics functionality in concert with the connectivity brought to industrial machinery facilitated by ThingWorx. Increased visibility into operational data generated by devices and machinery can be a key advantage for industrial companies, and IoT platforms continue to take steps to make realizing that visibility a simpler process.
Visit http://www.businessinsider.com/ptc-osisoft-team-up-for-the-industrial-iot-2017-3 to view the full article online.
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CIO The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is moving into high gear. You can tell, and this might sound counter-intuitive to some, because we are seeing meaningful value created with simple solutions. Caterpillar Marine "focused on small improvements" to turn small savings into big money across the many vehicles in its customers’ fleets. Amey maintenance service teams in Hampshire, UK are using low cost sensors to monitor road surface temperatures to better predict and manage icy road conditions.
Visit http://www.cio.com/article/3176948/internet-of-things/3-keys-to-financial-success-in-the-industrial-internet-of-things.html to view the full article online.
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Manufacturing.net DuPont and Dow have once again postponed their proposed $62 billion merger, saying they expect the deal to close in August. The chemical giants' merger has already been pushed back several times, as regulatory agencies in the U.S. and abroad scrutinize the deal. When DuPont and Dow announced the merger in December of 2015, they expected it to close in the first half of 2016.
Visit http://www.manufacturing.net/news/2017/03/dupont-dow-push-back-merger-date-0 to view the full article online.
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