AGMA Gear Industry News

It might not be the quickest vehicle at the event, but Swedish transport company Einride has chosen the Goodwood Festival of Speed to reveal the T-log, an autonomous, electric logging truck. Incorporating some unusual purpose-built design for the niche logging market, the vehicle is designed to go off-road and to navigate forest roads with and without loads.

Rolls-Royce says it has reached a new milestone in the development of its next generation of civil aerospace engines with its Advance3 demonstrator now running at full power.

For years, scientists have seen silicon as a hugely promising material in the world of lithium-ion batteries.Scientists at Norway’s Institute for Energy Technology are now claiming to have overcome this problem with a new material they call SiliconX.

Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) has awarded $1.4 million in project funding to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as part of its first round of funding to strengthen U.S. manufacturing. ARM selected projects that will generate timely impact on the national manufacturing landscape and serve as examples of ARM's mission.

In the future, autonomous machine technology will enable adaptive machines to achieve mass customization cost-effectively.

Provides an introduction and emphasize the differences between parallel (the experience base) axis and worm and crossed axis helical gears. Describe the basics of worm and crossed axis helical gears, their fundamental design principals, application guidelines and recommendations, lubrication requirement, a discussion of accuracy and quality and summarize with a brief review of common failure modes.

New research out of UC Berkeley is making learning way easier on both the human and machine: By drawing on prior experience, a humanoid-ish robot called PR2 can watch a human pick up an apple and drop it in a bowl, then do the same itself in one try, even if it’s never seen an apple before. It’s not the most complex of tasks, but it’s a big step toward making machines rapidly adapt to our needs.

The most significant automotive launch of 2018 will not be a car, but the fulfillment of a dream for the brand conceived 88 years ago by young Battista Farina. 

Your digital strategy must be driven by a clear understanding of the customer’s needs and the way your products relate to them. Digital transformation doesn’t require a radical rethink of a business model that previously brought success — it simply means leveraging better, more efficient technologies to meet and exceed customer expectations and allow data to shape strategic priorities. 

Eaton Aerospace Group has selected two Concept Laser additive manufacturing machines, as well as AddWorks consultancy services, to direct industrialization activities as the company further evolves and executes its long-term additive manufacturing strategy. The company supplies products and technologies for hydraulic systems, fuel and inerting systems, motion control, and engine solutions.

Hybrid machines take the best of traditional mechanical machine tools and combine those traits with the precision of Computer Numerical Control (CNC) machines. Certain types of machining operations also integrate additive manufacturing (3D printing) capabilities into the mix as well.

Learn and define the concept of epicyclic gearing is including some basic history and the differences among simple planetary gear systems, compound planetary gear systems and star drive gear systems. Cover concepts on the arrangement of the individual components including the carrier, sun, planet, ring and star gears and the rigid requirements for the system to perform properly. Critical factors such as load sharing among the planet or star gears, sequential loading, equal planet/star spacing, relations among the numbers of teeth on each element, calculation of the maximum and optimum number of planet/star gears for a specific system will be covered. Provides an in-depth discussion of the methodology by which noise and vibration may be optimized for such systems and load sharing guidelines for planet load sharing.