Join more than 300 of your industry peers at the Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa at Lake Buena Vista, Florida, 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.
Visit https://www.agma.org/events/agma-abma-annual-meeting/ to view the full article online.
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New Equipment Digest At the core of today’s state-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms is the ability to learn complex patterns from a sample of data. In the manufacturing context, an example of a pattern might be the ways in which a set of parameters contained in that data. When considering AI, it’s important to understand what the data requirements are at the outset.
Visit https://www.newequipment.com/industry-trends/data-requirements-ai-manufacturing to view the full article online.
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New Atlas Melbourne-based startup Savic Motorcycles has hit the Australian Motorcycle Festival with a very sweet-looking production prototype of its upcoming electric café racer, a significant update to the first prototype we saw this time last year.
Visit https://newatlas.com/motorcycles/savic-alpha-production-prototype/ to view the full article online.
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New Atlas The wheels are in motion to breathe new life into the energy production of Fukushima, the Japanese prefecture that was devasted by the 2011 tsunami and nuclear meltdown. As reported by Tokyo-based newspaper Nikkei Asian Review, plans are afoot to transform the area into a renewable energy hub, with the power it generates to be fed into national grid for use in the country’s capital.
Visit https://newatlas.com/energy/21-new-plants-fukushima-renewable-energy/ to view the full article online.
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The Robot Report Is robotics important to the future of manufacturing? Given the current and future talent gap in the sector, signs point to “yes.” This opportunity will soon start looking more like a potential crisis for employers, with a possible 4.6 million jobs – a mix of new positions and exiting retires – to fill, with only 2.2 million of them “likely” to be successfully filled. Advanced robotics are already picking up the slack.
Visit https://www.therobotreport.com/talent-gap-manufacturing-6-solutions/ to view the full article online.
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Building Indiana Steel manufacturer ArcelorMittal and Purdue University Northwest (PNW) are partnering with Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Ill., on a research project funded under the U.S. Department of Energy’s High Performance Computing for Manufacturing Program. The research project “Application of High-Performance Computing to Optimize Reheat Furnace Efficiency in Steel Manufacturing,” will focus on improving steel reheat furnace efficiency by simulating furnace and process phenomena and developing databases of criteria for optimized furnace operation.
Visit https://www.buildingindiana.com/pnw-argonne-and-arcelormittal-partner-for-manufacturing-research/ to view the full article online.
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Digital Trends (VIDEO) While 3D printing is often discussed as an important new technology for the auto industry, it hasn’t made much of an impact so far. Now, Volkswagen and Hewlett-Packard claim to have made a major breakthrough in metal 3D printing, showing that the technology can keep up with the demands of high-volume car production. But VW isn’t quite ready to take 3D printing mainstream yet.
Visit https://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/volkswagen-uses-hp-metal-jet-3d-printing-for-car-parts/ to view the full article online.
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CMS Wire Industrial IoT (IIoT) is booming across a variety of industries. A recent survey found that 82% of respondents have either implemented IoT, are running a pilot program, or are considering it. As the technologies get cheaper and more reliable, more and more companies are looking to adopt IoT to bring efficiency to their organizations. Yet many are asking, what exactly is IIoT and how are companies using it?
Visit https://www.cmswire.com/digital-experience/how-companies-are-using-industrial-iot/ to view the full article online.
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Engineering 360 While electric vehicle sales are growing and every automotive OEM is developing new EVs for future sales, issues remain among drivers in terms of range anxiety and the time it takes to fully recharge these cars outside of the home. Fast charging may be on the horizon, however, as Penn State engineers have developed a new process that can charge electric vehicles in about 10 minutes for a 200 to 300 mile range.
Visit https://insights.globalspec.com/article/12921/10-minute-electric-vehicle-recharging-moves-closer-to-reality to view the full article online.
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AGMA Become an innovator and submit an abstract for the 2020 Fall Technical Meeting. Technology is fundamentally changing the way manufacturing is done. The gear industry is faced with emerging trends and innovation that is challenging engineers to stay on course with cutting-edge technology to keep design, quality, materials and analysis efficient. It is imperative that researches and gear engineers communicate ideas with fellow experts in the field. AGMA’s annual Fall Technical Meeting (FTM) is the perfect forum in which to share research and to disperse knowledge for the benefit of the industry at a global level.
Visit https://www.agma.org/documents/FTM_2020_Call4Papers_.pdf to view the full article online.
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ExOne press release The ExOne Company, the global leader in industrial sand and metal 3D printers using binder jetting technology, today revealed the culmination of two decades of metal 3D product development with its tenth and largest metal 3D printer to date: the X1 160 PRO. Built for high throughput and large-part production the printer offers build dimensions of 800x500x400 mm, delivering 160 liters of total build volume.
Visit https://www.exone.com/en-US/News/ExOne-X1-160PRO to view the full article online.
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New Atlas Maersk has teamed with Trident Maritime Systems to create 600 kWh container battery that can be placed on a container-hauling ship to provide power. The battery is now en route to be installed on the Maersk Cape Town container vessel.
Visit https://newatlas.com/marine/maersk-battery-container-ship/ to view the full article online.
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