Associated Press Defying fears and predictions, the U.S. economy is still shrugging off President Trump’s trade conflicts. Employers added a sizzling 266,000 jobs in November, and unemployment matched a 50-year low of 3.5%—all while the Trump administration is waging a bruising trade war with China while fighting other trading partners, too.
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Gear Solutions On components such as shafts or idle gears, it was often not possible to use the ChamferCut method for chamfering until now.“Interfering contours, like shoulders, or shaft-work, pose a risk of collision that had restricted the potential use of the tool,” said Dr. Oliver Winkel, head of the technology application at Liebherr. “By tilting the tool, it is now possible to machine gears that had not been possible before.”
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CRN While IoT is expected to touch many aspects of life and work, a substantial amount of the action is happening on the industrial side, where manufacturers, utilities and other heavy-hitters are making headway in connecting their assets to improve operations. This is reflected in Gartner's most recent IoT spending forecast, which said that discrete manufacturing, process manufacturing, transportation and utilities represent 44 percent of the $745 billion organizations worldwide are expected to spend in 2019.
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Nature Conventional alloys have undesirably coarse-grained microstructures when used in 3D printing. A designer alloy overcomes this problem, potentially opening the way to the widespread adoption of 3D metal printing.
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Business Artificial intelligence (AI) and its subsets are benefitting tons of fields, but you'd be hard-pressed to find one that's taking more advantage from them than the manufacturing sector. Major companies around the world are heavily investing in machine learning solutions across their manufacturing processes and seeing impressive results.
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Forbes A few days ago, the Institute of Supply Management (ISM) released its closely watched report on manufacturing. It offered little new on the state of the economy. Media outlets noted that in November the index fell slightly from October levels and fell short of consensus expectations, which, as is usually the case, centered on the previous month’s release. That interpretation fostered some concern that the economy is softening further and inspired some to call for a near-term recession. A slightly broader view of the ISM report showed, however, that the economy has in fact stabilizing around the slowed pace of real growth exhibited by the third quarter National Income and Product Accounts, which showed real GDP growing at slightly over a 2% annual rate.
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AGMA Join more than 300 of your industry peers at the Disney's 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. Oh, and we tend to have some fun along the way!
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