Statistics Canada Manufacturing sales fell by a record 28.5% to $36.4 billion in April, following a 9.8% decline in March. April marked the first full month of physical distancing measures in the wake of COVID-19 and manufacturing plants operated at limited capacity or ceased operations completely.
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Online June 23-24, 2020 Explore process, machine setup, pitfalls, failures and expectations related to finish ground gearing. Learn definitions of gearing component features, process steps from blanking, through heat treatment to finished part read to ship. Study aspects of Quality Assurance, Inspection Documentation and corrective actions for measured non-conformances. Understand pre-heat treat, heat treatment and post-heat treatment operations including the how’s and why’s to produce finished gears that conform and perform to end user expectations.
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Fortune Electric-truck maker Nikola Motor has endured a rollicking stock market entry this month after listing through an unusual reverse merger. The frenzy has been fueled in part by the company’s claims that it will reveal a new kind of battery by the end of this year. But despite the looming deadline, Nikola appears to still be in the early stages of developing tis battery. And even if Nikola succeeds in creating a working version, it could be as much as a decade before manufacturing begins.
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Today’s Motor Vehicles Emuge-Franken, a manufacturer of taps, thread mills, drills, end mills and other rotary cutting tools, celebrates its centennial. In 1920, Richard Gimpel, a German engineer and master craftsman, founded a company and invented a single-finishing tap with a spiral point that changed the machining of internal threads. The tool was successful it helped secure a large order and growth for the fledgling company that Richard and three employees had started. 100 years later, Emuge-Franken has more than 1,900 employees with locations worldwide.
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Today’s Motor Vehicles After more than two years of dedicated preparation, Toyota Motor Manufacturing West Virginia has produced Toyota’s first hybrid transaxle in North America. “Our team has been planning for this new production line for several years, from construction to pilot projects to hiring new employees and countless hours of training,” said Srini Matam, TMMWV President.
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Gear Technology Machine Tool Builders Inc. of Machesney Park, Ill., and Hans Grass, president of G-Technologies have teamed up to formally announce the transfer of G-Technologies North American representation agreement for HAMAI Machines, to Machine Tool Builders, Inc. Following the appointment of Grass as CEO of Machine Tool Builders, Inc., MTB has assumed the exclusive rights as North American distributor of Hamai’s hobbing solutions line.
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Future IoT Rockwell Automation and PTC are making strategic enhancements to the FactoryTalk InnovationSuite, powered by PTC to serve the needs of a very fast growing, dynamic industrial digital transformation market. Launched in 2018, the FactoryTalk InnovationSuite, powered by PTC has seen rapid customer adoption, helping achieve significant improvements in operational efficiency, reduction in unplanned downtime and improved quality.
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Tech Crunch We were promised robots everywhere — fully autonomous robots that will drive our cars end-to-end, clean our dishes, drive our freight, make our food, pipette and do our lab work, write legal documents, mow the lawn, balance our books and even clean our houses.
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Online July 14-15, 2020 This course provides a solid and fundamental understanding of gear geometry, types and arrangements, and design principles. Starting with the basic definitions of gears, conjugate motion, and the Laws of Gearing, those attending will be given the tools needed to understand the inter-relation and coordinated motion operating within gear pairs and multi-gear trains. Basic gear system design process and gear measurement and inspection techniques will also be explained. In addition, the fundamentals of understanding the step-wise process of working through the iterative design process required to generate a gear pair will be reviewed, and attendees will also briefly discuss the steps and issues involved in design refinement and some manufacturing considerations. Also, an explanation of basic gear measurement techniques, how measurement equipment and test machines implement these techniques, and how to interpret the results from these basic measurements will be covered.
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Green Car Congress Peugeot introduced the electric version of its Travler van – the e-Traveler – earlier this month. Now Groupe PSA co-brand Citroën is unveiling its corresponding electric version of the Space Tourer MPV: the ë-SpaceTourer. Like it Puegeot cousin the Citroën ë-SpaceTourer is based on the EMP2 platform, seats up to 9 people and offers a choice of two range levels depending on battery power.
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