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Murata Machinery USA Celebrates 50 Years of Automation in North America

February 23, 2024

Murata Machinery USA (Muratec), a manufacturer of industrial automation, celebrates its 50^thanniversary across North America. Various activities are planned throughout 2024 to commemorate Muratec's golden year. Operating as a subsidiary of Kyoto, Japan-based Murata Machinery Ltd., Murata Machinery USA provides sales, service, and support for the Muratec brand. Muratec has a rich history in North America of offering automation solutions.

Southern Gear Adds Automation to Gear Blanking Operation

January 26, 2024

Southern Gear has equipped two Doosan CNC Horizontal Turning Centers with advanced RoboJob Turn-Assist robots, thus reducing workpiece load/unload times by 50 percent and allowing skilled machine operators to perform many other tasks.

Fisher Barton Expands and Builds The Turning Center of Excellence

March 23, 2023

Fisher Barton has selected MSI General Corporation for the design and construction of our new industrial building and site development for Accurate Specialties’ Turning Center of Excellence on Bluemound Road. To kick off construction, a groundbreaking ceremony took place Tuesday, March 21 at 10:00 AM.

TCI Precision Metals Offers Machine-Ready Blanks at IMTS 2022

June 29, 2022

TCI Precision Metals will be showing its precision Machine-Ready Blanks capabilities to customers at IMTS 2022, McCormick Place, Chicago, IL, September 12-17, 2022, West Building, Booth #432123.

The New Age of Bronze

Supply chain constraints and fast-rising commodity prices are taking their toll. Here’s how one Midwest producer of bronze gear blanks is helping gear manufacturers ”re-shore” — and shorten the distance from bronze blank to finished gear.

April 25, 2022

Eric Blickley

Supply chain constraints and fast-rising commodity prices are taking their toll. Here’s how one Midwest producer of bronze gear blanks is helping gear manufacturers ”re-shore”—and shorten the distance from bronze blank to finished gear.

Gear Blank Tuning

August 1, 2020

The design of gear blanks or flanges has traditionally been driven by weight reduction. Recently innovative companies have started to use the gear blank design to tune the system dynamics to reduce gear whine.

Gear Blanking Gets Bigger at Forest City Gear

July 1, 2020

Forest City Gear is doubling down on its strategy to produce most of its critical gear blanks in-house by adding new capacity, and capabilities, to its state-of-the-art 8,500 sq. ft. precision gear blanking facility.

Supply Chain Management Users Guide

July 1, 2020

We asked a few industry suppliers to provide some insight into gear manufacturers' supply chain challenges during the pandemic.

Taking the Wait Out of High Quality Gear Blanks

August 1, 2019

Forest City Gear makes the investment to bring gear blanking in-house, giving it complete control over quality and delivery: because failure’s not an option.