Our industry makes parts for all different types of energy and transportation. AGMA, our national trade association, was formed, in part, because t...

U.S.-based motorsports have had a lot to cheer about in Formula One this season with the debut of the first American team in thirty years. Haas F1,...

From reports I have gotten, 2016 is proving to be a challenging year for the gear industry. Traditional markets such as mineral extraction and gas/...

With the election distraction finally behind us, we can hopefully get back to the very challenging job of building a better world for ourselves, ou...

The call for abstracts for the 2017 AGMA Fall Technical Meeting went out months ago. While it seems early to many readers, this schedule has to be ...

  In a recent episode of my favorite zombie apocalypse show, SyFy’s Z Nation, a character celebrates the restarting of a hydroelec...

There is an old saying that “the fools always win in the end because stupidity has no limits, while genius does.” Occasionally we see this acted ou...

Leonardo DaVinci famously sketched helicopters long before the technology needed to make them fly was developed. The American Motorcycle Associatio...

While 3-D printing looks for its place in the manufacturing world, other non-traditional methods are finding their way into our gear shops. Some, s...

Our society seems enamored with new technology and the fortunes that can be made through a startup company. This has always puzzled me; a number of...