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INDUSTRY NEWS | 2025-01-21

Standard Bots Acquires Ready Robotics

By acquiring READY Robotics’ automation IP, Standard Bots is able to accelerate the development of their AI-powered platform, and their mission to improve accessibility in robotics space. This IP purchase includes all the software, patents, and trademarks owned by READY Robotics. 

EVENT | 2024-06-18

Turbomachinery and Pump Symposia 2024

TPS is a vital industry event, offering a forum for the exchange of ideas between rotating equipment engineers and technicians worldwide. TPS is known for its impact on turbomachinery, pump, oil & gas, petrochemical, power, aerospace, chemical and water industries.

FEATURE ARTICLES | 2024-04-09

Forging Ahead

Specialty forgers can manufacture custom, high-quality, seamless rolled rings in a variety of materials and finishes in as little as eight weeks. Open die forgings and seamless rolled rings are essential components in the wind energy sector, contributing to the overall reliability and efficiency of turbines, generator systems, and transmission and distribution equipment.

EVENT | 2024-03-08

Cleanpower 2024

Cleanpower 2024 (Minneapolis, MN.) grows businesses by gathering key decision makers and stakeholders across the wind, solar, storage, hydrogen, and transmission industries for discussion, deal making, networking and a whole lot of fun. The trade show not only brings together the different technologies that make up the renewables mix; onshore wind, offshore wind, solar, storage, and transmission but also the different segments within the industries; manufacturers, construction firms, owner operators, utilities, financial firms, corporate buyers and more. Cleanpower will feature the latest products, services and technologies coming to the renewable energy industry.

EVENT | 2023-09-15

Southtec 2023

Southtec 2023 draws manufacturing suppliers, distributors and equipment builders from across North America and around the world – bringing them together in Greenville, South Carolina. With hundreds of exhibiting companies, attendees can find all the latest technologies and services – plus the experts who build them – ready to demonstrate solutions that can help them grow their business. Visitors can make side-by-side comparisons, discover integrated equipment, hear about industry trends and forecasts, and leverage their purchasing power. 

EVENT | 2023-09-15

Advanced Engineering 2024

Advanced Engineering (Birmingham) has rebranded to celebrate the evolution and new developments in the industrial manufacturing. Sectors include aerospace, automotive, defense, composites, marine, rail, energy, medical and more. To ensure that visitors and exhibitors can still easily find relevant contacts, Advanced Engineering exhibitors will now be categorized by the services, products and solutions offered. They will have the opportunity to highlight all of the sectors they work in, removing any limitations created by the specific show zones. Advanced Engineering will welcome back a full speaker program with representatives from some of the leading companies in UK manufacturing including GE, Shell, ZF, Bosch, Siemens, 3M, IBM, Airbus and more. 

FEATURE ARTICLES | 2023-08-28

Hot Technologies to Help Cool the Planet

2023 is shaping up to be our planet’s hottest year on record, and the wind energy industry is feeling the heat. The GWEC (Global Wind Energy Council) says that the rate of wind turbine installations will need to quadruple globally by the end of the decade if we’re to achieve the IRENA’s (International Renewable Energy Agency) goal of net zero carbon emissions by 2050—and keep the average annual temperature worldwide from increasing more than the predicted 1.5° C. Fortunately, “net zero” commitments are gathering global momentum. Before year’s end, total global windpower is expected to reach a historic milestone of 1 TW of installed capacity, eliminating 1.2 billion tons of CO2 annually, roughly the equivalent of all the carbon emissions of South America.

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FEATURE ARTICLES | 2023-04-14

Maximizing Wind Turbine Gearbox Performance with Advanced Engineering Simulation

Wind power has emerged as one of the most important sources of renewable energy in recent years. The global wind power capacity was estimated to be 837 gigawatts in 2021 (statista.com). In the United States alone, wind is the largest source of renewable electricity, providing 10.2 percent of the country’s electricity and still growing (cleanpower.org/facts/wind-power/). However, to ensure maximum power generation, the efficiency and reliability of the wind turbine are critical.

INDUSTRY NEWS | 2023-03-23

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries EMEA—Duisburg Branch Selects Advanced Software to Support Move to Net Zero with Energy Modelling

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries EMEA—Duisburg Branch today announced a new contract with global software provider Energy Exemplar to support their sales, business development, and project development teams. The branch office based in Duisburg, Germany focuses on the growth of MHI’s energy transition-related business, supporting the decarbonization of industry.

EVENT | 2023-03-23

Cleanpower 2023

Cleanpower 2023 (New Orleans) unites the most knowledgeable minds in clean energy to chart the future of this powerful industry and discuss the opportunities ahead. As previous attendees attest, the conference grows clean energy businesses by gathering key decision makers and stakeholders across the wind, solar, storage, hydrogen, and transmission industries for discussion, deal making, networking and fun. 

EVENT | 2023-01-18

Nextlub 2023

Lubricants and tribological systems are undergoing rapid change. The challenges and uncertainties are enormous. Ecological challenges such as the de-carbonization of industry, mobility and society on the one hand, economic challenges such as the resilience of global supply chains on the other, are changing the way lubricants and tribological systems will be developed, validated, produced and applied in the future.

EVENT | 2022-10-03

Houstex 2023

SME's Manufacturing Technology Series in Houston, Texas brings together key decision makers, major tool and technology suppliers and thought leaders from across a broad spectrum of manufacturing disciplines. Hands-on equipment demonstrations, keynotes and panel discussions, emerging manufacturing technology showcases, and networking activities offer attendees an opportunity to learn about the latest manufacturing trends.

INDUSTRY NEWS | 2022-09-28

ZF Wind Power and R&D Test Systems to Develop 30MW Test Bench

In its largest order to date, Danish wind turbine test specialist R&D Test Systems will develop the 30 MW powertrain and gearbox test bench for ZF Wind Power’s future “Test & Prototype Center” at Lommel, Belgium, that will house the world’s most powerful validation test bench for wind turbines. 

EVENT | 2022-09-22

IFPE 2023

IFPE, the International Fluid Power Exposition, is the leading North American exhibition bringing together the fluid power, power transmission and motion control industries. IFPE is co-located with CONEXPO-CON/AGG, held at the Las Vegas Convention Center. 

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EVENT | 2022-09-22

PowerGen International 2023

PowerGen is the largest network and business hub for electricity generators and solution providers engaged in power generation. Power producers, utilities, EPCs, consultants, OEMs, and large-scale energy users gather at PowerGen International to discover new solutions as large, centralized power generation business models evolve into cleaner and more sustainable energy sources

EVENT | 2022-09-22

CTI Symposium Berlin 2022

CTI Symposium Berlin starts with two introductory days dealing with the basics and practice of automotive transmissions, hybrid and electric drives for newcomers and those who want to refresh their knowledge. 

INDUSTRY NEWS | 2022-08-22

Ceratizit Moves U.S. Headquarters

To centralize operations and continue to better serve its customers, tooling supplier Ceratizit USA, Inc. has shifted its official U.S. Headquarters from Warren, Michigan, to the company’s Schaumburg, Illinois, facility location. Ceratizit acquired the Schaumburg facility when it absorbed the Komet tooling brand name and product line under the Ceratizit Group umbrella.

INDUSTRY NEWS | 2022-08-16

Beaumont Machine Reacquired by Founders

Beaumont Machine is a builder of Electrical Discharge Machines (EDM) for the aerospace, power gen and electronics production industries. Founded by Ed and Tanya Beaumont over 30 years ago, the company was recently repurchased, after the owners had sold the business in early 2013.

INDUSTRY NEWS | 2022-08-09

Liebherr Mining Expands in Australia

Liebherr-Australia has announced the expansion of their Perth mining facility, which will strengthen the company’s ability to deliver accelerated zero emission solutions to the wider market. Liebherr-Australia’s growing involvement in the development and implementation of zero emission technology with Australian customers illustrates the necessity for this investment in infrastructure and signifies Liebherr’s commitment to these industry-leading projects.

INDUSTRY NEWS | 2022-07-25

Kapp Niles Offers Machine Technology at IMTS 2022

Kapp Niles will highlight a variety of machine tool technologies at IMTS 2022 for areas like mobility, automation, energy, and more.

INDUSTRY NEWS | 2022-07-18

DN Solutions Opens New Technical Support Office

DN Solutions (formerly Doosan Machine Tools) recently announced the opening of a Technical Support Office in Troy, Michigan. The new location will provide process improvements and technical solutions to both dealers and customers. 

INDUSTRY NEWS | 2022-06-27

Ceratizit Adds Midwest Territory Sales Engineers

With the addition of two new sales engineers in the company’s Midwest Territory, Ceratizit USA looks to continue its double-digit growth while continuing to support and optimize customer tooling and machining processes.

INDUSTRY NEWS | 2022-06-14

Ceratizit Doubles Eastern Territory Support Staff

With the recent addition of three new sales engineers and an application specialist, Ceratizit USA has doubled the size of its Eastern Territory sales and support team. In doing so, the company further improves response time and provides added expertise for its customers’ custom tooling challenges.

PRODUCT NEWS | 2022-06-01

Solar Puts VOQ Furnace into Full Production

A newly designed Vacuum Oil Quench (VOQ) furnace, purchased by Solar Atmospheres of Western PA, recently entered into full production after passing a vigorous start up protocol. 

PRODUCT NEWS | 2022-05-26

GF Machining Solutions iWire Adapts to EDM Cutting Conditions

The new iWire function from GF Machining Solutions automatically identifies and adapts wire speed to changing erosion height conditions during the wire EDM process. This capability eliminates wire breakage while reducing overall wire consumption per job, in some instances by as much as 29 percent.

INDUSTRY NEWS | 2022-04-18

Hexagon Releases E-Mobility Report

Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence has released a comprehensive report entitled "Recharging the Automotive Market." The body of work was produced by Hexagon and draws from the original research conducted with Wards Intelligence and Informa Tech Automotive Group (ITAG).

TECHNICAL ARTICLES | 2021-11-01

Dry Lubricated Rolling-Sliding Contact –Operation Behavior and Calculation of Local Frictional Energy

For certain operating conditions and environments, liquid lubrication of gear drives is not possible, or can only be implemented with great restrictions or at high cost.
INDUSTRY NEWS | 2018-08-13

International Gear Conference 2018

Lyon, France. Mechanical transmission components such as gears, rolling element bearings, CVTs, belts, chains, etc. are present in every industrial...
GEAR TALK WITH CHUCK | 2018-03-01

Out of Your Depth?

How did that over pin calculation work out? My congratulations if you managed to work your way through it without tearing your hair out. Guess what...
FEATURE ARTICLES | 2017-03-01

Shifting Fortunes

Amidst the energy industry's uncertain future, gearbox manufacturers are focusing on supplying the aftermarket.
ADDENDUM | 2016-05-01

NOME Is Where The Energy Is

According to the U.K.-based WITT Energy website (witt-energy.com), "The WITT is the only device in the world that can capture energy from all movement and turn it into electricity. No other energy system can exploit the full spectrum of movement, enabling it to harvest power from water (sea, river or tidal), wind and human or animal motion."
FEATURE ARTICLES | 2016-03-01

Taking on Tight Margins in Wind Energy

Onshore and offshore wind turbines boast some of the most critical assets in order to run effectively.
FEATURE ARTICLES | 2016-01-01

Looming Large

Let's talk about large gears. Not the size or scope or inspection process, but the forecast and market potential in areas that utilize these massive components. We'll examine key industry segments like energy and mining and tap IHS Economics for a forecast for 2016 and 2017 (spoiler alert: it's not great). Additionally, we'll discuss some of the critical factors influencing global big gear manufacturers Ferry-Capitain and Hofmann Engineering.
TECHNICAL ARTICLES | 2014-09-01

Less Energy Consumption with High-Efficiency Bevel Gears and their Usage in the U.S.

The efficiency of a gearbox is the output energy divided by the input energy. It depends on a variety of factors. If the complete gearbox assembly in its operating environment is observed, then the following efficiency influencing factors have to be considered
INDUSTRY NEWS | 2014-07-01

Industry News

The complete Industry News section from the July 2014 issue of Gear Technology.
FEATURE ARTICLES | 2013-08-01

Turbine Gearbox Inspection - Steady Work in a Shaky Wind Market

Having outlasted the worldwide Great Recession, the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) forecasts a constant growth in wind energy, i.e.: "increase in worldwide capacity to 460,000 MW by 2015."
PUBLISHER'S PAGE | 2013-06-01

Boom or Bust - Are You in the Right Markets

Over the past few months we've talked with a lot of gear manufacturers. Many of them tell us business is strong, while others are struggling with reduced demand. The difference between them isn't so much in the quality of their manufacturing operations, but rather trends in the end markets they serve.
TECHNICAL ARTICLES | 2012-09-01

How Bearing Design Improves Gearbox Performance

Gearbox performance, reliability, total cost of ownership (energy cost), overall impact on the environment, and anticipation of additional future regulations are top-of-mind issues in the industry. Optimization of the bearing set can significantly improve gearbox performance.
FEATURE ARTICLES | 2012-06-01

Growing Pains - Renewables Hang on in Turbulent Energy Market

The turbines are still spinning. They’re spinning on large wind farms in the Great Plains, offshore in the Atlantic and even underwater where strong tidal currents offer new energy solutions. These turbines spin regularly while politicians and policy makers— tied up in discussions on tax incentives, economic recovery and a lot of finger pointing—sit idle. Much like the auto and aerospace industries of years past, renewable energy is coping with its own set of growing pains. Analysts still feel confident that clean energy will play a significant role in the future of manufacturing—it’s just not going to play the role envisioned four to five years ago.
FEATURE ARTICLES | 2012-01-01

New Energy - Same Challenges

Uncertainty casts a shadow over future business opportunities for manufacturers serving the new energy markets.
FEATURE ARTICLES | 2011-06-01

Wind Turbines: Clean Energy, but Energy Efficient

We talked energy efficiency with some major players in the lubricants industry— but with a focus on their products’ impact regarding energy efficiency of gears and gearboxes in wind turbines.
FEATURE ARTICLES | 2011-05-01

Worm Gears - Higher Energy Efficiency and Less Strain on Resources

A very direct and effective way of increasing power transmission efficiency is a changeover from mineral-oil-based lubricants to synthetic lubricants.
VOICES | 2009-11-01

Green Heat Treating - No Sweat

Bob McCulley of Comprehensive Heat Treat Specialists describes how even the most energy intensive industrial processes can be made "green."
FEATURE ARTICLES | 2009-01-01

Optimism in Wind Abounds

Big gears and wind turbines go together like bees and honey, peas and carrots, bread and butter and—well, you get the idea. Wind isn’t just big right now, it’s huge. The wind industry means tremendous things for the energy dependent world we live in and especially big things for gear manufacturers and other beleaguered American industries.
EVENTS | 2009-01-01

Windpower 2009 Relocates in Light of Record Growth

It’s not too often a trade show so far surpasses organizers’ expectations for size that it must be relocated. This was just the dilemma the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) faced with the Windpower 2009 Conference and Exhibition, which was originally scheduled to take place in Minneapolis, but will now be held at McCormick Place, Chicago.
FEATURE ARTICLES | 2008-08-01

The Business of Going Green

Heat treatment industry reinforces environmental/energy conservation.
FEATURE ARTICLES | 2008-01-01

The Future is Now for U.S. Wind Turbine Industry--But Who’s Positioned to Meet It?

The United States’ long-held dream of energy independence—as in cheap, clean, free of overseas extortion and renewable energy—could very well be realized in part by the country-wide development of wind turbines...
FEATURE ARTICLES | 2006-03-01

Wind Energy: An Established Industry with Emerging Opportunities

"An industrial business with a very important growth potential for the next decade." That's the wind energy as described by Ivan Brems of gear manufacturer Hansen Transmissions International.
PUBLISHER'S PAGE | 1990-07-01

Of Trees, Whales & Practicality

One of the hot items on the public agenda these days is "The Environment." Suddenly everyone wants to save the whales and the rain forest. Politicians, rock stars, and big business have all discovered that you can't get anything but good press for saying that you're in favor of trees and marine mammals.
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