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Keeping Tomorrow Moving

Highlights and innovation at MPT Expo + Heat Treat 2025

The Motion + Power Technology Expo (MPT Expo) returns to Detroit from October 21–23, 2025, colocated with Heat Treat 2025, creating one of North America’s most comprehensive gatherings for mechanical, fluid, and electrical power transmission, materials processing, and thermal treatment technologies. This year’s events bring together engineers, researchers, technologists, and decision-makers from across industries to explore, connect, and advance the design, production, and integration of cutting-edge systems that keep modern manufacturing moving.

Eliminating Gear Noise Before It Starts with Inline Process Monitoring

Detecting micro-deviations on gear geometries at an early stage to eliminate increased noise emissions

Precision Under Pressure

Meeting the demands of modern gear grinding

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Technical Articles

Electric vs. Combustion: A Comparative Analysis of Gear Design for Commercial Vehicle Applications

This paper examines the transition from internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles to electric vehicles (EVs), highlighting the distinct gear design requirements for each and presenting a comparative case study of gearbox configurations in a 14-ton commercial vehicle.

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Nanocomposite Coatings for Gears

This work aims to demonstrate the potential benefit of applying nanocomposite coatings to gear teeth to reduce operating friction and wear by presenting tribological test data.

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3D Scan-Based Reverse Engineering of Differential Bevel Gears

This study aims to propose a robust reverse engineering methodology for straight bevel gears, especially for those found in inter-wheel differentials.

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Morphology of FZG-A Test Gears

This study explores the failure mode morphology of FZG-A test gears. It aims to examine the orphologies of scuffing, scoring, scratches, and polishing using high-magnification light optical microscopy (LOM) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images.

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Design

For cylindrical gears, speed-increasing transmission stages are well known, and regarding profile shift, preferred pressure angles, and helix angles a set of rules applies, which is not much different from the rules for speed reducers. It is important to acknowledge that basically, a speed increaser has to be designed just like a speed reducer, but then the gear with the lower number of teeth is the output. Of course, the torque and the speed of the gear with the lower number of teeth (output) and the gear with the higher number of teeth (input) must be the same as if this transmission was used as a speed reducer. In the case of straight bevel gears, spiral bevel gears, and hypoid gears the same rules apply with some additions. Spiral bevel gears have many applications as speed increasers.  

Grinding

When grinding steel parts, the surface of the part can "burn" if too much heat is applied in a short time. Grinding burn refers to all those structural changes in edge zones of steel parts that are caused by grinding processes in steels due to the thermal energy introduced. Grinding burn can mainly occur in the form of tempering zones or new hardening zones.

Inspection

Zahnradfertigung OTT GmbH & Co. KG was the first company to install the new fully automatic CNC-controlled P 152 precision measuring center from Klingelnberg in its ultra-modern machine park.

Heat Treating

Furnaces North America 2022 (FNA 2022), presented by the Metal Treating Institute (MTI), in partnership with its media partner, Heat Treat Today, is the heat-treating industry’s go-to event every other year. FNA 2022 attracted attendees from across North America, including Fortune 500 companies. For three days attendees took part in networking, connections, and learning about the vast changes taking place in emerging technologies, industry trends, and advances in equipment.

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Videos

Grob Showcases Gear Ring Production with Power Skiving

The Grob G750T boasts efficient machining for gear rings by offering precise and efficient power skiving and seamless integration of milling and turning for maximum flexibility and productivity.

Industry News

Nidec Machine Tool America (NMTA) is pleased to announce that Todd Hughes has rejoined the company as Regional Sales Manager for the U.S. West Coast. In this role, Hughes will oversee gear machine tool sales across Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, and British Columbia. 

Product News

GWJ Technology GmbH from Braunschweig presents the new version of its SystemManager, which serves as an extension for the established calculation solutions eAssistant and TBK. With numerous innovations and optimizations, the software provides engineers with enhanced capabilities for modeling, calculating, and analyzing complex drivetrain systems.

Calendar

AIoT World Expo 2026

Feb 10, 2026 - Feb 12, 2026

The AIoT World Expo (Fort Lauderdale, FL) is the premier event for exploring the convergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT). This event serves as the gathering point for industry professionals to discover advancements, market opportunities, and understand the transformative power of AIoT across industries. Technologies include scalability, Edge, and AI data analytics, cloud solutions, machine learning (ML), and predictive analytics, cyber security and hybrid models.

CES 2026

Jan 6, 2026 - Jan 9, 2026

PowerGen 2026

Jan 20, 2026 - Jan 22, 2026

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