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Staying sane is tough when the world seems
so crazy, and having your brain plugged directly into the news cycle doesn't help. I know it's not healthy to keep refreshing my news feed. But the coronavirus has everyone scared, myself included.
Change can be daunting, nerve-wracking or even downright scary. But when we're faced with change in our lives, it's not the change itself we fear. It's the unknown elements that come with it. "You don't know what you don't know," a wise man once told me.
magazine. Instead of focusing on a specific industry, we focus on specific subject: namely, the mechanical power transmission components that drive many different types of machinery. So we find ourselves continuously writing about the same things: gears, bearings, motors, gear drives and so on. But this is a good thing.
Putting together a magazine like this one takes a lot of planning. We begin the process for each
issue months in advance, holding meetings, talking with potential contributors, identifying good technical content, interviewing sources, writing, editing and so on. Around this time each year we map out a master plan we call our editorial calendar. We've just completed the 2020 calendar, and there are so many topics, it might be describe as a little ambitious.
I'd like to invite you to come visit us at
Motion+Power Technology Expo. The show takes place in October at Cobo Center in Detroit, and we'll be there in booth #3826.
If you are involved in the acquisition of technology (whether your direct role is machine
design, maintenance, purchasing or management), trade shows still provide one of the best
ways to evaluate options, learn about the latest technology and find solutions to problems.
At the recently concluded Automate 2019 and Promat trade shows (held in Chicago in April), we saw a lot of new technology aimed at making factories more efficient and productive.
By most measures, and according to most observers, the manufacturing economy continues to hum along. U.S. manufacturing has been in growth mode for several years, although the rate of growth has slowed, and most are predicting that it will continue to slow throughout 2019.
The theme of this issue is integration. Mechanical components are being developed with embedded sensors. The components are talking to each other, sending information to the cloud and producing terabytes of big data to help manufacturers better understand their processes, predict problems and control costs.