Cortec Corporation is a long-time proponent of corrosion solutions that reduce environmental impact. One of those eco-conscious methods of metals protection is EcoShield VpCI-144 Paper, a corrosion inhibiting paper with a recyclable barrier coating. Recently, Cortec has taken this technology to the next level of sustainability with EcoBio VpCI-144 Barrier Paper, a new version with the added benefit of a biodegradable, biobased barrier coating.
Global Shop Solutions announces two new AI-powered features designed to make every day manufacturing processes faster, more accurate and easier to manage. AI Accounts Payable (AP) Automation and AI Sales Order Entry continue the company’s mission to simplify manufacturing by reducing manual tasks and empowering customers to focus on high-value work.
Siemens Digital Industries Software will make Polarion X, its next-generation application lifecycle management (ALM) software-as-a-service (SaaS), available on Microsoft’s cloud and AI platform Azure. This collaboration is an expansion of a longstanding partnership, bringing together Siemens’ deep industrial expertise and Microsoft’s cloud and AI capabilities. Polarion X on Azure offers a secure, scalable, and intelligent ALM solution tailored for regulated and safety-critical industries.
Industrial automation is becoming increasingly software-centric, connected and enhanced by Artificial Intelligence. Bosch Rexroth is driving this change with the open automation platform ctrlX Automation and is now introducing a number of new features. These include extensive additions to the hardware portfolio, AI functionalities, a software-based safety solution, new apps in the ctrlX OS Store, as well as preconfigured solution sets.
Siemens Digital Industries Software has announced the latest updates to its Designcenter Solid Edge software, including new capabilities in AI and improvements in productivity, documentation and user experience. These updates will help design and engineering teams work faster, smarter and more collaboratively across on premise and cloud environments. This interview with Dan Staples, vice president of R&D, Mainstream Engineering at Siemens Digital Industries Software examines the latest enhancements to the software package.
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.
Designcenter Solid Edge 2026 delivers next-generation design productivity with powerful AI tools, immersive visualization and flexible cloud solutions to help you work smarter and faster. Highlights include AI-driven commands like Magnetic Snap Assembly, Automatic Drawing creation and the in-app Copilot in Designcenter X Solid Edge, plus immersive design review with the new Walkthrough command.
Enhanced sheet metal, drafting and part modeling features streamline manufacturing workflows and improve precision. With expanded value-based licensing options and seamless data interoperability, Designcenter Solid Edge 2026 gives you the freedom to scale capabilities, collaborate globally and design at the pace of innovation.
An innovative technology for the next generation of high-speed, high power density traction and propulsion systems has been jointly developed by Drive System Design (DSD) and Transense Technologies. David Hind, principal engineer, DSD, presented “Unlocking Powertrain Power Density with Innovative Motor Control,” earlier this year at the CTI USA Symposium 2025 in Novi, MI. The presentation built on initial simulation studies performed in MATLAB Simulink; a software tool used to design and simulate systems before moving to hardware. While simulation trials proved successful, achieving quality experimental results proved far more challenging. Hind examined these challenges and potential solutions at CTI.
Siemens and several leading machine tool manufacturers – including Grob, Trumpf, Chiron, Renishaw, and Heller, along with the Machine Tool Laboratory (WZL) of RWTH Aachen and the Voith Group – formed a groundbreaking alliance that provides for a systematic exchange of engineering, manufacturing and machine data that will be used to develop new generative AI applications for industrial environments. This collaboration marks a decisive step toward the realization of an industry-specific AI model, the Siemens Industrial Foundation Model. Siemens first presented its vision for this model at Hannover Messe 2025.
The Timken Company has expanded its suite of online engineering tools available at engineering.timken.com. The platform now includes two new proprietary calculators and an enhanced “My Projects” feature for registered users, giving design engineers more powerful resources to optimize system performance and streamline workflows.
Design engineers are always on the lookout for efficient and reliable application solutions. While standard products often suffice, some challenges demand a custom approach. Custom machine couplings, critical for torque transmission between a machine's driving and driven components, require careful consideration of specific requirements to guarantee optimal performance and unwavering reliability.
Discover how Regal Rexnord’s Bauer™ PMSM gear motor helped a transportation company streamline inventory, cut energy use, and save $80,000 annually. Learn how this scalable solution delivers financial, operational, and sustainability gains across facilities.
Dodge Industrial, Inc. has announced the launch of its StratoLink disc coupling line, a major expansion of the Dodge couplings portfolio. The first model to launch is the D71 Series, which meets API 610 standards and is engineered for maximum torque, simplified rebuilds, and seamless interchangeability in existing installations.
There are upcoming opportunities available for both new KISSsoft users and design engineers with prior KISSsoft knowledge. Acquire or refresh essential skills and knowledge to use the software for shaft and bearing design or enhance your proficiency in bolt calculation.
With its newly designed large-ring test bench for shaft seals, Freudenberg Sealing Technologies is strengthening its position as an innovation leader in the development and validation of high-performance seals for wind turbines, tunnel boring machines, and other heavy industry applications.
ABB’s new vertical hollow shaft (VHS) motors are built for vertical turbine pump applications where performance, reliability and longevity are critical. The line reflects ABB’s commitment to innovation, energy efficiency and customer-centric engineering.
Ruland now offers MI-series single beam couplings, expanding its zero-backlash beam coupling line to include one, four, and six beam styles. Single beam couplings are ideal for light-duty applications with low torque requirements such as encoders, tachometers, and small analytical devices.
Future electric and hybrid electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles will require high-efficiency and lightweight electric motor-driven propulsion systems. One key to designing an optimum electric motor-driven propulsion system, is to have a method for estimating the mass and efficiency of a gearbox for different power levels, motor speeds, and propeller speeds. Understanding the trade space for gearbox mass and efficiency allows the overall optimization of the propulsion system.
Bonfiglioli is able to provide high-performance, customized complete systems for construction and mining machinery, ranging from electronics to mechanics. Bonfiglioli supports customers on their path toward electrification, regardless of their field of application. This path involves the final drives, not just the main power source. This approach, compared to the one where the engine is replaced by a single electric motor, offers significant advantages in terms of energy efficiency, reduced emissions and a considerable reduction of maintenance costs, resulting in a much faster return on the initial investment.
The SDP/SI Shaftloc® fastening system stands out for its simplicity and strength. With just two precision-engineered parts, it delivers superior torque transmission through its unique asymmetrical thread profile. This innovative design amplifies clamping forces, ensuring secure, reliable shaft-to-component connections while reducing complexity, installation time, and maintenance needs. Explore the options.
ZF has a long history as a developer and manufacturer of braking systems worldwide. More than 3 billion ZF brake components have been produced over the past 50 years, ensuring driving safety around the globe. Even in the age of software-defined, fully networked and electrified vehicles, a car cannot operate safely without powerful and fail-safe brakes. ZF provides the technological basis for this with its Brake-by-Wire solutions (BbW). The system enables a more flexible vehicle interior and engine compartment design. Depending on customer requirements, braking solutions from ZF can be designed as either purely electric, purely hydraulic or a combined system - providing maximum flexibility.
Machine crashes are inevitable but catastrophic downtime doesn’t have to be. R+W’s ball detent safety couplings deliver instant, precise overload protection, safeguarding motors, gearboxes, and production schedules alike. Compact, durable, and configurable, they provide engineers with a trusted solution for keeping automation running smoothly.
Nord Drivesystems will be attending this year’s International Baking Industry Exposition (IBIE) held September 13–17 in Las Vegas, NV. Nord is a global manufacturer of robust, reliable drive technology, including drives for the specialized environments of the bakery industry. Their solutions are available for a wide range of systems such as kneading, conveying, filling, heating/cooling, fermenting, packaging, palletizing, and more. Numerous configuration options are available and cater to the bakery industry’s needs including special lubricants for low and high temperatures, temperature sensors to protect against overheating, protection class IP66 or IP69K, stainless steel shafts and accessories, metal fan blades, and fan-less designs.
Siemens Digital Industries Software has announced that Nidec Corporation, a Japanese manufacturer and distributor of electric motors, has adopted Teamcenter X software from the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio of industry software to achieve innovative motor development and supply to set new industry standards, including automotive.
John Crane recently announced the launch of the Type 93AX Coaxial Separation Seal – a next generation dry gas sealing solution engineered to help customers reduce emissions, improve equipment reliability, and lower operational costs.
The spectrum of machinery and equipment used in industrial automation includes everything from electric motors to robotics and each has its own unique attributes and sealing requirements. David Kaley, Trelleborg global segment manager for industrial automation, shares his expertise on speed reducers covering what they are, how they work and key considerations for correct sealing in this article.
Sometimes corrosion is attractive. For example, the vivid colors on titanium jewelry are oxides, with the color difference the result of the oxide thickness and the refracted light. Also, from an artistically oriented viewpoint, the golden-brown appearance of many of the new high-voltage towers made from ASTM A 242 (Corten) steel is more appealing than their bright galvanized cousins, and that “pleasing brown color” is a tightly bonded coating of rust. But most of the time, and in several ways, corrosion presents difficulties that can greatly shorten the life of mechanical equipment.
Speed is a key factor for success. It is as important as cost, value, uniqueness, vision, user acceptance. This holds true for processes, goods and services. And for tools, including the one presented here. A tool that is intuitive to use requires little time to learn. A versatile tool is quickly accepted by a team dealing with many projects or concepts simultaneously. A tool that adapts to the users’ workflow and integrates seamlessly maintains these processes speed. Introducing the KISSsoft System Module.
Every year companies push innovation and product development even though most of these ‘breakthrough’ technologies rarely change year to year or month to month. I have written my fair share of technology pieces that could have appeared in magazine issues in 2022, 2023, 2024, etc. So, it is refreshing when I visit a technology show—annually—and find significant, wholesale technology developments taking place throughout the company. Siemens Realize Live 2025 in Detroit focused on success stories in racing, aerospace, e-Mobility, marine and other industrial applications with an emphasis on strengthening the digital thread.
WEG is providing a comprehensive range of electric motors and frequency inverters for a major petrochemical project in the United Arab Emirates. These products will play a vital role in the conversion of oil into plastics, including materials such as polyethylene and polyphenols.
SKF announces a partnership with wave energy technology development company Carnegie Clean Energy Limited to deliver Carnegie’s CETO’s Power Take-Off (PTO) system.
Every machine component impacts performance, including gearboxes. Proper mounting significantly affects a machine's efficiency. Understanding gearbox operation is essential before installation. This white paper explores gearbox types, correct orientation, and strategies to enhance performance and longevity, ensuring optimal functionality for your machinery.
Learn how to guide the decision point between torsionally stiff and vibration damping servo couplings in four of the most common application types, including the help of simple and easy to use angular and linear positioning calculations.
Sulzer has launched the Sulzer Energy Optimization Service, an energy efficiency and carbon reduction service that will create a new best practice standard for the operation of centrifugal pumps across their lifecycle for energy intensive industries such as power generation, oil and gas, chemicals and water desalination.
Siemens announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Altair Engineering Inc., a leading provider of software in the industrial simulation and analysis market, for an enterprise value of approximately USD 10 billion. With this acquisition, Siemens extends its leadership in simulation and industrial artificial intelligence (AI) by adding new capabilities in mechanical and electromagnetic simulation, high-performance computing (HPC), data science and AI.
GWJ Technology is starting a new seminar schedule in 2025. This year, GWJ is once again offering a wide range of different seminars that can be booked as online seminars or, if desired, as traditional face-to-face events. The online seminars are designed to be interactive and provide a comprehensive insight into the respective topic. Practical exercises deepen the content. Online seminars take place over two or three days and last two hours each.
The Elgeti online spring engineering seminars begin soon. Additionally, Elgeti offers customized and private sessions if needed. Here's a quick look at the schedule:
ABB launched the Baldor-Reliance Food Safe SP5+ motor, the world’s first IP69 ultra-premium efficient motor, at the International Production & Processing Expo (IPPE) on January 28. This advanced technology sets a new benchmark for energy efficiency, hygiene and durability in food and beverage production environments.
Tooth contact analysis is an integral part of the gear design process. With the help of these simulation tools, it is possible to calculate the excitation caused by a tooth contact (Ref. 1). Usually, the load-free transmission error or the total transmission error under load is used for this purpose. However, the calculation with the tooth contact analysis ZAKO3D allows only a quasi-static consideration of the excitation. To better evaluate the behavior in the overall system, it is therefore necessary to perform a dynamics simulation. However, the main disadvantage of such dynamics simulations is the much longer computing time compared to quasi-static tooth contact analyses due to the high computational effort.
Siemens Digital Industries Software has announced the 2025 release of Solid Edge software, bringing new capabilities to its product development software. The latest release also introduces Solid Edge X software, delivering a cloud-enabled secure Software as a Service (SaaS) environment, enhanced with new AI-enabled tools to help users work smarter.
Verification of a drive system should include all main elements of the system, which are gears, bearings, shafts, and depending on the application other parts such as screws, couplings, and connections. Gears are clearly the most complicated parts for verification, but in many cases, a gearbox failure has its origin in a shaft or bearing failure. The subject of this paper is to explain how verification of a drive system based on measured or simulated torque-speed-time data can be handled.
Siemens Digital Industries Software has announced the latest updates to its NX software from the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio bringing new and enhanced capabilities to Siemens’ flagship product engineering software that aim to help designers and manufacturers across all industries deliver better, optimized products to market faster.
It’s common to hear the metaverse described as a 3D experience layer of the internet. The “industrial metaverse” is a more difficult concept to define. According to Forrester, it’s an umbrella term for a collection of different technologies. Some of those technologies have existed for years just waiting to come together.
Following a previous blog on the topic, Understanding the Industrial Metaverse, in this blog Stephen Graham, executive vice president and general manager, Nexus, takes an introductory look at the four building blocks, highlighting some of the key issues.
The new KISSsoft release 2024 is coming soon! This April will bring you the new system module KISSdesign, accelerating the calculation of complex drive trains and replacing the previous KISSsys software.
IIjin Electric's collaboration with Siemens began with the company's efforts to effectively integrate electrical design with mechanical design. “This collaboration went beyond simply changing tools. It represented a major advancement in the company's design approach and methodology.
With the release of version 9, the FVA-Workbench once again sets new standards in gearbox design, enabling the seamless integration of the latest research results into industrial practice. As a groundbreaking interface between collective research and application, the FVA-Workbench accelerates development and innovation in drive technology. This new release is more powerful than ever, with innovative features for flexible load spectra and improvements in FEM components and shaft-hub connections.
Developing a new gearbox series is costly and time-consuming. This is especially true in marine propulsion, as classification society certifications must be achieved in addition to the required verifications. For this reason, Reintjes offers the same drives for various types of ships. In gearbox development, this means that each application requires different loads and usage profiles, with different service lives and maintenance intervals. Thus, each drive must be designed and calculated with advance consideration of every possible profile.
Solid Edge is a portfolio of affordable, easy-to-use software tools that address all aspects of the product development process. Solid Edge combines the speed and simplicity of direct modeling with the flexibility and control of parametric design – made possible with synchronous technology. The following Q&A discusses Solid Edge 2024 with Dan Staples, vice president, mainstream engineering, Siemens Digital Industries Software.
A good 20 years have passed since the web-based calculation software eAssistant saw the light of day in the digital world. The software is probably the oldest commercial online solution for the design, recalculation and optimization of machine elements such as shafts, bearings, shaft-hub connections, gears, bolted joints, springs, etc. The calculations are based on internationally accepted standards and guidelines as well as technical literature.
GWJ Technology GmbH has introduced new versions of its integration modules for Solidworks, Autodesk Inventor and Solid Edge. In addition to comprehensive tooth form output in 2D DXF or 3D STEP/IGES for various gear types, GWJ also offers integration modules for its calculation solutions eAssistant and TBK in various 3D CAD systems.
Siemens Digital Industries Software and IBM recently announced they are expanding their long-term partnership by collaborating to develop a combined software solution integrating their respective offerings for systems engineering, service lifecycle management and asset management.
In an urgent assignment, a gear has to be designed, with the engineer already knowing the required reduction ratio, torque and speed. On the manufacturing side, the preferred materials, possible qualities and the reference profiles are specified. This initial situation represents an everyday task.
The new KISSsoft release 2023 comes with numerous novelties. Among others, Gear Mesh Frequencies (GMF) can now be calculated for cylindrical and bevel gears. GMF results are visualized in two different diagrams, i.e. GMF versus rotational frequency of the reference gear, and GMF versus amplitude.
This study presents a simulation method for considering complex wheel bodies in an analytical tooth contact model. The wheel body is considered using reduced FE stiffness. Reduction points are defined over the width and linked with the analytical gear.
For cylindrical wheel bodies, comparative calculations show fewer deviations from the expected results with the new method. This is due to the additional degrees of freedom in the FEM model. In the calculation with cylindrical wheel bodies, bending due to axial force in tooth contact could also be verified in addition to the deformation in tooth contact and the influence of the shaft-bearing system.
I think I spend more time talking about ball bearings today than at any other time in my career. Ball bearings have always had a large place in automotive, but not typically in high demand positions—other than a few niche areas. High demand positions, such as axles and planetaries, were typically reserved for tapers, needles and cylindricals. The landscape is changing quickly.
Siemens Digital has added features and updates for Simcenter SPEED, Simcenter Motorsolve and Simcenter MAGNET 2022.1 to improve accuracy, flexibility and connectivity. This 2022.1 update makes Simcenter SPEED and Simcenter Motorsolve more accurate and better integrated to Simcenter STAR-CCM+.
SEGULA Technologies and British scale up Senseye, specialized in predictive maintenance based on artificial intelligence, have announced the signing of a partnership.
SMT's latest webinar "MASTA Support - Tips, Tricks and FAQ" will take place May 4, 2022. The SMT customer support team receive queries covering all areas of MASTA, with industry 'hot topics' inevitably arising. In this webinar, SMT engineers focus on answering some of the queries that frequently make it into their support inbox.
At Automate 2022, attendees will have the opportunity to experience how complete, end-to-end automation solutions from KUKA Robotics can help them exceed their production goals.
Gates has announced the launch of Gates Design Power, a new software platform offering multiple digital design tools to support the engineering and specification of belt-drive systems across a broad array of applications, making the process easier and more robust than ever before.
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