The KISSsoft System Module allows you to predefine virtually any possible combination of shifting positions and boundary setups in a transmission or gearbox. They are then combined into Operating Modes. These operating modes specify which clutches, switching elements, or brakes are active and which load is applied at specific system boundaries at a given situation. A typical example is when a gearbox is driven by multiple motors, like in a Dual Motor EV gearbox and different load combinations and/or power flow directions (changes from driving to coasting condition or from motor to generator mode) need to be analyzed.
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.
The NC Software Solution offering is ideal for Industry 4.0 initiatives, enabling advanced read/write capabilities for Mitsubishi Electric NCs. It supports cloud-based remote monitoring, data visualization, and integration with leading monitoring/OEE software.
SKF is launching The Patent Bay, a new platform open to companies that aim to accelerate technologies with the potential to advance sustainability, by making selected patents freely available to others.
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.
The MDSM Conference & Exhibition (Tallahassee, FL) brings together thought leaders focused on the latest technical advancements in motor, drive systems and motion control. Attendees will hear content in design, efficiency and application advancements in automation, robotics, manufacturing, utilities and automotive consumer and medical applications.
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.
ABB announced it is accelerating the development of gigawatt-scale next-generation data centers in collaboration with NVIDIA. Innovation will focus on the development and deployment of cutting-edge power solutions needed to create high-efficiency, scalable power delivery for future AI workloads. The research and development projects will support NVIDIA’s planned introduction of 800 VDC power architecture for 1 megawatt server racks.
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.
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.
Technology company Siemens and leading machine tools and laser manufacturer Trumpf has announced a partnership that promises to elevate industrial production by harnessing advanced digital manufacturing solutions. The collaboration joins Siemens' Xcelerator portfolio with Trumpf's renowned machine-building and software expertise.
For over 50 years, the Turbomachinery & Pump Symposia (TPS) has remained one of the most important annual events for rotating equipment professionals. The 2025 event takes place September 16–18 at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston. Hosted by the Turbomachinery Laboratory at Texas A&M University, TPS brings together engineers, operators, and manufacturers from across the oil & gas, petrochemical, power, aerospace, chemical, and water industries.
NTN is proud to announce that Cheryl Loew-Resch, marketing events and promotions manager, has been named a 2025 Women at the Wheel honoree by aftermarketNews.
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.
Dontyne Systems (Booth #213) has released a second update to the Gear Production Suite (GPS) in 2025 to reflect the volume of recent technical additions. Originally developed in 2008, GPS integrates gear design, machining simulation, and inspection data into a single environment to identify and mitigate manufacturing issues at the design stage.
Elgeti Engineering has released information for the company's Fall 2025 Online Bearing Seminar schedule.
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.
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.
The digital transformation is fundamentally changing the industry, and digital twins play a central role. They enable real-time monitoring of physical systems, simulation of their behavior, and informed decision-making. A dissertation from the TU Darmstadt Institute for Product Development and Machine Elements (pmd) shows how the FVA-Workbench gearbox design software can be implemented as a platform for creating digital twins of industrial gearboxes. The results demonstrate how the combination of detailed modeling, continuous real-time calculations, and engaging dashboard visualization offers an efficient and user-friendly solution for the development of digital twins.
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.
Realize Live Americas (Detroit) is the digital transformation conference designed for professionals in engineering, manufacturing, product lifecycle management, design and IT/software administration. Connecting users, industry experts and partners to share insights and explore the latest trends, technologies and best practices.
Teradyne Robotics and its partners are set to unveil a suite of advanced, AI-driven robotics solutions at NVIDIA GTC 2025 March 17-21. The unveiling represents the first public demonstration of the AI Accelerator in commercially viable applications.
The new KISSsoft Release brings innovations and enhancements for results visualization, allowing you to design even more efficiently, precisely, and productively. Within Gleason’s strategy "Design– Manufacturing – Measure", KISSsoft continues to add functions for simulating cylindrical gear manufacturing. After all, you target a gear design combining the highest strength with low manufacturing costs. KISSsoft offers a variety of rating procedures. Additionally, bearing ratings methods according to Timken have been added.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Siemens Digital Industries Software recently announced that Tianneng Battery Group Co., Ltd. has selected the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio of industry software to help it drive innovation and enable digital manufacturing in new battery production.
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.
NYCU (National Yang Ming Chia Tung University) Vulpes Racing—founded in 2008—is a Formula Student Team that combines mechanical engineering, industrial design, public relations, video production and marketing expertise.
At Interpack in Dusseldorf, the drive specialist Nord Drivesystems will present its wide product portfolio and great expertise in the packaging industry from May 4-10, 2023 – from decentralized frequency inverters to energy-efficient drives to high-performance surface treatments for washdown or spray areas.
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.
What's the latest in software design and simulation in the power transmission market? Here's a recap of some of the latest software solutions for bearings, gears, drivetrains and e-mobility applications.
A new version of the MESYS shaft and rolling bearing analysis software including new functionality is available. The bearing analysis software allows the calculation of the load distribution within the bearing and bearing life according to ISO/TS 16281 and it is integrated in a shaft system calculation with additional possibilities like modal analysis, strength calculation for shafts and interfaces to gear calculations. Currently the software is used by customers in 30 countries on four continents.
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+.
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.
Manufacturing is facing constant challenges stemming from labor shortages and disrupted supply chains to productivity declines and the high replacement and maintenance costs of legacy equipment. Trends today include equipment upgrades, e-commerce, a push for more robotics and automation and faster software and IIoT solutions.
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