“Our goal is to help women achieve full potential in careers as engineers and leaders,” says Courtney Shimp, NIU SWE President and senior mechanical engineering major. “We hope to expand the image of the engineering profession as a positive force by demonstrating the value of diversity.”

Forest City Gear, an industry-leading manufacturer of fine and medium pitch custom gears, is proud to recognize Kevin Chatfield on his 35th anniversary and thank him for his long-term dedication to the company.

The CMMC program ensures the protection of federal contract information and controlled unclassified information for suppliers within the U.S. Department of Defense’s supply chain. Through self-assessments aligned with NIST SP 800.171, Forest City Gear policies have proven to meet the 110 practices required for CMMC 2.0 compliance.

“We are intimately aware of how cancer can place life on pause, and that having access to the LIVESTRONG program is important for survivors to ‘press play’ again," said Mindy Young, Forest City Gear Trustee and youngest daughter of Fred and Wendy Young.

For more than 70 years, Gleason Cutting Tools' school has led seminars in Rockford, IL on math, gear theory, and the required tooling, manufacture, and inspection of gears.

Director of Technical Operations Jeffrey Mains will be leading a webinar on the advantages of OEM design engineers working directly with manufacturing, to expedite production at lower costs. Mains’ presentation is free to log in for and will be at 9:45 a.m. CST on September 27.

Jeffrey Mains, Director of Technical Operations, will be onsite at Forest City Gear’s booth. “At FCG, we know how important it is to stay connected with our customers and partners in the industry,” said Mains, “especially within our own community. Events like MAC2023 allow us to collaborate, network, and learn from each other, which helps Forest City Gear to continue to deliver on our promise of excellence without exception.”

To meet Forest City Gear’s team of experts at booth #2809, join us at the Motion + Power Technology Expo.

“Forest City Gear is a company of highly skilled individuals taking on extremely challenging work,” said Vincent. “I’m very excited to do my part to ensure that those individuals are in the best possible position to utilize those skills to deliver high quality products to all of our customers at minimal cost and lead time.”

This change comes after receiving feedback from current and prospective employees that working third shift provides a better work-life balance. Third shift hours allow employees to spend time with their families during dinner or after-school hours, whereas second shift scheduling requires them to be working during that time.