American Gear Manufacturers

Association
The American Gear Manufacturers Association or
AGMA is the trade group of companies involved in gears,
American Gear
couplings and related power transmission components and Manufacturers Association
equipment. AGMA was founded in 1916; as of December 30,
2016, there were 456 member companies listed on the
association's website.[1]

AGMA is accredited by the American National Standards

Institute (ANSI) to write all U.S. standards on gearing,
including terminology, nominal dimensions, tolerances, and
tools for manufacturing and control. In 1993, AGMA became
the Secretariat for Technical Committee 60 (TC 60) of
ISO.[2][3] TC 60 is the committee responsible for developing Type Non-profit
all international gearing standards. In addition to the position Association
of Secretariat, AGMA also chairs one-third of the active ISO Industry Trade Association
Working Groups related to gearing. Founded 1916

AGMA hosts the industry's trade show, Gear Expo (https://ww Headquarters Alexandria, Virginia
w.geartechnology.com/subjects/Gear_Expo/), every two Number of 11 employees
years. Gear Expo is the only trade show dedicated to the employees
complete gear manufacturing process. Website www.agma.org (htt
p://www.agma.org/)
The AGMA Fall Technical Meeting provides paper
presentations on the latest applied technical research in the
gear and power transmission industry. The FTM is held annually at a different location in the
United States each year. It is often held in conjunction with the Gear Expo.

References
1. "Membership list" (https://www.agma.org/membership/list/). agma.org. Retrieved 2016-12-30.
2. "Contact details" (http://www.iso.org/iso/standards_development/technical_committees/other_b
odies/iso_technical_committee.htm?commid=49212). iso.org. Retrieved 2016-12-30.
3. "AGMA: The Industry's International Advocate" (http://www.gearsolutions.com/article/detail/564
9/agma-the-industrys-international-advocate). gearsolutions.com. 2004-07-01. Retrieved
2016-12-30.

External links
AGMA website (http://www.agma.org)
GEARexpo (http://www.gearexpo.com) Archived (https://web.archive.org/web/2018081812504
4/http://www.gearexpo.com/) 2018-08-18 at the Wayback Machine

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