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Editors Corner
“If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic - being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle.These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.” Elon Musk
“The rumors of the demise of the U.S. manuf actur ing industr y are g reatly exaggerated.” Elon Musk
We live in a very magical age where we actually take for granted that just over 50 years ago we were watching black and white TVs. There was no Internet, party lines on phones were common, and manufacturing was old school drafting, shaping, sanding, and elbow grease. I see people looking behind them and they say it’s not like it used to be, in the old days these manufacturing shows were 3-4 times as big as they are now. Well, one person can run 5-7 CNC machine tools now, so let’s get some perspective. If we need less to do more today we have evolved. If we make things faster and more precise in these modern times should we compare last decades notes to this years data? Innovation alone says we will do more with less. Innovation actually spells less people and more robots and we are evolving quickly to that point. Our power grid will change and be so much different than we see it today. The power lines of tomorrow may be transmitted through the air without physical lines and the grid may reside in our collective homes and power banks.The things we can manufacture will dramatically change as we continue to push the boundaries of 3D manufacturing. The next five years will change so quickly that it will equal 50 years of change that we have experienced in the past. Our heads will spin when disruptive change happens at lightning speed and we are actually making things in our home we used to buy at a store. The facts cannot be disputed; we are buying more online than we ever have before. We see stores closing and sigh because we loved shopping and browsing through the tapes at the local video store. But, now we browse our TV and receive instant gratification in less time.We can scan an object, our software can take the scan and create code to program a CNC machine tool and we can make a part in the time it used to take to set up a manual machine. Oh, and we can additively print this part in just about any material. I say enjoy and embrace the magic and make some magic of your own. Whatever the human mind can conceive it can achieve. So let’s make US manufacturing stronger by opening up our minds to the positive side of evolution. Let’s collaborate; let’s come up with the next ink jet printer, or power plant, or solution to food and water shortage. The magic lies within us. Carpe Vino; Seize The Day! Thank you all for your continued support! God Bless You All!
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Cover & Inside Cover This Month’s Cover , Inside Cover, Shop Profiles, & Articles:
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Announcements & Releases Real Axis Machining Announces Bre Braaten As New Sales Representative Real Axis Machining is delighted to announce that Bre Braaten has joined our team as the new Sales Representative. Before Real Axis Machining, Bre spent five years with a large national tool and fastener company in various sales and customer service positions.AWashington native, Bre enjoys multiple outdoor activities the beautiful area provides. While not in the shop or visiting customers, Bre and her family are dedicated professional motocross racing fans and themselves compete in local amateur off-road events. In particular, Bre started competing in motocross events herself and looks forward to kicking up more dirt in the future. Real Axis Machining was founded by father and son Chuck and Jon Reali. Chuck had been involved with aluminum manufacturing for his entire career, most recently as the VP and General Manager of Vanalco, Inc. in Vancouver, Washington and CFAC in Columbia Falls, Montana. Jon is an electrical engineer and law school graduate who practiced as a patent attorney in Portland, Oregon. Both are avid target archers and originally planned Real Axis Machining to support the archery equipment industry. However, the currently expanding customer base represents a much broader group of technologies including, among others, semiconductor processing, aerospace tooling, materials handling, timber sawing, and national defense. Real Axis Machining utilizes new machines, highly experienced machinists and programmers, and tooling expertise to provide top quality job shop machining services. Please contact Bre Braaten at bbraaten@ realaxismachining.com to discuss your machining needs.
Dti EXACT™ Announces ISO 9001:2008 And AS9100 Rev C Certification dti EXACT™, DiamondTechnology Innovations’ CNC Machining Division is pleased to announce the achievement of ISO 9001:2008 and AS9100 Rev C Certification. AS9100 is the internationally recognized Quality Management System
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standard specific to the aerospace, aviation and defense industries. This standard is strongly supported and adhered to by major aerospace OEMs and is being required by vendors within the supply chain on an increasing basis. AS9100 certification reflects dti EXACT™’s commitment to meeting a n d e x ce e d in g t h e increasingly stringent industry requirements for aerospace related products and assures o u r m a n u fa c t u r i n g processes consistently meet the requirements and expectations of customer’s presenting the most challenging applications. This certification strengthens dti EXACT™’s competitive position and standardizes quality, reliability and safety processes across its entire manufacturing division. EXACT™’s AS9100 certification is a dual certification, meeting all of the requirements of ISO 9001:2008 as well as approximately 100 additional requirements specific to aerospace product safety and reliability. “Our customers have come to expect quality products and unsurpassed customer support from dti EXACT™ and this certification reflects dti EXACT™’s commitment to superior service and total customer satisfaction, along with our dedication to continual process improvement”, stated Jessica Van Hatcher, dti EXACT™’s Director of Marketing and Business Development. “The process of upgrading our quality management system to AS9100C began a little over a year ago when we decided to expand our market presence by serving the aerospace industry. The dti™ team made the commitment to compliance, and then stepped up to the challenge, resulting in the successful achievement of the certification. Moreover, pursuing AS9100C certification was a logical next step for improving our quality system and manufacturing processes while growing our business.” ABOUT dti EXACT™ CNC MACHINING DIVISION dti EXACT™ offers custom machining and manufacturing services, specializing in small, complex, precision components. Working with dti EXACT™ means access to top of the line CNC equipment and innovative technologies. With high quality products and support services at the fore front, dti EXACT™’s mission is total customer satisfaction from initial inquiry to final product delivery. Integrating our state of the art equipment and technologies with our experienced engineering support team, means short lead times and significant project cost savings for our valued customers.
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Ganesh Machinery Open-House Success The Ganesh Machinery open-house, held on September 1st, was a big success and well attended with over 250 guests witnessing 20 CNC machines demonstrating enhanced cutting processes at their updated Chatsworth, CA facility. Ganesh Machinery used this event to show customers strategies on how to be more successful by focusing on using labor smarter and achieve seamless “done-in-one-operation” production by taking the machining-cell concept to the next level. Ganesh demonstrated Multi-Tasking CNC lathes with up to 11-axis to making short-work of complex parts for profitable “done-in-one” production. The venerable Cyclone CS-32 CNC Swiss style machine also introduced dual angular milling and drilling heads, gear hobbing attachments, and large slotting head tools to expand the profit potential of that series of machines. The 36-tool Cyclone BY-2 9-axis CNC lathe was shown using the angular cutting capabilities of its B-Axis while demonstrating how complex lathe parts up to Ø2” with milled and drilled angles can be easily machined. The “Big-Bore” lathe series, starting at 30” swing and going up to 100” lathe swing capacity with spindle bores up to 32”, was shown with front and rear power chucks. The Ganesh CNC vertical milling machine line VFM-2416 with an X,Y of 24” x 16” was demonstrated, as well as the VFM-5127. This series of premium CNC verticals go up to 100” in X and 39” in Y and feature 680-block look-ahead and high-speed data processing for faster production and better surface finish. The affordable Ganesh 5X-8 5-axis milling machine was shown processing a full 5-axis workpiece. Ganesh demonstrated their extensive capabilities in production analysis, automation and turn-key solutions in support of challenging production applications. Ganesh offers a complete line of CNC milling and turning machines to meet your needs. The new 44-page catalog presents the entire Ganesh machine tool lineup showing solutions that will provide greater manufacturing efficiency.
delivered laser with automation. TRUMPF will also introduce an all-new panel bender, Messer will show their plasma/fiber combo machine, and Lissmac will show their small part deburring machine, just to name a few. In addition, Icon Machine Tool is hosting their annual after show event. It’s a great way to network and relax after a long day at the show. Contact Jeff Hall at 360-434-8844 for more details about this fun event. Thinking about a sales career in the metal fabrication equipment industry? Contact Jeff Hall at 360-434-8844 for more information.
Icon Machine Tool Will Be Attending FABTECH Icon Machine Tool will be attending FABTECH and welcomes you to stop by and visit. Icon represents a wide variety of metal fabrication equipment so call to schedule a time to meet at one of their manufacturers’ booths to discuss your equipment needs. Manufacturers include TRUMPF, Messer, Marvel, Scotchman, Lissmac, Ercolina, Standard, and many more. If you’re looking at lasers, CNC punching machines, press brakes, plasma, band saws, ironworkers, tube benders, or deburring equipment, Icon has you covered! Equipment highlights at FABTECH include TRUMPF’s 8000 watt fiber-
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One team in 30 years. Already, many of the precision parts and assemblies that go into building the team’s Formula One car – as well as into the related equipment needed to run the global, 21race schedule – are being made on Haas CNC machines. At Haas F1 Team’s U.S. headquarters in Kannapolis, North Carolina, the machine shop is constantly buzzing, with complex, high-precision parts, large and small, being made by American machinists using Haas CNC machines. The team currently has 17 Haas machines in its 7000-square-foot shop, including three UMC-750SS 5-axis universal machining centers, four 5-axis VF-5TR and VF-6TR trunnion VMCs, a 50-taper VF-11 VMC, four Haas ST-seriesY-axis turning centers, and a 5-axis GR-712-5AX gantry router. An additional UMC-750SS and four other Haas machines will also be installed at Haas F1 Team’s European headquarters in Banbury, UK. The Haas machines are currently being used to machine parts for the 60-percentscale wind tunnel models, as well as components for the team’s garage equipment. As Haas F1 Team’s cars and race program reach full development, the Haas machines will play an even greater role.
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“It automatically conveys Haas Automation’s place among the pinnacle of motorsports,” said Gene Haas, president and founder of Haas Automation, Inc., the largest CNC machine tool builder in North America. “When you hear ‘F1’ you know exactly what it is – a global racing series that showcases the latest technology, and attracts the best talent in engineering and design. Haas Automation has an excellent reputation in the United States, and I want to grow that reputation worldwide. Connecting Haas Automation with F1 in name – and in practice, when Haas F1 Team debuts in 2016 – is the best way to grow our business worldwide, and elevate Haas Automation to a premium, global brand.”
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Haas Automation, Inc., is America’s leading builder of CNC machine tools. Founded by Gene Haas in 1983, Haas Automation manufactures a complete line of CNC vertical and horizontal machining centers, CNC turning centers, rotary tables, and indexers. All Haas products are built in the company’s 1-million-square-foot manufacturing facility in Oxnard, California, and distributed through a worldwide network of Haas Factory Outlets that provides the industry’s best sales, service, and support, while offering unparalleled cost-to-performance value.
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Powered by a common pressure washer, the durable stainless steel BART Wand fits between the waterjet table’s slats and can be operated while the waterjet is running, reducing downtime. The portable system is easy to operate and consistently achieves garnet removal rates greater than 3,000 pounds an hour. The BART® abrasive removal system is made in the USA and is available exclusively through BARTON International.
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Mazak Smartbox Launches Manufacturers Into The Iiot At Discover 2015 In an industry-shaping collaboration, Mazak Corporation, together with information technology (IT) leader Cisco and machineto-machine solutions provider MEMEX, Inc., have developed what is described as an industry first – a “launch platform for easy and highly secure entrance into the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).” Called SmartBox, this technology represents a huge leap in digital integration across manufacturing. Access to real-time manufacturing data is used to improve overall productivity and responsiveness to customer/market changes. Using MTConnect technology as the foundation, SmartBox connectivity of machines and devices allows for enhanced monitoring and analytical capabilities . Mazak is showcasing the SmartBox technology during its DISCOVER 2015 Technology and Education Event, held October 27-29 and November 3-5 at its North American Manufacturing Headquarters. The power of SmartBox will be demonstrated in one of the automated cells as part of the company’s own manufacturing operations. Each of the cell’s four machines are outfitted with a SmartBox and sensor array package, giving event attendees a firsthand look at the device in action within an actual manufacturing environment and network. The SmartBox is yet another component within Mazak’s dynamic iSMART Factory concept and one that takes advantage of Cisco’s Connected Machines solution to provide insights into machine operations. Advanced manufacturing cells and systems, along with full digital integration, can achieve free-flow data sharing, i.e., process control and operation/equipment monitoring. The iSMART concept also incorporates Mazak’s SMOOTH Technology – a complete process-performance technology platform that includes the various levels of Mazak’s new Mazatrol Smooth CNC with advanced machine hardware and servo systems – working in tandem with the MTConnect standard connectivity protocol.
At the heart of the SmartBox is Cisco’s Connected Machines solution, based on the IoT System, designed specifically for industrial environments and equipped with an MTConnect software agent. Using a fog computing model, the MT Connect software runs directly on the ruggedized Cisco Industrial Ethernet (IE) 4000 switch – providing real time visibility and insights into data right on the factory floor.
Mazak also developed SmartBox to work with any machine regardless of make, model or age and will offer it in various configurations/kits based on the scenarios and challenges in which the units will be used.The device physically mounts to the side of machines without having to integrate into a machine’s electrical cabinet. With several standard input/output connecting ports, SmartBox lets users quickly and easily connect any standard off-the-shelf sensors to the system for machine data gathering and condition monitoring.
The Memex software installed in Mazak’s own factory allows for monitoring analytics of machines, test stands and other equipment within the plant.The Cisco hardware is designed to help prevent any issues with unauthorized access from both directions – to or from the machines and equipment within a network. SmartBox satisfies the highly critical security concerns of IT departments when connecting legacy equipment to a plant’s main network for the purpose of gathering manufacturing data via the MTConnect protocol.
One SmartBox may service several machine tools along with other associated manufacturing equipment, depending on the application.
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What Do Marshmallows, Small Metal Airplanes And Manufacturing All Have In Common? Manufacturing Day for Kent, WA area High School Students Buyken Metal Products and the Aerospace Joint Apprenticeship Committee (AJAC) came together on October 2nd for National Manufacturing Day – a nationally recognized day dedicated to addressing the misperceptions about manufacturing by giving manufacturers an opportunity to open their doors and inspire the next generation of machinists, precision metal fabricators and engineers.
Kent-Meridian and Kent-Phoenix Academy High Sc hool students participated in a fun-filled morning of tours, presentations and manufacturing projects at Buyken’s facility. Projects included the Marshmallow Challenge and manufacturing a sheet metal airplane. Students were inspired to consider a career in today’s modern manufacturing environment and discover how apprenticeship can serve as a pathway to manufacturing careers including machining, precision metal fabrication and more. AJAC, a Washington State aerospace and manufacturing apprenticeship, taught students the basics of Lean while at the same time challenging them to build the tallest structure of free-standing spaghetti, using only tape and string.The ultimate test for students was the structure had to withhold the weight of a marshmallow on top, which is heavier than it looks. Buyken, aWashington State metal products manufacturer, offered students the opportunity to build a metal airplane while they toured each area of the facility involved in the design, production and inspection processes. Students learned first-hand how different machines, including punch presses, press brakes, laser cutters and laser-guided inspections complete a manufacturing process from start to finish.
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This year, over 2,300 manufacturing companies celebrated Manufacturing Day by participating in open houses, public tours, career workshops and other events that 100,000+ people attended across the United States. AJAC is dedicated to taking part in Manufacturing Day each year with the intention of inspiring young people to pursue careers in manufacturing through apprenticeship. www.AJACtraining.org
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Albina Co., Inc. located in Tu al at in , Oregon, has been providing customers w i t h i n n ov a t i v e , quality bent steel products since 1939! Albina is a family owned and operated bending company specializing in pipe, tube, all forms of structural steel, plate, s q u a re a n d rectangular tube bending. The last few years of market growth have allowed us to increase our capabilities, our staff and to acquire some innovative new equipment and implement new processes on that equipment. We are proud to announce the newest bending technology at Albina, which is induction heating. Albina has used heat to bend materials for decades, utilizing alternatives to the actual process of induction heating. We have built upon our vast knowledge base for hot increment bending and are now applying an induction heat source to our recently upgraded increment bending process. This is a very exciting step for Albina and for our loyal customers across the United States and Canada. Our new heating source and bending process will help expand the material range we can work with, radii that we can bend and it will allow us meet the “induction only” heating requirements that certain projects specify. We are confident that our new induction heat source and increment bending process will allow Albina to better service our customer’s needs. Albina’s experienced, friendly, qualified staff has the ability to meet all of our customers bending, rolling and fabrication needs. If you are in the area, we would love for you to schedule an appointment to tour our shop. You can contact us at 503-692-6010, email us at sales@ albinaco.com or find us on the web at www.albinaco.com.
Sunshine Metals Has A New Website That Sets The Customer Service Standard Worldwide Sunshine Metals is a world-class supplier of specialty metals and custom supply chain services for aerospace and defense applications.We provide near net shapes, semi-finished products, and just in time kitting from our expansive inventories of plate, rod, bar, and forgings.
The Sunshine Metals new website now allows our customers full access to our Quote Builder product line and services. Sunshine Metals customers can log in to view their quotes, existing orders, track shipments, and retrieve test reports from shipments already made. In addition, users can actually use our Quote Builder function that will help you estimate material cost. If you are a current Sunshine customer you can contact your local sales representative to retrieve your log-in and password. If you are not yet a Sunshine Metals customer, we invite you to explore our site and use the resources we have provided to meet your needs. Once you become a Sunshine Metals customer you will gain exclusive access to our site’s more advanced features. To become an active customer, you can download our current credit application and send it in, or you can contact us directly.
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Doosan Infracore America And Ellison Technologies, Inc. Announce New Distribution Agreement Ellison Technologies announced they are the new distributor responsible for the sales, support, and distribution of Doosan Infracore America machine tool equipment in select U.S. markets. “The addition of Ellison to our distributor network will strengthen our capabilities and provide superior service and innovative solutions for our customers, “said Mr. Y.K. Choi, CEO for Doosan Infracore America. Choi continued, “Earning our position as one of the top 3 machine tool manufacturers is our goal, and the addition of Ellison is the next step in achieving that goal.” The two companies share similar core values: they are both strongly focused on culture and dedication of its people through development and growth. “Our 60 year history as an American distribution company has been focused on helping U.S. manufacturers,” said Graham Hooper, President and CEO of Ellison Technologies. “As an independent distributor, this new relationship enables us to best support our customers in order to increase their global competitiveness. And with Doosan’s broad product portfolio; we can support all industries and market segments.” About Ellison Technologies Ellison Technologies (http://www. ellisontec hnolog ies.com) is the largest machine tool integrator in North America, representing 70% of the metal cutting market. With 16 locations across the U.S., Ellison is committed to the survival and growth of the manufacturing industry. In addition to distributing the latest CNC machine tool technology, Ellison provides engineering solutions, service and parts support, turnkey solutions,
robotic automation and machine financing. About Doosan Infracore Machine Tools Doosan Infracore Machine Tools designs, engineers and manufactures the industry’s widest breadth of CNC machine tools. The company, which is part of the larger Doosan Group, continues to increase its competitiveness in global machine tools while establishing a firm foundation to become the Global Leader in the machine tools industry, assisting its customers in performance under pressure. For more information, visit www.doosanmachinetools.com Ellison will host open house events at all their 16 established locations in the fall to provide an occasion for local manufacturers to see first-hand the benefits the new partnership brings to their respective markets.
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Biggest Trade Deal Since NAFTA Reached; What TPP Means For Business Businesses potentially have a lot to gain from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the biggest trade deal since the North American Free Trade Act was signed into law in 1993. But the devil will be in the details of the agreement, which was reached last month between the U.S. and 11 other nations: Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore andVietnam. The text of the lengthy deal has not been released yet, but the U.S. Trade Representative has released a summary of its 30 chapters. TheTrans-Pacific Partnership faces lots of opposition in Congress, including from Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont senator who’s running for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016. The potential is there to help U.S. businesses boost their exports. Nearly 45 percent of U.S. goods exports already go to these 11 countries, and the deal will lift 18,000 different tariffs on U.S. exports, according to the USTR. Groups representing exporters, such as the National Association of Manufacturers and the Business Roundtable, praised U.S. officials for A2Z MANUFACTURING WEST COAST
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completing negotiations on the agreement. But they said they wanted to review the details before passing judgment on it. So does the AFL-CIO, which accused the U.S. of rushing to reach the agreement despite concerns about it, such as fears that it would further speed the offshoring of American jobs. “We will evaluate the details carefully and work to defeat this corporate trade deal if it does not measure up,” said AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka. In order to go into effect, the deal has to passed by Congress. The U.S. Business and Industry Council, which represents small domestic manufacturers, contended the agreement failed to include enforceable currency manipulation provisions. This is “an open invitation for TPP member countries Japan, Malaysia and Singapore to continue their unfair, anti-competitive currency practices without fear of consequences,” said USBIC President Kevin Kearns. In any negotiation, there are winners are losers. Here are some from the business community: Small businesses The TPP includes a chapter specifically aimed at making sure small businesses benefit from it. Each country will develop a website targeting small and medium-size businesses that will explain the agreement and
how smaller companies can take advantage of it. Plus, an international committee will meet regularly to see how well the agreement is serving small businesses and consider ways to enhance it. “TPP is the first trade deal to ensure small businesses stand to gain from global trade by dedicating a chapter specifically to breaking down the barriers to exporting faced by small businesses,” said SBA Administrator Maria Contreras-Sweet. Only 5 percent of U.S. small businesses now export, which means there’s “huge potential for small businesses to expand their businesses by exporting,” the White House said. The TPP will make that “cheaper, easier and faster … by creating efficient and transparent procedures that move goods quickly across borders,” according to the White House. The technology industry The agreement includes enforceable measures to ensure the free flow of data across borders, which will benefit Internet companies and users. It also bans countries from requiring that companies build data centers or other facilities in their nations in order to access their markets. “TPP has the potential to support America’s high-tech industry through critical intellectual property protections, encryption standards and localization policy rules of the road.” said Lisa Malloy director of policy communications and government relations for Intel. The
Telecommunications Industry Association also was pleased with the deal. “Last year, the Asia-Pacific region was the largest telecommunications market in the world at $1.8 trillion,” said TIA CEO Scott Belcher. “The TPP will further open this region to exports of U.S.-manufactured goods, promoting jobs and economic growth here at home.” The pharmaceutical industry U.S. pharmaceutical companies are disappointed that the agreement did not protect data for biologic medicines for 12 years. Instead, the deal calls for five to eight years of protections, meaning cheaper biosimilar versions of biologics — advanced medicines made from living organisms — could come to market more quickly. Twelve years “was not a random number,” said John Castellani, president and CEO of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, “but the result of a long debate in Congress, which determined that this period of time captured the appropriate balance that stimulated research but gave access to biosimilars in a timely manner. “Europe grants at least 10 years of data protection, so this new agreement puts America behind the eight ball when it comes to competing with European nations,” said Stephen Ezell, vice president for global information policy at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. Source: Portland Business Journal A2Z MANUFACTURING WEST COAST •
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Perceptron, Inc. Appoints Terry Wear Western Regional Sales Manager For Coord3 Cmm Sales And Perceptron 3D Product Lines The appointment of Terry Wear as the new Western Regional Sales Manager for C O O R D 3 CMM sales and Perceptron’s 3D product lines is announced by Jeff Armstrong, President and Chief Executive Officer of Perceptron, Inc. Mr. Wear comes to Perceptron from Verisurf Software where he was director of engineering. He has over thirty years of coordinate measuring, metrology and aerospace experience with Mitutoyo, LK Tool USA, International Metrology Systems and Wenzel America Ltd. where he was western regional vice president.
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Jeff Armstrong says, “Terry Wear has as a vast coordinate metrology hardware and software background that gives him a unique perspective for customers looking for new and innovative solutions for their metrology needs. Terry’s broad experience in working with aerospace OEMs and suppliers will be of great assistance to Perceptron in theWest Coast region. Terry will be located in Orange, California .” About Perceptron Perceptron supplies a comprehensive range of automated industrial dimensional inspection and 3D scanning. Products include 3D machine vision solutions, robot guidance, coordinate measuring machines, laser scanning, and advanced analysis software. Automotive, aerospace and other manufacturing companies globally rely on Perceptron’s metrology solutions to assist in managing their complex manufacturing processes to improve quality, shorten product launch times and reduce costs. More than 900 systems, 12,000 Perceptron measuring sensors and over 3,000 COORD3 coordinate measuring machines are in active daily use worldwide. Headquartered in Plymouth, Michigan, Perceptron has subsidiary operations in the Brazil, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Singapore, Slovakia , Spain and the UK.
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He added that this kind of flexible definition is not a foreign concept in California: A “Made in California” label is legally valid as long as 51 percent of a product is made in-state. California wine can advertise itself as hailing from a certain region, like Napa or Lodi, as long as 75 percent of the grapes are produced there.
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Hill is unaware of any study showing the economic impact of a “Made in U.S.A” label, but his office provided a 2013 survey from ConsumerReports.org that found 60 percent of respondents said they would pay up to 10 percent more for American-made goods, and 25 percent said they would pay an extra 20 percent. California’s new law, Senate Bill 633, stipulates that makers of California goods can use “Made in U.S.A” if at least 95 percent of the parts are manufactured domestically. The threshold approved Tuesday replaces a 1961 state law that HIll said was approved in a pre-globalization era to protect American producers from foreign competitors with misleading labeling. PANTONE Process Black PC R:35 G:31 B:32 C:70 M:67 Y:64 K:74
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G ov. J e r r y B r ow n approved legislation that expands the definition of “Made i n U. S . A ” t o m o re c l o s e ly re s e m bl e a federal standard for domestically-produced goods in 49 other states.
The PC industry is suffering and Microsoft has a vested interest in propping it up. The most profitable part of the company’s business is licensing Windows software to thirdpar ty manufacturer s, but Microsoft has started to lose money as PC sales declined.
That federal standard requires that “all or virtually all” of a product’s parts be manufactured domestically and that its final assembly must occur within the U.S. The federal government does not specify how much must come from the U.S.; products are evaluated case by case.
Last quarter, revenue from original equipment manufacturers, or OEMs, dropped $683 million or 22 percent. Of course, that was before Microsoft released Windows 10. The company this week said the newest operating system already has 110 million downloads after about eight weeks. The new product could be a big earner.
Up until now, California has applied its own, more literal “Made in U.SA” labeling standard that is impractical and puts in-state manufacturers at a marketing disadvantage, said Sen. Jerry Hill, the bill’s author.
Two years ago, Microsoft started to compete with those customers in hardware. The company entered a crowded tablet market with the Surface Pro and turned it in to a $3 billion business.
The legislation “fixes this problem and brings California’s labeling statute into the 21 st century, helping to promote California manufacturing and jobs,” said Hill, a San Mateo Democrat, in a statement.
The Pro model was the first version of Microsoft’s Surface that ran a full version of Windows, rather than a mobile version of the operating system. With the keyboard case, Microsoft pitched the Surface Pro as the tablet to replace your laptop. Source: Puget Sound Business Journal
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officer of GE Aviation. “This has never existed before at this level. Previously, records were disjointed and … very hard to pull together.” The testbed is a partnership between GE and Infosys.They’ve built it under the auspices of the Industrial Internet Consortium, a group of some 200 companies working to realize the $15 trillion promise of the Industrial Internet. For years, the way most machines and their parts were tracked was pretty basic, even in industries as advanced as aerospace: Their surfaces were stamped with identifying information that engineers could later look up in a database. Information was often incomplete, hard to retrieve and rarely amenable to software analysis. Just like humans, jet engines, other machines and their parts will soon have digital birth certificates. The digital birth certificates will allow manufacturers and customers to accumulate details about the life of a machine in a database which Bartlett and his colleagues have dubbed a “digital thread.” This computer scrapbook would accumulate details about the machine’s design, supply chain, manufacturing, service and even operating conditions it endured. The implications are huge. Bartlett says the digital thread could help engineers trace problems to their root cause when they pop up. It could lead to a particular supplier or reveal that it was made using a specific material manufactured under slightly different conditions than normal.
No Screw Left Unexamined: This Digital Test Bed Can Track The Lives Of Machines
New machines may not have souls, but they do have lives. Tracking them is the idea behind the Industrial Digital Thread Testbed. This mouthful of a name hides a clear goal: give each machine and even individual parts a digital “birth certificate,” track them through their lifetime, and make sure that the information is properly recorded. “It will give us the digital story of a part’s life from birth to death,” says Dave Bartlett, chief technology A2Z MANUFACTURING WEST COAST
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In the beginning, the testbed will track parts made by GE Aviation in Terre Haute, Indiana. It will also include parts repaired at the Aviation Component Service Center in Cincinnati, Ohio.The project will test how the industrial ecosystem functions, look for problem areas and suggest solutions. “We can show how we can work across the bigger ecosystem and how we can drive innovation and value together,” Bartlett says. “These
testbeds facilitate that.” The digital birth certificates will allow manufacturers and customers to accumulate details about the life of a machine and even individual parts, says GE’s Dave Bartlet. The digital thread also ties nicely to another GE effort called the Brilliant Factory — manufacturing facilities of the very near future using data analysis, connectivity and materials to optimize everything from design to supply chain and product control. “This opens up our Brilliant Factories for other companies to innovate with us to help us develop that concept for GE and then for the wider world,” Bartlett says. “To really pull this off, we need to accommodate a wide ecosystem … that includes all of the companies working on things related to this idea.” The beating heart of the testbed is a piece of technology called Platform Tier. It includes GE’s cloud-based Predix industrial software platform and Infosys’s analytic engine called Infosys Information Platform (IIP). Jayraj Nair, head of the Internet of Things practice at Infosys, says the testbed will integrate and test the compatibility of Predix system with the analytic insights provided by IIP. It will also survey the capabilities of equipment and software from other firms on what is called the Edge Tier and see how they work as part of a single ecosystem. This is important since following the digital thread is not always easy. Imagine that a sensor on a jet engine identifies premature wear on a blade.To add that information to its digital thread, it must send that data through secure protocols through a secure industrial firewall.
In order to leverage such capabilities from other companies, they will have to be tested to ensure they properly integrate with Predix and IIP. Similarly, the testbed’s Enterprise Tier will check how the system operates in coordination with computer-aided design and other commercial software. “We have to get multitudes of partners to work with us,” Nair says. “That is why we are doing this together through the IIC.” Bartlett and Nair say that testbeds will be critical to expanding the Industrial Internet – a digital network of machines, software and cloud analytics. A recent survey of more than 400 industrial manufacturers worldwide by Infosys revealed that, while 85 percent industrial companies saw its potential, only 15 percent have implemented dedicated strategies to analyze machine data. Source: Mark Egan, GE A2Z MANUFACTURING WEST COAST •
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compares with 186 in the third quarter of 2014 and 528 in the first nine months of 2014. Deliveries in the quarter and the year were highest for its smallest jet, the 737 – the fuselage of which is manufactured by Wichita’s Spirit AeroSystems. Boeing delivered 126 of the models in the third quarter and 375 year-to-date. That compares with 120 in the third quarter of 2014 and 359 for the year.
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Deliveries also were up for its newest jet, the 787. Boeing delivered 37 787s in the third quarter of 2015 and 101 for the first nine months of the year. That’s up from 31 and 79 deliveries for the same periods last year, respectively.
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Boeing delivered more 767s in both periods, as well: five in the third quarter and 14 for the year. That compares with two in the third quarter and three in the first nine months of 2014. Boeing saw flat deliveries of the 777 between the third quarters of 2015 and 2014: 27. But it delivered two more 777s year-to-date in 2015 than in 2014, for a total of 77 of the twin-aisle, long-range jetliner. Deliveries of the 747 were lower in the third quarter, four in 2015 compared with six in 2014, but higher in the first nine months: 13 in 2015 compared with 12 in 2014.
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Seattle-Area Company To Launch Israeli Moon Probe On Spacex Rocket SpaceIL, an Israeli nonprofit founded by three engineers, will be one of the two lead launch customers aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, recently purchased by Tukwila-based Spaceflight Industries. Spaceflight Industries needs to get the Israeli robot spacecraft off the Earth, for the SpaceIL team to win the $30 million Google prize.
launch as a way to offer more purposefully scheduled launches to its biggest customers. The company usually brokers space aboard existing rockets, and so far has launched 81 satellites, and has more than 135 satellites scheduled for launch through 2018. “The reason we’re adding this is a lot of our customers were asking us to provide a really regular cadence of launch operations,” said Curt Blake, president of Spaceflight’s launch business, last month. Blake did not disclose the purchase price of the launch. List price for a Falcon 9 launch is $61.2 million, according to the SpaceX website.
The SpaceIL team is competing in the Google Lunar XPrize race, to be the first non-government entity to put a lunar probe on the moon.To win the $30 million prize, the probe must land, explore at least 500 meters from the landing point, and send photos to earth, before Dec. 31, 2017.
The SpaceIL robot probe is to travel to the moon, land, and then accomplish the 500-meter requirement by taking off from the moon’s surface and landing again. The hop will have to be about a third of a mile to meet the requirement for Google’s prize. SpaceIL is the first to confirm with Google that it has signed up with a launch provider to compete for the prize.
“Only three countries have ‘soft-landed’ a rover on the surface of the moon: the United States, Russia and China. Now the notion of the small state of Israel being added to this exclusive list looks more promising than ever,” said SpaceIL CEO Eran Privman, in a statement.
The Spaceflight launch, in late 2017, is nearly completely booked. Spaceflight has not revealed which other companies are part of the launch.
SpaceFlight announced last month it had purchased a Falcon 9 rocket
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Strom Manufacturing, Large Enough To Build Complete Assemblies — Small Enough To Adapt To Change In 1970 the U.S. experienced an unprecedented energy crisis, and this forced many people to migrate to new promising locations for work and business. Lowell Strom, Bill Strom’s uncle, moved from Minnesota during the energy crises and told his brother Richard of the great climate and beautiful landscape in Oregon. He told Richard he should come out to Oregon, where the weather is so mild you can walk between the raindrops, and he did. Richard and Darlyn Strom started the Strom Manufacturing business as a true Mom and Pop Shop. Bill Strom and his family moved to Oregon from Minnesota when he was 10, and he never looked back! Soon after the family was settled in Oregon, Richard found work with a local dental manufacturer. To supplement the family income, Richard purchased a Bridgeport mill and began doing side jobs in the evenings; work was performed in the family garage. During these first years of business, and while Bill was in high school, Bill and the other Strom children were pressed into service in the shop so that delivery deadlines could be met. Working in a machine shop was not what Bill viewed as his future and always said he would never work in the shop for long, as his aspirations were higher in his own eyes. Things change and so did Bill. By 1987 the small garage shop had grown into a viable business, and before they knew it, the company had 6 full-time employees. Everyone was utilizing a very cramped garage, as well as the residential house facilities. Finally Darlyn said enough is enough, and the business was moved to an industrial park in Hillsboro, OR near the airport. With the newly added floor space, Strom Manufacturing was able to set its sights on growth. At the time, Bill was working in Seattle, and his father asked him to move down to Oregon to work for the family business. During this time, Bill’s brother, Mike, and his sister, Cheryl, also had joined the family company and worked the business from the non-machining aspects within the business: accounting, sales, quoting, logistics, etc. From 1997 through 2000, Strom Manufacturing was doing a lot of high tech work, and the Dot Com era was in full force. After the economic downturn created by the Dot Com bust, Strom Manufacturing was blessed with seven steady years of growth and customer diversification through their strategic sales management effort. The strong team of dedicated employees helped the company weather the 2008 financial crisis with relative ease.With the help and support of Strom’s many loyal customers, the company fared well during this period, while many others did not. Bill and his wife, Kathy Strom, had a long-time goal of owning their own building, and in 2013, with steady growth as their guide and a well-deserved SBA loan, they purchased their current building.The team gutted the new building and redesigned it to their own specifications with power, air, and a layout that reflected their lean manufacturing initiatives. Bill and his team continue to grow the business with a few key business strategies: honesty, integrity, and the highest humanly possible quality standards. One of which is, Strom always publishes a delivery date they can honestly hit and maintain.As a truly unified business unit,Strom works together to produce a business model that consistently works together through every A2Z MANUFACTURING WEST COAST
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step of the customer requirements process. When a customer presents a par t to Strom Manufacturing for possible outsourcing, the sales department reviews the complete print package for manufacturability, and then, along with shop personal, reviews the package for practicality within their own machine shop capabilities. Once the thorough review process is completed, Strom presents the final bid proposal. If the proposed part opportunity does not fit the Strom business model of capabilities, Strom will find a supplier that will. The entire team at Strom Manufacturing adheres to a very stringent price and delivery methodology, this process guarantees Strom Manufacturing will successfully fulfill price, quality and delivery expectations. This methodology has won consistent additional business for Strom. What happens when the Strom team encounters a scheduling bottleneck and they realize they are not going to make the delivery date as promised? Bill said, “Every now and then an unforeseen situation compromises the delivery schedule. On these rare occasions, the culture of the company is such that everyone pulls together to do whatever is necessary to get the product delivered on time. We all realize we may need to work the weekend, or burn the midnight oil, in order to make the promised delivery to our customer. Our company truly does what it says, and we want to keep it that way. I think if I was giving an elevator speech, I would say that Strom Manufacturing does whatever it takes to deliver finished products to our customers on time and with quality that is second to none.” Bill continued, “We really listen to our customers. Our main focus is to work so closely with our customers, that they view Strom as an extension of their company.Whether it’s a single part or complete assemblies, these close relationships provide our customers with unparalleled manufacturing solutions. We want to be the “go to” machine shop and an integral partner supplying their finished assembly needs.” Brian Kedroske, Quality Control Manager, said, “We are so in tuned as a fellow teammate to our customers that we get involved in their products. Through the years we have caught things that aren’t correct, and we have asked the right questions so that our customers really trust us.They know we have their best interests in mind, and they feel safe sourcing their complete assemblies to us.” Paul Sonderen, Sales Manager, said, “We are such a strategic partner to our customers that I am greeted at the door with warm salutations, and they kid around all the time that they are building me my own office to work from.We make every customer feel this way, and that is a testimony to our success to supporting our customers.” Strom keeps their machinery very current and updated to meet the challenges that their customers’ supply chain put on them, including
price reductions.Today’s CNC machinery with tool changers and robotics outperforms the best machinery from 10 to 20 years ago, and Strom has the latest and greatest infrastructure to support their customers above and beyond their customers’ expectations. Strom Manufacturing is not a job shop. Strom is a manufacturing partner! Strom is large enough to manufacture your complete assemblies and small enough to live up to your ever-changing demands. Bill said, “We also do our due diligence to work with outside suppliers that think the same way we do. From outsourcing plating, metals, and processes, to tooling and machine tools, we make sure our suppliers are in line with our ethics and business model. I was asked one time by a corporate machine tool suppler why I utilized our machine tool distributor, Ellison Technologies. I’m sure they expected to hear me say that their machines were so great and their machines were faster, etc. But I told them the outstanding service I get from Ellison Technologies keeps me buying from them. I could buy seven different machine tool brands, and they would all be pretty close in quality to each other for our applications. But I buy from Ellison Technologies because they provide the best service we have ever had, and it just keeps getting better, if that is even possible. I work with Doug Harbord at Ellison, and Doug has been great for my business. If I need anything, he is there for my team and me. I really don’t think I would go anywhere else for my machine tools. They are a big part of my business success.” Here’s What Some of Strom Manufacturing’s Customers Have to Say About Them: “Our Company has been working with Strom Manufacturing for very many years. I have personally worked with them for over a year, and Strom is one of my favorite suppliers, to be absolutely honest with you! Their customer service is great, they jump through hoops to get us what we need, and they’re always willing to think outside the box to help us get our impossible tasks completed. This is a top-notch outfit, and overall we don’t think of them as a supplier. We think of them as a partner, and they are super important to our business success, so we would like to see them succeed. I would recommend them to anyone looking for a real supplier partner.” A Supply Chain Manager for a large LED manufacturing company “ We ’ v e b e e n working with Strom Manufacturing for over a year, and we are very happy we found them. Our
experience in dealing with them has been very good, and we have experienced fast responses to design changes and issues that seem to always come up on our end.We expect on-time delivery always, and they have been on time. Their quality is excellent, and they have an excellent follow-up ethic!We would definitely recommend Strom to anyone looking for a great manufacturing source. Owner of a major manufacturing company in WA I’ve been doing business with Strom since 2013. Bill Strom’s recreational sport is water skiing, and years ago; Bill and I talked about him doing parts for me. I finally sent Strom some quotes, and I started using him because my other suppliers kept making the parts wrong. So Strom came through for me.They make great parts and they will jump through hoops to support me when necessary. They also help me design parts, and I find this very helpful. The quality is so great that I hear from my customers all the time how perfect they are, and this perception is good for my business. I haven’t had one issue with them; all of their parts are consistent and literally never wrong. They also help me by keeping a stock of my key components for 60 to 90 days. Paul and Bill have been great. They just take care of me. If I could do more with them, I would and probably will. I would highly recommend them to anyone outside of my industry, because within my industry, I want to keep them all to myself. I see many years of working with Strom as a key supplier. Owner of a major ski manufacturing company inWA We have been doing business over 10 years with Strom. We were looking for a new supplier, and another supplier recommended Strom to us. Strom delivers parts on time, and those parts are consistently manufactured to print, both dimensionally and cosmetically. The pricing I get from Strom is very competitive, and they work with our design and manufacturing engineers to insure the manufacturability and repeatability to where we have no problems. I really enjoy working with Paul and Bill; they are consistently cordial and helpful! Purchasing Manager for a USA knife manufacturer For more information on Strom Manufacturing contact them at: (503) 447-1021 www.strom-mfg.com For more information on Ellison Technologies contact them at: 253-872-1661, www.ellisontechnologies.com A2Z MANUFACTURING WEST COAST •
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likely become co-working space, said Tim Keller, project coordinator for Area 52. A large shop area is stocked with drill presses, industrial metal lathes, routers and machining tools. Members of the maker space and tenants who rent office space in the coworking space all will have access to the equipment, Keller said. Sierra Energy acquired much of the equipment with purchase of the building. The tools will be card-locked, so that only members who have been trained can use them. Exact details have yet to be worked out, as the maker space and office rental plans are still being developed, Keller said. The idea is to have Area 52 operate as a nonprofit, and allow startup businesses to incubate. It would also serve as vocational training center and as a shared maker space. Source: Sacramento Business Journal
Seattle’s Biotechs Look To Bothell For Space As Lab Vacancy Rate Nears Zero For the last couple of years in the Puget Sound region, it has been tough for life science companies to find offices that also include lab space. A new report shows that trend isn’t changing any time soon.
Sierra Energy Will Turn Davis Flying-Car Factory Into ‘Maker Space’ For Startups Sierra Energy has acquired a Davis building that formerly housed flying-car maker Moller International. The company will use it for offices -- and also an industrial coworking “maker space.” In a reference to the futuristic vehicles that engineer Paul Moller has worked on for decades, Sierra Energy is invoking flying-saucer imagery with its name for the building: Area 52. Tim Keller, project coordinator for Sierra Energy’s new building, stands in the space he says will be called “Area 52,” in homage to the building’s long-time occupant, flying-car maker Moller International. Enlarge The 35,000-square-foot building south of I-80 off Richards Boulevard is about half office space and about half industrial space. Inventor and engineer Moller used the space to design, build and test prototypes of his flying vehicles. Moller is now subleasing about 7,000 square feet in the building and will eventually move to West Sacramento. Sierra Energy will take about 6,000 square feet of office space in the building for its headquarters. Much of the rest of the office space will A2Z MANUFACTURING WEST COAST
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Lab space at Seattle biotech Juno Therapeutics’ lab at 307 Westlake Ave. N.The company is growing so much it recently had to lease a new office space in South Lake Union, where it will move in 2017. Enlarge The report, called the Fall 2015 Life Science Market Overview, was released in early October from Seattle real estate firm Kidder Mathews. It shows that the life science real estate market in the region is continuing to tighten. The life science office and lab space market experienced increased demand in 2014 and the first half of 2015, which dramatically reduced space availability, according to the report. The vacancy rate for unoccupied lab space in Seattle is virtually zero and there is less than 50,000 rentable square feet of unencumbered, lab-ready space that will be delivered in 2016, Kidder Mathews found. Some landlords are building new facilities, but they’re usually leased up long before they’re completed. For example, Seattle biotech Juno Therapeutics leased up at least 80,000 square feet in a new South Lake Union building that won’t be finished until 2017. But new life science companies are still popping up. For example, Just Biotherapeutics is a new biotech that was just founded last year. Many of the area’s existing biotech companies are also growing quickly, such as Juno and Seattle Genetics. Perhaps most interestingly, the report found that smaller companies and organizations will have the hardest time in this tight market.Source: Puget Sound Business Journal
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That engineering has been done at the company’s Kent facility, which makes it more likely the work will continue to be done there, and not at Blue Origin’s new facility in Florida. The company hasn’t yet built a fully operational version of the engine, but is moving toward that goal. The engine will power the planned United Launch Alliance Vulcan rocket, a direct competitor to Elon Musk’s Falcon Heavy rocket. “We tested a number of injector element designs and chamber lengths at a variety of operational conditions,” said Rob Meyerson, president of Blue Origin, in a statement. “Rigorous component testing ahead of full-engine testing significantly increases confidence in the development schedule and projected performance.” If Bezos builds the engines at its Kent headquarters as expected, the production will be a significant boost to the region’s growing outer space industry. Blue Origin’s Kent campus is large – 260,000 square feet on 26 acres – so that would suggest plenty of room for full production. In addition, while the 550,000-pound-thrust engines will be relatively large – about 12 feet high – that’s still not too large to transport. Last month Bezos announced a new factory in Florida to assemble rockets near the Cape Canaveral launch pad the company plans to use. That prompted concerns that some of the production that might have happened in Kent could move to Florida.
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But as the engines are small enough to transport, Kent could still retain the production. Source: Puget Sound Business Journal
Flextronics Scoops Up Smart Solar Startup NEXTracker for $330M Smart solar startup NEXTracker agreed to be sold to electronics manufacturer Flextronics in a deal worth close to $330 million. Flextronics agreed to pay about $245 million in cash, with an additional $85 million in incentives tied to future performance targets. NEXTracker will operate as a subsidiary, retaining its existing brand under Shugar’s leadership.
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The Fremont-based NEXTracker promises to deliver cost and time-saving innovations to large-scale solar projects. The company was created in 2014 as part of a spinoff from Solaria Corp, where Shugar was CEO. Prior to Solaria, Shugar spent 10 years as president of PowerLight Corp. until its acquisition by SunPower. NEXTracker said it has seen significant growth due to increased demand for solar energy. Last June, SunEdison Inc. agreed to buy 1.85 gigawatts of the company’s trackers over three years. NEXTracker raised $25 million in Series B funding in February in a round led by SJF, with participation from Ventures Tennenbaum Capital Partners, Sigma Partners and DBL Investors. The company had raised $40.5 million in total prior to the acquisition.
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Quiet Piles Help Protect Marine Life In The Puget Sound The first test pile was successfully driven in Commencement Bay.The tests meet all acoustic objectives. New pile driving technology could have a significant impact on marine construction projects, not only in the Puget Sound, but nationwide. Due to the intense sound coming from pile driving into the marine environment and its potential harm to sea life, federal law allows this type of activity only six months a year.
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The test piles undergoing tests after removal from the Bay. MI provided machining of the large diameter structural steel casings. Dardis designed and did some subscale testing for parts he prototyped and manufactured himself. “Then when I got to the final design, and we wanted to make a full scale prototype, I went to Machinists Inc., because they are the best in town,” Dardis said. “I think they are probably the only people that could make this for us. I gave them my design and we built it.” When the project came to Machinist Inc. it was very high level, said Jeff Tomson, Machinists Inc., director of marketing. It took several months working with Dardis on the design and manufacturability. The Washington State Department of Transportation provided long
chunks of construction tubing for the piles themselves. Our role was to create the assembly and the interfacing,” Tomson said. “It’s that interface joint that we manufactured, then welded into place. Did all the final machining on the large diameter tubes. There’s quite a complex joint with some very large diameter o-rings. Pretty tight tolerances for the large structural steel.” For Dardis, working with Machinist Inc. was the only way to go. “I always had really great success with Machinists Inc.,” Dardis said. “Their performance on this project blew us away. We were on a super tight schedule and Machinist was willing to work overtime to help us meet our timeline. And the quality of work was absolutely perfect.”
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NextEV, a Chinese electric-vehicle startup, has chosen north San Jose for a major research-and-development center as it works toward a mass-market battery-powered car that could be rolling off assembly lines by 2017. NextEV already has a “supercar” that it races in the Formula E racing series; one of its drivers, Nelson Piquet Jr., is the current champion. . “The battery-electric vehicles to date have been prevalent at the top of the market because of the price of the battery pack,” said Chris Ricci, general counsel for NextEV, in an interview. “We have plans to bring that down for the average consumer.” The company, backed by a consortium of China-based Internet A2Z MANUFACTURING WEST COAST
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NextEV has already hired some big names in the auto industry, including Martin Leach, a former CEO of Maserati and president of Ford Europe; veterans of Tesla and BMW have also come over, according to Reuters. Big-money backing includes Internet portal Tencent and investment group Hillhouse Capital, along with a slate of Chinese entrepreneurs. “It’s a cabal of some of the top innovators in China who are investing in this vehicle,” said Skip Whitney, a partner with Kidder Mathews who heads up the brokerage’s China Services Group. “It’s the right thing to do at the right time.” The company is establishing outposts all over the world, with manufacturing in China and design in Munich. In San Jose, NextEV leased 3200 North First Street. The 85,000-square-foot building will serve as a hub focused on “connected car” research and energy technologies, among other things.
DOE Supports $2.2B Hydrogen Fuel Industry With $20M Funding The United States Department of Energy (DOE) is investing more than $20 million into the development of fuel cell technologies in order to further grow an expanding market. On Oct. 9, it was announced that 10 projects received funding for fuel cell and hydrogen technology applications such as fuel cell electric vehicles. “These projects announced it will continue to make advances in our rapidly-expanding portfolio of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies,” said Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy David Danielson. “Energy Department-supported projects have helped reduce the modeled cost of transportation fuel cells by 50 percent since 2006, and more than double durability and reduce the amount of platinum necessary by a factor of five.” Along with this comes federal recognition of the first National Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Day, held on Oct. 8. The date was chosen to represent the atomic weight of hydrogen (1.008). Seven of the ten projects backed by the DOE will address research and development in areas such as hydrogen production using microbial biomass conversion, low platinum group metal catalyst development for fuel cell applications, integrated intelligent hydrogen dispensers, and hydrogen delivery pipeline manufacturing. Three more address early market and demonstration in areas such as the use of mobile hydrogen refueling and fuel cell-powered range extenders. A lack of widespread hydrogen fueling stations is one of the challenges facing the adoption of hydrogen fuel. In order to increase their use, the city of Ithaca, N.Y. has proposed to become the site of one of the first
commercial hydrogen-electrolyzer fueling stations in the northeastern United States, and to promote the use of fuel cell electric vehicles. The hydrogen and fuel cell market is growing rapidly. According to the DOE’s Fuel Cell Technologies Market Report from 2014, the industry grew by almost $1 billion in 2014, and reached $2.2 billion in sales. More than 50,000 fuel cells were shipped worldwide in 2014. The DOE hopes to see the United States use fuel cells and other alternate technologies to reduce its dependence on foreign oil and cut down carbon emissions. Source: Manufacturing. net
Airbus Just Matched Boeing With New Plane That Can Fly For 19 Hours Straight While Boeing has for several years offered its yet-to-be-built 777-8 as the world’s longestrange jetliner – which can travel 8,700 nautical miles without refueling – Airbus countered on Tuesday with the A350-900ULR, for Singapore Airlines. Airbus plans to begin deliveries of the new plane in 2018, which is a few years before Boeing’s version will begin deliveries of the 777-8. Airbus rates its jet at a 8,700-mile range, the same as Boeing’s rating for the 777-8. Boeing is to build the jet at its assembly plant in Everett. Boeing uses a more rigorous mileage rating system than Airbus does, so the Boeing jet actually will have a 500-mile edge on the Airbus model, according to Bjorn Fehrm, a Francebased aeronautical and economic analyst for Leeham LLC.
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The Airbus jet is significantly smaller. The Boeing 777-8 is rated for 350377 passengers by Boeing, while a standard Airbus A350-900 carries 325. Singapore Airlines’ seven new A350-900ULRs will carry only 170 first class passengers, and Airbus didn’t disclose how much a full passenger load would reduce the A350-900ULR’s extreme range. Fehrm estimated that a full passenger load would cut another 300 nautical miles off the Airbus jet’s range. But, he adds, the Airbus jet will burn “slightly less fuel per seat,” due to its lighter carbon composites fuselage.
Airbus developed the new plane, a variant of the existing A350-900, for Singapore Airlines.The carrier already had ordered the planes, but Airbus developed the upgrade so Singapore could re-open a nonstop-NewYork route that requires extra range. That route takes about 19 hours.
“The A350 is a good alternative for a less-demanding route both in capacity and range, up to 18 to 19 hours,” Fehrm said. “Anything longer, or if you want to transport cargo as well, get an -8X (referring to the Boeing 777-8).”
Located south of Thailand, Singapore demands longer-range aircraft to connect it with northern hemisphere economic centers with nonstop flights. Airbus has created the new jet by expanding its ability to carry fuel, and with aerodynamic improvements. The new aircraft will trump the existing long-range leader the Boeing 777 200LR (long range), which Boeing rates at 8,555 nautical miles.
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These are very different production environments and customer requirements, yet all are finding TPS instrumental to success. Use the wheel TPS is not the answer to everything, but the answer is out there. As TRIZ methodology teaches us, problems, solutions, patter ns of tec hnical innovation and specific scientific innovations are repeated and applied across industries. It’s silly not to learn from the experience of others. The wheel has been invented. Don’t reject that information just because it occurred in a different time, led by a different scientist. Leaders seek first to understand, not to reject. I have yet to visit a place where I couldn’t learn, if only how not to do something. Look first for parallels, only then for exceptions. More examples Diners at Chipotle can notice the Kanban system they use to keep the line filled, but also observe the absence of signals in maintaining supplies in the dining area. At McDonald’s, it’s easy to observe the postponement strategy in their sandwich assembly process. It may not improve the taste, but you can see how they have mixed speed and actual customer orders. An experienced waitress rarely makes an empty-handed trip across the restaurant. Contemplate the elimination of wasted resources from empty backhaul of delivery mechanisms and of workers. One Cleveland restaurant known for its strong lunch business uses the honor system during those hours. No checks. When you’re ready to leave, stop by the bar, tell them what you had, and pay. The owner is absolutely positive that underreported meals are rare, and
much more than offset by customers who know they never have to wait for a check. Business as it has always been done it is not the only way, nor even the best way. There is much to gain by observing surroundings and pondering the possibilities. Source: Rebecca Morgan, Contributing Writer, The Business Journal
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It is, however, almost half again as many electric cars as were delivered in the third quarter last year. Tesla’s first-quarter deliveries, it said in April, were 10,045 cars-which brings its nine-month total to 33,157. 2015 Tesla Model S 70D in new Ocean Blue color2015 Tesla Model S 70D in new Ocean Blue color But why go through all the math? Largely because if Tesla is to meet its projection for full-year 2015 deliveries, then it has to deliver a whole lot of cars between now and December 31. In fact, it has to deliver at least 16,843 or more cars to meet the guidance it revised in August, which is now “50,000 to 55,000” cars. A2Z MANUFACTURING WEST COAST •
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I. 2014 Summary: Economic Activity and Air Travel • U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) increased 2.5%; world GDP increased 2.5%. • Domestic mainline yields increased 5.3% while international yields increased 0.8% in 2014. In real terms (adjusted for inflation in FY14$), domestic yields increased 3.6% and international yields decreased 0.8%. • Domestic enplanements on mainline and regional air carriers increased from 654.4M in 2013 to 668.4M (2.1%) in 2014. Domestic mainline carrier enplanements increased 2.9% while domestic regional carrier enplanements decreased 0.2%. International enplanements on mainline and regional air carriers increased from 85.1M in 2013 to 88.0M (3.4%) in 2014. Mainline carrier international enplanements were up 3.6% while regional carrier international enplanements declined 1.1%. • Domestic RPMs by mainline and regional air carriers increased from 584.0B in 2013 to 598.5B (2.5%) in 2014. Domestic mainline carrier RPMs increased 2.8% and domestic regional carrier RPMs increased 0.5%. International RPMs by US carriers increased from 250.3B in 2013 to 256.6B (2.6%) in 2014. Total system RPMs increased from 834.2B in 2013 to 855.1B (2.5%) in 2014. Total mainline carrier RPMs increased by 2.7% while total regional carrier RPMs increased by 0.6%. • U.S. commercial air carriers (including passenger and cargo) reported an operating profit of $16.8B in 2014, compared to an operating profit of $10.8B in 2013. Operating revenues increased 4.2% in 2014, while operating expenses increased 1.2%. • In 2014 total landings and takeoffs at combined FAA and contract towers were down 0.9% from 2013.Air carrier activity increased by 1.9% while commuter/air taxi activity decreased by 4.1%. General aviation activity dropped 1.1% while military aircraft activity dropped 1.4%. II. Economic Assumptions for FAA Forecasts • U.S. Real GDP is forecast to increase from $16.0T in 2014 to $26.3T in 2035, an average annual rate of 2.4%.World GDP is forecast to grow at a faster pace of 3.1% over the same 21-year period, from $72.6T to $137.7T. • Inflation is projected to increase 0.3% in 2015 and remain moderate over the remaining 20 years of the forecast period, averaging 2.2% annually. III. Aviation Activity Forecasts Mainline Air Carrier and Regionals • Total mainline air carrier and regional RPMs are forecast to increase from 855.1B in 2014 to 1.44T in 2035, an average annual rate of 2.5%. Domestic RPMs are projected to increase 2.8% in 2015 and then grow an average of 1.9% per year during the remaining 20-year forecast period. International RPMs are forecast to increase 2.3% in 2015 and then grow an average of 3.7% per year for the rest of the forecast period. • Total mainline air carrier and regional enplanements are forecast to increase from 756.3M in 2014 to 1.14B in 2035, an average annual rate of 2.0%. Domestic enplanements are projected to increase 2.6% in 2015 and then grow an average of 1.6% per year during the remaining 20-year forecast period. International enplanements are forecast to increase 2.5% in 2015 and then grow an average of 3.7% per year for the rest of the forecast period. Mainline Air Carriers • U.S. mainline carrier domestic RPMs are forecast to increase 2.7% in 2015 and grow at an average annual rate of 1.9% for the remaining 20 years of the forecast period. U.S. mainline carrier domestic
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year calls for the eggs to be placed perpendicularly to each other, thus complicating how teams protect the eggs in flight. Damaged eggs disqualify the flight. The 100 top-scoring teams from across the country will be invited to compete in the National Finals in Washington D.C. next spring.The winners will then represent America in the International Rocketry Challenge, competing against student teams from the United Kingdom and France at the Farnborough International Airshow near London next July. The Aerospace Industries Association and the National Association of Rocketry (NAR) sponsor the annual competition in partnership with NASA, the Department of Defense, the American Association of Physics Teachers and a number of AIA member companies. For additional information on TARC and complete competition results, please visit www.rocketcontest.org.
Boeing Jet Deliveries Higher In Third Quarter, Year Boeing Co. said it delivered 13 more jets in the third quarter of 2015 and 52 more jets for the first nine months of the year.
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Flatline Fabrication; Young Energy, Fast Turn Around, The Best Quality From the barn in Scappoose to their high-end facility in NW Portland, follow us while we check in with the guys from Flatline Fab and their fresh outlook on the world of metal fabrication. Matt Miller started Flatline Fab in 2007 out of his backyard workshop. Matt had been in the industry for over ten years and took the leap of faith to owning and operating his own business. From doing what Matt does best; fast fabrication to his customers’ exact specifications, Matt’s business grew and out of necessity he moved into a large barn on his property. By 2010 Matt needed help and he needed a like mind and work ethic so he joined forces with Steve Fuller, long time friend and fellow fabricator.The dynamic duo have owned, operated, and sweat together to build the business ever since. As word got out of their great work and blindingly fast delivery, they enlisted multiple team members that had the same mindset, work ethic, and pace.This team has been united since the barn and garage days and the team continues to grow and prosper. In the “Barn Days” the majority of work Flatline did was for Intel and high tech companies.When Steve joined forces with Matt the partnership took them to new levels and sectors of business like the retail trades of Nike, Lucchese, and many others. Matt said, “We received a lot of good work from Intel back then and I called Steve and said ok, let’s do this. Back in those days we just had Bernie our plasma cutter, a couple of press brakes, and a shear.Today we are here in NW Portland and invite design engineers into our facility and we help them create what they ultimately are looking for.We give them a cool place to work, here in our offices, we support them with design software, SOLIDWORKS, and we put our heads together and come up with something that works for them.” Matt and Steve are veterans in the fabrication industry and they have performed every facet of making complete fabrication assemblies including installation, if needed, at the customer facilities. Matt and Steve used to do everything from taking the projects from concept to fabrication to packing and shipping it out the door. Now with 30 plus employees that has changed a bit as the team takes their direction and is continually shaped and formed into the Flatline Fab brand that they all wear on their hats with pride. They have a great group and Portland Oregon is a perfect place for these fabrication pros to build their streamlined business model. The majority of their customers are looking for faster design help and faster delivery of finished product, perfect quality, and continual follow up service. Flatline feels that this is the bottom line requirement to be in the game. It’s not a job — it’s what they do. Thinking out of the box was never so cool and hip.The Flatline offices look A2Z MANUFACTURING WEST COAST
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like a Nike, Columbia, or twenty second century design headquarters with metal art, displays, and graphics every where. From the front line offices, project management, to the shop floor they really believe in their team and being a part of their customers’ team. Having a great crew that believes and lives what Flatline Fab stands for is the most important part of their business.Their business model hasn’t changed much since the barn days and they all look back to make sure they keep that work ethic of quality, speed, and great customer service. Steve said, “We don’t have any sales people or a sales team, everything is word of mouth. The engineers that come in here tell their friends and work associates about their experience with us and we keep getting more requests for our services. We also continue to meet our requirements and this brings us more work from the customer we support. Also, it’s all about on time delivery. If we weren’t to deliver on time we wouldn’t get any more work. A lot of times we get a simple sketch from a customer and they ask us to come up with an approval drawing, they approve it and say ok now I need it in 2-3 days. There are not very many shops that can do what we do.” Flatline has great control over their processes throughout the facility with travelers and shop drawings all signed off through the process and meeting at the end assembly prior to shipping. The company has a very structured business model with a cool and easy feeling. Steve said, “We try and keep it like the old barn days without too many rules. We don’t crack down on guys when they’re out in the shop and talking for five minutes. We’re not strict and we offer a lot of freedom. We expect them to do their job and to do it well and they know they must get it done on time. This type of atmosphere makes it a fun place to work. We use this approach with our customers as well.We are easy to approach, easy to talk to, and our office surroundings make for a nice environment for our customers’ design engineers to come and dream with us. I feel we are easy to work with, we don’t have any sales pitches, just fast results.We are personally dedicated to all of our customers.” Matt added, “We just tell it like it is. If a customer’s job is going to take 3 weeks and we have 2 weeks of work in the shop we are honest and tell them what we can do at the time, and we live by that.We will actually let the design engineers camp out here and watch their job go through the processes in the shop. There’s a hotel right across the street and the engineers will just walk over in the morning and watch their projects and
witness the processing and learn what it takes to fabricate their assemblies. We’ve earned a great deal of respect doing business this way.” The new Flatline shop is in NW Portland and has about 26K square feet of manufacturing space with 4K in the office spaces. The flow is great from Project management, Production coordinator, to the shop floor. People really seem to like the young active atmosphere. Employees are trained and many of Flatline’s employees have been sent to additional training for certain machinery they have. Flatline’s pace is what really seems to separate them.They turn a lot of jobs around in less than 24 hours and sometimes less than 8. People in the retail and marketing industry have that sort of demand and they have stepped up with special express accelerated routing through the shop, all stops pulled out. A big plus for the shop is having owners that can do every job in the shop. They understand every aspect of this industry because they have done it themselves for a number of years. They can fabricate with the best of them and that carries a lot of weight with clients and employees. In 5 years Flatline will probably look very similar to how it looks now from the outside but the inside will have a lot more high end machinery and more people to help meet the ever growing demands of the clients. Flatline utilizes Fahey Machinery for their fabrication equipment and they receive the same high level of service from Fahey Machinery that they give to their customers. Silas Thurman, Project Manager said, “Fahey has played an integral part in our most recent push. Our Mazak laser has drastically improved our pace and tightened our lead times even more than we ever could have imagined. We are really focused on being a one-stop shop for all our clients metal fabrication needs and Fahey has helped us get there.” Here’s What Flatline Customers Have To Say About Them: “I’ve been doing business with Flatline for over 3 years and they are so awesome, they are the best. I have crazy deadlines and they always come through for me.They help me so much I couldn’t do what I do without them. I’m at their facility all the time to develop product. I sit down with their
design staff and the guys help me design great things while I’m there. I think that I use them because they’re into building relationships and great customer service. They’re not about extra money it’s always about above and beyond response to my needs. They partner with other wood and acrylic businesses so they can build the whole thing for me. I feel like they put me first. They are very honest, knowledgeable and, a great partner. I like to use them for everything. They always give me the highest quality, perfection. It’s like they put their name on everything they do. I highly recommend them and I do.” - Project Manager, with an environmental creation company “I’ve worked with Flatline for over 4 years and I believe I was one of their first customers. They worked for other fabrication companies long ago so I followed their talent around and continued to utilize their services. Every phase of doing business with them is excellent and they are detail oriented. Our work has to be very exact in wood, stone, and metal.The product we outsource has to be very accurate, to work for our clients. Flatline’s accuracy keeps me coming back. They will supply me with a final print and this allows me to approve final prints before production. Our relationship is very ideal. Delivery is usually ahead of schedule. A big advantage for me is, they take a look at my project and are good at giving suggestions and at collaboration. Flatline is the first one I go to.They are the most organized and efficiently run fabrication company that we work with. Having them makes it easy for me to feel confident.” - Project Manager for a major furniture company in USA “I did business with Flatline when they were in a rural area. Doing business years ago we started with small jobs and now they are one of the best shops in town. We produce retail displays and Flatline helps us with finished fixtures by working with our inside engineers. We work with Flatline exclusively. They have very fast turn around and a “Can Do Attitude”. Some times it’s a sketch I need in four days and they bend over backwards to turn it over to me. We have very high expectations on our product and they are on the higher end of our wavelength. Quality wise they are on the top of the chain.They are the best in town. They have really stepped it up with their new laser machine and the powder coating. . I recommend them to every one I can.” -A Development Director for a development firm in OR
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Earlier this year, Orbital ATK and the U.S.Army completed qualification for the M829E4, creating the Army’s fifth generation, 120mm kinetic energy round that features a penetrator capable of defeating all modern armor protection suites as well as future armor protection concepts. Orbital ATK has successfully type-classified 11 of the 13 current 120mm tactical and training rounds for the Abrams tank during more than 30 years of experience partnering with the U.S. Army to provide the warfighter with advanced ammunition types. Since 1980, Orbital ATK has delivered more than 4 million rounds of 120mm tactical and training tank ammunition to the U.S. Army, U.S. Marine Corps, and allied militaries. Through its proven, system-level contracting approach that reduces risk to the customer, Orbital ATK has delivered a constant supply of consistently reliable and affordable 120mm ammunition. Orbital ATK’s Defense Systems Group is an industry leader in providing innovative and affordable precision and strike weapons, advanced propulsion and hypersonics, missile components across air-, sea- and landbased systems, ammunition and related energetic products. About Orbital ATK
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Concept designs refers to innovative proposals for alternative point designs for a fast, low-drag, and energy-efficient undersea vehicle that will provide not only insights into the strengths, weaknesses, and risks in the prototype vehicle, but also provide alternative design strategies and concepts of operations. This is a subject of critical need but not one that can be discussed openly in any detail. So this article will highlight some of the reasons behind the need for integrated security features in defense electronic systems. Dynamic lift and drag reduction refers to revolutionary technologies for significant drag reduction, such as dynamic lift from winglets, body shaping, coatings, and novel drag reduction
technologies applicable over various range and speed combinations to improve system energy efficiency. Hybrid energy systems refers to approaches such as thermal, electrochemical, or energyharvesting with two or more energy sources to improve energy efficiency measured inWatt hours per mile. DARPA researchers say they plan to explore thermal and electric sources like fuel cells and batteries that can fit within an undersea vehicle system module. Undersea vehicle size, weight, and volume, traditionally are limited by handling, launch and recovery systems, DARPA officials explain. Mission performance typically sets the range, endurance, speed, and depth requirements, and the range of underwater vehicles is limited by the amount of energy available for propulsion and the power required for a given underwater speed.
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This new technology used both a heating and then a cooling process to operate the robotic finger. Results from the study showed a more rapid flexing and extending motion of the finger as well as its ability to recover its trained shape more accurately and more completely, confirming the biomechanical basis of its trained shape. (Credit: Florida Atlantic University)
In the study, Engeberg and his team used a resistive heating process called “Joule” heating that involves the passage of electric currents through a conductor that releases heat. Using a 3D CAD model of a human finger, which they downloaded from a website, they were able to create a solid model of the finger. With a 3D printer, they created the inner and outer molds that housed a flexor and extensor actuator and a position sensor. The extensor actuator takes a straight shape when it’s heated, whereas the flexor actuator takes a curved shape when heated.They used SMA plates and a multi-stage casting process to assemble the finger. An electrical chassis was designed to allow electric currents to flow through each SMA actuator. Its U-shaped design directed the electric current to flow the SMAs to an electric power source at the base of the finger. This new technology used both a heating and then a cooling process to operate the robotic finger. As the actuator cooled, the material relaxed slightly. Results from the study showed a more rapid flexing and extending motion of the finger as well as its ability to recover its trained shape more accurately and more completely, confirming the biomechanical basis of its trained shape.
Undersea applications using Engeberg’s new technology could help to address some of the Most robotic parts used today are rigid, have a limited range of motion and don’t really look lifelike. difficulties and challenges humans encounter Inspired by both nature and biology, a scientist from Florida Atlantic University has designed a novel robotic while working in the ocean depths. A2Z MANUFACTURING WEST COAST
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Raytheon Co., McKinney, Texas, is being awarded a $25,000,000 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for the procurement of maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft (MPRA) AN/ APS-148 SeaVue radar system components, engineering services, spares and repairs. The MPRA is the primary maritime surveillance aircraft operated by the Navy. Functions and duties include anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare; command, control, communications, computer, intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance; search and rescue; drug interdiction; and exclusive economic zone protection. Work will be performed in McKinney, Texas, and is expected to be completed by September 2020. Fiscal 2014 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $2,035,752 will be obligated at time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The contract was not competitively procured in accordance with the statutory authority of 10 U.S. Code 2304(c)(1) as implemented by Federal Acquisition Regulation 6.302-1- only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements. The solicitation was posted via the Federal Business Opportunities website, with one offer received. The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane, Indiana, is the contracting activity (N00164-15-D-JT89). Lockheed Martin Missile and Fire Control, Orlando, Florida, has been awarded a $305,457,460 firm-fixed-price and fixed-price incentive (firm target) contract for the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile production. Contractor will provide Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile production, system upgrades, integration, sustainment, management, and logistical support. Work will be performed at Troy, Alabama, and is expected to be complete by June 30, 2018. This award is the result of a sole-source acquisition. Fiscal 2014 missile procurement funds in the amount of $3,811,923; and fiscal 2015 funds in the amount of $301,645,537, are being obligated at the time of award. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, is the contracting activity (FA8682-16-C-0005). A2Z MANUFACTURING WEST COAST •
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Marines Pushing Forward With F-35 Conversion After IOC The US Marine Corps must “extract every ounce of life” from its inventory of ageing combat types as it transitions to the multimission Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) over the next 16 years, says the general in charge of the service’s aviation branch. The USMC is wholly dependent on buying 353 short take-off and vertical landing F-35Bs and 67 carrier-based F-35Cs to replace its larger force of Boeing AV-8B Harriers and F/A-18 Hornets, and Northrop Grumman EA-6B Prowlers. It recently declared initial operational capability with the first F-35B combat squadron based in Yuma, Arizona. Replacing the F/A-18 Hornet will take 15 years, concluding in 2030. In the interim, the US Navy and USMC are extending the service life of their legacy Hornets from 6,000h to over 9,000h. The Hornets are being overhauled at the navy’s Fleet Readiness Centre-Southwest in San Diego, California, at a rate of 40 to 50 aircraft per year. “You have to take care of the Harrier and Classic F-18 for this major transition,” US Marine Corps deputy commandant for aviation Lt Gen Jon Davis said at the US Centre for Strategic and International Studies on 12 August. “It’s a strategic imperative to the Marine Corps to take good care of these airplanes.”
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New Diamond-like Material is Helping Solar Power The energy usage cur ves of most industrial countries – or load curves - have long resembled a crumpled fedora hat. They rise sharply at daybreak as people start brewing coffee and companies switch on machines, then peak twice – in the morning and the late afternoon, before dropping off after dinner. Utilities usually crank up their turbines and bring extra power plants online to cover the “peak” demand. But on a sunny in Germany: this midday call for extra output didn’t materialize. For the first time, the country had so many solar panels in use that utilities were able to supply all the energy needed to cover the A2Z MANUFACTURING WEST COAST
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Artificially grown silicon carbide (SiC). The material is so hard it’s been used to make sand paper. Image credit: Getty Images Above and below: Solar panel’s covering the roof of a GE plant in Berlin, Germany. They supply electricity to the company first hybrid power plant. Solar panels are becoming so widespread that a new forecast from Bloomberg New Energy Finance estimates that by 2040, rooftop solar power will be cheaper than electricity in the grid in every major economy and will account for more than a third of new power capacity worldwide. Roesner and his team in GE labs are now hoping to give this solar revolution a boost. They are using chips made from a material called silicon carbide (SiC) to build superefficient “inverters” that switch direct current (DC) generated by solar panels into alternating current (AC) that flows from the wall outlet. “This material stands to revolutionize power electronics,” says Danielle Merfeld, global technology director for electrical technologies and systems at GE Global Research. SiC takes the best features from diamond, one of the toughest materials in the world, and combines them with the properties of silicon, which is inside every computer and every smart phone. The results can be quite powerful. For example, SiC can shrink the size of a one megawatt inverter, which can supply 500 homes, by 35 percent. The material also allows engineers to switch DC to AC in tiny incremental steps, rather than big jumps, and increase power conversion efficiency by about 1 percent, compared to today’s standards. “Right now inverters are about 98 percent efficient so a one percent gain may not seem like much,” Roesner says. “But with the huge installed base, the gains will quickly add up.”
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“We call this idea where one technology serves multiple industries the GE store,” Merfeld says. These applications hadn’t existed previously because the process to make SiC chips is quite onerous. For starters, SiC is extremely hard and the material’s early applications included sandpaper and abrasives. It doesn’t help that making a SiC chip involves up to 300 discrete steps in a clean room.
Left: The SiC inverter at the hybrid power plant in Berlin. Image credit: GE Reports The first prototype of the SiC inverter is already switching solar electricity from DC to AC in Berlin, Germany, where GE recently opened an innovative hybrid power plant suppling with electricity its local factory. Depending on price and availability, special software allows the manager to select the cheapest energy source between solar power, a gas engine, the grid, heat storage and even batteries. Schuetz says solar power inverters are just the beginning. SiC chips can be applied inside any device that needs to switch power between AC and DC. They could make trains, planes and wind turbines much more efficient.
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Manufacturers, she said, “don’t have the dollars to do that, nor do they have the staff to help coordinate that” on their own. And although the outcry for better math and science education is reaching the nation’s schools, McMorrow said that efforts to address the skills gap should largely focus on post-secondary training. “I don’t think that there’s any appetite for building out (public school) curriculums for those kind of technical classes, just based on budget constraints,” McMorrow said. The Newark element14 report praised several states for taking action to address the problem, including new aerospace training programs in California, an accelerated manufacturing initiative in Illinois, community college machining training in North Carolina and apprenticeships in Wisconsin. The report also said that nearly $1 billion in grant funding went to establish manufacturing programs at community colleges in recent years, with another $100 million currently available for similar efforts. Source: Manufacturing News Today
Vigor Marine LLC, of Portland, Oregon, Award Vigor Marine LLC, of Portland, Oregon, is being awarded an $11,797,840 firm-fixed-price contract for a regular overhaul/dry-docking to support the USNS Mercy (T-AH 19). This overhaul will address numerous steel repairs; flight deck resurfacing; fuel oil, feed, and potable water tank repairs; sewage piping modifications; fire main piping replacements; annual crane inspections; and underwater hull preservation to support in the ship’s daily operations. This contract includes six optional work items which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to $12,670,810. Work will be performed in Portland, Oregon, and is expected to be completed by the end of January 2016. Fiscal 2016 maintenance and repair funding in the amount of $11,797,840 are being obligated at the time of award and will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured with two offers. Military Sealift Command, Norfolk, Virginia, is the contracting activity (N32205-16-C-4400)
The Manufacturer’s Secret Weapon A Tribute to A2Z Manufacturing Magazines By Stephen Hannemann, SMH Inc. Nothing is more exciting than seeing someone’s Idea become a viable commodity in the production stream – a critical part of an airplane, a runaway consumer product, a medical device, a tool or even a new twist on a bottle opener. Once in a while an off comment is made, “Who in their right mind would want to get into manufacturing?” Well generally the comment is borne of frustration from some form of speedbump in production, a defective component, a damaged or late shipment and so on. Although we may hear these tales of woe, for the most part, they are minor inconveniences in the overall manufacturing picture. Contrary to what is served up in mainstream media, manufacturing is what fuels our nation’s economy! Not the banks, not Wall Street. Manufacturing creates sustainable wealth, economic health, and these days, those in manufacturing are more passionate, and more competitive than ever before in history. The people and the companies who subscribe to and advertise in A2Z Manufacturing Magazines get this. Publishers Kim Carpenter and Linda Daly certainly do get this in spades. For their subscribers and advertisers, A2Z provides a cornucopia of information, opportunity, and viable connections. Kim and Linda understand manufacturing. For their audience they created magazines that showcase their clientele’s latest technological advancements, equipment upgrades, improved processes, how they relate to consistent quality and compressed time to market. Kim and Linda understand marketing and how to position their clients to ensure optimum opportunities for success and growth. A2Z Manufacturing Magazines produce three regional publications.The Southwest edition spotlights AZ, NV and NM. The Rocky Mountain edition focuses CO, UT and ID. The West Coast edition highlights WA, OR and CA.You can subscribe for free online at www.a2zmanufacturing. com. Want to increase your business? Download the media kit and be astonished by their affordable advertising prices and incredible support. So in closing, here is a toast to Kim Carpenter and Linda Daly for their tireless contribution and support to the improvement of manufacturing in the western United States. SMH Inc has grown threefold since meeting Kim Carpenter in October of 2012 and placing our first ad in the following December – January issue of A2Z Manufacturing. And remember, no matter what your manufacturing needs, let SMH’s proven suppliers help you get your next component to the assembly
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“Fabricating high performance composite parts with 3D printing opens up new design opportunities for us. The two main advantages are improved complex geometries and new material possibilities,” said Kent Holder, Product Line Manager at Superior Energy. Superior Energy serves the drilling, completion and production-related needs of oil and gas companies worldwide. “I can confirm that the drone arm printed with AREVO’s Katevo-CF material with no internal structure is much stronger than a carbon fiber filled SLS arm with inner ribs,” says Ido Baruchin, Head of Design at Matternet. Matternet has developed the first smart drone for transportation, 8:47 PM revolutionizing the last mile logistics. About Arevo Labs Arevo Labs, based in Silicon Valley, California, develops technology to enable direct digital additive manufacturing of ultra strong composite parts for end use applications. Arevo’s technology consists of Advanced Composite Materials, Deposition Technology and Software Algorithms to optimize mechanical properties of printed parts. Arevo offers additive manufacturing services, additive software and composite materials to OEMs worldwide.
3D Printing Shows Immense Prospects: 4 Key Players
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3D printing has come a long way since its conception in the 1980s. The young industry has witnessed unmatched stellar growth over the last three decades. As pointed out by the Colorado-based consulting firm Wholers Associate’s report, the market had a compounded annual growth of 33.8% during 2012–2014.This phenomenal success of the 3D printing technique is no less than a renaissance. Notably, the 3D printing market is inching toward a point of inflexion. Past the phase when it was considered just an over-hyped and unproven manufacturing process, it is now becoming a bankable technology capable of manufacturing innovative products for real.
The growing popularity of 3D printing is based on certain inherent benefits that it brings to the manufacturing process of business enterprises. It helps reduce time-lag in product development process, thereby lowering costs.
As new providers struggle to gain their ground, established players continue to explore newer territories to grab a greater market share.
Prototyping with the help of 3D printing not only saves money but also mitigates the risks involved in full-fledged manufacturing process. Moreover, it offers customization, and wastage is also kept under control.
Stratasys Ltd. SSYS: With total sales of $750.1 million in fiscal year 2014, the company is currently the top player in the 3D printing market. The company’s proprietary technology platforms, huge installed base and direct manufacturing business add to its competitive strength. Further, the acquisitions of MakerBot Industries and SolidScape will boost this Zacks Rank #2 (Buy) stock’s market share in 2015 and beyond.
These benefits offered by 3D printing are luring various industries, including automotive, aerospace, dental, high-tech and medical, who seek to improve their production process, toward this technology. Of late, the use of 3D Printing technology has moved beyond traditional industrial applications toward more customer-centric enterprises. This has led many 3D printing companies to venture into creative sectors like fashion and gaming. The technology has even found application in sports industry for purposes like development of custom protective gear and spike plates for soccer shoes. Retail sector has also deployed the technology for manufacturing jewelry and home decor items, to name a few. Major Players 3D printing offers significant growth opportunity. According to Wholers’ 2014 report, this market, in terms of revenue, will likely reach $12.8 billion by 2018 and cross the $21-billion mark by 2020. The growing market size has attracted a number of players, thereby reducing the barriers of entry.
Let’s take a look at the key players in the 3D printing market:
3D Systems DDD: With total sales of $653.7 million for the financial year 2014, the Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) stock’s portfolio boasts industryleading 3D printing technologies like Stereolithography, Selective Laser Sintering and ColorJet Printing, among others. Currently, the company is exploring areas like manufacturing, metals, medical and mainstreet to boost its competitive position. Materialise MTLS:With total sales of $81.4 million in 2014, Europe’s leading 3D printing company has established itself as a major player in medical software and sophisticated 3D printing services markets. With software development, 3D printing and engineering as its core competencies, this Zacks Rank #3 stock’s prospects shine bright. The ExOne Company XONE:With total sales of $43.9 million in 2014, the company has a solid reputation for catering to various prototypes and production needs of industrial clients, ranging from automobile industry to energy. Aiming to grab a greater market share, the company has a number of goals for 2015, which include expansion of current facilities, development of new machines and certain strategic collaborations. A2Z MANUFACTURING WEST COAST •
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Swift Tool Co, Inc. ______ 800-562-0900 Multi-Spindle Machining Chiron America ________ 704-534-5436 Parts Washing Gosiger ____________ 937-586-5067 Profile & Bar Machining Chiron America ________ 704-534-5436 Sawing Machines Bixby Machine Tool Supply __509-534-1208 CNC Machine Services _____ 206-999-3232 Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. __ 503-620-9031 North-South Machinery ____ 253-333-2439 North Western Machinery ___ 206-583-2333 Performance Machine Tools__ 510-249-1000 Rocky Mountain Saw Blades _ 303-761-3000 Rosco Precision Machinery __ 206-818-6813 Saw Replacement Parts CNC Machine Services _____ 206-999-3232 Rocky Mountain Saw Blades _ 303-761-3000 SawBlade.com________ 800--240-2932 Saws Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. __ 503-620-9031 King Machine Inc. _______ 509-435-6741 Sub Spindle Lathes Rosco Precision Machinery __ 253-333-2439 Turning Centers CNC-PROS ___________ 602-344-9753 Used Wire EDM Machines Current EDM, Inc. _______ 612-840-0037 EDM Network _________ 480-836-1782 MATERIAL Aluminum Bralco _____________ 602-722-3324 Fry Steel ____________ 800-423-6651 Gorilla Metals Inc. _______ 855-516-3825 Industrial Metal Supply Co. __ 818-729-3333 Ryerson Corporation _____ 425-204-2601
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Drill Rod AZ Tool Steel_________ 877-795-1600 Electrical Steels Fry Steel ____________800-423-6651 High Temperature Alloys United Performance Metals _888-282-3292 Laser Cut Material Laser Cutting Services, Inc __ 503-612-8311 Lead Industrial Metal Supply Co. __818-729-3333 Material Sales Coastal Metals _________800-811-7466 Fry Steel ____________800-423-6651 Laser Cutting Services, Inc __ 503-612-8311 Sunshine Metals ________760-579-8327 Temtco Steel _________ 480-389-2883 United Performance Metals _888-282-3292 Metals: Bar & Plate Fry Steel ____________ 800-423-665 Ryerson Corporation _____425-204-2601 Sequoia Brass & Copper __ 800-362-5255 Sunshine Metals ________760-579-8327 United Performance Metals _888-282-3292 Nickel Alloys Aerodyne Alloys ________800-337-3766 Fry Steel____________800-423-6651 Marzee Inc. __________602-269-5801 United Performance Metals _888-282-3292 Plate: Wear and Structural Ryerson Corporation _____425-204-2601 Temtco Steel _________ 480-389-2883 United Performance Metals _888-282-3292 Precision Ground Flat AZ Tool Steel_________ 877-795-1600 TCI Precision Metals ______800-234-5613 Sheet & Coil Ryerson Corporation _____425-204-2601
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8300 SAN FERNANDO ROAD SUN VALLEY, CA 91352 121 Perry St. • Saginaw, MI 48602
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North-South Machinery ____ 253-333-2439 Band & Cut Off Saws 8300 SAN FERNANDO ROAD __ 503-620-9031 Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. SUN VALLEY, CA 91352 Hydmech Sawing Solutions __ 714-620-5560 Icon Machine Tool, Inc. WA __ 306-434-8844 Icon Machine Tool, Inc. OR __ 503-887-1003 Innovative Tool Sales _____ 714-780-0730 North-South Machinery ____ 253-333-2439 North Western Machinery ___ 206-583-2333 Rosco Precision Machinery 8300 SAN FERNANDO ROAD __ 253-333-2439 SUN VALLEY, CA 91352 CNC Turret Punches Muratec ____________ 949-466-8255 Drill Lines Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. __ 503-620-9031 Cold Saws/Saws Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. _ _503-620-9031 Hydmech Sawing Solutions __ 714-620-5560 Hardware Insertion Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. __ 503-620-9031 Iron Workers Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. __ 503-620-9031 Icon Machine Tool, Inc. ____ 306-434-8844 Jorgensen Machine Tools ___ 800-952-0151 Laser Cutting Machines Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. __ 503-620-9031 Gladwin Machinery ______ 360-448-0951 Icon Machine Tool, Inc. ____ 306-434-8844 North-South Machinery ____ 253-333-2439 Magnetic Drills/Cutters Innovative Tool Sales _____ 714-780-0730 MONDAY - FRIDAY 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM SATURDAY 8:00 AM to 2:00 PM
PHONE (818) 729-3333 FAX (818) 729-3377 SUNVALLEY@IMSMETALS.COM WWW.INDUSTRIALMETALSUPPLY.COM
MONDAY - FRIDAY 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM SATURDAY 8:00 AM to 2:00 PM
PHONE (818) 729-3333 FAX (818) 729-3377 SUNVALLEY@IMSMETALS.COM WWW.INDUSTRIALMETALSUPPLY.COM
Material Handling Systems Hydmech Sawing Solutions ___ 714-620-5560 8300 SAN FERNANDO ROAD Metal Marking Systems SUN VALLEY, CA 91352 Kwik Mark Inc__________ 815-363-8268 Swift Tool Co, Inc. _______ 800-562-0900 Notchers Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. ___ 503-620-9031 Plasma/Gas Cutting Tools/Systems Fab - Line Machinery ______ 206-972-6215 Rosco Precision Machinery ___253-333-2439 8300 SAN FERNANDO ROAD SUN VALLEY, CA 91352 Plate Bending & Rolls Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. ___ 503-620-9031 Jorgensen Machine Tools ____ 800-952-0151 Power Tools Icon Machine Tool, Inc. WA ___306-434-8844 Icon Machine Tool, Inc. OR ___503-887-1003 MP Industrial _________ 800-759-4282 Presses Bixby Machine Tool Supply __ 509-534-1208 Press Brakes Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. __ 503-620-9031 Fab - Line Machinery ______ 206-972-6215 Gladwin Machinery _______ 360-448-0951 Icon Machine Tool, Inc. WA ___306-434-8844 Icon Machine Tool, Inc. OR ___503-887-1003 North-South Machinery _____ 253-333-2439 Punches Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. ___ 503-620-903 Gladwin Machinery _______ 360-448-0951 Icon Machine Tool, Inc. WA ___306-434-8844 Icon Machine Tool, Inc. OR ___503-887-1003
Rolling Machines Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. __ 503-620-9031 Shearing Machines Fab - Line Machinery _____ 206-972-6215 Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. __ 503-620-9031 North-South Machinery ____ 253-333-2439 Sign & Graphic Cutting Solutions Tooling Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. __ 503-620-9031 Welding Equipment Rocky Mountain Saw Blades _ 303-761-3000 PALLET SYSTEMS Manual & Automatic Pallet Systems
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PHONE (818) 729-3333 FAX (818) 729-3377 SUNVALLEY@IMSMETALS.COM WWW.INDUSTRIALMETALSUPPLY.COM
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Don Klein - Vice President 415.491.4456 direct 415.902.5302 cellular donald.klein@usbank.com
Midaco Corporation ______847-593-8420 Manual Lift Off Pallet Systems
Midaco Corporation _____ 847-593-8420 Manual Rotory Pallet Systems Midaco Corporation _____ 847-593-8420 Shipping Solutions Perry Pallet Co. _______ 360-366-5239 Wood Pallets Perry Pallet Co. _______ 360-366-5239 PRECISION TOOLHOLDING PRODUCTS Tooling Von Ruden Manufacturing, Inc. 763-682--3122 Tooling Systems Von Ruden Manufacturing, Inc. 763-682--3122
Stacy Bohms - Relationship Manager 503.603.2745 direct stacy.bohms@usbank.com
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Waterjet Hoppers Barton International _____ 800-741-7756 GMA Garnet Group _____ 832-243-9300
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PROG. SYSTEMS Factory Automation/Logistics North-South Machinery ____ 253-333-2439 CAD/CAM Software, CAD Automatics & Machinery Co.__303-990-6190 Delcam Software _______ 877-DELCAM1 MRP Software SigmaTEK ___________ 513-595-2022 Nesting Software SigmaNEST __________ 513-595-2022
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dtiEXACT ___________ 360-866-1337 Cimatron _______ 248-596-9700 ext. 237 Delcam _____________877-335-2261 EDM Performance _____ 800-336-2946 Solid Products _________ 480-206-0330 GMA Garnet Group _____ 832-243-9300 Mechanical Design WOOD PRODUCTS Cimatron _______ 248-596-9700 ext. 237 UL DQS Inc. __________ 360-901-4785 Delcam _____________877-335-2261 Perry Pallet Co. ______ 360-366-5239 Custom Packaging/Shipping SPINDLES & SLIDES Supplies Spindle Rebuilding/Repair Alliance Packaging ______ 206-445-5898C & M Precision Spindle, Inc._ _503-691-0955 Environmental Management UL DQS Inc. __________ 360-901-4785 GMN USA LLC_ _________800-686-1679 Setco ______________714-222-6523 Financial Services Spindle Sales New Intech Funding ________ 800-553-9208 C & M Precision Spindle, Inc._ _503-691-0955 Quick Turn Financial _____ 415-608-5692 GMN USA LLC_ _________800-686-1679 Kim@A2Zmanufacturing.com U.S. Bank Equipment _____ 206-948-0022 Setco ______________714-222-6523 STREAMING VIDEO EDUCATIONAL ISO Consulting/Registration TRAINING The Buyers Guide Gladhill Associates ______ 719-239-9830
Software, Solid Modeling Delcam Software _______ 877-DELCAM1 PROTOTYPE MACHINERY Santa Cruz Electronics _____ 831-479-5444 Great Western Registrar____ 623-580-1881 REPAIR Lean Consulting Training CNC-PROS ___________ 602-344-9753 Gladhill Associates ______ 719-239-9830 Bar Feeder Repair Lambie Engineering______ 509-868-3100 Edge Technologies ______ 562-243-4659 ISO / AS9100 Certification QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS BMSC______________ 602-445-9400 UL DQS Inc. __________ 360-901-4785 Gladhill Associates ______ 719-239-9830 Sustaining Edge Solutions __ 888-572-9642 ROBOTICS Ellison Technologies ______ 206-669-3578 UL DQS Inc. __________ 360-901-4785 Machine Tool Rebuilding LMI Machinery Inc. ______ 866-437-7315 EDM Network _________ 480-836-1782 Robotic Part Loading Systems Management Systems Training Midaco Corporation ______847-593-8420 BBMSC______________602-445-9400 ROUTERS Rosco Precision Machinery __ 253-333-2439 Gladhill Associates ______ 719-239-9830 Sustaining Edge Solutions __ 888-572-9642 SAFETY Quality Management System Fire Protection Systems Registration Rotarex North America ____ 480-689-8756 UL DQS Inc. __________ 360-901-4785 SAWS Supply Chain Assessments Band & Cut-Off Saws Gladhill Associates ______ 719-239-9830 Swift Tool Co, Inc. ______________ Sustaining Edge Solutions __ 888-572-9642
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Waterjet & Blast Abrasives Barton International _____ 800-741-7756 GMA Garnet Group __________ 832-243-9300
SIX SIGMA TRAINING Waterjet Bricks Sustaining Edge Solutions __ 888-572-9642 Barton International _____ 800-741-7756 AS9100 Registration SOFTWARE CAD CAM GMA Garnet Group ___________ 832-243-9300 Great Western Registrar____ 623-580-1881 Machining SERVICES
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3D TOOLS 3D Printing Proto & Production NW Rapid Mfg. _________ 503-434-8557 Ultimate 3D ___________503-848-8227 3D Scanning NW Rapid Mfg. _________ 503-434-8557 Ultimate 3D ___________503-848-8227 SLS (Selctive Laser Sintering) Ultimate 3D ___________503-848-8227 ASSEMBLIES Cascade Systems Technology __503-640-5733 Columbia Manufacturing Svcs. _360-735-3763 Clings Aerospace_________480-968-1778 BENDING Mandrel Albina Co., Inc. _________866-252-4628 Bending Solutions, Inc. _____360-651-2443 Aeroform, Inc. __________ 360-403-1919
Buyken Metal Products _____ 206-947-9122 Thermal-Vac Technology______714-997-2601 PMA Photometals ________480-773-3239 Speciality Bending Vacco Industries _________626-450-6472 Brazing: Dip Albina Co., Inc. ________ 866-252-4628 Thermal-Vac Technology______714-997-2601 CUSTOM CREFORM ASSY. Structrual Bending Brazing: Vacuum PlaSteel _____________480-491-8100 Albina Co., Inc. ________ 866-252-4628 Thermal-Vac Technology______714-997-2601 CUTTING Tube and Pipe Bending BROACHING Albina Co., Inc. ________ 866-252-4628 Evans Precision _________ 623-582-4776 BONDING Ponderosa Ind ___ _______303-298-1801 Adhesive Specialty Steel Services _____801-539-8252 Vacco Industries _________626-450-6472 CASTING BONDING AATC ___________ 866-792-2814 X 235 Diffusion RJM Sales Solutions _______630-849-8644 Vacco Industries _________626-450-6472 Investment Casting-Precision BRAZING AATC ___________ 866-792-2814 X 235 dtiEXACT _____________360-866-1337 Dolphin Investment Castings __ 602-272-6747 Evans Precision _________623-582-4776 CHEMICAL ETCHING Precision Casting Repair _____801-972-2345
Bar & Plate Cutting AZ Tool Steel ___________877-795-1600 Industrial Precision Grinding __ 310-352-4700 SW Waterjet & Laser_______480-306-7748 DIE CASTING SMH Inc LLC ___________360-341-2226 TVT Die Casting _________800-280-2278 DIES Tool & Dies Micropulse West Inc._______480-966-2300
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Randall J. Wilson Industrial Products 755 East Debra Lane Anaheim. CA 92805
Plastic Injection Molding_____509-531-2634 DEBURRING Industrial Precision Grinding _ 310-352-4700 EDGING United Performance Metals ___888-282-3292 EDM EDM: Dialectric Systems /Filtration Ebbco Inc ____________ 586-716-5151 EDM: Drilling Small Hole Layke Inc. ____________602-272-2654 EDM Express___________800-780-7075 EDM: Ram-Type (Sinking) Micropulse West, Inc. _____ 480-966-2300 Milco Wire EDM,, Inc. ______714-373-0098 Stevens Tool & Die ________503-682-3185 EDM: Wire Clings Aerospace_________480-968-1778 EDM Express___________800-780-7075 Evans Precision _________623-582-4776 Micropulse West, Inc. _____ 480-966-2300 Milco Wire EDM,, Inc. ______714-373-0098 Metal Products Company ____800-345-2069 ____
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Micropulse West, Inc. _____ 480-966-2300 Gillaspie MFG __________ 360-921-3973 Forming & Fabrication Plastic Injection Molding____ 509-531-2634 NW Metalcraft Industries ____ 888-280-7080 Albina Co., Inc. ________ 866-252-4628 Stevens Tool & Die _______ 503-682-3185 Mountain View Machine_____ 435-755-0500 Precision Sheet Metal Fabrication: Medium & Large QUAL-FAB, Inc. ___________206-762-2117 ELECTRO-FORMING AEI Fabrication ________ 480-733-6594 Vacco Industries ________ 626-450-6472 Rickard Engineering ______ 866-845-8838 SMH Inc LLC ___________ 360-341-2226 Aeroform, Inc. __________360-403-1919 ELECTRO MECHANICAL AG Machining _________ 805-207-0584 Valley Machine Shop, Inc. ____ 425-207-5951 Sub-Assembly Builds Buyken Metal Products ____ 206-947-9122 Cascade Systems Technology _ 503-640-5733 Weiser Engineering _______ 303-280-2778 Columbia Manufacturing Svcs. 360-735-3763 ENGINEERING/DESIGN Gillaspie MFG _________ 360-921-3973 Fabrication: Custom Metal Cascade Systems Technology _ 503-640-5733 AEI Fabrication _________ 480-733-6594 Group Mfg Serv ________ 480-966-3952 Hexatron Engineering _____ 801-363-8010 AG Machining __________ 805-207-0584 Industrial Machine Svcs ____ 503-240-0878 Lambie Engineering ______ 509-868-3100 Buyken Metal Products _____ 206-947-9122 NW Metalcraft Industries ___ 888-280-7080 FABRICATION Cygnet Stamping & Fab ______818-240-7574 QUAL-FAB, Inc. __________206-762-2117 Architectural Forming & Fabrication Group Mfg Serv _________ 480-966-3952 SMH Inc LLC __________ 360-341-2226 Albina Co., Inc. ________ 866-252-4628 Industrial Machine Svcs _____ 503-240-0878 Solid Form Fabrication ____ 503-435-1400 NW Metalcraft Industries ____ 888-280-7080 Weiser Engineering ______ 303-280-2778 Fabrication: Sheet Metal AEI Fabrication ________ 480-733-6594 PlaSteel _____________ 480-491-8100 Tube & Pipe Bending Fabrication Aeroform, Inc. __________360-403-1919 QUAL-FAB, Inc. ___________206-762-2117 Albina Co., Inc. ________ 866-252-4628 Aero Tech MFG_________ 801-891-2740 SMH Inc LLC ___________ 360-341-2226 Bending Solutions, Inc. ____ 360-651-2443 AG Machining _________ 805-207-0584 Valley Machine Shop, Inc. ____ 425-207-5951 FINISHING Buyken Metal Products ____ 206-947-9122 Weiser Engineering _______ 303-280-2778 Arizona Finishing _______ 602-438-4443 Cygnet Stamping & Fab _____818-240-7574 Wrico ______________ 480-892-7800 Arizona Hard Chrome _____ 602-278-8671
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Darrin J. Caschette President
13305 41st Ave NE | Marysville, WA 9827I 360-386-6294 | 888-280-7080 x204 djc@nw-metalcraft.com www.nw-metalcraft.com
ISO9001:2008
Shawn Carlin scarlin@gmsaz.com
AS9100C ISO9001:2008
503-771-0969
info@tfcplating.com
Joe Tripi President jtripi@micropulsewest.com
444 W. 21st Street / Suite 101 / Tempe, AZ 85282 (480) 966-2300 / Fax (480) 966-2323
bourdelaisgrinding@yahoo.com
Coating Technologies _____ 623-581-2648 3-D Plastics, Inc. ________ 503-720-0572 Bourdelais Grinding Co., Inc. _ 805-583-9966 Gold Tech Industries ______ 480-968-1930 Real Axis Machining ______ 360-723-5386 Galvanizing: Hot Dip TMM Precision ________ 800-448-9448 Glass Bead Clean Byington Steel Treating, Inc.__ 408-727-6630 Coating Technologies _____ 623-581-2648 Gold Tech Industries ______ 480-968-1930 Liquid Painting Aero Tech MFG__________801-891-2740 MPI International _______ 956-631-6880 Passivation Coating Technologies ____ _623-581-2648 Gold Tech Industries ______ 480-968-1930 Polishing Arizona Hard Chrome ______602-278-8671 Powder Coating Aero Tech MFG__________801-891-2740 AG Machining _________ 805-207-0584 Sandblasting Byington Steel Treating, Inc.__ 408-727-6630 Silk Screening Arizona Finishing _______ 602-438-4443 FIXTURING Real Axis Machining ______ 360-723-5386 GASKETS
MET-TEK Heat Treating______503-519-9864 Industrial Precision Grinding __310-352-4700 Phoenix Heat Treating_______602-258-7751 GRINDING AZ Tool Steel __________ 877-795-1600 Sun Grinding _________ 602-238-9595 Thermal-Vac Technology______714-997-2601 Cryogenics Bourdelais Grinding Co., Inc. _ 805-583-9966 TCI Precision Metals _______800-234-5613 Phoenix Heat Treating ______ 602-258-7751 Grinding: OD ChemResearch_________ 602-253-4175 Heat Treating/ISO/AS9100 EDM Express__________ 800-780-7075 Arizona Hard Chrome ______602-278-8671 Byington Steel Treating______408-727-6630 Evans Precision ________ 623-582-4776 Bourdelais Grinding Co., Inc. _ 805-583-9966 Phoenix Heat Treating_______602-258-7751 Industrial Machine Svcs ____ 503-240-0878 Precision Tech __________801-285-7288 Thermal-Vac Technology______714-997-2601 Industrial Precision Grinding _ 310-352-4700 Ron Grob Co ___________970-667-5320 Heat Treating/Aerospace Mountain View Machine____ 435-755-0500 Sun Grinding _________ 602-238-9595 Byington Steel Treating______408-727-6630 Ron Grob Co __________ 970-667-5320 Superior Grinding ________801-487-9700 Phoenix Heat Treating_______602-258-7751 Sun Grinding _________ 602-238-9595 Grinding: Surface Superior Grinding _______ 801-487-9700 Bourdelais Grinding Co., Inc. _ 805-583-9966 Thermal-Vac Technology______714-997-2601 Large Capacity Drop Bottom TCI Precision Metals ______ 800-234-5613 ChemResearch__________602-253-4175 Oven/Aluminum Grinding, Blanchard Industrial Precision Grinding __310-352-4700 Byington Steel Treating______408-727-6630 AZ Tool Steel __________ 877-795-1600 Bourdelais Grinding Co., Inc. _ 805-583-9966 Superior Grinding ________801-487-9700 MET-TEK Heat Treating_______503-519-9864 HONING Diversified Metal Services ___ 801-972-6093 TCI Precision Metals _______800-234-5613 Valley Machine Shop, Inc. ____ 425-207-5951 Evans Precision ________ 623-582-4776 Grinding: Tool & Cutter HYDRAULIC REPAIR Industrial Precision Grinding _ 310-352-4700 Superior Grinding_________888-487-9701 Arizona Hard Chrome ______ 602-278-8671 Sun Grinding _________ 602-238-9595 Swift Tool Co, Inc. _______ 800-562-0900 GASKETS RUBBER PRODUCTS Superior Grinding _______ 801-487-9700 GUN DRILLING RJM Sales Solutions _______630-849-8644 TCI Precision Metals ______ 800-234-5613 Evans Precision _________623-582-4776 INJECTION MOLDS Grinding, Centerless Plastic Injection Molding_____509-531-2634 HEAT TREATING Bourdelais Grinding Co., Inc. _ 805-583-9966 Byington Steel Treating______408-727-6630 INJECTION MOLDING Ron Grob Co __________ 970-667-5320 Columbia Manufacturing Svcs. _360-735-3763 Plastic Injection Molding_____509-531-2634 Sun Grinding _________ 602-238-9595 LABELS-DECALS-OVERLAYS Controlled Thermal Tech______602-272-3714 Grinding, Double Disc Evans Precision _________623-582-4776 RJM Sales Solutions _______630-849-8644
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Marketing & Sales Manager
AEIFABRICATION RONKOTLOFF Founder / CEO
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480.733.6594 480.733.6596 Ron@AEIFab.com www.AEIFab.com 1113 W. Birchwood Avenue Mesa, Arizona 85210
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LASER CUTTING Laser Cutting AEI Fabrication _________ 480-733-6594 AG Machining __________805-207-0584 Buyken Metal Products _____ 206-947-9122
dtiEXACT _____________ 360-866-1337 Metal Products Company ____800-345-2069 SW Waterjet & Laser_______ 480-306-7748 United Performance Metals ___888-282-3292 Weiser Engineering _______303-280-2778 Wrico ______________480-892-7800 Laser Cutting: 3D SW Waterjet & Laser_______ 480-306-7748 Micro-Laser Vacco Industries _________626-450-6472 Precision Etched Parts Vacco Industries _________626-450-6472 LEVELING United Performance Metals ___888-282-3292
Machining: 5-Axis Cascade Engineering Tech ___503-266-1300 Accutech Machine Inc ______ 801-975-1117 Central Valley Machine _____435-752-0934 Clings Aerospace_________480-968-1778 Cascade Engineering Tech __ 503-266-1300 EDM Express___________800-780-7075 Clings Aerospace________ 480-968-1778 Columbia Manufacturing Svcs. 360-735-3763 Faustson _____________ 303-420-7422 Machinists Inc. _________ 360-202-7342 Grovtec US, Inc. _________503-557-4689 St. Vrain ____________ 303-702-1529 Howard Precision Machine ___ 801-619-9850 Strom Manufacturing ______503-447-1021 Larkin Precision Machine ____831-438-2700 Machinists Inc. __________360-202-7342 Treske Precision Machining __ 503-625-2821 NW Metalcraft Industries ____888-280-7080 Western Precision Products, Inc. 503-786-8923 Metal Products Company ____800-345-2069 PlaSteel _____________ 480-491-8100 Portland Precision Manufacturing 503-253-6700 Real Axis Machining _______360-723-5386 Ron Grob Co ___________970-667-5320 St. Vrain _____________ 303-702-1529
SMH Inc LLC ___________360-341-2226 Sunshine Metals _________ 714-225-4972 Treske Precision Machining ___ 503-625-2821 TVT Die Casting _________800-280-2278
MACHINING AG Machining __________805-207-0584 Valley Machine Shop, Inc. ____ 425-207-5951 Alpha Precision Machining, Inc. _ 253-395-7381 Weiser Engineering _______303-280-2778 Bar-S Machine, Inc. _______ 928-636-2115 Western Precision Products, Inc. _503-786-8923
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Machining: Aerospace Alpha Precision Machining, Inc. 253-395-7381 Bar-S Machine, Inc. _______928-636-2115 dtiEXACT ____________ 360-866-1337 Flex-Pro Manufacturing.____ 623-277-8031 Larkin Precision Machine ___ 831-438-2700 Layke Inc. ___________ 602-272-2654 Portland Precision Manufacturing503-253-6700 St. Vrain ____________ 303-702-1529 Strom Manufacturing ______503-447-1021 SMH Inc LLC __________ 360-341-2226 Teton Machine ________ 208-642-9344 Treske Precision Machining __ 503-625-2821
Western Precision Products, Inc. 503-786-8923 Machining: Chemical Vacco Industries ________ 626-450-6472 Machining: Horizontal Boring Machinists Inc. _________ 360-202-7342 Machining: Proto-R & D Alpha Precision Machining, Inc. _253-395-7381 Bar-S Machine, Inc. _______928-636-2115 Cascade Engineering Tech __ 503-266-1300 Central Valley Machine ____ 435-752-0934 Flex-Pro Manufacturing._____623-277-8031 Industrial Machine Svcs ____ 503-240-0878 PlaSteel _____________480-491-8100 Portland Precision Manufacturing 503-253-6700 Real Axis Machining ______ 360-723-5386 Ron Grob Co __________ 970-667-5320 Savage Machining Inc. _____805-584-8047 SMH Inc LLC __________ 360-341-2226 Strom Manufacturing ______503-447-1021 Treske Precision Machining ___503-625-2821 TVT Die Casting ________ 800-280-2278 Western Precision Products, Inc. 503-786-8923 Machining: CNC Milling Accutech Machine Inc ______ 801-975-1117
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Heather Cutler Sales Manager OFFICE 503-406-3774 MOBILE 503-853-6234 hcutler@omep.org
Passivation, Electroless Nickel, Gold, Hard Chrome, Silver, & Tin Plating. 206-947-4052 geoffs@askogroup.com
Alpha Precision Machining, Inc. 253-395-7381 Bar-S Machine, Inc. __ ____ 928-636-2115 Cascade Engineering Tech __ 503-266-1300 Central Valley Machine ____435-752-0934 Clings Aerospace________ 480-968-1778 Columbia Manufacturing Svcs. 360-735-3763 dtiEXACT ____________ 360-866-1337 EDM Express__________ 800-780-7075 Faustson ____________ 303-420-7422 Flex-Pro Manufacturing.____ 623-277-8031 Gillaspie MFG _________ 360-921-3973 Grovtec US, Inc. ________ 503-557-4689 Howard Precision Machined Prod. 801-619-9850 Industrial Machine Svcs ____ 503-240-0878 Larkin Precision Machine ___ 831-438-2700 Layke Inc. ___________ 602-272-2654 NW Metalcraft Industries ___ 888-280-7080 Metal Products Company ___ 800-345-2069 Micropulse West, Inc. _____ 480-966-2300 Portland Precision Manufacturing503-253-6700 Real Axis Machining ______ 360-723-5386 Rickard Engineering _____ 866-845-8838 Savage Machining Inc. ____ 805-584-8047 SMH Inc LLC __________ 360-341-2226 Strom Manufacturing _____ 503-447-1021 Sunshine Metals ________ 714-225-4972 Teton Machine ________ 208-642-9344 Treske Precision Machining __ 503-625-2821 Valley Machine Shop, Inc. ___ 425-207-5951
Western Precision Products, Inc. _503-786-8923 Machining: Large Accutech Machine Inc ______ 801-975-1117 Alpha Precision Machining, Inc. _ 253-395-7381 Cascade Engineering Tech ___503-266-1300 Machinists Inc. __________360-202-7342 Valley Machine Shop, Inc. ____ 425-207-5951 Machining: Medical Cascade Engineering Tech ___503-266-1300 Portland Precision Manufacturing 503-253-6700 Teton Machine _________208-642-9344 Machining: Production Accutech Machine Inc ______ 801-975-1117
Alpha Precision Machining, Inc. _ 253-395-7381 Cascade Engineering Tech ___503-266-1300 Columbia Manufacturing Svcs. _ 360-735-3763 dtiEXACT _____________ 360-866-1337 Flex-Pro Manufacturing._____ 623-277-8031 Grovtec US, Inc. _________503-557-4689 Howard Precision Machined Prod. 801-619-9850 Larkin Precision Machine ____831-438-2700 PlaSteel _____________480-491-8100 Portland Precision Manufacturing 503-253-6700 Strom Manufacturing ______503-447-1021 Teton Machine _________208-642-9344 Western Precision Products, Inc. _503-786-8923 Machining: Shaft Turning Machinists Inc. __________360-202-7342
Teton Machine _________208-642-9344 Western Precision Products, Inc. _503-786-8923 Machining: Turning Accutech Machine Inc ______ 801-975-1117 Bar-S Machine, Inc. _______ 928-636-2115 dtiEXACT _____________ 360-866-1337 EDM Express___________800-780-7075 Faustson _____________ 303-420-7422 Flex-Pro Manufacturing._____ 623-277-8031 Grovtec US, Inc. _________503-557-4689 Howard Precision Machined Prod. 801-619-9850 Industrial Machine Svcs _____503-240-0878 Larkin Precision Machine ____831-438-2700 Layke Inc. ____________602-272-2654 NW Metalcraft Industries ____888-280-7080 Portland Precision Manufacturing 503-253-6700 Real Axis Machining _______360-723-5386 Savage Machining Inc. _____ 805-584-8047 SMH Inc LLC ___________ 360-341-2226
Alpha Precision Machining, Inc. _ 253-395-7381 Bending Solutions, Inc. _____ 360-651-2443 Cascade Systems Technology __ 503-640-5733 Columbia Manufacturing Svcs. _ 360-735-3763 dtiEXACT _____________ 360-866-1337 Flex-Pro Manufacturing._____ 623-277-8031 G & G Custom Metal Fab ____ 503-931-7069 Group Mfg Serv _________ 480-966-3952 Larkin Precision Machine ____ 831-438-2700 NW Metalcraft Industries ____ 888-280-7080 Metal Products Company ____ 800-345-2069 Portland Precision Manufacturing 503-253-6700 QUAL-FAB, Inc. ___________206-762-2117 Rickard Engineering ______ 866-845-8838 Teton Machine _________ 208-642-9344 Treske Precision Machining ___ 503-625-2821 TVT Die Casting _________ 800-280-2278 Western Precision Products, Inc. _ 503-786-8923
Industrial Manufacturing Strom Manufacturing ______503-447-1021 Albina Co., Inc. _________ 866-252-4628 Teton Machine _________208-642-9344 Turnkey Product Services Valley Machine Shop, Inc. ____ 425-207-5951 Aero Tech MFG__________ 801-891-2740 Western Precision Products, Inc. _503-786-8923 Columbia Manufacturing Svcs. _ 360-735-3763 METAL INJECTION MOLDING Machining: Turning With Live Tooling RJM Sales Solutions _______ 630-849-8644 Weiser Engineering _______303-280-2778 Custom Airplane to Marine Polishing Machining: Turning Large Metal Polishing By Timothy ___ 503-253-5294 Machinists Inc. __________360-202-7342 Personal Collectables Polishing Valley Machine Shop, Inc. ____ 425-207-5951 Metal Polishing By Timothy ___ 503-253-5294 MANUFACTURING VALUE ADDED Production Polishing Contract Manufacturing Metal Polishing By Timothy ___ 503-253-5294 AATC ___________ 866-792-2814 X 235 METALIZING AEI Fabrication _________480-733-6594 Aeroform, Inc. __________ 360-403-1919 Controlled Thermal Tech ____ 602-272-3714
Machining: Swiss Bar-S Machine, Inc. _______ 928-636-2115 dtiEXACT _____________ 360-866-1337 Grovtec US, Inc. _________503-557-4689 Howard Precision Machined Prod. 801-619-9850 Ron Grob Co ___________970-667-5320 Albina Co., Inc. _________866-252-4628
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3-D Plastics, Inc. ________ 503-720-0572 Part Probing & Inspection Blum Novotest _________ 805-823-3255 Plastic Injection Molding____ 509-531-2634 SMH Inc LLC __________ 360-341-2226 Production Metrology Blum Novotest _________ 805-823-3255
Mold Making 3-D Plastics, Inc. ________ 503-720-0572 Tool Measurement Plastic Injection Molding ____ 509-531-2634 Blum Novotest _________ 805-823-3255
ASKO Group __________ 206-947-4052 Gold Tech Industries ______ 480-968-1930 Foresight Finishing ______ 480-772-0387 Precious Metal Plating Co.____800-481-6271
TFC Plating __________ 503-771-0969 Gold ASKO Group __________ 206-947-4052 PLATING Tool Breakage Blum Novotest _________ 805-823-3255 ASKO Group __________ 206-947-4052 EPSI _______________714-519-9423 ChemResearch_________ 602-253-4175 Foresight Finishing ______ 480-772-0387 MOLDING: RUBBER EPSI ______________ 714-519-9423 Gold Tech ___________ 480-968-1930 Molds: Plastic Injection Plastic Injection Molding_____ 509-531-2634 Foresight Finishing ______ 480-772-0387 Precious Metal Plating Co.____800-481-6271 Hard Chrome SMH Inc LLC ___________ 360-341-2226 Gold Tech ___________ 480-968-1930 Arizona Hard Chrome ______602-278-8671 Anodizing MOLDS ASKO Group __________ 206-947-4052 ChemResearch _________ 602-253-4175 Aero Tech MFG__________ 801-891-2740 NAD CAP & Boeing Approved Bright Tin Advanced Mold Technology ___ 714-990-0144 Processes Arizona Finishing ________602-438-4443 Foresight Finishing ______ 480-772-0387 Precious Metal Plating Co.____800-481-6271 Milco Wire EDM,, Inc. ______ 714-373-0098 Precious Metal Plating Co.___ 800-481-6271 Nickel-Bright Plastic Injection Molding_____ 509-531-2634 Chrome/Nickel/Palladium EPSI ______________ 714-519-9423 Gold Tech Industries ______ 480-968-1930 Molds: High Volume Class 100 Foresight Finishing ______ 480-772-0387 Advanced Mold Technology ___ 714-990-0144 Gold Tech ___________ 480-968-1930 Precious Metal Plating Co.____800-481-6271 Coating Molds: Fast Turn Prototype and Coating Technologies _____ 623-581-2648 TFC Plating __________ 503-771-0969 Bridge Molds GTin / Zinc Plate Advanced Mold Technology ___ 714-990-0144 Controlled Thermal Tech ___ 602-272-3714 ASKO Group __________ 206-947-4052 Molds: Expertise in Overmold and Coating: Black Oxide EPSI _______________714-519-9423 Insert Molding Coating Technologies _____ 623-581-2648 Gold Tech ___________ 480-968-1930 Advanced Mold Technology ___ 714-990-0144 Coating: Dry Film Lube PACKAGING/SHIPPING SUPPLIES Coating Technologies _____ 623-581-2648 TFC Plating __________ 503-771-0969 Silver Plating Alliance Packaging _______ 206-445-5898 Coating: Nickel/ Teflon/Chrome ASKO Group __________ 206-947-4052 Passivation Coating Technologies _____ 623-581-2648 EPSI _______________714-519-9423 ASKO Group ___________ 206-947-4052 Coating:Zinc & Mag.Phos. TFC Plating ___________ 503-771-0969 Coating Technologies _____ 623-581-2648 Gold Tech ___________ 480-968-1930 Precious Metal Plating Co.____800-481-6271 Copper PC BOARDS Gold Tech Industries ______ 480-968-1930 TFC Plating __________ 503-771-0969 Surface Mount & Thru Hole Tin Plating Foresight Finishing ______ 480-772-0387 Cascade Systems Technology __ 503-640-5733 TFC Plating __________ 503-771-0969 Precious Metal Plating Co.____800-481-6271 PLASTIC MACHINING TFC Plating __________ 503-771-0969 PlaSteel _____________ 480-491-8100 Embrittlement Relief Portland Precision Manufacturing 503-253-6700 EPSI ______________ 714-519-9423 PLASMA CUTTING Electroless Nickel G & G Custom Metal Fab ___ 503-931-7069 PLASTIC MOLDING Nick Hochuli Sales Engineer
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Index of Advertisers 3D-Plastics...44,79 Flatline Fab...2,50,51 AATC...80 Flex-Pro...80 Accutech Machine, inc...83 Flow International...13,72 Advanced Mold Technology...69 Foresight Finishing...82 AEI Fabrication...8,82 Fry Steel...74 Aerodyne Alloys...20,77 Fullerton Tool...48,77 Aeroform, Inc...83 G&G Custom Metal Fab...82 Aerotech...80 Ganesh Machinery...59,72 AG Machining...81 Gartman Technical...71 AJAC...74 Gillaspie...82 Albina Co, Inc...14,79 Gladhill Associates...74 Alliance Packaging...83 Gladwin Machinery...55,73 Alpha Precision Machining...81 Global EDM Supply...12,73 Application Specialties Inc...72 GMA Garnet Group...38,75 Arizona Finishing...81 GMN...30,75 Arizona Hard Chrome...83 Gold Tech...81 Asko Group...83 Gorilla Metals Inc...74 Atlas Copco...3 Gosiger...74,75 Automatics...7,72 Group Manufacturing...80 Aviation High School...84 Grovtec...49,79 AZ Tool Steel...78 Hangsterfers...72,74 BandSawBlog...74 Hardware Speciality...41 BandSawParts.com...70 Helical...75 Bar-S...80 Horizon Carbide...74 Barton International...44,78 Howard Precision Mach. Prod...84 Bending Solutions...85 Hurco...60 Bilz Tool Co...75 Hydmech...9,72 Bixby Machine Tool Supply...74 Hyundai...62 Blum-Novotest...84 Icon Machine Tools, Inc....57,73 BMSC...40,72 Industrial Machine Services...82 Bourdelais Grinding...81 Industrial Metal Supply Co....36,77 Bralco...76 Industrial Precision Grinding...84 Buyken Metal Products...80 Innovative Tool Sales...80 Byington Steel Treating...81 KD Capital...76 C & M Precision Spindle, Inc...76 King Machine...77 Calbag Recycling...84 Kloeckner Metals-Temtco...46,73 Cascade Engineering Technologies...82 Kwik Mark Inc...66,76 Cascade Systems Tech...79 Lambie Engineering...75 Castrol...87 LaPorte Insurance...10,75 ChemResearch...82 Larkin Precision...83 Chevalier...31,73 Layke Inc...83 Chiron...47,73 Layke Tactical...82 Cimatron...26,77 LMI Machinery...58,73 Clings...84 Machinists Inc....35,79 CNC Machine Services...52,73 Makino...5 Coastal Metals...27,73 Mario Pinto...75 Coating Technologies...80 Marzee Inc...56,79 Columbia Mfg. Services...42,82 Mazak...52 Controlled Thermal Tech...83 MCAM NW...38,73 Current EDM, Inc....76 MET-TEK Inc...80 Cutting Tool Control...77 Metal Products Company...40,79 Cygnet Stamping...81 Methods Machine Tools Inc...17,73 DCM Tech...18,72 Metro Metals Northwest, Inc...82 Delcam...62,54,55,72,77 Micropulse West...81 Design 2 Part...24 Midaco Corporation...74 Dix Metals...43,73 Milco...84 Dolphin Investment Castings...83 Mountain View Machining...81 dtiEXACT...11,79 MP Industrial...3,72 EDM Express...80 North-South Machinery...19,72 EDM Network...65,72 Northwestern Machinery...75 EDM Performance..72,73 NW Metalcraft...81 Edge Technologies...1,17,28,29 NW Rapid Manufacturing...10,79 Ellison Technologies...72,74 OMEP...83 EMKA Beschlagteile...75 ONA EDM USA...77 EPSI...82 Optical Gaging Products Inc...75 Evans Precision...85 Pacific Continental Bank...54,77 Fab-Line Machinery...75 Perry Pallet...77 Fahey Machinery...2,21,50,51,73-75 Phoenix Heat Treat...81 Faustson...80 Pinnacle Precision...81 Fives...77 Plastic Injection Molding...80 A Z MANUFACTURING WEST COAST • 86 • OCT/NOV 2015 2
Portland Precision...82 Precious Metals Plating...49,85 Precision Die & Stamping...80 QUAL-FAB, Inc....79 Resell CNC...64,76 Real Axis Machining...82 Rickard Engineering...79 RJM Sales Solutions...85 Rocky Mountain Saw Blades...77 Roentgen USA...73 Romi Machine Tools...76 Ron Grob...80 Rosco Precision Machinery...60,72 Rotarex...78 Royal products...46,73 Ryerson...31,72 S.L. Fusco...87 Santa Cruz Electronics...25 Savage Machine...47,85 Saw Blade.com...88 Scotttrade Bank Equip Finance...77 Seco...75 Selway Machine Tool Co...72,74 Sentry Insurance...76 Sequoia Brass & Copper...78 Setco Spindles & Slides...77 SigmaTEK...76 SMH Inc LLC...69,79 SMTCL...76 SW Waterjet and Laser..36,79 Specialty Steel...80 Spring Works Utah...80 St. Vrain Manufacturing...80 Star Metal Fluids...73 Steel Services Grinding...81 Streaming Teacher...39,78 Strom Manufacturing...1,28,29,83 Sun Grinding...80 Sunshine Metals...15,76 Superior Grinding...45,79 Sustaining Edge...75 Swift Tool...16,34,68,73,74 TCI Precision Metals...74 Tell Steel...67,76 Teton...82 TFC Plating...81 Thermal-Vac...82 Tormach...25 Treske...24,82 Trusty Cook...33,72 TVT Die Casting...62-63,79 UL DQS Inc...77 Ulbrich..57,73 Ultimate 3D...80 UNIST...23 United Performance Metals...54,74 US Bank Equipment ...77 US Shop Tools...61,76 Vacco Industries...83 Valley Machine Shop...81 Verisurf...75 Vision33...75 Von Ruden Manufacturing, Inc...73 VTN Manufacturing...79 Weiser Engineering...81 Westec...53 Western Precision Products...20,79 Western Sintering...41,79 Wohlhaupter...84 Wrico Stamping...32,79
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