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Editors Corner “No one has ever become poor by giving.” Anne Frank We just finished with the Holiday season, and likely you experienced much of what I did as I visited local merchants during the gift-buying season. Nearly every store I went to asked if I would be willing to donate money or food to their selected charity, and it was easily added to my purchase. How can you say no to St. Jude Hospital?

Charity isn’t done yet, as we have opportunities this quarter to donate to worthy causes, and we have the added benefit to capitalize on a reduction in our taxes when we do so.

So what does charity feel like and how are we faring in the United States?

We don’t yet have 2016 numbers, as the results on 2015 were just recently published, but the news is indeed very good. Charitable donations hit record highs for the past 2 years, reports Giving USA. “If you look at total giving by two-year time spans, the combined growth for 2014 and 2015 hit double digits, reaching 10.1 percent when calculated using inflation-adjusted dollars,” said Giving USA Foundation ChairW. Keith Curtis. “But these findings embody more than numbers—they also are a symbol of the American spirit. It’s heartening that people really do want to make a difference, and they’re supporting the causes that matter to them. Americans are embracing philanthropy at a higher level than ever before.”

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Patrick M. Rooney, Ph.D., associate dean at the Indiana University elaborates, “Philanthropy is quite democratic and always has been—more people give than vote in the U.S. —and $20, $10 and $1 gifts do make a cumulative difference.” In fact, inflation-adjusted total giving outpaced the growth of our nations GDP!

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Literally, inflation-adjusted total giving grew at an annualized average rate of 3.6 percent during that time frame; meanwhile, GDP growth grew at an average rate of 2 percent. Isn’t that a fascinating statistic, that growth in total giving has been outpacing growth in our nation’s GDP?

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While we are very generous, indeed, some researchers suggest that there are common mistakes we make when giving to charity. Carnegie Mellon University’s Christopher Olivola and Lunch Break’s Tanya Rivero discuss mistakes people make when considering a charitable donation, and one is notable to discuss.

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One mistake they term the ‘The Martyrdom effect’, which means we have the tendency to prefer forms of giving that involve significant sacrifice and effort.This means that when we assess the trade-offs of various forms of giving, we are biased to admire the more-challenging ways of helping (e.g., volunteering in a poor country); even when easier means (e.g., donating money) are far more effective.

They cite a hypothetical scenario involving two physicians,William andTheodore.After completing his residency, William opened up a private practice and earns a generous salary. Every year he donates $50,000 to Doctors Without Borders, which helps treat people in poor countries. His donations save 500 lives a year and help treat hundreds more.

After completing his residency, Theodore joined Doctors Without Borders and earns a salary of $23,000. He lives in the rural villages of various poor countries. He works with sick and injured people, and through his work, he saves 200 lives every year and treats hundreds more.

Which of these physicians is leading a more admirable life? And who is doing more to improve the welfare of other human beings?While the obvious answer mathematical answer isWilliam, most of those surveyed felt that Theodore was leading a more-admirable life, and that he was doing more to improve the welfare of others, even though he saved fewer lives than William.

Well, researchers call this a mistake, and I say whatever you do to be charitable, make it your own choice. May 2017 be a great year and God bless our troops!

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Announcements & Releases Haas Factory Outlet-Phoenix Invites Machinists to CNC Training Mill and lathe classes are scheduled every other month. Each course consists of 3 days of hands on instruction led by a Haas Certified Instructor. Students will learn the basics of the Haas control, operation of machines, and Haas programming using G & M codes. Classes are help Monday through Wednesday from 3:30 to 7 pm.

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“These victories were ofrequirements. this will help small and large manufacturers better compete in the global economy.” to meet stringent industry and customer no accident,” stated Timmons, Arizona CNC Welcomes whoaim attributed success program due to is to assess process capability for The of the Nadcap “For more than 20 years, the NAM has led the fight for a permanent research and development tax credit manufacturers’ raised voices. compliance to industry standards andthat customer requirements.

By robust Timothy Gaylor tocountries—so Its can compete with the more research incentives of other that manufacturers will awarding this accreditation for laser processing, Nadcap recognizes be better able to innovate here in theTeam United States. As the year came to a close, that goal became a reality.”

“2015 wave of historic Rolledbrought Alloys’ acommitment to continual improvement in aerospace legislative and legal victories quality.

Arizona CNC is at pleased to of announce “Manufacturers also secured other key tax provisions the end the year, such as the suspension of the for manufacturers, following the addition of Timothy Gaylor to their medical device tax and a delay of the employee benefits tax, also known as the ‘Cadillac’ tax.”

“Compliance via Nadcap is a milestone in demonstrating months—and in someaccreditation cases team. Tim will support Arizona CNC’s manufacturing excellence.” said Joe Pinto, Executive Vice President years—of aggressive advocacy customers in Arizona and Southern and Chief Operating Officer at the Performance Review “There’s still moreInstitute. work to “By be done inNevada.

2016, but we will build on our successes from 2015 so that manufrom the NAM. Not only did obtaining Nadcap in nonconventional machining, Rolled Alloys have facturers can compete to win for America.” we secure landmark provisions proved to the industry that they are committed to quality and aerospace Tim brings a wealth of experience to Arizona CNC’s customers. His in Congress’ year-end omnibus safety.”

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Arizona CNC President and Owner GregWhelan says, “We are so pleased to have Tim join our team. In just the short time he has been with us, he is having an immediate impact. Customers appreciate his technical knowledge — Tim was an owner and user of Okuma machine tools, and his extensive knowledge of machine tool controls and applications experience is invaluable to our customers.”

Tim says, “I know the team at Arizona CNC from my purchase of the Okuma a few years ago. Arizona CNC sells the best machine tools in the industry, from Okuma, to Tsugami, Hardinge, Omax and Hermle, and this helped me to make the decision to join the team. I can proudly sell these fine products, and I know that I am backed up with their superior service team.”

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ASI Manufacturing Adds New Machine Tools ASI Manufacturing, manufacturer of precision aerospace, medical device, military, automotive and other close tolerance parts, is pleased to A2Z MANUFACTURING SW •

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announce that their latest equipment upgrade includes a Ganesh Cyclone 78MSY 6 axis, twin spindle, mill/turn center with a full, true “Y” axis.

The Ganesh Cyclone allows complete turning and milling on the front and back side for a finished part in just one operation. It features 3” main spindle bar capacity, 8” and 10” 3-jaw chucks and synchronized “C” axis on the main and sub spindle. An ATS collet system further extends the capability of this state of the art mill/turn center.

“This Ganesh Cyclone dramatically speeds up production of any part,” commented ASI VP of Operations Michael Manning. “It is ideal for close tolerance, high volume complex part runs. We are seeing time studies drop from as much as over an hour to less than 15 minutes due to avoiding multiple operations. Our Engineering Manager Bob Petee is a wizard with SolidWorks and FeatureCAM, so the range of parts capability is off the charts. Our clients have been very impressed with this Ganesh and its ability to do complex parts with precision and speed.”

ASI Manufacturing services cover a broad range of parts including: Aerospace Fuel-Control Systems Hydraulic and Pneumatic Components Electromechanical Applications Medical Device and Equipment Firearms Manufacture ASI Manufacturing takes pride in its personal service and commitment to on-time delivery.To learn more about ASI Manufacturing’s capabilities and ability to manufacture your parts quickly and perfectly, call Michael Manning at 480-367-9540 at ASI Manufacturing’s facility in Scottsdale, Arizona.

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Founded in 1969 by Jose Trimino in the City of Paramount, with only one truck, a handful of employees and a few customers Sav-on Plating has been able to carve out a name through hard work and dedication.

Sav-on Plating has always been a family owned business, the current owner Joseph Trimino purchased the business from the founder in the early 2000’s.The continuous expansion’s under Joseph Trimino now totaling over 62,000 sq. feet in facilities. Sav-on Plating distinguishes itself from its competitors through quality, service and pricing. Specializing in barrel and rack plating. SAV-ON PLATING’s automated lines can handle all of your plating needs, with its success in the metal finishing industry.

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D&R Machinery Adds GF Machining Solutions To Their Portfolio of Machine Tools D&R Machinery is pleased to announce that late last year it was selected by GF Machining Solutions as the machine tool dealer for Arizona.

Randy Flores, President of the company, says, “Today, D&R Machinery has more choices for 5 AXIS CNC Milling machines than any distributor in Arizona.Whether you need basic, performance, power, accuracy or size, or a combination of all of the above, we have a 5 Axis machine to fit your application. These A2Z MANUFACTURING SW •

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are world class brands to choose from.” D&R Machine’s portfolio of 5 axis machines include GF Machining Solutions Mikron line, Hurco, Bumotec, Handtmann and Toyoda.

Randy elaborates, “When all you need is everything, it’s good to know that there is one company that you can count on to deliver complete solutions and services. From world class electrical discharge machines (EDM), Laser texturing and Additive Manufacturing through to first-class Milling and Spindles, Tooling, Automation and software systems all backed by unrivalled Customer Services and support we, through our AgieCharmilles, Mikron Mill, Microlution, Liechti, Step-Tec and System 3R technologies, help you raise your game and increase your competitive edge.”

MIKRON, from GF Machining Solutions: Need high end, HIGH SPEED PERFORMANCE and high accuracy? Mikron is the answer.

Mikron machines also feature available built in, integrated PALLET CHANGING capabilities for production runs or high mix, low volumn manufacturing. Mikron has 16 different versatile models.

Hurco USA: The most affordable range of 5 Axis machines available. These easy to use 5 axis machines won’t break the bank. The award winning Hurco Winmax control has the shortest learning curve in the industry.You can be programming 5 sided parts with just a few days of training, with or without a cad cam system. Hurco has 12 5 Axis milling machine models to choose from.

Toyoda USA: Need brute force? HIGH TORQUE and high metal removal rates? Toyoda has BOX WAY, heavy duty machines for your high temp alloys like Hastelloy, Inconel, and Nichrome. Toyoda has 6 INNOVATIVE design 5 Axis models to choose from.

Handtmann: These uniquely customizable horizontal 5 axis machines are state of the art and just the tip of the iceberg for Handtmann models. SPEED, PRECISION and SIZE. Handtmann has 3Trunnion models, 2 aluminum panel machines, 3 5 axis profile machines and 2 universal 5 axis models.

Founded in 1999, D&R Machinery is a distributor of high quality CNC machine tools and related products. We offer expert factory trained, full service, applications support and training on all the products we Announcements Continued Page 16

beds, flatbeds, and truck accessories.

The full service shop runs 2 hydraulic press brakes, a ¼” x 12’ shear, bandsaws, tubing benders, a sheet metal roller, pneumatic tapping machine, hydraulic punch, welders, and an abrasive waterjet machine.The company operates 40 hours a week and powering all that machinery requires considerable energy.

A desire to run an environmentally friendly business, combined with rising electricity rates, led owners Jeremy and Jason Creed to do a cost-benefit analysis of converting the 10,000+ square foot Creedbilt facility to clean solar energy.

In July of 2014, Creedbilt’s 42 kilowatt solar energy system was put into service.

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D&R Machinery’s target market is companies of any size. D&R Machinery has experience working with job shops, manufacturing firms, mold shops, aerospace, medical mfg and defense contractors, commercial component suppliers as well as manufacturers in the electronics industry.

To learn more about how D&R Machiery can help you with your machine tool needs, particularly with its 5 axis machining centers, call them at 480-775-6462 or visit dandrmachinery.com

Creedbilt Continues To Optimize Its Business With Green Technology More than two years ago, the owners of Creedbilt, Inc. joined the leaders of some of the brightest, most competitive companies in America by choosing to power their business using solar energy.

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Nearly 2.5 years later, Creedbilt is realizing the cost savings and the payback in the time frame they projected. Jeremy says, “About the only thing we weren’t using solar energy for in our plant was our forklift, which utilized gasoline and produces hydrocarbons.” Not anymore — the team just purchased its first electric fork lift manufactured by Hyster®.” He continued,The Hyster® 4 wheel electric counterbalance forklifts are the most productive and energy efficient forklifts on the market.”

Jeremy and Jason utilized the Section 179 deduction for 2016 to purchase the Hyster® and other equipment, since it was a good year for the business. Jeremy says, “To stay competitive, we recognize that we must continue to utilize new technologies for cost containment. It is an added benefit that what we are doing is very environmentally friendly.”

To learn more about how Creedbilt can help you with your fabrication needs, with cost effective solutions, contact them at 623-939-8119 or visit creedbilt.com

Flex-Pro Manufacturing Acquires New TESA CMM To Enhance Quality For It’s Customers Flex-Pro Manufacturing, an ISO 9001/ AS9100 certified precision machine shop, is pleased to announce that it has added a new CMM to better serve its customers.

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We thank you for your business! Owners Doug & Jill Cone Announcements & Releases Continued Kim Carpenter, who supports the company’s sales and marketing, says, “The new micro-hite 3D Measurement Station enhances our traditional manual measuring tools and provides automatic data collection and analysis for a variety of shop floor measurement and inspection applications. Every great shop will continue to measure most components after each operation right off the CNC machine with hand tools to maintain accuracy.The CMM or Coordinate Measuring Machine is a highly productive tool to maintain constant measurement of high tolerance components consistently.�

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Veteran-Owned Precision Metal Mfg Celebrates 9 Years in Business Veteran owner Sean Derivan founded Precision Metal Mfg 9 years ago. After first learning the fabrication trade in high school (they had superior fabrication technical programs where he grew up in A2Z MANUFACTURING SW •

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Ohio), Sean continued to hone his fabrication skills in North Carolina, where he worked for a food service equipment manufacturer.

Life decisions and family brought him to the Phoenix area years later.

In 2007, Sean opened his own business, supporting customers with their fabrication requirements.

Today, the company offers complete fabrication from concept to assembly.

They are expert in sheet metal, tube bending, welding, high definition plasma cutting, band saw, and slip roll.

Earlier this year, Sean made the decision to expand his business with a Sales and Administration team member. Sean says, “I used to buy metal from Dee Avendano when she worked as a metals distributor.

We worked very well together, and when I was looking to expand the business with sales talent, Dee responded to my ad.� Sean says that Dee has been instrumental in bringing on new customers to the business, and he is excited about the continued growth that the company is seeing.

Just hear from their customers! “We have been doing business with Precision Metal both directly and indirectly for nearly 6 years now and we have found that Sean and his team do the best work in the business. We tried at times to bring in another supplier but always ended up costing us in the end because the quality just wasn’t there that we expected and always received from Precision Metal. We continue doing business with Precision Metal because of the high quality of work and competitive pricing but more importantly their continued strive to meet our SLAs and exceed our expectations.� Brian Announcements Continued Page 20

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Contact us at 888-572-9642 • admin@sustainingedge.com Announcements & Releases Continued “Sean and his team helped me to finalize a design for a special tool box that helps us organize our myriad of parts.They were incredibly knowledgeable and fair. The job was done right the first time and they helped me install the first one to ensure a good fit and finish. Precision Metal Mfg. is flat out amazing at what they do and how they get it done.” John If you are looking for an experienced sheet metal/ fabrication company, one that is Veteran-Owned, contact Precision Metal Manufacturing at 480-987-2466 or visit azpmm.com

Cassavant Machining Launches New Business, Cassavant Assembly & Processing LLC (CAP) Cassavant Machining Inc. Launches New Business, Cassavant Assembly & Processing LLC (CAP).

and JR Cassavant approached me to help start-up this new business, it was just too exciting an opportunity to pass up.”

The build-out of the new ~20,000 square foot state-of-the-art processing business, with all approvals, took much longer than expected, but beginning late last year, the new business was operational.

CAP offers Type 1,2, and 3 Anodize, Chemfilm, Passivation, PrePenetrant Etch, Coatings and Paint, as well as Non-Destructive Testing (NDT), both Penetrant and Mag Particle.)

Joe says, “We are now approved for special processing for Honeywell, so machine shops manufacturing Honeywell parts can now come to CAP for their special processing.” JR adds, “When we were outsourcing our special processing to 3rd parties, literally 50% of our rework was the result of poor handling of parts, resulting in nicks, dings, scratches and other damage.”

Cassavant Machining is a successful family-owned business that manufactures precision parts, and one of their largest customers is Honeywell.

If you are manufacturing parts for Honeywell, the team at CAP is confident your Quality and On-Time Delivery report cards will improve using their services. Joe says that CAP’s systems work best when their customers have forecasts and production requirements that can be shared.

Joe Martinez, General Manager for CAP, had forged a relationship with Cassavant Machining Inc. while he was employed by Honeywell. Joe says, “I retired from Honeywell, and was planning the next chapter in my life. When Ed

Peter Doyle, Quality Manager for CAP, stated “Cassavant Assembly and Processing (CAP) has been successfully audited by Honeywell to

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special processing for any customer. Joe says that once this accreditation is completed, the company will be prepared to seek approvals from other Prime customers such as Boeing, Woodward, G.E, BAE, UTC, Bell Helicopter and MD Helicopter.

Cimatron is now part of 3D Systems THINGS ARE GETTING BIGGER AND BETTER As one of the early pioneers developing CAD/CAM software for manufacturing, Cimatron will continue its 33 year legacy going forward as part of 3D Systems.

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Come tour the pristine, high tech CAP facility, and you will undoubtedly add them to your list of superior suppliers. They can be reached at 602-466-2061 or email Joe Martinez at joe. martinez@capphx.com

KLK Cer tifies To AS9100 Revision C K L K Incorporated is pleased to announce that they recently certified to AS9100 Revision C. Late in 2014, the company certified to ISO9001 with the help of consulting organization BMSC. Lee DuVall, family member and manufacturing manager, says, “We strategically made the decision to certify to ISO 9001 first. Our customers valued the ISO certification, and we would grow the business before embarking upon AS9100 certification.

In 2016, we contracted with Debbie Hart of H2H Consulting in partnership with BMSC to prepare for AS9100 certification.”

James Wilkinson and Phil Donimari took the lead in working with Debbie Hart to prepare for AS9100. Both agree the AS9100 certification process was easier since they had already gone through the ISO 9001 certification process, and were AS9100 compliant 2 years ago.

the AS9003A Standard.The AS9003A standardizes, to the greatest extent possible, inspection and test quality system requirements for suppliers that provide aerospace products. This allowed us to obtain our current Honeywell approvals in NDT, Chemical Processing, and Painting, with minimal effort.”

Lee says the company is planning one large process improvement project each year. In 2016, the company’s tool crib was the focus for improvement, and in Q1 of 2017, the management team will select the next area of focus.

Peter continued, “As preparation for our upcoming NADCAP Audits, CAP, is also now compliant with the requirements of the PRI/NADCAP AC7004 Standard.” The AC7004 Standard is based on the SAE AS9100 requirements with the exception of the design and development areas, since these areas are controlled by the Prime Customers. Compliance to these standards allows CAP to continually provide safe reliable products that meet or exceed customer and applicable statutory and regulatory requirements.

KLK is a full service manufacturer, specializing in precision sheet metal; CNC machined parts, welding, and electro/mechanical assemblies.

We are dedicated to our customers— whether they require small prototypes or large production runs. KLK coordinates with our

In the next quarter, CAP expects to complete the NADCAP accreditation for approvals to do

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Global EDM Announces Expansion and Opportunities For Employment in Southern CA and Arizona Global EDM is expanding, and is seeking qualified sales candidates for the Southern California and Arizona markets.

Global EDM supplies latest EDM technology across a wide range of top quality EDM machine brands, EDM consumables, providing turnkey application solutions for your specific electric discharge machining requirements.

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Each of the additive manufacturing labs is outfitted with 18 printers including direct metal printing (DMP), select laser sintering (SLS), stereolithography (SLA) and Multi- Zeiss Industrial Metrology Opens Detroit Area Tech Center Jet models running 14 different materials.

Zeiss Industrial Metrology opens a new facility in Wixom, Michigan, dedicated to the latest A full complement of postprocessing developments for the process chain in car body metrology and automated inspection. equipment such as EDM, CNC machining, automation and inspection is also onsite “This center helps us illustrate how to make production more efficient in line, in the measuring and each location is fully staffed by a team room, and in-between. This means production and quality can find solutions to problems anytime, of sales, application engineers and service from anywhere in the manufacturing facility. Zeiss also showcases solutions for robotic inspection, technicians. quality and process data mining, plus measurement planning and offline programming,” states Bob Wasilesky, key account manager for automated inspection at Zeiss Industrial Metrology.

“Our new additive labs are ideal for manufacturing professionals to consult “This facility provides a one-stop shop for customers to come in and see the full range of ZEISS automated inspection solutions first hand,” Wasilesky says. “The design focuses on learning, with our experts and explore ways to design and dedicated stations highlighting the interaction of ZEISS technologies in the process chain.” produce their components using the latest A2Z MANUFACTURING SW •

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R&D Gage Celebrates 30 Years In Business!

It is hard to imagine that a company who has never had a sales person can be celebrating 30 years in business in a very competitive manufacturing environment in Arizona. But R&D Gage has done just that, and they make high precision, small parts that go into missiles, space shuttles, and other critical aerospace and defense products.

Owner Bob Erickson has manufacturing in his blood. His father was a machinist and spent many years of his career at Honeywell, Bob’s 2 brothers, both in Phoenix, also worked in the industry; one owns his own business (Wire-Tech) and the second just recently retired from Honeywell. Bob learned the trade from young age, and he spent many years working at Precision Die & Stamp, owned by Ben Costabile. “I wouldn’t be where I am today if it weren’t for Ben”, Bob says.

30 years ago, Bob and his wife Deva launched their own business, which they named R&D Gage. In the early years, they secured customers with their tooling and gage capabilities. Bob says that the only tooling they do today is for their internal consumption.Today, their business is almost exclusively manufacturing aerospace parts, and their customers hale from Arizona, California and the Northeast. Bob is a journeyman machinist, and he is expert at manual machining, a skill that you will be hard pressed to find today. It was son Rob who brought the company into CNC machining. “We bought our first CNC machine in 1995 (a mill), and in 1997 we purchased our first Okuma machine, a lathe”, Bob says. Deva says that prior to purchasing their first Okuma machine, Rob did extensive research and determined it was the best machine brand for the company. Since the 1997 purchase, every lathe purchased over the past 2 decades has been an Okuma.Their latest acquisition, the Okuma GENOS L250, is an affordable, entry-level, lathe that takes up as little as 30 square feet of floor space. Rob particularly valued the OSP-P300 interface that the GENOS L250 offers. Okuma dealer Arizona CNC’s Account Manager Jim Levesque, says, “The OSP-P300 uses a process-based user interface rather than the traditional mode-based operational layout. The process-based platform is most evident in the EASY OPERATION interface, which centralizes data in one easy-to-access screen, displacing the cumbersome process of back-and-forth through five or six screens.” Rob says instrumental in his decision to continue to purchase Okuma machine tools is the fact that older programs run seamlessly on the new machines.

Rob says that the first Okuma purchase was through the local Okuma dealer 2 decades ago. He says, “Within a year of our purchase, Okuma cancelled that dealer and made Arizona CNC the local dealer.We were so mad — we didn’t know a thing about Arizona CNC.” It took some time, but the team at R&D Gage learned that the service they would consistently receive from Arizona CNC was outstanding. Deva says, “They come within 24 hours after we have contacted them with an issue.”The Ericksons also value the fact that they have been working with Jim Levesque for the past 15 years now.

“The Okuma machines are the ‘BMW’ of the industry”, Deva says. Bob adds, “Our Okuma machines last forever” (pictured to the left is the nearly 20 year old Okuma that still machines parts today). R&D Gage has 5-axis machining capabilities with their Okuma machines, and in Rob’s words, “The Okuma GENOS L250E fits the bill for our requirements for increased capacity and a machine with a small footprint.”

R&D Gage gets superior report cards from their customers, and the owners agree that much of the reason for this is their employees. Deva says, “Until recently when we had some of our long term employees leave, mostly through retirement, our average tenure with R&D Gage was 10 years.” She continued, “Our team is like family, and not only do we provide competitive wages, when we have a good year, we share our good fortune with our team, and we provide 100% medical insurance to all.”

To learn more about how R&D Gage, a quiet company with a superior reputation, can help you with your precision manufacturing needs, contact them at 480-829-9531 or email them at deva@rdgage.com.

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Orders for machine tools and related equipment skyrocketed 56% to $497.25 million from an adjusted $319 million in August, AMT (McLean,VA) said.The orders were up 52% from September 2015 levels of $327.1 million.

AMT produces and organizes the International Manufacturing Technology Show, held every other year in Chicago.The group dubbed the order surge in September the “IMTS effect.”

At the same time, AMT cautioned a sustained recovery in manufacturing tech orders has not yet arrived.

“This year’s uptick in orders indicates manufacturers are eager to see and confident enough to invest in the latest manufacturing technology,” Douglas K. Woods, AMT’s president, said in a statement. But he added, that “the momentum will slow heading into 2017.”

For the first nine months, orders slid 6.4% to $2.91 billion, according to AMT. The figures are based on companies participating in AMT’s US ManufacturingTechnology Orders program. Pat McGibbon, an AMT vice president, said in the statement the group expects full-year 2016 orders to fall 8% compared with 2015.

AMT has previously said it expects a sustained recovery for machine tools in the spring of 2017. Source: Advancedmanufacturing.org

Boeing begins final assembly on first 787-10 Dreamliner Boeing teammates started final assembly of the first 787-10 Dreamliner, on-time, for the development program. The first 787-10 will cycle through Boeing South Carolina’s Final Assembly facility as all major sections are joined, interior and exterior components completed, power turned on, and production A Z MANUFACTURING WEST COAST • 70 • APR/MAY 2015 2

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“As we enter the next phase of the 787-10’s development, we eagerly watch our first airplane come to life,” said Ken Sanger, vice president and general manager, 787 Airplane Development, Boeing Commercial Airplanes.

“This is the result of years of preparation and solid performance by our Boeing teammates and supplier par tners.

This achievement is another example that demonstrates Boeing’s ability to develop great airplanes in a disciplined fashion in order to meet our customer commitments.”

The first 787-10 is expected to fly in 2017 and first delivery is scheduled for 2018.

The 787-10 is the third member of the 787 Dreamliner family. As a stretch of the 787-9, the 787-10 will retain 95% commonality while adding seats and cargo capacity. Boeing expects 25% better fuel per seat and emissions than the airplanes it will replace.

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Aerospace-Defense Sector Outlook Improving Despite Global Trade Risks Despite some global trade uncertainties created as a result of the U.S. election, Fitch Ratings boosted its overall outlook of the aerospace and defense industry to positive from stable.

Still, Fitch said there are global trade risks ahead that could hurt commercial aerospace companies. Analysts have suggested that President-elect Donald Trump’s talk about tougher trade policies with China, in particular, could impact some aircraft buying overseas.

“Revised trade policies emerging from the recent U.S. election could negatively affect the competitiveness of North American commercial aerospace companies,” Fitch said in its 2017 Outlook: Global Aerospace & Defense report. “More restrictive trade policies could also disrupt the global aerospace supply chain.”

Overall, the rating agency said it expects the stable outlook is justified given positive trends within aerospace and defense segments “offsets political risks, new aircraft program ramp-ups and business jet sector weakness.”

On the large commercial aircraft side, the ratings agency said the number of aircraft from Boeing and Airbus is expected to rise about 8 percent next year and grow by 4 percent in 2018. It also sees global airline A2Z MANUFACTURING SW •

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to continued low fuel costs.

passenger traffic trends suppor ting the positive trends as well as industry forecasts for improved global airline profits due

Fitch also observed there is additional political risk from the U.S. government’s Export-Import Bank, which Boeing’s commercial airplanes business and other manufacturers depend on for financing international customers.

“The future of the U.S. Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im) is another development to watch, as shutting the Ex-Im bank could negatively affect the competitiveness of U.S.-based aerospace manufacturers,” said Fitch.

Some lawmakers consider the Ex-Im Bank, which provided financing for just over 10 percent of Boeing’s aircraft sales in 2015, a form of corporate welfare and would like to eliminate it. That said, backers of the financial institution say if that happens U.S. companies with international sales could potentially find themselves at a disadvantage

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According to Fitch, Airbus and Boeing combined had 12,345 aircraft on their order books as of October 2016, which it said was roughly equivalent to eight years’ worth of deliveries.The total value of those orders was as much as $875 billion.

Although the ratings agency didn’t mention it, some industry analysts also have pointed to potential risk from higher interest rates that they believe could result in some airlines slowing their aircraft replacement buying programs.

For 2017 alone, Fitch estimated that around $120 billion to $125 billion in global financing would be needed for new commercial aircraft from Boeing, Airbus, Bombardier and Embraer.

Meantime, on the defense side Fitch said it sees 3 percent to 5 percent spending growth on a global basis over the next three years. It projected that the U.S. budget accounts for 45 percent to 50 percent of the total defense market, but added that the growth domestically is less than the international market.

Fitch said it expects the results of the U.S. elections could result in “upside” potential for U.S. military spending and more business for defense companies.

As reported, President-elect Trump has promised to increase the

number of U.S. Navy ships and add more aircraft to the military. Also, he has pledged to boost the number of U.S. troops, which has been seen as a positive for both ammunition companies and missile manufacturers.

“Cost overruns or delays on new programs are risks to the outlook in both the commercial and defense sectors,” Fitch said. “On the defense side, risks include the budget cap overhang in the U.S., additional continuing resolutions and political disruptions.” Source: CNBC.com

Musk Joins Presidential Advisory Panel SpaceX founder Elon Musk has joined President-elect Donald Trump’s Strategic and Policy Forum, an advisory board on economic issues.

Trump and senior advisers recently met with Musk, Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos and several other tech representatives.

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Amazon Delivers First Retail Package By Drone In 13 Minutes Amazon Prime Air made its first official delivery by drone to a customer in the UK, CEO Jeff Bezos tweeted last month.

The order, which consisted of a bag of popcorn and an Amazon Fire Stick, landed at the customer’s door 13 minutes after it was placed.

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ASU Research Park Has $1.4B Impact, Generates 16K Jobs The ASU Research Park has a $1.4 billion economic impact and the companies at the R&D and business park generate more than 16,100 jobs.

That is according to a new economic impact report by Arizona State University’s W.P. Carey School of Business.

The 320-acre research park has 51 tenants including Amazon, Avnet, GoDaddy, Iridium and Amkor Technology.

There are also ASU electronics and solar research groups at the park located at the Loop 101 freeway and Warner Road in Tempe.

Tenants at the park employ 6,000 workers.

“The ASU Research Park operations and its tenants have a very significant economic impact on our state,” said Morgan Olsen, ASU Research Park Board president and ASU’s executive vice president, treasurer and CFO. “The combination of the park’s unparalleled business environment and Arizona State University’s commitment to conducting interdisciplinary, use-inspired research will continue to attract great companies and a highly-skilled workforce, and will bring new jobs to our state.”

It served as an experimental farm before being developed in 1984 into an office and research park.

Sunbelt Holdings helps ASU operate and lease out space at the 1.8 millionsquare-foot park. source: Phoenix Business Journal

Donald Trump May Increase US Military Spending; China, UK, India Follow In Defense Budgets Global defense budgets will continue to rise in the face of increased tensions between world powers and geopolitical instability, according to IHS Jane’s latest annual Defense Budgets report. The analysis put the United States as the frontrunner in military spending, followed by China, United Kingdom and India.

“Defense spending returned to a healthy rate of growth in 2016, kicking off what we expect to be a decade of stronger global defense spending,” said Fenella McGerty, principal analyst at the London-based defense and security analysis firm, in a statement. “Defense spending should recover to pre-financial crisis levels by 2018.”

According to the report, global military expenditure rose to $1.57 trillion this year, as compared to $1.55 trillion in 2015. It looks at the defense spending for 105 countries, capturing 99 percent of global defense spending, IHS Jane’s press release says .

Here are the major trends seen in the report: United States - The U.S. is the world leader in defense spending with $622 billion spent on the military in 2016. The country’s defense budget A2Z MANUFACTURING SW •

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The construction mogul’s Defense Department spending plans include 350 new Navy ships, 1,200 aircraft, equipment and weapons for at least 65,000 new Army soldiers and at least 13,000 more Marines. While there is no indication of how much all this will cost, defense analysts estimate it around $90 billion per year in spending increases.

The country’s “investment levels going forward were to decrease by 1.1 percent in real terms, but with the election of Trump, the expectation is that both investment and readiness will receive injections of much needed funds,” Guy Eastman, a senior analyst at IHS Jane’s, said.

China - According to the report’s forecast, the Asian giant will almost double its defense budget from $123 billion in 2010 to $233 billion in 2020 — four times that of the UK and more than the combined spending of Western Europe. This has been attributed to regional tensions, like the South China Sea altercations, and the need for power projection.

Europe - For the first time since 2010, European defense budgets have risen, mostly because of the deteriorating security situation in the region.

While the combined budget for the European Union in 2016 was $219 billion, it is expected to stand at $230.4 billion in 2020.

“However, growth could be set back if the region’s economic recovery is derailed by the ongoing difficulties in Southern Europe as well as uncertainty surrounding the UK’s negotiations to leave the EU,” McGerty said.

India - The South Asian country has overtaken Saudi Arabia and Russia to become the fourth-largest spender in the world. India spent $50.6 billion in 2016 on defense, up from $46.6 billion from the year before. If the pound continues to weaken, India will spend more on defense than the U.K. by 2018, the report shows.

“Procurement spending has been constrained in India over the last three years as personnel costs have increased,” Craig Caffrey, principal analyst, IHS Jane’s, said in the statement. “However, what we expect to see from 2017 onwards is a military focused on modernization. India needs new equipment to fulfill its modernization drive. Over the next three years, India will re-emerge as a key growth market for defense suppliers.”

Russia - Russia’s defense expenditure saw its first reduction since the late 1990s, causing the country to drop to the sixth position in the report.

“We expect the Russian defense budget to fall again next year and it will sit below France in the number seven position by 2020, based on current plans, with a total defense budget of $41.4 billion,” Caffrey said.

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How U.S. Manufacturing Is About to Get Smarter Here’s a paradox of America’s highly automated, increasingly labor-independent manufacturing: While sophisticated, for the most part, it isn’t all that high-tech. Picture metal-stamping machines in an auto-parts factory that can easily have a long useful life of up to 40 years.

Now picture the assembly line just outside Austin, Texas, where Samsung Electronics Co. makes core chips for Apple Inc.’s iPhones. I toured the facility last summer. It is a pristine white environment filled with WALL-E-like robots ferrying boxes full of silicon wafers from one station to the next. Every detail of the factory is measured by sensors pouring data into a centralized repository where it can be processed to optimize production.The only humans present are there to fix the machines doing all the work.

But that means there is still a big opportunity to use in manufacturing all the learning Silicon Valley has applied to, for example, advertising. “People are really thinking about applying venture capital and technology innovation to things that are 10 times the size of the ad market,” says Jon Sobel, chief executive of Sight Machine Inc., which helps companies process all the data coming off their assembly lines. Manufacturing is a $12 trillion industry globally a year. Annual spending on ads globally is just north of a half a trillion dollars.

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the industrial Internet of Things, smart factories—but at base it is about harvesting as much data as possible from all the machines in factories, shipping it to the cloud, parsing it with artificial intelligence, and using the results to make those factories more productive, less costly to operate, and more reliable.

Here are examples of what this “revolution” can accomplish: deciphering how ambient air temperature affects productivity of an entire factory. Or ramping up and down production in a way that is more responsive to sales. Or preventing unplanned downtime, as when a single critical machine breaks unexpectedly, which can be incredibly costly because it can hold up an enormous production line stretching from raw materials to finished goods.

We’ve seen this “preventive maintenance” pioneered in jet planes and even our cars, where sensors plus software can determine in advance when a part will fail and alert operators to pre-emptively replace it.

I’d thought, based on all the industry chatter about the “industrial internet,” that we were pretty far along in this process. But that turns out not to be the case.

Even General Electric Inc.—which along with Siemens AG, International Business Machines Corp., Cisco Systems Inc. and others has been a major proponent of the industrial internet in the U.S.—has faced challenges implementing the new process in its own manufacturing facilities.

“Candidly, one of the things we work on is how we can get our legacy equipment connected,” says Karen Kerr, senior managing director at GE Ventures. GE has nearly 500 factories, and the company’s goal is to transform 75 of them into smart, connected factories this year.

Part of the challenge is to properly use the hardware companies already have. Newer machinery is bristling with sensors and data ports that are typically only used when these machines are being built or repaired, says Dennis Hodges, chief information officer of Inteva Products LLC, a major manufacturer

of auto parts. Though the data from these sensors was never intended to be used for real-time insight into how a machine is doing, it turns out that even indirect measures of a machine’s health, like its temperature, can be combined with other data to allow engineers to understand things about a device they can’t measure directly, and what to do to keep them from breaking.

Others are working on ways to put additional sensors where they weren’t previously—an effort that creates new challenges, like how to power them all.

Recently I put on a smartwatch on that could be a harbinger of this sensors-everywhere future.

The Matrix PowerWatch, launching this week, never needs recharging. Its power source is thermoelectrics, which means that it can turn any difference in temperature—typically that between a solid object and the air around with it—into electricity. As I looked at it, a little power bar slowly grew, until the watch was generating 200 microwatts of energy harvested directly from my body heat. It is a relatively tiny amount of power, but enough for a smartwatch—or for the sensors and transmitters deployed in smart factories.

Power sources like this, or solar panels, or piezoelectrics, which gets power from vibrations, are key to getting sensors onto more of our built environment, preventing the cost and time in changing sensor batteries.

“You want to be able to put it there and forget about it,” says Mr. Hodges of Inteva. “Just the fact that you don’t have to run power or a network drop could really be an interesting thing,” he adds, especially in factories that are up to 750,000 square feet, as some of Inteva’s are. Such devices, combining a sensor, wireless transmission and Matrix’s energy technology, are under development by Civionics Inc., says CEO Gerry Roston.

The application of these technologies to watches and manufacturing is just the beginning. Civionics’ customers include a company that monitors the health of bridges in India, and a multinational mining giant that needs to put sensors on its largest and most expensive equipment.The giants in these fields have taken notice— 3M Co. is a strategic investor in Matrix, and GE is an investor in Sight Machine.

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Last month, the State Department approved a possible sale of 37 Boeing (BA) Apache helicopters to the United Arab Emirates along with engines and other spare parts for an estimated $3.5 billion, according to the Defense Security Cooperation Agency.

An estimated $3.51 billion order for 48 Boeing Chinook helicopters, related equipment, training, and support was approved for Saudi Arabia.

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CTM Magnetics Certifies To ISO 9001: 2015 CTM Magnetics is an extraordinary company, selling to the largest OEMs. The company, purchased by Ken MacLennan in 1980, became a partnership in 1990 when Ken’s son Grant joined the business.

Today, Ken, at 77 years of age, allows Grant to run the family business. Grant says, “Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, we engineered and manufactured custom transformers and inductors for medical electronics, professional audio and some military.The business model was impossible to scale as competitors would copy our designs and manufacture in Asia or Mexico at significant discounts with no engineering investment. We managed to grow by 50% in the ‘90’s but China and Mexico were killing us. CTM partnered with a manufacturing company in Agua Prieta, MX in 2000 to compete and we were able to grow another 50% by 2003.”

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Millions of dollars of oil production were being lost; our customer needed an inductor to filter this high frequency, harmonic noise before it could get to the pump motor.”

Grant is not an engineer by education, he studied finance in undergrad, but he does have a mechanical aptitude.

Grant says “I had never designed a 3 phase inductor, never been exposed to 480v, 1200A (1 megawatt) power levels, the inductor had to accept line and high frequencies which were rare, and to top it off, we had no means to test a prototype.” Grant adds “I had no appreciation for the risk, but lots of interest in the opportunity so I engineered 3 interesting and creative designs; all of which failed and burst into flames within 2 hours of run time.”

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Grant continued to think about a solution to this unique inductor problem for the next 6 months. Grant said,“The key was developing a material which would not overheat from the high frequency harmonics, but could also

accept the dominant line frequency current. He says, “Once I had the right material; the next questions were geometry, manufacturing, and mounting for shock and vibration.”

Grants creation was a toroid, or donut shape, inductor which looked like a golf cart tire but was 60% smaller and lighter than conventional technology. He comments “When my engineering friend in Tulsa opened the crate in the lab and saw what I wanted him to test; he laughed.” Grant says ,“The toroid inductor was very quiet but the temperatures were not stabilizing and it was going to overheat; we blew some air across the toroid surface area and the temps stabilized very fast and the technology worked perfectly” Grant commented, “I knew I had something unique so I decided to invest more money to protect the idea with a patent.” To date, CTM has been awarded 23 patents with over 450 individual claims and Grant says there are more patent requests pending.

In 2006, CTM took another risky gamble to develop direct liquid cooled inductors for a new US Navy project called DDG 1000; the next generation of US Navy ship technology. Grant says ,“Mixing water and electricity together scared most companies away, but we came up with an exceptional concept to safely and reliably combine them to shrink size and weight beyond what existed in the market.” Every magnetics supplier with any experience in high power in the US was contacted for this project; CTM was the only technology which met the specs the US Navy needed for this new ship, the USS Zumwalt.

Grant says ,“CTM’s liquid cooled technology was critical to the USS Zumwalt’s success; the ship finished sea trials this fall and is on its way to its commission in San Diego today.” The ship is the largest and most lethal vessel ever made by man; it has a stealth shape and it is so automated that it can operate with only 135 crew members.

After their Military success with the DDG 1000 program, CTM commercialized their liquid cooled technology to drive out cost and improve packaging and today, CTM leads the world in high power liquid cooled inductor and filter products. Grant says, “Our commercial liquid cooled products are used in markets like Chillers, Solar,Wind, Energy Storage, and Microgrids.

Our customers now are GE, ABB, Caterpillar, Parker, Trane, Johnson Controls, Halliburton, Baker Hughes, DRS; we have completely re-invented our company, our customers, and our markets.” These companies have adopted CTM technology because it brings: • 40% Reduction in Size, Weight, and Power Loss • 75% Reduction in Audible Noise • Innovative Packaging Solutions • Advanced Cooling Technologies • Reduced System Cost Grant says, “These companies are all certified to ISO 9001, and while we were audited by all of them, we weren’t ISO certified.” He continued, “We viewed ISO certification as expensive and time consuming.” Grant and his team knew that while their products were integral to their customers’ designs and products, it was now time to invest in the company’s certification.

Grant says that the company approached Bretta Kelly, owner of BMSC, to assist them in achieving certification. Steve Foley, CTM Magnetics Quality Assurance Manager, says, “I had heard of Bretta from others in our industry, and I always read about her in the A2Z Manufacturing magazine.”

The company met with Bretta, and immediately made the decision to achieve certification with her consultation.

Grant says, “BMSC is extremely professional, they worked within our existing processes, and it was actually a very beneficial process. ISO is, in essence, a business management system, and it feeds back information in a structured way so that we can improve literally every process.”

Grant says that had they elected to pursue ISO certification on their own, without BMSC’s expertise, he estimates it would have taken twice as long and cost twice as much.

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Kyle Tarr, President of the Society of Plastics Engineers – Columbia River chapter presented Dan Jamieson, owner of Jamieson Tool and Design, with a Lifetime Achievement Award.The award is given annually in recognition for exemplary contributions, dedication, and service to the plastics industry.

The Society of Plastics Engineers is an international organization dedicated to the advancement of knowledge and education for all plastics professionals.

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NASA Is Flying Drones At A Nevada Airport To Test Air Traffic Control Systems NASA flew drones at the airport in Reno, Nev., last month, and when the drones were flying, the pilots couldn’t see them in the sky — which is illegal under the current federal drone rules.

It was part of a research project NASA is spearheading — in partnership with the FAA — to develop an unmanned air traffic control system, which will be critical to figure out before drones can deliver goods to people’s doorsteps.

That’s because drones don’t take off and land from the same place each time like airplanes, and drone pilots need to know where other aircraft are flying to avoid collisions or flying over restricted airspace.

The tests this week specifically trial how a mapping alert platform can track drones in real time, report flight paths and alert drones of unanticipated hazards, like a house fire or a public event where drones shouldn’t be overhead.

And according to NASA, the tests boasted a number of firsts for the research effort, including the first demonstration of drones flying beyond the line of sight while being tracked by its platform and the first demonstration using traffic control to prioritize airspace and alert nearby pilots.

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The final NASA research test for drone traffic control is scheduled for 2019, after which recommendations will be made for a national solution.

Congress ordered the research in 2012 with the FAA Modernization and Reform Act, along with a mandate to create rules for safely piloting unmanned aircraft.The issue was raised again in the White House report released earlier this month, which called on the government to invest in and develop a new automated air traffic control system that can manage both autonomous drones and manned aircraft.

The third test is scheduled for January 2018 and will test the new drone air traffic control system over populated areas.

It’s not just NASA and the FAA working on a platform for drone traffic management. AirMap, a private company that makes a platform to alert air traffic controllers and drone operators where low-altitude aircraft are flying so they can adhere to local regulations and report flight plans, is already in use at nearly every major airport across the country.

The difference with the NASA platform is that it’s being developed specifically for the needs of the federal government, and it aims to integrate with the current air traffic control system.

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developed by BeAM and Optomec could be used much sooner, especially for large, expensive titanium parts.

Additive manufacturing of plastic parts that are not in flight-critical systems are likely to be approved easily by the FAA and European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA). Saquer says the challenge here is cost-effectiveness of the part. “For very small production runs, [additive manufacturing] could easily be cost-effective. But for standard production, injection molding and casting seems more likely to be cost-effective.”

Some currently forged metal parts could become a good candidates for additive manufacturing, with part size depending on how the process develops. Components include those in landing gear, engines and control surfaces. According to Saquer, these parts are mainly made from titanium and thus expensive to produce, and that additive manufacturing could lower costs.

Highly complex shapes and sub-assemblies are also ideal candidates for additive manufacturing.

“Often these would save weight, scrap and cost if additively manufactured,” Saquer explains.

Finally, some plastic parts in cabins and air-management systems are good candidates.

The Frost consultant says it is hard to predict when additive manufacturing of aftermarket parts will be realized, but sees it “in the 2020 horizon.”

Additive manufacturing for maintenance of commercial aircraft will likely increase competition in aftermarkets, predicts Thomas Saquer of Frost & Sullivan’s aerospace, defense and security team.

“However, before it is used regularly for aftermarkets, additive manufacturing will have to be accepted in line fit, particularly for part manufacturing.”

But Saquer says additive repair systems like those

The best technique for additive manufacturing of plastic parts depends on which ones are selected. Saquer notes that fused-deposition modeling from Stratasys will be used for earlyphase projects by quite a few OEMs and suppliers.

For metal parts, the best techniques depend on intent and what is being made. “Size, material, simple repair and many other factors can dictate the choice of technology,” Saquer notes.

And he reiterates the importance of convincing the FAA and EASA of the conformity of additive processes. “The process that first convinces the airworthiness authorities will be the winner,” he adds. Source: Aviation Week A2Z MANUFACTURING SW •

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H o n e y we l l F l i g h t D e c k Upgrades Lengthen Bizjet Lifetimes

Honeywell Aerospace is seeing a growing willingness for owners to invest in upgrading cockpits, cabins and engines to prolong the useful service life and bolster the value of their aircraft. Over the past three or four years, this trend has inspired the company to step up efforts to make upgrades available through a mix of service bulletins (SBs) and supplemental type certificates (STCs).

“In some cases, we’ve been addressing a specific mandate [such as ADS-B], but in some situations it’s just an opportunity to take new technology and apply it backwards to existing aircraft to make them last longer and keep values higher,” Honeywell’s commercial aviation vice president Mike Beazley told AIN. The company makes cockpit and cabin electronics as well as engines, and has been increasing the sales resources it dedicates to marketing upgrades to aircraft owners, dealer networks, aircraft brokers and management companies, which are often the gatekeepers to the owners.

“It can be tough for people to decide whether or not to invest in upgrades, but the rule of thumb is that it is certainly worth investing up to around 10 percent of an aircraft’s hull value,” commented Beazley. “Some people are very bullish and believe that if they spend $500,000 48

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an aircraft will sell more quickly. In some cases OEMs are taking back aircraft in trade [for new models], and we now see them being more willing to invest in upgrades.”

Among the STCs now in demand are those covering Honeywell’s Primus Elite Advanced Features avionics package for the Gulfstream PlaneDeck cockpit on the GIV-SP and GV. This will be available for the GIV model by around the end of this year and during 2017 for the Bombardier Global Express/Global XRS/Global 5000, as well as for the Cessna Citation X, the Dornier Do-328, the Embraer Legacy 600/650 and the Dassault Falcon 900C/900EX. The new features include the following elements: integrated primary flight display with synthetic vision system, SiriusXM weather, traffic collision avoidance system and on-wing field loading of application software and databases.

In the rapidly developing realm of inflight connectivity, there are currently some 30 STCs in progress covering the installation of Honeywell’s JetWave hardware to enable the JetConnex high-speed Ka-band satcom.

According to the manufacturer, JetWave has been specifically designed to be easily retrofitable to existing aircraft.

For older cockpits, Honeywell (Booth 2200) is now offering wider access to its high resolution CD-830 touchscreen display that eliminates parallax errors and improves performance in turbulence. STCs for the new LCD displays will soon be available for the Falcon 900A/B/C/ EX models through West Star Aviation (Booth 2257). Honeywell already offers upgrades to LCD display technology, which is lighter than the traditional CRT displays and has greater potential to be upgraded, for about 10 other platforms. At its NBAA show exhibit,

Honeywell will demonstrate the difference between older CRT displays and the latest screens.

Operators of the various versions of Honeywell’s FMZ-2000 flight management system have the option of upgrading to the latest FMS 6.1 software. The manufacturer has a goal of consolidating support for this version of the product for all platforms by the end of 2018.

Today, it is available for the following aircraft: Bombardier Global Express, Global XRS, Global 5000 and Challenger 600/601; Cessna Citation II, III,V,VII and X; Falcon 50, 20, 200, 900B, 900C and 900EX; Embraer Legacy 600 and 650; Gulfstream II, III, IV, IVSP and V; and Hawker 800, 800XP and 1000.

Beazley explained that FMS software upgrades are giving Honeywell customers a quick and cost-effective path to securing improved functionality and readiness for requirements such as ADS-B and CPDLC. “It allows operators to have access to a far broader array of applications, and with more additional features,” he said.

Honeywell’s enhanced ground proximity warning system (EGPWS) now includes software upgrades for the SmartRunway and SmartLanding features that improve the situational awareness of pilots during taxi, takeoff and landing, as well as helping with stabilized approaches and mitigating the risk of runway incursions and excursions. The company is now offering upgrades for the MK V, MKV-A, and MKVII versions of the EGPWS, as well as for the Epic EGPWS module.

Another recent upgrade offering for the Primus Epic avionics suite is the SmartView synthetic vision system, which further enhances situational awareness by providing a large,

3-D color synthetic image of real-world conditions outside the cockpit. Upgrades for the system, which is already standard on the latest Gulfstream, the G650, are available for the G450/550, as well as for the Falcon 2000/900DX, LX and EX and 7X. An upgrade for the GV will be ready shortly, and several other programs are in the pipeline.

In a bid to improve the value of extended warranty coverage for its avionics systems, Honeywell is adding to the list of parts covered by its typical three-year fixed-rate support contracts. “As parts [in legacy systems] get older and can’t be repaired, we’ll use the contract as a vehicle for operators to install newer replacements and spread the cost of the upgrade installations through their maintenance payments,” explained Beazley. “We’re now offering support for multiple systems [including engines, cabin systems and avionics] to all be covered under a single support program.”

Meanwhile the latest 36-150 auxiliary power unit (APU), which promises improved performance for main engine starts and increased on-wing reliability, is now available for retrofit on the GIV/IVSP and for the Challenger 601/604.

According to Honeywell, the new APU is also quieter than earlier versions and also provides more cool air for the cabin on the ramp.

Connectivity Grows According to Beazley, cabin and cockpit connectivity solutions will prove to be the largest area of future growth for Honeywell, and it was this ambition that inspired the group to acquire specialist providers EMS Technologies three years ago and Satcom1 last year. “Now we make connectivity hardware across the entire spectrum and for aircraft up to the size of the A380,” he told AIN. “We make

the entire suite of systems from terminals to antenna, and can sell air-time packages too, for a complete solution.”

To support Inmarsat’s JetConnex high-speed broadband offering, Honeywell’s JetWave hardware is now available for STC installation on some 30 separate aircraft models. “This represents a true step change in connectivity rates, from 237 kilobytes per second to more than 10 mebabytes per second,” stated Beazley.

Bombardier recently selected the equipment as an option for its entire Global family, and Beazley predicted that other airframers are set to follow suit. Honeywell is demonstrating JetWave at the show this week, as well as holding seminars aimed at clearing up confusion among customers about how the various connectivity elements fit together.

The fast-expanding portfolio of Honeywell upgrades and modifications are available through a mix of SBs and STCs from the manufacturer’s own service centers and also through a network of around 400 dealers globally. “We let the dealer network bid on who wants to do the work, but they are generally required to resell the STCs to other providers,” concluded Beazley.

Top US Trading Partners American imports amounted to $2.309 trillion in 2015, up 4.7% since 2011 but down 1.6% from 2014.

Globally, 45.6% of America’s total imports came from Asia, with North American trade partners supplying 26% of imports and Europe providing 21.3%.

US imports represent 12.3% of total global

imports.Given America’s population of 318.9 million people, its total $2.309 trillion in 2015 imports translates to roughly $7,240 in yearly product demand from every person in the country.Source: World Top Exports

NM’s Sigma Labs Partners With 3-D Printing Giant Sigma Labs just signed a deal to work with one of the giants in the 3-D printing space.

The Santa Fe-based company announced it is signing a contract to work with Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery AB of Sweden.

Mark Cola, CEO of Sigma, said Siemens contacted the company earlier this year about helping with quality assurance as its 3-D manufacturing demand grows. Sigma will provide statistical process control and assure part quality for Siemens burner repairs and set the stage for productivity optimization.

While it won’t mean any additional jobs initially, Cola said going forward as the company meets its milestones for the next six months, it could turn into a bigger opportunity.The company has 11 employees.

Siemens is one of the giant global players in the 3-D space.Sigma’s technology and software helps 3-D printing customers ensure quality control and assurance during manufacturing, as opposed to checking a product’s quality after it’s manufactured.

Sigma hopes to deploy the new contract by the end of the year. Cola declined to give a dollar amount for the new deal but said it’s a “modest deal” for the company. Source: Albuquerque Business First

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Savage Machine Tools ____ 480-773-4080 Sharp Precision Tools ____ 310-944-8016 Tornos USA _________ 951-695-0342 Patrick Ellison 602-233-3757 TSM Machinery _______ Ultimate Machinery _____ 480-966-2000 White’s Niche Products ___ 602-290-9402 CNC Lathes Adams Machinery _______ 480-968-3711 Arizona CNC Equip_______ 480-615-6353 CNC Pros ____________ 602-332-5815 D & R Machinery _______480-775-6462 Patrick Ellison Desert Machine Sales _____623-826-1025 Doosan Infracore America___ 973-618-2500 Ellison Machinery _______480-968-5335 Ganesh Machinery ______ 888-542-6374 Magnum Precision Mach ___602-431-8300 Magnum Precision Mach ___505-345-8389 Methods West _________602-437-2220 MMT, A Div of Productivity _ 505-415-2004 Romi ______________ 480-510-4146 Savage Machine Tools _____480-773-4080 Sharp Precision Tools ____ 310-944-8016 TSM Machinery ________602-233-3757 White’s Niche Products ____602-290-9402 CNC Drill/ Tapping Machines Adams Machinery _______ 480-968-3711 Haas Factory Outlet ______ 480-968-5811 Magnum Precision Mach ___602-431-8300 President

T 480.968.5335 F 480.247.4408

M 480.298.9782

1610 S. Priest Drive, Suite 101 Tempe, AZ 85281 trivas@ellisonaz.com www.ellisonaz.com

President

T 480.968.5335 F 480.247.4408

M 480.298.9782

1610 S. Priest Drive, Suite 101 Tempe, AZ 85281 trivas@ellisonaz.com www.ellisonaz.com

SALES ENGINEER - ARIZONA

Single Source Technologies

PO Box 93610 Phoenix, AZ 85070-3610 Cell: 602-228-0347 jim.alger@singlesourcetech.com

Ph:714 380 2336 Sales@SingleSourceTech.com

Magnum Precision Mach ___505-345-8389 Methods West ________ 602-437-2220 Savage Machine Tools ____ 480-773-4080 CNC Punching Centers Magnum Precision Mach __ 602-431-8300 Magnum Precision Mach __ 505-345-8389 Mesa Mach Sales ______ 480-545-0275 CNC Routers Ultimate Machinery _____ 480-966-2000 CNC Swiss Turn Machines Adams Machinery ______ 480-968-3711 Arizona CNC Equip______ 480-615-6353 Ganesh Machinery _____ 888-542-6374 Magnum Precision Mach __ 602-431-8300 Magnum Precision Mach __ 505-345-8389 Methods West ________ 602-437-2220 MMT, A Div of Productivity _ 505-415-2004 North-South Machinery ___ 602-391-4696 Tornos USA _________ 951-695-0342 EDM EDM Machines Adams Machinery ______ 480-968-3711 D & R Machinery ______ 480-775-6462 Desert EDM Sales ______ 480-816-6300 Desert Machine Sales ____ 623-826-1025 EDM Network ________ 480-836-1782 Global EDM Supply _____ 480-836-8330 Makino ___________ 602-228-0347

Methods West ________ 602-437-2220 North-South Machinery ___ 602-391-4696 ONA EDM USA ________ 586-697-5880 Savage Machine Tools ____ 480-773-4080 TSM Machinery _______ 602-233-3757 EDM Filtration Desert EDM Sales _______480-816-6300 Desert Machine Sales ____ 623-826-1025 Ebbco Inc __________ 800-809-3901 EDM: Dielectric Systems/ Filtration Ebbco Inc __________ 800-809-3901 Desert Machine Sales ____ 623-826-1025 A Z MANUFACTURING SW • 81 • Jan / Feb 2017 2

MAGNUM PRECISION MACHINES, INC. MIKE HAHN V.P. CMTSE BUSINESS: 505-345-8389 8448 WASHINGTON PLACE NE. FAX: 505-344-7167 ALBUQUERQUE, NM. 87113 CELL: 505-328-4279 www.magnumprecisionmachines.com

8622 N. 78th Avenue Peoria, Arizona 85345

EMAIL: mhahn@magnumabq.com

EDM Drillling Machines Current EDM _________ 650-966-9676 Micro Hole Drilling Machines Current EDM _________ 650-966-9676 ELECTRICAL Equip Hookup & Disconnect Geiger Electric Co ______ 623-773-1787 Lighting Geiger Electric Co ______ 623-773-1787 Relocation: Electrical Geiger Electric Co ______ 623-773-1787 Service Upgrades Geiger Electric Co ______ 623-773-1787 GRINDING Grinding Filtration Ebbco Inc __________ 800-809-3901 Grinding Machines ACC Machinery _______ 602-258-7330 Adams Machinery ______ 480-968-3711 Arizona CNC Equip______ 480-615-6353 Magnum Precision Mach __ 602-431-8300 Magnum Precision Mach __ 505-345-8389 MMT, A Div of Productivity _ 505-415-2004 Moore Tool & Equipment __ 602-455-8904 North-South Machinery ___ 602-391-4696 Savage Machine Tools ____ 480-773-4080 Grinding Machines, OD/ID Adams Machinery ______ 480-968-3711 Haas Factory Outlet _____ 480-968-5877 Magnum Precision Mach __ 602-431-8300 Magnum Precision Mach __ 505-345-8389 Moore Tool & Equipment __ 602-455-8904 Savage Machine Tools ____ 480-773-4080 Grinding Machines, OD/ID Adams Machinery ______ 480-968-3711

Haas Factory Outlet _____ 480-968-5877 Magnum Precision Mach __ 602-431-8300 Magnum Precision Mach __ 505-345-8389 Moore Tool & Equipment __ 602-455-8904 Savage Machine Tools ____ 480-773-4080 Grinding Machines, Tool Adams Machinery _______480-968-3711 D & R Machinery ______ 480-775-6462 Grinding Wheels Fives ______________909-263-9282 Honing Machines Adams Machinery _______ 480-968-3711 Magnum Precision Mach ___602-431-8300 Magnum Precision Mach __ 505-345-8389 Magnetic Drills/Cutters ACC Machinery ________602-258-7330 Adams Machinery _______ 480-968-3711 Manual Lathes & Mills ACC Machinery ________602-258-7330 Adams Machinery _______ 480-968-3711 Arizona CNC Equip______ 480-615-6353 D & R Machinery _______480-775-6462 Ganesh Machinery _____ 888-542-6374 Haas Factory Outlet ______480-968-5877 Magnum Precision Mach ___602-431-8300 Magnum Precision Mach __ 505-345-8389 Moore Tool & Equipment ___602-455-8904 TSM Machinery ________602-233-3757 Plastic Injection Molding Machines Romi ______________ 480-510-4146 Sawing Machines ACC Machinery ________602-258-7330 Adams Machinery _______ 480-968-3711 bandsawparts.com ______800-240-2932 D & R Machinery _______480-775-6462 Echols Saw & Supply _____ 602-278-3918 Mesa Mach Sales _______480-545-0275 Moore Tool & Equipment ___602-455-8904 Rocky Mountain Saw Blades303-761-3000 Savage Machine Tools _____480-773-4080 Saw Replacement Parts bandsawparts.com ______800-240-2932

SAVAGE MACHINE TOOLS, LLC   Kevin Savage

(480) 773-4080

AMADA / SODICK / YCM / USED www.savagemachinetools.com A2Z MANUFACTURING •

Office (623) 773-1787 Fax (623) 773-9882 www.geigerelectric.com

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Echols Saw & Supply _____602-278-3918 Rocky Mountain Saw Blades _303-761-3000 Swiss Screw Machines Schenk Intertech________949-360-1512 Tapping Machines ACC Machinery _______ 602-258-7330 Adams Machinery _______480-968-3711 NEW MACH FABRICATION CNC Punching Centers ACC Machinery _______ 602-258-7330 Magnum Precision Mach __ 602-431-8300 S&S Machinery Sales ____ 602-368-8542 Gantry Systems, CNC ACC Machinery _______ 602-258-7330 Iron Workers ACC Machinery _______ 602-258-7330 Adams Machinery _______480-968-3711 Magnum Precision Mach ___602-431-8300 Mesa Mach Sales _______480-545-0275 Moore Tool & Equipment __ 602-455-8904 S&S Machinery Sales ____ 602-368-8542 Laser Cutting/Proc. Center ACC Machinery _______ 602-258-7330 Mesa Mach Sales _______480-545-0275 S&S Machinery Sales ____ 602-368-8542 Laser Marking Machines Kwik Mark Inc _________815-363-8268 Plasma/Gas Cutting Systems ACC Machinery _______ 602-258-7330 Mesa Mach Sales _______480-545-0275 Pipe & Tube Benders/Notchers ACC Machinery _______ 602-258-7330 Moore Tool & Equipment __ 602-455-8904

S&S Machinery Sales ____ 602-368-8542 Press Brakes ACC Machinery _______ 602-258-7330 Adams Machinery _______480-968-3711 Magnum Precision Mach __ 602-431-8300 Magnum Precision Mach __ 505-345-8389 Mesa Mach Sales ______ 480-545-0275 Moore Tool & Equipment __ 602-455-8904 S&S Machinery Sales ____ 602-368-8542 Punch Presses Adams Machinery _______480-968-3711 Shearing Machines ACC Machinery _______ 602-258-7330 Adams Machinery _______480-968-3711 Moore Tool & Equipment __ 602-455-8904 S&S Machinery Sales ____ 602-368-8542 Magnum Precision Mach __ 602-431-8300 WaterJet: Filtration/Chillers Ebbco Inc __________ 800-809-3901 WaterJet Cutting Systems Desert Machine Sales ____ 623-826-1025 Flow International ______ 800-446-3569 Global EDM Supply _____ 480-836-8330 Flow Waterjet _________714-393-3783 Flow Waterjet _________415-828-3569 North-South Machinery ___ 602-391-4696 Omax Corp. _________ 800-838-0343 Welding Equipment ACC Machinery _______ 602-258-7330 Rocky Mountain Saw Blades _303-761-3000 INSPECTION EQUIP 3D Measurement Systems Dimensional Analysis Tech __623-476-9953 Perceptron ___________ 734-414-6100

MAGNUM PRECISION MACHINES, INC. Jeffrey F. Nawrot Vice President, Business Development 10530 E. 59th Street • Indianapolis, IN 46236 T: 317/826.4414 • TF: 877/240.2462 • F: 317/823.6822 jeff@trustycook.com • C: 317/946.1235 trustycook.com

JEFF TRIMBLE SALES ENGINEER BUSINESS: 602-431-8300 3614 E. SOUTHERN AVE. #1 FAX: 602-431-8301 PHOENIX, AZ 85040 CELL: 602-399-0346 www.magnumprecisionmachines.com

EMAIL: jtrimble@magnumaz.com

MAGNUM PRECISION MACHINES, INC.

General Manager

D. RANDY SMITH APPLICATIONS ENGINEER BUSINESS: 602-431-8300 3614 E. SOUTHERN AVE. #1 FAX: 602-431-8301 PHOENIX, AZ 85040 CELL: 602-350-6738 www.magnumprecisionmachines.com

EMAIL: drsmith@magnumabq.com

Haas Factory Outlet A Division of Ellison Machinery Company

PATRICK ELLISON President 1610 S. Priest Dr., Suite 101 T Tempe, Arizona 85281 Telephone: Cell: Fax: Email:

Verisurf ____________ 714-970-1683 Zeiss Ind. Metrology ______ 800-327-9735 Coordinate Measuring Mach.

Advanced Coordinate Tech __ 480-921-3370 D & R Machinery _______ 480-775-6462 Dimensional Analysis Tech __ 623-476-9953 Kerley Corporation ______ 530-306-1966 Klontech Industrial Sales ___ 480-948-1871 OGP ______________ 480-889-9056 Perceptron ____________734-414-6100 Total Quality Systems _____ 480-377-6422 Verisurf ____________ 714-970-1683 Zeiss Ind. Metrology ______ 800-327-9735 Gauging Equipment Advanced Coordinate Tech __ 480-921-3370 Dimensional Analysis Tech __ 623-476-9953 Kerley Corporation ______ 530-306-1966 Klontech Industrial Sales ___ 480-948-1871 OGP ______________ 480-889-9056 Total Quality Systems _____ 480-377-6422

Impression Material Roydent ____________ 480-607-1876 Metrology Instruments Advanced Coordinate Tech __ 480-921-3370 Apollos Industries ______ 714-708-3105 Dimensional Analysis Tech __ 623-476-9953 Kerley Corporation ______ 530-306-1966 Klontech Industrial Sales ___ 480-948-1871 Perceptron ___________ 734-414-6100 Total Quality Systems _____480-377-6422 Washington Calibration ____480-820-0506 Zeiss Ind. Metrology ______ 800-327-9735 Microscopes Apollos Industries ______ 714-708-3105 Optical Comparators Advanced Coordinate Tech __ 480-921-3370 Kerley Corporation ______ 530-306-1966 Klontech Industrial Sales ___ 480-948-1871 OGP ______________480-889-9056 Magnum Precision Mach ___ 602-431-8300 Magnum Precision Mach __ 505-345-8389

480-968-5877 480-298-9782 480-968-0522 pellison@ellisonaz.com

www.haascnc.com

Perceptron ___________ 734-414-6100 Total Quality Systems _____480-377-6422 Zeiss Ind. Metrology ______800-327-9735 Punch Presses Adams Machinery _______ 480-968-3711 SPC Data Acquis.Equip.

D & R Machinery _______480-775-6462 Rapid Optical Inspection Mesa Mach Sales _______480-545-0275 Moore Tool & Equipment ___602-455-8904 Perceptron ___________ 734-414-6100 S&S Machinery Sales _____602-368-8542 Repair & Certification Advanced Coordinate Tech __480-921-3370 OGP ______________480-889-9056 Total Quality Systems _____480-377-6422 Washington Calibration ____480-820-0506 Video Measuring Systems Apollos Industries ______ 714-708-3105 Kerley Corporation ______530-306-1966 Klontech Industrial Sales ___ 480-948-1871 Perceptron ___________ 734-414-6100 Washington Calibration ____480-820-0506 WaterJet: Filtration/Chillers Ebbco Inc ___________800-809-3901 Welding Equipment ACC Machinery ________602-258-7330 Rocky Mountain Saw Blades _ 303-761-3000

USED MACHINERY ACC Machinery ________ 602-258-7330 EDM Network _________ 480-836-1782 Ganesh Machinery ______ 888-542-6374 K D Capital___________ 480-922-1674 Methods West _________ 602-437-2220 Moore Tool & Equipment ___ 602-455-8904 ReSell CNC West ________ 844-478-8181 S&S Machinery Sales _____ 602-368-8542 Savage Machine Tools _____ 480-773-4080 TSM Machinery ________ 602-233-3757 Zachman Machinery _____ 602-908-3447 ACCESSORIES Abrasives Barton International _____ 800-741-7756 Fives _____________ 909-263-9282 GMA Garnet __________ 882-243-9300 Air Blast Cabinets, Blast Rooms Lone Arrow __________ 480-507-8074 A2Z MANUFACTURING SW •

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BRALCO METALS 929 E. Jackson Street Phoenix. Arizona 85034 (602) 252-1918 (800) 544-8052 Fax: (602) 252-7813 Cell: (602) 722-3324 krandall@bralco.com

QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

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Kevin Randall

Outside Sales Representative

AS9120:2002 -

Global Leader in Garnet Abrasives

Richard Amy ■

Regional Sales Manager

Division of Curran Manufacturing Corporation

200 Oser Avenue Hauppauge, NY 11788 U.S.A.

Tel:

1-631-273-1010 1-800-645-4174 Fax: 1-631-273-1066 1-800-424-2082

www.royalprod.com

orders@royalprod.com

Mike Mills

President West Division

(844) 478-8181 x241 mike@resellcnc.com www.resellcnc.com

Air Drying Systems Magnum Precision Mach ___ 602-431-8300 Band Saw/ Blades bandsawparts.com ______ 800-240-2932 Echols Saw & Supply _____ 602-278-3918 Marshall Tool & Supply ____ 602-269-6295 Rocky Mountain Saw Blades _ 303-761-3000 Roentgen USA _________ 847-787-0135 sawblade.com _________ 877-501-7297 Bar Feeders Arizona CNC Equip_______ 480-615-6353 Edge Technologies _______ 562-597-7824 Ellison Machinery _______ 480-968-5335 Magnum Precision Mach ___ 602-431-8300 Bar Feeder Accessories Edge Technologies _______ 562-597-7824 Trusty-Cook __________ 877-240-2462 Blast Abrasives Barton International _____ 800-741-7756 GMA Garnet __________ 882-243-9300 Boring Tools: Precision Ingersoll Cutting Tools _____ 480-599-0273 Wohlhaupter__________ 937-885-1878 Cabinets, Custom Lone Arrow __________ 480-507-8074 Carbide Ingersoll Cutting Tools _____ 480-599-0273

Don Loveless Tel: 800-686-1679 181 Business Park Dr. Fax: 860-409-2552181 Bristol, CT. 06010 Email: dloveless@gmnusa.com www.gmnusa.com

Chip Management Arizona CNC Equip Equip_______ 480-615-6353 Ellison Machinery ______ 480-968-5335 Chip Removal Arizona CNC Equip Equip_______ 480-615-6353 Ellison Machinery ______ 480-968-5335 Chuck Jaws Arizona CNC Equip Equip_______ 480-615-6353 Ellison Machinery ______ 480-968-5335 Chucks Adams Machinery _______ 480-968-3711 Arizona CNC Equip_______ 480-615-6353 Ellison Machinery ______ 480-968-5335 Marshall Tool & Supply ____602-269-6295 Cleaners Chemetall ___________ 714-739-2821 CNC Lathe Accessories Trusty-Cook __________ 877-240-2462 Von Ruden Manufacturing _ 763-682-0322 CNC Collet Chucks Royal Products_________ 800-645-4174 CNC Spindle Liners Trusty-Cook __________ 877-240-2462 Collet Fixtures Royal Products_________ 800-645-4174 Coolant Systems Chemetall ___________ 714-739-2821 Ebbco Inc ___________ 800-809-3901 Hangsterfers__________ 316-640-2462 Master Chemical Corp _____ 520-310-8912 Star Metal Fluids _______ 800-367-9966 Cutting Tools Cutting Tools Consultants __ 602-277-1342 Fives ______________909-263-9282 Ingersoll Cutting Tools _____480-599-0273 Nick Hochuli Sales Engineer

Cell: 937/503-4708 Office: 937/885-1878 E-mail: hn@wohlhaupter.com Wohlhaupter Corporation 10542 Success Lane Centerville, Ohio 45458

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B A R T O N I NTERNATIONAL sales: 800.741.7756 cell: 951.551.2685 email: ramy@barton.com web: barton.com

Rocky Mountain Saw Blades _ 303-761-3000 Sandvik Coromant_______ 480-233-0997 Sandvik Coromant_______ 602-628-4242 Schenk Intertech________ 949-360-1512 Von Ruden Manufacturing __ 763-682-0322 Digital Readout Units Adams Machinery _______ 480-968-3711 D & R Machinery _______ 480-775-6462 Lone Arrow __________ 480-507-8074 Magnum Precision Mach ___ 602-431-8300 Dust Collectors Lone Arrow__________480-507-8074 End Mills Ingersoll Cutting Tools _____ 480-599-0273 Filtration Equip.

Canyon State Oil________ 800-894-7773 Chemetall ___________ 714-739-2821 Ebbco Inc ___________ 800-809-3901 Master Chemical Corp _____ 520-310-8912 Qualichem, Inc. ________ 480-320-0308 Star Metal Fluids _______ 800-367-9966 EDM Tooling Systems Desert EDM Sales _______ 480-816-6300 EDM Network _________ 480-836-1782 EDM Performance ______ 800-336-2946 Global EDM Supply ______ 480-836-8330 Filtermist Mist Collectors Royal Products_________ 800-645-4174 Form Tools Ingersoll Cutting Tools _____ 480-599-0273 Guard & Vacuum Pedestals For Grinders Midaco Corporation ______847-593-8420 Inserts Ingersoll Cutting Tools _____ 480-599-0273 Live Centers Royal Products_________ 800-645-4174 Live Tool Holders 5th Axis Fixtures________ 858-505-0432 Schenk Intertech________ 949-360-1512 Von Ruden Manufacturing __ 763-682-0322

Lubricants / Systems Canyon State Oil_______ 800-894-7773 Hangsterfers__________316-640-2462 Master Chemical Corp _____520-310-8912 Pioneer Distributing Co. ___ 602-278-2693 Star Metal Fluids ______ 800-367-9966 Machine Tool Accessories Schenk Intertech________949-360-1512 Von Ruden Manufacturing _ 763-682-0322 Milling and Turning Products Von Ruden Manufacturing_ 763-682-0322 Pallet Systems Adams Machinery _______480-968-3711 Arizona CNC Equip_______480-615-6353 D & R Machinery ______ 480-775-6462 Ellison Machinery ______ 480-968-5335 Parts Washing Equipment Qualichem, Inc _______ 480-320-0308 Star Metal Fluids ______ 800-367-9966 R8 Quick-Change Tool System Royal Products________ 800-645-4174 Rota-Rack Parts Accumulator Royal Products________ 800-645-4174 Spindles GMN USA ___________800-686-1679 Setco Spindles & Slides ___ 866-362-0699

An ISO 9001 Company

ISO 9001/AS 9100 Certiied

Sales

Jeff Klimowicz Senior Sales Engineer Southwest Region: AZ, UT, NV, CO, ID All Products Proudly Made in the USA

Static Tool Holders Schenk Intertech________ 949-360-1512 Von Ruden Manufacturing __763-682-0322 Steel Service Center Apache Steel Company ____602-323-2200 Tooling Columns Stevens Engineering ______602-272-6766 Vibratory Equipment Adams Machinery _______ 480-968-3711 Vises and Vise Jaws 5th Axis Fixtures________858-505-0432 Arizona CNC Equip_______ 480-615-6353 Desert EDM Sales _______480-816-6300 Stevens Engineering ______602-272-6766 Waterjet Abrasives Barton International _____800-741-7756 GMA Garnet __________882-243-9300 Lone Arrow __________480-507-8074 Waterjet Accessories Barton International _____800-741-7756 GMA Garnet __________882-243-9300 Lone Arrow_________480-507-8074 Waterjet Bricks/Hoppers Barton International 800-741-7756 Waterjet Replacement Parts Arizona CNC Equip_______480-615-6353 Barton International _____800-741-7756

Mobile: 480‐320‐0308 jklimowicz@qualichem.com www.qualichem.com

GMA Garnet __________ 882-243-9300 Work Holding 5th Axis Fixtures________ 858-505-0432 Ellison Machinery _______ 480-968-5335 Kurt Manufacturing ______ 763-574-8320 Schenk Intertech________ 949-360-1512 Stevens Engineering ______ 602-272-6766 CONSUMMABLES Cleaning Corrosion Inhibitors Master Chemical Corp _____ 520-310-8912 Cutting Fluids & Oils (Coolants) Canyon State Oil________ 800-894-7773 Echols Saw & Supply _____ 602-278-3918 Hangsterfers__________ 316-640-2462 Marshall Tool & Supply ____ 602-269-6295 Master Chemical Corp _____ 520-310-8912 Pioneer Distributing Co. ____ 602-278-2693 Rocky Mountain Saw Blades _ 303-761-3000 Star Metal Fluids _______ 800-367-9966 EDM Materials & Supplies Adams Machinery _______480-968-3711 Canyon State Oil________ 800-894-7773 D & R Machinery _______ 480-775-6462 Desert EDM Sales _______ 480-816-6300 EDM Network _________ 480-836-1782 EDM Performance acc’s ____ 800-336-2946

Global EDM Supply ______ 480-836-8330 Qualichem Inc _________ 480-320-0308 Star Metal Fluids _______ 800-367-9966 EDM Fluids Hangsterfers__________ 316-640-2462 Pioneer Distributing Co. ____ 602-278-2693 Garnet Barton International _____ 800-741-7756 GMA Garnet __________ 882-243-9300 Impression Materials Roydent ____________ 480-607-1876 Machine Tool Cool. Filtration Canyon State Oil________ 800-894-7773 D & R Machinery _______ 480-775-6462 Master Chemical Corp _____ 520-310-8912 Qualichem, Inc ________ 480-320-0308 Star Metal Fluids _______ 800-367-9966 Measurement Products for In Process/First Article Inspection Roydent ____________ 480-607-1876 Solvents & Degreasing Agents Canyon State Oil________ 800-894-7773 Master Chemical Corp _____ 520-310-8912 Pioneer Distributing Co. ____ 602-278-2693 Qualichem, Inc ________ 480-320-0308 Star Metal Fluids _______ 800-367-9966

HARDWARE MATERIAL Alloys: High Temperature Aerodyne Alloys _______ 860-289-3820 Rolled Alloys __________800-521-0332 Sonoran Metals _______ 602-993-8295 Western States Metals _____801-978-0562 Alloys: Specialty Aerodyne Alloys _______ 860-289-3820 Apache Steel Company ___ 602-323-2200 Interstate Steel Salvage ____623-536-2512 Rolled Alloys __________800-521-0332 Sonoran Metals _______ 602-993-8295 Aluminum Apache Steel Company ___ 602-323-2200 AZ Metals __________ 602-688-8003 Bralco Metals Phoenix_____602-252-1918 Bralco Metals Albuquerque _ 505-345-0959 Dix Metals ___________714-677-0788 Ind. Metal Supply _______602-454-1500 Coast Aluminum ________877-977-6061 Fry Steel Company ______800-423-6651 Interstate Steel Salvage ____623-536-2512 Metal Supermarkets _____ 480-360-3680 Metal Supermarkets _____ 505-858-9953 Samuel, Son & Co. ______800-631-9765 Tube Service Company ___ 602-267-9865 Aluminum Extrusions Bralco Metals Phoenix_____602-252-1918 Bralco Metals Albuquerque _ 505-345-0959

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Von Ruden Manufacturing, Inc. Since 1946

Fluid Power / Mechanical / Tool Products ISO 9001:2008 Certified

Brandon Anderson President

MOBILE: 612.251.0868 E-MAIL: brandon@vonruden.com

DIRECT: 763.682.0322 PHONE: 763.682.3122 FAX: 763.682.3954

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Ind. Metal Supply _______602-454-1500 Bronze Coast Aluminum ________ 877-977-6061 Apache Steel Company ____ 602-323-2200 Samuel, Son & Co. ______ 800-631-9765 AZ Metals ___________ 602-688-8003 Armor:Commercial Coastal Metals _________ 800-811-7466 Kloeckner Metals _______480-389-2883 Ind. Metal Supply _______ 602-454-1500 Interstate Steel Salvage ____ 623-536-2512 Armor:Military Grade Kloeckner Metals _______480-389-2883 State Industrial Prod _____ 602-275-0990 Western States Metals _____ 801-978-0562 Bar: Large Diameter Bralco Metals Phoenix_____ 602-252-1918 Carbon Bralco Metals Albuquerque __505-345-0959 Apache Steel Company ____ 602-323-2200 Coastal Metals _________ 800-811-7466 AZ Metals ___________ 602-688-8003 or!No.!CA,!OR,!and!WA!publication!Northwest!Edition!!

Reliance Metal Center ____602-275-4471 Coastal Metals _________ 800-811-7466 Ind. Metal Supply _______ 602-454-1500 Nickel!!!

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Castings Bralco Metals Albuquerque __505-345-0959 bvoden@aerodynealloys.com!! www.aerodynealloys.com!

Coast Aluminum ________ 877-977-6061 Ind. Metal Supply _______ 602-454-1500 Chrome Rod Coastal Metals _________ 800-811-7466 Western States Metals _____ 801-978-0562 Fry Steel Company ______800-423-6651 Cobalt Ind. Metal Supply _______602-454-1500 Metal Supermarkets ______480-360-3680 Rolled Alloys __________ 800-521-0332 Copper Metal Supermarkets ______505-858-9953 Interstate Steel Salvage ____ 623-536-2512 Apache Steel Company ____ 602-323-2200 State Industrial Prod _____602-275-0990 AZ Metals ___________ 602-688-8003 Western States Metals _____ 801-978-0562 Bralco Metals Phoenix_____ 602-252-1918 Bralco Metals Albuquerque __ 505-345-0959 Ind. Metal Supply _______ 602-454-1500 Coast Aluminum ________ 877-977-6061 State Industrial Prod _____ 602-275-0990 Western States Metals _____ 801-978-0562 Drill Rod Apache Steel Company ____ 602-323-2200 O’Neal High-Performance Metals

Extrusions TW Metals ___________800-203-8000 Lead Ind. Metal Supply _______ 602-454-1500 Material Sales Samuel, Son & Co. ______ 800-631-9765 TW Metals ___________800-203-8000 Metals Apache Steel Company ____602-323-2200 AZ Metals ___________602-688-8003 AZ Tool & Steel ________ 480-784-1600 Bralco Metals Phoenix_____ 602-252-1918 Bralco Metals Albuquerque __505-345-0959 Coast Aluminum ________ 877-977-6061 Davis Salvage Co _______602-267-7208 Dix Metals ___________ 714-677-0788 Ind. Metal Supply _______ 602-454-1500 Interstate Steel Salvage ____ 623-536-2512 Kloeckner Metals _______480-389-2883 Metal Supermarkets ______480-360-3680 Metal Supermarkets ______505-858-9953 Reliance Metal Center ____ 602-275-4471 Rolled Alloys __________800-521-0332 Samuel, Son & Co. ______ 800-631-9765 Sonoran Metals ________602-993-8295 State Industrial Prod _____602-275-0990 Tube Service Company ____602-267-9865 TW Metals ___________800-203-8000

Stan Watkins Industrial Account Sales & Technical Support

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Canyon State Oil

(855) 400-2269 Tel

A Division of SC Fuels

(602) 369-5185 Mobile

2640 N. 31st Avenue,

(602) 269-2685 Fax

Phoenix, AZ 85009

swatkins@canyonstateoil.com

Western States Metals _____ 801-978-0562 Metals-Bar & Plate Apache Steel Company ____ 602-323-2200 AZ Metals ___________ 602-688-8003 AZ Tool & Steel ________ 480-784-1600 Bralco Metals Phoenix_____ 602-252-1918 Bralco Metals Albuquerque __ 505-345-0959 Coast Aluminum ________ 877-977-6061 Davis Salvage Co _______ 602-267-7208 Dix Metals ___________ 714-677-0788 Ind. Metal Supply _______ 602-454-1500 Interstate Steel Salvage ____ 623-536-2512 Kloeckner Metals _______ 480-389-2883 Metal Supermarkets ______ 480-360-3680 Metal Supermarkets ______ 505-858-9953 Reliance Metal Center ____ 602-275-4471 Rolled Alloys __________ 800-521-0332 Samuel, Son & Co. ______ 800-631-9765 Sonoran Metals ________ 602-993-8295 Nickel Alloys Rolled Alloys __________ 800-521-0332 Sonoran Metals ________ 602-993-8295 Steel Sheet Reliance Metal Center ____ 602-275-4471 Tool Steel Apache Steel Company ____ 602-323-2200 Davis Salvage Co _______ 602-267-7208

Titanium & Hastelloy Apache Steel Company ____602-323-2200 Rolled Alloys __________800-521-0332 Tubing & Pipe Apache Steel Company ____602-323-2200 AZ Metals ___________602-688-8003 Ind. Metal Supply _______602-454-1500 Reliance Metal Center ____602-275-4471 Samuel, Son & Co. ______ 800-631-9765 Tube Service Company ____602-267-9865 INDUSTRIAL HARDWARE TOOLING Boring Bars B & T Tool & Engineering ___ 602-267-1481 Marshall Tool & Supply ____602-269-6295 Carbide B & T Tool & Engineering ___ 602-267-1481 Cutting Tools Consultants __ 602-277-1342 Horizon Carbide ________480-968-0957 LRW Cutting Tools _______602-269-1775 Magnum Precision Mach ___602-431-8300 Marshall Tool & Supply ____602-269-6295 The Tool Crib __________ 602-978-3130 Cutting Tools Cutting Tools Consultants ___602-277-1342 Fives _____________909-263-9282 Horizon Carbide ________480-968-0957 LRW Cutting Tools _______602-269-1775 Sandvik Coromant_______480-233-0997 Sandvik Coromant_______602-628-4242 Cutting Tools: Custom B & T Tool & Engineering ___ 602-267-1481 Horizon Carbide ________480-968-0957 LRW Cutting Tools _______602-269-1775 Drills Cutting Tools Consultants ___602-277-1342

LRW Cutting Tools ______ 602-269-1775 Sandvik Coromant_______602-628-4242 M Marshall Tool & Supply ____602-269-6295 Von Ruden Manufacturing __ 763-682-0322 Moore Tool & Equipment ___602-455-8904 PALLET SYSTEMS Sandvik Coromant_______480-233-0997 Manual & Automatic Pallet Systems Sandvik Coromant_______602-628-4242 Bayer Systems ________ 602-448-9409 End Mills Coast Aluminum Sales ____ 480-797-5162 Midaco Corporation _____ 847-593-8420 Cutting Tools Consultants __ 602-277-1342 Manual Lift Off Pallet LRW Cutting Tools _______ 602-269-1775 Systems Marshall Tool & Supply ____602-269-6295 Bayer Systems ________ 602-448-9409 Sandvik Coromant_______480-233-0997 Midaco Corporation _____ 847-593-8420 Sandvik Coromant_______602-628-4242 Manual Rotory Pallet Systems Fixtures 5th Axis Fixtures________858-505-0432 Bayer Systems ________ 602-448-9409 Form Tools Midaco Corporation _____ 847-593-8420 B & T Tool & Engineering ___ 602-267-1481 ROBOTICS Robotic Part Loading Coast Aluminum Sales ____ 480-797-5162 Systems Cutting Tools Consultants ___ 602-277-1342 Horizon Carbide ________480-968-0957 Midaco Corporation _____ 847-593-8420 CAD/CAM LRW Cutting Tools _______ 602-269-1775 Adams Machinery _______ 480-968-3711 Inserts, Indexable Coast Aluminum Sales ____ 480-797-5162 Arizona CNC Equip_______ 480-615-6353 Horizon Carbide ________480-968-0957 Cimatron____________248-596-9700 Marshall Tool & Supply ____602-269-6295 Delcam ____________877 335 2261 Sandvik Coromant_______480-233-0997 Feature Cam __________602-502-9654 Sandvik Coromant_______602-628-4242 MLC CAD (MasterCAM) ____480-696-6056 MLC CAD (SolidWorks) ____480-696-6056 Inserts, PCD/CBN Coast Aluminum Sales ____ 480-797-5162 SolidProducts _________480-206-0330 Software, Inv. Control Horizon Carbide ________480-968-0957 Marshall Tool & Supply ____602-269-6295 Delcam ____________877 335 2261 Feature Cam __________602-502-9654 Reamers & Drills, PCD Coast Aluminum Sales ____ 480-797-5162 MLC CAD (MasterCAM) ____480-696-6056 Marshall Tool & Supply ____602-269-6295 MLC CAD (SolidWorks) ____480-696-6056 Precision Toolholding SolidProducts _________480-206-0330 Products Software, NC Programming 5th Axis Fixtures________858-505-0432 Adams Machinery _______ 480-968-3711 Von Ruden Manufacturing __ 763-682-0322 Delcam ____________877 335 2261 Thread Mills Ellison Machinery _______480-968-5335 Coast Aluminum Sales ____ 480-797-5162 Feature Cam __________602-502-9654 Horizon Carbide ________480-968-0957 MLC CAD (MasterCAM) ____480-696-6056 Sandvik Coromant_______480-233-0997 MLC CAD (SolidWorks) ____480-696-6056 Sandvik Coromant_______602-628-4242 SolidProducts _________480-206-0330 Tooling Columns/ Tombstones Software, Servicing Ellison Machinery _______480-968-5335 Stevens Engineering ______ 602-272-6766 Delcam ____________877 335 2261 Feature Cam __________602-502-9654 Tooling Systems Ellison Machinery _______480-968-5335 MLC CAD (MasterCAM) ____480-696-6056 Global EDM Supply ______480-836-8330 MLC CAD (SolidWorks) ____480-696-6056 Sandvik Coromant_______480-233-0997 SolidProducts _________480-206-0330

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mike.amts@hotmail.com amtsmike@hotmail.com

Industrial Equipment Moving & Storage Arizona Machine Tool Service, AMTS

as Machinery Sales Opening a new chapter in my life, after 30 years, 22 in Arizona

Co. Senior Service Engineer, servicing Bridgeport, Cincinnati, Hardinge, Okamoto, and many others, CNC and Manual Machine Tools, I will continue to provide service and repair to Arizona, Thank you Mike Smith

iAudit _____________480-444-8845 480-444-8845 Paramount Leadership Group 480-442-7497 Quality Training Consultants _928-284-0856 Rev AZ _____________ 602-845-1200 Sustaining Edge Solutions___ 888-572-9642 Contract Inspection Klontech Measure Sol _____ 480-626-8131 Contract Programming Adams Machinery _______ 480-968-3711 Ellison Machinery _______480-968-5335 Klontech Measure Sol _____ 480-626-8131 CNC Training Adams Machinery _______ 480-968-3711 Ellison Machinery _______480-968-5335 Gateway Community College _602-286-8050 Design Services Metalcraft Inc.________480-967-4889 Engineering Services Advanced Coord. Tech ____ 623-780-4137 Metals Eng & Testing Lab. ___ 602-272-4571 Schenk Intertech________ 949-360-1512 Financial Services Alerus Bank & Trust ______ 480-905-2407 BMO Harris Bank _______602-650-3779 Quick Turn Financial______480-385-1738 SBG Capital __________480-897-4988 US Bank ____________909-466-5020 US Bank ____________507-532-8437 A Z MANUFACTURING SW • 88 • Jan / Feb 2017 2

Heavyhaul C&M Rigging _________602-253-8200 Hunter Machine Moving ____ 602-246-8783

IRH _____________ 800-334-2409 Omega Morgan________ 800-442-8141 Insurance Services NFP Property & Casualty ___ 480-458-6052 Sentry Insurance _______ 877-373-6879 ISO/AS9100 Consulting ABS Quality Evaluations ____ 702-644-2770 BMSC _____________ 480-445-9400

iAudit _____________ 480-444-8845 Paramount Leadership Group 480-442-7497 Quality Training Consultants _ 928-284-0856 Rev AZ _____________ 602-845-1200 Sustaining Edge Solutions__ _888-572-9642 IT/ Network Support Gartman Technical Services __ 602-788-8121 Leasing and Financing

Alerus Bank & Trust ______ 480-905-2407 BMO Harris Bank _______ 602-650-3779 Droeg Financial Services ___ 480-345-6575 Quick Turn Financial______ 480-385-1220 US Bank ____________ 909-466-5020 US Bank ____________ 507-532-8437 Lean Manufacturing

ABS Quality Evaluations ____ 702-644-2770 BMSC _____________ 480-445-9400

Rev AZ _____________602-845-1200 602-845-1200 Sustaining Edge Solutions___888-572-9642 Management Systems

Certification/Training ABS Quality Evaluations ___ 702-644-2770 Paramount Leadership Group __480-442-7497 Machine Tool Utilization Tracking E Solutions ___________602-524-0192 Manufacturers Rep Quality Training Consultants _928-284-0856

Machinery Installation C&M Rigging ________602-253-8200 Hunter Machine Moving ____602-246-8783 IRH ____________800-334-2409 MEI Rigging _________ 480-917-3870 Omega Morgan _______ 800-442-8141 Machinery Moving C&M Rigging ________602-253-8200

Hunter Machine Moving ____602-246-8783 IRH ____________800-334-2409 MEI Rigging _________ 480-917-3870 Omega Morgan _______ 800-442-8141 Machinery Storage C&M Rigging ________602-253-8200 Real Estate, Commercial

NAI Horizon _________ 602-852-3433 Phil Terry ___________602-903-3762

Recycling Auerbach Waste LLC ______ 623-536-1015 Barry Metals __________602-484-7186 Broadway Metal Recycling __602-795-6328 Consolidated Resources Inc. __623-931-5009 Davis Salvage Co ______ 602-267-7208 Phoenix Metal Trading ___ 602-257-4660 Reverse Engineering ARTL ______________602-374-3770 BMSC ____________ 480-445-9400 Klontech Measure Sol _____480-626-8131 Metalcraft Inc. _________480-967-4889 Metals Eng & Testing Lab. ___602-272-4571 Rigging C&M Rigging ________602-253-8200 Hunter Machine Moving ____602-246-8783 IRH ____________ 800-334-2409 Omega Morgan _______ 800-442-8141 Schools, Custom Training AZPMAP ____________602-723-8191 Ellison Machinery ______ 480-968-5335 Gateway Community College 602-286-8050 Schools, Machining & Training Gateway Community College 602-286-8050 Shipping Preparation C&M Machine Services ___ 602-284-8836

Business insurance solutions for the precision manufacturing industry 1-877-373-6879 businessproducts_direct@sentry.com sentry.com

MAGNUM PRECISION MACHINES, INC. DAVID MORENO BUSINESS: 915-856-7900 12025 ROJAS DR. SUITE A FAX: 915-857-4700 EL PASO, TX. 79936 CELL: 915-892-0797 www.magnumprecisionmachines.com

EMAIL: dmoreno@magnumep.com

Scott HAISCH Sales Manager Cell: 1(480) 689-8756 haisch.scott@rotarex.com 221 Westec Drive – Westmoreland Technology Park I Mt. Pleasant, PA 15666 – USA – www.firedetec.com

Systems Integration Ellison Machinery _______ 480-968-5877 Transportation IRH ____________ 800-334-2409 Transportation:Air/Freight/ Ground IRH ____________ 800-334-2409 Working Capital, Credit Lines Droeg Financial Services ___ 480-345-6575 Quick Turn Financial______ 480-385-1220 SBG Capital __________ 480-897-4988 US Bank ____________909-466-5020 US Bank ____________507-532-8437 REPAIR/DESIGN Bar Feeder Repair Edge Technologies _______ 562-597-7824 Machine Tool Design/ Engineering Ellison Machinery _______480-968-5335 Machine Tool Rebuilding AC/DC Engineering ______ 602-818-0157 Advanced Precision ______ 602-525-0156 API Services __________ 757-223-4157 Adams Machinery _______ 480-968-3711 AMTS______________ 602-397-4008 DM Machine Repair ______ 480-709-1450 EDM Network _________ 480-836-1782

Setco-Pope Spindles ______866-362-0699 866-362-0699 The Werks C&C, Inc ______602-569-1809 Machine Retrofitting/CNC AC/DC Engineering ______ 602-818-0157 Adams Machinery _______ 480-968-3711 API Services __________ 757-223-4157 Equip_______ 480-615-6353 Arizona CNC Equip Contract Programming Adams Machinery _______ 480-968-3711 Ellison Machinery _______480-968-5335 Klontech Measure Sol _____ 480-626-8131 CNC Training Adams Machinery _______ 480-968-3711 Ellison Machinery _______480-968-5335 Gateway Community College _602-286-8050 Design Services Metalcraft Inc.________480-967-4889 Engineering Services Advanced Coord. Tech ____ 623-780-4137 Metals Eng & Testing Lab. ___602-272-4571 Schenk Intertech________ 949-360-1512 Financial Services Alerus Bank & Trust ______480-905-2407 BMO Harris Bank _______602-650-3779 Droeg Financial Services ___480-345-6575 Quick Turn Financial______480-385-1738 SBG Capital __________480-897-4988 US Bank ___________ 909-466-5020 US Bank ____________507-532-8437 Maint/Repair Services AC/DC Engineering ______ 602-818-0157 Adams Machinery _______ 480-968-3711 Advanced Precision ______ 602-525-0156 AMTS______________602-397-4008

Equip_______ 480-615-6353 Arizona CNC Equip C&M Machine Services ____ 602-284-8836 DM Machine Repair ______ 480-709-1450 D & R Machinery _______ 480-775-6462 Ellison Machinery _______ 480-968-5335 State Industrial Prod _____ 602-275-0990 The Werks C&C, Inc ______ 602-569-1809 White’s Niche Products ____ 602-290-9402 Mold Repairs B&B Tool _________ 520-397-0436 Stamping Repairs B&B Tool. _________ 520-397-0436 Prev. Maint Programs AC/DC Engineering _____ 602-818-0157 Adams Machinery ______ 480-968-3711 Advanced Precision _____ 602-525-0156 AMTS_____________ 602-397-4008 API Services _________ 757-223-4157 Arizona CNC Equip _____ 480-615-6353 DM Machine Repair _____ 480-709-1450 D & R Machinery ______ 480-775-6462 Ellison Machinery ______ 480-968-5335 The Werks C&C, Inc _____ 602-569-1809 Repair -Hydraulic Advanced Precision _____ 602-525-0156 C&M Machine Services ____ 602-284-8836 The Werks C&C, Inc _____ 602-569-1809 Repair - Portable Advanced Precision _____ 602-525-0156 C&M Machine Services ____ 602-284-8836 The Werks C&C, Inc _____ 602-569-1809

Setco-Pope Spindles _____ 866-362-0699 GMN USA __________ 800-686-1679 Spindle Replacement C&M Machine Services ____602-284-8836 Tool Repair, Coating, Treatment Cutting Tools Consultants 602-277-1342 SAFETY Mobility Ramps & Stairs Modular EZ-Access _________ 800-451-1903 Fire Protection Systems Rotarex __________ 480-689-8756 FOD Prevention PlaSteel __________ 888-752-7899 TESTING Component & Failure Analysis ARTL ______________602-374-3770 Testing, Metallurgical ARTL ______________602-374-3770 Metals Eng & Testing Lab. ___602-272-4571

WATER TREATMENT SYSTEMS Spindle Rebuilding API Services _________ 757-223-4157 Chemetall __________ 714-739-2821 A Z MANUFACTURING SW • 89 • Jan / Feb 2017 2

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WESTERN CAST PARTS LLC

www.daytonrogers.com 800-677-8881

● Complex Stampings ● On Time Delivery ● Quality Assurance

Steve Whisel

● Difficult Assemblies ●Contract Mfg. ●Design Assistance

Field Sales & Engineering

4024 E. Casitas Del Rio Dr. Phoenix, AZ 85050 Phone: (480) 284-6618 Cell: (480) 250-9764 Email: swcastings@cox.net

Mark Erickson ● General Manager merickson@daytonrogers.com 763-717-6303

Castings: Prototype AATC_____________602-268-1467 Dolphin ____________ 602-272-6747 Western Cast Parts ______480-250-9764 Castings: Production AATC_____________602-268-1467 Dolphin ____________ 602-272-6747 Western Cast Parts ______480-250-9764 COATING Arizona Finishing ______ 602-438-4443 CAP ____________ 602-464-9629 Coating Technologies ____ 623-581-2648 Collins Metal Finishing ____ 602-275-3117

ADDITIVE MFG / 3 D PRINTING Faustson ____________303-420-7422 LAI International _______480-968-6228 ASSEMBLY Abrams Airborne Mfg _____ 520-887-1727 Acme Metalworks _______ 480-926-4171 CAID Industries ________ 520-294-3126 Campro Mfg __________602-298-8700 DNKB Inc ___________480-659-7703 Fry Fabrications ________ 602-454-0701 GHT Services__________480-396-1800 Hi-Tech Machining & Eng ___520-889-8325 Horizon Aviation & Machining 623-214-7424 IMCOR Corp __________ 602-245-0148 JD Machine __________801-782-4403 KLK Ind. ____________ 602-267-1331 Morsch Machine ________ 480-961-7673 Pierpont Manufacturing ____ 602-233-1335

BRAZING PlaSteel ___________ 480-491-8100 Precise Metal Products ____602-272-2625 Thermal-Vac __________714-702-0488 ProtoTech __________ 520-579-9873 Brazing: Aluminum Dip Wrico ____________ 480-892-7800 Abrams Airborne Mfg _____520-887-1727 Cable/Harness Assembly BROACHING Bar-S Machine _________ 928-636-2115 Air Gear Industries ______602-275-7996 Clean Room 2820 Assembly Brandt Ave Apache Gear, Inc _______ 623-934-7144 Nampa, ID Jan’s Inc.____________480-833-7305 83687 L&W Fluid ___________602-323-2560 CASTINGS AATC_____________602-268-1467 Custom Assembly Ph: Creform 208-442-1999 PlaSteelwww.rpmmachineinc.com ___________ 480-491-8100 Dolphin ____________ 602-272-6747 rpm@rpmmachineinc.com Western Cast Parts ______ 480-250-9764 BAR CODING Western Sintering _______509-375-3096 BROACHING

ASSEMBLIES Bar-S Machine ________ 928-636-2115 Dayton Rogers _______ 763-717-6303 Progway ___________435-656-9585 RPM CNC Precision Machine 208-442-1999 Steen & Sons Machine Shop 208-522-7341 A Z MANUFACTURING SW • 90 • Jan / Feb 2017 Superior Metal Products__ 303-791-7550 Wasatch Laser Processing__801-972-3500

Coating: Nickel/Teflon/Chrome Plasma Cutting CASTINGS Die Casting Coating Technologies ___623-581-2648 Bandsaw LLC _______ 303-744-7181 Watkins Tool & Supply __ 303-295-9603 Collins Metal Finishing __ 602-275-3117 Plastic TVT Die Casting ______ 800-280-2278 LA Specialties _______ 602-269-7612 Bandsaw LLC _______ 303-744-7181 Die Casting: Aluminum/Zinc Coating:Zinc & Mag.Phos. ImageTek _________ 303-806-8111 Our company logo TVT Die Casting ______ 800-280-2278 Coating Technologies ___623-581-2648 Saw Cutting Precision Investment Casting Collins Metal Finishing __ 602-275-3117 Bandsaw LLC _______ 303-744-7181 Dolphin Inc. ________ 602-272-6747 Powder Extreme Coatings _ 801-450-2819

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BENDING Ponderosa Ind________303-298-1801 Fry Fabrications Precision Mach’d________602-454-0701 Products 970-482-7676 Precision ______480-987-2466 SpecialtyMetal Steel Mfg Services __ 801-539-8252 Bending: CNC Turning: Automatic Precise Metal Products ___ 602-272-2625 Matrix Machine ______ 480-966-4451

Precision Investment Castings Since 1972 www.dolphincasting.com MICHAEL BUTLER mikeb@dolphincasting.com Manager Ext. 3335 Phone:Sales 602-272-6747 mikeb@dolphincasting.com

602-272-6747 3335 ISOPhone: 9001, PED DirectiveExt. 97/23/EC ISO 9001, PED Directive 97/23/EC

108 N. 40th St. Phoenix 1245 E. Buckeye Rd.

Production and Design Technology and Precision Machining Education Experts info@gatewaycc.edu Phoenix, AZ 85034 602-286-8050 maricopaskillcenter.com/machining gatewaycc.edu/industrial

ROBERT ASSENMACHER PRESIDENT

t 520.294.3126 c 520.834.7444 roba@caid.com www.caid.com

District 7 Powder Coat _____480-636-1145 480-636-1145 Frontier Techni-Kote ______928-636-0130 LA Specialties _________602-269-7612 Louie’s Black Oxide _____ 602-257-0530 Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090 Precision Industrial Painting 602-256-0260 Southwest Powder Coating _ 602-272-0878 Chromatic Over Zinc Diecast Sav-On Plating_________602-252-4311

Col Metal Finishing ____602-275-3117 The Metal Man _______ 800-448-9448 Collins LA Specialties _________602-269-7612 Sav-On Plating_________602-252-4311 Louie’s Black Oxide _____ 602-257-0530 Coating: Dry Film Lube Coating: Cerakote Coating Technologies ____ 623-581-2648 District 7 Powder Coat _____480-636-1145 Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090 Masic Industries _______ 503-232-9109 Precision Industrial Painting 602-256-0260 Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090

Coating: Chem Film CAP ____________ 602-464-9629 Collins Metal Finishing ____602-275-3117 Frontier Techni-Kote _____ 928-636-0130 FutureWeld _________ 602-437-2426 Gold Tech Industries ____ _480-968-1930 LA Specialties _________602-269-7612 Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090 Precision Industrial Painting 602-256-0260 Coating: Black Oxide Coating Technologies ____ 623-581-2648 Treffers Precision ______ 602-744-2636

Coating: Liquid Collins Metal Finishing ___ 602-275-3117 Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090 Pilkington Metal Finishing _ 801-972-2146 Coating: Nickel/Teflon Coating Technologies ____ 623-581-2648 Collins Metal Finishing ____ 602-275-3117 LA Specialties _________602-269-7612 Coating: NP3 Coating Technologies ____ 623-581-2648 Coating:Zinc & Mag.Phos.

Chemetall ___________714-739-2821 Coating Technologies ____ 623-581-2648 Collins Metal Finishing ____ 602-275-3117 Frontier Techni-Kote ______928-636-0130 Louie’s Black Oxide _____ 602-257-0530

Coating:Passivation CAP _____________ 602-464-9629 FutureWeld ___________602-437-2426 Frontier Techni-Kote _______928-636-0130 LA Specialties __________ 602-269-7612 Powder Coating Arizona Finishing _______ 602-438-4443 Collins Metal Finishing _____ 602-275-3117 District 7 Powder Coat ______480-636-1145 Frontier Techni-Kote _______928-636-0130 Kirin Manufacturing ______ 520-622-8402 Masic Industries_________503-232-9109 Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090 Perma-Finish, Inc ________602-278-1733 Pilkington Metal Finishing____801-972-2146 Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090 Kirin Manufacturing ______ 520-622-8402

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AERO

Craig Roth President/C.O.O.

Spring & Manufacturing Co.,Inc.

Patrick H. Stewart II President

A Complete Manufacturing Facility for Fabrication, Machining and Assembly

21631 N. 3rd Avenue Phoenix, AZ 85027 p (623) 492 9400 x215 f (623) 492 9071 pstewart@stewartmfg.com www.stewartmfg.com

SPRINGS STAMPINGS- MACH INED SPRINGSPARTS- WASHER S -WIR E FORMSFORMED TUB ING-ASSEMBLIES

3325 East Wier Avenue Phoenix, Arizona 85040 Phone: (602)243-4329 Cell: (602)370-5777

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Craig Roth President/C.O.O.

Spring & Manufacturing Co.,Inc.

A Complete Manufacturing Facility for Fabrication, Machining and Assembly SPRINGS- STAMPINGS- MACH INED PARTS- WASHER S -WIR E FORMSFORMED TUB ING-ASSEMBLIES

3325 East Wier Avenue Phoenix, Arizona 85040 Phone: (602)243-4329 Cell: (602)370-5777

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Southwest Powder Coating __ 602-272-0878 CUTTING bandsawparts.com ______ 800-240-2932 Echols Saw & Supply _____ 602-278-3918 Harschco LLC _________ 602-617-7514 Southwest Waterjet-Laser ___ 480-306-7748 The Metal Man ________ 800-448-9448 Bandsaw Cutting bandsawparts.com ______800-240-2932 Echols Saw & Supply _____602-278-3918 CNC Router Micropulse West ________ 480-966-2300

Ilene Price: iprice@precise-metals.com Steve Bangerter: sbangerter@precise-metals.com 4534 N. 44th Ave, Phoenix AZ 85031 602-272-2625

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Die Cutting CGS Technologies _______623-434-3136 Laser APMI _____________ 480-668-0024 Desert Precision Mfg ____ 520-887-4433 CGS Technologies _______623-434-3136 Fine Line Laser Cutting ____602-863-3196 Precision Metal Mfg _____ 480-987-2466 Tube Laser Cutting Tube Service Company ___ 602-267-9865 DIE CASTING TVT Die Casting _______ 800-280-2278 Die Casting/Aluminum & Zinc TVT Die Casting _______ 800-280-2278 DIES Arizona Wire & Tool ______480-813-1002 Precision Die & Stamp’g __ 480-967-2038 Wrico ____________ 480-892-7800 EDM EDM: Drilling Small Hole Arizona Wire Specialists ___ 480-829-6530 EDM Tech __________ 602-278-6666 LAYKE, Inc.__________ 602-272-2654 Micropulse West _______ 480-966-2300 Milco Wire EDM/Waterjet ___714-373-0098 Sun Tech ____________480-921-1665 Wire-Tech ___________ 480-966-1591 EDM: Ram-Type (Sinking) EDM Tech __________ 602-278-6666 Faustson ___________ 303-420-7422

LAI Int International ______ 480-968-6228 Micropulse West _______ 480-966-2300 Milco Wire EDM/Waterjet ___714-373-0098 Quality Mold_________ 480-892-5480 Sun Tech ____________480-921-1665 Wire-Tech ___________480-966-1591 EDM: Dialectric Systems /Filtration Ebbco Inc __________ 800-809-3901 EDM: Wire 3D Machine LLC _______ 480-239-8254 Arizona Wire & Tool ______480-813-1002 Arizona Wire Specialists ___ 480-829-6530 Auer Precision ________ 480-834-4637 Continental Machining ___ 800-777-2483 EDM Tech __________ 602-278-6666 Faustson ___________ 303-420-7422 LAI International ______ 480-968-6228 Micropulse West _______ 480-966-2300 Milco Wire EDM/Waterjet ___714-373-0098 Moore Tool & Die _______480-622-1705 Powill Manufacturing ____ 623-780-4100 Quality Mold__________480-892-5480 Sun Tech ____________480-921-1665 Thompson Machine _____ 505-823-1453 WC Machine & Tool _____ 480-507-4620 Whitley Machine_______ 602-323-5550 Wire-Tech ___________480-966-1591 Wrico ____________ 480-892-7800 ENGINEERING/ PROGRAMMING Exactitude Precision ______602-316-6957 IMCOR Corp __________602-245-0148 K-2 Manufacturing _____ 602-455-9575 Pierpont Manufacturing ___ 602-233-1335 FAA REPAIR STATION Air Gear Industries _____ 602-275-7996

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Craig Roth President/C.O.O.

Spring & Manufacturing Co.,Inc.

A Complete Manufacturing Facility for Fabrication, Machining and Assembly SPRINGS- STAMPINGS- MACH INED PARTS- WASHER S -WIR E FORMSFORMED TUB ING-ASSEMBLIES

3325 East Wier Avenue Phoenix, Arizona 85040 Phone: (602)243-4329 Cell: (602)370-5777

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FABRICATIONCraig Roth President/C.O.O. Abrams Airborne Mfg ______520-887-1727 Acme Metalworks ________480-926-4171 Spring & Manufacturing Co.,Inc. A Complete Manufacturing for AERO Spring & Mfg CoFacility ____ 602-243-4329 Fabrication, Machining and Assembly 3325 East Wier Avenue Arizona 85040 Aero Tech ___________Phoenix, 801-292-0493 (602)243-4329 Allfab Engineering_______Phone: 602-437-0497 Cell: (602)370-5777 Anovaprise___________ 623-551-5775 Craig Roth APMI _____________ 480-668-0024 President/C.O.O. Arrow Sheet Metal ________303-427-6419 Spring & Manufacturing480-926-8969 Co.,Inc. AzMark ____________ A Complete Manufacturing Facility for Fabrication, Machining and Assembly BID Machine, Inc _______3325480-892-7304 East Wier Avenue Phoenix, Arizona 85040 CAID Industries _________520-294-3126 Phone: (602)243-4329 (602)370-5777 Continental Machining ____Cell:800-777-2483 Creedbilt Inc ___________623-939-8119 Dayton Lamina _________248-489-9122 Desert Precision Mfg _____ 520-887-4433 Dynamic Machine & Fabrication_ 602-437-0339 Fry Fabrications ________ 602-454-0701 Fine Line Fabricating _____ 602-863-3506 Gilbert Metal Stamping ____ 480-503-1283 Group Manufacturing Serv __ 480-966-3952 Hollow Metal Xpress ______ 866-936-7001 IMCOR Corp ___________602-245-0148 JD Machine __________ 801-782-4403

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William Johnson

Marketing Representative 3300 E. 36th St Office: 520-622-8402 Tucson, AZ 85713 Cell: 520-940-6278 william@kirinmfg.com

K-2 Manufacturing ______ 602-455-9575 Kirin Manufacturing ______ 520-622-8402 Lynch Brothers Mfg ______ 602-267-7575 Metzfab ____________ 602-618-2841 Nelson Engineering ______ 602-273-7114 Phoenix Metalcraft ______ 602-279-4810 Pierpont Manufacturing ____ 602-233-1335 PlaSteel ___________ 480-491-8100 Precise Metal Products ____ 602-272-2625 Precision Metal Mfg____480-987-2466 Scriven Precision________ 480-961-9775 Stewart Precision Mfg _____ 623-492-9400 TMM Precision ________800-448-9448 Weiser Engineering ______ 303-280-2778 Whitley Machine________602-323-5550 Wrico _____________480-892-7800 Aluminum (Medium & Large) Aero Tech ___________ 801-292-0493

Kirin Manufacturing _____ 520-622-8402 Precision Metal Mfg______480-987-2466 Fabrication: Custom Metal Allfab Engineering______ 602-437-0497 Arrow Sheet Metal _______303-427-6419 Fine Line Fabricating ____ 602-863-3506 K-2 Mfg ___________ 602-455-9575 Precise Metal Products ___ 602-272-2625 Precision Metal Mfg______480-987-2466 Fabrication: Medium & Large Abrams Airborne Mfg ____ 520-887-1727 Anovaprise__________ 623-551-5775 APMI _____________ 480-668-0024 Arrow Sheet Metal _______303-427-6419 Continental Machining ___ 800-777-2483 Dynamic Machine & Fabrication 602-437-0339

Fine Line Fabricating ____ 602-863-3506 Fry Fabrications ________602-454-0701 Fine Line Fabricating ____ 602-863-3506 Fry Fabrications ________602-454-0701 Hollow Metal Xpress _____ 866-936-7001 IMCOR Corp __________602-245-0148 Jan’s Inc.___________ 480-833-7305 JD Machine _________ 801-782-4403 Kirin Manufacturing _____ 520-622-8402 Metzfab ____________602-618-2841 Phoenix Metalcraft _____ 602-279-4810 Pierpont Manufacturing ___ 602-233-1335 PlaSteel ___________ 480-491-8100 Precision Metal Mfg______480-987-2466 Precise Metal Products ___ 602-272-2625 Precision Metalworks ____ 602-455-9575 Stewart Precision Mfg ____ 623-492-9400

TMM Pre Precision ________800-448-9448 Weiser Engineering ______303-280-2778 FINISHING Arizona Finishing ______ 602-438-4443 Arizona Hard Chrome _____ 602-278-8671 Coating Technologies _____623-581-2648 EPSI______________714-256-8950 Gold Tech Industries ______480-968-1930 Kirin Manufacturing ______520-622-8402 LA Specialties _________ 602-269-7612 Louie’s Black Oxide ______602-257-0530 Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090 Phoenix Heat Treating_____602-258-7751 Southwest Powder Coating __602-272-0878 TVT Die Casting ________800-280-2278 Abrasive Blasting Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090 STP Performance Coating LLC _ 602-276-1231

district7powdercoat.com

480-636-1145

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4045 W. Washington Phoenix, AZ 85009 (602) 267-7575 office (602) 909-5239 cell wayne@lynchbros.com

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3301 EAST MADISON STREET PHOENIX, ARIZONA 85034

Dry Film Lubrication Precision Industrial Painting _ 602-256-0260 Electro-Polishing Collins Metal Finishing ____ 602-275-3117 Finishing: One Stop Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090 Glass Bead Clean Arizona Hard Chrome _____ 602-278-8671 Byington Steel Treating ____ 408-727-6630 Coating Technologies _____ 623-581-2648 Gold Tech Industries ______ 480-968-1930 LA Specialties _________ 602-269-7612 Southwest Powder Coating __ 602-272-0878 Glass Bead Clean A2Z Sandblasting _______ 602-716-5566 Lone Arrow __________ 480-507-8074 Gun Finishing Louie’s Gun Finishing _____ 602-257-0530 Passivation CAP _____________ 602-464-9629 Coating Technologies ____ _623-581-2648 Frontier Techni-Kote ______ 928-636-0130 FutureWeld __________ 602-437-2426 Gold Tech Industries ______ 480-968-1930 Kirin Manufacturing ______ 520-622-8402

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L A Specialties _________602-269-7612 602-269-7612 Polishing Arizona Hard Chrome _____602-278-8671 EPSI______________714-256-8950 Gold Tech Industries _____ 480-968-1930 L A Specialties _________602-269-7612 Sand Blasting A2Z Sandblasting ______ 602-716-5566 Byington Steel Treating ___ 408-727-6630 Coating Technologies ____ 623-581-2648 District 7 Powder Coat _____480-636-1145 Masic Industries _______ 503-232-9109 Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090 Southwest Powder Coating _ 602-272-0878 STP Performance Coating LLC _602-276-1231 Stripping Coating Technologies ____ 623-581-2648 Southwest Powder Coating _ 602-272-0878 FIXTURES Allset Precision ________480-753-1776 Exactitude Precision ______602-316-6957 ProtoTech __________ 520-579-9873 FORGINGS R&D Specialty Manco ____ 602-278-7700 Forgings: Titanium R&D Specialty Manco ____ 602-278-7700 FOUNDRY AATC _____________ 602-268-1467 GAGES Allset Precision ________480-753-1776

Sales@azhardchrome.com

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GASKETS CGS Technol Technologies _______ 623-434-3136 ProtoTech ___________ 520-579-9873 GEAR CUTTING Air Gear Industries ______ 602-275-7996 Apache Gear, Inc _______ 623-934-7144 GRINDING Air Gear Industries ______ 602-275-7996 Allset Precision ________ 480-753-1776 Anovaprise___________ 623-551-5775 Arizona Hard Chrome _____ 602-278-8671 Arizona Wire & Tool ______ 480-813-1002 Auer Precision _________ 480-834-4637 AzMark ____________ 480-926-8969 Blue Streak Grinding _____ 602-353-8088 ChemResearch_________ 602-253-4175 Fives _____________ 909-263-9282 GMN USA ___________800-686-1679 Grindworks __________ 623-582-5767 JWB Manufacturing ______ 480-967-4600 McFarland Machine & Eng __ 480-966-1388 Osborn Products ________ 623-587-0335 Phoenix Grinding _______ 602-437-8401 Powill Manufacturing _____ 623-780-4100 Ron Grob Co. _________ 970-667-5320 Steel Services Grinding ____ 800-662-0126 Sun Grinding _________ 602-238-9595 Superior Grinding _______ 888-487-9701 Grinding, Blanchard

Blue Streak Grinding ____ 602-353-8088 Dynamic Machine & Fabrication 602-437-0339 Grindworks __________623-582-5767 National Grinding & Mfg __ 602-588-2869 Osborn Products _______ 623-587-0335 Phoenix Grinding _______602-437-8401 Ron Grob Co. ________ 970-667-5320 Sun Grinding ________ 602-238-9595 Superior Grinding _______888-487-9701 Grinding, CNC/Contour Blue Streak Grinding ____ 602-353-8088 National Grinding & Mfg __ 602-588-2869 Powill Manufacturing_ ___623-780-4100 Superior Grinding _______888-487-9701 Grinding… Cylindrical Grindworks __________623-582-5767 Grinding… Double Disc Industrial Precision Grinding _310-352-4700 Phoenix Grinding _______602-437-8401 Grinding: ID/OD

Air Gear Industries _____ 602-275-7996 Anovaprise__________ 623-551-5775 Arizona Hard Chrome _____602-278-8671 Air Gear Industries ______ 602-275-7996 AzMark ___________ 480-926-8969 Industrial Precision Grinding _ 310-352-4700 McFarland Machine & Eng __ 480-966-1388 Steel Services Grinding ____800-662-0126 Sun Grinding _________ 602-238-9595 Superior Grinding _______ 888-487-9701 Grinding: Centerless Anovaprise___________ 623-551-5775

Powill Manufacturing_____623-780-4100 M IDENTIFICATION Labels & Bar Code AZ Laser Engraving ______602-708-1204 EPSI______________714-256-8950 Blue Streak Grinding ____ 602-353-8088 Grindworks __________ 623-582-5767 National Grinding & Mfg ___602-588-2869 Osborn Products ________623-587-0335 Ron Grob Co._________970-667-5320 Superior Grinding _______ 888-487-9701 Grinding:Mattison Sun Grinding _________602-238-9595 Grinding: OD Arizona Hard Chrome _____ 602-278-8671 Grindworks __________ 623-582-5767 National Grinding & Mfg ___602-588-2869 Grinding: Profile Anovaprise___________623-551-5775 Grinding: Surface Arizona Wire & Tool ______ 480-813-1002 Blue Streak Grinding ____ 602-353-8088 Grindworks __________ 623-582-5767 Industrial Precision Grinding _310-352-4700 National Grinding & Mfg ___602-588-2869 Osborn Products ________623-587-0335 Phoenix Grinding _______ 602-437-8401 Quality Mold_________ 480-892-5480 Sun Grinding _________602-238-9595 Superior Grinding _______ 888-487-9701 WC Machine & Tool ______480-507-4620 Grinding: Tool & Cutter B & T Tool & Engineering ___ 602-267-1481 CTE______________ 800-783-2400 Gilbert Metal Stamping ____480-503-1283

Mobile PartMarking AZ Laser Engraving ______602-708-1204 or Grinding _______888-487-9701 Superior GUNDRILLING Tool / PartMarking (Laser) Acme Metal Works_______480-926-4171 AZ Laser Engraving ______602-708-1204 B & T Tool & Engineering ___ 602-267-1481 HEAT TREATING Byington Steel Treating ___ 408-727-6630 Frontier Techni-Kote ______928-636-0130 Controlled Thermal Tech’y___602-272-3714 Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090 Phoenix Heat Treating_____602-258-7751 TechMark __________ 480-820--9444 Silk Screen Temperature Processing ___ 303-772-0250 Arizona Finishing ______ 602-438-4443 Thermal-Vac _________ 714-702-0488 Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090 Heat Treating/ Aerospace Precision Industrial Painting 602-256-0260 Byington Steel Treating ___ 408-727-6630 Phoenix Heat Treating_____602-258-7751 INSPECTION Calibration Temperature Processing ___ 303-772-0250 Washington Calibration ___ 480-820-0506 Heat Treating/ISO9001/ Inspection, First Article AS9100 Dimensional Analysis Tech __623-476-9953 Byington Steel Treating ___ 408-727-6630 Klontech Measure Sol _____480-626-8131 Temperature Processing ___ 303-772-0250 Total Quality Systems ____ 480-377-6422 Inspection Services Large Capacity Drop BotAllset Precision ________480-753-1776 tom Oven/Aluminum Heat Arizona Wire & Tool ______480-813-1002 Treating Challenger Aerospace ____ 480-894-0802 Byington Steel Treating ___ 408-727-6630 Dimensional Analysis Tech __623-476-9953 Lynch Brothers Mfg _____ 602-267-7575 East Valley Precision______480-288-6601 Phoenix Heat Treating_____602-258-7751 Klontech Measure Sol _____480-626-8131 HONING/LAPPING Metals Eng & Testing Lab. ___602-272-4571 Grindworks __________623-582-5767 Micropulse West _______ 480-966-2300 LAYKE, Inc.__________ 602-272-2654 Sustaining Edge Solutions __ 888-572-9642 National Grinding & Mfg __ 602-588-2869 Total Quality Systems ____ 480-377-6422 Osborn Products _______ 623-587-0335 Inspection Services, Welding Phoenix Grinding _______602-437-8401 Metals Eng & Testing Lab. ___602-272-4571

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602 708 1204

Mobile Laser Service WWW.AZLASER-ENGRAVING.COM

Inspection: Ultrasonic, Radiographic, Particle, Penetrant Talon Test Labs_________602-454-2500 ISO9000 / AS9100 Cert.

BMSC_____________480-445-9400 Gladhill Assoc _________ 623-939-4412 Orion Registrar ________ 303-645-4017 Sustaining Edge Solutions ___ 888-572-9642 Quality Training Consultants _ 928-284-0856 ISO Registrar Orion Registrar ________ 303-645-4017 Process Improvement/ Audit BMSC_____________480-445-9400 Quality Training Consultants _ 928-284-0856 Sustaining Edge Solutions ___ 888-572-9642 JIGS Allset Precision ________ 480-753-1776 MACHINING Machining: 3D 3D Machine LLC ________480-239-8254 Allset Precision ________ 480-753-1776 Arcas Machine Inc _______ 480-632-9414 Cassavant Machining _____ 602-437-4005 Challenger Aerospace _____ 480-894-0802 L&W Machine Co _______602-323-2560 Micropulse West ________480-966-2300 Pro Precision _________602-353-0022 Machining: 5 Axis Accutech ____________ 801-975-1117 Cassavant Machining _____ 602-437-4005

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edgibson@continentalmachiningco.com www.continentalmachiningco.com

Dynamic Machine & Fabrication 602-437-0339 East Valley Precision______480-288-6601 Evans Precision Machining _ 623-581-6200 Faustson ___________ 303-420-7422 Hi-Tech Machining & Eng __ 520-889-8325 Horizon Aviation & Machining 623-214-7424 Industrial Tool Die & Eng ___520-745-8771 Lindel Engineering ______520-792-3160 Metalcraft Inc. ________ 480-967-4889 Morsch Machine ________480-961-7673 T-N Machining ________ 602-278-8665 Uni-Tek ____________602-272-2601 Wire-Tech ___________480-966-1591 Machining: Aerospace AATC _____________602-268-1467 Abrams Airborne Mfg _____520-887-1727 Absolute Turning & Machine 520-624-5628 Air Gear Industries _____ 602-275-7996 Allset Precision ________480-753-1776 American Spirit Investments 480-367-9545 Arcas Machine Inc _______480-632-9414 AZ Datum ___________602-687-6331 AzMark ___________ 480-926-8969 Backerworks Mfg ______ 505-342-2943 Campro Mfg _________ 602-298-8700 Cassavant Machining ____ 602-437-4005 Challenger Aerospace ____ 480-894-0802 Continental Machining ___ 800-777-2483 Dynamic Machine & Fabrication 602-437-0339 Evans Precision Machining _ 623-581-6200 Gibbs Precision Machine ___480-753-1166 A2Z MANUFACTURING SW •

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Glover Glov Precision Inc. ______480-464-0150 480-464-0150 Hi-Tech Machining & Eng ___520-889-8325 HK Machining _________602-278-6704 Horizon Aviation & Machining 623-214-7424 Infinisys ____________ 602-276-2276 JB’s Precision _________623-581-9088 JD Machine __________801-782-4403 Kirin Manufacturing ______520-622-8402 KLK Ind. ____________ 602-267-1331 L&W Machine Co ______ 602-323-2560 LAI International ______ 480-968-6228 LAYKE, Inc.___________602-272-2654 Lindel Engineering ______520-792-3160 Lynch Brothers Mfg ______602-267-7575 Matrix Machine ________480-966-4451 Metalcraft Inc. _________480-967-4889 Morsch Machine ________ 480-961-7673 Nelson Engineering ______ 602-273-7114 Osborn Products ________623-587-0335 PlaSteel ___________ 480-491-8100 Powerhaus Precision _____480-225-8854 Powill Manufacturing ____ 623-780-4100 Precise Metal Products ___ 602-272-2625 Pro Precision _________602-353-0022 R&D Specialty Manco ____ 602-278-7700 Service & Sales _______ 480-968-9084 Southwest Swiss Precision __602-438-4670 Uni-Tek ____________602-272-2601 Wire-Tech ___________ 480-966-1591

Machining: Contract Absolute Turning & Machine _520-624-5628 Aero Design & Mfg ______602-437-8080 AERO Spring & Mfg Co ____ 602-243-4329 Arizona Wire & Tool ______ 480-813-1002 AZ Datum ___________ 602-687-6331 Campro Mfg __________602-298-8700 Evans Precision Machining __623-581-6200 Flex-Pro ____________ 623-581-0551 GHT Services__________480-396-1800 Gibbs Precision Machine ___ 480-753-1166 Gilbert Metal Stamping ____480-503-1283 Group Mfg Serv. ________480-966-3952 HK Machining ________ 602-278-6704 Horizon Aviation & Machining 623-214-7424 Infinisys ____________ 602-276-2276 Jan’s Inc.____________480-833-7305 JC Machine & Motorsports___ 602-790-2207 JD Machine __________801-782-4403 KLK Ind. ____________ 602-267-1331 Lindel Engineering ______ 520-792-3160 McFarland Machine & Eng __ 480-966-1388 Metzfab ____________ 602-618-2841 Micropulse West ________480-966-2300 Pierpont Manufacturing ____ 602-233-1335 ProtoTech ___________520-579-9873 T-N Machining _________602-278-8665 Tangent Solutions _______ 480-229-9901 TVT Die Casting ________800-280-2278

Wrico ____________ 480-892-7800 Machining: Ceramic O’Keefe Ceramics _____ 719-687-0888 Ceramic: Sapphire, Alumina, Silicon, Aluminum, Quartz O’Keefe Ceramics _____ 719-687-0888 Machining: CNC 3D Machine LLC _______ 480-239-8254 Accutech ____________ 801-975-1117 Abrams Airborne Mfg _____520-887-1727 Absolute Turning and Machine 520-624-5628 Allset Precision ________480-753-1776 Alpha Machine _______ 602-437-0322 American Spirit Investments__480-367-9545 Arcas Machine Inc _______480-632-9414 Arizona Wire & Tool ______480-813-1002 AZ Datum ___________602-687-6331 AzMark ___________ 480-926-8969 BID Machine, Inc ______ 480-892-7304 CAID Industries ________520-294-3126 Campro Mfg _________ 602-298-8700 Challenger Aerospace___ _ 480-894-0802 Continental Machining ___ 800-777-2483 Dynamic Machine & Fabrication 602-437-0339 East Valley Precision______480-288-6601 Evans Precision Machining _ 623-581-6200 Faustson ___________ 303-420-7422 Fives ____________ 909-263-9282 Flex-Pro ____________623-581-0551 GHT Services_________ 480-396-1800 Gibbs Precision Machine ___480-753-1166 Glover Precision, Inc. ____ 480-464-0150 HK Machining _________602-278-6704 Hi-Tech Machining & Eng __ 520-889-8325 HPMP _____________801-619-9850 IMCO Products ________ 480-632-2252 Infinisys ____________602-276-2276 A2Z MANUFACTURING SW •

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Swami Subramanian

860 East 46th Street, Tucson AZ 85713 520-624-5628 • Cell 602-418-2171• Fax 520-624-5636 www.atmswiss.com • swami@atmswiss.com

NATHAN CONSULTING, LLC dba

AB BSO BS SOL S OL OL LU UTE U TURNING & MACHINE

Marc Faris 480.200.5571

Jan’s Inc.____________480-833-7305 JB’s Precision _________623-581-9088 JC Machine & Motorsports___ 602-790-2207 JD Machine __________801-782-4403 Jemelco, Inc.__________480-804-9541 Kirin Manufacturing ______520-622-8402 KLK Ind. ____________ 602-267-1331 L&W Machine Co _______602-323-2560 LAYKE, Inc.___________602-272-2654 Lindel Engineering ______ 520-792-3160 Matrix Machine ________ 480-966-4451 McFarland Machine & Eng __ 480-966-1388 Metalcraft Inc. _________ 480-967-4889 Metzfab ____________ 602-618-2841 Micropulse West ________480-966-2300 Milco Wire EDM/Waterjet ___ 714-373-0098 Morsch Machine ________ 480-961-7673 Osborn Products ________ 623-587-0335 Pierpont Manufacturing ____ 602-233-1335 PMBC ____________ _602-431-8131 Powerhaus Precision _____480-225-8854 Powill Manufacturing _____ 623-780-4100 Precise Metal Products ____602-272-2625 Pro Precision _________602-353-0022 ProtoTech ___________520-579-9873 Quality Mold__________480-892-5480 R&D Specialty Manco _____602-278-7700 RMSS ____________ 623-780-5904 T-N Machining _________ 602-278-8665 Tangent Solutions _______ 480-229-9901

Uni-Tek ____________ 602-272-2601 Val-Tech Mfg __________ 480-966-7376 WC Machine & Tool ______480-507-4620 Wire-Tech___________480-966-1591 Wrico _____________480-892-7800 Machining Composites Absolute Turning & Machine _ 520-624-5628 Machining: Large Alpha Machine ________ 602-437-0322 Backerworks Mfg _______ 505-342-2943 Continental Machining ____ 800-777-2483 Empire Precision Mach. ____480-633-4580 HK Machining _________ 602-278-6704 KLK Ind. ____________ 602-267-1331 Mach: Turning CNC 3D Machine LLC _______480-239-8254 Absolute Turning & Machine _ 520-624-5628 Air Gear Industries ______ 602-275-7996 Alpha Machine ________ 602-437-0322 American Spirit Investments__ 480-367-9545 Arcas Machine Inc _______ 480-632-9414 AzMark ____________ 480-926-8969 Bar-S Machine _________ 928-636-2115 Campro Mfg __________ 602-298-8700 Cassavant Machining _____ 602-437-4005 Continental Machining ____ 800-777-2483 Dynamic Machine & Fabrication_602-437-0339 Exactitude Precision ______ 602-316-6957 Flex-Pro ____________ 623-581-0551 GHT Services__________ 480-396-1800

Gl Glover Precision, Inc. _____ 480-464-0150 Hi-Tech Machining & Eng ___ 520-889-8325 HPMP _____________ 801-619-9850 IMCO Products _________ 480-632-2252 JC Machine & Motorsports Motorsports___ 602-790-2207 JD Machine __________ 801-782-4403 Jemelco, Inc.__________ 480-804-9541 Kirin Manufacturing ______ 520-622-8402 McFarland Machine & Eng __ 480-966-1388 Metzfab ____________ 602-618-2841 Morsch Machine ________ 480-961-7673 Osborn Products ________ 623-587-0335 Precision Metalworks _____ 602-455-9575 RMSS _____________ 623-780-5904 Ron Grob Co._________970-667-5320 Stewart Precision Mfg _____ 623-492-9400 Tangent Solutions _______ 480-229-9901 Uni-Tek ___________ 602-272-2601 Val-Tech Mfg __________ 480-966-7376 Metalcraft Inc. _________ 480-967-4889 Morsch Machine ________ 480-961-7673 Uni-Tek ____________ 602-272-2601 Wire-Tech ___________ 480-966-1591 Machining Plastic Absolute Turning & Machine _ 520-624-5628 East Valley Precision______ 480-288-6601 Glover Precision, Inc. _____ 480-464-0150 PlaSteel ___________ 480-491-8100 Machining Precision 3D Machine LLC __ ______480-239-8254 AATC _____________ 602-268-1467 Accutech ____________ 801-975-1117 Abrams Airborne Mfg _____ 520-887-1727 Absolute Turning & Machine _ 520-624-5628 Allset Precision ________ 480-753-1776

Alpha Machine ________ 602-437-0322 Anovaprise___________ 623-551-5775 Arcas Machine Inc _______ 480-632-9414 Arizona Wire & Tool ______ 480-813-1002 Auer Precision _________ 480-834-4637 AZ Datum ___________ 602-687-6331 AzMark ____________ 480-926-8969 Backerworks Mfg _______ 505-342-2943 BID Machine, Inc _______ 480-892-7304 Cassavant Machining _____ 602-437-4005 Challenger Aerospace _____ 480-894-0802 Continental Machining ____ 800-777-2483 Dynamic Machine & Fabrication_602-437-0339 East Valley Precision______ 480-288-6601 Evans Precision Mach’g ____ 623-581-6200 Faustson ____________ 303-420-7422 Fives _____________ 909-263-9282 Flex-Pro ____________ 623-581-0551 Gibbs Precision Machine ___ 480-753-1166 Glover Precision , Inc. _____ 480-464-0150 Hi-Tech Machining & Eng ___ 520-889-8325 HK Machining _________ 602-278-6704 Horizon Aviation & Machining 623-214-7424 HPMP _____________ 801-619-9850 IMCO Products _________ 480-632-2252 A2Z MANUFACTURING •

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Power

AEROSPACE

MILITARY

COMMERCIAL

1826 W. Broadway Rd,# 46,Mesa, AZ 85202 Phone: 480-225-8854 powerhausprecision@yahoo.com www.powerhausprecision.com

JB’s Precision ________ 623-581-9088 JC Machine & Motorsports__ 602-790-2207 JD Machine _________ 801-782-4403 Jemelco, Inc._________ 480-804-9541 JWB Manufacturing _____ 480-967-4600 LAI International ______ 480-968-6228 LAYKE, Inc.__________ 602-272-2654 Lindel Engineering _____ 520-792-3160 Lynch Brothers Mfg _____ 602-267-7575 Matrix Machine ________480-966-4451 Micropulse West _______ 480-966-2300 Metalcraft Inc. ________ 480-967-4889 Morsch Machine ________480-961-7673 Nelson Engineering ______602-273-7114 Osborn Products _______ 623-587-0335 Powerhaus Precision ____ 480-225-8854 Powill Mfg __________ 623-780-4100 Pro Precision ________ 602-353-0022 ProtoTech __________ 520-579-9873 Quality Mold_________ 480-892-5480 R&D Specialty Manco ____ 602-278-7700 RMSS_____________623-780-5904 Service & Sales _______ 480-968-9084 Southwest Swiss Precision _ 602-438-4670 Stewart Precision Mfg ____ 623-492-9400 Sun Tech ____________480-921-1665 Tangent Solutions _______480-229-9901 Uni-Tek ___________ 602-272-2601 Val-Tech Mfg _________ 480-966-7376 WC Machine & Tool _____ 480-507-4620 Weiser Engineering _____ 303-280-2778 Wire-Tech ___________480-966-1591 Machining: Production GHT Services_________ 480-396-1800 HPMP _____________801-619-9850 Lindel Engineering _____ 520-792-3160 JC Machine & Motorsports__ 602-790-2207 T-N Machining ________ 602-278-8665 Machining: Prototype AATC____________602-268-1467 Absolute Turning & Machine 520-624-5628 Accutech ____________ 801-975-1117 Allset Precision ________480-753-1776 A2Z MANUFACTURING •

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Alpha Machine _______ 602-437-0322 Anovaprise__________ 623-551-5775 Arcas Machine Inc _______480-632-9414 AZ Datum ___________602-687-6331 Backerworks Mfg ______ 505-342-2943 Bar-S Machine _________ 928-636-2115 BID Machine, Inc ______ 480-892-7304 Continental Machining ___ 800-777-2483 East Valley Precision______480-288-6601 Evans Precision _______ 623-581-6200 Exactitude Precision ______602-316-6957 Flex-Pro ____________623-581-0551 GHT Services_________ 480-396-1800 Gibbs Precision Machine ___480-753-1166 Glover Precision, Inc. ____ 480-464-0150 Horizon Aviation & Machining 623-214-7424 HPMP _____________801-619-9850 Infinisys ____________602-276-2276 Jan’s Inc.___________ 480-833-7305 Jemelco, Inc.__________480-804-9541 JC Machine & Motorsports___602-790-2207 JD Machine _________ 801-782-4403 JWB Manufacturing _____ 480-967-4600 KLK Ind. ____________ 602-267-1331 L&W Machine Co ______ 602-323-2560 LAI International ______ 480-968-6228 Lindel Engineering ______520-792-3160 McFarland Machine & Eng _ 480-966-1388 Metalcraft Inc. ________ 480-967-4889 Micropulse West _______ 480-966-2300 Osborn Products _______ 623-587-0335 Powerhaus Precision ____ 480-225-8854 Pro Precision ________602-353-00220 ProtoTech __________ 520-579-9873 R&D Specialty Manco ____ 602-278-7700 RMSS ___________ 623-780-5904 Stewart Precision Mfg ____ 623-492-9400 T-N Machining ________ 602-278-8665 Uni-Tek ____________602-272-2601 Val-Tech Mfg __________480-966-7376 Wire-Tech ___________480-966-1591 Machining: Quick Turn AZ Datum ___________602-687-6331

Flex-Pro ____________623-581-0551 623-581-0551 Gibbs Precision Machine ___480-753-1166 HK Machining ________ 602-278-6704 JC Machine & Motorsports___602-790-2207 Jemelco, Inc.__________480-804-9541 Kirin Manufacturing _____ 520-622-8402 Ron Grob __________ 970-667-5320 Powerhaus Precision ____ 480-225-8854 Southwest Swiss Precision _ 602-438-4670 RMSS_____________ 623-780-5904 Machining: Ultra-Precision Auer Precision ________ 480-834-4637 Machining: Milling 3D Machine LLC _______ 480-239-8254 Pacific Swiss & Manufacturing 503-557-9407 Allset Precision ________480-753-1776 Southwest Swiss Precision _ 602-438-4670 Bar-S Machine _________ 928-636-2115 Machining: Turning: Automatic Challenger Aerospace ____ 480-894-0802 Absolute Turning and Machine 520-624-5628 Exactitude Precision ______602-316-6957 Fives ____________ 909-263-9282 American Prec. Machine___ 602-269-6298 Flex-Pro ____________623-581-0551 AzMark ___________ 480-926-8969 GHT Services_________ 480-396-1800 Challenger Aerospace ____ 480-894-0802 Gibbs Precision Machine ___480-753-1166 Evans Precision Mach’g ___ 623-581-6200 Glover Precision, Inc. ____ 480-464-0150 HPMP _____________801-619-9850 Hi-Tech Machining & Eng __ 520-889-8325 JB’s Precision Ind ______ 623-581-9088 Infinisys ____________602-276-2276 LAYKE, Inc.__________ 602-272-2654 JC Machine & Motorsports___602-790-2207 Matrix Machine _______ 480-966-4451 JD Machine _________ 801-782-4403 RMSS ____________ 623-780-5904 Jemelco, Inc._________ 480-804-9541 Stewart Precision Mfg ____ 623-492-9400 L&W Machine Co ______ 602-323-2560 Weiser Engineering _____ 303-280-2778 MACHINING: LASER Metalcraft Inc. ________ 480-967-4889 Laser Cutting Morsch Machine ________480-961-7673 AEI Fabrication _______ 480-733-6594 RMSS ____________ 623-780-5904 Allfab Engineering______ 602-437-0497 Stewart Precision Mfg ____ 623-492-9400 T-N Machining ________ 602-278-8665 EDM Tech __________ 602-278-6666 Tangent Solutions _______480-229-9901 Fine Line Laser Cutting ___ 602-863-3196 Uni-Tek ____________602-272-2601 CAID Industries _______ 520-294-3126 Wire-Tech ___________480-966-1591 K-2 Manufacturing _____ 602-455-9575 KLK Ind. ____________602-267-1331 Machining: Semiconductor KLK Ind. ____________ 602-267-1331 LAI International ______ 480-968-6228 L&W Machine Co ______ 602-323-2560 McFarland Machine & Eng _ 480-966-1388 Precise Metal Products ___ 602-272-2625 Machining: Swiss Absolute Turning & Machine 520-624-5628 Research Engineering Dev _ 602-484-8982 AZ Datum ___________602-687-6331 Southwest Waterjet-Laser __ 480-306-7748 Bar-S Machine _________ 928-636-2115 The Metal Man _______ 800-448-9448 Cassavant Machining ____ 602-437-4005 TMM Precision _______ 800-448-9448 HPMP _____________801-619-9850 Tube Service Company ___ 602-267-9865 Pacific Swiss & Manufacturing 503-557-9407 Wrico ____________ 480-892-7800

Weiser Engineering ______303-280-2778 303-280-2778 Laser Cutting:Rotary Axis K-zell Metals, Inc. _______602-232-5882 Laser Engraving & Etching Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090 TechMark __________ 480-820--9444 Laser Marking AZ Laser Engraving ______602-708-1204 Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090 TechMark __________ 480-820--9444 Wire-Tech ___________ 480-966-1591 MANUFACTURING Abrams Airborne Mfg _____520-887-1727 Aero Tech __________ 801-292-0493 APMI __ ___________480-668-0024 CAID Industries ________520-294-3126 Creedbilt Inc __________ 623-939-8119 Exactitude Precision ______ 602-316-6957 Harschco LLC _________ 602-617-7514 Hi-Tech Machining & Eng ___520-889-8325 Group Manufacturing Serv _ 480-966-3952 IMCOR Corp __________602-245-0148 K-2 Mfg ____________602-455-9575 KLK Ind. ____________ 602-267-1331 Metzfab ____________ 602-618-2841 PMBC _____________ 602-431-8131 RMSS ____________ 623-780-5904 Scriven Precision________480-961-9775 Manufacturing: Electrode Allset Precision ________ 480-753-1776 Wire-Tech ___________ 480-966-1591 Mfg: PhotoChemical Aero Tech __________ 801-292-0493 Etching Fabrication Turnkey Product Services Aero Tech __________ 801-292-0493

METAL FORMING Sandblast/Automated Allfab Engineering______ 602-437-0497 STP Performance Coating LLC _ 602-276-1231 Creedbilt Inc __________623-939-8119 Screenprinting & Pad Desert Precision Mfg ____ 520-887-4433 Printing Fry Fabrications ________602-454-0701 Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090 K-2 Manufacturing _____ 602-455-9575 STP Performance Coating LLC _ 602-276-1231 TMM Precision _______ 800-448-9448 PLATING METAL STAMPING Arizona Hard Chrome _____ 602-278-8671 High Production Precision ChemResearch_________ 602-253-4175 Stamping Precision Die & Stamping __ 480-967-2038 Coating Technologies _____623-581-2648 Thompson Machine _____ 505-823-1453 Collins Metal Finishing ____ 602-275-3117 Dayton Lamina ________ 248-489-9122 MOLDS E.P.S.I. _____________ 714-256-8950 PMBC _____________602-431-8131 Gold Tech Industries ______ 480-968-1930 JWB Manufacturing _____ 480-967-4600 Quality Mold_________ 480-892-5480 Kirin Manufacturing ______520-622-8402 L A Specialties _________ 602-269-7612 Molds: Construction JWB Manufacturing _____ 480-967-4600 Louie’s Black Oxide ______602-257-0530 Precision Metalworks _____ 602-455-9575 Molds: Plastic Injection Wire-Tech ___________480-966-1591 Sav-On Plating_________ 602-252-4311 Molds: Steel Anodizing Aero Tech __________ 801-292-0493 CAP _____________602-464-9629 OUTGASING Chemetall ___________ 714-739-2821 CGS Technologies ______ 623-434-3136 ChemResearch_________ 602-253-4175 PAINTING Collins Metal Finishing ____ 602-275-3117 Arizona Finishing ______ 602-438-4443 Frontier Techni-Kote ______ 928-636-0130 Coating Technologies ____ 623-581-2648 FutureWeld __________ 602-437-2426 Frontier Techni-Kote _____ 928-636-0130 Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090 Hollow Metal Xpress _____ 866-936-7001 Pilkington Metal Finishing__ 801-972-2146 Horizon Aviation & Machining 623-214-7424 Bright Nickel Kirin Manufacturing _____ 520-622-8402 Sav-On Plating_________ 602-252-4311 Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090 Bright Tin Precise Metal Products ___ 602-272-2625 Foresight Finishing ______480-921-0000 Precision Industrial Painting 602-256-0260 Sav-On Plating_________ 602-252-4311 STP Performance Coating LLC _602-276-1231 Copper Painting& Blast Booths Foresight Finishing ______480-921-0000 STP Performance Coating LLC _602-276-1231 Gold Tech Industries ______ 480-968-1930 Phosphate Coating Technologies ____ 623-581-2648 Masic Industries ________ 503-232-9109 Electroless Nickel Wet Paint/CARC Gold Tech Industries ______ 480-968-1930 Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090 Frontier Techni-Kote _____ 928-636-0130 Kirin Manufacturing ______520-622-8402 Precision Industrial Painting 602-256-0260 Masic Industries ________ 503-232-9109

Embrittlement Relief E.P.S.I. _____________714-256-8950 Sav-On Plating_________ 602-252-4311 Gold E.P.S.I. _____________714-256-8950 Foresight Finishing ______480-921-0000 Gold Tech Industries ______480-968-1930 Kirin Manufacturing ______520-622-8402 Nickel/ Chrome/Palladium Collins Metal Finishing ____ 602-275-3117 E.P.S.I. _____________714-256-8950 Foresight Finishing ______480-921-0000 Gold Tech Industries ______480-968-1930 LA Specialties _________ 602-269-7612 Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090 Silver Plating E.P.S.I. _____________714-256-8950 Gold Tech Industries ______480-968-1930 Foresight Finishing ______480-921-0000 Sav-On Plating_________ 602-252-4311 Tin: Matte Gold Tech Industries ______480-968-1930 Zinc Plate Collins Metal Finishing ____ 602-275-3117 E.P.S.I. _____________714-256-8950 Masic Industries ________ 503-232-9109 Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090 Sav-On Plating_________ 602-252-4311 POLISHING Gold Tech Industries ______480-968-1930 Masic Industries ________ 503-232-9109 PRODUCT DESIGN Design and Modeling Bar-S Machine _________ 928-636-2115 PRODUCTION Challenger Aerospace _____480-894-0802 Louie’s Black Oxide ______602-257-0530 A2Z MANUFACTURING •

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BOB HUDZIK

E.D.M. Specialists Precision Machining

SUN TECH

& ENG.

Since 1980

1930 St, #13 1930 E. E 3rd3rd St., #13 Tempe, 85281 Tempe, AZ AZ 85281

PUNCHING Desert Precision Mfg ____ 520-887-4433 602-454-0701 Fry Fabrications ________602-454-0701 Group Manufacturing Serv _ 480-966-3952 Hollow Metal Xpress ______866-936-7001 602-455-9575 K-2 Manufacturing ______602-455-9575 McFarland Machine & Eng __480-966-1388 Nelson Engineering ______ 602-273-7114 Phoenix Metalcraft ______ 602-279-4810 Precision Metalworks _____602-455-9575 WC Machine & Tool_ _____480-507-4620 Weiser Engineering ______303-280-2778 ROBOTICS CAID Industries ________ 520-294-3126

SAW CUTTING Industrial Precision Grinding _ 310-352-4700 SINTERING Western Sintering _______509-375-3096 SPINNING: Metal Nelson Engineering ______ 602-273-7114 SPLINES Apache Gear, Inc _______ 623-934-7144 SPRAY: METAL, PLASMA Empire Precision Mach. ___ 480-633-4580 SPRINGS Custom Springs Compression/Extension/ Assembly/Torsion Ace Wire Spring & Form Co.__ 412-458-4831 Flat and Wire Springs Ace Wire Spring & Form Co.__ 412-458-4831 AERO Spring & Mfg Co ____602-243-4329 Dayton Lamina ________ 248-489-9122 SPRINGWORKS Utah _____ 801-298-0113 STAMPING AERO Spring & Mfg Co ____602-243-4329 Auer Precision _________ 480-834-4637 A Z MANUFACTURING • 100 • Jan / Feb 2017 2

Dayton Lamina ________ 248-489-9122 Gilbert Metal Stamping ____ 480-503-1283 Precise Metal Products ____ 602-272-2625 Precision Die & Stamping ___ 480-967-2038 Scriven Precision________ 480-961-9775 Thompson Machine ______ 505-823-1453 Whitley Machine________ 602-323-5550 Wrico_____________480-892-7800 Precision Metal Forming Desert Precision Mfg _____520-887-4433 K-2 Mfg ____________ 602-455-9575 SPRINGWORKS Utah _____ 801-298-0113 Thompson Machine ______ 505-823-1453 Wrico _____________480-892-7800 Stamping: Aerospace Dayton Lamina ________ 248-489-9122 Wrico _____________480-892-7800 Stamping: Deep Draw Thompson Machine ______ 505-823-1453 Stamping Design SPRINGS WORKS Utah_____ 801-298-0113 Stamping Flat Forming SPRINGS WORKS Utah_____ 801-298-0113 Stamping: Precision SPRINGS WORKS Utah_____ 801-298-0113 Stamping: Progressive Die & Tooling Moore Tool & Die _______ 480-622-1705

TESTING Testing: Non-Dest/ Pressure CAP _____________ 602-464-9629 Chemetall ___________ 714-739-2821 FutureWeld __________ 602-437-2426 Pilkington Metal Finishing___801-972-2146 Talon Test Labs_________602-454-2500

(480) 921-1665 480-921-1665 (480) 215-7144 Cell:Cell: 480-215-7144 suntech@suntecheng.net RSHud1@gmail.com

TUBING Assembly Formed Tubing PPE Engineering________ 480-615-7900 Service & Sales ________480-968-9084 Formed Tubing AERO Spring & Mfg Co ____ 602-243-4329 PPE Engineering________ 480-615-7900

Tube Bending /Fabrication THERMAL SPRAY K-zell Metals, Inc. _______602-232-5882 Controlled Thermal Tech’y___ 602-272-3714 Service & Sales ________480-968-9084 Empire Precision Mach. ____480-633-4580 WATERJET CUTTING THREADING Alpha Machine ________ 602-437-0322 Thread Grinding CMA Waterjet _________ 480-966-WJET Blue Streak Grinding _____ 602-353-8088 Creedbilt Inc __________ 623-939-8119 Grindworks __________ 623-582-5767 East Valley Precision______ 480-288-6601 Osborn Products ________ 623-587-0335 EDM Tech ___________ 602-278-6666 Thread Rolling Flow International ______800-446-3569 Ron Grob Co. _________ 970-667-5320 Harschco LLC _________ 602-617-7514 Jan’s Inc.____________ 480-833-7305 TOOL & DIE 3D Machine LLC ________ 480-239-8254 Marzee ____________ 602-269-5810 Arizona Wire & Tool ______ 480-813-1002 McFarland Machine & Eng __ 480-966-1388 Gilbert Metal Stamping ____ 480-503-1283 Metzfab ____________ 602-618-2841 Moore Tool & Die _______ 480-622-1705 Milco Wire EDM/Waterjet ___ 714-373-0098 Thompson Machine ______ 505-823-1453 Research Engineering Dev __602-484-8982 Whitley Machine________ 602-323-5550 Southwest Waterjet-Laser ___ 480-306-7748 Wrico _____________480-892-7800 WC Machine & Tool ______480-507-4620 Whitley Machine________602-323-5550 TOOLING Waterjet, 5-Axis EDM Tech ___________ 602-278-6666 Southwest Waterjet-Laser ___ 480-306-7748 Moore Tool & Die _______ 480-622-1705 Waterjet, Multi head Western Sintering _______ 509-375-3096 Whitley Machine________602-323-5550 TAPPING Gilbert Metal Stamping ____ 480-503-1283 Waterjet, High Press. Cutting TUBE BENDING Harschco LLC _________ 602-617-7514 PPE Engineering________ 480-615-7900 Alpha Machine ________ 602-437-0322

DAYTON Lamina

™

a MISUMI Group Company

Kevin Benson Die Components Marketing Director

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Sales.............................81 Adams Mach............................53,81,104 District 7 Powder Coat . ...................93 KTR Machine........................................19,82 Advanced Precision.....................................88 Dix Metals.........................................68,85 Kurt Manufacturing Co........................ 86 Aero Spring & Mfg........................................92 DM Machine Repair..........................88 Kwik Mark Inc .............................................82 Aero Tech.............................................................97 DNKB.........................................................90 L&W Machine Co......................................95 Aerodyne Alloys......................................62,86 Dolphin....................................................90 LA Specialties .............................................95 Air Gear .................................................................94 Doosan Infracore 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American Aerospace (AATC) ................91 Echols Saw & Supply............................81 Louie’s Black Oxide..................................92 American Spirit Investments(ASI).....96 Edge Technologies...............................84 Louie’s Gun Finishing............................94 AMTS......................................................................88 EDM Network....................................24,85 LRW Cutting Tools ...................................87 Anovaprise.........................................................91 EDM Perform Access...........................86 Lynch Brothers .........................................94 Apache Gear.....................................................93 EDM Tech................................................... 92 Magnum Prec. ......................13,65,81-83 Apache Steel.....................................................85 Ellison Machinery...........5,57,69,81,83 Makino ...........................................................81 APMI........................................................................90 Empire Precision Mach.......................97 Marshall Tool & Supply .........................87 Apollos Industries .....................................100 EPSI................................................................99 MarZee....................................................68,93 Arcas Machine Inc.........................................96 Evans Precision Mach’g ..................... 93 Mario Pinto .................................................88 Arizona Finishing...........................................94 Exactitude ..............................................100 Master Chemical Corporation.........84 Arizona Hard Chrome................................94 EZ-Access.............................................54,89 Matrix Machine ..................................90,91 Arizona Wire Spec.........................................90 Faustson .....................................................90 McFarland Machine............................... 96 Arizona Wire & Tool...................................101 Fine Line Fabricating Inc. .................. 93 MEI Rigging ................................................89 Arrow Sheet Metal .......................................93 Fine Line Laser Cutting ......................99 Mesa Machinery................................55,83 ARTL........................................................................90 Fives .............................................................. 82 Metalcraft Inc..............................................95 Auer Precision..................................................93 Flex-Pro .................................................80,97 Metal Supermarkets........................85,87 Auerbach Waste LLC................................101 Flow Corp ...................................................81 Metals Eng & Testing Labs ..................91 Axian Technology.................................48-49 Foresight Finishing............................100 Methods West........................................3,83 AZ CNC ...................................8,9,27,51,69,75 Frontier Techni-Kote......................36,99 Metzfab..........................................................92 AZ CNC ..................................................81,81-87 Fry Steel Co............................................... 85 Micropulse West ......................................90 AZ Datum...........................................................97 FutureWeld...............................................93 Midaco Corp ...............................................91 AZ Laser Engraving......................................95 Ganesh Machinery............................... 83 Milco Wire EDM/Waterjet....................91 AZMARK ..............................................................99 Gartman Tech Services .............71,100 MLC CAD Systems ..................................88 AZ Metals ....................................................18,84 Gateway Community College..70,91 Moore Tool & Equip ................................83 AZ Tool Steel......................................................86 Geiger Electric Inc ................................. 82 Moore Tool & Die...................................101 B&B Tool...............................................................87 GHT Services LLC...................................90 Morsch Machine .....................................90 B & T Tool & Engr............................................85 Gibbs Precision Machine ..................98 NAI Horizon.................................................63 Backerworks Mfg..........................................97 Gilbert Metal Stamping.....................90 National Grinding & Mfg......................93 bandsawparts.com.............................72,94 Gladhill Assoc ....................................50,95 Nelson Engineering.........................66,92 Barry Metals...............................................34,86 Global EDM Supply..............................84 NFP Property & Casualty.....................88 Bar-S Machine Inc.........................................90 Glover Precision, Inc............................. 95 North-South ...............................39,84 Barton International ..........................52,84 GMA Garnet .......................................42,83 O’Keefe Ceramics.........................60,96 BID Machine, Inc............................................92 GMN USA.............................................55,84 OGP..................................................................82 Blue Streak Grinding ...........................46,93 Gold Tech Industries......................62,95 Omax...............................................................83 BMO Harris Bank ...........................................88 GoSynergy ................................................ 23 Omega Morgan .................................... 100 BMSC ..............................................................77,91 Grindworks ................................................91 ONA EDM USA...........................................82 Bralco Metals......................................14,83,85 Group Manufacturing........................ 92 Orion Registrar...........................................95 Broadway Metal Recycling............44,89 Hangsterfers ............................................ 85 Osborn Products ...............................91,93 Byington Steel Treating............................94 Hi-Tech Machining & Welding....... 92 Pacific Swiss & Mfg ...........................46,98 C&M Machine Service.......................88,89 HK Machining .........................................96 Paramount Leadership Group ........88 C&M Rigging....................................................88 Hoffmann..................................................89 Perceptron ...................................................83 CAID........................................................................91 Hollow Metal Xpress ........................... 92 Perfection Industrial Finishing ........98 Campro Mfg. ....................................................97 Horizon Aviation & Mach...............................96 Perma-Finish Inc ......................................99 Capital Weld Cleaners................................88 Horizon Carbide ....................................90 Phoenix Grinding.....................................91 CaseTech..........................................................6,89 HPMP .........................................................101 Phoenix Heat Treat.................................94 Cassavant Machining ................................98 Hunter Machine Moving..................88 Phoenix Metalcraft.................................99 Cassavant 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Metal Supply ............................50,86 PlaSteel ..........................................................92 ChemResearch...............................................95 Ind.Tool Die............................................... 95 Powerhaus Precision.............................98 Cimatron .....................................................22,89 Industrial Precision Grinding..........94 Powill Mfg....................................................94 CIS.............................................................................90 Infinisys .................................................91,95 PPE Engineering....................................101 CMA Waterjet................................................101 Ingersoll Cutting Tools ....................... 85 Precision Metal Mfg................................93 CNC Pros...............................................17,81,83 Integrated Systems Inc ...................100 Precise Metal Products .........................92 Interstate Steel Salvage ...............28,87 Precision Die & Stamping ............45,90 Coast Aluminum.......................................85 Coast Industrial Sales..........................89 IPE Aerospace ......................................... 12 Precision Industrial Painting ..............91 Coastal Metals ......................................10,86 IPG..................................................................94 ..... 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Die Precision “We have members with anywhere from two to hundreds of employees,” he said. “And nearly every shop has openings.There aren’t enough young people going into precision manufacturing today.”

With major aerospace and automotive companies ramping up in Arizona and Sonora, Mexico, the demand for toptier certified and quality machined parts is increasing. Precision manufacturing involves using computer-aided machines to create the parts going to assembly plants for aviation, space, and automotive use. Boeing, Honeywell, Airbus, Ford, Toyota and soon, Lucid Motors, don’t make every nut, bolt and panel going into the end products headed to consumers.

They use precision manufacturers.

“While an apprentice may earn from $13 to $20 an hour, with good skills and a strong work ethic, a new worker can be over $20 an hour plus benefits within a year,” said Lashinsky. “After working a number of years in a shop, there are the skills to go out an open a new business. That’s how a lot of these companies started.”

Lashinsky’s organization measures the pulse of the aerospace and automotive supply chains, a $38 billion industry in Arizona employing over 10,000 people, according to Arizona Commerce Authority data.

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“Lucid Motors comes at the perfect time,” he said. “Reductions at Honeywell impact the supply chain. There are 20 to 30 shops waiting for Lucid.”

These jobs don’t require college degrees, according to Lashinsky.

Young men and women who don’t want to go to college can find high-paying and career-track opportunities in precision manufacturing — the industry that used to be called tool and die or machine shops.

“The pipeline needs to be filled with future employees. Many experienced workers are getting ready to retire,” he said. “We’re doing career fairs, and we’ll touch 25 to 30 kids and get them interested.We need to be touching 3,000.”

Mark Lashinsky, owner of Modern Industries, is president of the Arizona Chapter of the American Tooling & Machining Association. Picture courtesy of Allied Tool &

Kids need to understand they can can earn a good living and don’t need to go to college, Lashinsky said. source: Phoenix Business Journal

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Simplicity Is Vital To Boeing 787-10 Execution For an aircraft not even conceived as part of Boeing’s original 21stcentury airliner family plan, the 787-10 has the potential to take a significant slice of the replacement market for Airbus A330-300s and 777-200s with more than 300 seats and, at the same time, give the twinjet program a strong push toward profitability.

That is the belief at Boeing, which in early December began to assemble the first 787-10, the second stretch variant of the family, at its facility in Charleston, South Carolina. And there seems to be good reason for the company’s optimism. For the twinjet, Boeing has stuck to the game plan used for the successful 787-9 development—namely applying knowledge gained from the troubled 787-8 program and following a disciplined, structured approach to the design and build of the new variant. So far, the 787-10 is coming together smoothly and ahead of schedule.

Boeing always envisaged a three-member 787 family—but not in the way it has turned out.When the 787 was launched in 2004, the plan was to develop the short-range 787-3 variant as a derivative of the baseline 787-8, followed by the 787-9 stretch. The 787-3, originally due to be certificated as early as 2008 primarily for the Japanese domestic market, was delayed by Boeing amid the 787-8 production crisis and eventually canceled in 2010. Instead, based on interest going back to 2005 from carriers including Emirates and Qantas, the company began studies of a further stretch of the 787-9 that would create a capacity similar to the A350-900 and 777-200ER, seating up to 330 in a typical arrangement and flying up to 7,400 mi.

Spurred on predominantly by Singapore Airlines early in 2013, the 787-10 was launched at that year’s Paris Air Show and, as of late 2016, has won orders and commitments for 154 aircraft from nine airlines and leasing companies. Detailed design on the 224-ft.-long variant was completed two weeks ahead of schedule in December 2015, setting a lead-time margin that was not only unusual in an era more used to delays but that was maintained through most of 2016.

The 787-10 is 18 ft. longer than the 787-9; 10 ft. of that is made up of the midbody, which is extended to 114 ft. overall.As they are for all 787s, the midbody and aft-fuselage sections for the 787-10 are assembled in South Carolina. However, the longer midsection is too big to fit in the 747 Dreamlifter, a fleet of which carries the sections to the final assembly lines from suppliers inWichita, Italy and Japan. On average, seven out of every 12 fuselage assembly shipsets made in Charleston each month are flown to the 787 final assembly site in Everett, Washington, while the remainder travel across the campus to the local production line.

As a result, only the 787-10 will be completed in Charleston, while 787-8s and -9s will continue to be assembled at both sites. The first subassemblies for the initial 787-10, ZC001, were moved into position zero on the Charleston line in early December before moving to position one later in the month for final body join.

Unlike the linear assembly line at Everett, which evolved to reflect the layout of the facility and the heritage of the original production system, the 787-10 line at Charleston has a U-shape that more closely resembles the jigged 777 production line in Washington.

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Sandia Labs Inviting In Companies That Want To Do Business With The Lab Sandia National Laboratories is now hosting open houses for companies who want to do business with the labs.

The first open house was held in October with more than 70 companies attending. Sandia Labs will continue to host open houses three times a month: on the first Tuesday of each month from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.; on the second Wednesday of each month from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. and on the third Thursday of each month from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

“It’s been great to open our doors to the community, to give people the opportunity of face-to-face engagement,” said Del Salazar, manager of Sandia’s small business program and supplier diversity department, in a statement. “Being able to speak to someone instead of just sending off an email is important.We’ve had an exceptionally positive response.”

database and can be introduced at matchmaking events so lab technical staff become aware of capable small businesses.

Sandia recommends potential suppliers get familiar with www.sandia. gov, under the “Working With Sandia” webpage, to understand what Sandia buys and how, and to determine if Sandia is the right market for them.

Sandia National Labs is operated by a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin called Sandia Corp.The lab has an operating budget of $2.88 billion and 10,000-plus employees, and Lockheed has previously said it intends to rebid for the contract.

The University of New Mexico announced earlier this year its plans to bid for management of Sandia National Laboratories, via a partnership with independent research and development group Battelle, and aerospace giant Boeing. Source: Albuquerque Business First

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The open houses are held in the Supplier Diversity Lobby of Sandia’s Innovation Parkway Office Complex at 1611 Innovation Parkway SE. Times can be confirmed by emailing supplier@sandia.gov.

The Defense Department says the cost of the F-35 fighter jet is dropping as the US benefits from economies of scale.

At the open houses, small business advocates collect information from attendees such as their North American Industry Classification System codes, quality certifications, safety records and employee clearances, and talk to them about how to work with Sandia.

Qualified companies will then be added to Sandia’s Supplier Diversity

“F-35 unit recurring flyaway (URF) costs are going down with each successive lot of aircraft. Lockheed Martin and Pratt & Whitney have track records for delivering the airframe and engine below US government cost estimates,” said a statement from the F-35 Joint Program Office. Source: The Examiner

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Silicon Valley technology firms have been doubling down on artificial intelligence in the hope of automating more software so they can more accurately anticipate customers’ needs and, say, dispatch more taxis to 6:33 AM certain neighborhoods, filter news stories, order more inventory or improve search results. Experts in artificial intelligence are coveted by tech firms, which are mining universities and competitors for talent.

Uber AI Labs’ mission will be to develop technology that makes selfdriving cars more efficient.That includes improving traffic prediction, language comprehension and visual understanding. Of late, machines have become adept at characterizing objects, said Dr. Marcus, but they’re not so good at understanding the changing conditions of a scene—a capability that will be crucial to achieving fully autonomous driving.

Uber, which this year was valued by its investors at $68 billion, has been testing self-driving autos with regular customers in Pittsburgh where it has a lab focused on developing the technology. In August, Uber acquired Ottomotto LLC, a startup known as Otto that is making self-driving long-haul trucks.

Uber, and others, believe autonomous vehicles can eventually replace those helmed by human drivers, reducing labor expenses and making routing more efficient. Knowing a rider’s pickup location to within just a few feet can help drivers shave valuable time off a ride, facilitating more fares throughout the day.

Uber AI Labs will start hiring “aggressively,” Dr. Marcus said.

Eventually, it might open an office in the U.K., he said. Uber AI Labs

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will begin recruiting at the Neural Information Processing Systems conference, a widely attended machine-learning meeting in Barcelona.

“We’re going to have the oppor tunity to do basic research that dovetails with [Uber’s] mission. That’s what gets academics like us excited,” said Dr. Marcus, who is moving to San Francisco but will retain his affiliation with NYU. Geometric Intelligence is one of more than 200 companies participating in a tax-free program in New York state to foster startups there, pledging to invest $115,000 and add 42 new jobs. It will presumably forfeit its status when it leaves the state. Source: WSJ.

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How Arizona And Casa Grande Beat 60 Markets To Land A $700M Auto Plant When the blog Recode cited an anonymous source that Lucid Motors had selected Casa Grande for its $700 million manufacturing plant, the tech blog got the reason Arizona won the 13-state, 60 market locate competition all wrong.

Blogger Mark Harris quoted a senior Lucid engineer as saying, “(Arizona) is throwing everything including the kitchen sink at (Lucid) to get them to come to the state.” Harris himself added that Arizona “likely include(d) generous tax incentives.” had nothing to do with the Arizona pick.

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Arizona won with shovel-ready sites and quality workforce “We picked Arizona because it had a (shovel-ready) site the size we needed with infrastructure in place,” said Brian Barron, Lucid Motors director of manufacturing. “It also had a supply chain and a workforce with a training program.”

What helped seal the deal, according to Barron and Lucid ChiefTechnical Officer Peter Rawlinson, was the personal visit by Gov. Doug Ducey to Lucid’s Fremont, California, prototype shop.

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an exclusive interview with the Phoenix Business Journal. “They showed me the car, even took me for a ride, and I told them about the quality of life and the business environment here in Arizona.”

The governor led an Arizona Commerce Authority delegation meeting with Lucid officials in California and met with the company at least three times in-state. Sens. John McCain and Jeff Flake also were involved in meetings with Lucid officials.

Barron said while governments in 12 other states let Lucid know they wanted the company to locate its manufacturing facility there, Arizona was different.

“Arizona made us feel as if they were more of a partner for our success,” Barron said. “We believe in Casa Grande, and we believe that we have picked the best location for our facility.”

Lucid is committing to hire 2,000 workers by 2023, five years after it goes into production, and spend $700 million on capital outlay for construction and capital equipment during the period.

Lucid, like any existing or new manufacturer, can qualify for tax credits, and for cash reimbursements from the state’s Competes Fund, according to Sandra Watson, president and CEO of the Arizona Commerce Authority. Barron and Rawlinson said the state, city and county worked together and connected Lucid with training programs at Central Arizona College and community colleges in Maricopa and Pima County.

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That facility is a 500,000-square-foot manufacturing plant complemented with 400,000 square feet of leased warehouse and sub-assembly facilities in and around Casa Grande.

“We’re quite pleased with our choice,” Barron said.

He wouldn’t name the competing markets, but said when it comes to automotive, it’s easy to guess where else they looked.

“It’s not that other markets weren’t good, but we were impressed the supply chain in Arizona and Sonora (Mexico), the fact that the city has the infrastructure in place, and that Arizona has a stable and predictable business climate.”

Ducey said he and Arizona’s economic developers see Lucid Motors as being one of the most significant locates in the state.

“They are taking advantage of the fact that we have one of the best experienced automotive supply chains in the nation, and that it can be supplemented with vendors from Sonora,” he said.

In making its pitch to Lucid,Watson said the ACA stressed the binational composition of the supply chain, and brought in her counterparts from Sonora’s secretariat for economic development.

This system is able to function because Arizona and Sonora have no trade tariffs as a result of the North American Free Trade Agreement. NAFTA allows Arizona’s hundreds of automotive parts and sub-assembly providers

to ship products to Ford, Toyota and Honda assembly plants in the Hermosillo area. Lucid will be tapping and expanding that market as its production ramps towards 50,000 vehicles per year in 2023.

The Lucid facility is considered a “qualified facility” for purposes of obtaining tax credits and eligibility for workforce training and recruiting.

The company could be eligible for as much as $40 million in tax credits, but the final amount will depend on the number of eligible employees hired, the salaries paid, and the capital investment.

Lucid will also receive $5 million from the Arizona Competes fund.The tax credits and Competes funds are paid out after the company achieves its contractual milestones over a three to five year period beginning in 2018.

Lucid has applied for up to a $1.5 million Job Training Grant from ACA, but the actual payout will be based on the number of people hired and trained within the next two years.

Arizona doesn’t use tax credits and incentives to attract companies, but instead uses the programs to equalize cost differentials between the state and competing markets. These programs are open to any new or expanding in-state business. Source: Phoenix Business Journal

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Officials in Phoenix have worked hard to boost the city’s brand and reputation among the tech community, which has contributed to the new business growth, Economic Development Director Christine Mackay said.

Organizations like the Greater Phoenix Economic Council also have actively recruited companies to the 32 communities within the metro area.

“Here in our market, we’re seeing a significant increase in companies that are catering to financial services, the insurance industry and the lending industry,” said Chris Petroff, senior vice president of business development with the economic council.

Luring tech companies from California Since 2009, Petroff has specifically focused on attracting software companies out of the Bay Area in California.

Teams from the council visit San Francisco at least once a month – sometimes twice a month – to talk with companies looking to move or expand.The trips can be relatively concise, but packed with meetings, Petroff said.

Zylstra said the Arizona Commerce Authority, southern Arizona’s Sun Corridor Inc. and the economic council have targeted California. “You have a lot of California companies in general leading an exodus including in the tech sector,” he said.

San Francisco-based tech company DoubleDutch is one of the most recent to announce expansion to the Valley, making the information public in February. According to a blog post by DoubleDutch CEO Lawrence Coburn, the company chose Phoenix because of the area’s access to a new wealth of talent, the city’s proximity to their headquarters and Phoenix’s growth as a tech and startup community. The company plans to initially hire 50 people in the Phoenix area.

From the Bay Area, the economic council has been involved in multiple tech companies moving and expanding to Phoenix, including DoubleDutch, Gainsight, Uber, Prosper Marketplace,Yelp,Weebly, BoomTown and Shutterfly.

Silicon Valley Bank moved its operations to Phoenix five years ago as well.

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Phoenix’s rise in the tech world Phoenix’s tech industry has fluctuated over the years. In the 1940s, ‘50s, and ‘60s, legislative leaders in Washington, D.C., worked on attracting tech companies to Arizona, Mackay said. In the 1980s and 1990s, the tech industry in Phoenix was mostly focused on back-office jobs.

“It became a market so focused on back office and customer care centers,” Mackay said.

This was because of the low cost of doing business and daylight savings not affecting those markets.

“These things really led into Arizona being branded as a call-center market,” Mackay said.

However, at the time, Arizona did have some large tech companies, including Intel and Motorola. Motorola employed 30,000 people at one point in the state, Zylstra said.

But employees at these larger companies wouldn’t have necessarily stayed in the Valley if they decided to branch off into their own companies.

“We had these great tech giants that are here, and you have these individuals who are with these great big companies who have conceived their own technologies, concepts and ideas and are interested in starting their own companies,” Mackay said. “For so long, they’d leave us and go to California or the East Coast to start their own companies.”

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Between 2005 and 2007, the Arizona Commerce Authority started the Arizona Innovation Challenge, co-working spaces began to pop up across the Valley and accelerators like the Center for Entrepreneurial Innovation at Gateway Community College began to attract entrepreneurs and startups.

The Arizona Innovation Challenge is a business competition that awards $3 million annually to entrepreneurs with technology-based solutions. Other tech funding includes the Arizona Innovation Accelerator Fund and the AZ Fast Grant, according to the commerce authority.

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Charles Van Horssen (Van) purchased A&B Industries in 1980, and he renamed the company Axian Technology. Van is an electrical engineer by education, and an entrepreneur. Van says, “I grew up in a family of entrepreneurs - my dad Arden owned a machine shop, and both my brother and I followed in his footsteps with business ownership.”Today, AxianTechnologies is much larger than whenVan purchased it (with about 4-5 comprising the team), now with approximately 80 employees, but it is still a family-run business with owners Van and his wife Mary Ann, and son Garrett working in the company today.

Van is a self-taught machinist. When he was a young teenager, Van’s father brought some of his machines home, and they went into the basement. Van says, “My father thought they were his, but it was on these machines that I taught myself machining.” Van’s early machines included a Clausing mill, a Logan lathe, a Buffalo drill press and a Hardinge.

If you were to list attributes of a machine shop that increase the probability of long term growth and success, you will find all of these qualities within Axian.

Strong Customer Base Mary Ann and Van admit that in the early years of business ownership, 1-2 customers (Fortune 500 companies) drove the majority of their business. Today, while their customer base is nearly exclusively in the aerospace/defense industries, the number of customers they build products for is much larger, offering increased confidence that no one customer will dictate their business growth.

Innovation Van is an inventor - he owns about a dozen patents, and while he says that most of his inventions haven’t been large revenue producers, one invention, the Darkmill®, a 5-Axis unattended machining system for small un-fixtured parts, is in production in their facility. The 3 Darkmills run 24/7 with a labor content of under 8 percent. Van admits that the Darkmills offer a competitive advantage to Axian’s customers, as parts can be made more efficiently with the reduction in labor. Van estimates that Axian would need an additional 6 or more employees if they didn’t have the Darkmills. The Darkmill has been instrumental in Axian’s gross margins for years.

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Superior Technology Chris Hansen, Business Manager at Ellison Machinery Co., supporting Axian Technologies, says, “What is incredible about Axian is the shear number of 5 axis machining centers they have today — they have 9 mills that are 5 axis. In fact,Van purchased his first 5 axis machining center, a Mori Seiki, more than 20 years ago.” He continued, “With Axian’s technology, they make some of the most complex parts - and these parts often utilize high temperature alloys - difficult to machine metals.”

Always with the end goal of improving productivity, Chris says that all of the newest Haas machines Axian purchased come equipped with 40 tool changers. He added, “Each machinist manages 2 to 3 machines simultaneously.”

This past year, Axian purchased their first 3-D printer, a Robo 3D.Van says the Robo smart 3D printer enables Axian to quickly make prototype parts for their customers.

Axian’s latest Haas purchase is the UMC -750SS Super-Speed 5-AxisVertical Machining Center.

Chris Hansen says, “The Haas UMC-750SS is a versatile 5-axis universal machining center with 762 x 508 x 508 mm travels and an integrated dual-axis trunnion table. It comes standard with a 40+1 tool side-mount tool changer.”

He added, “The trunnion can position parts to nearly any angle for 5-sided (3+2) machining, or provide simultaneous 5-axis motion for contouring and complex machining. It provides 360 degrees of rotation for excellent tool clearance and large part capacity.”

Axian offers a number of capabilities for their customers, all done in-house.This includes Swiss screw machining, EDM, 5 axis CNC machining, grinding, welding, vacuum braze and heat treating, grinding, and most recently, 3-D printing.

It is really about the Employees When asked what makes Axian great, without hesitation, Mary Ann said it was the people at Axian. She said that more than 10% of the team has worked for the company for 20-30 years, nearly 20% have 10 to 16 years of tenure with the company, and ~15% have 5 to 9 years with the company. Literally nearly half of the Axian team has remained with their company for 5-30 years!

Processes and Certifications Axian Technologies is certified to ISO 9001 and AS9100, and they are Nadcap accredited for EDM (wire and sinker), welding, grinding, vacuum braze and heat treat.

Van is a proponent of the legendary W. Edwards Deming’s Quality Management system, and it is interesting to note that like Van, Deming too studied electrical engineering in college.

Deming’s 14 Points on Quality Management, is a set of management practices to help companies increase their quality and productivity. Van says that when he implemented Deming’s principles many years ago with his team, the plant shut down for 1 hour each week for this training. “It took 4 years for

us to complete the training and achieve our goals”, he said. Continuing, he added, “When I look at a part now, I know automatically it will be a good part. I know this because of the Deming quality management system we implemented.”A key element to Deming’s managements system is ‘Put everybody in the company to work accomplishing the transformation’.

None of the‘Off-The-Shelf’ ERP systems met all of Axian Technology’s requirements, so Van built his own system (I did mention that he is an inventor). It was many years in the making, and he continues to improve it today.Van says that his system is Linux-based, and it is designed to ensure that maximum security is achieved with their confidential data.

Today, Axian Technology took one of their customers up on an offer to participate in their quality program. Van says that it addresses performance on quality, delivery, productivity and 5-S. “These metrics will be measured and reviewed on a daily basis”, he said. Consistent with Deming’s philosophy to ‘Put everybody in the company to work accomplishing the transformation’, there are 5 teams comprised of the entire organization who focus on one specific category for improvement.

Service Is King Just as Axian is graded by their customers (they are an ‘A’ supplier), they too select their machine tool vendors based upon customer service. Van says, “We pick the machine tool based upon our product mix requirements, but we must also be very confident in the machine tool dealer’s customer service.” He continued, “Ellison Machinery sells us all of our Haas mills, and their customer support is outstanding. They are just a fair, ethical company to work with.”

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Manufacturing jobs, particularly in advanced industries such as aerospace, tend to pay 10 percent higher or more than similar jobs in other manufacturing sectors.

During a Phoenix Business Journal aerospace roundtable earlier this fall, industry executives said companies such as Boeing Co. , Honeywell and Raytheon buy parts from vendors in the supply chain, creating jobs in smaller, usually family or closely held small businesses.

In addition to those three companies, World View, Orbital ATK, Bombardier and Airbus all use Phoenix-manufactured parts in supply chains.

Mexico Commission reports that the Arizona-Sonora (Mexico) mega-region is the fourth largest aerospace supply chain in the world.

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A report from Nikkei Asian Review says the maker of Apple’s iPhone could shift some production to the U.S. IPhones are produced by Taiwan-based Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd. That’s better known as Foxconn Technology Group.

Apple owns a big command center in Mesa.

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That used to be home to GT Advanced Technology which was going to make glass for Apple products before going bankrupt.

Raytheon Co. plans to expand its Southern Arizona operations by adding nearly 2,000 jobs at the Missile Systems business headquarters over a five-year period.

Back in 2013, then Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer traveled to Taiwan and met with Foxconn’s top executives.

The company plans to hire workers at all skill levels with an emphasis on engineering and other high-wage, technical positions. Job creation, facilities expansion and operational output is expected to result in billions of dollars of economic impact for Arizona over 10 years.

Raytheon Co., which makes the Tomahawk cruise missile, is No. 2 again on this year’s Defense Contractors list, behind Honeywell International.

Though a Raytheon spokesman would not confirm numbers of companies, the defense contractor does use Phoenix-based aerospace companies as part of its supply chain.

Arizona Commerce Authority representatives said that generally, a manufacturing company adding jobs results in 1.7 other regional direct and indirect jobs created for each hire in the manufacturing facility. Using that formula, Raytheon’s 2,000 hires could result in an additional 3,400 jobs in Arizona.

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The Taiwan company announced plans in late 2013 it was going to invest in plants and research facilities in Pennsylvania.

Trade and pull back from free trade deals were a centerpiece of Donald Trump’s win in the U.S. presidential race.

A spokesman for Mesa’s Economic Development Department said the agency was not aware of the on-shoring potential, but with the size of the command center and its relationship with Apple, the city would be taking a closer look at the opportunity. Source: Bloomberg News

New Mexico To Help Fund Company’s Cold Storage Facility Expansion Business First reported Valley Cold Storage & Transportation was building a new cold storage facility at 505 Industrial Park Road in the new Santa Teresa West Park. The price tag for the 105,000 squarefoot expansion is $14 million, according to a news release from Gov. Susana Martinez’s office.

Valley Cold Storage &Transportation said $140,000 in incentives was a major factor in its decision to expand in Santa Teresa.

The state is contributing $140,000 in Local Economic Development Act funds toward the construction of the new facility. LEDA is the state’s closing fund, used as an incentive to recruit new businesses and grow existing businesses in New Mexico. Valley Cold Storage & Transportation will also hire up to 33 people, tripling its workforce.

The company originally said it would hire an additional 10 to 15 people.

The governor’s office said New Mexico beat outTexas for the expansion.

The company said the LEDA funding was a major factor in its decision to expand in Santa Teresa.

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Valley Cold Storage & Transportation was started by Clay and Jennifer Bush in 2010. The business currently has a 75,000-square-foot refrigeration facility in Las Cruces.

Most of its business comes from chile and pecan farmers and distributors.

The company moved and stored 350 chile truck loads between August and October.The business also stores paprika, frozen meats and burrito mixes from food businesses in southern New Mexico and West Texas.

The new facility will be built by general contracting company Primus Builders, which specializes in cold storage and distribution facilities.

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Dozens of manufacturing, logistics and warehousing businesses have expanded or located in Santa Teresa in recent years, including Union Pacific’s state-of-the-art $400 million intermodal rail facility. Source: Albuquerque Business First

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Year-to-date, total orders were $3,244.1 million, down 5.6 percent compared to the same point in 2015.

Orders have begun to emerge gradually from the trough seen through most of 2016, and other signs indicate that the manufacturing economy is improving, albeit slowly. Housing starts grew 25.5 percent in October, a good sign for manufacturers who make appliances, cars and electronics.Additionally, the November 2016 PMI from the Institute for Supply Management was 53.2, indicating expansion in manufacturing, and factory output improved slightly in October. However, global trade remains largely stagnant.

“It’s certainly welcome to see signs of recovery for manufacturing overall, but marked improvement for manufacturing technology orders is not forecast until the second quarter of 2017,” said AMT President Douglas K. Woods. “Unless manufacturers feel pressed on capacity, they aren’t likely to make substantial capital investments in machinery and equipment.

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“What is changing is that [connectivity] used to be in reach only for highvalue assets like engines,” says Howard Heppelmann, vice president and general manager for connected manufacturing at PTC—a supplier of product life-cycle management (PLM) software that has expanded into developing tools to enable industry to embrace the “Internet of Things” (IoT) digital transformation.

“Today, with the price of sensors and ubiquity of connectivity, it is no longer just the key components of a product that can be connected. It is the entire product and the system around it. Companies are looking for how to engineer the future product so that they can lower cost, improve quality and increase reliability,” Heppelmann says.

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On the sensing side, Boeing and Lockheed Martin are the Tier 1 industry members of NextFlex, the flexible hybrid electronics manufacturing innovation institute established by the Obama administration in August 2015. With $75 million in Defense Department funding over five years, NextFlex is charged with accelerating industrial use of flexible and conformable electronics for sensing and communication.

Flexible electronics promise to proliferate data collection and connectivity throughout aircraft components and systems and manufacturing tools and machines. Boeing has been looking at the technology as a way to replace heavy wire bundles with lightweight printed metal. Large external antennas made with conformable electronics could reduce the drag penalty of providing connectivity, while the same technology could be used on small sensors inside the aircraft.

“We are looking at sensors and how to get eventually to wireless sensors,” says Erick Seltmann, manager of advanced electromechanical technologies for Boeing Research & Technology (BR&T). “We are looking at various designs you could develop into an aircraft or structure using additive manufacturing. The vision is more of a wireless or Internet of Thingstype system.”

Applications being looked at provide “both additional communications and sensing, outside as well as inside the aircraft.These things tend to be driven by the cost of adding new capabilities,” says Mark Davis, radio frequency and microsystems technology manager at BR&T. “This electronics work can be seen as being synergistic with what Boeing is doing in additive manufacturing. A lot of equipment we build has electronics embedded in it, so the ability to add in [printed electronics] is a piece of synergy.”

In addition to tools that enable engineers to decide on types of sensors and where to locate them during design, technologies are becoming available that will enable sensing and communication to be embedded in components and systems that today have no connection to the outside world. One of these is flexible electronics that can be printed onto components and structures during manufacture.

Tier 1 participation in the NextFlex consortium enables manufacturers to influence the road map for flexible-electronics technology development.

“We need to understand what the technology is capable of, and how we can adapt the requirements we feed down to our suppliers so they can make use of it as quickly as possible,” says Davis.

Heppelmann says the IoT transformation goes beyond sensing, communicating and analyzing data to include new ways of visualizing the information gathered to improve operator performance, from the assembly line to the maintenance center.These include augmented reality, “which we think is the ultimate example of the convergence of digital and

“The consortium is trying to take technologies that are lower in terms of readiness and advance them more quickly into industry. They want this to be something the commercial market will adopt, to make something we might use on an aircraft for a specific purpose and something a person would use every day,” says Seltmann. Source: Aviation Week

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Hours after may lose a competitor and become more There is no clear frontrunner in this tightly the next U.S. consolidated.

The Army wants to eventually produce contested matchup, as both BAE Systems Third, Melcher called for cutting the burden of regulations and president CIRCM in large quantities so it can provide and Northrop Grumman have successfully executive orders on the aerospace and defense (A&D) industry. targeted “Competition does bring out some great aircraft with 360-degree coverage. “They tested prototypes at the culmination of a Boeing’s Air innovation. A BAE win would maintain didn’t build enough ATIRCM for the entire three-year development program that ended Force One Adds AnotherArmy 500fleet Jobs In Chandler that,” said Ager. He Orbital cautioned that he has because of weight and Taking cost,” Ager in March. contract as no knowledge of how the Army would said.3,300 With the lighter replacement, theThis Army Arizona To More Than Space-Tech Jobs excessive— factor industrial-baseYear considerations in the plans to install two lasers kits in each aircraft The Army notified contractors that there and days after selection process, if at all. “This could be an to get near spherical coverage. “That’s one of will be no more proposal revisions and asked Donald Trump unintended consequence that 500 has an impact jobs on the the “space” big advantages of coin CIRCM,” he said. them to submit their best and final offers.

Another aerospace side of the are being created cajoled United Technologies Corp. not to move some jobs on the industrial base.” in Arizona by Orbital ATK, according to an announcement from Gov. Doug to Mexico—America’s aerospace trade association said it is Whoever is selected next month will Chris Ager, who oversees BAE Systems’ Ducey.

This brings more than 3,300 statewide new jobs in the space and preparing for “a challenging policy arena in both Washington, CIRCM will be the lighter, less expensive receive a 26-month development contract infrared countermeasures business, said high-atmospherics announced so far this year.

D.C., and a rapidly changing global environment.” replacement for the advanced threat infrared for 21 systems, with options for low-rate both companies are strong contenders, countermeasures (ATIRCM) system that of supplying but wonders if the Army will consider the The totals will be reached withproduction hiring overand the the nextpossibility three to five years.

Aerospace Industries Association CEO and President Dave BAE developed for the Army in 2008 on an additional CIRCM units to the Navy. Full proposals strictly on technical merit or Melcher, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general, said Dec. 6 his accelerated schedule in the wake of rampant wouldCo.’s beginPrice in 2019.

The Army whether it will also weigh the industrial Orbital is taking 46,000 squareproduction feet in the Allred Corridor spec trade group will focus on addressing four “megatrends” in 2017: missile attacks againstflex Army helicopters inLoop 202has budgeted about $1 billion over the implications of its decisions. campus south of Santan Freeway in Chandler. so-called “deficit politics”; U.S. leadership in a global economy; war zones. next five years for the program, including “smart” regulations; and the digital economy. contractor and government costs.

“There’s only two of us that do directional The projected jobs will fill in during the company’s five-year build-out of When an aircraft comes under attack, a infrared countermeasures,” he said in an “The sorry state of deficit politics is the first megatrend that thethe facility.

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The constant over requires much greater competition attention,” Melcher said, referring to has amissile’s major facility in the Pricesaid Corridor souththis of the new location. and communicates the position winning contract is “crucially the years has created a “vibrant industrial sequestration spending caps and other federal budget wars of relative to the aircraft, cueing the ATIRCM important” to BAE Systems and Northrop base” that could be weakened as a result recent years.

“We location. were competing against Orbital’s Utah location forliving this without expansion,” jam head to the missile’s ATIRCM Grumman.

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The unique name, which doubles as their logo, comes from Bettina’s great-grandfather, George Washington Saunders, who was gifted 10 calves, branded with the Quarter Circle 10, for his 10th birthday. The gift led Saunders on a journey of trail driving, minute-manning, rodeo and even politics.

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Bettina says she selected the company name ‘Quarter Circle 10’ because it invokes images of ‘grip, stamina, perseverance, and care.”

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The young company first started designing and manufacturing lower receivers. The reception was so great, they added bolts (patent pending), and then barrels, and today they manufacturing uppers, handguards, and almost every piece necessary for assembling a complete build. In the very near future, they will be mass-producing the complete gun.

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In the 2 plus years since Bettina took complete ownership of the company, Quarter Circle 10 has grown exponentially. “We had a rush before the election,” Bettina says, “when gun enthusiasts were nervous about the election, and potentially it would be more difficult to purchase firearms.” She says that this has subsided and business is back to the standard growth trajectory. Quarter Circle 10 has added new machines to their manufacturing facility in Tucson, Arizona every year since they’ve been in business. “We can’t make products fast enough for the demand,” Bettina says.

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online or through dealers. The company capitalizes on social media to promote their products — using Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. The Quarter Circle team attended the renown ‘Shot Show’ in Las Vegas, where their new products were extremely well received. Bettina says the company has just started marketing their products to law enforcement agencies through the United States, and so far, the reception has been fantastic.

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recreate the wheel,” Holmes said. “Even if I had a staff of curriculum said. The Omar number of city pairs Washington Lobbyist S.unique Nashashibi writers there is no way I could keep up withTooling U-SME.” worldwide, defined as jets and turboprops Taken together, the fall in oil prices and airlines’ restructuring will help to improve returns on than 20 seats and flying least once invested capital (ROIC), or how efficient a company can sweat its capital to generate returns, To reserve yourinplace inlarger this meeting, whether youatare a member Even without he can immediately a student a week between two destinations, will 2016.

Equitychecking, investors Holmes can thus said expect to betell better rewardedifthis year with ROIC reaching 9.4 or not, contact Maddie Dahl via email at chapterexec@nuntma.org hasper completed the required Tooling U-SME coursework before moving break the 18,000 mark for the first time, cent, above the weighted average cost of capital (WACC) at 6.7 per cent. This is better than into shop. a 92 per cent rise from a decade ago. lastthe year’s ROIC of 9.3 per cent and WACC of 6.9 per cent.

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“Students who have their Tooling U-SME training havefor thatinvestors this year on an The industry is thusdone expected to generate US$5.8 billiondon’t of value panicked the machine,” investedfeeling capital standing of almostatUS$600 billion. said Holmes. “They’ve seen the controls and they know what buttons to push. It’s all right there the situation will not last. Iata sees 2017’s ROIC falling to 7.9 per cent and WACC climbing forBut them.” back to 6.9 per cent - even as it puts global GDP growth at a faster 2.5 per cent. This is due to expected increases in fuel costs.isIata forecasts Brent oil move prices into of US$55 This confidence and proficiency evident as graduates their per barrel, or a rise of over US$10 per barrel from this year. Airlines’ fuel bill will thus rise to US$129 billion, which careers. represents about 18.7 per cent of average operating costs.

“We know we are offering a quality education when manufacturers Other political, economic and security risks are also expected to cloud the industry next year. say our students are well prepared and trainable within three days of How the industry reacts to such risks will have implications on global trade, Iata said in its report. starting,” said Holmes.

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But even as the industry is expected to expand more next year on the back of stronger global GDP growth, Mr de Juniac expressed his worry at a stronger “protectionist rhetoric”, underscored by the United Kingdom’s vote to exit the European Union, and real-estate mogul Donald Trump emerging victorious in the US presidential elections.

There is thus a need for governments to keep in mind the “unique and special” contributions aviation has to the global economy.

Governments will have to take a longterm view in terms of aviation policies, infrastructure and keeping borders open in order to support economic growth, said Mr de Juniac.

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As an aircraft OEM, Boeing confronts the twin challenges of cost structure and culture as it competes with aggressive and experienced MRO suppliers such as Lufthansa Technik and AAR.This is one reason it has avoided significant “wrench-turning” activity thus far. Yet it is hard to see how it can achieve its BHAG without more hands-on activity. The company must become more agile and proactive as well—long decision cycles and bureaucracy do not mesh with the hyper-competitive world of MRO. Another challenge is found in Boeing’s parts distribution network.

Distribution is a scale-intensive activity in which bigger is generally better. Boeing‘s dilemma is that it has three major distributors— DS&S, Commercial Aircraft and Aviall—in the same company. Is it time to combine their operations? Airbus recently did this when it turned over its parts distribution operations to Satair, an independent distributor acquired in 2011.

Boeing’s BHAG has considerable implications for the aerospace MRO sector. It cannot reach $50 billion on organic growth alone, which means major acquisitions are likely. Can it acquire a big MRO without harming its agility or competitiveness? Can it make adequate margins to support its financial objectives? Boeing also will compete more directly with its own suppliers, many of which depend on aftermarket revenue to fund their businesses. The company’s expansion will challenge independent MROs but also could create new partnership opportunities.

The implications for operators are mixed. Boeing will create innovative value propositions that could improve asset productivity and aircraft reliability. At the same time, it may become more aggressive on pricing or charge for customer support activities that are currently given away.

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Methods Seco Open House Carrie Zoulek, distributor for Seco Tools, thanks Methods Machine Tools for hosting an all day training session, titled, ‘Improve Your Productivitywith the Seco Technical Education Program’ (STEP).

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Strategic Solar Energy LLC signed a three-year deal in September with Peoria, Illinois-based Caterpillar Inc., a company known for its construction machinery and equipment that also develops energy and natural resource products.

As part of the deal, the PowerParasols will be sold and built worldwide through Caterpillar’s Cat dealer network.

The goal is to bring this patented solar technology to remote areas where people and industry lack access to electricity, said Strategic Solar Energy CEO Steve McClain.

“This has the potential to be one of our largest deals by far,” McClain said. “About 1.3 billion people have no access to electricity, and billions more don’t have reliable electricity.There is a tremendous opportunity to help people around the world that need reliable power.”

Caterpillar, which had $47 billion in revenue in 2015, sells to customers via its worldwide network.

PowerParasols use technology to shade acres of space and generate megawatts of clean solar energy. The patented design creates dappled light, allowing vegetation to grow underneath, while the height and architectural design of the structures provide open, cool and welcoming places to gather.

PowerParasols can be found on the Tempe campus of Arizona State University, a Phoenix Fry’s store parking lot, the Lazydays Kampground of America and RV park site in Tucson, and Empire Southwest’s headquarters in Mesa.

For 90 years, remote industry sites, villages and islands have depended on Caterpillar for reliable energy, grid backup and sustainable, continuous power, said Gary Rainey, manager of Cat Microgrids Allied Vendor Program.

“We’re combining our deep, international experience developing microgrid electricity with PowerParasol’s ability to deliver green energy in a ways that enhance, rather than consume land,” Rainey said in a statement. “This agreement expands our ability to give our global customers innovative energy solutions that displace conventional fuels, resulting in lower electricity costs for industries, businesses and communities.” Source: Phoenix Business Journal

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6 Major Trends in B2B Sales Understanding the trends in sales is half the battle when it comes to designing a plan of action. Keeping up with the news also encourages everyone to stay flexible in a quickly changing world.You’re fighting to schedule yourself in customers’ already filled calendars, and the people that you need to reach are always the ones who have the least time to give. To truly understand where the opportunities and challenges are, it helps to identify the patterns the B2B industry is seeing across the board.

Independence in business Hopefully, you’ve already noticed this trend already, but it’s probably the biggest one you’re facing. No longer do clients feel that they need to seek out the help of a salesperson because they can find what they need on the Internet. Brands are also aggressively marketing themselves, so most companies are struggling to be heard above the noise. Salespeople today have a reputation of being both untrustworthy and unreliable, so one tip would be to focus the encounter with the buyer. Share concrete examples about how your customer’s company can benefit from your products and services. In other words, frame the sale as a way the buyer can take a more active role in strengthening their business — not about how you can line your pockets with a fat commission.

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office is certainly not considered obsolete just yet, but more and more people are working from home and as their own boss. With freelancers and contract workers coming into focus, it’s a huge opportunity for those in B2B sales.There are now 53 million people who make their living on their own, and the trend is only growing.

Many of these freelancers will need help both to get started and to maintain their success, and a good B2B salesperson can offer them solutions to expand their business.

Simplicity in purchasing and ordering The B2B salesperson now has less to do when it comes to the actual ordering of the products they offer, and customers are now becoming accustomed to going online and selecting what they want without help. This is especially true when the order is relatively inexpensive and simple. While it has certainly served to lessen the demand on the salesperson, it can also leave the client to feel less loyalty to the brand. The less the salesperson knows about the intricacies of their accounts, the easier it will be to dismiss the importance of the relationship. To overcome this challenge, salespeople need to find other ways to offer value to customers outside of transaction-related processes.

Growing disconnect between sales and marketing Growth can slow tremendously without input from both departments, yet seldom do these two groups meet to go over strategy. While sales and marketing are ultimately focused on the same goal, each field attracts two very different types of skill sets.

Marketing is often focused on leads, but it’s pivotal to remember it’s the accounts that bring in money. Bringing marketing into the meetings can give sales greater context and background to make decisions. Marketing can figure out who the key decision makers are in the prospective accounts, and start engaging with them, either by following them on social media or sharing strategic content with them.

Evolving customer needs Customer satisfaction has become about cohesion, with 86 percent of senior marketers stating that every experience has to be on the path to meeting a customer’s needs. That’s a lot of pressure to put on a team, but it all starts with creating a culture that is focused on the customer, not on the numbers. By freeing a team up to actually devote time to the individual, you empower them to make strong decisions that will actually lead to better sales. The buyers find the vast majority of conversations they have with salespeople are useless, so this trend is especially one to fight against.

Spotlight on content In this day and age, customers are more likely to respond to content rather than a phone call. One statistic showed it was a major factor in 65 percent of the buyers surveyed. This means that if a company asks to see literature rather than hear a pitch, it isn’t necessarily a brush-off but more of a way to determine the type of seller they’re dealing with before going any further. The money spent on content is well worth it, and it pays to invest in both video and literature.

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Robots In Warehouses: Job Killers Or “Technology provides … better jobs,” says Simon Drexler, director of Methods West Hosts Another Successful House in Ont.-based PhoenixClearpath Robotics Inc., industrialOpen robotics for Kitchener, Indispensable?

The days of warehouses bustling with workers to pick boxes and fill orders could soon be a thing of the past if robotic automation continues to gain momentum.

Robots are already rapidly delivering efficiencies as organizations across North America reinvigorate their logistics facilities with fastmoving machines.

Not surprisingly, these non-sentient additions are also generating a high degree of anxiety among some workers who fear for their jobs as robots accelerate their march into the workplace. Not without cause: 58 per cent of chief executive officers from 140 global companies planned to decrease their employee head count over the next five years as a result of robotics, according to a 2014 leadership survey by consultancy PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Businesses need these efficiencies to survive in an increasingly competitive landscape with an aging work force, experts say.

For those in the business of manufacturing robotic equipment, the transformation of the fulfilment system, if not the wider economy, is already here. And it may carry some benefits, says one provider.

whose industrial subsidiary Otto Motors designs and manufactures self-driving vehicles for warehouse, manufacturing and industrial environments across North America, and beyond.

“If you were an accountant when computers came out you would probably be terrified that you would lose your job, but what a computer allowed accountants to do was become data analysts.”

What we know for certain is that automation is transforming the warehousing industry, not to mention manufacturing facilities across the globe, as companies such as Amazon.com continue to embrace robotic assistance for jobs previously managed by humans.

Media reports indicate that e-retailing giant Amazon.com Inc. has cut costs by as much as $22-million in those fulfilment centres in which it deployed Kiva robots.

In a report, British market research firm Technavio estimates the market for logistics robots will reach $2.15-billion (U.S.) by 2020, with a compound annual growth rate of about 32 per cent over that period.

The PwC leadership survey indicates that 94 per cent of CEOs whose organizations had incorporated robotics into their operations found they helped boost productivity, while 64 per cent are counting on robots to help them innovate and increase revenue per employee.

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