A2Z Manufacturing West Coast June July 2016 by A2Z Manufacturing Magazines

Vol. 6, No. 3, JUNE / JULY 2016 Front Cover Story Pages 28 - 30

West Coast Edition For WA, OR, CA GK MACHINE-CELEBRATING 40 YEARS DONALD OREGON’S WORLD CLASS MANUFACTURING COMPANY

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Editor’s Corner “If we’re really serious about higher growth in America, then we have to own the future of manufacturing. The sector is going through an incredible period of change.American manufacturing is coming back, and that could produce the middle class for a whole new generation.” —Jeffrey R. Immelt, Chairman and CEO, General Electric Company If you are in the manufacturing sector you know the ups and downs of U.S. manufacturing and the challenge of continuous improvement, cutting costs, and innovation required to sharpen the competitive edge. The manufacturing sector has broad shoulders and is a good friend to the economy we endeavor to grow and that fosters our nations strength. Manufacturers contributed over $2.17 trillion to the U.S. economy. This figure has risen since the second quarter of 2009, when manufacturers contributed $1.70 trillion. Over that same time frame, value-added output from durable goods manufacturing grew from $0.86 trillion to $1.17 trillion, with nondurable goods output up from $0.84 trillion to $0.99 trillion. Global manufacturing is trending in a positive direction for the U.S. manufacturing jobs are on the rise here, and many of these new jobs are coming back to North America from China, which is struggling to maintain its manufacturing capacity. Since March, 2010, when manufacturing employment in the U.S. hit a trough of 11.45 million jobs, nearly a million new manufacturing positions have been created. Better still, the jobs are typically good ones, across that same five-year period, average hourly manufacturing wages have increased over ten per cent, to more than twenty dollars. On the whole, U.S. manufacturing, as measured by the Purchasing Managers’ Index, has steadily expanded. Economic activity in the manufacturing sector expanded in May for the third consecutive month, while the overall economy grew for the 84th consecutive month, say the nation’s supply executives in the latest Manufacturing ISM®. The report was issued recently by Bradley J. Holcomb, chair of the Institute for Supply Management® (ISM®). “The May PMI® registered 51.3 percent, an increase of 0.5 percentage points from the April reading of 50.8 percent. Manufacturing registered growth in May for the third consecutive month, as 14 of our 18 industries reported an increase in new orders in May, and 12 of our 18 industries reported an increase in production in May.” Perhaps the biggest stimulant to American manufacturing is the move toward reshoring. In recent years, companies have increasingly been bringing manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. from China and other countries.The practice received its most public boost in 2012, when General Electric announced plans to invest a billion dollars in an appliance plant in Louisville, Kentucky, reshoring four thousand jobs that had been in China and Mexico, and adding, over time, nearly twenty thousand factory positions at the plant’s regional suppliers. Economists and manufacturing experts have assembled convincing statistics, which demonstrate that these moves were part of a broader trend. According to data provided by the Reshoring Initiative. In the past five years, about a hundred thousand manufacturing jobs have returned to the U.S. from overseas, sixty per cent of them from China. For every $1.00 spent in manufacturing, another $1.40 is added to the economy. That is the highest multiplier effect of any economic sector. The vast majority of manufacturing firms in the United States are quite small. In the most recent data, there were 256,363 firms in the manufacturing sector, with all but 3,626 firms considered to be small (e.g., having fewer than 500 employees). In fact, three-quarters of these firms have fewer than 20 employees. It is evident small business matters in the U.S. and it is very evident manufacturing is good for our economy! We are strong when we make something in the USA! Until next issue stay cool this summer, grow your business, and God Bless you all!

Kim Carpenter

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Cover & Inside Cover This Month’s Cover , Inside Cover, Shop Profiles, & Articles: GK MACHINE-40 YEARS! INSIDE COVER COATING TECH! Announcements/Releases ....................6-21 Front Cover & Shop Profile .............1,28-30 Buyers Guide Equipment....................64-70 Buyers Guide Processes ......................71-77 Card Gallery ........................................64-77 Index Of Advertisers ...............................78 Editorial .................................. Throughout

Published by: A2Z Manufacturing West Coast PUBLISHERS/EDITORS Kim Carpenter & Linda Daly Kim@A2ZManufacturing.com

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Linda Daly, Stephen Hannemann, Hugh Taylor, Eugene Wirth, , Kate Carpenter

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Published bi-monthly to keep precision manufacturers abreast of news, contracts, trends, and to supply a viable supplier source for the industry. Circulation: A2Z Manufacturing West Coast maintains a master list of over 14,000 decision makers consisting of fortune 1000 companies, small manufacturing companies, engineering firms, DOD & Scientific Lab facilities, machine shops, fab-shops, and secondary source businesses. It has an estimated pass on readership of more than 25,000 people. The majority of our readers are based in CA, OR, WA area! Advertising Rates have remained the same since 1999, deadlines and mechanical requirements furnished on our website at: www.a2zManufacturing.com. All photos and copy become the property ofA2Z Manufacturing. The Publisher assumes no responsibility for the contents of any advertisement, and all representations are those of the advertiser and not that of the publisher. The Publisher is not liable to any advertiser for any misprints or errors not the fault of the publisher, and in such event, the limit of the publisher's liability shall only be the amount of the publishers charge for such advertising.

Icon Machine Tool

JB Laser installs new TRUMPF TruLaser 1030 Fiber

â&#x20AC;&#x153;...Going forward, as JB Laser continues to grow and expand, Jeff Hall and the Icon Machine Tool team will always be our first phone call.â&#x20AC;? ~ Brad Bowcutt - JB Laser

Customer Testimonial written & shared by Brad Bowcutt, President of JB Laser located in Boise ID: In 2001, operating out of a 800 square foot garage with a 50 watt engraving laser, JB Laser started as a small family business in Boise, Idaho. Since its humble beginning, JB Laser has expanded to an 8,700 square foot manufacturing facility, added two lasers and additional processing equipment. JB Laser now specializes in laser metal cutting, marking and engraving. Additional services include bending, welding, fabrication, assembly, design, and fulfillment services. Averaging 4,000+ cuts per week, JB Laser provides tight tolerance services to all industries including motorcycle clutch manufacturers, truck suspension lift kits, knife makers, firearms, trailer manufacturing, agriculture and mining equipment, to name a few. In late 2014, JB Laser made a significant investment in laser cutting technology partnering with Jeff Hall and Icon Machine Tool to procure a 2,000 watt TRUMPF TruLaser 1030 Fiber. Jeff was directly engaged in guiding and advising us through the process. His depth of experience in the industry and knowledge of the TRUMPF product line was critical in helping JB Laser make the right choice. Jeff took the time to understand our business, our direction, and then crafted a solution with TRUMPF that has proven to be exactly what JB Laser needed to succeed. Our TRUMPF 1030 Fiber Laser was the best choice for JB Laser, and the reputation of the TRUMPF product line as being world-class has stood the test of time at JB Laser. Going forward as JB Laser continues to grow and expand, Jeff Hall and the Icon Machine Tool team will always be our first phone call.

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Announcements & Releases Stevens Tool and Die Talent + Technology = Quality of the first order. Combine that with over 150 years of collective experience and uncompromising customer service, and one company rises to the top of the list: Stevens Tool and Die. If your product’s visual and structural integrity is the focal point of your success, why wouldn’t you choose the best partner to get you there? When discriminating manufacturers need an injection mold, die cast die or specialty machining, they consider Stevens T&D the Northwest’s premier shop. The owners of Stevens T&D recognize keeping up with technology is key to maintaining their competitive edge. Over the past twelve months they have added new high speed mills and another new wire EDM to stay ahead of the curve. Their new Makino high speed milling and Mitsubishi multi axis wire EDM finish not only pre hardened materials 20% faster, but more accurately, while maintaining tolerances of +- .0001 with ease. The new equipment has all but filled the added floor space of their recent expansion, increasing their overall output capacity by 30%. For the customer, Stevens T&D’s commitment to investing in the latest technology and expanded footprint guarantees they’re the tool house of choice with the ability to support their customers’ growing needs in a timely manner.The Stevens T&D staff take the time up front to determine the total scope of a project thus insuring resounding success long term. For Stevens T&D, their partner relationships are paramount. They understand great molds, dies, and specialty components are the first step in the production cycle, and at the speed of business today timing is critical for product-launch success. This is the standard at Stevens Tool and Die. To become a partner with the Northwest’s premier tool shop contact:

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Campbell Corporation Increases Capacity Through Lean Engineering and Process Design Campbell Corporation is a recognized leader and innovator delivering a proven approach to process improvement and facility design across countless industries. Their suite of services includes Lean Six Sigma consulting, facility design focused on supporting Lean processes, enterprise wide strategic production planning, and project execution. Their approach is focused on utilizing Lean principles to perfect the processes which transform raw materials to finished goods resulting in improved operational performance. They utilize a balanced strategy of intense project management and the blending of resources, technology, experience, and expertise to achieve customized and practical sustainable solutions for their clients’ unique challenges. Campbell Corporation’s proven results oriented methodologies can lower costs, waste, WIP, finished goods inventory and man hours while increasing efficiency, quality, and overall ROI. Based in Milwaukee, Campbell Corporation has extensive experience throughout North and South America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. Their client base ranges from small single shop manufacturers to Fortune 100 Manufacturers with multiple facilities throughout the world. To learn more about how they can increase your capacity, reduce your costs, and improve your quality, contact them at (414) 421-7601.

Western Precision Products, Inc., (WPP) Announces Their Two New Multi-Pallet CNC Horizontal Machining Centers Western Precision Products, Inc., (WPP) is excited to announce the arrival of two new multi-pallet CNC horizontal machining centers to its facility in Tualatin Oregon. The summer 2016 addition of these two Mori Seiki NHX4000 5 pallet machines will increase WPP’s overall milling capacity as well as maintain the shortest possible lead times. WPP continues to utilize the latest in machining technology with each machining center equipped with 180 tool magazines, 20,000 rpm spindles, and 5 station RPP (round pallet pool). WPP is a second generation small business with over 30 years of history in the machining industry. It is a forward thinking service company offering advanced manufacturing and inspection capabilities. WPP’s machining services include four efficient robotic machining cells utilizing multi-axis horizontal mills; vertical milling; standard Jeff Mayhew, Sales Manager, 503.786.8923 ext. 324 503.380.8647 (cell), jeffm@westernprec.com

GK Machine, Inc. Celebrating 40 Years In Business At The Oregon State Fair GK Machine is celebrating our 40th anniversary in business this year! We’re planning exhibits and a large display showcasing the company’s manufacturing history and evolution from a one-man shop to one of largest employers in the area. The GK Machine history exhibit and technology display will be highlighted during the 2016 Oregon State Fair inside the largest building on grounds, the GK Pavilion which seats approximately 5,000 people. GK Machine will sponsor several large events and activities during the Oregon State Fair which runs August 26 – September 5, 2016 in Salem Oregon. Events include: Truck & Tractor Pull Classic Car Show Outlaw Go Kart Championships Monster Truck Championships Flat Track Motorcycle Racing Demolition Derby Old Fashioned Chuck Wagon GK Machine Large Equipment Display Black Flag Go-Kart Racing (open to public)

Fri. & Sat., August 26 & 27 Saturday, August 27 Sunday, August 28 Fri. & Sat., September 2 & 3 Sunday, September 4 Monday, September 5 All days, August 26 – Sept 5 All days, August 26 – Sept 5 All days, August 26 – Sept 5

For our customers and employees, GK Machine will invite over 2,500 of them for a special day at the fair to enjoy a variety of activities – classic car show, truck & tractor pull, VIP reception & dinner and ending their evening with an outdoor concert with Tommy James and Shondels. GK Machine couldn’t be successful without many of our distributors, vendors and suppliers – so we’ve invited them to exhibit at the Oregon State Fair alongside the GK Machine’s exhibit. Some of these great companies have been working with GK Machine for many years: The World of Speed Museum Cummins NW Ag West Supply Vision Diesel Ernst Irrigation Oxbo International R-stud Steel Stud Framing Tucker Sno-Cat Tire Factory Umpqua Bank

Woodburn Dragstrip Woodburn Jr. Dragsters Cascade Tractor Pullers Con-vey Manufacturing Husqvarna Raven Industries Single Track SSI Shredding Systems Trebro Manufacturing Crescent Valley HS Robotics And, if that’s not enough… there’s more! We’re creating a large recruitment fair the first weekend (August 27 & 28) including GK Machine, Cummins NW, Con-vey, Ag West and more. Fair-goers who attend the recruitment fair may complete an application, pre-interview with recruiters on site - and may just end up with a great new job.

We ’ r e e x c i t e d a b o u t t h e opportunity to look back at the past, celebrate the present and look forward to a fabulous future. GK Machine’s owners, employees, customers, distributors and suppliers, all look forward to a wonderful celebration of 40Years in business at the Oregon State Fair! A2Z MANUFACTURING WEST COAST •

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GMN located in Nuremberg, Germany. The new facility has allowed for expansion in the Grinding and Assembly departments along with a larger state-of-the-art Test department.

More than 40 AMBA member companies are using Cimatron CAD/CAM software to increase productivity and shorten delivery times.

The facility continues GMN’s commitment to its’ North American market.

Learn more at www.bettermoldmaking.com or call 248-596-9700 ext. 237 today.

For more information contact:800-686-1679; www.gmnusa.com

See What AMBA Members That Use Cimatron Say: “Our efficiency has been increasing incredibly. I know it has impacted our bottom line. We can take on more business, because we are not spending as much time in design. The flow from design to manufacturing is much smoother, shortening our delivery dates, making us more efficient and improving quality.” Kent Smith, President, Diamond Tool & Engineering “Cimatron has really helped us stay ahead of the curve when it comes to creating more sophisticated molds, such as those required for products with blended curves. Without Cimatron in place, designing and producing such goods would be nearly impossible.” Thomas LaMarca, Jr., Owner, L&Z Tool and Engineering “We believe one of the things that sets LS Mold apart from other shops is our Cimatron CAD/CAM capabilities. Cimatron really listened to our needs and it shows in how they implement our requirements in the software. The modeling package is first rate. It particularly shines in electrode creation. Customer support from Cimatron is outstanding.” Jim Dent/David Koning, LS Mold

Announcements Continued

GMN USA Opens New Sales and Service Center in Bristol, Connecticut

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GMN USA, a leader in spindle technology celebrated with a grand opening and ribbon cutting ceremony on May 13th for their new 28,000 sq. ft. facility located in Bristol, Connecticut. GMN USA is the North American Sale and Service Center for A2Z MANUFACTURING WEST COAST

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The 2016 Industrial Heating Executive Committee is an elite g roup of senior level managers from the thermal process i n d u s t r y. T h i s committee was created to discuss market conditions, industry news, upcoming shows/events and related topics to the industry. Marc leads the Technical Marketing group at Rolled Alloys. This group offers material performance analysis, application case histories, technical presentations and seminars, as well as online technical support.

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Rolled Alloys Is Pleased To Announce That Marc Glasser Has Been Named To The 2016 Industrial Heating Executive Committee

Marc states, “This committee will focus on what’s new and important in the industry. Rolled Alloys’ involvement allows us to be informed of these new trends earlier. This knowledge will help us to address new material needs and build even stronger partnerships in the Thermal Process Industry.” About Rolled Alloys: One of the largest suppliers of stainless steels, nickel, cobalt and titanium alloys, Rolled Alloys maintains 13 locations across North America and Asia. For additional information about the company, please visit www.rolledalloys.com

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Oldie But Goodie! Albina’s State Of The Art Facility Curves and Bends It’s Way To Improve Their Customer’s Bottom Line

Angle Beam Channel Wide Flange Plate Rolling Tee Bar Round, Square, Rectangular Pipe & Tube Albina Co., Inc., located outside Portland, Oregon, has been providing customers with innovative, high-quality curved and rolled structural steel members and bent steel parts since 1939. Albina Co., Inc. released a “mobile-friendly” website (https://www.albinaco.com) that provides fabricators, architects, engineers and many more with vast interactive calculators, reference materials, and capacity charts to assist with all of their bending calculations and provide answers to their technical questions. The “mobile-friendly” site is completely responsive and is easy to use and navigate on your mobile devices as well as your desktop. Albina Co., Inc. offers custom bending calculators (https://www. albinaco.com/calculators/bending-calculators) designed to assist customers with required bending calculations, and to provide bending tolerances and tangent material requirements needed to accurately bid a job.

TANKS, HANDLES, COILS, PIPE SPOOLS, HYDRAULIC LINES, POST TENSIONING PIPE, AUTO, MARINE, AVIATION, LOCOMOTIVE PARTS, PIPE SECTIONS & ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOLUTIONS Albina Co., Inc. also offers a Spiral Math Calculator (https://www. albinaco.com/calculators/spiral-calculator) to allow customers to enter known data for spiral stringers, automatically calculate Degree of Pitch and Arc Length, and save the calculated information in their files for future reference or submit a report directly to Albina for a quote! It is that simple. “The driving force behind releasing a new “mobile-friendly” website was to create a seamless user experience for our customers no matter what device they use to access information. We wanted to provide an informational tool rich with easy to read capacity charts and stunning visual images to give the user a quick view into our capabilities. We also wanted to provide accessible tools to assist users in their daily job functions.” –Brian Smith, President Albina Co., Inc.

For more information on Albina contact them at: Phone: 503-692-6010 www.albinaco.com

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technology to increase machine productivity for both existing and new applications.The new Generator works with advanced materials such as titanium-based alloys, ceramic hard metals, moldmax and others.This system decreases electrode wear and can be used for high aspect ratio cavities in aero-energy materials and the mold industry. Western precision Products, Inc., has been in the machining business for over 30 years. As a second generation familyowned business, we make it a priority to listen to our customers in order to provide the best ser vice exper ience. WPP employs state-ofthe-art precision CNC machines. We offer support of prototypes through production. Contact us today:

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Announcements Continued

ONA EDM Announces Availability of New QX4C Electrical Discharge Machine A new addition to the wire and sinker lines of ONA EDM Machines is the QX4C Electrical Discharge Machine. For use in industries that need very fine surface finishing (VD1=0), the product consists of the Machine Tool, the Microfine Generator, the Dielectric Filtration System and the CNC Control Unit. In addition, also standard on the machines are a fire-warning device, pendant controller, lamp and flushing nozzles. Optional equipment includes both a 5-position 20 and 40-position automatic tool changer, and pressurized glass scales that incorporate an internal air flow system to prevent the entry of dust particles. This helps maintain the scales for a longer period of time and leads to more precise work. Additional filtration and generator options are also available as is security pack software for both the normal and advanced user and plant monitor software for remote control. Both 1 and 2 axes Rotary Tables and Rotating Spindles can be added to the base unit with quick in the field installation. The QX4C Series was produced with Digital Sinker EDM process A2Z MANUFACTURING WEST COAST •

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Application oriented and very flexible, the new All-Digital T-Rex Generator allows for quick technical development for specialized applications.TheT-Rex Generator was designed with the Aero/Energy and Medical markets in mind. When comparing the QX4C machines to the NX product line, there are a number of benefits to the user. Improved applications include: Ribs where productivity is increased from 23% to 50% over past technologies, with reduction in electrode wear to 500%, depending on the application. Productivity in finish machining increases productivity up to 60%, with improved surface finishing. Micromachining increases productivity for roughing to 30% and finishing to 50%. For close corners the minimum radius is in the inner circle is 5um, compared to 15um in the NX series. Manufactured in Spain, ONA machines are certified by ISO9001 and ISO1400 standards and comply with EC electromagnetic compatibility and safety standards. ONA EDM USA, Inc. is a subsidiary of ONA ELECTROEROSION, headquartered in Durango, Spain. It is the oldest EDM machine manufacturer in the world and a leader in large and customized machines. ONA EDM USA, Inc., is responsible for sales, service and technical support for all of North America. For additional information about the QX4C or other ONA products and services access the ONA website or contact US Headquarters:

ONA EDM USA, Inc. 15943 Angelo Drive Macomb, MIP: 586-697-5880 info@onaedmusa.com www.onaedmusa.com

Woman Owned And Operated Al Hirth Machining Al Hirth Maching, Inc., is owned and operated by Ivy Hirth, who is an experienced machinist. Hirth Machining, in process of AS9100C certification, offers precision machining with tolerences up to .0001”. The company has modern inspection equipment.and provides quality parts, great prices with on time delivery. Al Hirth Machining specializes in in Aerospace (components, parts, short run production, prototypes), Medical (components, parts, short run production, prototypes) & Commercial with precision CNC Turning & Milling.

For competitive pricing contact: Ivy Hirth: 661-294-0644, ivy@hirthmachining.com, www.hirthmachining.com

Doosan Celebrates Open House at North American Technical Center Visitors enjoyed tours of the Center and watched, listened and learned about the various machines Doosan unveiled at the Open House in the redesigned demonstration area. For example, the company’s Compact Linear Pallet System (LPS) was integrated with Doosan’s HP5100II HMC was shown how it’s an ideal solution for aerospace components and other high productivity applications. A Puma MX 1600ST millturn center was also highlighted that offers manufacturers a compact footprint and bed length for smaller parts such as those made in the medical sector. Another key system in action at the Open House was the DNM 200 5AX, which the company said is a costeffective 5-axis machine that is aimed at reducing setup time and part handling for improved component accuracy. In addition to the fully-functioning demonstration area packed with machines comprising CNC turning centers, machining centers and automation cells and systems, the 35,000 sq. ft. Technical Center features dedicated applications engineering, training, spindle lab, parts warehouse, and service departments. The parts warehouse in the Technical Center is a particularly comprehensive inventory, enabling Doosan to respond to customers’ needs quickly and arrange to ship replacement parts when required for routine maintenance functions immediately – less than 24 hours in most cases. For more information about Doosan’sTechnical Center in Pine Brook, New Jersey and the company’s comprehensive machine tool lines, please contact Doosan MachineTools America, 973-618-2500, www.doosanmachinetools. com

Bar-S Announces Expansion!

To keep up with demand and continue to improve our customer support, we have expanded our machine tool capabilities as well as added additional resources to our programming and inspection departments. I believe customers continue to partner with Bar-S because of our turnkey capabilities.We help our customers with initial design and prototype, all the way to production. We also offer assembly capabilities in house.” To learn more about Bar-S and their capabilities, contact 928-636-2115 or visit bar-smachine.com

Bar-S Machine, Inc. is pleased to announce that they are expanding their capabilities to continue to support their customers growing needs.They recently took delivery of their 3rd Feeler Mill from Methods West (2 -HV800’s and 1 -HV1000) to keep up with production demands. Tim Smith, Director of Sales and Marketing, says, “Our company continues to see growing demand from our new and existing customers. A2Z MANUFACTURING WEST COAST •

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Announcements Continued

THE FASTER YOU GET TO PRODUCTION, THE FASTER YOU GET TO PROFIT.

Seventh Blanchard Grinder Added To The Dix Metals Fleet

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Ever conscious of the demands on manufacturers’ time and margins, Dix Metals has acquired a seventh Blanchard grinder to complement the existing fleet of Blanchard grinders, six double disc grinders and ten duplex mills already on their production line.

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Best suited for single-sided material removal and grinding applications too large for double-disc grinding, Blanchard grinding, also known in the industry as rotary surface grinding, quickly removes stock from one side of a part. Each Blanchard grinder has the ability to offer dimensional tolerances to ±.001”, parallelism to .001”, and flatness to .001” partto-part thickness consistency, multiple part grinding ability and size versatility, in order to meet exacting precision standards. OP READY GO

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Howard Precision Machined Products

Howard Precision Machined Products, Still The Best, Premier Screw Machine Co.

Davenport and CNC Machines Prototype to Production Up to 3.00” Diameters

Howard Precision Machined Procucts a premier screw machine shop. Located in Bluffdale, Utah, the company opened its doors for business in 1974. Jack Howard, with years of precision screw machining experience, founded the company with partner Jim Easton. In 1986, Jack bought Jim out and became sole owner of the company.

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Trained by a master, Jack, Ryan bought the company from his father in 2003. Ryan added 7 more Davenports to the 18 the company owned, for a total of 25 that occupy the 24,000 square foot facility today. Not only are the Davenports superior screw machines that last years and years, but Ryan is skilled at repairing and rebuilding the machines. A more radical change Ryan made was the purchase of 12 Star CNC machines. “We were well equipped for our core business, making hundreds of thousands of small parts with our screw machines, but we needed to add additional capabilities for our customers -- including the ability to make prototypes and smaller quantity runs”, Ryan said.The Star CNC machines provided just this capability. www.howardpmp.com

Strom Manufacturing, Inc. offers a wide range of turn-key services to our customers:

Our new building is located in North Plains, Oregon.

CNC Machining Sheet Metal Manufacturing In-house Assembly Pem Hardware Installation

During our first year in the new building, we have already expanded our machining capabilities. In June of 2014, we added a new Mori-Seiki 5 pallet horizontal milling machine!

Call for a facility tour!

We also work closely with several local vendors to supply: Paint, Silkscreen and Powder Coating Services Plating and Anodizing Services

With this expanded capability, we have substantially increased the amount of work we can handle to support our customers. We are a single source solution!

Strom Manufacturing Consistently Exceeds Customer Expectations!

Ph: 503-447-1021 Fax: 503-447-1281 www.strom-mfg.com Announcements Continued

What Is A Confidential Information Memorandum And Why Should I Care? There is a key document in the M&A sale process known as the “Confidential Information Memorandum” or “CIM.” The CIM tells your manufacturing company’s story, explains its value, and lays out important facts and figures for potential buyers. Buyers receive a CIM after signing a confidentiality agreement and after passing an M&A advisor’s screening process. As M&A brokers, we write the CIM. Every CIM is a custom 20-30 page book that sells the unique attributes of each client’s business. One of the main purposes of the CIM is to help buyers make informed and swift go/no-go decisions; but how does a CIM benefit sellers? A professional CIM improves the outcome of a business sale process in several ways: • Sets expectations - Sets a professional tone for future discussions, builds credibility, and let’s buyers know you’re serious about maximizing value. • More interest - More buyers will explore a deal when they know the right information is available. • Perception of value - A consistent story and better information leads to better offers; conversely, uncertainty produces low offers. • Speed - Having reviewed the CIM, buyers quickly move to the next

stage in the deal process, or move on, which is in everyone’s best interest. • Persuade stakeholders - Buyers have a document with which to educate their partners, lender, spouse, attorney, CFO, CPA, and other decision makers. • Less renegotiation - Fewer surprises in due diligence means less renegotiating and fewer blown deals • Secure your proceeds - Important disclosures are made in the CIM that you’ll want to be sure are known and documented. Overselling turns buyers off; we therefore aim for transparency and balance in the information presented. • Save your time - The CIM helps you avoid answering key questions piecemeal, over and over; and avoid spending time with the wrong buyers. • Confidence -You will shape the story, approve the CIM, and understand exactly how your company will be presented. The CIM is an essential part of a successful business sale. If you’re considering selling your manufacturing company, be sure to hire an M&A broker who will invest the time to learn and present your business in the professional manner that you and your shareholders deserve. Business brokers who rush to market and skip or skimp on this step are likely to disappoint their clients. Al Statz is CEO of Exit Strategies Group, Inc., which provides M&A brokerage and business valuation services to manufacturing companies in the Western U.S. Al can be reached at alstatz@exitstrategiesgroup. com or 707-781-8580. A2Z MANUFACTURING WEST COAST •

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Boeing Defense CEO Not Banking On Fighters Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) will prioritize operational performance and profit growth, and it will focus on being a leader in six major market segments —none of which are fighter jets—as part of the business unit’s “new start,” the unit’s new chief executive told Aviation Week. “If I told you that I am and want to be a market leader in the fighter business, you all would tell me that I’m an idiot,” said Leanne Caret, executive vice president of Boeing and president and CEO of the BDS unit. “Let’s be real clear: we lost JSF.” She added: “We need to stop defining Boeing’s future based on a single program or two programs, and we have been doing that with the fighter story. It doesn’t mean it was wrong or right, I just don’t think it represents the great diversity of the Boeing Defense portfolio.” Caret spoke with Aviation Week editors June 9 at Boeing’s regional headquarters near the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. She was named BDS president and CEO in February and since then has also spoken at several investor-related conferences, including the day before at the Deutsche Bank Global Industrials and Materials Summit.

In wide-ranging interviews with Aviation Week and Deutsche Bank, Caret painted a picture of BDS moving beyond recent high-profile Pentagon program losses such as the USAF B-21, won by Northrop Grumman, and even the company’s former fighter manufacturing glory days with the F-18 and F-15. While confident those fighters will remain in production through the early 2020s, the business unit has more to offer than just continued dogfights with the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), for instance. “I’m very much about facing reality,” she told Aviation Week. Caret said her appointment represents “a new start for Boeing Defense,” and is seen by corporate leadership as an opportunity to bring “clarity” to operational performance, including program deliveries, and growing profitability. To do so, she divides her time in thirds: customer relationships, internal Boeing executives and employees, and programmatic operations. Indeed, in both interviews Caret talked about spending part of every working day on the Air Force KC-46A tanker alone. Asked if that was too much time to devote to one program, she noted that it is the Air Force’s top acquisition priority, and obviously Boeing has had problems with the program, although she is confident they are being overcome. A2Z MANUFACTURING WEST COAST

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Ace Wire Spring & Form Company, Inc., a manufacturer of custom precision springs, recently announced that Rose George has joined the company as the new Engineering Sales Manager. Ms. George brings to the position a diverse background of experience— including engineering, sales, supply chain, and customer service—in the manufacturing industry. Previously, she served as a Process Engineer with All-Clad Metalcrafters and before that, as an Engineer at Swagelok Company. She has also worked directly under Bob McCormick, the former Engineering Sales Manager at Ace, as an Engineering I n t er n at Gl oba l Environm ental Management. As a Process Engineer at All-Clad, her responsibilities included providing daily manufacturing support, implementing Quick and Easy Kaizen suggestions, and managing projects to improve manufacturing efficiency and consistency. She also coordinated with Quality Control to establish quality standards, create a training program designed to enhance comprehension of common defects and their dispositions, and perform employee training. As an Engineer at Swagelok, Rose participated in a leadership development program in which she assumed the

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F-35 Buy Goes Official Aaron Mehta, Defense News The selection puts an end to Denmark’s d e l aye d f i g h t e r modernization decision that was in its early stages in 2010 before economic issues forced Copenhagen to hit the pause button. It was officially re-launched in 2013, now eyeing only 30 fighters instead of the planned 48. The news was not unexpected, as the government in early May had announced its recommendation to buy 27 F-35A models at a rate of 20 billion Danish Kroner, or about $3 billion. However, competitors hoped questions about Danish price estimates might scuttle the F-35 buy. The Lockheed Martin designed plane beat the Eurofighter Typhoon, and Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet as Danish options. Denmark is an industrial base partner on the F-35 program. Almost immediately after the government’s analysis zeroed in on the F-35, Boeing challenged local cost estimates for the fighter, saying the government underestimated the per-unit and sustainment costs for the joint strike fighter. Those questions led to fresh scrutiny from the Danish parliament’s Committee of Defense. However, those concerns were not enough to derail the agreement. Analysts have for years expected Denmark to settle in on the F-35, in large part because of its industrial participation. (While the nine partner nations on the program all have an industrial piece, they are not required to purchase the jet.) Terma, Denmark’s largest defense company, produces composite aerostructures and radar electronics for the global F-35 fleet. Jens Maaløe, Terma’s president and CEO, said in a statement that he was “very pleased” with the decision to officially purchase the F-35. “Our company has evolved parallel to the program and we are excited to see what this new phase in our collaboration will bring. One thing is certain: we look forward to explore new areas of cooperation and bring “best value” to the F-35 program,” Maaløe said. “To be a supplier to the international military aircraft industry takes hard work and dedication – and we are ready to continue down the road we began more than a decade ago”. Lockheed spokesman Michael Rein said in a statement the company “is honored by the trust and confidence the Danish government continues to show in the F-35 program with the approval to purchase the F-35 Lightning II.” A2Z MANUFACTURING WEST COAST •

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Meanwhile, most of Russia’s aircraft development efforts are focused on testing the PAK-FA fifthgeneration fighter. Like the Pentagon, the Russian military plans decades ahead. In many ways, the Russian sixthgeneration 6:33 AM concept is akin to the U.S. Air Force’s F-X Next Generation Air Dominance effort to replace the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor or the U.S. Navy’s F/A-XX program. Like the United States, Russia too is exploring concepts like mannedunmanned teaming. “It [the plane] will be modified in both versions,” Col. Gen.Viktor Bondarev, commander of the Russian Aerospace Forces told TASS. However, there are very few additional details available about the new Russian effort. Moscow has embarked on an ambitious rearmament plan—which includes numerous new developmental efforts. Among those are new tanks, ships, submarines and several new aircraft including a new stealth bomber. However, how the Kremlin expects to pay for those developments is an open question given the state of Russia’s economy and the persistent low price of oil on the global market. Nonetheless, Russia is not just aiming to develop a follow-on to the PAK-FA, Moscow is looking far beyond the current horizon. ““If we stop, we will stop forever,” Bondarev said. “Therefore, the work is going on—on the sixth and perhaps the seventh (generation) fighters.” Neither Bodarev nor Rogozin provided a timeline, but according to Russian state-owned media, work on the program will start in the next few years.

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Mazak Certifies CNC Software Incorporated as Newest VIP Partner Mazak has certified CNC Software Inc., a leading developer and supplier of computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) software, as the newest member of its Value Inspired Partners (VIP) technology program. CNC Software established its well-known reputation with the development of Mastercam CAD/CAM software that continues to provide designers, NC programmers and engineers as well as machinists on the shop floor with powerful programming capabilities. Stemming from Mazak’s commitment to provide more comprehensive solutions to manufacturers, the VIP program brings together producers of complementary technologies to create more innovative products and turnkey processes. Collaborating on R&D and integration efforts, the VIP program fosters a high level of cooperation and technological integration that moves well beyond individual pieces of equipment. The program also fuels development of comprehensive training solutions for manufacturers across all market segments. As a VIP, CNC Software brings to Mazak customers programming solutions for milling, turning, wire EDM, router programming, plasma cutting and lasers, along with 3D design and drafting. From one-person shops to large manufacturing corporations, Mastercam users gain faster, easier part programming and enhanced machining for overall increased productivity – all from an affordable CAD/ CAM package. “Like Mazak, CNC Software has, from its start, continued a steadfast dedication to always provide state-of-the-art manufacturing technologies tailored specifically to customer needs and backed by exceptional service and support,” said Brian Papke, president of Mazak Corporation. “We are pleased to welcome them as the newest member of our VIP program.” Founded in 1983, CNC Software is one of the oldest companies in the PC-based CAD/CAM industry. The company was among the first to introduce CAD/CAM software designed for both the machinist and the engineer, providing a practical solution to both markets. While the original version of Mastercam focused on two-dimensional (2D) CAM, it was also one of the first micro-based CAM packages to include CAD capabilities. “We are proud to be certified a Mazak VIP. Such partnerships are critical to making sure that customers get the most from their machine and software investments,” said Meghan West, president of CNC Software Inc. “The closer we work together, the better we can ensure that our advances in technology take full advantage of Mazak’s machine innovations. We are very excited to be working so closely with a company that truly embraces a leadership role in technology.” Members of the VIP program work with Mazak in product development and the creation of training events and seminars spanning a broad range of topics. For more information on the Mazak VIP program and CNC Software, please visit MazakUSA.com/VIP. A2Z MANUFACTURING WEST COAST •

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For The Love Of CNC: The John Saunders Story John Saunders is a Tormach Brand Ambassador. Aside from his successful YouTube channel, Saunders is also busy making products. Saunders recently moved to a much larger shop to facilitate his growing businesses. Many Tormach customers know John Saunders, in fact there are many that know Tormach because of John Saunders and his YouTube channel, NYC CNC. Saunders started his path to CNC machining by sleeping next to his mill in a one-bedroom apartment in New York. He began machining parts for others for fun, when his eyes turned to Tormach. “It’s all I wanted,” he explains. “This thing [the PCNC 1100] was a monster machine for me.” After some convincing, Saunders and his wife moved out of Manhattan to the suburbs “specifically to get a Tormach machine.” The move and his new PCNC 1100 saw a massive growth in his following on YouTube and the NYC CNC channel, but he also started doing shop work. “Here was a small residential house in New York with a tiny factory inside. We made thousands of products on the 1100 that I still use today. And this was all while doing a day-job.” Since then, Saunders has moved back to his hometown in Ohio and grown his businesses. NYC CNC is still a successful (and growing) YouTube channel that beginner and veteran machinists enjoy, but Saunders Machine Works has also taken off. Saunders now has an employee, Jarod, and see regular shop work and partnerships, on top of his multiple video posts every week. “We’re definitely not what you would think of as a traditional machine shop. I spend a lot of my time doing the YouTube videos. I really enjoy doing them.” Saunders explains. Beyond just theYouTube videos and shop work, Saunders also uses his two PCNC 440s to teach a CNC class. “The channel has grown quite a bit in popularity, and really, that’s our source of traffic for the training classes and job shop stuff.” Saunders doesn’t consider himself a professional machinist and credits much of his success to just doing it. “If I had grown up as a machinist, I think that I never would have been where I am now,” he explains. “When

I bought my first mill – a Taig – the engineer that we had hired to help us, told us not to buy a CNC machine because we wouldn’t be able to run it.” What seems to excite Saunders more than his booming business is the ability to just make things and learn. “It’s great that we now have things like Fusion 360 and Tormach, as well as things like Kickstarter and Facebook where you can push out products and knowledge, and learn everything you need to learn is on YouTube… it’s an awesome era to be in.” Saunders fits the profile of a common Tormach customer – somebody with little experience machining, but a want to just make things. Now, he’s looking to keep expanding his many metalworking business ventures while keeping up with hisYouTube channel. He says, “I usually tell people that I’m not a machinist, I’m just a guy who happens to run machines, and I love it.” WWW.SANTACRUZELECTRONICS.COM A2Z MANUFACTURING WEST COAST

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How The Third Wave Of The Internet Is Stoking The Second Machine Age by Mark Egan

Officer Ganesh Bell, who, after writing software for two decades in Silicon Valley, realized that the next software company wouldn’t be a software company at all. “Everyone has access to cloud, big data and software talent,” he says. “It’s the companies with deep industry domain in machines, infrastructure and operations expertise that will have the upper hand. The future of software is building digital businesses.” Few companies understand this better than GE, which makes gas turbines and jet engines and also the software that allows customers to link them to the Industrial Internet, unlock their full potential and harvest big productivity gains. One of the drivers of these gains is software called asset performance management (APM) and GE brought it this week to the Hannover Messe industrial technology fair, which is taking place in Germany. “This is the kind of software that programmers in sandals can’t dream up in a garage,” says Jeremiah Stone, general manager for APM at GE Digital. “Industrial productivity has been at a plateau in recent years. We want to really change that so that companies see double-digit productivity improvements.”

There are few people with better first-hand knowledge of the Internet’s history than AOL founder Steve Case.That’s why we should pay attention when he proclaims we haven’t seen anything yet. “The Third Wave is the era when the Internet stops belonging to Internet companies,” he writes in his new book, The Third Wave. “It is the era when the term ‘Internetenabled’ will start to sound as ludicrous as the term ‘electricity-enabled,’ as if either were notable differentiators.” In many ways, Case is channeling people like GE Power’s Chief Digital A2Z MANUFACTURING WEST COAST •

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GE has been making “big iron” since it opened for business 124 years ago. People like Stone are now mining this domain knowledge and pairing it with data analytics to get insights and get the machines optimized. His business helped GE develop APM software for mining equipment, refineries, oil platforms, wind farms and even airlines. It runs on Predix, GE’s open, cloud-based system for the Industrial Internet. The potential savings quickly add up. GE estimates that in oil and gas exploration and development, for example, a 1 percent improvement in

capital use over 15 years would save $90 billion in avoided or deferred capital spending. In commercial aviation, 1 percent in fuel savings would net $30 billion over 15 years. And a 1 percent improvement in efficiency at the world’s gas-fired power plants would save $66 billion over 15 years. Machines with sensors that can alert their operators before they fail are also cheaper to fix. Stone notes that companies that wait for equipment to fail spend an average of 13 percent of replacement asset value annually on maintenance. Companies that employ proactive condition-based maintenance, by contrast, face a slim cost of just 2 percent. Stone says that 11 percentage-point spread between the worst companies and the best-performing companies is where APM comes in, saving customers millions of dollars. One early APM adopter is Qatar’s RasGas, a liquefied natural gas producer that generates 45 percent of the country’s GDP. Other customers like Pitney Bowes write their own apps on Predix to optimize their equipment, and GE is also using the platform to make its factories work better. One big reason why this is happening is Moore’s law. “Computers and other digital advances are doing for our mental power – the ability to use our brains to understand and shape our environments – what the steam engine and its descendants did for muscle,” write Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee in the bookThe Second Machine Age. “They are allowing us to blow past previous limitation and into a new territory.”

Bellevue Middle Schoolers Soar To Championship In World’s Largest Rocket Contest A team of middle schoolers from Bellevue, Wash., nicknamed the Space Potatoes, captured the top prize at the 2016 Team America Rocketry Challenge (TARC) National Finals. The five-student team from Odle Middle School outscored 100 of the best rocketry teams in the country in the finals. Nearly 5,000 students on 789 teams participated in the overall competition from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The Space Potatoes team members are Mikaela Ikeda, 12, Larry Jing, 13, Karl Deerkop, 14, Srivatshan (Sri) Sakthinarayanan, 13, and Stephanie Han , 13. According to a news realease, they were awarded more than $20,000 in scholarships and funds for their school. Sponsored by the Aerospace Industries Association and the National Association of Rocketry, the competition required students to build a rocket that flies to exactly 850 feet and safely returns a payload of two raw eggs within 44-46 seconds. At the National Finals, students were required to adjust their rockets “on the fly” to hit new flight/duration parameters for a second round of launches.

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GK Machine 40 Years Of “Anything Is Possible”

By Stephen Hannemann

One block west of the town center in Donald, Oregon, on rich farming soil in the heart of the Willamette Valley, sits a monolith of a building bearing the name GK Machine Inc. An ISO-certified company for manufactured parts whose mantra is “Anything Is Possible,” GK Machine is 177,000 square feet of manufacturing floor space that seemingly has no limits. No project is too large or too small. “Anything” is their niche! With as many as 1,200 individual jobs on the floor at any one time, GK Machine is ready, willing, and more than able to entertain any project. Their story begins forty years ago. Officially, GK Machine Inc. was founded in June of 1976. But a sixyear prologue preceded the venture. From humble beginnings on the family’s dairy farm on the outskirts of Donald, Gary Grossen, with an indomitable work ethic, began repairing farm and nursery equipment while in high school. After graduating, Gary went on to become a journeyman machinist working graveyard shifts while repairing equipment during the day. A few years later, Gary’s younger brother Keith became his partner after working for Gary for a year. Not long after GK Machine incorporated, the young men noticed recurring breakdowns on their customers’ equipment.Taking advantage of the glaring opportunity, they began designing and building equipment that wouldn’t fail. With their tenacity and ingenuity, the two brothers grew their business, and in 1990 they moved just five miles east to their present location. As their company’s growth continued, Gary and Keith added both the latest equipment available and talented employees to run the machines. In 2012, Keith retired, leaving the reigns of the company solely to Gary, a soft-spoken, shy man with the mechanical acumen of a Henry Ford and the vision of a Steve Jobs. Gifted with an acute sense of the future of manufacturing and a brain that does not compute the word “can’t,” Gary realized the need to integrate technology into the operation and has propelled GK toward a limitless future. Another of Gary’s gifts is his innate ability to surround himself with talented people. He moved Charles Roper from his position as GK’s web designer to the helm of the IT efforts where he helped create the Leadman Software Suite, a proprietary system that uniquely tracks GK’s efficiency and quality. Over a five-year period, all the computers in the shop were replaced with those built in-house without fans, making them less problematic. Shop work stations no longer have keyboards; QR code scanners are used instead.This eliminated two key liability factors – shop environment contamination and human input error. In tandem, new software was developed to drive the equipment and monitor production. With the click of a mouse, a manager can monitor any one of a thousand components or products and see where it is in production, know that it is on time, or, if needed, head off a potential issue that would inhibit on-time delivery. This combined system of hardware and software has been tweaked, revised, and improved until it has evolved into the best that technology will allow. A2Z MANUFACTURING WEST COAST •

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GK has grown exponentially since the move into town in 1990. In 1985 GK Machine had 15 employees; today they have nearly 200, approximately doubling the headcount every five years.The workforce has grown steadily for a number of reasons. The employees are happy, work hard, and like what they do.They enjoy being on the leading edge of technology in a clean and safe environment. Management includes workers in company decisions and encourages them to participate in discussions on innovation, problem-solving, and continuous improvement.To show appreciation, GK has one of the industry’s most generous bonus plans, plus a prolific awards program that fosters a team spirit. Positions at GK are sought after, with some workers traveling 60 miles for the privilege of working there. The average length of employment is approximately five years and some employees have been with GK for over 25 years. Gary Grossen’s executive assistant, Connie Bradley, sums it up perfectly. “I think the most gratifying experience here at GK is the ability and freedom to utilize my creative ideas, make suggestions, and improve what is already a remarkable place to work. It’s an open environment where employees are encouraged to feel good about putting solutions to problems and sharing ideas. GK employees are always looking toward the future and how we might make our processes even better.” Clearly, GK considers their employees to be the company’s most valuable asset and treats them like family. One example of the many accoutrements provided for the employees is their beautiful, modern lunch and break room and adjoining patio. Gary’s artful creation of a giant sun screen with its unique design casts ever-moving leaf shadows across the deck, walls, and pillars as GK basks in the sun. Organization and cleanliness are two main virtues of the GK workplace, another example of purposeful implementation. Lean thinking didn’t necessarily originate with Toyota lean manufacturing. Growing up on the dairy farm, Gary Grossen learned at an early age playtime was a precious premium. Grueling chores, early-morning and late-afternoon milking, shoveling manure, and other farm maintenance left little time for creating with his Erector Set or building go-carts. So Gary learned wasted moves cost him his main joy, creating. He also realized picking his way through clutter searching for tools lost him time as well. As a result, Gary has made sure GK’s lean efficiency starts with a clean, orderly work environment. In fact, GK Machine is the cleanest and most efficient industrial environment you could ever hope to visit. When you walk the floor, the absence of clutter is glaringly apparent. Every tool – from a screwdriver, hand drill, or even a trash receptacle to the largest pallet jack – is parked in its designated space. Gary believes money or material goods can be replaced, but time once lost is gone forever.This eco-mentality defines GK’s commitment to excellence through efficiency.

And it’s clear that customers are drawn to the GK culture. They know their business is appreciated and are confident the projects, components, and products they have entrusted to GK will be delivered correct, and on time. Customers’ challenges are heard and evaluated by Gary and a staff of 14 engineers and two programmers. Before a router or traveler is created and sent to the floor, this team reviews, redesigns, or, if necessary, starts from scratch on every project to make sure the design incorporates the most cost-effective and efficient approach. To further enhance a customer’s timely delivery, GK has nearly five million dollars in raw aluminum, steel and parts in stock to ensure a rapid response to all projects.This is the value proposition for OEMs with on-demand supply chains or for customers who have a piece of equipment sitting idle in the field. Success, technology, and phenomenal growth have not diminished the GK “Anything Is Possible” business model.They have enhanced it! Today

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– 40 years later and a recognized world-class manufacturer – GK maintains its unique customer base. They still embrace the one-off piece of broken equipment, the napkin-sketch prototype, the steady-state production, and everything in between. Projects may range from producing a simple part the size of a dime to assembling complex equipment – even locomotives. To date GK is producing components and equipment for 60 OEMs, along with their own products and equipment nearly too numerous to count. How has this home-grown company become an industry leader? If GK Machine’s employees are their most valuable asset, the in-house custom designed Leadman Software Suite is their backbone.These systems work together to accomplish two important tasks.With Leadman Software, all production is monitored, ensuring efficient use of labor – down to the second! MRS has the unique ability to track a single tractor repair job or prototype as well as monitor ongoing production of GK fuel tanks, hose reels, bed shapers, and a bevy of additional proprietary products – all while keeping tabs on their many OEM components and products. At the same time, GK’s system is feeding the programs to their plethora of the latest available CNC mills, lathes, lasers, and press breaks, all in a well-choreographed tap dance of in-house manufacturing.They view every challenge as an opportunity to explore ways to improve their systems. With their commitment to continually push the limits of technology, GK has taken lean manufacturing to new levels, solidifying their place in the global market. GK Machine’s 40th Anniversary will mark another milestone. In tandem with Dell Computer Corporation, GK will be rolling out their Leadman Software Suite to the manufacturing community within the next 12 months. Again, Gary – true to his inclination toward forward-thinking – believes the technology should be shared to enhance US manufacturing’s competitiveness in the global marketplace. The system has been proven at GK over the past four years and has successfully monitored what Gary calls their “Wagon Wheel of Success.” “This whole enterprise is a wagon wheel.” He went on to explain, “GK administration is the hub, and our divisions are the spokes. How is this for a manufacturing mix to keep track of? • • • • • • • • • •

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As a blooming “magnet employer” in the Willamette Valley, GK can look forward to a bright future. As Gary explained, looking up with arms held wide as if he were embracing the universe, “I tend to look at things globally and the possibilities are limitless. It’s kind of overwhelming so I just work on one or two things at a time.” He expects to double again in size to 400 A2Z MANUFACTURING WEST COAST •

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Another GK Machine Invention, A Zero Displacement Fertilizer employees in the next five years with expanded manufacturing and retail space. To attain this goal they will need a high-quality manpower base. In anticipation of that need, GK for some time has developed a prolific intern program in partnership with state and community colleges. They host students from the Oregon State University Engineering Department for extended periods of time. In April of this year, GK invited 35 students, two professors, and an administrator from the OSU Agriculture, Horticulture, and Food Department for a facility tour. In conjunction with OSU, GK is designing a machine to harvest a new style of broccoli being developed. In addition, GK conducts job shadowing and class tours to stimulate interest within Clackamas and Chemeketa Community Colleges. GK attends the colleges’ recruitment days as well. Young people with a vision for the future are the gene pool from which GK will draw. GK Machine is a staunch believer in giving back to the community. Over the past eight years, GK Machine has been a major sponsor of the Oregon State Fair and will increase their level of sponsorship this year. They also support several other events: the Hazelnut Festival in Donald, Oregon, the St. Paul Rodeo St. Paul, Oregon, and the Woodburn Drag Strip Woodburn, Oregon. The GK retail store – where, when you visit, you will see the first spoke of the wagon wheel Gary talks about – can be described as a hardware/ parts store on steroids. Chain saws, power tools, hand-tools, sprayers, GPS systems, BBQs, chain, cable, PVC pipe and fittings, and more line the shelves.You name the part and you will find one. They even provide on-demand hydraulic hose repair with any connector or fitting imaginable, with great GK customer service. GK Machine – ISO-certified contract manufacturer, machine, fab, and finishing facility – continues to push the boundaries of possibilities. They invite you to partner with them to fix your broken implement, KANBAN your production, or make your concept or dream become a reality. The company in God’s fertile Willamette Valley where the word “can’t” is never spoken - GK Machine Inc. – and “Anything Is Possible” –

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Meet The King Stallion, America’s Next Largest And Most Powerful Helicopter by Tomas Kellner Sometimes you have to be more than super to be No. 1. For four decades, Sikorsky’s CH-53E Super Stallion ruled the American sky as the nation’s largest and most powerful helicopter. But the next-generation version of the chopper, the CH-53K King Stallion, is now champing at the bit.

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Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky Aircraft unit is building the new helicopter for the U.S. Marines. Today, GE Aviation took the wraps off a brand-new engine that will allow the King Stallion to claim the top spot. Marines assigned to the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit conduct insertion exercises from a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter into a combat rubber raiding craft. The 11th MEU is embarked aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Makin Island, deployed supporting maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility. GE spent nine years developing the new GE38 engine. It will allow the CH-53K to carry as Monitor Your Equipment Intelligently much as 27,000 pounds of external load — Instruct operators, monitor machines, and know your job some 27 real-life stallions — over a mission productivity using Scout System’s HQ™ and Compass™ radius of 110 nautical miles in hot-weather applications. Schedule a demo at www.scout.systems conditions, nearly triple what its predecessor could manage. At 7,500 horsepower, the new engine will provide 57 percent more power and use 18 percent less fuel, compared to the engines used by the Super Stallion. GE says the FATE design is 35 percent more fuel-efficient and delivers The new engine also has 63 percent fewer parts, making maintenance easier. 40 percent more power at the same weight, compared to engines like the T64, which is currently powering the Super Stallion fleet. GE is currently building the first FATE demonstrator in Lynn, Massachusetts, at the same GE has so far produced five factory test engines.They have completed two factory where it built and tested the first American jet engine. flight tests and spent 5,000 hours on the test stand. Two of the engines will be “consumed by live fire testing performed by the U.S. government,” GE says. Ouch. The new GE engines have already completed more than 1,000 engine hours of powering the U.S. Marine Corps’ CH-53K Heavy-Lift Ground Test Vehicle in Florida. Even though GE Aviation won’t start delivering production engines to Sikorsky until 2018, the company is developing new technology so fast it is already thinking about future improvements. One of them is the Future The new helicopter will have fly-by-wire flight controls, fourth-generation Affordable Turbine Engine, or FATE. The design pulls together the latest rotor blades with anhedral, or drooped, tips that make it more quiet and advances from other GE businesses — GE calls this the GE Store. One of other latest technology. them is a new supermaterial called ceramic matrix composites (CMCs), which were originally developed for gas turbines by scientists at GE Power The Pentagon plans to buy 200 King Stallions for the Marine Corps’ eight and GE Global Research. FATE also includes 3D-printed parts, another active duty squadrons, one training squadron, and one reserve squadron technology several GE businesses have started using. to support operational requirements. A2Z MANUFACTURING WEST COAST •

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MS-21 OOA Wing And Wing Box Near First Flight The MS-21-300, as it was rolled out in Russia. It features an aerocomposites first: A wing box, integrated stringers and skins, and spars fabricated entirely out of autoclave. (Note: Irkut refers to the MS-21 to as the MC-21 because the Cyrillic letter “s” looks like the Latin letter “c”) As Russian aircraft manufacturer Irkut Corp. (Irkutsk, Russia) rolled out its narrow-body MS-21 (132-211 passengers) today (June 8), it’s time to recognize again the novelty of this plane. The MS-21 will carry into the air a major aerospace and composites industry milestone:The first out-ofautoclave (OOA) composite wing and wing box on a commercial aircraft. As CW reported in early 2014, the MS-21 wing and wing box represent a major and hard-won accomplishment in aerospace composites manufacturing. Never before has such a large, complex and important aerostructure been made OOA. So, it’s worth reviewing now how it was made. Lance Parcell, new business development director a t S o l v a y, provided development assistance to AeroComposit star ting in 2008 and says the material used, EP 2400, is “a unique product that is toughened and infusible without having to introduce tougheners in other forms like films or polymer fibers.” Further, the resin offers a long window for the infusion process, which provides more than adequate time for large primary structures such as wings.The result, says Parcell, is very low porosity in the final part that “is equal to or less than in an autoclave.” Parcell says the MS-21 stringers and skins are co-molded in one piece, with the spars and wing box fabricated separately. The co-molding, he says, reduces part count, streamlines assembly and, ultimately reduces final part cost. “Irkut and AeroComposit were extremely innovative and willing to take risk to make a major leap in the industrialization of infused primary structure,” Parcell says. “It would have been easier to take a conventional autoclave approach. But their aspiration and program objective was to introduce innovation on this airplane.” The MS-21-300 (160-211 passengers), the baseline model rolled out on June 8, will begin flight testing later this year and is expected to earn certification in the 2017-2018 timeframe. The MS-21-200 (130-176 passengers), is expected to earn certification in the 2019-2020 timeframe. A2Z MANUFACTURING WEST COAST •

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Up, Up And Away: GE’s Billion Dollar Bet On Ceramic Super Material Is Taking Off by Tomas Kellner People have been using ceramics for millennia, but the material’s practical applications have been mostly confined to the kitchen. “When you hit it, it fails catastrophically,” says Krishan Luthra, chief scientist for manufacturing and materials technologies at GE Global Research (GRC) in New York. Luthra, however, thought that ceramics, which can withstand higher heat than even the most advanced alloys, could also be the perfect material for jet engines and other machines that burn fuel and must handle enormous temperatures. “I thought it would be the Holy Grail if we could get it inside machines, and get more power and savings out of our engines,” he says. “It could really make an impact.” Today, three decades after he set out on his search for tough and heatresistant ceramics, his vision is paying off. Parts from ceramic matrix composites (CMCs), the material that Luthra’s team developed, are flying inside next-generation LEAP jet engines from CFM International, a joint company between GE and Frances Snecma (Safran). Although CFM is still testing the engines and they will not enter service until next year, the company has received orders for 9,550 LEAPs valued at $134 billion (list price). That number makes the LEAP the bestselling A2Z MANUFACTURING WEST COAST •

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jet engine in GE’s history. But CMC applications don’t stop with the LEAP. GE, which spent $1 billion on CMC research, is going to use the material inside powerful new engines for fighter jets and helicopters, the GE9X, the world’s largest jet engine with a fan that’s taller than a basketball hoop (see video above), and also the latest gas turbines and compressors. “At the GRC, we work with all the GE businesses to bring core technology to help them in their marketplaces,” says Luthra’s boss Mark Little, who runs GE Global Research. “We share very naturally from one to another.We call this the GE store.” CMCs are made from special silicon carbide ceramic fibers locked inside a ceramic matrix and covered with a thermal barrier coating (see video above). Last year, GE Aviation opened the first CMCs factory and formed a joint venture with Italy’s coatings maker Turbocoating to prepare for large-scale production of CMC parts. Both plants are in North Carolina. The LEAP, which recently powered the next-generation Airbus A320neo on a test flight (above), uses static turbine “shrouds” made from CMCs. But GE has already tested rotating parts made from the materials inside a jet engine turbine. This is a big deal. Unlike alloys, CMCs don’t need to be air-cooled and weigh one-third the weight of metal.As a result, rotating parts made from them generate smaller centrifugal forces, opening the way for smaller

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The World’s Largest Jet Engine Is Already More Powerful Than America’s First Manned Space Rocket Navy pilot Alan Shepard became the first American to reach space on May 5, 1961 — 55 years ago this week. His capsule sat atop the MercuryRedstone 3 rocket, propelled by a single engine that produced 78,000 pounds of thrust. Although space flight still remains the domain of astronauts and a few fit millionaires who can pay their way to orbit, most of us can experience multiples of the power Shepard was riding every day. New Lufthansa Boeing 747-8 aircraft, for example, which shuttle daily between major global destinations, come endowed with four GEnx-2B engines that

generate a combined 266,000 pounds. In April, GE Aviation started testing the world’s largest jet engine, the GE9X. Early in May, it hit 105,000 pounds of thrust at GE’s test stand in Peebles, Ohio. Boeing’s next-generation wide-body jet — the 777X — will have one of these giants slung under each wing. The GE9X engine is so new and so large that GE Aviation engineers reached out to colleagues in other GE businesses with experience in building really big machines to help out. Workers at GE Oil & Gas in Massa, Italy, who build towering power plants for oil and gas fields, helped test the engine’s compressor. A massive computer-controlled mill (see below) at GE Power’s brand-new factory in Greenville, South Carolina, machined the engine’s huge compressor blades. GE calls this exchange of technology and ideas the GE Store. In 1942, a top-secret group of GE engineers built the first American jet engine. Called I-A, the engine produced just 1,300 pounds of thrust. But just a few years later, the company’s second production engine, the J33, developed to power America’s first operational fighter jet — the Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star — generated 4,200 pounds. In 1946, the plane set a transcontinental speed record flying from New York to California in 4 hours and 13 minutes. At 584 mph, the Shooting Star was faster than any plane flown by either side in World War II. The J33 was also the first U.S. jet engine with an axial compressor (see below), the same kind that now powers virtually all jet engines, including the GE9X. True to the GE Store, the company originally developed the design for steam turbines. A2Z MANUFACTURING WEST COAST •

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The secretive company, which reportedly has financial ties to China, Boeing has been awarded a $1.5 has vowed to bring an electric car to market within the next two billion contract to ‘remanufacture’ years, taking on market leader Tesla. The two-year-old company has Apache helicopters for the U.S. produced a concept vehicle and is building a $1 billion, 3 millionArmy. square-foot factory in North Las Vegas, where it expects to begin manufacturing its cars.Vallejo would be home to its second production The work will be done at Boeing’s facility. manufacturing plant in Mesa.

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Park A Bike was No. 7 on the Business Journal’s list of fastest-growing companies last year, reporting revenue of $2.25 million in 2014. The company has roots going back to 1991, but it only found its niche in recent years by selling to universities and municipalities. The company works with more than 80 college campuses across the nation.

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Department of Defense (DoD) Awards General Dynamics National Steel and Shipbuilding Co., San Diego, California, is being awarded a $106,167,876 undefinitized contract action on a not-to-exceed basis for the procurement of long lead time material and engineering support for the Expeditionary Mobile Base 5 (formerly Mobile Landing Platform Afloat Forward Staging Base). This action allows the procurement of ship sets of the purchase specifications supporting integrated propulsion, main diesel generator engines, propeller and shafting, integrated bridge electronics, centrifugal pumps, fuel and lube oil purifiers and steering gear components. Work will be performed in, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (30.15 percent); Beloit, Wisconsin (27.45 percent); San Diego, California (10.26 percent); Santa Fe Springs, California (9.90 percent); Chesapeake, Virginia (7.00 percent); Izmir, Turkey (4.36 percent); Hamburg, Germany (3.23 percent); Houma, Louisiana (3.08 percent); Buffalo, New York (2.49 percent); Bremen, Germany (1.72 percent); and Monza, Italy (0.36 percent), and is expected to be completed by March 2017. The Naval Sea Systems Command,Washington District of Columbia, is the contracting activity (N00024-16-C-2227) Insitu Inc., Bingen, Washington, is being awarded a $71,555,347 firm-fixed-price contract for A2Z MANUFACTURING WEST COAST •

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The duo, both recent grads of University of Portland, are the founders of Audibility, a Portland startup making headphones that shape to fit your ear. They launched a $10,000 Kickstarter on May 18. By May 19, it was fully backed with another 29 days to raise funds. The money will help fund an initial production run as well as generate buzz around the product, Resendez said.Audibility’s headphones are expected to retail for $50, but Kickstarter backers can get them at a discount.The headphones look like typical earbuds — though Resendez says they have better speakers than off-the-shelf products — but the customization comes from a nontoxic silicon-based epoxy that comes with the product.

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Sales Outlook Up At Big Businesses, But Hiring Plans Down Two-thirds of big businesses expect their sales to increase in the next six months, and 34 percent plan to increase capital spending.

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That’s according to the Business Roundtable’s quarterly survey of its

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said that negative tone hasn’t had much impact on CEOs’ plans for their own companies -- “everyone understands what a political campaign is,” he said. He hopes that exporters like Caterpillar can convince members of Congress that expanding exports through trade deals such as the TPP will also help the thousands of small businesses in big businesses’ supply chains. Meanwhile, Congress’ passage of a multiyear highway bill at the end of last year is beginning to show signs of paying off for companies like Caterpillar (CAT), he said. “We are starting to see the very beginning of the green shoots of a lot of highway attention and infrastructure around the county,” Oberhelman said.

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The CWC is more than 27 acres under one roof – the equivalent to 24 football fields.The building will contain three of the world’s largest autoclaves – each big enough to fit two Boeing 737 fuselages inside. The 777X advances the world’s most efficient twin-aisle family of airplanes. Two models will comprise the 777X family – the 777-8X, with approximately 350 seats and a range capability of more than 9,300 nautical miles; and the 777-9X, with approximately 400 seats and a range of more than 8,200 nautical miles. The 777-8X competes directly with the Airbus A350-1000, while the 777-9X is in a class by itself, serving a market segment that no other airplane can. To date, the 777X has accumulated 320 orders and commitments from six customers worldwide. Production of the 777X is scheduled to begin in 2017, with first delivery targeted in 2020.

HP Targets A New Industrial Revolution, With The Pacific Northwest As Its Heart The team at HP Inc., the company created in the split of Silicon Valley

ico n H ew l e t t P a c k a r d C o. , wants to put the company “back in the forefront” of technology. At the center of that mission are teams in the Pacific Northwest. “The anc hor is i n Va n c o u ve r,” said HP Chief Te c h n o l o g y Officer Shane Wa l l , w h i l e seated in the company’s sleek new offices just across the river from Portland. The Vancouver, Wa s h . , t e a m — estimated at around 500 workers back in 2012— is moving into a pair of new offices on Southeast Tech Center Drive. The company doesn’t release details on site sizes, but the team includes marketing and engineering.

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Gone would be the model of designing products, sending designs to Asia for manufacturing and then shipping the finished pieces to markets all over the world, he said.

It was a small team within this office that created a series of smartwatches the company has rolled out since 2014. Several of these products were highlighted at an event in Portland in March.

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F-35 production is slated to hit full steam in 2019, and Lockheed Martin is reshaping its final assembly line to get ready. Not far from the nine assembly stations where the stealthy jets are coming together, wooden walls and plastic sheeting rise dozens of feet to the ceiling, blocking off large portions of the plant where new laser-leveled concrete is being poured. Lowered air pressure behind the screens helps keep dust and debris away from the sensitive airframes. Elsewhere, scaffolding is being erected for seven new assembly stations to come. “I came to work here eight years ago,” said Lockheed spokesman Mike Rein. “Nothing in this building right here, apart from the walls and the ceiling, looks the same.” For all of the F-35’s early developmental troubles and the various bugs still being squashed, production of the stealthy jet has been slowly rising since the first one flew in 2006. Earlier plans called for full production by now, but that was delayed by problems that ultimately added billions of dollars to the cost. But now, production is poised to explode.This year, Lockheed will build 53 F-35s here and at another assembly facility in Italy, pushing the worldwide total past 200.That’s more than the Air Force has F-22 Raptors. By 2020, one year after the Fort Worth plant hits its full 17-jet-per-month stride, there will be more than 600 F-35s, including nearly 180 sent to U.S. allies.

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Most will be assembled by Lockheed, the world’s largest defense contractor, in this milelong building formally known as Air Force Plant 4. More than 10,000 planes have been born here, including the B-24 Liberator, B-36 Peacemaker, F-111 Aardvark, and F-16 Fighting Falcon. The F-35 is expected to add nearly three thousand to that total: nearly 2,500 for the U.S. military and hundreds more for allies. While the exterior hasn’t changed much — Plant 4 has historic status — its insides would be unrecognizable to Rosie the Riveter. As turboprops gave way to jets and aluminum skins to carbon-fiber composite, the plant and its floor have evolved. Today, the plant’s guts are changing again as it prepares to close out more than four decades of F-16 production. “Everything inside, we can modernize,” Kevin McCormick, an employee of 30-plus years, said during a tour. The F-35 is a complicated construction of 300,000 parts from 1,100-

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Reimagining Military Re-Supply With 3-D Printing Military planners are beginning t o i m a g i n e h ow a d d i t i ve manufacturing (AM) can enhance operations.The potential gains that AM—also known as 3-D printing— offers are transformative and require new ways of thinking from suppliers and end-users to achieve them.

Orbital Planning New Rocket To Compete For U.S. Military Launches Orbital ATK unveiled plans for a new rocket to compete against United Launch Alliance and Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies for missions to launch U.S. military and commercial satellites. Orbital’s Next Generation Launcher is based on the solid-rocket strap-on boosters that flew on NASA’s space shuttles, Orbital Business Development Director John Steinmeyer said at the 2016 Space Congress conference in Cape Canaveral. The company plans to buy the rocket’s second stage from Jeff Bezos’ space company, Blue Origin. Currently, United Launch Alliance, a partnership of Lockheed Martin Corp and Boeing Co and Musk’s SpaceX, as the California-based firm is known, are the only companies certified to launch U.S. military and national security satellites.“We’re working cooperatively with the Air Force to make sure there’s room for three players,” Steinmeyer said in an interview with Reuters. Orbital would launch the rocket from one of the space shuttle’s old launchpads at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. If the Air Force maintained requirements for a West Coast launch site as well, Orbital could refurbish a pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, Steinmeyer said. Orbital in January won an Air Force contract worth up to $180 million to develop rocket propulsion technologies. Steinmeyer declined to say how much Orbital was investing in the project. Orbital, meanwhile, is preparing to return its refurbished Antares rocket A2Z MANUFACTURING WEST COAST •

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The benefits include: rapid development and iteration of prototypes, design and fabrication of complex shapes that cannot be made by conventional manufacturing, part consolidation, less material waste, low cost compared with standard production techniques and rapid availability. Nevertheless, for critical applications AM may prove more challenging to integrate than traditional methods of design, production and distribution. As in conventional manufacturing, an AM component needs extensive testing and certification—performance must be demonstrated to achieve confidence in the part as well as the fabrication material, which is typically metal or plastic in powder or liquid form, and in the repeatability of the process itself. The outlook, however, looks promising. In 2015, AM systems and materials specialist Stratasys partnered with Aurora Flight Sciences of Cambridge, Massachusetts, on a self-funded demonstration program that succeeded in taking a new unmanned aircraft system concept from initial design to first flight in eight months. With the exception of an off-the-shelf engine, some electrical components and elements of the undercarriage, the aircraft was fabricated with 3-D printing and materials. Some components—such as the fuel tank, which was designed to be conformal to the engine and have integrated ducts for cabling—were too complex to be manufactured by conventional processes. More than illustrating the technology’s potential for rapid prototyping, the demonstration suggested that—in the not-too-distant future—computeraided design (CAD) software and 3-D printing systems could be applied to design an aircraft for a specific task, print the aircraft and have it flying very soon thereafter in a tactically responsive timeframe if printed in a forward location near a battlefield. Yet rather than just promote the capability and get on with the job of further developing and placing the process, Stratasys decided to advocate

for AM technology more generally to fully exploit its potential and build a sustainable market. Early last year it acquired the British consultant Econolyst to establish Stratasys Strategic Consulting, which will provide impartial recommendations to clients about 3-D products and services, including those from rivals. “We have to be technology- and productagnostic in the consultancy, otherwise we’re a salesperson, not a consultant,” says Andy Middleton, president of Stratasys Europe. “Getting this right is more of a mental than a physical challenge, and it’s also [a challenge] to get acceptance within our company. But it’s a payable consultancy, and it establishes Stratasys as an advisory company and not just a box-mover.” Stratasys Strategic Consulting is a natural outgrowth of the company’s decision to think about the AM marketplace not as an “us and them” environment where Stratasys touts only its services to customers, but an ecosystem in which users and suppliers benefit each other.

‘Upward Of 15 To 20 Countries’ Could Be Customers For Lockheed’s Mid-Range Missile Defense System Lockheed Martin Corp. CEO Marillyn Hewson says she sees “upward of 15 to 20 countries” as potential future customers for the company’s Medium Extended Air Defense System. The platform is a mobile, 360-degree air and missile defense system used to thwart both short-range and medium-range ballistic missile threats. MEADS began as a joint transatlantic development program among the U.S., Germany and Italy. Germany became the first foreign customer for the missile system in June 2015 when the German Federal Ministry of Defence announced it would replace its Patriot air defense systems with the new Lockheed platform. Hewson said she hopes Lockheed will get on contract for this program in Germany this year.

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Poland has become fertile ground for Lockheed sales. The country will be the second site of a land-based ballistic missile defense system created by Lockheed and based off Aegis ballistic missile defense capabilities being built onto U.S. and international cruisers and destroyers. This follows an announcement in May that Romania declared its Aegis Ashore ballistic missile defense site at Deveselu Air Base operational. Poland seems to be next on the list of potential customers for the mobile missile defense system as well. “We have certainly been sharing with them the capability on MEADS,” Hewson said Wednesday. “I think there is an interest there to understand more about what MEADS could bring to them relative to other systems that they’re looking at.” Hewson said the company has seen interest from Turkey and that Italy, as a partner on the program, will explore a purchase “as their budget allows.” She then went on to say she sees as many as 20 countries “that MEADS would be a good capability for.” A2Z MANUFACTURING WEST COAST •

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A pair of Portland-area tech companies are poised to see gains from Apple’s iPhone. After months of speculation, Bloomberg is reporting that Intel will be supplying a portion of modem chips for the upcoming iPhone. Citing unnamed sources, Bloomberg reports that Intel’s chips will be in iPhones built for the U.S. AT&T network.

Secretive Electric Carmaker Gets Green Light To Explore Plant In Bay Area The Vallejo City Council voted unanimously to give electric car startup Future a six-month exclusive negotiating agreement for a 157-acre site on adjacent Mare Island, boosting the North Bay city five years after it emerged from bankruptcy. The site of Faraday’s second assembly plant would be the first new car factory built in California in decades. It would encompass a factory and showroom, which Faraday says it hopes to use in two to three years once its Nevada factory reaches production capacity. Faraday broke ground on its Nevada plant and paid a $200,000 nonrefundable negotiation fee to Vallejo for the right to develop the parcel. “We like the maritime flair, we like the history,” Dag Reckhorn, Faraday’s vice president of manufacturing, said at the meeting, the Los Angeles Times reports. “It will fit very, very nicely into what we want to be.” The San Francisco Business Times, a sister publication of the Sacramento Business Journal, reported on Faraday’s negotiations two weeks ago and Tuesday’s vote was a formalization of that process. “The secretive company, which reportedly has financial ties to China, has vowed to bring an electric car to market within the next two years, taking on market leader Tesla,” the Business Times first reported. “The two-year-old company has produced a concept vehicle and is building a $1 billion, 3 million-square-foot factory in North Las Vegas, where it expects to begin manufacturing its cars. Vallejo would be home to its second production facility.”

Raytheon Awarded $365 Million Aegis Contract Raytheon’s Integrated Defense Systems division has been awarded a $365.8 million fixed-price-incentive, cost-plusfixed-fee U.S. Navy contract. The award covers production of Aegis Weapon System AN/ SPY-1D(V) Radar Transmitter Group, Missile Fire Control System MK 99 equipment, as well as associated engineering services. The contract includes options which would bring the cumulative value to $423 million if exercised. This contract combines purchases under the Foreign Military Sales program, with the U.S. Navy paying 17 percent, South Korea paying 50 percent and Japan paying 33 percent. A2Z MANUFACTURING WEST COAST •

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Past Present And Scout The Future Somewhere around 1978 a good friend and financial wizard sat in my living room and declared, “In the near future the United States will no longer be a manufacturing nation!” He then had the audacity to say, “We will become a service and information economy. In less than 20 years we will be paying

Nearly forty years later we are witness to the dramatic changes in our U.S. manufacturing climate. But I am happy to say only a portion of my friend’s prophecy came true. Yes a tremendous amount of manufacturing went offshore. Large corporations drank the offshoring Kool-Aid and a majority of consumer products remain offshore. This due to global economic and political machinery set in place outside of citizenry control. However, given the outflow of work and jobs, we have managed to keep a viable manufacturing base on our home terra firma. In fact, over the past five to seven years we have seen rather dramatic reshoring successes as work returns to United States soil. Reasons: quality concerns, shipping delays, forensic accounting, and the two big ones – the American Spirit and new technology are keeping us in the game of global competition. Now the immediate challenge is our lack of a skilled workforce. But once again passion for manufacturing, our American Spirit, and innovative technology are keeping us in the game. Scout Systems is now beta testing their revolutionary product for fulfillment later this year. Their hardware and software will drastically reduce training times for new hires, eliminate costly errors, improve productivity, and increase bottom line profits, all in an ultra-affordable package. Be sure to see the Scout System press release in this issue and watch for the Scout System cover article in the next issue of A2Z Manufacturing magazine.

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Clarke is one of 22 engineers and scientists inducted in NIHF who were employed by GE during their career. They are all men, except her and physicist Katherine Blodgett. The list includes Edison; Tesla; Nobel Prize winner Irving Langmuir; Charles Brush, who built the first wind turbine; William Coolidge, who revolutionized the X-ray machine; and Robert Hall and Nick Holonyak, who pioneered LED technology and came close to a Nobel a few years ago.

But even a graduate degree from MIT wasn’t enough to free her from the ranks of women computers “calculating mechanical stresses in high-speed turbine rotors,” Brittain writes. So she left her job in 1921 and traveled to Egypt and Istanbul, where she became a professor of physics at the Istanbul Women’s College. Clarke eventually rejoined GE in 1923, this time as full engineer. The job made her the first woman professionally employed as an electrical engineer in the U.S., according her biography published by NIHF. She also joined the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, where she became the first woman to present a paper and, later, the first woman with full voting rights. The paper, called “Steady-state stability in transmission systemscalculation by means of equivalent circuits or circle diagrams,” apparently held her audience rapt. A2Z MANUFACTURING WEST COAST •

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Walmart is testing its new technology for the next six to nine months as part of its Emerging Sciences andTechnology group, which focuses on drones, virtual reality and other technologies to see how they might help improve its supply chain. The company said drones may have other applications, perhaps even in its stores, but did not give details. The retailer is using 80 supercenters, in addition to its distribution centers, to help fulfill online orders. By speeding up warehouse operations, drones could help address the logistical challenges of

managing inventory in so many places. Walmart operates 190 distribution centers in the United States, and each one services 100 to 150 stores. Millions of items can move through the centers each week and onto a fleet that includes 6,500 trucks and 8,000 drivers to move merchandise throughout the United States. As boxes zipped along at six miles an hour on conveyor belts in the distribution center here, Mr. Natarajan explained that the drones would be one way to make the Walmart supply chain even more efficient. Walmart already reuses the boxes multiple times, and they are printed with a reminder: “Each box cost the company an average of 75 cents.”

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“We’ve had very preliminary talks on payloads for the 2018 mission,” he said. However, he added that, with less than 24 months before the launch window for that mission opens, it was unlikely NASA would have such a payload ready to fly in time. In April, NASA and SpaceX announced they had revised an existing unfunded Space Act Agreement to focus on a planned 2018 Mars lander mission, using a version of the Dragon spacecraft SpaceX is developing to carry crews. Under that agreement, NASA will offer technical support to SpaceX in a number of areas, while SpaceX will provide NASA with data from the entry, descent and landing (EDL) phase of Red Dragon’s mission to support NASA’s planning for future Mars missions of its own.

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In a June interview during the Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference in Broomfield, Colorado, Steve Jurczyk, NASA associate administrator for space technology, said his office has a “wish list” of technology demonstration payloads they would like to fly on Red Dragon or a future SpaceX Mars mission.

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NASA’s science and space technology mission directorates are considering ways to cooperate with SpaceX on its Red Dragon mission, including flying payloads on that Mars lander.

Access to that data remains NASA’s primary interest in Red Dragon. “The SpaceX collaboration really is an EDL demonstration for us,” he said, as the spacecraft demonstrates a concept called supersonic retropropulsion that could enable the landing of spacecraft far heavier than possible with techniques demonstrated on previous missions, including the Mars Science Laboratory. If NASA is able to fly payloads on Red Dragon, Jurczyk said a particular area of interest is in situ resource utilization (ISRU), testing technologies that can extract water, oxygen, or other resources from the Martian surface or atmosphere. NASA already plans to fly an ISRU experiment on the Mars 2020 mission to convert carbon dioxide in the Martian atmosphere into oxygen, but he said NASA is interested in other ISRU studies. “One would be in situ resource utilization using the water in the soil at Mars to generate potable water and hydrogen and oxygen,” he said.Another

experiment would be to create methane, which could be used as rocket fuel. Jurczyk said other technology demonstration payloads could include systems that could generate 10 kilowatts or more of electrical power on the surface. “We’d like to demonstrate some of those systems on the surface in an operational environment,” he said. “Before we send crew, all of this stuff needs to work on the surface.” SpaceX says that Red Dragon is the first in a series of uncrewed missions that the company intends to fly in advance of eventual human Mars missions. Speaking at the Code Conference in California, SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk said he expected SpaceX to send missions to Mars during every launch window, starting in 2018. Those launch windows open every 26 months.

The head of NASA’s planetary science division is also considering potential collaboration with SpaceX on Red Dragon. During a June meeting of the planetary science subcommittee of the NASA Advisory Council, Jim Green heaped praise on SpaceX’s plans, calling them “tremendously exciting.” Green said his division is part of the NASA team supporting Red Dragon, including participating in a couple of meetings to date. “I’m very interested in that from several aspects,” he said of Red Dragon. That cooperation includes, at a minimum, coordinating the launch of Red Dragon with NASA’s next Mars lander, Insight, which is also scheduled for launch in the spring of 2018. Both spacecraft will require access to the Deep Space Network, particularly during the critical landing phase of each mission.

Jurcyzk said that opened the possibility of flying technology demonstration payloads on later SpaceX missions, assuming Red Dragon does launch in 2018 as planned. “They plan on going every 26 months, so we’ll probably in the not-too-distant future engage them on more serious talks for 2020,” he said.

While Green didn’t elaborate on any additional prospects for cooperation on Red Dragon, he endorsed potential cooperation with commercial ventures in general, including those planning commercial lunar landers, for flying science payloads.

“If they go in 2018, it’s really going to be an EDL demo for us. We won’t have any payloads available,” he said. “But 2020 there’s a possibility.”

“We do plan to stay plugged in to those, watch them carefully and, at the right time, enter into the appropriate partnerships,” he said. A2Z MANUFACTURING WEST COAST •

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ViaSat Accelerates Investment In Viasat-3 Terabit-Per-Second Spacecraft Satellite broadband hardware and service provider ViaSat Inc. said it would accelerate investment in its terabit-per-second-throughput ViaSat 3 satellite program and continue to invest in licenses for its airlineconnectivity business. The company also posted strong growth in its U.S. Defense Department business, both in mobile broadband and tactical radio provision, despite the fact that ViaSat is not reliant on the U.S. military’s “programs of record,” meaning programs given formal development status in the military budget. ViaSat’s message is that, commercial or military, customers want the broadband spigot to be turned to maximum bandwidth. In a conference call with investors, ViaSat Chief Executive Mark D. Dankberg dispelled any doubtsViaSat’s about the company’s commitment to ViaSat-3, which for now is a two-satellite, billion-dollar-plus program. In what is perhaps a lingering consequence of its previous struggle with a satellite builder over intellectual property rights,ViaSat is building the two ViaSat-3 satellites’ payloads. Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems of El Segundo, California, is building the satellite skeletal structures. “Growing market interest in our technology is motivating us to invest to get this productivity gains and geographic coverage of ViaSat-3 class A2Z MANUFACTURING WEST COAST •

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satellites as fast as we reasonably can,” Dankberg said. To fund payload development, ViaSat is increasing its R&D spending in fiscal-year 2017, which began last April 1, by 50 percent, to around $115 million. That follows a year when R&D increased 65 percent. The company said the investment would be a drag on profit in fiscal-year 2017, which is why ViaSat stock suffered in May 25 trading on the U.S. Nasdaq exchange. ViaSat also announced it had secured a 60 percent increase, to $800 million, in an existing revolving loan to fund ViaSat-3. R&D investment in commercial airline connectivity The company added 30 new commercial aircraft to the fleet of planes equipped with ViaSat’s airborne connectivity service, bringing the total to 476 as of March 31. When military and business-aviation planes are added, the total ViaSatequipped fleet is more than 1,000 planes, Dankberg said. ViaSat is in an intense competition with at least four other companies trying to line up airline commitments to their on-board WiFi service. For many airlines, only a global system will do, which is why ViaSat needs to expand from its current focus over the Americas. ViaSat already offers a near-global network using its own Ka-band satellites over the Americas and leased Ku-band capacity elsewhere.The company on May 24 announced a contract with business-jet builder Dassault Aviation to use this Ku-band network for the new Falcon 8X. U.S. consumer broadband subs, ARPU grow despite capacity crunch

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FAB-LINE M ACHINERY, LLC Robert Herling West Coast Regional

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Exclusive provider of OKUMA

Michael Garver Sales Manager

GOSIGER NORTHWEST 21911 68TH Ave South Kent, WA 98032 T 253.826.3921 C 253.508.4771 E michael.garver@gosiger.com www.gosiger.com

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TECHNOLOGIES

President West Division

A DIVISION OF HYDROMAT INC

James Peterson

Regional Service Technician

www.edgetechnologies.com jpeterson@edgetechnologies.com

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

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Dot Peen Marking Systems

480-922-1674

www.kwikmark.com Phone 815 363 8268 Fax 815 363 8089 info@kwikmark.com

Kwik Mark Inc 4071 Albany Street McHenry IL 60050

CNC Machine Services _____ 206-999-3232 Current EDM, Inc. ________612-840-0037 Methods Machine Tools Inc. __ 714-292-9384 EDM Service EDM Network _________ 480-836-1782 ONA EDM USA _______ 602-328-0881 EDM Tooling Systems Desert EDM __________ 480-816-6300 EDM Network _________ 480-836-1782 Global EDM Supply ______ 800-676-7336 Equipment Financing

Pacific Continental Bank ___ 503-310-3604 Scottrade Bank Equip. Finance_ 206-948-0022 U.S. Bank Equipment _____ 800-810-0038 Gantry & Bridge Systems Ellison Technologies ______ 206-669-3578 CNC Machine Services _____ 206-999-3232 Horizontal Boring & Milling Machines (CNC ) CNC Machine Services _____ 206-999-3232 Rosco Precision Machinery __ 253-333-2439 Jig Boring Methods Machine Tools Inc. __ 714-292-9384 Lathes Bixby Machine Tool Supply __ 509-534-1208 CNC Machine Services _____ 206-999-3232 Desert EDM ___________480-816-6300

King Machine Inc. ________509-435-6741 Rosco Precision Machinery __ 253-333-2439 Summit Machine Tool _____800-654-3262 Manual Mills And Lathes Ganesh Machinery ______ 888-542-6374 Machine Toolworks ______ 800-426-2052 North Western Machinery ___ 206-583-2333 Sharp Machine Tool ______ 310-944-8016 Summit Machine Tool _____800-654-3262 Swift Tool Co, Inc. ______ 800-562-0900 Parts Washing Gosiger ____________ 937-586-5067 Sawing Machines Bixby Machine Tool Supply __509-534-1208 CNC Machine Services _____ 206-999-3232 Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. __ 503-620-9031 North-South Machinery ____ 253-333-2439 North Western Machinery ___ 206-583-2333 Performance Machine Tools__ 510-249-1000 Rocky Mountain Saw Blades _ 303-761-3000 Rosco Precision Machinery __ 206-818-6813 Saw Replacement Parts CNC Machine Services _____ 206-999-3232 Rocky Mountain Saw Blades _ 303-761-3000 SawBlade.com________ 800--240-2932 Saws Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. __ 503-620-9031 King Machine Inc. _______ 509-435-6741 Sub Spindle Lathes Rosco Precision Machinery __ 253-333-2439 Turning Centers CNC-PROS ___________ 602-344-9753 Used Wire EDM Machines Current EDM, Inc. _______ 612-840-0037

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Desert EDM __________ 480-816-6300 EDM Network _________ 480-836-1782 MATERIAL Aluminum Bralco _____________ 602-722-3324 DIX Metals ___________ 714-677-0788 Fry Steel ____________ 800-423-6651 Gorilla Metals Inc. _______ 855-516-3825 Industrial Metal Supply Co. __ 818-729-3333 Ryerson Corporation _____ 425-204-2601 Sunshine Metals ________ 760-579-8327 Aluminum Extrusions Aluminum Precision ______805-889-7569 Bralco _____________ 602-722-3324 Armor:Commercial Kloeckner Metals _______480-389-2883 Service Steel __________503-224-9500 Armor: Military Grade Kloeckner Metals _______480-389-2883 Service Steel __________503-224-9500 Brass Bralco _____________ 602-722-3324 Coastal Metals _________ 800-811-7466 Fry Steel ____________ 800-423-6651 Gorilla Metals Inc. _______ 855-516-3825 Industrial Metal Supply Co. __ 818-729-3333 Ryerson Corporation _____ 425-204-2601 Sequoia Brass & Copper ___800-362-5255 Bronze Coastal Metals _________ 800-811-7466 Sequoia Brass & Copper ___800-362-5255 Carbon Steel Bralco _____________ 602-722-3324 Coastal Metals _________ 800-811-7466

Fry Steel ____________800-423-6651 Laser Cutting Services, Inc __ 503-612-8311 Ryerson Corporation _____425-204-2601 Cobalt Alloys Aerodyne Alloys ________800-337-3766 United Performance Metals _888-282-3292 Copper Bralco ____________ 602-722-3324 Gorilla Metals Inc. _______855-516-3825 Industrial Metal Supply Co. __818-729-3333 Ryerson Corporation _____425-204-2601 Sequoia Brass & Copper __ 800-362-5255 Drill Rod AZ Tool Steel_________ 877-795-1600 Electrical Steels Fry Steel ____________800-423-6651 High Temperature Alloys United Performance Metals _888-282-3292 Laser Cut Material Laser Cutting Services, Inc __ 503-612-8311 Lead Industrial Metal Supply Co. __818-729-3333 Machine Ready Blanks DIX Metals ___________714-677-0788 Material Sales Coastal Metals _________800-811-7466 DIX Metals ___________714-677-0788 Fry Steel ____________800-423-6651 Kloeckner Metals ______ 480-389-2883 Laser Cutting Services, Inc __ 503-612-8311 Sunshine Metals________760-579-8327 United Performance Metals _888-282-3292 Metals: Bar & Plate Fry Steel ____________ 800-423-665

Delivering Alloy Solutions Worldwide Patty Negoro (800)337-3766 ext. 148 pnegoro@aerodynealloys.com www.aerodynealloys.com

Ben Gowers Account Manager

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Marc Perry JOSH PERRY

Capabilities:

Phone: (360)366-5239 Email: solutions@perrypallet.com Web: www.PerryPallet.com

8300 SAN FERNANDO ROAD SUN VALLEY, CA 91352

Sales Manager

 Serve your pallet, crate & lumber needs  Heat-Treat (HT) for export shipment

MONDAY - FRIDAY 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM SATURDAY 8:00 AM to 2:00 PM

Ben.Gowers@delcam.com

11:48:58 AM

PHONE (818) 729-3333 FAX (818) 729-3377 SUNVALLEY@IMSMETALS.COM WWW.INDUSTRIALMETALSUPPLY.COM

Tool Company Inc.

8300 SAN FERNANDO ROAD SUN VALLEY, CA 91352 121 Perry St. • Saginaw, MI 48602 MONDAY - FRIDAY 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM SATURDAY 8:00 AM to 2:00 PM

http://www.fullertontool.com PHONE (818) 729-3333 FAX (818) 729-3377 E-Mail: jbridgett@fullertontool.com SUNVALLEY@IMSMETALS.COM

Jeff Bridgett

For No. CA, OR, and WA publication Northwest Edition

Tel: 989-799-4550 800-248-8315 Fax: 989-792-3335 Cell: 303-478-3497

WWW.INDUSTRIALMETALSUPPLY.COM

Regional Sales Manager

Ryerson Corporation _____ 425-204-2601 United Performance Metals __888-282-3292 8300 SAN FERNANDO ROAD 8300 SAN FERNANDO ROAD SUN VALLEY, CA 91352 SUN VALLEY, CA 91352 Titanium Rod, Bar, & Wire Delivering Alloy Solutions Worldwide Aerodyne Alloys ________ 800-337-3766 Bill Voden (800)337‐3766 ext. 152 bvoden@aerodynealloys.com Bralco _____________ 602-722-3324 www.aerodynealloys.com Tool Steel AZ Tool Steel__________ 877-795-1600 Cold Saws/Saws Ryerson Corporation _____ 425-204-2601 DIX Metals ___________ 714-677-0788 Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. __ _503-620-9031 Sequoia Brass & Copper ___ 800-362-5255 Industrial Metal Supply Co. __ 818-729-3333 8300 SAN FERNANDO ROAD 8300 SAN FERNANDO ROAD Hydmech Sawing Solutions ___ 714-620-5560 Sunshine Metals ________ 760-579-8327 SUN VALLEY, CA 91352 SUN VALLEY, CA 91352 CNC MASTERCAM TRAINING Hardware Insertion United Performance Metals _ _888-282-3292 Streamingteacher.com Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. ___ 503-620-9031 Nickel Alloys METROLOGY PRODUCTS Iron Workers Aerodyne Alloys ________ 800-337-3766 Rosco Precision Machinery __ 253-333-2439 Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. ___ 503-620-9031 Fry Steel____________ 800-423-6651 NEW MACHINERY Marzee Inc. __________ 602-269-5801 Icon Machine Tool, Inc. _____306-434-8844 FABRICATION United Performance Metals _ _888-282-3292 Jorgensen Machine Tools ____ 800-952-0151 8300 SAN FERNANDO ROAD 8300 SAN FERNANDO ROAD Bixby Machine Tool Supply __ 509-534-1208 SUN VALLEY, CA 91352 SUN VALLEY, CA 91352 Plate: Wear and Structural Laser Cutting Machines Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. __ 503-620-9031 Kloeckner Metals _______ 480-389-2883 Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. ___ 503-620-9031 Ryerson Corporation _____ 425-204-2601 Gladwin Machinery ______ 360-448-0951 Gladwin Machinery _______ 360-448-0951 United Performance Metals _ _888-282-3292 Icon Machine Tool, Inc. ____ 306-434-8844 Icon Machine Tool, Inc. _____306-434-8844 Jorgensen Machine Tools ___ 800-952-0151 North-South Machinery _____ 253-333-2439 Precision Ground Flat AZ Tool Steel__________ 877-795-1600 North-South Machinery ____ 253-333-2439 Magnetic Drills/Cutters Band & Cut Off Saws DIX Metals ___________ 714-677-0788 Innovative Tool Sales ______714-780-0730 Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. __ 503-620-9031 Material Handling Systems Sheet & Coil Ryerson Corporation _____ 425-204-2601 Hydmech Sawing Solutions __ 714-620-5560 Hydmech Sawing Solutions ___ 714-620-5560 Icon Machine Tool, Inc. WA __ 306-434-8844 Stainless Steel & Steel Metal Marking Systems Aerodyne Alloys ________ 800-337-3766 Icon Machine Tool, Inc. OR __ 503-887-1003 Kwik Mark Inc__________ 815-363-8268 AZ Tool Steel__________ 877-795-1600 Innovative Tool Sales _____ 714-780-0730 Swift Tool Co, Inc. _______ 800-562-0900 Bralco _____________ 602-722-3324 North-South Machinery ____ 253-333-2439 Notchers DIX Metals ___________ 714-677-0788 North Western Machinery ___ 206-583-2333 Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. ___ 503-620-9031 Fry Steel _____________800-423-665 Rosco Precision Machinery __ 253-333-2439 Plasma/Gas Cutting Tools/Systems CNC Turret Punches Fab - Line Machinery ______ 206-972-6215 Gorilla Metals Inc. _______ 855-516-3825 Muratec ____________ 949-466-8255 Rosco Precision Machinery ___253-333-2439 Industrial Metal Supply Co. __ 818-729-3333 Drill Lines Plate Bending & Rolls Kloeckner Metals _______ 480-389-2883 Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. ___ 503-620-9031 Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. __ 503-620-9031 Laser Cutting Services, Inc ___503-612-8311 O’Neal High-Performance Metals

Nickel Cobalt Titanium Stainless C

MONDAY - FRIDAY 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM SATURDAY 8:00 AM to 2:00 PM

PHONE (818) 729-3333 FAX (818) 729-3377 SUNVALLEY@IMSMETALS.COM WWW.INDUSTRIALMETALSUPPLY.COM

MONDAY - FRIDAY 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM SATURDAY 8:00 AM to 2:00 PM

PHONE (818) 729-3333 FAX (818) 729-3377 SUNVALLEY@IMSMETALS.COM WWW.INDUSTRIALMETALSUPPLY.COM

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PHONE (818) 729-3333 FAX (818) 729-3377 SUNVALLEY@IMSMETALS.COM WWW.INDUSTRIALMETALSUPPLY.COM

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Don Klein - Vice President 415.491.4456 direct 415.902.5302 cellular donald.klein@usbank.com

Jorgensen Machine Tools ___ 800-952-0151 Power Tools Icon Machine Tool, Inc. WA __ 306-434-8844 Icon Machine Tool, Inc. OR __ 503-887-1003 MP Industrial _________800-759-4282

PHONE (818) 729-3333 FAX (818) 729-3377 SUNVALLEY@IMSMETALS.COM WWW.INDUSTRIALMETALSUPPLY.COM

Presses Bixby Machine Tool Supply __509-534-1208 Press Brakes Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. __ 503-620-9031 Fab - Line Machinery _____ 206-972-6215 Gladwin Machinery ______ 360-448-0951 Icon Machine Tool, Inc. WA __ 306-434-8844 Icon Machine Tool, Inc. OR __ 503-887-1003 North-South Machinery ____ 253-333-2439 Punches Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. __ 503-620-903 Gladwin Machinery ______ 360-448-0951 Icon Machine Tool, Inc. WA __ 306-434-8844 Icon Machine Tool, Inc. OR __ 503-887-1003 Rolling Machines Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. __ 503-620-9031 Shearing Machines Fab - Line Machinery _____ 206-972-6215 Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. __ 503-620-9031 North-South Machinery ____ 253-333-2439 Sign & Graphic Cutting Solutions Tooling

PHONE (818) 729-3333 FAX (818) 729-3377 SUNVALLEY@IMSMETALS.COM WWW.INDUSTRIALMETALSUPPLY.COM

Stacy Bohms - Relationship Manager 503.603.2745 direct stacy.bohms@usbank.com

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Global Leader in Garnet Abrasives

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Bar Feeder Repair Edge Technologies ______ 562-243-4659 ROBOTICS Ellison Technologies ______ 206-669-3578 LMI Machinery Inc. ______ 866-437-7315 Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. __ 503-620-9031 Robotic Part Loading Systems Welding Equipment Midaco Corporation ______ 847-593-8420 Rocky Mountain Saw Blades _ 303-761-3000 ROUTERS Rosco Precision Machinery __ 253-333-2439 PALLET SYSTEMS Manual & Automatic SAFETY Pallet Systems Fire Protection Systems Midaco Corporation ______847-593-8420 Rotarex North America ____ 480-689-8756 Manual Lift Off Pallet Systems SAWS

Andy Wells Regional Sales Manager

Sherpa Design, Inc.6700 N New York Ave / Ste 231 Portland Oregon 97203 www.sherpa-design.com

B A R T O N I NTERNATIONAL sales: 800.741.7756 cell: 253.988.5934 email: awells@barton.com web: barton.com

Owner & Founder

info@sherpa-design.com

503-771-3570 ext. 105 503-771-3575 Fax

SOFTWARE CAD CAM Machining Applied CAx ___________ 503-962-0287 Cimatron _______ 248-596-9700 ext. 237 Delcam _____________ 877-335-2261 Solid Products __________480-206-0330

Gladhill Associates_______ 719-239-9830 Mechanical Design Sustaining Edge Solutions___ 888-572-9642 Cimatron _______ 248-596-9700 ext. 237 Productivity Training Delcam _____________ 877-335-2261 Scout Systems _________253-329-2460

Band & Cut-Off Saws Midaco Corporation _____ 847-593-8420 Manual Rotory Pallet Systems Swift Tool Co, Inc. _______800-562-0900 Sherpa Design_ ________ 503-771-3570 Post-Processor Software Midaco Corporation _____ 847-593-8420 SERVICES Sherpa Design_ ________ 503-771-3570 Shipping Solutions AS9100 Registration Perry Pallet Co. _______ 360-366-5239 SPINDLES & SLIDES Great Western Registrar _____623-580-1881 Wood Pallets Spindle Rebuilding/Repair Business Appraisal Perry Pallet Co. _______ 360-366-5239 Exit Strategies Group _____ 707-292-2750 C & M Precision Spindle, Inc._ _ 503-691-0955 PRECISION TOOLHOLDGMN USA LLC_ _________ 800-686-1679 ING Custom Packaging/Shipping Setco ______________ 714-222-6523 PRODUCTS Supplies Tooling Alliance Packaging ______ 206-445-5898Spindle Sales New Von Ruden Manufacturing, Inc. 763-682--3122 Engineering/Mechanical Design C & M Precision Spindle, Inc._ _ 503-691-0955 Tooling Systems Sherpa Design_ ________503-771-3570 GMN USA LLC_ _________ 800-686-1679 Von Ruden Manufacturing, Inc. 763-682--3122 Facility Expansion/ Setco ______________ 714-222-6523 PRODUCTIVITY New Construction Productivity Tools and Systems TOOLING SYSTEMS Campbell Corp_________800-997-9996 Scout Systems _________253-329-2460 MP Industrial __________800-759-4282 Financial Services PROG. SYSTEMS Intech Funding ________ 800-553-9208 TRAINING Factory Automation/Logistics Six Sigma Training Quick Turn Financial ______415-608-5692 North-South Machinery _____253-333-2439 U.S. Bank Equipment _____ 206-948-0022 Sustaining Edge Solutions____888-572-9642 CAD/CAM Software, CAD ISO Consulting/Registration Applied CAx __________ 503-962-0287 Gladhill Associates________ 719-239-9830 Machine Tool Rebuilding Automatics & Machinery Co.__303-990-6190 EDM Network _________ 480-836-1782 Great Western Registrar _____ 623-580-1881 Delcam Software _______ 877-DELCAM1 Lean Consulting Training MRP Software Management Systems Training SigmaTEK ___________ 513-595-2022 BMSC______________ 602-445-9400 Campbell Corp_________ 800-997-9996 Nesting Software Gladhill Associates_______ 719-239-9830 SigmaNEST __________ 513-595-2022 Sustaining Edge Solutions___ 888-572-9642

Pat Barrett

USED MACHINERY EDM Network __________480-836-1782 Jorgensen Machine Tools ____800-952-0151 K.D. Capital Equipt _______480-922-1674 North Western Machinery ____206-583-2333 Performance Machine Tools __ 510-760-9518 Resell CNC ____________ 844-478-8181 WATERJET CUTTING Fahey Machinery Co., Inc.____503-620-9031 Flow International ________909-620-5707 King Machine Inc. ________509-435-6741 Machine Toolworks _______800-426-2052

Waterjet & Blast Abrasives, Garnetentury Barton International _____ 800-741-7756 GMA Garnet Group ______ 832-243-9300 Waterjet Bricks Barton International ______800-741-7756 GMA Garnet Group _______832-243-9300 Waterjet Hoppers Barton International ______800-741-7756 GMA Garnet Group _______832-243-9300

Waterjet Replacement Parts Barton International ______800-741-7756 Gladhill Associates________ 719-239-9830 dtiEXACT _____________360-866-1337 Lambie Engineering_______ 509-868-3100 EDM Performance _______ 800-336-2946 Lean Engineering GMA Garnet Group ______ 832-243-9300 Campbell Corp_________ 800-997-9996 WOOD PRODUCTS ISO / AS9100 Certification

Software, Solid Modeling Supply Chain Assessments Delcam Software _______ 877-DELCAM1 Gladhill Associates_______ 719-239-9830 PROTOTYPE MACHINERY Sustaining Edge Solutions___ 888-572-9642 Perry Pallet Co. ________360-366-5239 Santa Cruz Electronics _____ 831-479-5444 BMSC______________ 602-445-9400 REPAIR

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CELL: 360.202.7342 jefft@machinistsinc.com

P.O. Box 80505

800.244.4130

7600 5th Ave. S. • Seattle. WA 98108

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206.763.0990

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The Manufacturer’s Secret Weapon

Thermal-Vac Technology______714-997-2601 Brazing: Vacuum Thermal-Vac Technology______714-997-2601 BROACHING Evans Precision _________ 623-582-4776 Ponderosa Ind ___ _______303-298-1801

Bar & Plate Cutting Specialty Steel Services _____801-539-8252 AZ Tool Steel ___________877-795-1600 3D Printing Proto & Production Aeroform, Inc. __________ 360-403-1919 NW Rapid Mfg. _________ 503-434-8557 Industrial Precision Grinding __ 310-352-4700 CABLE ASSEMBLIES Speciality Bending Ultimate 3D ___________503-848-8227 Albina Co., Inc. ________ 866-252-4628 Cascade Systems Technology __971-330-8054 SW Waterjet & Laser_______480-306-7748 3D TOOLS

Bending Solutions, Inc. _____360-651-2443

3D Scanning

Bending Solutions, Inc. ____ 360-651-2443

NW Rapid Mfg. _________ 503-434-8557 Ultimate 3D ___________503-848-8227 SLS (Selctive Laser Sintering) Ultimate 3D ___________503-848-8227 ASSEMBLIES Cascade Systems Technology __971-330-8054 Columbia Manufacturing Svcs. _360-735-3763

Structrual Bending Albina Co., Inc. ________ 866-252-4628 Tube and Pipe Bending Albina Co., Inc. ________ 866-252-4628 BRAZING dtiEXACT _____________360-866-1337

CASTING

DIE CASTING

AATC ___________ 866-792-2814 X 235 SMH Inc LLC ___________360-341-2226 Investment Casting-Precision

TVT Die Casting _________800-280-2278

AATC ___________ 866-792-2814 X 235

DIES

Dolphin Investment Castings __ 602-272-6747

Tool & Dies

CHEMICAL ETCHING

Micropulse West Inc._______480-966-2300

PMA Photometals ________480-773-3239 Plastic Injection Molding_____509-531-2634 Clings Aerospace_________480-968-1778 DEBURRING CUSTOM CREFORM ASSY. Precision Casting Repair _____801-972-2345 BENDING Industrial Precision Grinding _ 310-352-4700 Thermal-Vac Technology______714-997-2601 PlaSteel _____________480-491-8100 Mandrel EDGING Brazing: Dip CUTTING Albina Co., Inc. _________866-252-4628 Evans Precision _________623-582-4776

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Lambie Engineering ______ 509-868-3100 FABRICATION Architectural Forming & Fabrication Albina Co., Inc. ________ 866-252-4628 United Performance Metals ___888-282-3292

Fabrication: Sheet Metal

EDM

AEI Fabrication ________ 480-733-6594

EDM: Dialectric Systems

Aeroform, Inc. __________360-403-1919

/Filtration

Aero Tech MFG_________ 801-891-2740

Ebbco Inc ____________ 586-716-5151 CLS Fabrication Inc ______ 800-426-0721 EDM: Drilling Small Hole

Cygnet Stamping & Fab _____818-240-7574

Wrico ______________ 480-892-7800 Coating Technologies _____ 623-581-2648 Forming & Fabrication

Gold Tech Industries ______ 480-968-1930

Albina Co., Inc. _________ 866-252-4628 Real Axis Machining ______ 360-723-5386

Bending Solutions, Inc. _____ 360-651-2443

Galvanizing: Hot Dip

Precision Sheet Metal Fabrication: TMM Precision ________ 800-448-9448

Medium & Large Layke Inc. ____________602-272-2654 Gillaspie MFG _________ 360-921-3973 AEI Fabrication _________ 480-733-6594 EDM: Ram-Type (Sinking) NW Metalcraft Industries ___ 888-280-7080 Aeroform, Inc. __________ 360-403-1919 Micropulse West, Inc. _____ 480-966-2300 Mountain View Machine____ 435-755-0500 CLS Fabrication Inc _______ 800-426-0721 Milco Wire EDM,, Inc. ______714-373-0098 QUAL-FAB, Inc. __________206-762-2117 Columbia Manufacturing Svcs. _ 360-735-3763 Stevens Tool & Die ________503-682-3185 Rickard Engineering _____ 866-845-8838 Gillaspie MFG __________ 360-921-3973 SMH Inc LLC __________ 360-341-2226 EDM: Wire Group Mfg Serv _________ 480-966-3952 Clings Aerospace_________480-968-1778 Valley Machine Shop, Inc. ___ 425-207-5951 Industrial Machine Svcs _____ 503-240-0878 Evans Precision _________623-582-4776 Weiser Engineering ______ 303-280-2778 NW Metalcraft Industries ____ 888-280-7080 Micropulse West, Inc. _____ 480-966-2300 Fabrication: Custom Metal QUAL-FAB, Inc. ___________206-762-2117 Milco Wire EDM,, Inc. ______714-373-0098 AEI Fabrication ________ 480-733-6594 SMH Inc LLC ___________ 360-341-2226

Glass Bead Clean Byington Steel Treating, Inc.__ 408-727-6630 Coating Technologies _____ 623-581-2648 Gold Tech Industries ______ 480-968-1930 Liquid Painting Aero Tech MFG_________ 801-891-2740 MPI International _______ 956-631-6880 Passivation Coating Technologies ____ _623-581-2648

Gold Tech Industries ______ 480-968-1930 Micropulse West, Inc. _____ 480-966-2300 Cygnet Stamping & Fab _____818-240-7574 Solid Form Fabrication _____ 503-435-1400 Polishing Plastic Injection Molding_____509-531-2634 Group Mfg Serv ________ 480-966-3952 Weiser Engineering _______ 303-280-2778 Arizona Hard Chrome _____ 602-278-8671 Stevens Tool & Die ________503-682-3185 Industrial Machine Svcs ____ 503-240-0878 Powder Coating Tube & Pipe Bending Fabrication NW Metalcraft Industries ___ 888-280-7080 ELECTRO MECHANICAL Albina Co., Inc. _________ 866-252-4628 Aero Tech MFG_________ 801-891-2740 PlaSteel ____________ 480-491-8100 Sub-Assembly Builds Bending Solutions, Inc. _____ 360-651-2443 CLS Fabrication Inc ______ 800-426-0721 Cascade Systems Technology __503-640-5733 QUAL-FAB, Inc. __________206-762-2117 Sandblasting SMH Inc LLC __________ 360-341-2226 FINISHING ENGINEERING/DESIGN Byington Steel Treating, Inc.__ 408-727-6630 Cascade Systems Technology __503-640-5733 Valley Machine Shop, Inc. ___ 425-207-5951 Arizona Finishing ________ 602-438-4443 Silk Screening Hexatron Engineering ______801-363-8010 Weiser Engineering ______ 303-280-2778 Arizona Hard Chrome ______ 602-278-8671

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www.tfcplating.com

Shawn Carlin scarlin@gmsaz.com

503-771-0969

Employee Owned

ISO9001:2008

Joe Tripi

    

Abrasives/Superabrasives Cutting Tools Indexable Tooling Precision Measuring Tools Workholding

1237 S. Shamrock Ave Monrovia, CA 91016 Ph: (626) 303-5680 Fax: (626) 303-1752 sales@mescousa.com

Providing metal working solutions since 1990!

Arizona Finishing _______ 602-438-4443

cascade systems technology

Electronics Contract Manufacturing

www.cascadesystems.net

Steve Daniel

President jtripi@micropulsewest.com 444 W. 21st Street / Suite 101 / Tempe, AZ 85282 (480) 966-2300 / Fax (480) 966-2323

info@tfcplating.com

Director of Business Development

bourdelaisgrinding@yahoo.com

Cell: 971.330.8054 sdaniel@cascadesystems.net 23176 NW Bennett St. Hillsboro, OR 97124

ISO 13485:2003 Certified ISO 9001:2008 Cer tified UL-796 Certified ITAR Registered

AZ Tool Steel __________ 877-795-1600 Bourdelais Grinding Co., Inc. _ 805-583-9966

Heat Treating/Aerospace

Bourdelais Grinding Co., Inc. _ 805-583-9966 ChemResearch__________602-253-4175

Byington Steel Treating______408-727-6630

Diversified Metal Services ___ 801-972-6093 Industrial Precision Grinding __310-352-4700

Phoenix Heat Treating_______602-258-7751

Evans Precision ________ 623-582-4776

Thermal-Vac Technology______714-997-2601

Industrial Precision Grinding _ 310-352-4700 Superior Grinding ________801-487-9700

Large Capacity Drop Bottom

Sun Grinding _________ 602-238-9595 TCI Precision Metals _______800-234-5613

Oven/Aluminum

Superior Grinding _______ 801-487-9700

Grinding: Tool & Cutter

Byington Steel Treating______408-727-6630

TCI Precision Metals ______ 800-234-5613 Superior Grinding_________888-487-9701 MET-TEK Heat Treating_______503-519-9864

FIXTURING Real Axis Machining ______ 360-723-5386

Grinding, Centerless

GASKETS

Bourdelais Grinding Co., Inc. _ 805-583-9966 3-D Plastics, Inc. ________ 503-720-0572 Ron Grob Co __________ 970-667-5320 GRINDING

Sun Grinding _________ 602-238-9595

AZ Tool Steel __________ 877-795-1600

Grinding, Double Disc

Swift Tool Co, Inc. _______ 800-562-0900 GUN DRILLING Evans Precision _________623-582-4776 HEAT TREATING

Byington Steel Treating______408-727-6630 Bourdelais Grinding Co., Inc. _ 805-583-9966 Bourdelais Grinding Co., Inc. _ 805-583-9966 Columbia Manufacturing Svcs. _360-735-3763 ChemResearch__________602-253-4175 Industrial Precision Grinding _ 310-352-4700 Controlled Thermal Tech______602-272-3714 Sun Grinding _________ 602-238-9595 Evans Precision _________623-582-4776 Evans Precision _________623-582-4776 TCI Precision Metals ______ 800-234-5613 Industrial Machine Svcs ____ 503-240-0878 MET-TEK Heat Treating______503-519-9864 Grinding: OD Industrial Precision Grinding _ 310-352-4700 Phoenix Heat Treating_______602-258-7751 MESCO _____________ 626-303-5680 Arizona Hard Chrome _____ 602-278-8671 Thermal-Vac Technology______714-997-2601 Mountain View Machine____ 435-755-0500 Bourdelais Grinding Co., Inc. _ 805-583-9966 Cryogenics Ron Grob Co __________ 970-667-5320 Precision Tech _________ 801-285-7288 Sun Grinding _________ 602-238-9595 Ron Grob Co __________ 970-667-5320 Phoenix Heat Treating______602-258-7751 Heat Treating/ISO/AS9100 Superior Grinding _______ 801-487-9700 Sun Grinding _________ 602-238-9595

HONING MESCO ______________626-303-5680 Valley Machine Shop, Inc. ____ 425-207-5951 HYDRAULIC REPAIR Arizona Hard Chrome ______ 602-278-8671 INJECTION MOLDS Plastic Injection Molding_____509-531-2634 INJECTION MOLDING Plastic Injection Molding_____509-531-2634 LASER CUTTING CLS Fabrication Inc _______ 800-426-0721

dtiEXACT _____________ 360-866-1337 SW Waterjet & Laser_______480-306-7748 United Performance Metals ___888-282-3292

Weiser Engineering _______303-280-2778 Byington Steel Treating______408-727-6630 Wrico ______________480-892-7800 TCI Precision Metals _______800-234-5613 Superior Grinding _______ 801-487-9700 Phoenix Heat Treating_______602-258-7751 Laser Cutting: 3D Grinding, Blanchard Grinding: Surface Thermal-Vac Technology______714-997-2601 SW Waterjet & Laser_______480-306-7748

Shelly Conti Shelly@alphapre.com A2Z MANUFACTURING WEST COAST

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SCOTT FERGUSON

Marketing & Sales Manager

AEIFABRICATION RONKOTLOFF Founder / CEO

LEVELING United Performance Metals ___888-282-3292 MACHINING Al Hirth Machining, Inc. _____ 661-294-0644 Alpha Precision Machining, Inc. _ 253-395-7381 Bar-S Machine, Inc. _______ 928-636-2115

TEL FAX EMAIL WEB MAIL

480.733.6594 480.733.6596 Ron@AEIFab.com www.AEIFab.com 1113 W. Birchwood Avenue Mesa, Arizona 85210

Machining: 5-Axis Cascade Engineering Tech ___503-266-1300 Central Valley Machine _____435-752-0934 Accutech Machine Inc ______ 801-975-1117 Clings Aerospace_________ 480-968-1778 Cascade Engineering Tech ___503-266-1300 Faustson _____________ 303-420-7422 Clings Aerospace_________480-968-1778 Grovtec US, Inc. _________503-557-4689 Columbia Manufacturing Svcs. _360-735-3763 Howard Precision Machine ___ 801-619-9850 Machinists Inc. __________360-202-7342 Larkin Precision Machine ____831-438-2700 Strom Manufacturing ______ 503-447-1021 Machinists Inc. __________360-202-7342 Treske Precision Machining ___ 503-625-2821 MESCO ______________ 626-303-5680 Western Precision Products, Inc. _503-786-8923 NW Metalcraft Industries ____888-280-7080 Machining: Aerospace PlaSteel _____________ 480-491-8100 Portland Precision Manufacturing 503-253-6700 Al Hirth Machining, Inc. _____661-294-0644 Real Axis Machining _______360-723-5386 Alpha Precision Machining, Inc. _ 253-395-7381 Ron Grob Co ___________970-667-5320 Bar-S Machine, Inc. _______ 928-636-2115

scottf@treske.com (503) 625.2821

TRESKE.COM ISO 9001:2008 | AS9100C (2013) | ITAR

Teton Machine ________ 208-642-9344 Treske Precision Machining ___503-625-2821 Treske Precision Machining __ 503-625-2821 TVT Die Casting ________ 800-280-2278 Western Precision Products, Inc. 503-786-8923 Western Precision Products, Inc. 503-786-8923 Machining: CNC Milling Machining: Horizontal Boring Al Hirth Machining, Inc. ____ 661-294-0644 Machinists Inc. _________ 360-202-7342 Accutech Machine Inc ______ 801-975-1117 Machining: Proto-R & D Alpha Precision Machining, Inc. _253-395-7381 Al Hirth Machining, Inc. _ 661-294-0644 Alpha Bar-S Machine, Inc. __ _____928-636-2115

Precision Machining, Inc. ___ 253-395-7381 Cascade Engineering Tech __ 503-266-1300 Bar-S Machine, Inc. _______928-636-2115 Central Valley Machine ____ 435-752-0934 Cascade Engineering Tech __ 503-266-1300 Clings Aerospace________ 480-968-1778 Central Valley Machine ____ 435-752-0934 Columbia Manufacturing Svcs. 360-735-3763 Flex-Pro Manufacturing.____ 623-277-8031 dtiEXACT ____________ 360-866-1337

SMH Inc LLC ___________ 360-341-2226 dtiEXACT _____________ 360-866-1337 Industrial Machine Svcs ____ 503-240-0878 Sunshine Metals _________ 714-225-4972 Flex-Pro Manufacturing._____ 623-277-8031 PlaSteel _____________480-491-8100 Portland Precision Manufacturing503-253-6700 Treske Precision Machining ___ 503-625-2821 Larkin Precision Machine ____831-438-2700 Real Axis Machining ______ 360-723-5386 TVT Die Casting _________800-280-2278 Layke Inc. ____________602-272-2654 Ron Grob Co __________ 970-667-5320 Valley Machine Shop, Inc. ____ 425-207-5951 Portland Precision Manufacturing 503-253-6700 Savage Machining Inc. ____ 805-584-8047 Weiser Engineering _______303-280-2778 Strom Manufacturing ______ 503-447-1021 SMH Inc LLC __________ 360-341-2226 Western Precision Products, Inc. _503-786-8923 SMH Inc LLC ___________360-341-2226 Strom Manufacturing ______503-447-1021

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Faustson _____________ 303-420-7422 Flex-Pro Manufacturing._____ 623-277-8031 Gillaspie MFG __________360-921-3973 Grovtec US, Inc. _________503-557-4689 Howard Precision Machined Prod. 801-619-9850 Industrial Machine Svcs _____503-240-0878 Larkin Precision Machine ____831-438-2700 Layke Inc. ____________602-272-2654

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DAYTON Lamina

™

a MISUMI Group Company

Heather Cutler Sales Manager OFFICE 503-406-3774 MOBILE 503-853-6234

Kevin Benson Die Components Marketing Director

39830 Grand River Ave. Suite B2 Novi, MI 48375

DAYTON Lamina Corporation a MISUMI Group Company

Phone: (248) 489-9122 Cell: (708) 203-6684 Email: kbenson@daytonlamina.com www.daytonlamina.com

hcutler@omep.org

Grovtec US, Inc. _________503-557-4689 Howard Precision Machined Prod. 801-619-9850

Passivation, Electroless Nickel, Gold, Hard Chrome, Silver, & Tin Plating. 206-947-4052 geoffs@askogroup.com

Larkin Precision Machine ____831-438-2700

PlaSteel _____________480-491-8100 Portland Precision Manufacturing 503-253-6700

Strom Manufacturing ______503-447-1021 NW Metalcraft Industries ___ 888-280-7080 Teton Machine _________208-642-9344 Micropulse West, Inc. _____ 480-966-2300 Western Precision Products, Inc. _503-786-8923 Portland Precision Manufacturing503-253-6700 Real Axis Machining ______ 360-723-5386 Machining: Shaft Turning Rickard Engineering _____ 866-845-8838 Machinists Inc. __________360-202-7342 Savage Machining Inc. ____ 805-584-8047 Machining: Swiss SMH Inc LLC __________ 360-341-2226 Bar-S Machine, Inc. _______ 928-636-2115 Strom Manufacturing _____ 503-447-1021 dtiEXACT _____________ 360-866-1337 Sunshine Metals ________ 714-225-4972 Grovtec US, Inc. _________503-557-4689 Teton Machine ________ 208-642-9344 Howard Precision Machined Prod. 801-619-9850 Treske Precision Machining __ 503-625-2821 Pacific Swiss & Manufacturing _503-557-9407 Valley Machine Shop, Inc. ___ 425-207-5951 Ron Grob Co ___________970-667-5320 Western Precision Products, Inc. 503-786-8923 Teton Machine _________208-642-9344 Machining: Large Western Precision Products, Inc. _503-786-8923 Accutech Machine Inc ______ 801-975-1117 Machining: Turning Alpha Precision Machining, Inc. 253-395-7381

Strom Manufacturing ______503-447-1021

Portland Precision Manufacturing 503-253-6700

Teton Machine _________208-642-9344

QUAL-FAB, Inc. ___________206-762-2117

Valley Machine Shop, Inc. ____ 425-207-5951

Rickard Engineering ______ 866-845-8838

Western Precision Products, Inc. _503-786-8923 Machining: Ultra Precision

Pacific Swiss & Manufacturing _503-557-9407 Machining: Turning With Live Tooling Weiser Engineering _______303-280-2778 Machining: Turning Large

Teton Machine _________ 208-642-9344 Treske Precision Machining ___ 503-625-2821 TVT Die Casting _________ 800-280-2278 Western Precision Products, Inc. _ 503-786-8923 Industrial Manufacturing Albina Co., Inc. _________ 866-252-4628 Turnkey Product Services

Machinists Inc. __________360-202-7342

Aero Tech MFG__________ 801-891-2740

Valley Machine Shop, Inc. ____ 425-207-5951

Columbia Manufacturing Svcs. _ 360-735-3763

MANUFACTURING VALUE ADDED Contract Manufacturing

Cascade Engineering Tech __ 503-266-1300 Al Hirth Machining, Inc. _____661-294-0644 AATC ___________ 866-792-2814 X 235 Machinists Inc. _________ 360-202-7342 Accutech Machine Inc ______ 801-975-1117 AEI Fabrication _________480-733-6594 Valley Machine Shop, Inc. ___ 425-207-5951 Bar-S Machine, Inc. _______ 928-636-2115 Aeroform, Inc. __________ 360-403-1919

dtiEXACT _____________ 360-866-1337 Albina Co., Inc. _________866-252-4628 Machining: Medical Al Hirth Machining, Inc. ____ 661-294-0644 Faustson _____________ 303-420-7422 Alpha Precision Machining, Inc. _ 253-395-7381 Cascade Engineering Tech __ 503-266-1300 Flex-Pro Manufacturing._____ 623-277-8031 Bending Solutions, Inc. _____360-651-2443 Portland Precision Manufacturing503-253-6700 Grovtec US, Inc. _________503-557-4689 Cascade Systems Technology __971-330-8054 Teton Machine ________ 208-642-9344 Howard Precision Machined Prod. 801-619-9850 CLS Fabrication Inc _______800-426-0721 Industrial Machine Svcs _____503-240-0878 Columbia Manufacturing Svcs. _360-735-3763 Machining: Production Al Hirth Machining, Inc. ____ 661-294-0644 Larkin Precision Machine ____831-438-2700 dtiEXACT _____________360-866-1337 Accutech Machine Inc ______ 801-975-1117 Layke Inc. ____________602-272-2654 Flex-Pro Manufacturing._____ 623-277-8031 Alpha Precision Machining, Inc. 253-395-7381 NW Metalcraft Industries ____888-280-7080 G & G Custom Metal Fab ____503-931-7069 Cascade Engineering Tech __ 503-266-1300 Portland Precision Manufacturing 503-253-6700 Group Mfg Serv _________480-966-3952 Columbia Manufacturing Svcs. 360-735-3763 Real Axis Machining _______360-723-5386 dtiEXACT ____________ 360-866-1337 Savage Machining Inc. _____ 805-584-8047 Larkin Precision Machine ____831-438-2700 Flex-Pro Manufacturing.____ 623-277-8031 SMH Inc LLC ___________ 360-341-2226 NW Metalcraft Industries ____888-280-7080

Custom Airplane to Marine Polishing Metal Polishing By Timothy ___ 503-253-5294 Personal Collectables Polishing Metal Polishing By Timothy ___ 503-253-5294 Production Polishing Metal Polishing By Timothy ___ 503-253-5294 METALIZING Controlled Thermal Tech ____ 602-272-3714 METROLOGY Part Probing & Inspection Blum Novotest _________ 909-670-8411 Production Metrology Blum Novotest _________ 909-670-8411 Tool Measurement Blum Novotest _________ 909-670-8411 Tool Breakage Blum Novotest _________ 909-670-8411

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MOLDING: RUBBER

ASKO Group __________ 206-947-4052

ChemResearch_________ 602-253-4175 Molds: Plastic Injection Plastic Injection Molding_____ 509-531-2634 EPSI ______________ 714-519-9423 SMH Inc LLC ___________ 360-341-2226 Foresight Finishing ______ 480-772-0387 Gold Tech ___________ 480-968-1930

MOLDS Anodizing Aero Tech MFG__________ 801-891-2740 ChemResearch_________ 602-253-4175 Advanced Mold Technology ___ 714-990-0144 Bright Tin Arizona Finishing ________602-438-4443 Foresight Finishing ______ 480-772-0387 Milco Wire EDM,, Inc. ______ 714-373-0098 Precious Metal Plating Co.___ 800-481-6271 Plastic Injection Molding_____ 509-531-2634 Chrome/Nickel/Palladium Molds: High Volume Class 100 EPSI ______________ 714-519-9423 Advanced Mold Technology ___ 714-990-0144 Gold Tech ___________ 480-968-1930 Molds: Fast Turn Prototype and Coating Bridge Molds Advanced Mold Technology ___ 714-990-0144 Coating Technologies _____ 623-581-2648 Controlled Thermal Tech ___ 602-272-3714 Molds: Expertise in Overmold and Coating: Black Oxide Insert Molding Coating Technologies _____ 623-581-2648 Advanced Mold Technology ___ 714-990-0144 Coating: Dry Film Lube PACKAGING/SHIPPING SUPPLIES Coating Technologies _____ 623-581-2648 Alliance Packaging _______ 206-445-5898 Coating: Nickel/ Teflon/Chrome Passivation Coating Technologies _____ 623-581-2648 ASKO Group ___________ 206-947-4052 Coating:Zinc & Mag.Phos. TFC Plating ___________ 503-771-0969 Coating Technologies _____ 623-581-2648 PC BOARDS Copper Surface Mount & Thru Hole Gold Tech Industries ______ 480-968-1930 Cascade Systems Technology __ 971-330-8054 Foresight Finishing ______ 480-772-0387 PLASTIC MACHINING TFC Plating __________ 503-771-0969 PlaSteel _____________ 480-491-8100 Embrittlement Relief Portland Precision Manufacturing 503-253-6700 EPSI ______________ 714-519-9423 PLASTIC MOLDING Electroless Nickel 3-D Plastics, Inc. _________ 503-720-0572 ASKO Group __________ 206-947-4052 Plastic Injection Molding_____ 509-531-2634 Gold Tech Industries ______ 480-968-1930 SMH Inc LLC ___________ 360-341-2226 Foresight Finishing ______ 480-772-0387 Mold Making Precious Metal Plating Co.___ 800-481-6271 3-D Plastics, Inc. _________ 503-720-0572 TFC Plating __________ 503-771-0969 Plastic Injection Molding_____ 509-531-2634 Gold PLATING

ASKO Group __________ 206-947-4052 QUAL-FAB, Inc. __________ 206-762-2117 EPSI _______________714-519-9423 SpringWorks Utah ________ 801-298-0113 Foresight Finishing ______ 480-772-0387 Wrico ______________ 480-892-7800 Gold Tech ___________ 480-968-1930 Precious Metal Plating Co.____800-481-6271 Hard Chrome Arizona Hard Chrome ______602-278-8671 ASKO Group __________ 206-947-4052

Custom Package Printing Alliance Packaging _______ 206-445-5898-

Acid Pickle Gold Tech Industries ______ 480-968-1930 Foresight Finishing ______ 480-772-0387 MPI International ________ 956-631-6880 Precious Metal Plating Co.____800-481-6271 Chemical TFC Plating __________ 503-771-0969 LA Specialties __________ 602-269-7612 GTin / Zinc Plate MPI International ________ 956-631-6880 ASKO Group __________ 206-947-4052 Plating Alodine EPSI _______________714-519-9423 MPI International ________ 956-631-6880 Gold Tech ___________ 480-968-1930 Phosphate TFC Plating __________ 503-771-0969 MPI International ________ 956-631-6880 Silver Plating PROTOTYPES ASKO Group __________ 206-947-4052 EPSI _______________714-519-9423 Cascade Systems Technology __ 503-640-5733 Gold Tech ___________ 480-968-1930 NW Rapid Mfg. _________ 503-434-8557 Precious Metal Plating Co.____800-481-6271

PUNCHING

TFC Plating __________ 503-771-0969 AEI Fabrication _________ 480-733-6594 CLS Fabrication Inc _______ 800-426-0721 Tin Plating Precious Metal Plating Co.____800-481-6271 Cygnet Stamping & Fab _____ 818-240-7574 TFC Plating __________ 503-771-0969 PLASMA CUTTING G & G Custom Metal Fab ___ 503-931-7069 PRECISION FORMING Aeroform, Inc. __________360-403-1919 Cygnet Stamping & Fab _____818-240-7574

Group Manufacturing Serv ___ 480-966-3952 QUAL-FAB, Inc. __________ 206-762-2117 Weiser Engineering _______ 303-280-2778 RECYCLING MATERIALS Aluminum, Brass, Copper, Nickel, Plastics, Stainless Steel, Steel, Tin

Calbag Metals Company ____ 253-283-8657 Gillaspie MFG _________ 360-921-3973 Metro Metals Northwest ____ 503-819-1284 Pacific Tool, Inc ________ 425-882-1970 Bin Service

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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UV LED Printing Alliance Packaging _______ 206-445-5898-

NAD CAP & Boeing Approved Flat Bed Digital Printing Processes Alliance Packaging _______ 206-445-5898Precious Metal Plating Co.____800-481-6271 PROCESSING: METAL Nickel-Bright

Nick Hochuli

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PRINTING

C O R P O R A T I O N

Calbag Metals Company ___ 253-283-8657 Excess Material Handling Calbag Metals Company ___ 253-283-8657 Full Service Scrap Management

Machining TOOLING Evans Precision _________ 623-582-4776 Delcam ____________ 877-335-2261 Industrial Machine Svcs ____ 503-240-0878 Industrial Machine Svcs _____503-240-0878 Lambie Engineering______509-868-3100 Weiser Engineering _______303-280-2778 Mechanical Design Mountain View Machine____ 435-755-0500 Delcam ____________ 877-335-2261 Welding: MIG-TIG Real Axis Machining ______ 360-723-5386 G & G Custom Metal Fab ____ 503-931-7069 SPINNING

Calbag Metals Company ___ 253-283-8657 Scrap Metal Prrocessing

Evans Precision ________ 623-582-4776

Calbag Metals Company ___ 253-283-8657 Waste Metal Management

SPLINES Specialty Steel Services ____ 801-539-8252

SLITTING United Performance Metals _ _888-282-3292

Mountain View Machine____ 435-755-0500 Weiser Engineering ______ 303-280-2778 Precision Precision Die & Stamping ___ 480-967-2038 Weld Metal Works _______ 503-788-5701 Welding: Aluminum SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT Medium & Large Cascade Systems Technology _ 503-640-5733 Columbia Manufacturing Svcs. 360-735-3763 G & G Custom Metal Fab ___ 503-931-7069 Industrial Machine Svcs ____ 503-240-0878 TESTING NADCAP Welding Testing: Corrosion, Product Stress,

TUBE BENDING &

Evans Precision _________ 623-582-4776

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