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Vol. 6, No. 5, Oct / Nov 2016 Front Cover Story Pages 28 - 29

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Editor’s Corner

“There is only one boss. The Customer! And, he can fire everybody in the company, from the CEO on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.” Sam Walton In every day life, I think if people remembered, we all answer to someone or to many, we would rethink the way we conduct our business, maybe forbear a lot more, and go the extra mile a lot more than we do.We are all selling all the time, and though we are also customers, we have many people to please and to serve, not to mention a higher power to answer to!

In a manufacturing business environment we have many customers to keep happy, or satisfied, and we do this in many ways. We all try to act as professional as we possibly can; we offer many services in hope that our full tool bag will help us stand out as customers’ and potential customers’ manufacturing solution.

We all ride for the Brand! When you ride for the brand you assume the businesses you work with and for are like your businesses and you act accordingly. Keeping your customers business in mind at all times helps you to empathize, and puts you in the posture to act as an extension of their business.

In the old days, a cowboy would ride and work proudly for the brand of the particular ranch he worked for. He rode a horse that was branded with the outfits special brand, ate the food the brand provided and the insignia stood for a tight group of people that worked together, ate together, and many slept within shouting distance of each other. The team was very proud of their brand and worked hard to make the organization successful, always acting as an extension of this tightly knit family business unit, always riding for the brand.

Many of the small and large manufacturing companies today build pride of their brand, and brand recognition by keeping strong positive messages out in the eyes and minds of the public and their employee team. They maintain a brand-logo and you can see it on every correspondence, you can see the brand logo on their building, website, shirts, business cards, emails, and advertisements. Most of these businesses have a very high standard of ethics and they walk their walk and they speak to their mindset of the brand all the time. This team spirit of single mindedness helps create great unity and customers can feel that on the phone, in correspondence, and in the service and products delivered on time wrapped in quality.

This all works together like a chef’s perfect sauce and the end result is their good reputation a customer can recognize.

The name we stand for, the country we stand for, the industry we stand strong for all mean something, and are all near and dear to our heart. When our customers see the pride and professionalism we all carry in our businesses they are eager to use our services and they are confident we will get the job done so their business can thrive.

In closing I urge you all to take a hard look at how you are treating your customers and ask them how you are doing. Not many of us like surveys, so pick up the phone or go by and visit them and ask a few questions; How do you like our service? How can we improve our service to you? Is there anything else we can help you with?

Simple questions, short and sweet, and this shows you care.A caring supplier is a good supplier and good suppliers are a valuable asset to every company.

I would like to thank you all for your continued support of our magazines. And, I would like to ask; how can I serve you all, more? Please let me know!

Thank you!

Kim Carpenter A2Z MANUFACTURING WEST COAST

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Long Products – a sampling of what we offer Carbon Steel Bar

Stainless Steel Tube

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• 304 SQUARE TUBE – 1/2"SQ X .065W THRU 12"SQ X .500W • 304 RECTANGLE TUBE – 1/2" X 1" X .065W THRU 12"SQ X 8" X .500W • 304 ROUND TUBE – 1/2"OD X .065W THRU 6.0"D X .375W • AVAILABLE IN MILL FINISH AND 180 GRIT POLISHED

CF1018 ROUNDS – 3/16" THRU 6" CF1018 SQUARES – 1/4" THRU 6" CF1018 FLATS – 1/8" X 1/2" THRU 3-1/2" X 6" CF1045 ROUNDS – 3/4" THRU 6" CF1144 STRESSPROOF ROUNDS – 1/2" THRU 4-1/2" CF12L14 ROUNDS – 1/2" THRU 6"

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CF4140ANN ROUNDS – 3/4" THRU 4-1/2" CF8620ANN ROUNDS – 1-1/8" THRU 4-3/4" CF4140HT ROUNDS – 3/4" THRU 3-1/2" HR4140ANN ROUNDS – 1-1/2" THRU 24"

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Carbon Steel Tube • ERW STEEL TUBE – 1/2"OD X .049W THRU 6"0D X .188W • ORN STEEL TUBE – 1/2"SQ X .065W THRU 4"SQ X .120W • STRUCT STEEL TUBE – 1-1/2"SQ THRU 6"SQ X .250W (INCLUDING RECTANGLES)

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303, 304L, 316L, 17-4 ROUNDS – 1/8" THRU 12" 304L, 316L PLATE CUT FLATS – 1/8" X 1/2" THRU 1/2" X 8" 303, 304L, 316L ROLLED BAR – 1/4" X 3/4" THRU 1-1/2" X 2" 304L, 316L ANGLES – 3/4" X 3/4" X 1/8" THRU 4" X 4" X 1/2" 304L, 316L CHANNELS – 2" X 1" X 1/8" THRU 6" X 4" X 3/8"

• 6061 EXTR & CF ROUNDS – 3/16" THRU 12" • 6061 EXTR SQUARES – 1/4" THRU 6" • 6061 EXTR RECTANGLES – 1/8" X 1/2" THRU 4" X 8" • 6061, 6063 EXTR ANGLES, CHANNELS, BEAMS • 2024 CF ROUNDS – 3/8" THRU 4"

Tube & Pipe • 6061, 6063 EXTR SQUARE TUBE – 3/4"SQ X .065W THRU 8"SQ X .500W • 6061, 6063 EXTR RECTANGLE TUBE – 3/4" X 1-1/2" THRU 2" X 8" X .250W • 6061 EXTR ROUND TUBE – 1/2" X .125W THRU 8"OD X .250W • 6061 EXTR PIPE – 1/2" SCH40 THRU 8" SCH80

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Carbon & Alloy Plate We routinely stock: • Carbon from general purpose to structural, PVQ and improved machining grades.

• Alloy in construction, case hardening, PVQ, aircraft quality and abrasion resisting grades.

Plate processing: Oxy-fuel Cutting Plasma Cutting Shearing

performed, even for services of our extended fabrication network. We screen and audit all of our sources.

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Increase Flexibility Test new designs and prototypes without tying up machines or employees. We know fabrication and materials and recommend the best for customer applications.

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Meet Demand Fluctuations Eliminate bottlenecks. Avoid capacity overloads. Eliminate capital tied up in underutilized equipment. We help customers focus on core competencies and meet processing requirements.

Aluminum Plate We routinely stock: • Heat treatable, cast tooling and cast mold plate • Standard thicknesses to 16” • Widths to 60.5” • Standard lengths of 96”, 120”, 144”, 240” and 288” • Diamond Tread plate

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Stainless Plate We routinely stock: • All standard grades • Plate up to 4” thick • Coiled plate inventory: 36, 48, 60, 72” wide • Stainless floor plate in 1/8, 3/16 and 1/4” thickness Plate processing: Plasma Cutting Sawing Shearing Cutting to Length Precision Leveling

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Announcements & Releases Ganesh Toolroom Machinery Division Ganesh Machinery announced that Ganesh CNC Production Machine Tools and Ganesh Toolroom Machinery will be operated as two distinctly separate divisions of the company. This change in emphasis will allow each machine group to focus on the unique needs of the customer relevant to their product line. The experienced technical specialists in each group will ensure that the correct solution is offered in every machine application.

Ganesh Machinery began business in 1985 as an importer of first-class manual lathes and milling machines from Taiwan. A solid reputation as a provider of outstanding machine tools was derived from that humble start. Ganesh Machinery has grown into a company with a broad offering of high-technology CNC lathes up to 11-axes, and 3 to 5 axis Milling machines from 24” X 16” to 100” by 39”. CNC Swiss machines in up to 8-axes in 20mm, 32mm, and 42mm are offered, as well as “Big-Bore” lathes with bores up to 15” and bed lengths up to 300”.

The GaneshToolroom Machinery Division offers engine lathes from 13” by 40” up to a 44” swing by 315” bed length. A Hardinge-style 5C collet toolroom lathes and speed lathes are also offered. Geared-head CNC toolroom lathes using FANUC controls start at 18” by 40” and go up to a 24” swing by 60” bed length. Ganesh adds specialized workholding and DRO installation in-house to maintain quality control.

Manual knee-mills are offered in 5-sizes from a table size of 9” by 42” to 12” by 54”. Fagor or Acu-Rite CNC controls can be added at Ganesh to convert the machines to 2 and 3-axis CNC knee-mills. CNC 3-axis bed-mills are offered in 26” by 16” to 60” by 24” with spindles using 40-taper quick-change tooling.

Ganesh Machinery build their business on their reputation for excellent support and service and provides same-day parts shipments as part of their commitment to their customers. Please call 1-888-542-6374 or email kamal@ganeshmachinery.com for more information. IMTS-2016 booth # S-8045 & S-8048.

Rolled Alloys Receives Nadcap Reaccreditation for Nonconventional Machining Rolled Alloys has successfully r e t a i n e d its Nadcap accreditation following a surveillance audit, demonstrating a continued investment in resources to meet stringent industry and customer requirements.

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awarding this accreditation for laser processing, Nadcap recognizes Rolled Alloys’ commitment to continual improvement in aerospace quality.

“Compliance via Nadcap accreditation is a milestone in demonstrating manufacturing excellence.” said Joe Pinto, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at the Performance Review Institute.

“By obtaining Nadcap in nonconventional machining, Rolled Alloys have proved to the industry that they are committed to quality and aerospace safety.”

One of the largest suppliers of stainless steels, duplex, 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.

Verisurf Software to Drive zCAT Portable, Programmable CMM Verisurf Software, Inc. announced their latest release, Verisurf 2017, will be integrated to support and drive the Fowler, zCAT portable, programmable CMM. The accuracy, portability and repeatability of the zCAT CMM coupled with the power of Verisurf dimensional metrology software delivers a robust and fully programmable, portable inspection solution.

The zCAT is a direct computer control coordinate measuring machine (DCC CMM). Weighing only 30 lbs., the zCAT can take automated, repeatable measurements while being extremely portable. This combination of features makes the zCAT a fit for deployment directly in the manufacturing process so that the same person making the part can now measure the part. Every inch of the zCAT has been designed to ensure portability, ease of use and accuracy. The DCC technology, which sets the zCAT apart from any manual portable CMM today, enables operators to teach the machine what they want to measure and then permit the device to take over with accuracies that rival larger, more expensive, non-portable, conventional CMMs. With Verisurf software users are quickly productive with a rich 3D environment that includes an object oriented operations manager, CAD feature extraction, and solid model associativity. Ease of use and user productivity is enhanced with file recognition, logical right mouse click options, customizable user configurations and drag and drop operations reordering. Attention to the intuitive 3D experience helps users learn quicker, program their zCAT faster and automate their CMM operation.

“At Verisurf our goal is to provide a comprehensive set of measurement tools so Quality and Manufacturing Engineers can effectively do their jobs. This includes an ongoing commitment to open standards and interoperability for more seamless workflow and the ability to maintain a digital thread between design, manufacturing, and quality inspection,” said Ernie Husted, President of Verisurf Software, Inc. “Our interface with the zCAT is a perfect example of this commitment,

our customers can choose which measuring device best suits their application, then be assured Verisurf software will interface with it and be able to control it.

Bladerunners: GE’s Wind Business To Buy Danish Blade Maker For $1.65 Billion

positions us well to respond faster to market needs and enhance performance of wind turbines to ultimately reduce the cost of energy,” Pécresse said.

The company that made the world’s largest wind turbine blade will soon join one of the world’s largest makers of wind turbines. GE said that it plans to acquire LM Wind Power, the Danish maker of rotor blades, for $1.65 billion.

Made In The Cloud: The Factory Of The Future Will Run On Data

LM Wind is a global leader in wind turbine rotor manufacturing. The company builds blades for the industry’s 1.5- and 2-megawatt, meatand-potatoes wind turbines as well as 8-megawatt behemoths with rotors spanning 180 meters — more than two football fields.

LM Wind has amassed more than 190 patents and produced 185,000 blades since it opened for business in 1978. Added up, wind turbines with its rotors could produce 77 gigawatts (GW).

Thousands of GE turbines on land as well as in the sea are already using LM Wind’s blades. They include the five wind turbines powering America’s first offshore wind farm near Block Island, Rhode Island. “The world is moving to low-carbon electricity, and this trend will only grow stronger,” said Jérôme Pécresse , president and CEO of GE Renewable Energy. “Our goal is to bring every customer, wherever they are, wind turbines that maximize electricity production while also reducing its cost.”

LM Wind has factories in Denmark, Spain, Poland, Canada, USA, India, China and Brazil. GE’s Pecresse said the acquisition would allow his team to be “more local, have more flexibility and knowledge in turbine design and supply and also add more ability to innovate and reduce costs.”

Pecresse also said that GE, which has been connecting machines to the Industrial Internet, would use software to offer new services for LM Wind’s customers.

GE opened its wind business in 2002 and has shipped more than 30,000 turbines since.The LM Wind deal is the latest GE acquisition in the space, following last year’s purchase of Alstom’s renewable assets.

“Our two organizations are highly complementary, and the transaction

Next time you travel to Pittsburgh, treat yourself by taking a self-driving Uber to GE’s Center for AdditiveTechnology Advancement (CATA) located a short drive from the airport.

The SiliconValley rideshare startup is using the city to test its driverless cars, which could one day revolutionize transportation. CATA, which is stocked with 3D printers of all kinds and other fantastical machines, is revolutionizing how all types of products, including cars, are made. “Additive allows you to grow something from the ground up from a bed of metal powder, sand or other material,” Jennifer Cipolla, who runs CATA, told GE Reports.

“There’s hardly any waste because you can reclaim pretty much everything.

It also allows you to create much more complex internal geometries that would be otherwise very difficult or expensive to achieve, creating parts with improved performance.”

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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.”

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jet engines that are already powering passenger planes across Europe and Asia. The company also is using software to make entire factories “brilliant” and more efficient. For example, machines equipped with sensors and connected to the cloud helped cut downtime at a GE locomotive factory in Grove City, Pennsylvania, by as much as 20 percent GE is also using Rethink Robotics’ Baxter collaborative robots. They have fanned out to factories around the world and started picking up tedious tasks from their human co-workers.

Cochet says that advanced manufacturing industries already account for 24 million jobs —

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National Association of Manufacturers launched Manufacturing Day in 2012 to raise the profile of the industry. “Today’s talent does not view manufacturing as a top career option,” said Jennifer McNelly, Cimetron_CCI.indd 1 president of the Manufacturing Institute. “This perception issue, coupled with the skills gap, has contributed to a depleted supply of qualified talent for today’s manufacturing workplaces. Manufacturing Day is an important step in helping to change manufacturing’s image and engaging future talent by giving them firsthand experience with the real world of manufacturing.”

As the CATA example shows, the world is rapidly changing. Philippe Cochet, GE’s chief productivity officer, said that manufacturing today is “leaps and bounds” from what the industry looked like even just a decade ago. GE, one of the 200 companies that took part in the first Manufacturing Day, is mass-producing 3D-printed fuel nozzles for A2Z MANUFACTURING WEST COAST

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13 percent of all American jobs — and that each of those jobs supports another 3.5 jobs throughout the supply chain.

“We see a future where factories are fitted with all the technologies 1/16/13 10:45 AM at our disposal to uncover value across the length of the supply,” Cochet wrote in a piece published, adding that these factor ies would continue to be m a n a g e d by h i g h ly skilled workers earning good wages that are the backbone of the American economy.”

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New Equipment Purchases Increase Efficiencies At Albina Co., Inc. Albina Co., Inc. has operated in a 50,000 square foot shop since 2001.

The shop was designed and built taking into account our equipment at the time of occupancy as well as future plans for growth. Over the years, Albina has purchased many bending machines including draw bending equipment, roll bending equipment and plate rolling equipment and we have done our best to place machines in “free” spaces in our shop. This has created some organization and operational issues because similar machines were not grouped together. Once again, Albina has purchased two new machines to add to our equipment inventory.

Before these machines arrived, we completely restructured our shop and have completed a major overhaul in order to group similar machines in common areas.

We adding two new rotary draw benders, a 6” Coast Wallace and a Pines #6, to our current inventory of equipment.

Rotary draw, or compression bending occurs when material is bent by rotating it around a bend die (and typically pulled or pushed over mandrel rod).

A bend die is formed to fit a specific material size/type and at a specific diameter to fit the bend requirements.The material to be bent is clamped to the bend die and then is drawn, or pulled, around the bend die until the desired degree of bend is met.This method produces clean, tight radii bends and is mainly used by manufacturers or industrial companies.

The 6” Coast is a long machine with a carriage assist and overhead clamp.

The machine has the capacity to bend up to 6” pipe down to an 18” CLR. The machine has tooling allowing it to bend 2-1/2”, 3”,4”, 5” and 6” pipe to numerous radii.

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The California Duck Must Die (But It’s Not What You Think)

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Here’s why.When legislators in the Golden State passed a climate-change law mandating that California gets a third of its electricity from renewable energy by 2020, they were hoping to encourage residents to install solar photovoltaic cells.

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But there is a hitch. California’s famous sunshine helps produce lots of solar electricity during the day—when demand is typically low. Usually, demand for power peaks in the morning, when people are getting ready for work and school. Then they leave home for the office, causing power usage to drop off in the middle of the day. Later, when they return home, Since Since there’s a peak between 7 and 9 p.m. as they cook dinner and watch TV or 1984 1984use computers.

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This use pattern typically creates a gentle wave-like dip, but because of the growing popularity of solar power, that demand trough during the day is getting deeper. When plotted on a g raph, this The additive manufacturing industry is poised for a boom between now creates the and 2020, according to International Data Corp. sagging belly 845 Research Drive, Woodland Park, of the duck.

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“While 3D printers and

conventional power plants quickly ramps up.

Mike Unum, a senior product manager with GE Grid Solutions, which provides advanced products and services that enable more resilient, efficient and reliable power systems, says that as people install more solar panels, the problem is only going to get worse. This is a problem since most conventional power plants aren’t like light switches that can be easily turned on and off or even dimmed.

California’s famous sunshine helps produce lots of energy during the day—when demand is typically low. Top and above image credit: Getty Images Nuclear power plants produce electricity 24/7 with limited capability to ramp up or down. Fossil-fueled plants can modulate their output, but turning them on and off can be a multiday process depending on the specific power plant technology involved. (Gas-fired power plants are the most flexible.) All this means that going from the trough to the top of the duck’s head on a daily basis is a complex task.

But there are things that can be done to help kill the duck. Initiatives such as the shift toward energy-efficient LED lighting can help reduce the peak. Demand-response programs and rate reforms also can help shift the load to different times of day. They can encourage people to avoid using energygobbling electronics and air conditioning during peak hours as California does when it issues a “flex alert.”

But some of the best solutions to the California Duck Curve problem may come from breakthroughs in energy-storage technology. The ability to efficiently store power during low-demand hours and withdraw it during high-demand hours would allow the curve to be flattened even further.

from the grid.

Platforms such as Predix—GE’s operating system for the Industrial Interenet— will also play a big role. All of the solar panels, thermostats, power plants and grid technologies will have to be able to share information, and engineers will have to quickly analyze that data to know how much energy should be going where at any given moment.

Software also will play a big part. It could monitor and coordinate the control of a large number of distributed energy resources ranging from solar, wind, gas to hydropower. Since many of these sources are owned by third parties, we will need advances in communication, visualization and optimization software to get them working together.

“Ultimately these types of technologies are going to allow us to coordinate all of these devices,” says Unum. “Think about tens of million of devices.

Think about if everyone had solar power and a battery—how would we manage that?”

But things are changing. Distributed energy resource management software, such as the kind GE is piloting domestically and in Europe, will provide operators with the requisite tools to mesh consumption information from smart meters with load forecasts and status updates

As more third parties move into the power space, expect to see more creative solutions for problems like the ones California’s energy generators are currently facing. “The rules haven’t been defined yet,” says Unum, “and that’s really the interesting part.”

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The OA-5 mission is Orbital ATK’s fifth operational cargo delivery mission for NASA and marks the return of flight operations to NASA Wallops Flight Facility in eastern Virginia. The Antares medium-class rocket will boost Cygnus, carrying approximately 5,300 pounds (2,400 kilograms) of cargo to support the crew on the International Space Station. The spacecraft is slated to rendezvous and berth with the station days after lift off.

Live coverage of the Antares launch and Cygnus berthing with the station will be available on NASA Television at http://www.nasa. gov/ntv. Details about the mission can be viewed at http://www. orbitalatk.com/news-room/feature-stories/OA5-Mission-Page.

Orbital ATK names each Cygnus spacecraft in honor of astronauts and individuals who contributed to the United States’ commercial space program. OA-5 is named after the late Alan Poindexter, who served as a NASA astronaut, space shuttle commander and naval aviator, and who participated in the construction of the International Space Station.

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After being launched into low-Earth orbit, the Cygnus spacecraft will use its advanced maneuvering capability to transport the cargo from a low parking orbit to the space station, where it will be grappled by the crew using the station’s robotic arm and berthed to the space station. After the cargo is removed and disposal items are loaded, Cygnus will depart from the station in mid-November.

Following departure, Cygnus will begin secondary OA-5 payload missions. Cygnus will carry the Saffire II payload experiment to study combustion behavior in microgravity onboard the spacecraft.

NASA researchers will receive data from this experiment via telemetry.

In addition, a NanoRacks deployer will release several cubesats used for weather forecasting. These secondary payload operations will be conducted after Cygnus is clear of the space station’s orbit.

Under the CRS-1 contract with NASA, Orbital ATK will deliver approximately 66,000 pounds (30,000 kilograms) of cargo to the

International Space Station through 2018. Beginning in 2019, Orbital ATK will carry out a minimum of six initial cargo missions under NASA’s CRS-2 contract. The partnership is cultivating a robust American commercial space industry, freeing NASA to focus on developing the next-generation rocket and spacecraft that will enable humans to conduct deep space exploration missions.

About Orbital ATK Orbital ATK is a global leader in aerospace and defense technologies.

The company designs, builds and delivers space, defense and aviation systems for customers around the world, both as a prime contractor and merchant supplier. Its main products include launch vehicles and related propulsion systems; missile products, subsystems and defense electronics; precision weapons, armament systems and ammunition; satellites and associated space components and services; and advanced aerospace structures. Headquartered in Dulles,Virginia, Orbital ATK employs approximately 12,000 people in 18 states across the U.S. and in several international locations. For more information, visit www.orbitalatk.com.

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The company unveiled a model of the aircraft at the National Press Club in Washington, complete with a motorized demonstration of how the unmanned aircraft system can fold its wings and rotors for optimal storage.

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The company believes Vigilant meets “the comprehensive spectrum of capabilities outlined in the 2016 Marine Corps Aviation Plan,” a company statement said.

The V-247 can cruise long-range at 240 knots but can exceed a cruise speed of 300 knots.The aircraft can support an internal mission payload of 2,000 lbs and can sling-load 9,000 lbs.The aircraft is capable of flying 11 hours with 600 lbs of mission payload, but has a 1,400 nautical mile mission radius, which equates to 17 hours of flight time.

Some of the missions envisioned for the aircraft are as escorts for the Marine Corps’V-22 Osprey or the future V-280 Valor the Army is assessing for a possible Future Vertical Lift (FVL) aircraft. Other missions could be delivering persistent fires, electronic warfare or early warning as well as intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, according to Tobin.

The aircraft is also designed with a large amount of flexibility through an open-architecture, modular payload system.

The V-247 is designed to optimally fire MK-50 Torpedos, Hellfire missiles or the Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM).

The aircraft will have aerial-refueling capability and a retractable tricycle landing gear.

Drawing from technology developed in the V-22 and V-280 programs, Bell is using the same wing concept as the V-280. While the V-22 has two separate wings, the wing is one long piece mated to the top of the fuselage in the V-280.

One big difference is the power source. While the V-280 and V-22’s dual-engines are located within the tiltrotor pylons, Vigilant will have a single engine housed in the fuselage, according to Tobin.

The tiltrotor’s advantage over a fixed-wing aircraft is “it collocates with the maneuver force because it isn’t reliant on a runway somewhere else, so it doesn’t have to be based at some far-off point. … It can take off from right next to where you are,” Tobin said.

manned-unmanned teaming (MUM-T) arrangements with the Army’s AH-64E attack helicopters, where pilots have the ability to control nearby drones from the cockpit using a tactical common data link, because its open architecture would allow for it to connect seamlessly.

While Bell sees the Marine Corps as the most near-term possibility for a runway-independent drone program, the Army has been very vocal this year that it desires for its future unmanned aircraft to be runway-independent as well.

Tobin said the company anticipates the same could go for MUM-T operations with a future medium-sized vertical lift aircraft for which the V-280 is being developed.

Tobin told Defense News following the unveiling that the Army has signaled “nothing specific” in terms of when it might want to start looking at such an aircraft.

But, said Tobin, “We think when we build this, and the Army sees it and they see the capability they have, they will either want this or something like it.”

While the current design is larger than a Gray Eagle, Vigilant is easily scalable and could be designed smaller, Tobin said.

And he added Vigilant could be easily incorporated into

And an unmanned aircraft like Vigilant might even have a place as the Army’s future vertical lift helicopter in the light-attack or reconnaissance category. Bell responded to an Army request for information on designs for such an aircraft with an unmanned aircraft offering, according to Tobin.

In order to take the aircraft from a design phase to a development phase, Bell is waiting for a green light when the Marine Corps writes a formal requirement.

Once there’s a “formal requirement, the application of funding and initiation of an engineering and manufacturing development phase of acquisition,” Bell will be ready to “assist as necessary,” Tobin said.

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The Japanese airplane maker picked Washington because Japan’s airspace is too crowded for efficient flight testing. A little more than a year ago, the company opened an engineering center in Seattle to support its Moses Lake operation.

The Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ) is expected to enter commercial service in 2018. However, the program has already experienced several delays.

Mitsubishi Aircraft is making 76-and 88-seat versions of the MRJ. The plane that landed recently at Moses Lake is the larger MRJ 90. The smaller version is the MRJ 70.

So far, customers have placed 233 firm orders, with options for 170 more and purchase rights on another 24. The company is working on an agreement with Swedish airplane lessor Rockton for 10 firm orders and 10 options. Once finalized, that would bring the total order book to 447.

However, all of those are for the MRJ 90.

The lack of interest in the MRJ 70 leaves the smaller sibling’s future in doubt.

The MRJ 90 is the first commercial airliner built in Japan since 1962. With it, Mitsubishi Aircraft, which is part of Boeing-supplier Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), is trying to break into the regional jet market, which is dominated by Bombardier and Embraer.

Those two are focused on breaking into the commercial jet market dominated by Boeing and Airbus.

The MRJ is not the only newcomer to the regional jet market. Russia’s Sukhoi developed its Superjet 100, which entered service in 2011. Another Russian firm, Irkut is developing the MC-

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Intel Buys Computer Vision Company Aimed With U.S. Drone Rules Set, Firms Race ForAt Self-Driving Cars Flight Data Intel is beefing up its United Parcel Service Inc’s launch last month of drone test flights computer vision skills simulating emergency medical-supply deliveries highlights a race with the acquisition of San for data to prove such deliveries Francisco-based Itseez Inc. can be performed safely.

While terms of the deal UPS’s medical emergency at the weren’t disclosed, it looks Children’s Island summer camp like the company will be part off the Massachusetts coast was of the chipmaker’s Internet of Things business, which has become a key fictional. But gathering data focus for Intel. about the drone’s flight and others it is a vital part of avision new algorithms and implementation for Itseezlike specializes in computer effort to convince U.S. regulaproducts such as vehicles, security systems and robotics.The company’s tors to loosen reins using founders includethe a pair of on Intel alums: President Victor Erukhimov and robotic aircraft for deliveries.

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“The for drones is services, was founded in 2005.The Itseez,technology which also provides consulting there and it’s moving extremely company also plays a key role in OpenCV and OpenVX, which seek to fast,” said CyPhy create standards for founder computerHelen vision technology to work across platforms.

Greiner. “But it’s also true that wethe need to prove we can market operategrows, the need for standardization As Internet of Things them safely and reliably.” also grows. Intel wants to gain strong footholds in those new standards.

Intel announced thetest acquisition in a blog postofbyU.S. its head of the Internet The UPS-CyPhy comes amid a burst drone activity, inofAAThings business unit Doug Davis.

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He added that Itseez will be a “key ingredient” for Intel’s Internet of The Obama administration Things strategy. estimates the commercial drone industry could genThe Internet of Things business unit has become more prominent for the erate more than $82 billion chipmaker as it broadens its focus beyond the shrinking PC market and for the U.S. economy and embraces computing everywhere. The company’s broad restructuring support up to 100,000 new announced last month emphasizes investment in the growth areas of data jobs by 2025. centers and Internet of Things.

Intel wants its chips and other technologies to power connectivity of The FAA’sthe rules published every device plus run the data centers behind those on Aug. 29 devices. dictate conditions for commercial drones. The Itseez technology will play a critical role aircraft in Intel’smust portfolio of under products weigh 55 for autonomous vehicles. pounds (25 kg), may not fly over involved in in Davis, in his post, noted the Internet of Things people evolutionnot is occurring operations and must remain three phases: by making every object “smart” by injecting sensors, then the operator’s adding connectivity to those objects and,within finally, adding intelligenceline to of sight. allow those objects to make decisions in real time — which requires

being able to “see.”

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To obtain an FAA waiver exempting them from certain rules, companies must spell out a business case and use data to prove their drones are safe.

Some drone proponents have chafed at how slowly the FAA has moved to regulate drones, said Logan Campbell, CEO of drone consulting firm Aerotas.

“The only way things could move more quickly is if everyone were to share their data,” he said. “But ... no one wants to lose their competitive edge so that’s not going to happen.”

An FAA spokeswoman said the agency grants waivers “if we find the proposed operation can be safely conducted using risk mitigation strategies.”

Ben Marcus, CEO of drone software provider AirMap, said the “big burden is being shifted from regulators ... to actual operators and developers” to demonstrate their technology can function safely.

The FAA’s cautious approach has encouraged some companies to test package delivery drones overseas. Amazon is testing deliveries in the United Kingdom, where it can fly drones out of the line of sight.

Since the FAA’s most recent guidance, more is happening in the U.S. market.

PrecisionHawk is developing a system enabling drones to detect objects in the air and on the ground to avoid collisions - technology that could help deliver packages.

Vice President Tyler Collins said PrecisionHawk received an FAA waiver last month to operate out of the line of sight, based on years of data from crop inspections, as doing so would save farmers time and money.

In current testing, the driver must stand and watch the drone. CEO Steve Burns said Workhorse has applied for an FAA waiver in a few rural ZIP codes to allow the driver to continue his route while the drone is in the air.

Once Workhorse proves its case, it will seek a waiver for more ZIP codes.

Burns said the HorseFly costs only 2 cents per mile to operate versus package delivery vehicles, some of which get 5 miles to the gallon - making traditional vehicles far more expensive to run.

“What we’re doing is of interest to people who deliver things - we have their attention,” Burns said.

UPS is using drones to manage inventory in warehouses, as is Walmart Mart Stores Inc, which can also gather data.

Adam Shaw, CEO of drone seller Maverick Drone Systems, has seen an uptick in company requests for drones to scan barcodes in warehouses.

Fred Smith, CEO of FedEx Corp, UPS’s main rival, said recently FedEx has robotics programs under way including drones, but declined to provide details.

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The AAVs are huge tracked machines with boat-like hulls, which proved deathtraps when they hit large roadside bombs in Afghanistan and Iraq. BAE says its 8×8 ACV is more survivable and more agile on land than the current AAV, with equal performance on the water.

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At least, they were make what has historically been perceived as arcane into something willing to friendly sacrificeand in the shorttoterm: The current ACV 1.1 competifar more familiar a tech-savvy audience. tion allows limited amphibious capability, but the ultimate ACV 1.2 will have to equal the old AAV. “As Millennials move into the manufacturing environment, there’s a certain expectation that the technology they are interacting with will work Inthe essence, saying it can offer ACV 1.2 performance their same asBAE whatisthey grew up with,” said Matt Wells, productingeneral offering for ACV 1.1.

That’s what the Marines were hoping for with manager for automation software at GE Digital. “The entire generation the BAE and SAIC vehicles, but this is the first we’ve heard a conexpects that data will be available to them anytime, anywhere, even outtractor promise it. side of the plant. If they need access to information, they don’t want to call someone; they want to pull out their phone and see what’s going on.”

How? “BAE systems circumnavigated the globe looking for the optimum partner,” BAE program manager John Swift told me this One way to gain traction with Millennials is to provide access to tools morning. They found Italy’s IVECO, a defense subsidiary of famous they want toFiat use,—not simply those had required to do their said. auto-maker which already a design that metjobs, theWells Marine “Millennials want tothe work in organizations that aremake reflective of their Corps requirement, SuperAV. The Italians will key compothought processes and paradigms,” he explained.

“There is an expectation nents but hull construction and final assembly will take place in BAE’s of having immediacy of information available for whatever they need York, Pennsylvania plant. to do. Providing that can be a competitive tool for attracting new talent as baby boomers retire.”

(Rival SAIC has likewise teamed with Singapore Technologies to offer their Terrex vehicle. Having long favored tracks, the US simply isn’t the leader in wheeled armored fighting vehicles: The two 8×8 machines already in service, the Army Stryker and the Marine LAV, are both derived from the Swiss MOWAG Piranha).

IVECO had long built a family of wheeled armored vehicles for the Italian military.

The Centauro tank destroyer evolved into the Freccia troop carrier, and, most recently, into the SuperAV amphibious vehicle.The Italian Marines, like the Americans, used the 1970s-vintage AAV and knew they needed to replace it.

But while the USMC tried and failed to develop a super-fast amphibious vehicle, a kind of waterskiing tank, the relatively cash-strapped Italians decided to simply upgrade an existing, proven design to an amphibious capability equal to the old AAV. “They designed the 8×8 to be fully amphibious,” Swift said: “a vehicle that could selflaunch and recover from an amphibious ship,” able to move at six knots and endure moderately troubled seas (Sea State 4).

BAE’s ACV offering is simply an upgraded SuperAV, which is, in turn, an upgraded Freccia, which is an upgraded Centauro.

BAE and IVECO took the Italian SuperAV design and tweaked it for the Marines. Most notably, they added bigger tires, upgunned the transmission, and rebored the engine to add 40 percent more horsepower.Those changes allows the ACV to carry more protection, more troops — a full squad of 13 Marines, plus three crew — and more future upgrades, such as bigger gun or add-on armor.

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“By contract we don’t have to deliver vehicles until April, but we want to deliver early,” Swift said. There’s a lot of pride at stake for BAE, said Swift, a retired Marine tanker himself: Since 1941, every Marine Corps amphibious vehicle — including the current AAV — has been built by BAE systems or one of its predecessor companies A2Z MANUFACTURING WEST COAST •

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The Healing Power of the IoT The Internet ofThings (IoT) has been widely celebrated as a game-changing technology for field service and maintenance applications because it allows one device to “talk” to another, communicating when a machine or system could potentially degrade or fail. But what if the “breakdown” is occurring not within a facility or a production process, but within the human body?

That’s exactly the type of IoT application that healthcare products giant Johnson & Johnson is investing in. In fact, the $70 billion, 130-year old manufacturer is in the process of reinventing itself, via an annual spend of $2 billion in technology.

“We see ourselves not only as a healthcare company but also as a technology company because technology is dramatically changing the landscape of what’s possible for us,” says Kathy Wengel, J&J’s chief supply chain officer.

“We approach problems of global health through Big Data and analytics to look at patient populations in different ways, we design smart products and we use technology on an ongoing basis to improve the patient or the customer outcome. And we’re using technology internally as well, in how we run our manufacturing plants and in how we do business.”

At a recent investor meeting, Sandi Peterson, J&J’s executive vice president and group worldwide chairman, outlined the company’s enterprise health technology strategy: • Build a flexible, secure digital business that uses technology to streamline J&J’s core business, build enterprise capabilities and reduce the company’s development cycles.

• Develop smart products that learn by taking in data, analyzing it and adapting it to business needs based on insights from consumers, patients and providers.

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And while IoT investments are not segmented as its own category at J&J, sensor-based technology is having a huge impact on how J&J makes its products as well as on how those products might interact with patients— even, yes, from inside the patient.

Enabling the Shift from Batch to Continuous Manufacturing J&J has 250,000 customers, who account for roughly 100,000 orders per day on a globally balanced scale. The company’s supply chain team, led by Wengel, is responsible for working with J&J’s R&D department to bring to life every product the company makes around the world—more than 300,000 SKUs—and to make those, test those and deliver those to customers worldwide. Over the past year, the supply chain team’s innovation strategy has become much more technology-focused. “Our strategies aren’t just based on where we put our plants or optimizing our logistics networks,”Wengel says, “but are now built around how technology will help change our innovation strategy.”

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pharmaceutical business. For decades, J&J has produced its tablets and pills through a multistage batch process. “After each step we stop, take samples, send them to a laboratory in the plant, wait for the results, and then proceed to the next step,” Wengel explains, noting that the basic process has changed very little over the years.

However, thanks to its adoption of IoT technologies, J&J will reportedly be the first pharma company to win approval from the FDA to shift a product— Prezista, an HIV medication—from batch to continuous manufacturing. That shift is enabled by in-line sensor technology that allows the company to eliminate the separate testing and sampling steps.

Vision for the Future In J&J’s vision care business, work is underway on the development of self-correcting contact lenses and other lens platforms that can provide real-time data on the health of a patient’s eyes.

The company is also using IoT technology to produce contact lenses using one-third the manufacturing space at twice the rate as previously.

Other uses of technology include collaborative robots, which enable complete mimicking of human articulation, allowing collaboration with a human. These robots are being used, for instance, in the support of consumer product manufacturing. J&J also has a joint venture with Verily, Google Alphabet’s Alphabet Inc.’s research organization devoted to the study of life sciences.The two companies are developing a new generation of surgical robots that would integrate medical device technology with robotic systems, imaging and data analytics. The goal of robotics-assisted surgery is to provide surgeons with greater control, access and accuracy during surgical procedures, thereby minimizing patient trauma and scarring while accelerating post-surgical recovery.

On the medical devices front, J&J is exploring the idea of implanting sensors into artificial joints, such as knees or hips, to monitor the range of motion a patient has from the joint while in physical therapy. The success of a joint implant surgery, Wengel notes, comes not just from the procedure itself, but from the preparation before the surgery as well as the rehabilitation afterwards. So the IoT can not only provide data on production machinery but on devices carried within a human being as well.

When it comes to J&J’s customer-focused technology, it’s important that the company is able to track and trace products throughout its extended supply chain as they get handed downstream from manufacturing to a distributor or to a customer. IoT allows J&J to gather data—whether it’s scanned at the patient level in a hospital or on a truck in transit to

its end destination, and now even at the beginning of the raw material stage when might literally be coming out of the ground—to provide a high level of assurance.

You can’t just talk about the IoT without understanding the ecosystem that you’re trying to connect a device to: What is the business question and what is the health question you’re trying to solve with IoT? Therefore, while there’s a lot of cool technology out there, when we introduce a technology into the healthcare value chain, we have to be able to assure that it will repeatably and correctly do what it purports to do.

As Wengel explains, “IoT gives us the ability to make decisions on realtime data in an industry that has often used separate testing that happens over days or weeks, feedback that you’d get customers on a monthly basis. This is a very different world, and IoT is absolutely changing the pace of how we run our supply chains.” Source: Industry Week A2Z MANUFACTURING WEST COAST

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Manufacturing Matters to Our Communities and To U.S. Public Officials You’ve likely used a General Electric refrigerator or an RCA television.

Both were once manufactured in factories employing thousands of my neighbors in Bloomington, Ind. Sadly, both of these plants have closed.

GE rolled out its final side-by-side refrigerator on Aug. 26, 2016 resulting in a loss of over 300 good wage jobs. Bloomington is not alone in dealing with the challenges facing our country’s manufacturing sector.

Now is the time to take decisive steps to bolster U.S. manufacturing, before more plants close and more jobs disappear. Leaders from industry, labor, government and the academic community must work together to forge new policies. They must, jointly, be willing to innovate and experiment on products and markets, and to promote and support a new generation of workers with 21st century skills.

That is the motivation behind Indiana University’s Initiative on Manufacturing and a conference we’re hosting in Washington, D.C. aimed at sending a strong message to the next president and to the new Congress.The reason these leaders are willing to meet inWashington Sept.

14 to hammer out policy proposals is simple: manufacturing is a big deal: • Manufacturers contributed $2.17 trillion to the economy last year, making it by itself one of the world’s top ten largest economies.

Manufactured goods constitute nearly 90% of all U.S. exports.

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the labor force. The vast majority work for small companies, many that are family owned with fewer than 500 employees in addition to larger publicly traded firms like GE and Carrier.

• The U.S. manufacturing sector is far from withering. In fact, from 2013 to 2014, manufacturing employment rose in 40 states. The big winners ranged from Oregon to Ohio, Colorado to Florida and Indiana too.

• Today our nation’s workforce is in transition as it adjusts to retirements and restructuring in industries. Still, there is a growing need for skilled workers. According to a study by Deloitte and the Manufacturing Institute, over the next decade, nearly 3½ million manufacturing jobs will likely be needed and 2 million are expected to go unfilled due to the work skills gap.

Securing an adequate, trained labor force is a priority for manufacturers but far from the only hurdle. The status of current and future trade agreements is uncertain as they’ve become campaign fodder. Another open question concerns regulatory reform. Will the next White House take an aggressive posture on imposing new regulations or adopt a more cautious approach that requires the costs and benefits to align?

The experts connected to the Initiative on Manufacturing are ready to weigh in and offer their advice for the new president. At the Washington conference, we’ll explore topics including: education and manufacturing; international trade, China, and TPP; innovation, entrepreneurship, and energy; manufacturing and national security; manufacturing and tax policy; and manufacturing and regulatory reform.

We’ll produce a list of the most urgent steps the next president should take during his or her first 100 days in office and put these recommendations in the hands of the campaigns and their transition teams. While the leading candidates disagree on most issues, they do agree that strengthening manufacturing is a priority.

So there’s hope. The empty factories may not come roaring back to churn out home appliances for big box stores. But there can be life there. The next step is right in front of us – getting the right mix of policies to go along with our growing understanding that manufacturing still matters.

John D. Graham is the dean of the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University, home of the Manufacturing and Policy Initiative. He is among the speakers at the conference, “What the Next President Should Do About U.S. Manufacturing: An Agenda for the First 100 Days,” on Sept. 14 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Source: The Hill

Northrop Gets $70 Million To Support B-2 Communication System Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. has received a $70 million U.S.Air Force delivery order to support the B-2 Spir it stealth bomber’s satellite communication system.

The cost-reimbursable, firm-fixed-price delivery order covers work on the Spirit’s Ultra High Frequency Satellite Communication Receiver Transmitter program.

The contractor will provide obsolescence resolution to support the aging B-2 fleet.

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The prime B-2 contractor, Northrop is leading an industry team that is working with the service to modernize the fleet to keep it fully mission capable.

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member, says, “High precision, close tolerance parts are our specialty, meeting the requirements of a multitude of industries including aerospace, defense, communications, medical, energy, and electronics.” The company invests the time and money in industry certifications, and they are DFARS, REACH, RoHS, PPAP, Nadcap, and ITAR compliant, and certified to ISO 9001 and AS9100.

When Wensil Seastrom star ted producing a handmade wooden wringer roll bearing in 1928, they sold as fast as they could be turned out. Looking for a solution to the lack of parts at the time, Wensil set the ground work for a company that would continue to lead the pack in manufacturing and offering solutions. 88 years later, companies like Lockheed Martin, UTC, General Electric, Boeing, Raytheon, Honeywell and other aerospace giants utilize Seastrom Manufacturing as a trusted partner in manufacturing.What you may not know about Seastrom Manufacturing is that they are so much more than a washer and fastener manufacturer. In fact, they offer services from engineering design all the way to complete assembly and special packaging of products. Everything is done in house, too, with the exception of special processes. Cash Sigler, has been in sales with the company for 26 years and says, “There isn’t an industry that we don’t touch.”

The company, through its immense custom capabilities formed a subsidiary known as Purely Custom which now designs and manufactures professional fit bikes and tools, as well as personalized bicycle accessories for the bicycle industry. Design engineers are constantly developing new products that are manufactured and assembled on-site to become a finished product. Purely Custom’s full range of software, fit platforms, fit bikes and tools have become the gold standard with bicycle fitting professionals worldwide.

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From their first homemade punch press in 1928, Seastrom manufacturing has become a trusted U.S. manufacturer in the precision stamping industry. Their engineering staff understands the characteristics of each type of material allowing them to assist customers in finding the most economical material for each project.

The company also offers in house secondary services such as deburring and special packaging along with utilizing certified suppliers to produce parts with any type of plating or finish needed for their customers’ specification.

CNC Machining - Seastrom’s CNC milling and turning centers are capable of manufacturing intricate parts that require extreme accuracy and consistency. Seastrom CNC mills have a surface area capacity of 40” x 64” and their CNC lathes can machine parts up to 10” in diameter and can handle large volume work utilizing their pallet pool.

Screw Machining Seastrom Manufacturing utilizes Davenport multispindle screw machines to be able to rapidly produce complex turned

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Seastrom’s multi spindle screw machines are ideal for high-volume production, efficiently producing thousands of parts on a continuous basis with high accuracy, low cycle time, and very little human intervention. This production efficiency is able to drive down the unit cost per interchangeable part as compared to other processes.

Four Slide - Seastrom’s ‘Four Slide’ process provides a unique and cost effective process that combines forming and stamping all in one machine. It is ideal for multi-bend and wrapped parts, such as electrical contacts, flat springs, and spring or component clips. All four-slide tooling is created in-house by Seastrom’s tool and die department, and can be incorporated with other features such as in die tapping capabilities eliminating secondary operations to produce low cost parts.

Waterjet- Seastrom’s waterjet uses a very high-pressure stream of water to achieve both accurate and sophisticated part fabrication. One optimal benefit is that parts can be produced rapidly without additional cost of tooling. Seastrom’s water jet machine has a total bed capacity of 4’x 8’ and has the ability to cut most metallic and non-metallic materials up to 7” thick.

Laser Part Marking - Seastrom Manufacturing utilizes the latest technology in laser engraving. Machining Manager Don Thomson says, “Many government and industrial regulations require clearly legible and permanently marked parts. Our laser engraving process simulates CNC engraving at a fraction of the cost. Metallic and non-metallic materials can be laser engraved with serial or model numbers, or to custom brand your product with your logo.”

machines. From the onset, the company grew year over year, Wesley and Don followed in their father’s steps, taking over the company, and today Wesley’s son Bob runs the family owned corporation. As the need for larger more state of the art facilities arose, the company relocated to Twin Falls, Idaho in 1994, where it resides today. It is 3rd generation family member Bob who launched Purely Custom out of the company’s ability to manufacture just about anything a customer could dream up.

For those who have not been to picturesque Twin Falls, when the company first moved to the city, it was one of very few manufacturers in a largely agricultural city. In fact, city officials in Twin Falls were so delighted to have a manufacturer join their community; they allowed the road to be named Seastrom Street.

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Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett announced the move during his budget speech last month.

“This is more than a positive Milwaukee business story,” Barrett said.

“It’s more than simply good news for the dozens of workers who will be rebuilding and refurbishing train cars. This is an affirmation of Century City as a location for manufacturing.”

The contract with Los Angeles Metro covers the refurbishment of 38 vehicles, with the potential to add 36 more in the future, according to an LA Metro report. Based in Seattle, Talgo would do the overhaul work in Milwaukee and also relocate its global engineering resources to the city for the project, according to the report.

The contract is valued at $72.9 million. Of that, $2.2 million would be done with commitments to hire workers from the Los Angeles area.

The length of the contract is 46 months to complete work on all 74 vehicles. The Los Angeles Metro board of directors approved the contract Sept. 22.

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Milwaukee’s relationship with Talgo stretches back to 2010, when city officials agreed to renovate a vacant building in the Century City business park for Talgo to use for train manufacturing operations.

Those trains were to be built under a contract with the state of Wisconsin.

Talgo built two trains for Wisconsin and two for Oregon in the facility.

It ran out of work there after Wisconsin canceled its order for two trains to run on the never-built high-speed rail service between Milwaukee and Madison. The company officially moved out in 2014

after the Wisconsin officials refused a contract for Talgo to maintain the two trains it built for the state.

Sacramento Green Technology Company Gets Cash Infusion From World’s Largest Platinum Mining Company The South African company that is the world’s largest platinum mining concern has invested in Sacramento green technology company Greyrock Energy Inc. The amount of investment is not being disclosed, said Greyrock CEO Robert Schuetzle, but he said it was a substantial amount for the company.

Greyrock offers systems to build small-scale refineries to convert natural gas or methane into pump-ready diesel fuel in remote locations.

The investment came from Anglo American Platinum Ltd. The Johannesburg-based company is the world’s leading producer of platinum, and also mines diamonds and other precious metals. Anglo American (OTC: ANGPY) has a market capitalization of almost $7 billion.

“We are excited to bring international investment into Sacramento,” Schuetzle said. “This is a large acceleration round for us.” The investment could allow Greyrock to expand its marketing, continue product development and start deploying its equipment. The company’s systems cost from $10 million to $150 million each to deploy.

The benefit of Greyrock’s product is that moving and storing diesel fuel is cheaper and easier than storing or moving natural gas.

Methane and natural gas are byproducts of oil extraction, but the transportation of those gasses is so difficult and expensive that they are usually “flared” or burned in the oil fields.That practice of burning waste gas contributes to the creation of more volatile greenhouse gasses, and wastes energy.

Greyrock is building some of its systems in several locations in the western U.S., along the Gulf Coast and in Canada, Schuetzle said.

The company is also working with Mexican oil and gas producer Compañia Petrolera Perseus to stop flaring of natural gas at oil wells in Mexico.

The Greyrock plants also have the potential to be deployed in Africa, Schuetzle said, adding that there is currently substantial gas flaring occurring there. “It is a huge opportunity for Greyrock,” he said.

Geyrock’s systems also use proprietary catalysts that incorporate metals produced by Anglo American, the two companies said.

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putting it in harmony with the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act. It also promotes work-based learning and allows funds to be used towards the purchase of needed manufacturing equipment, as well as certification exams upon completion of training.”

While most Perkins funds are distributed to schools on a formulaic basis, states can now use up to 15% of their Perkins funding to set up competitive grants programs and experiment with emerging career and technical education (CTE) models.

The Association for Career and Technical Education issued a statement calling the bill’s passage “an important step toward reauthorizing the primary federal legislative investment in Career Technical Education.”

ACTE said the changes would promote more innovation and program alignment, “all within a framework of streamlined administrative requirements and a more intentional focus on local needs.

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House Approves Changes in Workforce Education Funding A bill intended to streamline and add flexibility to the way federal funds for apprenticeships and other workforce training programs are distributed passed the U.S. House of Representatives last month.

If the bill succeeds, the amount of federal workforce funding under the Perkins Career and Technical Education Act would not significantly change: $1.13 billion in 2017, increasing incrementally to $1.21 billion by 2022. But the Perkins funding formula will.

States will have more flexibility in disbursing the funds–which currently are distributed almost strictly to schools. The new bill, called the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act, stipulates that states can use up to 15% of their Perkins funds to set up their own competitive grant programs and career and technical education models that don’t necessarily fall into a traditional school setting.

The Perkins Act, which dates to 1984, has not been updated since 2006.

During that time, K-12 educational models encouraging STEM and other career-specific education have shifted.

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“The legislation will ultimately help fuel the talent pipeline and prepare workers for the high-skill, high-wage, high-demand careers of the 21st century,” the statement read.

The bill now goes to the Senate, where NAM and other organizations are pushing for its passage by the end of the year. Source: Industry Week

Manufacturing Sector Surprises With A Rebound In Production Manufacturing production data suggest the strain on the country’s factories is easing a little output from the sector grew 2.2% in August compared with a year ago, Statistics SA said on Tuesday, accelerating markedly from the tepid 0.4% growth originally reported for July — which was revised to show a contraction of 0.3% in the latest data.

Trading Economics had forecast that output in August would have shrunk 0.6% from a year earlier, while the Bloomberg consensus forecast was for growth of 1.25%.

Manufacturing and mining together contribute about fifth of SA’s gross domestic product (GDP).

Economic growth, and whether the government is doing enough to address impediments to faster growth, are key factors international rating agencies are scrutinising in their reviews of SA’s sovereign credit rating, due in the next two months.

Mining output data are due out shortly. The sector has posted 10 consecutive months of contraction, and is widely expected to contract further, withTrading Economics putting the contraction at 2.56% while the Bloomberg consensus is for a 4.45% contraction.

The sector has been hampered by tepid demand and weak commodity prices by historical standards. Some companies have mothballed mines to minimise costs and losses from the economic slowdown.

The manufacturing sectors that contributed the most to the growth in

August were: • Petroleum, chemical products, rubber and plastic products (growing 4.9% and contributing 1.2 percentage points); • Food and beverages (3.1% and contributing 0.8 percentage points); and • Motor vehicles, parts and accessories and other transport equipment (8.5% and contributing 0.6 percentage points). Source: BLOOMBERG

Building Better Machines For A Better World In his latest Technology Association of Oregon column for the PBJ, Skip Newberry looks at the surprisingly complicated world of manufacturing.

Ponder the humble beer bottle. Where does it come from? If you’ve ever thought about a glass bottle’s origin story, you probably imagine a factory full of bottle-making machines, and let it go at that. However, who makes that bottle-making machine? Or who makes the machine that packs bottles into a box, or that places that box on a pallet?

“People realize that most products are made in factories, and that factories are full of machines,” said David Nichols, co-founder and CEO of Automation Resources Group. “But people who own factories don’t usually make their own machines.They buy those machines from other companies, and those machine-making companies are ARG’s customers.”

Nearly all consumer goods and material product you encounter in life comes from machines, said Nichols. “Machines provide our food, shelter, clothing, energy, transportation, and our smartphones.Without machines, we’d still be living in caves. So if we want a better world, the world needs better machines,” he said.

It’s tricky to describe what ARG does, said Nichols, because what the company does is three levels removed from the products that people have direct experience with at the consumer level. “We deal with the machines that make the stuff that they experience, whether that’s a beer bottle or an airplane,” he said.

Spanning industrial manufacturing and technology ARG bridges the worlds of software, technology and industrial manufacturing, said Nichols. The company serves as Pacific Northwest and northern California distributor for B&R Industrial Automation, an Austrian manufacturer of industrial automation products. In addition to serving as B&R’s representative, ARG offers consultative engineering and software and technical support for the industrial machine makers that use B&R’s products.

“B&R provides control systems and electronics that power machines and robots for companies that design and build machines as their business,” said Nichols. “The analogy that we use is that B&R makes the Lego pieces and ARG helps machine makers put those pieces together to do something amazing. We’re experts at applying custom technologies to those Lego pieces to make a machine that solves a specific problem.”

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Nichols said that Portland also had a lot to offer ARG besides lower business costs. “Portland’s a compact, bike-friendly city, and that’s important to me and the other employees. For a company that works in industrial manufacturing, it may seem funny to hear that working in a walkable neighborhood is a priority for us, but it is.”

ARG has seven full-time employees, plus a handful of contract employees.

In addition to those in the Portland office, several ARG employees work remotely. “The way I sum up our Portland office and remote team philosophy is that we’re semi-nomadic. At any point, we can pack up the yurt and go to some other place on the plains.”

As for future plans, Nichols says that ARG will shortly establish a machine lab in Portland where the team can “build out the next wave of manufacturing technology.” He also plans on hiring at least two or three more employees in the coming year.

“We’ll look wherever we can for talent, including Portland,” says Nichols. “But we’re mostly interested in finding the best people regardless of where they come from. Thankfully, there are a lot of people who would be happy to come to Portland to work for a great company.”

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The hitch: nobody has ever been able to produce the stuff in the volumes needed.

JetBlue Airways Corp., United Continental Holdings Inc. and Richard Branson’s Virgin Group Ltd. have begun blending ecofriendly substitutes into traditional jet fuel made from kerosene.

Even with that backing, there’s still only a handful of producers of the fuels. They lack the capacity to crank out the billions of gallons needed to supply the global aviation fleet, and the pace of investment is slowing.

Even so, airlines are staking their low-carbon future on renewable fuels. The aviation industry, responsible for more than 2 percent of greenhouse gases, is being pushed to act by delegates from 190 nations, who are debating a United Nations accord in Montreal that would cap emissions from international flights. Ultimately, that means burning less fossil fuel.With electric planes still experimental, airlines and aerospace companies say biofuels are their best bet.

“There is a tremendous amount of determination to make biofuel work because we just don’t have any alternative,” Julie Felgar, Boeing Co.’s managing director of environmental strategy and integration, said.

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The biofuel industry currently has enough factories to produce as much as 100 million gallons (378 million liters) of jet fuel annually, said Claire Curry, an analyst at Bloomberg New Energy Finance.

That barely registers next to the more than 83 billion gallons airlines consume each year.

Investments in biofuel, meanwhile, are at a record low, with $322 million in backing globally during the first six months of 2016, according to BNEF. That’s off 64 percent from the first half of 2015 and down 98 percent from a decade ago, when ethanol production for automobiles took off.

“This is still a pipe dream,” Curry said. “No one has figured out how to make these fuels at scale yet. The technologies are really complicated. They often don’t work. And the plants can cost half a billion dollars to build.”

Advocates for renewable jet fuel say the industry will develop after the UN accord takes effect and drives up demand, just as ethanol production boomed in the U.S. after lawmakers passed the Renewable Fuel Standard in 2005. Patrick Gruber, chief executive officer of Gevo Inc., said its jet fuel works, and scaling up is “cookie cutting.”

“We know how to do this,” Gruber said. “We just have to make more production lines.”

His company is based in Englewood, Colorado, and makes renewable fuel from corn and other crops. It’s backed by the French oil company Total SA and has sales agreements with Alaska Air Group Inc. and Deutsche Lufthansa AG. Yet it’s not always easy to scale up biofuel manufacturing, a complex process involving tiny microbes. In 2012, a contamination problem temporarily derailed Gevo’s effor ts to increase output of its primary jet fuel ingredient, isobutanol, at its refinery in Luverne, Minnesota. Gruber said the issues are “well behind us.”

Major oil companies have also struggled to develop cost-effective transportation biofuels. “The smartest minds in my company and others haven’t yet cracked the code on pairing the right feedstock conversion technology and logistics in an economic and scalable package,” Chevron Corp. CEO John Watson said in a 2014 speech.

The aviation industry suppor ts the pending UN accord and has set ambitious environmental goals of its own. Those include improving average fuel efficiency by 1.5 percent a year through 2020 and reducing emissions to half of 2005 levels by 2050. Jet fuel is among airlines’ biggest expenses, and squeezing every last mile from a gallon is crucial to the bottom line. ‘ Creating Demand’ “Airlines are stepping up and creating demand,’’ Sophia Mendelsohn, JetBlue’s head of sustainability, said in an interview.

“It is hard for me to envision a long-term situation where the biofuel industry does not mature and develop.’’

Airlines began testing biofuels in 2008 and have since used them on more than 1,500 passenger flights. JetBlue agreed in September to buy more than 33 million gallons of blended fuel annually, using renewable fuel from S.G. Preston Co. In March, United Continental announced a three-year deal to buy 15 million gallons of biofuel from AltAir Paramount for flights out of Los Angeles.

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The products offered by Solena, Gevo and others are almost chemically identical to kerosene.

They’re considered renewable because their carbon comes from plants that can be re-grown to refresh supplies. Fuels made from petroleum, by contrast, are exhausted when they are burned, releasing carbon into the air.

Environmental Concerns Still, environmental concerns remain. It takes energy to produce biofuel, and emissions from that process may offset gains from using less fossil fuels in the sky. As the industry expands, advocates worry that growing corn and sugar cane for airlines will affect forests, food supplies and water.

Airlines aren’t depending on biofuels alone to cut emissions. They’re also working on more aerodynamic planes, cutting cargo weight, improving air-traffic control procedures and enlisting other technological and operations measures. But in the end, they will also need to wean themselves off petroleum-based fuel.

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Moody’s: Watch For Lockheed And Boeing To Get More Aggressive As India and the U.S. work to deepen military ties, that could be good news for U.S. defense firms like Lockheed and its F-16 fighter jet.

While India may have signed a deal recently with French aircraft manufacturer Dassault Aviation SA for the purchase of 36 Rafale fighter jets, credit analyst firm Moody’s Investors Service expects U.S. fighter jet makers like The Boeing Co. and Lockheed Martin Corp. to begin more aggressively pursuing India as a sales opportunity.

Pacific Ethanol Scores Big On Funding For $10 Million Solar Project Pacific Ethanol Inc. will be using PACE funding to install a $10 million solar project at its ethanol plant in Madera. This is the largest amount of funding ever granted for a commercial project under a PACE, or Property Assessed Clean Energy, program.

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including lower electric costs of $1 million annually, without any up-front investment, all while earning up to a 30 percent federal tax credit. The system also will lower the carbon-intensity score of the ethanol produced at the plant, said Paul Koehler, a company spokesman.

“There are a lot of good features on it for us,” he said. “It pays for itself.”

He also said it makes use of land — that otherwise couldn’t be used — inside a railroad loop at the 165-acre Madera plant.

PACE programs can be used to install energy-efficient windows, heating and air-conditioning systems, solar power, water conservation measures and seismic upgrades.

In this case, Sacramento-based Pacific Ethanol will use PACE financing to install a 5 megawatt photovoltaic system near its Madera biorefinery.

The solar array will reduce the refinery’s electric costs by more than $1 million annually. That means it will be cash-flow positive for Pacific Ethanol from the time it opens, Koehler said.

Additionally, the solar array qualifies for a federal Business Energy Investment Tax Credit, which will allow Pacific Ethanol to get up to a 30 percent tax credit.

Pacific Ethanol owns and operates eight biorefineries in five states.

Solar could be an option for the company’s other locations, Koehler said, but Madera was done first because it would yield the greatest benefit, he added.

Machinists Inc. Provides Critical Components For Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s TANDM Project

By Ian Dunn Lawrence Livermore National Labs is a long standing customer of Machinists Inc. When Lawrence Livermore needed critical parts manufactured for the TANDM (Target and Diagnostic Manipulator) project, they turned to the experts at MI. The National Ignition Facility, or NIF, www.machinistsinc.com/ research-labs.html, is a large laser-based inertial confinement fusion research device, located at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. NIF uses lasers to heat and compress a small amount of hydrogen fuel to the point where nuclear fusion reactions take place.

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The TANDM project allows Lawrence Livermore to have quicker changing of the test articles.

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The T-50A is “the lowest risk option out there from all standpoints,” MarkWard,T-50 chief test pilot for Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, said.

The company is competing with three other teams — Boeing with Saab, Northrop Grumman with BAE Systems and L-3 and Raytheon with Alenia Aermacchi — for the Air Force contract to replace the aging T-38 fleet. The Air Force intends to buy about 350 aircraft and wants an initial operating capability by 2024.

The modified T-50 aircraft features a single GE F404 engine, an optional dorsal aerial refueling capability, a larger cockpit display that can feature F-16 or F-35-style interfaces and updated training software, Ward said.

Stadium seating for the instructor pilot and embedded sensor training are also included, he said.

Two aircraft have already been built, and the first has completed all of its subsonic testing, stability and control testing and ground testing, he said. Lockheed is conducting avionics testing on the second aircraft to ensure the new cockpit’s functionality.

Lockheed benefits from being able to draw on over 100,000 flight hours and data from its T-50 aircraft, Ward said. More than 150 T-50 models have been sold worldwide to countries including South Korea,Thailand, Indonesia, Iraq and the Philippines.

The T-50A is “about 80 percent F-16 designed,” with an F-16-style radar and target display. It also features an F-35 tactical situation display and electronic warfare-style display. The trainer’s head-up display can change from an F-16 style to an F-35/F-22 format “at the push of a screen,” Ward said.

The Boeing/Saab team unveiled their offering for the Air Force’s T-X jet fighter trainer system replacement Sept. 13 at Boeing’s St. Louis, Missouri, facility. Two planes have already been built and will undergo engineering and manufacturing development flight tests in the near future along with three more planes, according to Boeing.

The Raytheon/Alenia Aermacchi group is submitting the T-100, based on the Italian company’s M-346. Northrop Grumman is partnering with BAE Systems and L-3 to submit a clean sheet design for the T-X program.

Analysts are predicting that the global trainer market will nearly double over the next decade.The Teal Group — an aerospace and defense market analysis firm — released its annual Trainer/Light Attack Aircraft Market, predicting a near-50 percent increase in turbine trainer aircraft over the next 10 years.

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Horizon Air, CWU Partnering In Order To Recruit More Future Pilots With about 650 flight hours logged, Gage Geist is more than halfway to 1,000 hours of flight experience.

The four-digit mark has become important of late for Geist, as once he hits 1,000 the 22-year-old will be eligible for a guaranteed flight job with Horizon Air. The Ellensburg flight instructor and 2016 Central Washington University graduate expects to hit 1,000 in four to five months.

“After spending all these funds on training, it’s nice to know that there is light at the end of the tunnel,” said Geist, who estimates spending $60,000 in flight training costs.

Geist is one of 17 current or recentlybgraduated students in CWU’s aviation program who each just received a $7,500 stipend for flight training costs, along with a guaranteed job with the regional airline. It is the ambitious plan of CWU and Horizon’s parent company, Alaska Air Group, to increase interest in the pilot profession as future demand

calls for more aviators.

“They want to use this development program as a pipeline to bring in qualified pilots,” said aviation department chair Sundaram Nataraja. “It’s a win-win situation for the students, the university, and the airlines.This is prestigious for us; shows how high-quality our program is.”

A study from Boeing predicts a massive demand for pilots in the next two decades. According to Boeing, the aviation industry will need to supply more than 2 million new aviation personnel from 2016 to 2035, including 617,000 commercial airline pilots. In North America alone, the aviation giant estimates a need for 112,000 pilots.

A number of factors, such as baby boomer pilots reaching retirement age, greater and affordable access to air travel, expensive flight training costs, and a reduced interest in the career, come into play when addressing future demand for pilots.

“There is so much debt that students accumulate (in flying), it’s not uncommon for students to have significant debt in excess of $80,000, $100,000, along with tuition and board,” said Lamar Haugaard, director of pilot development and recruiting for Horizon Air. “It is an extremely expensive profession to get into.”

The pilot development program between CWU and Horizon expands on the concept of traditional hiring agreements by adding a financial incentive.The stipend is intended for flight instructor costs. It may not pay all, but it assists.

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Siemens Plant In Sacramento Gets $554 Million Order For 122 Light Rail Cars Siemens AG’s Sacramento factory has been awarded a $554 million contract to build 122 new light rail cars for Sound Transit of Seattle.

Sound Transit wants to receive its first cars starting in 2019.

Siemens’s factory in Sacramento employs about 1,000 people.The 30-year-old manufacturing plant makes train cars, locomotives, light rail and rolling stock.

The Seattle-area transit system is in the process of tripling its current fleet of trains as it adds new light rail lines to the north, east and south over the next seven years.The system now has 62 cars. In 2008, voters in the Seattle area approved 30 miles of extensions to the suburbs of Lynnwood, Bellevue, Redmond and Kent. Since SoundTransit added new lines this year, its ridership has increased. Sound Transit averaged 63,577 weekday riders in the second quarter of 2016, a 76 percent increase over the same time the previous year.

“We’ll be manufacturing the vehicles at our Sacramento manufacturing hub, which now has 1,000 employees,” said Annie Satow, spokeswoman with Siemens via e-mail.

“These vehicles will be built on the West Coast, for the West Coast, and will help SoundTransit continue their tradition of excellent service for the region’s growing number of light rail passengers,” said Michael Cahill, president of Siemens Rolling Stock, in a news release. Source: Sacramento Business Journal

A-1 Machine Gets Graycliff Funding For Product, Service Development A-1 Machine Manufacturing has raised an undisclosed amount from Graycliff Partners.

CEO Dan Rubin heads up the Santa Clara-based company, which was founded more than 30 years ago to make machine components and systems for the flat-panel display and semiconductor equipment markets. The company’s products range from single components to full-scale manufacturing equipment and systems.

In addition to its Santa Clarita headquarters, the company also maintains operations in San Jose and Incheon, South Korea.The company has grown to 150 employees and offers machining capabilities, welding, sheet metal, turnkey assembly, chemical cleaning and anodizing .

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“Having partners like Graycliff and Dan Rubin join the A-1 team will enhance the company’s ability to grow and become more global,” Yong Pak, founder of A-1, said in a press release. “We intend to add more value to our existing customers and provide world-class solutions to new customers.”

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Blue OriginTo Follow Suborbital New Shepard With Orbital New Glenn

Jeff Bezos announced that Blue Origin is developing a family of orbital rockets it’s calling New Glenn.

Both the two-stage and three-stage versions of the rocket would stand taller than the United Launch Alliance Delta 4 Heavy and SpaceX Falcon Heavy, according to the infographic the Blue Origin and Amazon.com founder tweeted.

Both New Glenn 2 and New Glenn 3 would be powered by a cluster of seven liquid-natural-gas-fueled BE-4 engines of the sort the Kent, Washington-based company is currently developing for United Launch Alliance’s planned Vulcan semi-reusable rocket.

“Building, flying, landing, and re-flying New Shepard has taught us so much about how to design for practical, operable reusability,” Bezos wrote in a recent email. “And New Glenn incorporates all of those learnings.”

“Named in honor of John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth, New Glenn is 23 feet in diameter and lifts off with 3.85 million pounds of thrust from seven BE-4 engines. Burning liquefied natural gas and liquid oxygen, these are the same BE-4 engines that will power United Launch Alliance’s new Vulcan rocket.

“The 2-stage New Glenn is 270 feet tall, and its second stage is powered by a single vacuum-optimized BE-4 engine. The 3-stage New Glenn is 313 feet tall. A single vacuum-optimized BE-3 engine, burning liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, powers its third stage.

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Lockheed Gets $395 Million GPS III Space Vehicle Contract Modification Lockheed Martin Space Systems has been awarded a $395 million U.S. Air Force contract modification for work on the GPS III Space Vehicle program.

The deal covers space vehicles 9 and 10.

Work will be performed in Colorado.The expected completion date is August 2022.The Space and Missile Systems Center is the contracting activity.

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Show Me The Money The U.S. Navy awarded Northrop Grumman Corp. a $108.1 million contract to buy 10 Fire Scout unmanned helicopters.

One third of the work will be conducted in Northrop Grumman’s Rancho Bernardo office, where the company manages all of its unmanned aircraft programs. Substantial work will be done in Ozark, Ala.; Fort Worth, Texas; and Moss Point, Miss.

The helicopters will be the larger variety of Fire Scout. The so-called MQ-8C is a Bell model 407 helicopter with added hardware and software that lets it operate autonomously. Its cockpit windows are blanked out and it carries a sensor turret under its nose.

The Naval Air Systems Command of Patuxent River, Md. awarded the contract.

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Hampshire, is being awarded a not-to-exceed $618,343,700 firmfixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinitequantity contract for the procurement of Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System II full-rate production Lots 5 through 7 in support of the Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force, and governments of Iraq, Lebanon, Netherlands, Jordan, and Australia under the Foreign Military Sales program.

This effort will include WGU-59/B units to upgrade the current 2.75-inch rocket system to a semi-active laser guided precision weapon. Work will be performed in Nashua, New Hampshire (70 percent); and Austin, Texas (30 percent), and is expected to be completed in December 2018.

Funds will not be obligated at time of award.

Funding will be obligated on individual delivery orders as they are issued. This contract was not competitively procured pursuant to 10 U.S. Code 2304(c) (1). The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity (N00019-17-D-5517).

R o l l s - R oy c e E n g i n e S e r v i c e s Oakland Inc., Oakland, California, is being awarded an $18,571,295 modification (P00003) to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price, indefinitedelivery/indefinite-quantity contract (N00019-13-D-0019) to exercise an option for the depot repair of T56-A-427 engines, including the repair of power sections, torque meters, gearboxes, and accessories in support of the E-2 Advanced Hawkeye aircraft. Work will be performed in Oakland, California (97 percent); Indianapolis, Indiana (2 percent); Jacksonville, Florida (0.34 percent); Rocky Mount, North Carolina (0.33 percent); and Mentor, Ohio (0.33 percent), and is expected to be completed in September 2017.

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Innovative processes and methods eventually become the norm.Your competitors copy and improve upon your inventions.And customers constantly expect better quality from your products. It’s a constantly moving target.

So, if the methods that manufacturers use to remain competitive and the temporary nature of any competitive differentiation achieved have always been the same, then what’s changed? In a nutshell: speed.

Thanks to the latest technological advances (cloud, 3D printing, Manufacturing-as-a-Service) and new practices such as crowdfunding/sourcing, the means of intellectual production, physical production, and commercialisation are becoming more accessible to individuals and smaller companies.

The playing field is levelling, and startups and entrepreneurs can compete with the incumbents and bring innovation to market – in some cases even faster. A student is just as likely to change the world as a multinational.

As a result, established manufacturing companies now face a new group of competitors – some of whom they haven’t even met yet. In an environment where flexibility, agility, innovation and tolerance for risk are competitive advantages, startups and smaller companies have a real edge compared to larger, traditional, more established manufacturing firms.

That said, newcomers and incumbents can coexist if they play up to their unique strengths. Specifically, newcomers focusing on developing products with high innovation content, targeted to smaller markets, with very short product lifecycles; and incumbents focusing on products that require more know-how, established supply chains, brand recognition, and can survive longer product lifecycles.

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The Manufacturer’s Secret Weapon Scouting New Plateaus – Scout Systems Makes Their National Debut.

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revolutionizing manufacturing. The threepart system has been beta tested for over six months and now there are several systems up and running in the Pacific Northwest with astounding success and customer satisfaction. In every installation the Scout Systems applications have dramatically reduced training costs, and assembly and machine cycle times while improving quality and reducing costly mistakes. The most valuable component is the 100% record of every second of any process for analysis to improve efficiencies and analyze workloads and forecasting. The goal with each installation is a short ROI and improved profit margins – a huge two point conversion for any manufacturing team.

In spite of Bureau of Labor statistics we still have a high level of unemployed men and women in need of jobs. With Scout Systems in place you can hire someone with no previous manufacturing experience and virtually train them at a machine or assembly bench and have them effectively producing by the end of their first shift.The system eliminates wasted moves and improves productivity.You have just dramatically reduced one of the highest costs of a new hire – training.

The photos in this article are not glamour shots. They show newly completed Compass kiosk systems, durably housed in black anodized finish, and the system at an assembly work station at a recent customer installation. As you can see, the system can easily be moved to multiple locations throughout your manufacturing area, or set up to work in nearly any configuration.

Scout Systems will be rolling out their system on the national stage at The Assembly Show on October 25 - 27 in Rosemont, IL. For more information about Scout Systems or to schedule a live demonstration, visit www.scout.systems. Or contact Ben Marsh at 253-329-2460 or email ben@scout.systems.

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First designed in the 1960s at the height of the Cold War, the Minuteman nuclear weapons are starting to show their age, and replacement parts are difficult to find for the weapons designed in an analog age.

Also aging are their silos, many built in the 1950s and now rusting as water seeps through the decaying concrete.

Over the next 20 years, the U.S. Air Force will switch out the entirety of its Minuteman III fleet with an as-yet-unnamed new missile known only as the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD).

The Air Force estimates the cost of the GBSD, to be introduced late in the 2020s and phased in over the following decade, will be around $86 billion over the missiles’ life cycle of about 50 years.

Critics point to the Defense Department’s long history of projects going way over budget and say the cost of replacing the nukes and maintaining their launch facilities is not warranted, given the tactical threats the United States currently faces.

The Air Force “doesn’t know how we are going to afford this,” said Laicie Heeley, a nuclear expert at the Stimson Center, a nonpartisan anti-nuclear proliferation think tank in Washington.

“Nuclear is crowding out more conventional systems that are (better suited to) the threats of today.”

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Call Us Today For A Competitive Quote! www.tvtdiecast.com 800-280-2278 The Air Force issued requests for proposals in July for vendors to replace the Minuteman, named after colonial militiamen who eventually fought against the British in America’s Revolutionary War. The prize will likely go to one of the three U.S. defense giants: Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Boeing, and the new missile will be equipped with state-of-the-art electronics while being protected from any cyber threats.

America’s intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) are just one leg of its “triad” -- a three-pronged nuclear attack force also comprising submarines and bombers.

The Pentagon wants to replace or modernize all three legs of the triad, at a cost experts estimate will hit $1 trillion over the next 30 years.

“We flat can’t afford it. And from a priorities standpoint, it’s the wrong priority in the world that we face,” Democratic Congressman Adam Smith told aWashington forum last week, noting that the ICBM force is the part of the triad best suited for reduction.

The lawmaker said countries like China are able to boast a “spectacular deterrent” with far fewer nuclear weapons.

“What they have is enough to say ‘Don’t screw with us, or we will obliterate you,’” he said, adding that even if the United States were to enter a major nuclear fight, “we’re pretty much all toast anyways.”

The Pentagon insists it is imperative to push ahead with a complete overhaul of America’s nuclear force.

While the United States and Russia signed a treaty in 2010 to reduce the numbers of nuclear launchers, Moscow is modernizing its own triad.

“The Russians, the Chinese, the North Koreans are upgrading all of their systems,” an Air Force official told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the nuclear program.

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Another Air Force official said many of the vendors who first built or equipped the missile silos have long gone out of business, making it an arduous task to find replacement parts.

He said he’d heard anecdotes of colleagues scouring Ebay or other sites looking for antique components.

The Minuteman fleet is currently dotted across locations in North Dakota, Wyoming and Montana

Lockheed Gets $171 Million Hypersonic Cruise Missile Contract Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $171 million U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency contract for work on the Hypersonic Air-Breathing Weapon Concept, or HAWC, program.

The cost-plus-fixed fee contract covers an undisclosed research project that falls under the program.

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The demonstrations seek to open up new possibilities for long-range strike capabilities against time-critical or heavily defended targets.

It intends to emphasize efficient, rapid and affordable flight tests to validate key technologies.

Last month, Lockheed received a $147 million contract for work on another hypersonic project, DARPA’s Tactical Boost Glide program.

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Raytheon Receives $254 Million Joint Precision Approach And Landing System Contract

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Raytheon has been awarded a $254 million U.S. Navy contract for work on the Joint Precision Approach and Landing System, or JPALS.

Doing more with less is a common phrase in industry today. It seems like everyone is doing the work of two or three people either because they feel they have to, or they feel it’s necessary for job security. However, overworked employees may not be as focused.They’re also more prone to making costly mistakes and miss the social interactions and connections that lead to creative or innovative solutions. Is working harder and longer the answer to our economic problems, or a slippery slope that is causing more harm than good?

The cost-plus-incentive-fee contract will cover the design, development, manufacture, integration, demonstration and test of the system.

It will utilize and continue development of eight existing engineering development models and deliver two additional models to support fleet early operational capability requirements for F-35B/C jet and MQ-25 drone test and initial operational requirements aboard aircraft carriers and amphibious assault ships.

The contract will also deliver weapons replaceable assemblies, a technical data package and provide developmental test and operational test support.

Work will be performed in California, Iowa, Massachusetts and Indiana.

The expected completion date is September 2022.

The Naval Air Systems Command is the contracting activity.JPALS is an all-weather landing system based on differential GPS for land-based and sea-based aircraft.

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To keep jobs in America, experts have said we need to focus on production versus cost. However, I am reminded of Henry Ford. In the early 1900s, things didn’t look too great for the average American. There were big names such as Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Carnegie, and the house of Morgan pushing workers hard and paying them little. Injuries mounted as tired men worked long hours. Dr. W. David Lewis from Auburn University’s Department of History said in an interview with the History Channel, “The standard work week in the steel industry was 84 hours per week. For 84 hours of brutal labor in the steel mill, [workers were often paid] less than $10 a week.”

This was a time of low income taxes and little government oversight.

The key to success was to get as much out of the workers as possible while reducing wages and eliminating competition to form a monopoly.

The Association of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers (ALAM) was

considered one of these monopolies.

They patented the gasoline-powered vehicle that gave them dominion over the new industry.

For tunately, Ford didn’t listen to ALAM. Even though the organization rejected his proposal to manufacture vehicles, he built his factory and started producing cars anyway. ALAM sued and interestingly, the courts favored “the little guy” —Ford (at the time). This was important to Ford’s model, as royalties demanded by ALAM would have made his cars too expensive for common people. This was a huge win, but was the ALAM justified in trying to collect royalties? There was a lot of controversy and corruption that led many to believe that ALAM was one of the original patent trolls.

Regardless, this case opened the doors to car manufacturers and launched Ford’s model of increasing production and lowering cost.

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In contrast to the business model at the time, Ford paid his employees well and offered a shorter workday to grow productivity, talent, and local economies. If the masses can’t afford your product, mass producing it doesn’t sound like a great idea.

To bolster productivity and innovation today, it may help if we shift employment to more of a Ford-based model. We also need to invest more heavily in employee training and support. Automation and IIoT are replacing lower-skill positions, but generating more work and a need for skilled employees. If companies don’t support continued education and training, it might be increasingly difficult to find qualified employees.

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Airline Industry Is Hitting Sustained Growth Stride, CEOs Say Visit

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AIM Aerospace in a transaction valued at $220 million.

Michael Richter, head of the Lazard U.S. Aerospace & Defense investment banking group in Los Angeles, called Washington state one of the prime investment spots for the North American aerospace industry. “Seattle remains one of the hot-spots for aerospace investments in 2015 and beyond.”

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“We decided to partner with Acorn Growth Companies because we strongly believe that together we can continue to build on our legacy of delivering innovative products while growing our footprint beyond the markets we serve today,” said Raisbeck in a statement. Source: Puget Sound Business Journal

Boeing Sells 28 Wide-Body Jets To Saudi Arabian Airlines In $8 Billion Deal

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James Raisbeck, founder and chairman of Raisbeck Engineering, has sold Raisbeck Engineering Inc., one of the state’s best-known aerospace manufacturers, has been acquired by an Oklahoma City-based private equity firm.

Acorn Growth Companies, which invests exclusively in aerospace and defense companies, picked up Tukwila-based Raisbeck as its first acquisition from its fourth private equity fund. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Jim Raisbeck incorporated his company in 1982 after a long career with Boeing, Robertson Aircraft Co. and even doing contract work for Rockwell. Raisbeck Engineering has created a series of add-ons for existing aircraft that increase performance and add new capabilities, including cargo space and reduce noise.While most of the company’s products are for corporate aircraft, it also has created parts for commercial aircraft, including a sound reduction system for Boeing 727s and the hardened cockpit security system for the 737s.

The national airline of the Saudi government said the order includes fifteen 777-300ER (extended range) jets and thirteen 787 Dreamliners as part 8:47 PM of a sweeping fleet modernization and expansion.

Boeing makes both models in its Everett factories, so the order boosts what has been a slow market for global wide-body jet sales in 2016.

Two of Boeing’s top executives suggested in recent months that they may have to cut production without new sales by the end of the year.

Sulaiman Alhamdan, Saudi Arabia’s transportation minister and the airline’s chairman, announced the country’s aircraft purchases on the country’s national holiday Friday, saying the shopping spree aims to upgrade the airline’s operational efficiency and effectiveness while improving its “ total customer experience.”

Boeing’s jet sale emerged on the same day President Barack Obama vetoed legislation in Congress that would have allowed families of 9/11 victims to sue the Saudi Arabian government for any role it may have played in the terrorist attacks.

The sale of Raisbeck Engineering to Acorn is just the latest in a string of acquisitions of aerospace suppliers. Aerospace conglomerates have been gobbling up suppliers since 2011, as we reported earlier this year in “Suppliers in demand: Inside the end of local ownership for Washington aerospace suppliers.”

Alhamdan also announced the Kingdom was buying 35 Airbus aircraft, including A320s and A321neo (new engine option) jets. No further details about the Airbus order were provided.

Earlier this year, Liberty Hall Capital Partners complete its acquisition of

The Saudi airline said its aircraft purchases will help grow its fleet from

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119 to to 200 aircraft by 2020 and move 45 million passengers a year on 1,000 daily flights around the world.

Alhamdan said the airline would take 30 jet deliveries in 2017, an unprecedented number in its 71 year history.

Part of the Boeing and Airbus purchases include plans to train Saudi workers so they’re prepared operate and maintain the new aircraft, said Saleh Aljasser, Saudi Arabian Airline’s director general of engineering.

Aljasser said the airline signed an agreement with the Saudi Arabia Ministry of Education to provide 5,000 scholarships to send Saudi students to study aviation and aircraft maintenance abroad.

The airline said it has removed four Boeing 747-400 aircraft from service this year and plans to phase out 23 Boeing 777-200s from its fleet in 2016 and 2017.

Lockheed Reveals GBSD Partners; Northrop, Boeing Silent

open to bids that feature mobile control sites as part of the proposal.

The Lockheed GBSD offering teams the world’s largest defense company with General Dynamics, which will focus on weapon system command and control; Draper Laboratories, which will help develop the guidance navigation and control systems; Moog, to provide the cross-vector control systems; and Bechtel, to help develop the launch facilities.

For the propulsion, Lockheed is working with both Aerojet Rocketdyne and Orbital ATK in order to find the best options for the engine. Karas said Lockheed is hoping to use “competition” to help drive down costs between the two companies.

He added that “probably late in the process” Lockheed plans to “select the right vendors for the right stages” but cautioned against calling it a down-selection. “I think it could be a mix of suppliers, it could be one supplier, it’s just too early to tell.”

Lockheed’s announcement stands in contrast to its two competitors for the program, both of which declined to name partners.

Lockheed Martin revealed the industry partners on its bid to design America’s next intercontinental ballistic missiles, as competitors Northrop Grumman and Boeing are staying silent on their teams.

In a statement, Boeing spokesman Jerry Drelling confirmed that the company submitted its plan to the Air Force and notes that the company created the Minuteman ICBM in 1958. However, the company declined to reveal its partners.

John Karas, Lockheed Martin vice president and Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) program manager, also revealed that the Air Force is

Similarly, Northrop confirmed its participation in the competition but declined to name its partners.

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Indestructable Keyboards 800-335-8437 Byte Box_____________888-bytebox US Shop Tools _________800-243-7701 Von Ruden Manufacturing, Inc.763-682--3122 Inserts Machine Tool Cool Filtration Horizon Carbide________602-524-3802 Swift Tool Co, Inc. _______800-562-0900 Cutting Tool Control Inc. ____ 206-617-2201 Wohlhaupter________937-503-4708 DCM Tech __________ 800-533-5339 Jaws S.L. Fusco San Leandro ____510-895-9000 EDM Network _________ 480-836-1782 S.L. Fusco R. Dominguez ___ 310-868-1010 US Shop Tools _________ 800-243-7701 S.L. Fusco National City ____619-477-7733 Star Metal Fluids ______ 800-367-9966 Keyseat Cutters Tool Technology, Inc. _____ 800-335-8437 Fullerton Tool Company____ 303-478-3497 Manufacturing Systems Live Centers Royal Products ________ 631-273-1010 MP Industrial ________ 800-759-4282 Milling & Turning Products Load Unload Systems Von Ruden Manufacturing, Inc.763-682--3122 Edge Technologies ______ 314-692-8388 Modular Multi-Boring System Lubricants / Systems Wohlhaupter ________ 937-503-4708 Cutting Tool Control Inc. ____ 206-617-2201 Modular Spray Systems DCM Tech ___________800-533-5339 Hangsterfer’s _________ 316-640-2462 Swift Tool Co, Inc. ______ 800-562-0900 Optical Mouse-Silicone Based Hangsterfer’s _________ 760-580-1357 Byte Box____________ 888-bytebox S.L. Fusco San Leandro ____510-895-9000 Packaging/Shipping Supplies S.L. Fusco R. Dominguez ___ 310-868-1010 Alliance Packaging _____ 206-445-5898S.L. Fusco National City ____ 619-477-7733 Parts Washing Equipment Star Metal Fluids _______800-367-9966 Ebbco Inc ___________800-809-3901 Swift Tool Co, Inc. _______800-562-0900 DCM Tech __________ 800-533-5339 Tool Technology, Inc. _____ 800-335-8437 Pnuematic Manufacturing SysMachine Tool Acccessories tems MP Industrial _________800-759-4282 MP Industrial ________ 800-759-4282 Swift Tool Co, Inc. _______ 800-562-0900 Tool Technology, Inc. ___________

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JEFF HALL Principal

Machine Tool

Pacific Northwest

President

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

RyansDovetails.com _____________ 253-876-9981 Drills/Reamers/Taps Bilz USA ___________________ 224-563-7233 S.L. Fusco San Leandro ___________ 510-895-9000 S.L. Fusco R. Dominguez ___ 310-868-1010 S.L. Fusco National City _____619-477-773 Swift Tool Co, Inc. _______ 800-562-0900 Wohlhaupter _________937-503-4708 EDM Materials & Supplies Desert EDM ___________480-816-6300 EDM Network _________480-836-1782 EDM Performance _______800-336-2946 Global EDM Supply ______800-676-7336

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

www.vonruden.com

Driven Tooling for the Machine Tool Industry

Made in USA

Metal Fabrication Machine Tools

Serving WA, OR, ID, MO, IL, KS, OK, AR, IA

Seattle 360-434-8844 Fax 866-457-2103 jeffh@iconmachinetool.com www.iconmachinetool.com

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Exclusive provider of OKUMA

Marc Goerlich Business Manager

GOSIGER NORTHWEST 21911 68TH Ave South Kent, WA 98032

C 253.278.1110

E marc.goerlich@gosiger.com www.gosiger.com

Polycrystalline Diamond (PCD) Fullerton Tool Company____303-478-3497 Precision Bearings C & M Precision Spindle, Inc._ 503-691-0955 Probing Systems Sherpa Design________ 503-771-3570 Punch Die Tooling Dayton Lamina. ________708-203-6684 Safety Products US Shop Tools _________800-243-7701 Saw Blades & Replacement Parts Rocky Mountain Saw Blades 303--761-3000 Roentgen USA _________760--900-1110 SawBlade.com________ 800--240-2932 Solvents & Degreasing Agents DCM -Tech __________ 800-533-5339 Solvents: Vapor degreasing Star Metal Fluids _______800-367-9966 Solvents:Hand Wipe Star Metal Fluids _______800-367-9966 Solvents: Mil PRF 680 Star Metal Fluids _______800-367-9966 Spindles Setco-Pope Spindles _____ 866-362-0699 Stamping Tooling Dayton Lamina. ________708-203-6684 Tooling Pins & Bushings Dayton Lamina. ________708-203-6684 Torque Manufacturing Systems MP Industrial ________ 800-759-4282 Tool Sharpening (Grinding) Applications Specialities ____253-872-0305 Swift Tool Co, Inc. _______800-562-0900 Tooling Systems Applications Specialities ____253-872-0305

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Bilz USA ____________ 224-563-7233 Cutting Tool Control Inc. ____ 206-617-2201 Horizon Carbide________ 602-524-3802 MP Industrial _________ 800-759-4282 Rosco Precision Machinery __ 253-333-2439 RyansDovetails.com______ 253-876-9981 S.L. Fusco San Leandro ____ 510-895-9000 S.L. Fusco R. Dominguez ___ 310-868-1010 S.L. Fusco National City ____ 619-477-7733 Von Ruden Manufacturing, Inc. 763-682--3122 Western Sintering _______ 509-375-3096 Vises & Vise Jaws RyansDovetails.com ______ 253-876-9981 Workholding Applications Specialities ____ 253-872-0305 Innovative Tool Sales _____ 714-780-0730 MESCO ______________626-303-5680 APPRENTICESHIPS & TRAINING Aerospace & Advanced Manufacturing Apprenticeships AJAC ______________ 206-737-8342 Machining Apprenticeships AJAC ______________ 206-737-8342 Precision Metal Fabrication Apprenticeships AJAC ______________ 206-737-8342 Training & Education AJAC ______________ 206-737-8342 BANKING

DOOR SYSTEMS Automatic Door opening Systems Midaco Corporation ______847-593-8420 ERP SOFTWARE

VIision 33 ___________ 206-456-5185 Business Management Software Solutions DCM Tech ___________ 800-533-5339 Grinders, Rotary VIision 33 ___________ 206-456-5185 CNC Machine Services _____ 425-788-4500 FINANCING Silicon & Quartz Pacific Continental Bank ___ 503-310-3604 DCM Tech ___________ 800-533-5339 U.S. Bank Equipment _____ 800-810-0038 FORK LIFTS Punch & Die Bixby Machine Tool Supply __ 509-534-1208 DCM Tech ___________ 800-533-5339 GARNET INSPECTION EQUIP GMA Garnet Group ______832-243-9300 Cutting Tool Control Inc. ____ 206-617-2201 GRINDING King Machine Inc. _______ 509-435-6741 Custom Machines Campbell Grinders Co. ____480-370-3800 OGP _____________ 480-889-9056 DCM Tech ___________ 800-533-5339 Perceptron___________ 734-414-6100 Sharp Machine Tool 310-944-8016 Grinding Rosco Precision Machinery __ 206-818-6813 Filtration S.L. Fusco San Leandro ____ 510-895-9000 S.L. Fusco San Leandro ____ 510-895-9000 S.L. Fusco R. Dominguez ___ 310-868-1010 S.L. Fusco R. Dominguez ___ 310-868-1010 S.L. Fusco National City ____ 619-477-7733 S.L. Fusco National City ____ 619-477-7733 Swift Tool Co, Inc. ______ 800-562-0900 Grinding Machines Verisurf ____________ 714-381-2322 Bixby Machine Tool Supply __ 509-534-1208 3D CAD for CMM CNC Machine Services _____ 425-788-4500 Perceptron___________ 734-414-6100 DCM Tech ___________ 800-533-5339 Verisurf ____________ 714-381-2322 Quick Turn Financial _____ 415-608-5692 CMM Probes Ellison Technologies ______ 206-669-3578 Pacific Continental Bank ___ 503-310-3604 Perceptron ___________ 734-414-6100 Gosiger _____________937-586-5067 U.S. Bank Equipment _____ 800-810-0038 Machine Toolworks ______ 800-426-2052 OGP _____________ 480-889-9056 BUSINESS MANAGEMENT Coordinate Measuring Mach.

North-South Machinery ____ 253-333-2439 SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS Perceptron ___________ 734-414-6100 North Western Machinery ___ 206-583-2333 Vision 33 ______ 303-937-6543 Ext. 353 Performance Machine Tools___510-249-1000 OGP _____________ 480-889-9056 CAD TRAINING Laser Trackers Sharp Machine Tool ______ 310-944-8016 Metrology Instruments Streamingteacher.com Guard & Vacuum Pedestals For Perceptron___________ 734-414-6100 CNC PROGRAMING TRAINING Grinders OGP _____________ 480-889-9056 Streamingteacher.com Midaco Corporation ______ 847-593-8420 Optical Comparators DISIGN FOR MANUFACTURABILITY Sharp Machine Tool ______ 310-944-8016 Perceptron ___________ 734-414-6100 3-D Plastics, Inc. ________ 503-720-0572 Aircraft brake rotor

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2016

Al Statz - M&AMI,ASA,CBA

Carlos R. Lugo Sales Manager

Exit Strategies Group, Inc.

Business Sales, M&A and Valuation Services

531 E Washington Street Petaluma, California 94952 707. 7 78 .204 0 707. 292. 275 0 cell 707. 2 38 .1415 fax alstatz@exitstrategiesgroup.com www.exitstrategiesgroup.com

CA I D# 01338013

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1222 S. Weller St. Seattle, WA 98144 www.nwmachinery.org

Doug Banks Sales Manager

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Cell: 503-351-8692

(206) 583-2333 Fax (206) 583-0698 Cell (206) 898-6900 clugo@nwmachinery.org

Office: 800.523.2549 Fax: 503.620.1911 17605 SW 65th Ave. Lake Oswego, Or. 97035 dbanks@faheyinc.com www.faheyinc.com

Ray Elledge David Olson

Sales Manager Director of Sales & Marketing Verisurf Software, Inc. Verisurf Inc. 4907 E. Landon Drive 4907 Anaheim, CA 92807 Anaheim, www.verisurf.com www.verisurf.com

Toll Free 888.713.7201 714.970.1683 x39 Office Phone +1(714) 970-1683 x107 714.701.0280 Mobile Fax +1(714) 381-2322 david.olson@verisurf.com ray.elledge@verisurf.com

OGP _____________ 480-889-9056 Particle Inspection Mach DCM Tech ___________ 800-533-5339 INSURANCE Business Insurance Solutions Sentry Insurance _______ 877-373-6879 MACHINERY/MACHINE TOOLS Boring Mills Rosco Precision Machinery __ 253-333-2439 Bridgeport Parts Desert EDM ___________480-816-6300 CNC Controls & Retro Fits Rosco Precision Machinery __ 253-333-2439 CNC Lathes Chevalier USA _________ 562-903-1929 CNC Machine Services _____ 206-999-3232 Desert EDM ___________480-816-6300 Ellison Technologies ______ 206-669-3578 Ganesh Machinery ______ 888-542-6374 Gosiger ____________ 937-586-5067 King Machine Inc. _______ 509-435-6741 Machine Toolworks ______ 800-426-2052 Methods Machine Tools Inc. __ 714-292-9384 North-South Machinery ____ 253-333-2439 North Western Machinery ___ 206-583-2333 Romi Machine Tools, Ltd ____ 480-510-4146 Rosco Precision Machinery __ 253-333-2439 Santa Cruz Electronics _____ 831-479-5444

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

1-866-466-8298 Sales Manager OFFICE 630-587-0505 CELL 206-972-6215 1900 EAST TYLER ROAD E-MAIL rherling@fab-line.com BUILDING 800 www.fab-line.com ST. CHARLES, IL 60174 USA

Selway Machine Tool _____503-314-3165 503-314-3165 Selway Machine Tool _____ 425-931-1680 Sharp Machine Tool ______ 310-944-8016 Summit Machine Tool _____ 800-654-3262 3 , 4, & 5 Axis CNC Mills Automatics & Machinery Co., Inc303-990-6190 Bixby Machine Tool Supply __509-534-1208 Methods Machine Tools Inc. __ 714-292-9384 CNC Machine Services _____ 206-999-3232 North-South Machinery _____253-333-2439 Desert EDM ___________480-816-6300 North Western Machinery ____206-583-2333 Ellison Technologies ______ 206-669-3578 Custom Design/Build Machines Ganesh Machinery ______ 888-542-6374 Lambie Engineering_______509-868-3100 Gosiger ____________ 937-586-5067 Dot Peen Markers King Machine Inc. _______ 509-435-6741 Kwik Mark Inc_________ 815-363-8268 EDM Automation LMI Machinery Inc. ______ 866-437-7315 Methods Machine Tools Inc. __ 714-292-9384 Machine Toolworks ______ 800-426-2052 Methods Machine Tools Inc. __ 714-292-9384 Sharp Machine Tool ______ 310-944-8016

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ISO 9001:2008 Certified

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Brandon Anderson

Von Ruden Manufacturing, Inc. MOBILE: 612.251.0868 E-MAIL: brandon@vonruden.com

DIRECT: 763.682.0322 PHONE: 763.682.3122 FAX: 763.682.3954

1008 First Street NE - PO Box 699 - Buffalo, MN 55313 USA Made in Italy

www.live-tooling.com

Driven Tooling for the Machine Tool Industry

Made in Italy

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 North-South Machinery ____ 253-333-2439 ONA EDM USA _______ 602-328-0881 Equipment Financing North Western Machinery ___ 206-583-2333 EDM Die Sinking Machines Pacific Continental Bank ___ 503-310-3604 Romi Machine Tools, Ltd ___ 480-510-4146 Desert EDM ___________480-816-6300 Scottrade Bank Equip. Finance_ 206-948-0022 Rosco Precision Machinery __ 253-333-2439 Methods Machine Tools Inc. __ 714-292-9384 Santa Cruz Electronics _____831-479-5444 ONA EDM USA _______ 602-328-0881 U.S. Bank Equipment _____ 800-810-0038 Gantry & Bridge Systems Selway Machine Tool _____ 503-314-3165 EDM Filtration Ellison Technologies _______206-669-3578 Selway Machine Tool _____ 425-931-1680 EDM Network _________ 480-836-1782 CNC Machine Services _____ 206-999-3232 Sharp Machine Tool ______ 310-944-8016 Methods Machine Tools Inc. __ 714-292-9384 Horizontal Boring & CNC 3 & 5 Axis Routing Machines EDM Machines Milling Machines (CNC ) Ellison Technologies ______ 206-669-3578 CNC Machine Services _____ 206-999-3232 CNC Machine Services _____ 206-999-3232 CNC Swiss Turn Machines Current EDM, Inc. ________612-840-0037 CNC Machine Services _____ 206-999-3232 Desert EDM ___________480-816-6300 Rosco Precision Machinery __ 253-333-2439 Jig Boring Ellison Technologies ______ 206-669-3578 EDM Network _________ 480-836-1782 Methods Machine Tools Inc. __ 714-292-9384 Ganesh Machinery ______ 888-542-6374 Methods Machine Tools Inc. __ 714-292-9384 Lathes Gosiger ____________ 937-586-5067 North-South Machinery ____ 253-333-2439 Bixby Machine Tool Supply __ 509-534-1208 King Machine Inc. _______ 509-435-6741 Sharp Machine Tool ______ 310-944-8016 CNC Machine Services _____ 206-999-3232 LMI Machinery Inc. _______866-437-7315 EDM Drilling & Micro Hole Desert EDM ___________ 480-816-6300 Machine Toolworks ______ 800-426-2052 Machines 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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2016

EDGE

Mike Mills

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

11600 Adie Road Maryland Heights, MO 63043 main: 314.692.8388 x3927 cell: 951.440.1574 fax: 314.692.5152

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Kwik Mark Inc

Dot Peen Marking Systems www.kwikmark.com Kwik Mark Inc 4071 Albany Street McHenry IL 60050

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

4740 NE 166th Avenue Portland, OR 97230 (503) 224-6061 (877) 398-6061 Fax (503) 253-1790 Cell (503) 572-9331

www.coastaluminum.com jpalmer@coastaluminum.com

John Palmer Jr. Vice President: Northwest Region

King Machine Inc. ________509-435-6741 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

Desert EDM __________ 480-816-6300 EDM Network _________ 480-836-1782 MATERIAL Aluminum Bralco _____________ 602-722-3324 Coast Aluminum________ 877-398-6061 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 Coast Aluminum________ 877-398-6061 Coastal Metals _________ 800-811-7466 Fry Steel ____________ 800-423-6651 Gorilla Metals Inc. _______ 855-516-3825

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

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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 Coast Aluminum________ 877-398-6061 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

We Buy & Resell CNC, Plastics and Sheet Metal Machinery

www.kdcapital.com | 800.922.1674 AUCTIONS | APPRAISALS | LIQUIDATIONS

DIX Metals ___________714-677-0788 Material Sales Coast Aluminum________877-398-6061 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 Ryerson Corporation _____425-204-2601 Sequoia Brass & Copper __ 800-362-5255 Sunshine Metals________760-579-8327 United Performance Metals _888-282-3292 Nickel Alloys Aerodyne Alloys ________800-337-3766 Fry Steel____________800-423-6651 Marzee Inc. __________602-269-5801 United Performance Metals _888-282-3292 Plate: Wear and Structural Kloeckner Metals ______ 480-389-2883 Ryerson Corporation _____425-204-2601 United Performance Metals _888-282-3292 Precision Ground Flat

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

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PERRY PALLET CO. PERRY

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

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

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WWW.INDUSTRIALMETALSUPPLY.COM

Regional Sales Manager

8300 SAN FERNANDO ROAD SUN VALLEY, CA 91352 MONDAY - FRIDAY 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM SATURDAY 8:00 AM to 2:00 PM

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

Jeff Bridgett

For No. CA, OR, and WA publication Northwest Edition Nickel Cobalt Titanium Stainless

Tool Company Inc.

8300 SAN FERNANDO ROAD SUN VALLEY, CA 91352 121 Perry St. • Saginaw, MI 48602

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

8300 SAN FERNANDO ROAD SUN VALLEY, CA 91352 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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AZ Tool Steel__________ 877-795-1600 DIX Metals ___________ 714-677-0788 Sheet & Coil Ryerson Corporation _____ 425-204-2601 Stainless Steel & Steel Aerodyne Alloys ________ 800-337-3766 AZ Tool Steel__________ 877-795-1600 Bralco _____________ 602-722-3324 DIX Metals ___________ 714-677-0788 Fry Steel _____________800-423-665 Gorilla Metals Inc. _______ 855-516-3825 Industrial Metal Supply Co. __ 818-729-3333 Kloeckner Metals _______ 480-389-2883 Laser Cutting Services, Inc ___503-612-8311 Ryerson Corporation _____ 425-204-2601 United Performance Metals _ _888-282-3292 Titanium Rod, Bar, & Wire Aerodyne Alloys ________ 800-337-3766 Bralco _____________ 602-722-3324 Tool Steel AZ Tool Steel__________ 877-795-1600 DIX Metals ___________ 714-677-0788 Industrial Metal Supply Co. __ 818-729-3333 CNC MASTERCAM TRAINING CMY

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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

Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. ___ 503-620-9031 Icon Machine Tool, Inc. _____360-434-8844 Jorgensen Machine Tools ____ 800-952-0151 8300 SAN FERNANDO ROAD SUN VALLEY, CA 91352 Laser Cutting Machines Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. ___ 503-620-9031 Bixby Machine Tool Supply __509-534-1208 509-534-1208 Gladwin Machinery _______ 360-448-0951 Press Brakes Icon Machine Tool, Inc. _____360-434-8844 Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. __ 503-620-9031 North-South Machinery _____ 253-333-2439 Fab - Line Machinery _____ 206-972-6215 Magnetic Drills/Cutters Gladwin Machinery ______ 360-448-0951 8300 SAN FERNANDO ROAD SUN VALLEY, CA 91352 Innovative Tool Sales ______714-780-0730 Icon Machine Tool, Inc. ____ 360-434-8844 Material Handling Systems Icon Machine Tool, Inc. OR __ 503-887-1003 Hydmech Sawing Solutions ___ 714-620-5560 North-South Machinery ____ 253-333-2439 Metal Marking Systems Punches Kwik Mark Inc__________ 815-363-8268 Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. __ 503-620-903 Swift Tool Co, Inc. _______ 800-562-0900 Gladwin Machinery ______ 360-448-0951 Notchers Icon Machine Tool, Inc. ____ 360-434-8844 Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. ___ 503-620-9031 Icon Machine Tool, Inc. OR __ 503-887-1003 Plasma/Gas Cutting Tools/Systems Rolling Machines Fab - Line Machinery ______ 206-972-6215 Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. __ 503-620-9031 Rosco Precision Machinery ___253-333-2439 Shearing Machines Plate Bending & Rolls Fab - Line Machinery _____ 206-972-6215 Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. ___ 503-620-9031 Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. __ 503-620-9031 Jorgensen Machine Tools ____ 800-952-0151 Icon Machine Tool, Inc. ____ 360-434-8844 Power Tools Icon Machine Tool, Inc. _____360-434-8844 North-South Machinery ____ 253-333-2439 Icon Machine Tool, Inc. OR ___503-887-1003 Sign & Graphic Cutting Solutions Tooling MP Industrial _________ 800-759-4282 Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. __ 503-620-9031 Presses MONDAY - FRIDAY 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM SATURDAY 8:00 AM to 2:00 PM

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

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

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Global Leader in Garnet Abrasives

Andy Wells ■

Regional Sales Manager

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

Robotic Part Loading Systems Welding Equipment Rocky Mountain Saw Blades _ 303-761-3000 Midaco Corporation ______ 847-593-8420 ROUTERS PALLET SYSTEMS Rosco Precision Machinery __ 253-333-2439 Manual & Automatic Pallet Systems SAFETY

Machining Applied CAx ___________503-962-0287 Cimatron _______ 248-596-9700 ext. 237 Delcam _____________ 877-335-2261 Solid Products __________480-206-0330

Mechanical Design Midaco Corporation ______847-593-8420 Fire Protection Systems Cimatron _______ 248-596-9700 ext. 237 Manual Lift Off Pallet Rotarex North America ____ 480-689-8756 Delcam _____________ 877-335-2261 Systems Sherpa Design_ ________ 503-771-3570 SAWS Midaco Corporation _____ 847-593-8420 Post-Processor Software Band & Cut-Off Saws Manual Rotory Pallet Systems Swift Tool Co, Inc. _______800-562-0900 Sherpa Design_ ________ 503-771-3570 Midaco Corporation _____ 847-593-8420 SERVICES SPINDLES & SLIDES Shipping Solutions Spindle Rebuilding/Repair Perry Pallet Co. _______ 360-366-5239 AS9100 Registration C & M Precision Spindle, Inc._ _ 503-691-0955 Wood Pallets Great Western Registrar _____623-580-1881 GMN USA LLC_ _________ 800-686-1679 Business Appraisal Perry Pallet Co. _______ 360-366-5239 Setco ______________ 714-222-6523 Exit Strategies Group _____ 707-292-2750 PRECISION TOOLHOLDING PRODUCTS Tooling Von Ruden Manufacturing, Inc. 763-682--3122 Tooling Systems Von Ruden Manufacturing, Inc. 763-682--3122 PRODUCTIVITY Productivity Tools and Systems Scout Systems _________253-329-2460 PROG. SYSTEMS

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 Spindle Sales New Flow International ________909-620-5707 Custom Packaging/Shipping C & M Precision Spindle, Inc._ _ 503-691-0955 King Machine Inc. ________509-435-6741 Supplies GMN USA LLC_ _________ 800-686-1679 Machine Toolworks _______800-426-2052 Alliance Packaging ______ 206-445-5898Setco ______________ 714-222-6523 Engineering/Mechanical Design Waterjet & Blast Abrasives, Sherpa Design_ ________503-771-3570 TOOLING SYSTEMS Garnetentury MP Industrial __________800-759-4282 Barton International _____ 800-741-7756 Facility Expansion/ New Construction GMA Garnet Group ______ 832-243-9300 TRAINING Campbell Corp_________800-997-9996 Waterjet Bricks Six Sigma Training Financial Services Sustaining Edge Solutions____888-572-9642 Barton International ______800-741-7756 Intech Funding ________ 800-553-9208 GMA Garnet Group _______832-243-9300 ISO Consulting/Registration Quick Turn Financial ______415-608-5692 Gladhill Associates________ 719-239-9830 Waterjet Hoppers Great Western Registrar _____ 623-580-1881 U.S. Bank Equipment _____ 206-948-0022 Barton International ______800-741-7756 Lean Consulting Training GMA Garnet Group _______832-243-9300

Factory Automation/Logistics North-South Machinery _____253-333-2439 CAD/CAM Software, CAD Applied CAx __________ 503-962-0287 Automatics & Machinery Co.__303-990-6190 Machine Tool Rebuilding Delcam Software _______ 877-DELCAM1 EDM Network _________ 480-836-1782 MRP Software SigmaTEK ___________ 513-595-2022 Management Systems Training BMSC______________ 602-445-9400 Nesting Software SigmaNEST __________ 513-595-2022 Gladhill Associates_______ 719-239-9830 Sustaining Edge Solutions___ 888-572-9642 Software, Solid Modeling

Campbell Corp_________ 800-997-9996 Gladhill Associates________ 719-239-9830 Lambie Engineering_______ 509-868-3100 Lean Engineering Campbell Corp_________ 800-997-9996 ISO / AS9100 Certification BMSC______________ 602-445-9400 Delcam Software _______ 877-DELCAM1 Supply Chain Assessments Gladhill Associates________ 719-239-9830 PROTOTYPE MACHINERY Gladhill Associates_______ 719-239-9830 Sustaining Edge Solutions____888-572-9642 Santa Cruz Electronics _____ 831-479-5444 Sustaining Edge Solutions___ 888-572-9642 Productivity Training REPAIR SOFTWARE CAD CAM CNC-PROS ___________ 602-344-9753 Bar Feeder Repair Edge Technologies ______ 562-243-4659 ROBOTICS Ellison Technologies ______ 206-669-3578 LMI Machinery Inc. ______ 866-437-7315

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Scout Systems _________253-329-2460

Waterjet Replacement Parts Barton International ______800-741-7756 dtiEXACT _____________360-866-1337

EDM Performance _______ 800-336-2946 GMA Garnet Group ______ 832-243-9300 WOOD PRODUCTS

Perry Pallet Co. ________360-366-5239 WELD CLEANING SYSTEMS

Capital Weld Cleaners _____ 480-967-0016

Buyer’s Guide & Card Gallery Processes

JEFF TOMSON

CELL: 360.202.7342 jefft@machinistsinc.com

P.O. Box 80505 7600 5th Ave. S. • Seattle. WA 98108

800.244.4130 •

206.763.0990

•

Fax 206.763.8709

The Manufacturer’s Secret Weapon

Brazing: Vacuum Thermal-Vac Technology______714-997-2601 BROACHING Evans Precision _________ 623-582-4776

3D TOOLS

Ponderosa Ind ___ _______303-298-1801 Bending Solutions, Inc. _____360-651-2443 Specialty Steel Services _____801-539-8252 Aeroform, Inc. __________ 360-403-1919

3D Printing Proto & Production Speciality Bending NW Rapid Mfg. _________ 503-434-8557 Albina Co., Inc. ________ 866-252-4628 Ultimate 3D ___________503-848-8227 Bending Solutions, Inc. ____ 360-651-2443 3D Scanning Structrual Bending NW Rapid Mfg. _________ 503-434-8557 Albina Co., Inc. ________ 866-252-4628 Ultimate 3D ___________503-848-8227 Tube and Pipe Bending SLS (Selctive Laser Sintering) Albina Co., Inc. ________ 866-252-4628 Ultimate 3D ___________503-848-8227 BRAZING ASSEMBLIES dtiEXACT _____________360-866-1337 Cascade Systems Technology __971-330-8054 Evans Precision _________623-582-4776 Columbia Manufacturing Svcs. _360-735-3763 Clings Aerospace_________480-968-1778 Precision Casting Repair _____801-972-2345 Thermal-Vac Technology______714-997-2601 BENDING Brazing: Dip Mandrel Thermal-Vac Technology______714-997-2601 Albina Co., Inc. _________866-252-4628

Industrial Precision Grinding __ 310-352-4700 CABLE ASSEMBLIES SW Waterjet & Laser_______480-306-7748 Cascade Systems Technology __971-330-8054

DIE CASTING CASTING AATC _______________ 602-268-1467 SMH Inc LLC ___________360-341-2226 TVT Die Casting _________800-280-2278 Investment Casting-Precision DIES AATC _______________ 602-268-1467 Tool & Dies Dolphin Investment Castings __ 602-272-6747 Micropulse West Inc._______480-966-2300 CHEMICAL ETCHING PMA Photometals ________480-773-3239 Plastic Injection Molding_____509-531-2634 DEBURRING CUSTOM CREFORM ASSY. Industrial Precision Grinding _ 310-352-4700 PlaSteel _____________480-491-8100 EDGING CUTTING United Performance Metals _ _888-282-3292 Bar & Plate Cutting AZ Tool Steel ___________877-795-1600

EDM EDM: Dialectric Systems

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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!

Fabrication: Sheet Metal AEI Fabrication ________ 480-733-6594 Aeroform, Inc. __________360-403-1919 Aero Tech MFG_________ 801-891-2740 CLS Fabrication Inc ______ 800-426-0721 Cygnet Stamping & Fab _____818-240-7574 /Filtration EZ-ACCESS ___________ 800-258-8503 Ebbco Inc ____________ 586-716-5151 Gillaspie MFG _________ 360-921-3973 EDM: Drilling Small Hole NW Metalcraft Industries ___ 888-280-7080 Layke Inc. ____________602-272-2654 Mountain View Machine____ 435-755-0500 EDM: Ram-Type (Sinking) QUAL-FAB, Inc. __________206-762-2117 Micropulse West, Inc. _____ 480-966-2300 Rickard Engineering _____ 866-845-8838 Milco Wire EDM,, Inc. ______714-373-0098 SMH Inc LLC __________ 360-341-2226 Stevens Tool & Die ________503-682-3185 Valley Machine Shop, Inc. ___ 425-207-5951 EDM: Wire Weiser Engineering ______ 303-280-2778 Clings Aerospace_________480-968-1778 Fabrication: Custom Metal Evans Precision _________623-582-4776 Micropulse West, Inc. _____ 480-966-2300 AEI Fabrication ________ 480-733-6594 Milco Wire EDM,, Inc. ______714-373-0098 Cygnet Stamping & Fab _____818-240-7574

Galvanizing: Hot Dip TMM Precision ________ 800-448-9448 Precision Sheet Metal Fabrication: Medium & Large Glass Bead Clean AEI Fabrication _________ 480-733-6594 Byington Steel Treating, Inc.__ 408-727-6630 Aeroform, Inc. __________ 360-403-1919 Coating Technologies _____ 623-581-2648 CLS Fabrication Inc _______ 800-426-0721 Gold Tech Industries ______ 480-968-1930 Columbia Manufacturing Svcs. _ 360-735-3763 Liquid Painting EZ-ACCESS ____________ 800-258-8503 Aero Tech MFG_________ 801-891-2740 Gillaspie MFG __________ 360-921-3973 MPI International _______ 956-631-6880 Group Mfg Serv _________ 480-966-3952 Passivation Industrial Machine Svcs _____ 503-240-0878 NW Metalcraft Industries ____ 888-280-7080 Coating Technologies ____ _623-581-2648

EZ-ACCESS ____________ 800-258-8503

QUAL-FAB, Inc. ___________206-762-2117 EZ-ACCESS ___________ 800-258-8503 SMH Inc LLC ___________ 360-341-2226 Micropulse West, Inc. _____ 480-966-2300 Group Mfg Serv ________ 480-966-3952 Solid Form Fabrication _____ 503-435-1400 Plastic Injection Molding_____509-531-2634 Industrial Machine Svcs ____ 503-240-0878 Weiser Engineering _______ 303-280-2778 Stevens Tool & Die ________503-682-3185 NW Metalcraft Industries ___ 888-280-7080 ELECTRO MECHANICAL Tube & Pipe Bending Fabrication PlaSteel ____________ 480-491-8100 Albina Co., Inc. _________ 866-252-4628 Sub-Assembly Builds QUAL-FAB, Inc. __________206-762-2117 Bending Solutions, Inc. _____ 360-651-2443 Cascade Systems Technology __503-640-5733 SMH Inc LLC __________ 360-341-2226 EZ-ACCESS ____________ 800-258-8503 ENGINEERING/DESIGN Valley Machine Shop, Inc. ___ 425-207-5951 Cascade Systems Technology __503-640-5733 FINISHING Hexatron Engineering ______801-363-8010 Weiser Engineering ______ 303-280-2778 Arizona Finishing ________ 602-438-4443 Wrico _____________ 480-892-7800 Lambie Engineering _______509-868-3100 Arizona Hard Chrome ______ 602-278-8671 Forming & Fabrication FABRICATION Coating Technologies ______ 623-581-2648 Albina Co., Inc. ________ 866-252-4628 Architectural Forming & Fabrication Bending Solutions, Inc. ____ 360-651-2443 Gold Tech Industries _______ 480-968-1930 Albina Co., Inc. ________ 866-252-4628 Real Axis Machining _______ 360-723-5386

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Gold Tech Industries ______ 480-968-1930 Polishing Arizona Hard Chrome _____ 602-278-8671 Powder Coating Aero Tech MFG_________ 801-891-2740 CLS Fabrication Inc ______ 800-426-0721 Sandblasting Byington Steel Treating, Inc.__ 408-727-6630 Silk Screening Arizona Finishing _______ 602-438-4443 FIXTURING Real Axis Machining ______ 360-723-5386 GASKETS 3-D Plastics, Inc. ________ 503-720-0572

www.tfcplating.com

Shawn Carlin scarlin@gmsaz.com

503-771-0969

Grinding, Double Disc Bourdelais Grinding Co., Inc. _ 805-583-9966

Employee Owned

cascade systems technology

Electronics Contract Manufacturing

www.cascadesystems.net

Steve Daniel

Industrial Precision Grinding _ 310-352-4700 Sun Grinding _________ 602-238-9595

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

TCI Precision Metals ______ 800-234-5613 Grinding: OD GRINDING Arizona Hard Chrome _____ 602-278-8671 AZ Tool Steel __________ 877-795-1600 Bourdelais Grinding Co., Inc. _ 805-583-9966 Bourdelais Grinding Co., Inc. _ 805-583-9966 Precision Tech _________ 801-285-7288 ChemResearch__________602-253-4175 Ron Grob Co __________ 970-667-5320 Evans Precision _________623-582-4776 Sun Grinding _________ 602-238-9595 Industrial Machine Svcs ____ 503-240-0878 Superior Grinding _______ 801-487-9700 Industrial Precision Grinding _ 310-352-4700 Grinding: Surface MESCO _____________ 626-303-5680 Bourdelais Grinding Co., Inc. _ 805-583-9966 Mountain View Machine____ 435-755-0500 ChemResearch_________ 602-253-4175 Ron Grob Co __________ 970-667-5320 Sun Grinding _________ 602-238-9595 Industrial Precision Grinding _ 310-352-4700 Superior Grinding _______ 801-487-9700 Superior Grinding _______ 801-487-9700 TCI Precision Metals ______ 800-234-5613 TCI Precision Metals _______800-234-5613 Grinding: Tool & Cutter Grinding, Blanchard Superior Grinding_________888-487-9701 AZ Tool Steel __________ 877-795-1600

info@tfcplating.com

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

Phoenix Heat Treating_______602-258-7751 CLS Fabrication Inc _______ 800-426-0721 Thermal-Vac Technology______714-997-2601 dtiEXACT _____________ 360-866-1337 Cryogenics Phoenix Heat Treating______602-258-7751

SW Waterjet & Laser_______480-306-7748 United Performance Metals ___888-282-3292

Heat Treating/ISO/AS9100 Weiser Engineering _______303-280-2778 Byington Steel Treating______408-727-6630 Wrico ______________480-892-7800 Phoenix Heat Treating_______602-258-7751 Laser Cutting: 3D Thermal-Vac Technology______714-997-2601 SW Waterjet & Laser_______480-306-7748 Heat Treating/Aerospace LEVELING Byington Steel Treating______408-727-6630 United Performance Metals ___888-282-3292 Phoenix Heat Treating_______602-258-7751

MACHINING Thermal-Vac Technology______714-997-2601 Al Hirth Machining, Inc. _____661-294-0644 Large Capacity Drop Bottom Alpha Precision Machining, Inc. _253-395-7381 Oven/Aluminum Bar-S Machine, Inc. _______ 928-636-2115 Byington Steel Treating______408-727-6630 Cascade Engineering Tech ___503-266-1300

Bourdelais Grinding Co., Inc. _ 805-583-9966 Swift Tool Co, Inc. _______800-562-0900 MET-TEK Heat Treating_______503-519-9864 Central Valley Machine _____435-752-0934 GUN DRILLING Diversified Metal Services ___ 801-972-6093 HONING Clings Aerospace_________480-968-1778 Evans Precision ________ 623-582-4776 MESCO _____________ 626-303-5680 Faustson _____________303-420-7422 Evans Precision _________623-582-4776 HEAT TREATING Valley Machine Shop, Inc. ____425-207-5951 Grovtec US, Inc. _________503-557-4689 Industrial Precision Grinding _ 310-352-4700 Byington Steel TreatHoward Precision Machine ___ 801-619-9850 Sun Grinding _________ 602-238-9595 HYDRAULIC REPAIR ing______408-727-6630 Arizona Hard Chrome ______602-278-8671 Larkin Precision Machine ____831-438-2700 Superior Grinding _______ 801-487-9700

INJECTION MOLDS TCI Precision Metals _______800-234-5613 Columbia Manufacturing Svcs. 360-735-3763 Controlled Thermal Tech______602-272- Plastic Injection Molding_____509-531-2634 Grinding, Centerless 3714 INJECTION MOLDING Bourdelais Grinding Co., Inc. _ 805-583-9966 Evans Precision ________ 623-582-4776 Plastic Injection Molding_____509-531-2634 Ron Grob Co __________ 970-667-5320 LASER CUTTING Sun Grinding _________ 602-238-9595 MET-TEK Heat Treating______503-519-9864

Machinists Inc. __________360-202-7342 MESCO ______________626-303-5680 NW Metalcraft Industries ____888-280-7080 PlaSteel _____________ 480-491-8100 Portland Precision Manufacturing 503-253-6700

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SCOTT FERGUSON

Marketing & Sales Manager

AEIFABRICATION RONKOTLOFF Founder / CEO

Real Axis Machining _______360-723-5386 360-723-5386 Ron Grob Co ___________970-667-5320 SMH Inc LLC ___________ 360-341-2226

TEL FAX EMAIL WEB MAIL

Sunshine Metals _________ 714-225-4972

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

TRESKE.COM

Treske Precision Machining ___ 503-625-2821 TVT Die Casting _________800-280-2278

ISO 9001:2008 | AS9100C (2013) | ITAR

Valley Machine Shop, Inc. ____ 425-207-5951 Portland Precision Manufacturing 503-253-6700 Strom Manufacturing ______ 503-447-1021 Weiser Engineering _______303-280-2778 Western Precision Products, Inc. _503-786-8923 SMH Inc LLC ___________360-341-2226 Teton Machine _________208-642-9344 Machining: 5-Axis Treske Precision Machining ___ 503-625-2821 Accutech Machine Inc ______ 801-975-1117 Western Precision Products, Inc. _503-786-8923

Cascade Engineering Tech ___503-266-1300 Clings Aerospace_________ 480-968-1778 Columbia Manufacturing Svcs. _ 360-735-3763 Machinists Inc. __________360-202-7342 Strom Manufacturing ______ 503-447-1021

Treske Precision Machining ___ 503-625-2821 Western Precision Products, Inc. _503-786-8923

scottf@treske.com (503) 625.2821

Savage Machining Inc. ____ 805-584-8047 Industrial Machine Svcs _____503-240-0878 SMH Inc LLC __________ 360-341-2226 Larkin Precision Machine ____831-438-2700 Strom Manufacturing ______503-447-1021 Layke Inc. ____________602-272-2654 Treske Precision Machining __ 503-625-2821 NW Metalcraft Industries ____888-280-7080 TVT Die Casting ________ 800-280-2278 Micropulse West, Inc. ______480-966-2300

Western Precision Products, Inc. 503-786-8923 Portland Precision Manufacturing 503-253-6700 Real Axis Machining _______360-723-5386 Machining: CNC Milling Machining: Horizontal Boring Rickard Engineering ______866-845-8838 Machinists Inc. __________360-202-7342 Al Hirth Machining, Inc. ____ 661-294-0644 Accutech Machine Inc ______ 801-975-1117 Savage Machining Inc. _____ 805-584-8047 Machining: Proto-R & D SMH Inc LLC ___________360-341-2226 Alpha Precision Machining, Inc. 253-395-7381 Strom Manufacturing ______503-447-1021 Al Hirth Machining, Inc. _ 661-294-0644 Alpha Bar-S Machine, Inc. __ _____928-636-2115 Sunshine Metals _________ 714-225-4972 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 Teton Machine _________208-642-9344 Cascade Engineering Tech ___503-266-1300 Clings Aerospace________ 480-968-1778 Treske Precision Machining ___ 503-625-2821 Central Valley Machine _____435-752-0934 Columbia Manufacturing Svcs. 360-735-3763 Valley Machine Shop, Inc. ____ 425-207-5951

Machining: Aerospace AATC _______________ 602-268-1467 Al Hirth Machining, Inc. _____ 661-294-0644 Flex-Pro Manufacturing._____ 623-277-8031 Alpha Precision Machining, Inc. _ 253-395-7381 Industrial Machine Svcs _____503-240-0878 Bar-S Machine, Inc. _______ 928-636-2115 PlaSteel _____________ 480-491-8100 dtiEXACT _____________ 360-866-1337 Portland Precision Manufacturing 503-253-6700 Flex-Pro Manufacturing._____ 623-277-8031 Real Axis Machining _______360-723-5386 Larkin Precision Machine ____831-438-2700 Ron Grob Co ___________970-667-5320

dtiEXACT ____________ 360-866-1337 Western Precision Products, Inc. _503-786-8923 Machining: Large Faustson _____________303-420-7422 Flex-Pro Manufacturing._____623-277-8031 Accutech Machine Inc ______ 801-975-1117

Gillaspie MFG __________360-921-3973 Alpha Precision Machining, Inc. _ 253-395-7381 Grovtec US, Inc. ________ 503-557-4689 Cascade Engineering Tech ___503-266-1300 Howard Precision Machined Prod. 801-619-9850 Machinists Inc. __________360-202-7342

Layke Inc. ____________602-272-2654

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DAYTON Lamina

™

a MISUMI Group Company

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

Valley Machine Shop, Inc. ___ 425-207-5951 Machining: Medical Al Hirth Machining, Inc. ____ 661-294-0644 Cascade Engineering Tech __ 503-266-1300 Portland Precision Manufacturing503-253-6700 Teton Machine ________ 208-642-9344 Machining: Production

Al Hirth Machining, Inc. ____ 661-294-0644 Accutech Machine Inc ______ 801-975-1117 Alpha Precision Machining, Inc. Cascade Engineering Tech __ Columbia Manufacturing Svcs. dtiEXACT ____________

253-395-7381 503-266-1300 360-735-3763 360-866-1337

Teton Machine _________208-642-9344 Alpha Precision Machining, Inc. _ 253-395-7381 Western Precision Products, Inc. _503-786-8923 Bending Solutions, Inc. _____360-651-2443

Tool Measurement Blum Novotest _________ 909-670-8411

Cascade Systems Technology __971-330-8054 Machining: Turning CLS Fabrication Inc _______800-426-0721 Al Hirth Machining, Inc. _____661-294-0644 Accutech Machine Inc ______ 801-975-1117 Columbia Manufacturing Svcs. _360-735-3763 dtiEXACT _____________360-866-1337 Bar-S Machine, Inc. _______ 928-636-2115 Flex-Pro Manufacturing._____ 623-277-8031 dtiEXACT _____________ 360-866-1337 G & G Custom Metal Fab ____503-931-7069 Faustson _____________ 303-420-7422 Group Mfg Serv _________480-966-3952 Flex-Pro Manufacturing._____ 623-277-8031 Larkin Precision Machine ____831-438-2700 Grovtec US, Inc. _________503-557-4689 NW Metalcraft Industries ____888-280-7080 Howard Precision Machined Prod. 801-619-9850 Portland Precision Manufacturing 503-253-6700 Industrial Machine Svcs _____503-240-0878 QUAL-FAB, Inc. __________ 206-762-2117 Larkin Precision Machine ____831-438-2700 Rickard Engineering ______866-845-8838 Layke Inc. ____________602-272-2654 Teton Machine _________208-642-9344 NW Metalcraft Industries ____888-280-7080 Treske Precision Machining ___ 503-625-2821 Portland Precision Manufacturing 503-253-6700 TVT Die Casting _________800-280-2278 Real Axis Machining _______360-723-5386 Savage Machining Inc. _____ 805-584-8047 Western Precision Products, Inc. _503-786-8923 SMH Inc LLC ___________ 360-341-2226 Industrial Manufacturing

Tool Breakage Blum Novotest _________ 909-670-8411 MOLDING: RUBBER Molds: Plastic Injection Plastic Injection Molding_____ 509-531-2634 SMH Inc LLC ___________ 360-341-2226

MOLDS Aero Tech MFG__________801-891-2740 Advanced Mold Technology ___714-990-0144 Arizona Finishing _______ 602-438-4443 Milco Wire EDM,, Inc. ______ 714-373-0098 Plastic Injection Molding_____509-531-2634 Molds: High Volume Class 100 Advanced Mold Technology ___ 714-990-0144 Molds: Fast Turn Prototype and Bridge Molds Advanced Mold Technology ___ 714-990-0144

Flex-Pro Manufacturing.____ 623-277-8031 Strom Manufacturing ______503-447-1021 Albina Co., Inc. _________866-252-4628 Turnkey Product Services Grovtec US, Inc. ________ 503-557-4689 Teton Machine _________208-642-9344 Molds: Expertise in Overmold and Aero Tech MFG__________ 801-891-2740 Howard Precision Machined Prod. 801-619-9850 Valley Machine Shop, Inc. ____ 425-207-5951 Insert Molding Larkin Precision Machine ___ 831-438-2700 Western Precision Products, Inc. _503-786-8923 Columbia Manufacturing Svcs. _360-735-3763 Advanced Mold Technology ___ 714-990-0144 Custom Airplane to Marine Polishing PlaSteel ____________ 480-491-8100 Machining: Ultra Precision PC BOARDS Portland Precision Manufacturing503-253-6700 Metal Polishing By Timothy ___503-253-5294 Pacific Swiss & Manufacturing _503-557-9407 Surface Mount & Thru Hole Strom Manufacturing _____ 503-447-1021 Personal Collectables Polishing Teton Machine ________ 208-642-9344 Machining: Turning With Live Tooling Metal Polishing By Timothy ___503-253-5294 Cascade Systems Technology __ 971-330-8054 Western Precision Products, Inc. 503-786-8923 Weiser Engineering _______303-280-2778 Machining: Turning Large Machining: Shaft Turning Machinists Inc. __________360-202-7342 Machinists Inc. _________ 360-202-7342 Valley Machine Shop, Inc. ____ 425-207-5951 Machining: Swiss MANUFACTURING VALUE ADDED Bar-S Machine, Inc. _______928-636-2115 Contract Manufacturing dtiEXACT ____________ 360-866-1337 AATC _______________ 602-268-1467 Grovtec US, Inc. ________ 503-557-4689 AEI Fabrication _________480-733-6594 Howard Precision Machined Prod. 801-619-9850 Aeroform, Inc. __________ 360-403-1919 Pacific Swiss & Manufacturing 503-557-9407 Albina Co., Inc. _________866-252-4628 Ron Grob Co __________ 970-667-5320

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PlaSteel _____________ 480-491-8100 Portland Precision Manufacturing 503-253-6700

METALIZING Controlled Thermal Tech ____ 602-272-3714

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Part Probing & Inspection Blum Novotest _________ 909-670-8411

Plastic Injection Molding_____509-531-2634 SMH Inc LLC ___________ 360-341-2226

Production Metrology Blum Novotest _________ 909-670-8411

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ASKO Group __________ 206-947-4052

Embrittlement Relief EPSI ______________ 714-519-9423

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Phosphate MPI International ________ 956-631-6880 PROTOTYPES

Cascade Systems Technology __ 503-640-5733 TFC Plating __________ 503-771-0969 NW Rapid Mfg. _________ 503-434-8557 Silver Plating

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AEI Fabrication _________ 480-733-6594 ASKO Group __________ 206-947-4052 CLS Fabrication Inc _______ 800-426-0721 EPSI _______________714-519-9423 Cygnet Stamping & Fab _____ 818-240-7574

Gold Tech ___________ 480-968-1930 Group Manufacturing Serv ___ 480-966-3952 Leadtek Plating ________ 503-682-4410 QUAL-FAB, Inc. __________ 206-762-2117 Precious Metal Plating Co.____800-481-6271 Weiser Engineering _______ 303-280-2778 TFC Plating __________ 503-771-0969 RECYCLING MATERIALS Tin Plating Aluminum, Brass, Copper, Nickel, Precious Metal Plating Co.____800-481-6271 Plastics, Stainless Steel, Steel, Tin

TFC Plating __________ 503-771-0969 Calbag Metals Company ____ 253-283-8657 Metro Metals Northwest ____ 503-819-1284 PLASMA CUTTING Bin Service G & G Custom Metal Fab ___ 503-931-7069

Calbag Metals Company ____ 253-283-8657 PRECISION FORMING Excess Material Handling Aeroform, Inc. __________360-403-1919 Calbag Metals Company ____ 253-283-8657 Cygnet Stamping & Fab _____818-240-7574 Full Service Scrap Management Gillaspie MFG _________ 360-921-3973 Calbag Metals Company ____ 253-283-8657 NAD CAP & Boeing Approved Pacific Tool, Inc ________ 425-882-1970 Scrap Metal Prrocessing Processes QUAL-FAB, Inc. __________ 206-762-2117 Precious Metal Plating Co.___ 800-481-6271 Calbag Metals Company ____ 253-283-8657 SpringWorks Utah ________801-298-0113 Waste Metal Management Nickel-Bright Wrico _____________ 480-892-7800 Calbag Metals Company ____253-283-8657 Gold Tech Industries ______ 480-968-1930 PROCESSING: METAL Wood Products Foresight Finishing ______ 480-772-0387 Acid Pickle Perry Pallet Co. _________360-366-5239 Leadtek Plating ________ 503-682-4410

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Precious Metal Plating Co.___ 800-481-6271 MPI International _______ 956-631-6880 REPAIR Coating Technologies ______ 623-581-2648 Chemical CNC-PROS ____________ 602-344-9753 TFC Plating __________ 503-771-0969 Copper GTin / Zinc Plate ROLLING LA Specialties __________602-269-7612 Gold Tech Industries _______ 480-968-1930 ASKO Group __________ 206-947-4052 MPI International _______ 956-631-6880 Albina Co., Inc. _________ 866-252-4628 Foresight Finishing _______ 480-772-0387 SANDBLASTING Nick Hochuli Sales Engineer

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Byington Steel Treating, Inc.__ 408-727-6630 Production Sawing Bourdelais Grinding Co., Inc. _ 805-583-9966 SEWING Grovtec US, Inc. ________ 503-557-4689 SHEARING United Performance Metals _ _888-282-3292 SIGNAGE & DISPLAYS Milco Wire EDM,, Inc. ______714-373-0098 SILICONE 3-D Plastics, Inc. ________ 503-720-0572 SINTERING Western Sintering _______ 509-375-3096 SLITTING United Performance Metals _ _888-282-3292

CUTTING FAB Weiser Engineering _______303-280-2778 Welding: MIG-TIG Gillaspie MFG _________ 360-921-3973 Albina Co., Inc. ________ 866-252-4628 Bending Solutions, Inc. ____ 360-651-2443 G & G Custom Metal Fab ____ 503-931-7069 NW Metalcraft Industries ___ 888-280-7080 Precision Die & Stamping ___ 480-967-2038 Clings Aerospace________ 480-968-1778 Evans Precision _________ 623-582-4776 SpringWorks Utah ________801-298-0113 Cygnet Stamping & Fab ____ 818-240-7574 EZ-ACCESS ____________800-258-8503 Cygnet Stamping & Fab _____818-240-7574

Stamping:Design

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Industrial Machine Svcs _____503-240-0878

SpringWorks Utah ________801-298-0113

WATERJET CUTTING Accutech Machine Inc ______801-975-1117

WIRE FORMING

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Ace Wire & Spring Form _____ 412-458-4830 Aeroform, Inc. _________ 360-403-1919 Gillaspie MFG _________ 360-921-3973 Evans Precision _________ 623-582-4776 dtiEXACT ____________ 360-866-1337 NW Metalcraft Industries ___ 888-280-7080 WIRE HARNESSES SpringWorks Utah ________801-298-0113 Marzee Inc. __________ 602-269-5801 Cascade Systems Technology __503-640-5733 Milco Waterjet _________ 714-373-0098 Stamping: Light Gillaspie MFG _________ 360-921-3973 Rickard Engineering _____ 866-845-8838 NW Metalcraft Industries ___ 888-280-7080 SW Waterjet & Laser______ 480-306-7748 SpringWorks Utah ________801-298-0113 United Performance Metals _ _888-282-3292

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Precision Die & Stamping ___ 480-967-2038

Micro-Machining

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Mechanical Design Delcam _____________877-335-2261 SPINNING Evans Precision _________623-582-4776 SPLINES Specialty Steel Services ____ 801-539-8252 SPRINGS Ace Wire & Spring Form _____412-458-4830 SpringWorks Utah ________801-298-0113 SPRINGS: CUSTOM Extension/Compression/ Coil Ace Wire & Spring Form _____412-458-4830 STAMPING PRECISION AEI Fabrication ________ 480-733-6594

Cascade Systems Technology _ 503-640-5733 WELDING Columbia Manufacturing Svcs. 360-735-3763 Custom Metal Fabrication ___ 503-788-5701 TESTING Cygnet Stamping & Fab ____ 818-240-7574 Testing: Corrosion, Product Stress, G & G Custom Metal Fab ___ 503-931-7069 THERMAL SPRAY Evans Precision ________ 623-582-4776 Controlled Thermal Tech ___ 602-272-3714 Industrial Machine Svcs ____ 503-240-0878 TOOL & DIE DESIGN Mountain View Machine____ 435-755-0500 Wrico _____________ 480-892-7800 Weiser Engineering ______ 303-280-2778 TOOL Cutting & Grinding Weld Metal Works _______ 503-788-5701 Powerhaus Precision _____ 480-225-8845 Welding: Aluminum Medium & Large TOOLING Industrial Machine Svcs ____ 503-240-0878 G & G Custom Metal Fab ___ 503-931-7069 Lambie Engineering______509-868-3100 Industrial Machine Svcs ____ 503-240-0878 NADCAP Welding Mountain View Machine____ 435-755-0500 Real Axis Machining ______ 360-723-5386 Clings Aerospace________ 480-968-1778 Robotic Welding TUBE BENDING & Bending Solutions, Inc. ____ 360-651-2443

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Index of Advertisers 3D-Plastics...38,63 AATC...63 Accutech Machine, inc...67 Ace Wire & Spring Form...68 Aerodyne Alloys...20,61 Aeroform, Inc...67 Aerotech...64 Al Hirth Machining...30,69 Albina Co, Inc...9,63 Alpha Precision Machining...65 Application Specialties Inc...56 Arizona Finishing...65 Arizona Hard Chrome...67 Asko Group...67 AZ Tool Steel...63 BandSawBlog...60 BandSawParts.com...54 Bar-S...64 Barton International...38,62 Bending Solutions...69 Bilz Tool Co...59 Bixby Machine Tool Supply...58 Blum-Novotest...68 BMSC...36,56 Bralco...60 Byington Steel Treating...65 C & M Precision Spindle, Inc...60 Calbag Recycling...68 Campbell Corp...62 Capital Weld Cleaners...62 Cascade Engineering Technologies...66 Cascade Systems Technologies...65 Castrol...71 ChemResearch...66 Cimatron...8,61 Clings...68 CLS Fabrication Inc...64 CNC Machine Services...45,57 Coast Aluminum...60 Coastal Metals...39,57 Coating Technologies...64 Columbia Mfg. Services...58,63 Controlled Thermal Tech...67 Current EDM, Inc....60 Cutting Tool Control...61 Cygnet Stamping...65 Dayton Lamina...24,67 Desert EDM...43,56 Dix Metals...32,57 Dolphin Investment Castings...67 Doosan...17 dtiEXACT...11,63 EDM Network...53,56 EDM Performance..56,57 Edge Technologies...35,58,60 Ellison Technologies...17,56 EPSI...66 Evans Precision...69 Exit Startagies..58 EZ-ACCESS...46,67 Fab-Line Machinery...59 Fahey Machinery...21,57-59 Faustson...64 A Z MANUFACTURING WEST COAST • 70 • OCT / NOV 2016 2

Flex-Pro...55,64 Foresight Finishing...66 Fry Steel...58 Fullerton Tool...34,61 Ganesh Machinery...56 Gartman Technical...52 Gillaspie...66 Gladhill Associates...58 Global EDM Supply...57 GMA Garnet Group...22,59 GMN...27,58 Gold Tech...33,65 Gorilla Metals Inc...18,58 Gosiger...58,59 Group Manufacturing...64 Grovtec...12,63 Hangsterfers...56,58 Helical...59 Horizon Carbide...58 Howard Precision Mach. Prod...10,68 Hurco...23 i3D...46 Icon Machine Tools, Inc....57 Industrial Machine Services...66 Industrial Metal Supply Co....14,61 Industrial Precision Grinding...68 KD Capital...60 King Machine...61 Kloeckner Metals-Temtco...31,57 Lambie Engineering...59 Larkin Precision...67 Layke Inc...66 Layke Tactical...66 Leadtek...68 Machinists Inc....37,63 Mario Pinto...59 Makino...19 Mazak...45 MESCO...65 MET-TEK Inc...64 Methods Machine Tools Inc...57 Metro Metals Northwest, Inc...66 Micropulse West...65 Midaco Corporation...58 Milco...68 Mountain View Machining...65 MP Industrial...56 North-South Machinery...15,56 Northwestern Machinery...59 ONA EDM USA...61 Optical Gaging Products Inc...59 Pacific Swiss...14,69 Pacific Continental Bank...30,61 Perceptron...61 Performance Machine Tools...60 Perry Pallet...61 Phoenix Heat Treat...65 Pinnacle Precision...65 Plastic Injection Molding...64 Portland Precision...66 Precious Metals Plating...42,69 Precision Die & Stamping...64 QUAL-FAB, Inc....63

Real Axis Machining...66 Resell CNC...60 Red Line Tools...9 Rickard Engineering...63 Rocky Mountain Saw Blades...61 Roentgen USA...57 Rolled Alloys...19 Romi Machine Tools...60 Ron Grob...22,64 Rosco Precision Machinery...23,56 Rotarex...62 Royal products...40,57 Ryerson...5,56 S.L. Fusco...71 Santa Cruz Electronics...25 Savage Machine...27,63 Saw Blade.com...72 Scotttrade Bank Equip Finance...61 Scout Systems...62 Seastrom Manufacturing...1,28,29,61 Selway Machine Tool Co...56,58 Sentry Insurance...60 Sequoia Brass & Copper...62 Setco Spindles & Slides...61 Sharp Industries...56 SigmaTEK...60 SMH Inc LLC...48,63 Southwest Turbine...42 Specialty Steel...64 Spring Works Utah...64 Star Metal Fluids...57 Steel Services Grinding...65 Strom Manufacturing...13,63 Summit Machine Tool...44,56 Sun Grinding...64 Superior Grinding...26,63 Sustaining Edge...59 Swift Tool...16,49,60,57 Teton...66 TFC Plating...65 Thermal-Vac...66 Tool Technology...61 Tormach...25 Treske...20,66 Trusty Cook...2,56 TVT Die Casting...50,51,63 Ultimate 3D...64 UNIST...3 US Bank Equipment ...61 US Shop Tools...41,60 Valley Machine Shop...65 Verisurf...59 Vision33...59 Von Ruden Manufacturing, Inc...57 VTN Manufacturing...63 Weiser Engineering...65 Western Precision Products...12,63 Western Sintering...40,63 Wohlhaupter...68 Wrico Stamping...31,63 Zachman Machinery....47,62

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