A2Z Rocky Mtn Sept Oct 2015

Vol. 8, No. 4 Sept / Oct 2015

Rocky Mountain Edition (CO, UT, ID, MT and WY)

IT’S ABOUT SUPERIOR MACHINES...

AND OUTSTANDING CUSTOMER SUPPORT...

AND SO MUCH MORE...

√ Automation √ Tooling √ Maintenance √ Robotics

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Editors Corner

Cover Elon Musk Sums Up Manufacturing...

“I don’t spend my time pontificating about highconcept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.” and “The rumors of the demise of the U.S. manufacturing industry are greatly exaggerated.”

This issue brings so much exciting news to the Rocky Mountain region! “Aerospace Manufacturing Takes Off in Utah”, “Raytheon Announces Expansion into Colorado”, “Colorado-based Woodward Gets Deal To Build Parts For New Airbus”, New Fighter Jets Arrive At Utah’s Hill Air Force Base”, “Manufacturing Jobs Climb in the Rocky Mountain State” , and “Report: Most Manufacturing Segments To Grow ThisYear” — these are just some of the articles that we’ve pulled from various journals over the past month or so. I haven’t seen such optimism in the Rocky Mountain region since before the latest recession.

And in this month, October, it is officially ‘Manufacturing Day’, aka MFG DAY, a celebration that provides an opportunity for manufacturers to highlight their work and their workers and to energize a future pipeline of skilled workers. Last year all across the country, organizations showed the public what manufacturing really looks like through more than 1,660 open houses and events in each of the 50 states with an estimated 50,000 students, parents, and community members attending. Manufacturing Day also resulted in thousands of articles, TV segments and interviews; participation from public officials; and proclamations across the country - including the first ever proclamation from the President of the United States.

MFG DAY is becoming a rallying point for a growing mass movement, as it empowers manufacturers to come together to address their collective challenges so they can help their communities and future generations thrive. It is not too late to participate or to sponsor an event to celebrate manufacturing in our great country!

Many Machine Tool Dealers in the Rocky Mountain states are hosting Open Houses to share new technologies with their customers. Haas Factory Outlets throughout the United States will be hosting their guests. If you don’t know about the Gene Haas Foundation and you are trying to promote manufacturing in your region, you should attend an Open House to learn more. The Gene Haas Foundation was founded in 1999 to fund the needs of the local community and other deserving charities. A recent report called “The Skills Gap in U.S. Manufacturing 2015 and Beyond” projects that, “Over the next decade, nearly three and a half million manufacturing jobs will likely need to be filled, and the skills gap is expected to result in 2 million of those jobs going unfilled.” Gene’s commitment to the importance of US manufacturing has incited him to grow his personal foundation and direct his foundation board to focus on manufacturing education and grants for scholarships for students.

To date, more than 1200 organizations have received funds totaling over 27 million dollars from the Gene Haas Foundation.

It is so enlightening to have the opportunity to interview and write about great companies each issue — without a doubt it is the most enjoyable aspect of publishing this magazine!

In this issue, you will read about a machine tool dealer, in business since 1952, is emerging as an even greater entity through a partnership. You will read about Spyderco, manufacturers of knives proudly designed and manufactured in the USA. Lastly, Jensen Precision is a successful manufacturing entity was founded from the company who invented zip drives.

Until next issue, celebrate manufacturing. And of course, God Bless Our Troops!

Linda Daly A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain

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This Issue’s Shop Profile Announcements/Releases .....................6-20 Feature Articles .... ..........1,26-27,44-45,54-55 Buyers Guide Equipment .....................57-62 Buyers Guide Processes ........................63-69 Card Gallery ..........................................57-69 Index Of Advertisers .................................70 Editorial.....................................Throughout

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More Than Metal

when it comes to aluminum

WE MAKE THE CUT

Aluminum...Where you need it, When you need it, How you want it Samuel, Son & Co. Inc. is among the top 4 largest Metal Service Centers in North America. Our integrated global network of distribution, processing and manufacturing divisions are dedicated to reducing total costs by providing quality materials, processed by skilled personnel, utilizing highly advanced equipment and technologies.

Samuel carries large inventories of aluminum sheet and plate combined with high speed close tolerance cutting capabilities

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Announcements & Releases J.M. Grisley Expands With Doosan Into Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico, and Wyoming!

J.M. Gr isley, a 4th generation machine tool dealer headquartered in Salt Lake City, UT, is pleased to announce that it was selected by prestigious machine tool builder Doosan Infracore to expand its territory to include Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico, and Wyoming.

The company, in business for 90 years, has been carrying the Doosan machine tool line for its customers in Utah, Idaho, and Montana. Lars Grisley, Managing Director, says, “We have been the Doosan dealer for nearly 3 decades, and we are honored to have been chosen to expand our market presence in Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico, and Wyoming.

We are already staffed up to begin supporting loyal Doosan customers in our new territories.”

He continued, “In these uncertain times in the industry, our customers can be assured that they are in good hands with a 4th generation family A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain

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owned machine tool dealer such as J.M. Grisley.

Lars encourages new and existing customers to contact J.M. Grisley at (801)-486-7519 or visit their website at jmgrisleymachine.com

Glen James Joins Schenk Intertech Schenk Inter tech is an independent Manufacturers Agency covering the four states of California, Arizona, Utah and Nevada, representing engineered systems including high performance cutting tools, precision boring systems, top quality tool holders, machine tool accessories, tool presetters, inspection equipment and workholding systems. We represent companies such as Big-Kaiser, Rego-Fix, Kaiser Thinbit, Cogsdill, Unist, Iti, K-Tool and George Products (“Oasis”).

Glen James came to us with a wealth of experience from highly regarded manufacturers with well over 20 years of operating CNC mills and lathes. He can apply several popular machine controls, streamline machining processes and has strong editing skills. He had responsibilities for setting up jobs, and the selection and presetting of tools. An additional benefit to us is his years of familiarity with some of our products such as Big Kaiser and Rego-Fix. Announcements Continued Page 8

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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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and construction with over 25 years of experience. He has experience in Facilities Management, Project Management and Plant and Industrial Engineering. Steve has a wealth of knowledge from both the contractor’s and the customer’s perspective.

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“Cimatron has really helped us stay ahead of the curve when it comes to creating more sophisticated molds, such as those required for products with blended curves. Without Cimatron in place, designing and producing such goods would be nearly impossible.”

Thomas LaMarca, Jr., Owner, L&Z Tool and Engineering “We believe one of the things that sets LS Mold apart from other shops is our Cimatron CAD/CAM capabilities. Cimatron really listened to our needs and it shows in how they implement our requirements in the software. The modeling package is first rate. It particularly shines in electrode creation. Customer support from Cimatron is outstanding.”

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The Ganesh Machinery open-house, held on September 1st, was a big success and well attended with over 250 guests witnessing 20 CNC machines demonstrating enhanced cutting processes at their updated Chatsworth, CA facility.

Ganesh Machinery used this event to show customers strategies on how to be more successful by focusing on using labor smarter and achieve seamless “done-inone-operation” production by taking the machining-cell concept to the next level.

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His primary function is to provide technical support to our distributors and machine tool dealers in Arizona and Utah as well as to offer engineering solutions to our customers in these states, primarily manufacturers in the medical device, aerospace, electronics and automotive industries.

Cimetron_CCI.indd 1 1/16/13 10:45 AM Please welcome Glen in his new challenge and wish him great success.

IRH Welcomes Steve Nielsen as Business Development IRH is pleased to announce that Steve Nielsen recently joined the IRH team handling Business Development for Millwright and Rigging services. Steve has a strong background in industry A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain

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Ganesh demonstrated Multi-Tasking CNC lathes with up to 11-axis to making short-work of complex parts for profitable “done-in-one” production. The venerable Cyclone CS-32 CNC Swiss style machine also introduced dual angular milling and drilling heads, gear hobbing attachments, and large slotting head tools to expand the profit potential of that series of machines.

The 36-tool Cyclone BY-2 9-axis CNC lathe was shown using the angular cutting Announcements Continued Page 10

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capabilities of its B-Axis while demonstrating how complex lathe parts up to 2” with milled and drilled angles can be easily machined.

The “Big-Bore” lathe series, starting at 30” swing and going up to 100” lathe swing capacity with spindle bores up to 32”, was shown with front and rear power chucks.

The Ganesh CNC vertical milling machine line VFM-2416 with an X,Y of 24” x 16” was demonstrated, as well as the VFM-5127. This series of premium CNC verticals go up to 100” in X and 39” in Y and feature 680-block look-ahead and high-speed data processing for faster production and better surface finish. The affordable Ganesh 5X-8 5-axis milling machine was shown processing a full 5-axis workpiece.

Ganesh demonstrated their extensive capabilities in production analysis, automation and turn-key solutions in support of challenging production applications. Ganesh offers a complete line of CNC milling and turning machines to meet your needs. The new 44-page catalog presents the entire Ganesh machine tool lineup showing solutions that will provide greater manufacturing efficiency.

Star Metal Fluids Introduces New Team Members Star Metal Fluids is pleased to announce the addition of Chris Pelletier and Raul Esparza to the team.With the continued growth of A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain

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the company it is important that we build with the best people. Approaching their 25th anniversary, Star Metal Fluids is the largest single supplier of metalworking fluids and fluid management equipment in the southwest with warehouses in Phoenix and West Valley Ut. Being an aggressive and dynamic company the words “function or maintain” are NOT in our vocabulary...but instead we use the words “credibility and visibility”.

As a leader we must have the best trained personnel to assist our valued customers in correct product selection per their applications and support those products with fast and correct answers when the needs arise. And, last but not least...our customer service must always be second to none!

Please welcome Chris and Raul and let them prove to you the interest they have in your company and operations with the many solutions we offer at Star Metal Fluids to reduce your costs and increase productivity. Contact Star Metal Fluids at 800.367.9966 or visit metalfluids.com Announcements Continued Page 12

In Utah, Montana & Wyoming & Now In Colorado, Nebraska and New Mexico

J.M. Grisley Machine Tools, Inc. 1485 SOUTH 300 WEST, SALT LAKE CITY, UT 801.486.7519 www.jmgrisleymachine.com

Multi-Tasking Turning Centers

Horizontal Machining Centers

Vertical & 5-Axis Machining Centers

Large Capacity Turning Centers

“We are pleased to announce that we are expanding our coverage of the Doosan Infracore machine tool line. J.M. Grisley, in business for 90 years, has sold Doosan machine tools into Utah, Montana and Wyoming for the past 3 decades. We are pleased to announce that Doosan has selected J.M. Grisley as the distributor for Colorado and New Mexico.

We are already staffed up to support our new customers in this territory.

In these uncertain times, you can feel confident when you purchase your Doosan machine tools from J.M. Grisley, whether your business is in Utah, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska or New Mexico. Trust your machine tool purchases from a family-run company that has been supporting the industry for 90 years now!”

Regards, Lars Grisley, Managing Director, J.M. Grisley Machine Tools, Inc. A Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain • 11 • Sept / Oct 2015 2

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Ulbrich Stainless Steels & Special Metals, Inc. Shares Their Business Model Ulbrich Stainless Steels & Special Metals, Inc., is a global precision re-roller and distributor of stainless steel strip, special metals strip, foil, shaped wire, fine wire, sheet, plate, bar and PV ribbon products.

Ulbrich’s product line includes, but is not limited to: stainless steels, PH grades, nickel and nickel alloys, cobalt, niobium, zirconium, titanium and titanium alloys. The company’s products are used across many industries including: aerospace, oil and gas, automotive, power generation, and various sectors within the medical industry.

Ulbrich has 12 strategically located sites in five countries across North America and Europe. In order to achieve perfection, all of the Ulbrich facilities must follow the corporate mandate to meet the international quality standards in addition to the specific quality standards of the regions, industries and key multinational manufacturers (OEMs) they service.

As such, all locations are ISO 9001:2008 (International Organization for Standardization) certified, in addition to other certifications such as the Laboratory Control at Source (LCS) accreditation and the National Aerospace and Defense Contractors Accreditation Program (NADCAP) qualification. These certifications allow customers the certainty of the quality of their metal products.

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Ulbrich continually supplies their customers with metals that are engineered to enhance and improve a wide variety of processes.With over 90 years of experience, Ulbrich is known for their excellent reliability, superior performance, and highly trained Engineers, Product Managers, and Sales Executives who can assist in all aspects of material selection and production of your stainless steel or special metals requirements.

Resell CNC Auctions Recognized As An Inc. 500 Company For Second Straight Year For the second year straight, Resell CNC Auctions has been named to the prestigious Inc. 500, a list of America’s fastest growing private companies. This year, Resell CNC Auctions earned the #108 spot overall, an increase of 47 positions, and the #7 spot in business products and services.

“As an Inc. 500 honoree, Resell CNC Auctions now shares a pedigree with Intuit, Zappos, Under Armor, Microsoft, GoPro, Oracle and other notable alumni,” said Eric Schurenberg, President and Editor in Chief of Inc. Magazine.

Started in 2008, Resell CNC Auctions has grown to be a leader in used manufacturing equipment sales and specializes in online auctions and liquidations. Resell CNC Auctions has experienced 3209% growth over the past 3 years and it has offices and Announcements Continued Page 14

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representation in Florida, Arizona, Texas, California and Illinois.

“We are pleased to have once again been recognized as an Inc. 500 company. We are committed to our customers and to being the easiest, most reliable and trusted platform for buying and selling used manufacturing equipment,” said CEO John Butz. He continued, “And with our continued expansion of our Phoenix, Arizona location headed by Mike Mills and with the recent addition of Scott Magnuson, Resell CNC is poised to continue on our rapid growth path.”

SKB Cases Selects PlaSteel As Master Distributor Plasteel has b e c o m e the master distributor for SKB cases in the states of Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico. SKB manufactures Military/Industrial Grade Waterproof Cases.The cases come in a variety of sizes and colors and with several interior options available; including: empty • cubed foam • layered foam • padded dividers • trays • custom foam Trent Powell, Vice President of Sales for PlaSteel, says, “ We are delighted that SKB selected our company to distribute their A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain

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waterproof cases. SKB felt the custom foam kitting solutions Plasteel provides was a perfect match for their award winning cases. PlaSteel also has a unique FOD prevention program not found elsewhere in the industry.”

PlaSteel supports customers in a wide range of industries, including Electronic, Medical, Aerospace and Defense. The company is an innovative, women owned plastic and metal component manufacturing company, aimed at offering high-quality products using the best of craftsmanship and customer support.

To learn more aboutPlaSteel’s capabilities, contact them at (480) 491-8100 or visit www.PlaSteelAZ.com. Mention Promo Code ‘SKB’ to learn about Plasteel’s specials.

BMSC Helps Companies with ISO 9001:2015 BMSC, LLC announces that they have more than five companies scheduled for ISO 9001:2015 registration in November of this year!

Although the standard is not due to be released until September or October, the registrar the companies are using, GreatWestern Registrar, will be auditing them to the new standard and the second the registrar’s plan is accepted the clients will receive their ISO 9001:2015 certification!

Most of the companies are AS9100 compliant but do not want to wait Announcements Continued Page 16

www.superiorgrinding.com 245 West Crossroads Square, S. Salt Lake, Utah 84115 If You Have Something To Send Out For Bid Give Us A Call!

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We have been in business 25 years.

We are ISO 9001/2008 Certified.

We do OD,ID, Centerless Plunge and Thru Feed, Surface, Angled and Blanchard Grinding.

We have Swiss Machining up to .780 Dia and CNC Mill Capabilities.

We specialize in Long Bar Grinding for Screw Machines.

We Grind all types of Industrial Blades along with Sales of Replacement Blades.

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Please Like Us on Facebook • Superior Grinding & Sales, Inc Announcements Continued for the new AS9100 standard to be revised before upgrading to the new ISO 9001:2015 standard.

The new ISO 9001:2015 standard has many improvements over the prior standard and BMSC’s new and existing clients are excited to upgrade and take advantage of the new requirements such as risk management and process performance objectives.

blank, what the end use is going to be and having the right machines to produce these blanks at high volumes.

“Customers can produce blanks in-house, but it’s ultimately an inefficient process, so you can waste an incredible amount of time just getting to your starting point,” says Jon-David Nutter, General Manager at Dix Metals. “We’re set up to produce blanks and we do

For Machine Shops,Where You Start Has The Biggest Impact On Where You End Up For today’s machine shops & OEM’s, timing is tight and margins are even tighter.

Dix Metals Machine-Ready Blanks allow machine shops to reduce prep-time and get to final production quicker. This allows shops - and their machinists - to focus on what they’re good at, which is key to success in manufacturing.

Precision-cut, prefabricated materials, machined and ground to tighttolerance specifications, result in precise, flawless Machine-Ready Blanks in stainless steel, aluminum and other alloys, and are delivered flat, square and parallel in whatever format your shop requires. Dix Metals supplies most of the metal they use, but can also work with customers’ material.

The key to success for Dix is understanding what goes into creating a A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain

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Announcements Continued it better than anyone in the industry.

In the end, it reduces customers’ frustration but more importantly, it reduces your cost.”

For information about Dix Metals and their Machine-Ready Blanks, contact Bryan Jenkins, bryan.jenkins@ velocityww.com or 212-634-9383 x. 700.

Haas Factory Outlet – Idaho/Montana, A Division Of King Machine Invites You To Haas Demo Days King Machine, Inc., the Haas Factory Outlet for Idaho and Montana will be hosting Haas Demo Days at two locations in October.

There will be live machine & cutting tool demos, educational mini-seminars and videos, manufacturer reps on hand to answer questions about your specific needs, great giveaways, and BBQ! Come check out the latest in high-performance, high-production Haas CNC machines with technology designed to “MAKE YOU MORE MONEY FASTER!”. Special features this year at the Idaho location include a UMC-750SS 5-Axis Machining Center with an integrated machine tending robot, the NEW DM-1 Drill/Mill Center featuring Wireless Intuitive Probing, a VF-2SS Super-Speed VMC with the NEW HRC160 Roller Cam Rotary Table, the newly redesigned TL-1 CNC Toolroom Lathe, an ST-25 CNC Lathe featuring the Auto Tool Presetter, 3D printing by Stratasys, and much more. Also, a free Haas hat for all guests! Save the date and plan to attend at the location nearest you!

• October 14th & 15th – King Machine, Inc., 443 W Pennwood St, Meridian, ID 83642, 10 AM to 6 PM • October 14th - Flathead Valley

Community College, Occupational & Trades Building, 777 Grandview Drive, Kalispell, MT 59901, 10 AM to 6 PM (BBQ lunch served 11 AM to 2 PM, both locations!)

Questions? Call: 800-733-0327 Email: sales@kingmach.com Visit: www.kingmach.com

Haas Factory Outlet - Denver / Salt Lake, A Division Of MMT, LLC And Productivity, Inc. Invite You To Haas Demo Days Haas Factory Outlet - Denver / Salt Lake, a division of MMT, LLC and Productivity, Inc. invite you to Haas Demo Days.

Moncktons MachineTools, LLC the Haas Factory Outlet for Colorado,Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico Announcements Continued Page 18 A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain

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

WITH DIX MACHINE-READY BLANKS,

YOU’RE READY TO GO

will be hosting their annual Demo Days.There will be live machine demos and cutting tool displays, educational videos, and manufacturers reps on hand to showcase their latest technologies.

Come for lunch and learn how to “make money faster” with technology features built into Haas high preformance CNC machines.

Special features at the Salt Lake HFO include a UMC-750SS, a VF-4SS highlighting thru spindle coolant and an oil skimmer, a ST-30Y featuring the Haas enclosure exhaust, the newly redisigned TL-2 toolroom lathe and much more!

Denver’s lineup includes a UMC-750, aVM-2 showing thru spindle coolant, the new Haas enclosure exhaust and the new auto coolant refill. The DM-1 with an integrated robot. ST-20 showcasing the totally new Haas Bar Feeder the newTL-2. Also on display will be the new MMTTooling division. Save the date and plan to attend....Please RSVP to salesslc@mmtproductivity. com forthe Utah event and salesdenver@mmtproductivity.com for Colorado event.

Northern Utah NTMA (National Tooling and Machining Association) Invites You To Come To Their Events!

October Events: 1: Board Meeting 8: Chapter Meeting-Apprenticeship Program Kickoff 20: Plant Managers Roundtable 21-24: Fall Conference In St. Louis November Events: 5: Board Meeting 11: CFO Roundtable 12: Annual Meeting-Roundtable 18: HR Roundtable December Events: 3: Board Meeting 10: Chapter Meeting To learn more about the Northern UtahTooling and Machining Association, contact: Madisen Wardle, Training & Recruiting Specialist - NUNTMA Chapter Exec., at 801.337.7097 or email: Maddie Wardle maddie@ jdmachine.com

Ron Grob Company Celebrates 50 Years in Business Howard Precision Machine Parts (JW Howard Inc.) 776 West Honda Park Drive, Bluffdale, Utah 84065 www.HowardPMP.com info@HowardPMP.com A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain

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Ron founded Ron Grob Company in 1965 after graduating from the University ofWisconsin in mechanical engineering, and after employment with Hewlett-Packard Co. andTed Grob Corporation. He started in a 3800 square foot building at 2003West Eighth, in Loveland. For several months, Ron was the only employee. The only production machines were a Grob Announcements Continued Page 20

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This association benefited the corporation, since it allowed Ron to concentrate on sales, finance, etc., while Gene took care of production. Gene retired in 1996. Ron and Rebecca once again became the sole owners.

In 1991 Ron Grob Company expanded it’s capabilities to include CNC Swiss screw machining, and later CNC vertical machining. These capabilities led to manufacturing test fixtures and doing associated work for some very notable technology corporations. Harold Huffaker joined the company in 2005 as a centerless grinder operator and in 2009, became Vice President and a stockholder.

In 2006, RGC’s quality system was certified to meet the requirements of ISO 9001:2000. The attainment of this certification was a milestone and it represents a high level of commitment to serving our customers.

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It is sometimes difficult to understand the tremendous amount of effort and determination that are necessary to build a successful business.

Businesses are faced with a myriad of challenges, as well as having to deal with government regulations. About 93% of all machining businesses fail within the first 3 years. A total of about 97% fail, are sold, or merged within the first 7 years. Less than 1% endure 50 years, so Ron Grob Company is in a distinct minority. We believe that we have endured because of our honest and fair treatment of customers, vendors, and employees.

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Makino Hosts Mfg Day Event In celebration of Manufacturing Day 2015, Makino is opening its facility to more than 500 students and community visitors in order to encourage and promote youth interest in manufacturing careers.

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Gov. Herbert announced the Utah Aerospace Pathways program, which will provide Utah students the opportunity to graduate high school with a certificate in aerospace manufacturing and begin an aerospace manufacturing career. This unique program has brought aerospace industry representatives, education leaders and government together in an unprecedented collaboration. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The creation of the Utah Aerospace Pathways program will benefit Utah students for generations to come. This is among the first time industry partners and K-12 educators are working closely together to directly address their workforce needs in the state,â&#x20AC;? Gov. Herbert said.â&#x20AC;?

The collaboration started in March of this year with the goal of developing a pilot program for the 2015 school year.The first semester of the program will take place in high schools in Granite and Davis School Districts, while the second semester will take place at Davis Applied Technology College and Salt Lake Community College.

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The six aerospace industry partners in Utah are Boeing, Harris, Hexcel, Hill Air Force Base, Janicki, and Orbital ATK. The industry partners have worked closely together with the Utah Manufacturers Association to provide paid internships during the certification process and define the requirements to hire these students out of high school. Lastly, the Utah Aerospace Pathways program is a grant recipient of the Utah Cluster Acceleration Partnership (UCAP), a program that provides funding to public educational institutions to develop, implement, or enhance educational programs that are responsive to regional and statewide industry needs.

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Orbital ATK and SpaceX now face competition for a follow-on CRS contract from at least three companies: Boeing, Sierra Nevada and Lockheed Martin. Those companies, and the incumbents, have all confirmed they bid on CRS-2 when NASA solicited offers in September.

In the CRS contract mods already completed, Orbital ATK originally got three additional flights, Schierholz said. However, two of Orbital ATK’s missions were combined after the company decided to enlarge its Cygnus space tug and launch it aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Atlas 5 is more powerful than Orbital ATK’s Antares vehicle, which is out of commission until early next year following an Oct. 28 launch failure at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Wallops Island, Virginia.

Orbital ATK is using Atlas 5 while it replaces Antares’ main-stage engine with new Russian-made RD-181s. Antares was using AJ-26 engines, Soviet-vintage NK-33s refurbished and rebranded by Aerojet Rocketdyne of Sacramento, California. After the AJ-26 was blamed for the Antares failure, Orbital ATK decided to switch engines and ordered one ULA Atlas 5 through Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services for a Cygnus launch slated for December.

“We do not have any other Atlas launches planned for our CRS contract,” Orbital ATK spokeswoman Vicki Cox said. She would not say whether the company held options to purchase more Atlas 5s.

NASA Considering More Cargo Orders from Orbital ATK, SpaceX Having delayed the award of follow-on Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contracts until at least November, NASA is considering ordering more International Space Station cargo deliveries from Orbital ATK and SpaceX, both of which had already quietly hauled in additional orders under CRS deals signed in 2008.

After contract modifications initiated late last year and finalized this summer, SpaceX is on the hook for a total of 15 flights to the space station, up from the 12 NASA ordered in 2008. Orbital ATK wound up with 10 flights, up from eight, following the latest round of contract modifications, NASA spokeswoman Stephanie Schierholz said.

NASA’s original CRS order obligated SpaceX and Orbital ATK to deliver 20 metric tons of cargo each to ISS. At the time, that worked out to 12 flights for SpaceX totaling $1.6 billion and eight flights for Orbital ATK totaling $1.9 billion. Each company’s indefinite quantity, indefinite delivery CRS contract is good through 2018 and has a maximum value of $3.1 billion.

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Both Atlas 5-launched Cygnus tugs will carry their maximum load of 3,500 kilograms of pressurized cargo. Orbital ATK will launch at least three, and possibly four, CRS missions in 2016, Frank DeMauro, the company’s Cygnus program manager, said in a phone interview.

Like Orbital ATK, SpaceX is also recovering from a launch failure during a CRS mission. The company’s Falcon 9 rocket disintegrated about two minutes after launch on what was supposed to be its seventh paid cargo run for NASA. SpaceX founder and Chief Executive Elon Musk implicated a faulty upper-stage strut in the failure, although the Hawthorne, California-based company has yet to publish an official report on the accident.

Musk has also said SpaceX could resume launching as soon as September, but an industry source said Aug. 19 the company is now planning a November return to flight.That launch would be a commercial mission for SES of Luxembourg using the newly upgraded Falcon 9 rocket.

SpaceX’s next cargo run for NASA, its eighth, would also happen in November, this person said.

Autoliv Expands Brake Systems Business Autoliv, Inc. , the worldwide leader in automotive safety systems, announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to establish a Joint Venture (JV) with Nissin Kogyo.

The automotive fleet of tomorrow will be characterized by integrated active and passive safety systems operating in harmony, for the best total safety solutions.

Therefore, Autoliv and Nissin Kogyo intend to form a new JV in the product areas of “Brake Control and Brake Apply Systems”.The intent is that Autoliv would own 51% of the joint venture and have management control. All in line with consolidation purposes and in accordance with US GAAP accounting principles.

The joint venture will combine the current brake control business of Autoliv with a “carve-out” of Nissin Kogyo’s automotive braking business.

Nissin Kogyo is a leading supplier of high-performance braking systems for automotive and non-automotive markets, mainly in Japan.

With manufacturing facilities in Japan, China and the United States, the JV will include approximately 2,000 technical, commercial, manufacturing and administrative employees focused upon the design, development and production of “Brake Control and Brake Apply Systems” for the global light vehicle market.

The JV will have three engineering sites and two test tracks with access to over 1,200 patents and other intellectual property.

“This joint venture expands our capability in safety systems and strengthens a key building block in the actuator area of our portfolio towards autonomous driving. With this joint venture we further reinforce our commitment to a safety systems approach to real life safety”, says Autoliv Chairman, President & CEO Jan Carlson.

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U.S. Manufacturers Prevail Upon Parents To Hire In-Demand Kids When 17-year-old Brian Dardon told his mother he wanted to pursue a career in manufacturing, she was full of apprehension.

To Diane Dardon, a Protestant chaplain at a Chicago university, manufacturing meant performing rote, unskilled tasks with little job security.

Brian has just started his senior year at Wheeling High School in the Chicago suburbs, and his school district offers a manufacturing program with companies in the “Golden Corridor,” a long strip rich in manufacturers that runs through the northwestern suburbs. Brian now plans to go to college to pursue qualifications that will prepare him for a career in manufacturing.

“It all seemed so much less than exciting as a career prospect for him,” she said.

The future of manufacturing in the U.S. will largely be shaped by the strength of the U.S. dollar, energy costs and the outcome of trade deals such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

But then Brian took an internship at local manufacturer Engis Corporation, where he was asked to brainstorm to fill customer orders. His mother now sees that an industrial job can offer a “creative outlet for his talents.”

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Proudly Introducing the ‘New’ Moncktons Machine Tools, Now MMT, A Division of Productivity Inc.

Steve Polster and Mark Smith. Steve and Mark were previously General Managers for Moncktons Machine Tools.

Mark Smith, Vice President/General Manager for the company, says, “MMT combining forces with Productivity, Inc. is outstanding for our customers. They are a natural fit for our customers and us. For one, they carry many of the same machine tool lines that Moncktons has carried for years, including Haas, Makino, and Citizen/Miyano. They also share our values of honesty and superior customer service.” He continued, “The acquisition is providing our Rocky Mountain customers with several new opportunities that we could not provide previously – we will be able to leverage Productivity’s expertise in tooling and accessories, robotics and automation, applications engineering and used machines/auction services.”

Mark elaborated, “At MMT, we cover a land mass of 20% of the entire United States, yet less than 2% of the spindles purchased in the country are sold into the Rocky Mountain region. What this means for our customers is that MMT now can offer a wide variety of products that our customers require, not just machine tools. Productivity, by its shear size and diverse product offering, enables us to offer these services and products to our customers in the Rocky Mountain region, whether it is tooling, design of automation systems, robotics, financing and even vending systems.”

Meet The Denver Sales and Office Team If you have anything to do with machine tool purchases and you work in the Rocky Mountain region of the United States (CO, WY, ID, WY, UT, or NM), you invariably know Moncktons MachineTools.The company, in business since 1952, has proudly carried a fine line of machine tools for the precision manufacturing industry.They have been the exclusive Haas machine tool distributor since 1991.The company was one of the first distributors to carry the Makino machine tool line, and it has supported customers with the Citizen/Miyano machine tool line for more than 2 decades.

Greg Buck, President, of Productivity, says, “MMT, LLC intends to expand and deepen the excellent relationships that Tom Monckton and George Michel developed over the many years they managed the company.” He continued, “Our customers in the Rocky Mountain region all know Mark Smith and Steve Polster, who have been supporting the region, with Mark in our Denver office, and Steve in our Salt Lake City office. We are pleased that coincident with our 2 companies joining forces, Mark and Steve are now principals in MMT, LLC, and they will support our customers as Vice President/General Managers, in their respective regions.”

Now Moncktons Machine Tools has joined forces with Productivity Inc., the Midwest’s largest distributor of CNC machine tools and related metalworking equipment.

This new entity is called MMT, LLC, A Division of Productivity (abbreviated from Moncktons Machine Tools). Combined, the company now supports customers in 12 states, including; Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Western Wisconsin, Colorado, Utah, Montana, Wyoming, New Mexico and Idaho. The new entity is co-owned by Productivity Inc., A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain

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Steve says, “Productivity brings us a team of experts. In addition to our local sales and service team, our customers now have access to an extended team of Service Technicians, 15 Applications Engineers, as well as in house experts that support tooling and accessory sales.

He continued, “Our customers are not just buying machine tools – they are buy-

Productivity, Inc. offers everything its customers were accustomed to…and now much more.

Hear From MMT Customers “I have 18 Haas machines today, all purchased through Mark Smith and his team.Their service is very good — they stock parts locally, and when we have an issue, they have a large team of technicians that we can count on. They select the technician by skill set to match our issue.

I’ve been working with MMT for a decade now, and I think their partnership with a large machine tool dealer, coupled with their local expertise, will afford us a larger resource pool, and it can only be good for us.” Machine Shop in Colorado

Meet The SLC Sales and Office Team ing from a company that can offer the best support throughout the life of their machine tools. Through Productivity, MMT can offer its customers quick turn-around for rotary repairs, full service applications engineering and training, just to name a few. The biggest upside we can now offer our customers is the confidence that MMT, a Division of Productivity, can completely cover their entire metalworking needs.”

Mark adds, “In addition to our new extended support from Productivity, our office in Salt Lake City has a staff of 11 and our Denver office has a staff of 19 supporting our customers locally.We are also in the process of building dedicated local teams in the Rocky Mountain region to support all of our customers’ tooling and accessory needs.”

“MMT has been our machine tool dealer for over a decade now. In this period, we have purchased 7 Haas machines, 4 Makino machines and a Citizen machine.

We have always been very pleased with Monckton’s service and support.

With Moncktons, we can purchase very high end top notch machines, like the Citizen and Makino, and we can purchase our work horse machines like the Haas machines.

Stan was my MMT Sales Engineer for years, and Bryan Johnson supports us now. Both have been very good for us –Bryan is responsive, he has good follow-up, and the team at MMT just all do a great job standing behind us.

I think the ‘new MMT’ with Productivity’s backing will be Meet Some of The SLC Service Team Members very positiive for us.While we always had great service, when we needed applications support, MMT supported us through the Mark and Steve comprise the local management team of MMT, LLC.They have builder, like Makino. With the new MMT, as a part of Produca long history together in the metalworking industry. Mark and Steve started tivity, we, will now have local applications support.” Medical their careers in Chicago. Mark brought Steve into Moncktons several years ago Manufacturer in Utah in preparation for the two to become owners of the new MMT, LLC. Mark and Greg got acquainted over a decade ago, meeting regularly at various machine What’s New! tool events and more recently with Steve and KevinTimm, Productivity’s COO. The solid relationship of the management team will ensure that the transition MMT is seeking experienced, energetic individuals to support their of Moncktons Machine Tools to the Productivity family will be a smooth one, growth, particularly in service. Interested and qualified applicants and one that benefits all of their Rocky Mountain customers. are encouraged to contact them at 303.571.4933 (CO, NM and Eastern WY) or 801.886.2221 (UT, ID, MT, and Western WY).

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Driverless Truck Designed To Improve Safety In Work Zones

Royal Truck & Equipment Inc., demonstrates its self-driving crash truck, Monday, Aug. 24, 2015, in Bethlehem, Pa. The company’s self-driving truck will make its debut at highway construction sites in Florida by the end of the year under a state Department of Transportation pilot program. (AP Photo/Michael Rubinkam) Roving construction crews - the kind you see blacktopping a road, painting lines, inspecting a bridge or installing a traffic signal - are often protected from oncoming traffic by a specialized truck outfitted with a crash barrier.

The crash trucks, fitted with a device called a truck-mounted attenuator, have been credited with saving lives. But the workers who drive them are inevitably placed in harm’s way, “literally waiting to be struck,” said Robert Roy, president of Royal Truck & Equipment Inc. in Coopersburg.

Last month, Royal demonstrated its new driverless crash truck that it hopes will some day improve safety at work zones around the country. Two of the autonomous vehicles will make their debut at highway construction sites in Florida by the end of the year under a state Department of Transportation demonstration program.

“Any time a driver can be removed from these vehicles in a very dangerous situation, and if the vehicle’s struck, there’s nobody inside of it to receive the damage or the injuries, that’s measuring success,” Roy said.

Truck-mounted attenuators have been around for 30 years. One study, published this year in the Journal of the Transportation Research Board,

found they cut work-zone injuries and fatalities from rear-end crashes nearly in half.

There is considerable interest in autonomous truck-mounted attenuators, both for their potential to reduce risk and as a way to save on labor costs, one of the study’s authors, Gerald Ullman of Texas A&M’s Transportation Institute, said Monday.

“Connected and autonomous vehicles in general are viewed as the future of surface transportation, and this technology may be one of the first ways in which it gets commercialized,” he said.

Google and traditional car companies have been developing self-driving vehicles, while Daimler Trucks North America LLC recently demonstrated the first self-driving tractor-trailer to be licensed on public roads. Daimler said it would be years before a self-driving truck hits the market.

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Kilmer said additive printing could be used to manufacture anything from fasteners to wheels and jet engine turbine blades.The R&D center would also look at different additive printing technologies and ways to reduce the waste of costly metal alloys that occurs in traditional manufacturing processes.

Construction on the new facility is due to be completed in the first quarter of 2016.

Proponents of 3D printing say it can help aircraft manufacturers cut the cost of parts made from titanium, which costs seven times more than aluminum.

Norwegian titanium component manufacturer Norsk Titanium AS recently announced plans to establish the world’s first industrial-scale 3D printing facility in the United States.

U.S. conglomerate General Electric Co has said it will introduce its first 3D-printed parts in an aircraft engine platform in 2016, saying that the lighter and simpler parts will improve engine performance.

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The move is part of Alcoa’s strategy of investing in more advanced aerospace and automotive products while selling off some of its more traditional yet costly smelting facilities.

Also known as additive printing, 3D printers build three-dimensional metal parts by layering and heating metal alloy powder, which are then treated in a forge to make them stronger.

The 3D process has been used to build prototypes for 25 years, but only now is making its way into regular production.

Alcoa’s chief technology officer, Ray Kilmer, said the current available alloys are expensive, and part of the focus of the expanded R&D center will be to explore new aluminum, titanium, nickel and other metal alloys.

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Private Space Stations Could Be a Reality by 2025 There are strong prospects that commercial space stations will become a reality within the next 10 years if entrepreneurs and NASA can properly manage the tricky transition from the government-run International Space Station to privately built and operated facilities, experts say.

“This is an exciting moment,” said Alex MacDonald, program executive for NASA’s Emerging Space Office. “We are going to have a legitimate opportunity to run that great experiment of privately owned facilities, if you guys are able to raise the money to do it. And that’s really the exciting part.”

MacDonald was addressing entrepreneurs who were on a commercial space station panel with him at the Space Frontier Foundation’s NewSpace 2015 conference.

NASA uses the International Space Station (ISS) for basic research and to reduce the human and technological risks of sending astronauts beyond low-Earth orbit (LEO).That need will not end even if the space station is retired in 2024, as currently planned, experts say.

“NASA will continue to need an environment in which it buys down

those risks to a certain point,” said Mary Lynne Dittmar, CEO of Dittmar Associates.

“The question is, what’s that point? Where do you get to the point where you say, ‘OK, I’ve retired enough risk, or I’ve got risk down to the point where I can’t really fix it all, but I can identify it and then make decisions about how I’m going to manage it or how I’m going to respond to it?’” Dittmar added. “That question continues to be one that is debated inside the agency, and sort of moves back and forth inside the agency. I would say that the window is narrowing on it, but it’s not set.”

NASA will not build another space station in LEO; instead, it will look to buy services from the private sector.

“From a commercial point of view, the issue is, how do you know when you’re there there?” Dittmar said, then supplied the answer herself: “When you know that you have a critical mass of investment and endeavor and applications being developed and new ideas and entrepreneurial avenues and all the rest of that.”

Private companies are currently using the ISS for experiments, commercial research and the launching of tiny spacecraft called cubesats.

Marybeth Edeen, NASA’s ISS National Laboratory manager, said that crew time for conducting experiments and deploying cubesats is at a premium.

As soon as private industry starts to create platforms for such activities as gowing protein crystals, launching cubesats or conducting rodent research, NASA will offload those activities to free up time and space for other work, Edeen said. NASA will not become an anchor tenant for a commercial facility, she added.

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Jeffrey Manber, managing director of NanoRacks, a company that helps send experiments and satellites to the ISS, said there’s a need for more destinations in space as transportation options expand in the years ahead.

“We know that, let’s say in five years, you’ll have five ways to send humans to and from space,” Manber said. “That’s pretty extraordinary.You’re going to have Boeing, you’re going to have SpaceX, you’re going to have Roscosmos [the Russian space agency], you’re going to have the Chinese, you’ll be looking at Blue [Origin] in a few years. You know, it’s just an extraordinary time when you just look at the range of opportunities.

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“We need destinations,” Manber added. “For me, in an ironic way or a convoluted way, the importance of deploying small satellites from the station today is that it makes platforms relevant today. It makes destinations [relevant]. I don’t want to be in a world where we’re just launching rockets, sending off satellites. I want to be in a place where, in the near future, we’re living and working in space.” Source: Space.com.

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Report: $2B Bid To Buy Colorado’s ULA From Lockheed Martin and Boeing Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings Inc. has reportedly offered about $2 billion to buy Centennial-based rocketmaker United Launch Alliance from its parent companies, Boeing Co. and Lockheed Martin Corp.

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An Aerojet Rocketdyne acquisition, if successful, would change ULA’s ownership from a Lockheed Martin-Boeing joint venture to an aerospace contractor owned by a company that has fought to become the supplier of ULA’s main rocket engine.

Aerojet’s unsolicited cash offer was initially made in August and is reportedly being seriously considered by Lockheed Martin and Boeing according to reports by the Wall Street Journal and the Reuters news agency, citing unnamed sources.

ULA is the primary contractor for U.S. military, spy agency and NASA science space launches. The company employs about 3,700 people nationwide, about 1,700 of them locally.

The company faces new pressure from Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), which has promised to offer launches far cheaper than ULA has typically charged.

SpaceX, based in Hawthorne, California, won U.S. Air Force certification in May to start bidding against ULA for contracts to launch military and spy agency satellites into orbit — a line of business for which ULA has had to itself -- although SpaceX has not yet been awarded any such contracts.

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ULA, in response to SpaceX and led by new CEO Tory Bruno, designed and started developing a new line of Vulcan rockets meant to be more advanced and launch at half the cost as ULA’s existing Atlas V and Delta IV rockets.

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The company makes upper-stage and other rocket engines that ULA uses. It also has invested in a new main booster engine for ULA but has fallen behind Blue Origin, the aerospace startup of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, in being ULA’s preferred engine supplier for

the Vulcan rockets.

Bruno has labeled the AR-1 rocket that Aerojet Rocketdyne is developing as a backup option if Blue Origin’s BE-4 engine didn’t work out.

Boeing and Lockheed Martin have conservatively funded ULA’s Vulcan rocket development, keeping it on a quarter-to-quarter budget instead of authorizing a long-term development investment.

The reason for that policy is uncertainty in ULA’s core business of launching military missions for the Air Force. Congress last year banned ULA from importing more of the Russian-made RD-180 booster engines that are used in its Atlas V rockets for U.S. national security missions, given heightened tensions between the U.S. and Russia.

If the limit stays in place and ULA cannot use the nine RD-180s with Russian engines it ordered in 2013, ULA risks running out in 2018 of engines for the Atlas V. That would hamper the rocket that handles the majority of ULA’s military launches and is the most cost-competitive with SpaceX. ULA’s ownership would get out of the launch business rather than see it turn unprofitable, Bruno said during the large Space Symposium convention in Colorado Springs in April.

Aerojet Rocketdyne has pushed the idea that the AR-1 would be a suitable replacement for RD-180s and would be ready in time to keep Atlas V rockets flying national security missions in 2018.

But ULA’s Bruno has expressed doubt the AR-1 could be ready that quickly. New engines for Vulcan rockets wouldn’t be ready before 2019, either from Blue Origin or Aerojet Rocketdyne, he has said.

In a late August interview with the Denver Business Journal, before word of Aerojet’s $2 billion offer emerged, Bruno expressed optimism that Congress would relax the RD-180 import ban this fall.

Meanwhile, SpaceX’s rockets haven’t been flying since one of its Falcon 9s failed during a June 28 mission for NASA carrying cargo to the International Space Station. The accident underscored how critical ULA’s reliability has been to U.S. defense space missions.

But SpaceX’s accident doesn’t take pressure off ULA in long run, Bruno said.

“These events are going to be ones that the other folks recover from, and I expect they’ll do it in a fairly timely fashion,” Bruno said.

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Earlier this year, Raytheon won the defense contract, and work is expected to be done at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, where the North American Aerospace Defense Command is headquartered, and nearby Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station. Rival Lockheed Martin Corp. had protested Raytheon’s contract award, but that protest was dismissed.

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1,400 Satellites Projected to Launch Over Next Decade An average of 140 satellites with launch masses greater than 50 kg will enter orbit by 2024, according to Euroconsult’s new “Satellites to be Built & Launched by 2024,” report. Of the 1,400 satellites over the next decade, the research firm expects governments from 60 countries will be responsible for 75 percent of the $255 billion in revenues from manufacture and launch.

In comparison with last year’s forecast, the number of satellites is due to grow more than the market value over the decade.

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Under the contract, Raytheon said it will provide around-the-clock support “to warning and attack assessment systems for air, missile and space threats.” Source: Denver Business Journal

Euroconsult expects nearly 90 percent of the government market will remain concentrated in the 10 countries with an established space industry: the U.S., Russia, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, China, Japan and India. The other 50 countries engaged in space activities will launch twice the number of satellites that they did in the past 10 years, i.e. about 200 satellites. More than half of these spacecraft will be procured from foreign manufacturers as domestic industry capabilities mature.

In the commercial space sector, Euroconsult anticipates 40 companies will launch a total of 550 satellites through the decade. Most of these satellites constitute replacements of the communications capacity currently in orbit.

“The increase in satellite number would be significantly higher if two mega-constellation projects for small communications satellites were included in the forecast,” said Rachel Villain, principal advisor at Euroconsult and editor of the report. “The 1,400 satellite count over the decade already includes 350 satellites to be deployed by 10 commercial constellations into low or medium Earth orbits for communication or Earth observation.”

Euroconsult estimates 80 percent of the commercial space market remains concentrated in geostationary orbit. Source: Satellite TODAY

Small Drones Are Growing On The Air Force Time was, the Air Force wanted nothing to do with drones that weren’t built

to be shot down. Now, after flying big, armed drones more than 2.4 million hours, the service has decided it wants to buy little ones in swarms – and fly them that way, too.

Buying Small Unmanned Aerial Systems (SUAS), meaning those that weigh less than 1,320 pounds, is one of numerous lessons learned over the nearly 15 years the Air Force has been flying armed MQ-1 Predators and MQ-9 Reapers, said Lt. Col. Jason Willey, one of four Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) operators on a panel at the annual Air Force Association conference.

“These aircraft traditionally are perceived as serving in limited tactical roles organic to ground units,” said Willey, MQ-9 Branch Chief in the RPA Capabilities Division of the Air Force Intelligence Directorate.

“However, in early 2016, the Air Force plans to release the first ever Small UAS flight plan with the intent to open the aperture, enhancing Small UAS roles and missions well beyond their current use.”

Whether that goal can be reached will depend on whether small drones can be improved to fly with the endurance and range of Predators, which can stay in the air 24 hours or more, or Reapers, which typically stay airborne for around 18 hours, depending on what they’re carrying. SUAS typically fly for only a couple of hours at best, especially if they rely on batteries for power.

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But with the persistence of a Reaper,Willey said, SUAS could provide serious leverage by providing additional sensors and more easily penetrating hostile air defenses.

“Small UASes can be employed in both permissive and non-permissive environments,” Willey said, because “they are proving difficult to find, fix and track.” As he made that point, Willey showed a slide that listed “swarming’” as among the ways little drones could be employed — a tactic the Army and Navy have been developing.

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The Defense Department said that nine planes were being built for the US Navy, while the four others were designed for the Royal Australian Air Force.

The parts were being used for the manufacturer of 16 more P-8A planes for the US Navy and four other Australian aircraft.

The planes and parts -- with 80 percent of the work being performed in the northwestern state of Washington -- are due to be delivered by December 2018, according to the Pentagon.

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thus complicating how teams protect the eggs in flight. Damaged eggs disqualify the flight.

The 100 top-scoring teams from across the country will be invited to compete in the National Finals in Washington D.C. next spring.

The winners will then represent America in the International Rocketry Challenge, competing against student teams from the United Kingdom and France at the Farnborough International Airshow near London next July.

The Aerospace Industries Association and the National Association of Rocketry (NAR) sponsor the annual competition in partnership with NASA, the Department of Defense, the American Association of Physics Teachers and a number of AIA member companies. For additional information on TARC and complete competition results, please visit www.rocketcontest.org.

Woodward Gets Deal To Build Parts For New Airbus A330neo Fort Collins aerospace company Woodward Inc. said it’s signed a deal to make parts for the new Airbus A330neo.

Student Rocketeers Wanted for World’s Largest Rocket Competition 2015-2016 Although the end of summer indicates the beginning of classes for students across the country, it also signals the kickoff of the world’s largest annual student rocketry contest. Registration for the Team America Rocketry Challenge (TARC) is now open for teams of 7-12th grade students through December 4.

Woodward said it will make hardware for the plane’s TRAS (thrust reverser actuation system).

Terms of the deal, made with French company Aircelle, weren’t disclosed.

TARC is the U.S. aerospace and defense industry’s flagship program designed to encourage students to pursue study and careers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Structured to emulate the aerospace industry’s design, fabrication and testing process, TARC requires teams to build and fly a model rocket that meets challenging design requirements and precise targets for altitude and flight duration.

“We’re excited to further our strong relationship with Aircelle through the supply of these critical nacelle actuation products,” says Marty Glass, president, airframe systems at Woodward.

Each year, TARC’s rules and scoring parameters change to challenge the students’ ingenuity and encourage a fresh approach to rocket design. This year’s rules require teams to build and launch a rocket carrying two raw eggs to 850 feet and return them to Earth unbroken within a flight duration of 44 to 46 seconds. A new requirement this year calls for the eggs to be placed perpendicularly to each other,

In May, Woodward made a deal with General Electric for fuel systems for GE’s large commercial aircraft engine lines.

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One of the engineers on the turbopump work at NASA, Nick Case, explained that the work done on this particular rocket part usually takes four years, but the 3D-printing approach cut that time in half.

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Two F-35 jets touched down last month at the base, about 20 miles north of Salt Lake City, after departing from a manufacturing facility in Fort Worth, Texas.

The F-35 is a new fighter jet that the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps will be using. The Air Force version costs about $130 million each.

NASA tested a 3D-printed turbopump, one that was put together with 45 percent fewer parts than pumps made any other way. This obviously saves time and money, but come on…NASA is slowly 3D printing an entire freaking rocket. That’s cool.

The F-35, also called the Joint Strike Fighter, is replacing the F-16 with greater speed and combat range and lower maintenance costs because of a computerized self-test system.

NASA referred to the rocket turbopump as “one of the most complex, 3D-printed rocket engine parts ever made.” It went through about 15 different tests to simulate the kind of force and environment 35,000 of rocket thrust would cause. Its turbine generates 2,000 horsepower, roughly twice the horsepower of a NASCAR engine.

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Last month’s arrival marks the first time an Air Force base received operational jets that will ultimately be declared ready for battle, Hill spokesman Nathan Simmons said.

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The squadron coming to Hill is expected to be declared ready for combat in late 2016 after enough F-35s have arrived, pilots are ready to perform various operations with them and several support and logistical systems are up and running.

In July, a Marine Corps squadron of F-35s based in Yuma, Arizona, became the military’s first batch of the jets declared combat-ready.

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“Colorado’s industrial base has reinvented itself following the recession’s steep losses,” said Tom Dubin, president of MNI, in a statement.

“The state gets high marks for its focus on innovation, while its educated labor pool and abundant natural resources continue to draw investment in a variety of sectors.”

This is the fifth straight year the Rocky Mountain State has seen a boost in manufacturing employment, according to the 2016 Colorado Manufacturers Directory, an industrial database and directory published by Manufacturers’ News, Inc. (MNI). Colorado added 3,839 industrial jobs from June 2014 to June 2015, an increase of 1.8%.

Job growth was led by the food processing sector, which climbed 4.3% over the year, and now accounts for the largest share of Colorado’s manufacturing employment, with 25,674 jobs. Employment in the state’s second-largest sector, industrial machinery, also posted a gain, up 6.7% to its current level of 23,049 jobs.

Colorado is now home to 6,228 manufacturers employing 213,863 workers. MNI data shows over a five-year period beginning June of 2010, the state gained 14,370 industrial jobs or 7.2%, recovering the nearly 11,000 jobs shed during the recession.

Manufacturing jobs in Denver rose 3% over the year, with the city currently home to the most industrial employment, at 42,451. Other Colorado cities gaining manufacturing jobs include Boulder, up 1.7% and Littleton, up 1%.

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The creation of the College Promise Advisory Board to further efforts to make two years of community college free: Today, the President will announce the independent creation of the College Promise Advisory Board, led by Chair Dr. Jill Biden, and Vice-Chair former Wyoming Governor Jim Geringer and directed by former Under Secretary of Education, Martha Kanter. The board will bring together luminaries and leaders to highlight successes in places like Tennessee, Chicago, and Michigan, share best practices and models, and recruit more of their peers to join the cause. Learn more at CollegePromise.org.

The launch of Heads Up America, an independent Campaign to raise awareness about the importance of America’s community colleges: An initiative of the College Promise Advisory Board and digital agency, Huge, the the Heads Up America campaign will work to create a movement to support community colleges around the country. It will give students, teachers, counselors, administrators, alumni, businesses, and other leaders a role in spreading the word about the value and impact that universal access to community college will have on our future. Learn more at HeadsUpAmerica.us.

The President is committed to creating more opportunities for hard-working Americans to get ahead by advancing job-driven training initiatives that help American workers acquire the skills they need to succeed in good jobs that are available now. Hands-on apprenticeships, where workers earn and learn at the same time, are a proven path to good, secure middle class jobs. In fact, 87 percent of apprentices are employed after completing their programs, with an average starting wage above $50,000. And the return on investment for employers is impressive – studies from across the globe suggest that for every dollar spent on apprenticeship, employers get an average of $1.47 back in increased productivity, reduced waste, and greater front-line innovation.

The $175 million in American Apprenticeship Grants that the President is announcing today will help train and hire more than 34,000

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American Apprenticeship Grants will help expand apprenticeships into growing industries while also aligning apprenticeship with pathways for further learning and career advancement, scaling apprenticeship models that work, and providing access to apprenticeship for all of America’s talent. For example: The American Apprenticeship Grants build on tremendous progress underway. Since the President’s call to action in his State of the Union 2014, the United States has added more than 55,000 new apprenticeship opportunities, the largest increase in nearly a decade. And action from employers, colleges, labor, states, and local governments are building on that momentum.

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Denver Plane-Building Company Says Crowdfunders Pledge $4M A Denver company that’s using crowdfunding to raise money to build a plane that can take off and land vertically said “equity crowdfunders have reserved shares for more than $4 million” in just two weeks since the funding plan’s announcement.

XTi Aircraft Company said it’s using crowdfunding, as well as traditional venture capital, private equity and investment methods, to fund building of the TriFan 600 airplane. The plane’s expected to sell for between $10 million and $12 million if it’s ever produced.

XTI said that it doesn’t have the $4 million of crowdfunding funds in hand; rather, the Securities and Exchange Commission must approve the company’s financing application later this year before crowdfunding share purchases can begin.

“The response to our announcement of the equity crowdfunding plan and to this revolutionary aircraft itself has been overwhelming,” said XTI vice chairman Jeff Pino, in a statement.Colorado allowed equity crowdfunding with a new law that was signed in April.

Weather Satellite Startup To Begin Production In Colorado A company aiming to build and launch a fleet of satellites collecting private weather data is starting to build its satellites locally and will hire more employees as it develops its business.

PlanetiQ, formed in Bethesda, Maryland in 2012, will produce its first two “micro-satellites” in Boulder and aims to eventually build 10 more to have a constellation of satellites about 500,000 miles above the earth.

An artist rendering of a satellite designed for PlanetiQ, based in Bethesda, Maryland. The company is building a private satellite constellation to gather weather and climate data. It’s producing its first two micro-satellites in Boulder.

PlanetiQ plans a satellite constellation that can see through and into clouds and have worldwide coverage, improving weather forecasts from what’s available today.

“We’d like the seven-day forecast to be as good as the three-day forecast and the three-day forecast to be totally spot on,” said Chris McCormick, PlanetiQ founder and chairman.

The satellites are designed to analyze atmospheric information that can be gleaned from the atmospheric distortion experienced by the signals beamed to earth’s surface by global positioning system satellites.

Federal government satellites gather some weather data the same way. PlanetiQ says it aims to gather a much larger volume of more finely-detailed samples than existing satellites used by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, parent of the National Weather Service.

PlanetiQ predicts it will be able to gather 30,000 readings a day and gather 8 million data points about weather and climate daily once it has 10 satellites in orbit.

The company has 12 employees working on its satellites and technologies today and plans to hire more people, especially with electrical engineering expertise, as it develops its satellites.

PlanetiQ plans to sell its weather data commercially, allowing industries and meteorologists to produce more accurate forecasts.

The federal government’s weather data collection has suffered from budget cuts and an aging satellite fleet, which provides an opening for commercial weather data companies.

“In a lot of ways, they’re modeling what’s happening now because they don’t know what is actually happening — especially over the oceans,” McCormick said.

Executives Teach Utah Delegation the Ins and Outs of Finding Success in China World Trade Center Utah (WTC Utah) is leveraging its network and resources to organize three key events for the Zions Bank State of Utah Trade Mission to Hong Kong and South China: a manufacturing site visit, an executive discussion and a site visit to CBRE. “The goal of these events is to help the Utah del-

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If you are interested in participating, attend our kickoff meeting October 8, 2015 at 1 pm OWATC (200 N Washington Blvd., Ogden, UT 84015) Business Building (UB 162) egation make connections and learn what it takes to do business in China and Hong Kong,” said Derek B. Miller, president and CEO of World Trade Center Utah. “Trade missions give companies the knowledge and confidence to take their products and services to regions that may have seemed unfamiliar or impenetrable before.”

“One of the most important things a trade mission can do is open doors for Utah companies,” said Val Hale, executive director of the Governor’s Office of Economic Development.

“The companies can then work from there and make significant contributions to the state’s overall global growth. Events like these celebrate that growth and serve as a catalyst for future economic expansion.”

Proper education is key for Utah companies looking to do business in China, which is why it is one of the main focuses of the trade mission.

The trade mission is led by Zions Bank and supported by World Trade Center Utah, the Governor’s Office of Economic Development, U.S. Commercial Service and Sundance Institute. In attendance on the trade mission are 60 Utah business and community leaders, including Governor Gary R. Herbert.

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Nearly 5 decades ago, Sal patented a triangular ceramic sharpening stone. He and Gail bought a ‘Wonder bread’ truck, fitted it for sharpening, and for several years drove around to fairs. Business was good, but life was hectic, traveling from city to city. Then in 1976, Sal came up with an idea for a pocketknife; one with a pocket clip, one that folded, and one that you could open and close with one hand. And thus Spyderco was formed.

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superior quality. Making knives that consistently deliver reliable high-performance requires an ongoing commitment to testing. In the company’s million-dollar testing facility, a team of experts routinely examines edge retention with a CATRA machine, looks for rust development with Q-FOG, and checks the force needed to open and close a knife.

They also repeatedly test for stress, wear, optimal heat-treating and actively search for higher quality, performance enhancing steels and materials.

Spyderco knives just continue to grow in popularity and thus increase in market presence, so much so that the company was outgrowing its facility. Bursting at the seams in their 30,000 square foot building located in Golden, Colorado, the company just last year completed its expansion into their 2nd building on the campus, a new 17,000 square foot building that houses their manufacturing. Tom Koenig, Plant Manager for the company, says, “I visited plants before we began our new facility construction.

What struck me with one of the plants I toured was the superior natural lighting. It wasn’t something I had seen before, and I knew that so much sun light coming into our plant would have such a positive impact on our team.” He continued, “I brought this recommendation back to our owners, Sal, Gail, and Eric (Sal and Gail’s son, key executive for the company, running day to day operations), and they embraced the idea of building a light filled manufacturing plant.”

As an experienced machinist and plant man-

ager,Tom recognizes the importance of retaining key employees.The sun-filled plant expansion at Spyderco not only offers a more employee-enjoyable environment, but it also facilitates the most efficient workflow through optimized machine tool placement.

Tom says, “With the manufacturing facility expansion at Spyderco, we had the opportunity to purchase high quality new machine tools that would allow us to continue our quest for continuous productivity improvements.”

Tom says, “At Spyderco, our owners embrace new technology. And with our expansion, we have the room to add it.”

As you can imagine, Spyderco embraces ‘Made in America’. So when demand in their knives warranted it (and the new expanded machine shop offered the floor capacity),Tom and his team began investigating grinding machines.Tom says, “I met Skip Green from DCM at IMTS a couple of years ago, and he believed he had a solution for our company.”Tom continued, “We aren’t just doing run of the mill grinding. Our knives are made from exotic metals, including a variety of high-hardness carbon and stainless steel alloys.These blade steels are very difficult to grind and to work with in every step of the manufacturing process.”

Tom says, “We had a traditional reciprocating grinder and we were so busy we were outsourcing some of our grinding. We were looking for a DCM style rotary surface grinder with a large table.”

He continued, “There were used Blanchard grinders on the market, since Blanchard wasn’t making them anymore, but we needed the reliability you can only get from a new machine.”

Skip and the DCM team didn’t try to sell Spyderco on their rotary surface grinder. In fact, Tom says that they wanted to be very sure they were selling Spyderco the grinder that would not only work for the company, but would also facilitate a significant increase in productivity. Skip asked Tom to ship some parts that would need grinding on the rotary surface grinder to DCM’s headquarters in Winona, Minnesota.

DCM did a run off of the parts for Tom when Tom visited DCM’s headquarters, and Tom made the purchase of the DCM IG 280SD Rotary Surface Grinder.

He says, “The DCM purchase was such a pleasant surprise. So often when you purchase a new machine it takes awhile to get it up and running efficiently. Skip came to our plant in Golden, Colorado for 3 days when the machine arrived, set it up and trained us, and we were up and running right away. ”The Spyderco

grinding team is very pleased with the DCM Rotary Surface Grinder, which they use to grind their knife blades to size, saying it is extremely easy to use, it is very reliable (it runs 24x5 with very little downtime), and it literally reduced grinding time to 1/5 the time it previously took the company.

Tom says, “DCM makes an exceptional line of rotary surface grinders. Our DCM IG 280SD is well suited for grinding in mid and high volume applications. The programmable control saves grind parameters by part name for repeatable process automation. The servo driven z-axis delivers true feed rates and repeatable positioning.We were excited to purchase from DCM because their machines are all American made, completely in the USA.” As happens in life, Skip Green recently retired from DCM. Prior to his departure, Skip and the DCM team handpicked Brian Ebbinger to join the DCM team as Western Region Technical Specialist. Contact Brian to learn more about DCM’s fine line of grinding machines, at 800-533-5339, email brianebbinger@dcm-tech.com or visit www.dcm-tech.com To learn more about the superior Spyderco line of knives, contact them at their world headquarters in Golden, Colorado.The company is always looking for experienced, motivated machinists who want to join a company manufacturing knives. Send info to: Resumes@spyderco.com, 303 279 8383 ext 202, or visit www. spyderco.com A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain

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Key Considerations And Risk Factors When Valuing A Manufacturer 01 UPM Ad_UPM_A-ZMetal_quarter2.indd 1 11/20/14 It is important for manufacturing company owners or management to understand the value of the business and how the business decisions made can impact that value, either positively or negatively.

Manufacturing drives productivity growth in the U.S. economy, and manufacturing companies with fewer than 100 employees make up more than 94 percent of all U.S. manufacturers.

The U.S. manufacturing sector is so huge that if it were its own country, it would rank as the 10th-largest world economy!

Given that our economy relies heavily on manufacturing companies and the recent industry focus on supply chain technology investment, I want to visit some of the primary factors that valuation analysts consider when analyzing a manufacturing company, as well as some of the factors that may allow a company to transact at a premium, or conversely, may detract from the purchase price.

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- Exclusive products and patents - ISO 2000 procedures in place - Sustained profitability above its peers - Ongoing and transferable customer or distributor relationships The general rules of thumb for company value in the manufacturing industry are as follows.These are generally representative of the value of the company’s inventory, fixed assets and goodwill/intangible value.

• 4x – 5x earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) • 2x – 3x owner benefit/cash flow plus the current market value of fixtures and equipment, and inventory at cost 2:51furniture, PM • 40 percent to 60 percent of sales The largest barriers to entry in this industry can be the equipment, good employees and established customer base, and a well-run manufacturing operation will have a good understanding of these issues.

Even though there are certain triggering events that would necessitate the use of a valuation, such as succession planning, bank financing or an acquisition, it is important for manufacturing company owners or management to understand the value of the business and how the business decisions made can impact that value, either positively or negatively.Source: Rachel Flaskey, Baker Tilly

‘Nearshoring’ Brings Some Manufacturing To U.S. Conditions are right for more U.S. manufacturing, but its still small compared to the past Airbus, which sells lots of planes to U.S. airlines, opened its first plant in the country recently. So that’s exciting. Big airplanes being built in Alabama! The U.S. manufacturing renaissance continues!

Then again, as Bloomberg’s Julie Johnsson reported, Airbus archrival Boeing is thinking about building its first factory in China. It would

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and raise customer service levels.”

These moves seem to be motivated by similar considerations, the most important of which is bringing production closer to where the customers are. This practice goes by the names “onshoring,” “reshoring” or “nearshoring,” and big companies have been doing a lot of it lately. A recent survey of manufacturing and distribution companies serving North America and Western Europe by the consulting firm AlixPartners found that 32 percent of “have already nearshored or are in the process of doing so to meet end-market demand” and 48 percent say “nearshoring activities are likely within the next one to three years.”

Because the U.S. is a huge market, nearshoring entails shifting some manufacturing back into the country. It’s important to note, though, that it probably doesn’t entail the wholesale return of good manufacturing jobs.

This is a big shift from a decade ago, when it seemed as if all supply chains were going to go through China. It may even help explain the manufacturing slowdown in China, MIT engineering professor and supply-chain expert David Simchi-Levi wrote in the Harvard Business Review earlier this month. Simchi-Levi gave four main explanations for the change: •Oil prices. They’re down a lot lately, but the big spike from 2004 through 2008 reminded manufacturers that shipping things around the world could sometimes get really expensive.

•Labor costs. “In the last few years, labor costs in China have increased annually by almost 20 percent vs. 3 percent in the United States and 5% in Mexico.”

•Automation. Robots are replacing labor anyway.

•Risk.When your supply chain is spread across the world, the chances that something will go wrong go up.

AlixPartners offered a couple of others: “companies move manufacturing closer to consumption markets in order to lower freight costs, improve time to market,

By locating its plant in low-cost, union-unfriendly Alabama, Airbus “puts pressure on trade unions back in Europe,” aerospace analyst Richard Aboulafi told Agence France-Presse.

Boeing’s factory in South Carolina, which recently fought off a unionization drive, serves a similar function relative to the company’s unionized plants around Seattle. Hourly pay for durable-goods-manufacturing workers dropped below the average for all U.S. nonfarm workers for the first time on record last November. Aircraft production workers have been a holdout, with an average hourly wage of $37.90 in June, but that could change.

Still, the nearshoring trend is having a noticeable positive effect on manufacturing employment in the U.S. After decades of decline, its share of overall employment has been more or less steady since the last recession.

Then again, that share is now tiny: 8.7 percent, compared with the all-time peak of 38.8 percent in November 1943.

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Report: Most Manufacturing Segments To Grow This Year A new report from the MAPI Foundation expects most manufacturing sectors to see growth in the U.S. this year.

The latest quarterly U.S. Industrial Outlook from the research arm of the Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation offered annual projections for 23 of the 27 segments tracked by the group.

Nineteen of those 23 should increase this year, led by 11 percent gains in both housing starts and private non-residential construction.

MAPI economists said that construction should provide significant help to related industries, including furniture, appliances and building materials.

In addition, the auto industry fares well in the MAPI analysis. Motor vehicles and parts should increase by 9 percent this year, while engine, turbine and power transmission equipment is expected to grow by 7 percent.

Production of construction machinery is also expected to increase by 7 percent.

Three of the segments are expected to decline, with a 14 percent drop in machinery for mining and oil and gas drilling. Iron and steel production should fall by 11 percent; both segments are feeling the effects of sharply reduced oil prices.

Electric lighting equipment should see a more modest 3 % decline, while paper production is the only segment expected to remain flat.

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with 22 segments expected to see increases.

Housing starts should grow by 18 percent to again lead the field, while another 14 percent drop awaits the mining and oil and gas segment.

Northrop Grumman Proposes to Accelerate JSTARS Deliveries

In addition to problems in the energy sector, the strength of the dollar is also serving as a headwind to manufacturing growth.

On the whole, however, employment increases and easily available credit should provide a relatively healthy climate for manufacturing. The MAPI Foundation expects the manufacturing sector to grow by 2.1 percent this year and 3.4 percent next year.

Manufacturing Minute: Etsy Courts Manufacturers Starting last month, manufacturers will be able to create a profile on the crafty ecommerce site Etsy as part of a beta program. The Etsy Manufacturing program is a new service that will link Etsy sellers with small manufacturing companies.

The operation is designed to help both sellers who have little time to fulfill larger orders, and smaller manufacturers, some of whom have lost business to larger or cheaper manufacturers.

Etsy will review the applications of manufacturers, checking up on their size, their commitment to transparency and how much work they themselves outsource, but the marketplace won’t actively visit or vet the successful applicants. Instead, Etsy demands that manufacturers featured commit to providing a safe work space and are transparent about their manufacturing processes.

Sellers will eventually be able to search through manufacturers by criteria such as price, location and the manufacturing services they offer.

Source: Manufacturing.net

Northrop Grumman says its proposed Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) aircraft could be ready to begin service in 2021, three years faster than the current Air Force plan.

The JSTARS recapitalization program will replace the current inventory of aging E-8C JSTARS, which are modified Boeing 707-300 aircraft.Air Force solicitations call for a smaller airframe in the business jet class, reduced crew size from about 18 to 10 airmen, an open architecture and the integration of currently available technology with high technology readiness levels.

“If you take the [analysis of alternatives] in 2011 and you take the [full operational capability] date of 2027 — 16 years — that’s an awful long time,” said Alan Metzger, vice president and integrated product team lead for next-generation surveillance and targeting at Northrop Grumman’s military aircraft systems division. “At the end of the day we think we can go a lot faster,” he said.

Originally, the Air Force projected IOC in 2022 and FOC in 2025. The current plan

pushes those dates back to 2023 and 2027.

The adjustment was based on a variety of reviews, internal issues and budget constraints, Metzger said.

In August the service awarded three pre-engineering and manufacturing development contracts to Lockheed Martin, Northrop and Boeing. Lockheed received an award of about $11.5 million and Northrop and Boeing received about $10 million.The contracts are set to wrap up in July 2016.

Northrop has partnered with business jet manufacturer Gulfstream and L-3 Aerospace Systems. The company has yet to decide whether Northrop or Raytheon will provide the radar system for its offering, Metzger said.

Company executives listed several reasons why they believe their consortium has an advantage over other competitors, one being the performance and features of the Gulfstream G550 that the team is planning on using as its main platform.

The Gulfstream G550 can fly up to 51,000 feet at speeds up to Mach 0.885, according to a product fact sheet. It is powered by two Rolls-Royce BR710 engines, and can reach 41,000 feet in 25 minutes, said Troy Miller, regional vice president for military and special mission sales at Gulfstream.

Metzger said the capacity to reach higher altitudes would ultimately increase the field of view for military surveillance.

Northrop does not plan on changing the configuration of the outer mold line for the Gulfstream aircraft, which is already certified, Metzger added. “That’s a different methodol-

ogy than maybe some of our competitors have where, depending on their particular offering, they go into the stringers and substructure of the aircraft and beef it up.”

He said the team has been flying a G550 JSTARS prototype for the last three years.The prototype has about 60 to 70 percent of the modifications it needs, which improves “speed to ramp,” he said.

One specific modification was to the rear end of the aircraft to install a liquid cooling system for prime mission equipment such as the radar.

Metzger noted that as the current prime contractor for the JSTARS program, Northrop has the benefit of experience on its side. “I think we understand the mission better than anybody because we’ve been doing it for three decades,” he said. “We understand what it takes to do airborne ground wide area surveillance.”

Source: NDIA

Big Colorado Energy Players To Build Project In North Dakota Two of Colorado’s biggest players in the energy sector are teaming up to build a wind farm — in North Dakota.

Vestas Wind Systems, the wind turbine manufacturer with four factories in Colorado, said it had landed a “firm and unconditional order” for 100 of the company’s V100-2.0 megawatt turbines. Collectively, the turbines are capable of generating up to 200 megawatts of power.

Vestas sold more than 500 V100s in 2013.

Vestas sold more than 500 V100s in 2013.The turbines are destined for the Courtenay Wind Farm, which will be owned and operated by

Xcel Energy Inc. near the town of Jamestown in eastern North Dakota.

Delivery of the wind turbines is expected to begin in third quarter of 2016, with commissioning planned for fourth quarter of 2016.

Xcel had planned to buy the power generated by the wind farm for its customers under a power purchase agreement.

State regulators in Minnesota, where Xcel has its headquarters, and in North Dakota had previously approved the power purchase agreement. They also have signed off on Xcel owning the wind farm outright.

Chris Clark, president of Northern States Power Co., a subsidiary of Xcel, said in May that “the Courtenay project is an important part of our aggressive plans to reduce carbon emissions and double our commitment to renewable energy resources in the most cost-effective way possible.

“We are glad for the opportunity to preserve the benefits of this project for our customers.

The CourtenayWind Farm has the added value of locating an important generation resource in North Dakota, an important part of our service territory,” Clark said.

Vestas has four plants in Colorado: a blades plant in Windsor, a blades plant and a nacelles plant in Brighton, and a towers plant in Pueblo.

The manufacturing company has been on a hiring spree this year, announcing plans to hire 400 people in March to work at its Windsor plant and in August holding job fairs to hire more than 350 additional people, according to Vestas executives.

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William LaPlante, ‘Reshore’ has set a goal to rid Air ForceWork programs From of costly Factories Some proprietary software and adopt “open systems architectures” that can Overseas be rapidly updated with commercial technology.

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WWW.BANDSAWREVIEWS.COM Air Force ReformsWould Speed UpTechnology Acquisitions Many innovative companies will never work with the Defense Department until they see real change in how the Pentagon does business.

“It’s not enough to make visits and then come back to D.C. and keep doing what we’ve been doing for 100 years,” says Camron Gorguinpour, Air Force director of transformational innovation.

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter has made it a priority to recruit nontraditional vendors from the tech sector.“We want to be talking to small and big companies that don’t want to do business with us. We want to know what we can change,” Gorguinpour tells National Defense. “This is not a defense industry conversation. It’s an American conversation.We just ignore the fact that most of America is not engaged in that dialogue.”

The Air Force is testing a new contracting approach that it believes will help lower the cost of its information systems and harness the latest technology trends.To motivate contractors and encourage new entrants to the market, the Air Force is promising to speed up the procurement cycle and to use simpler contracting mechanisms that come with less red tape than traditional weapon programs.

“The secretary asked us to look at innovative ways to acquire information systems,” says Gorguinpour. His boss, Assistant Secretary for Acquisition 50

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And it looked like, ’We’re going to save a lot of money,’” he said. “But The Air Force companies to showcase a the bottom linehas wasinvited they didn’t save nearly as much astheir theysoftware thought.in And virtual environment that simulates the DCGS. If a vendor can demonwith the quality issues, they’re just not getting product that’s acceptable strate the product works and the government agrees to buy it, the for thethat customer.” contracting process is reduced dramatically compared to the conventional approach.

“It’s the wayoutside we ought to be doingis business,” he says.

“It sounds Now Hiawatha, based Minneapolis, getting those contracts.

And simple but it’s not the way things work now.”

Hauser has himself decided to “reshore” production of a component that was being made in China. The move will result in three new hires at his Open architecture an overused catchphrase at thebut Defense Department, plant.

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Recycling Metals, Conserving Resources, Since 1961 Air Force is creating its own version.The contracting method commonly used with consortiums is called “other transaction authority.”

The Air Force’s former military procurement adviser says these initiatives were the result of leaders’ increasing frustration at rising costs and dependence on prime contractors for technology upgrades.

The push to open architectures started about five years ago as Air Force officials realized major weapon systems were being managed entirely by prime contractors that controlled the technology baseline, says Air Force retired Lt. Gen. Charles R. “CR” Davis.

The Air Force in the 1990s began to turn over the management of several large complex systems to prime contractors. “That sounded good in the beginning, but you’re beholden to the contractor for the system’s life. And it gets more expensive the older the systems get,” Davis says.

The DCGS has a core software architecture, and “you are held to that.” Open systems architecture is a phrase that is used a lot, says Davis, “but I never saw anybody execute any open systems architectures except for a few projects in the labs and at

Hanscom Air Force Base.”

The center used the consortium approach successfully to upgrade radar, Davis says. “A team of contractors collectively came up with defined interfaces between the receiver, transmitter, power supply, various components and processors in the radar. Different companies would build pieces but they had to comply with the interface between major components.”

This approach requires the Air Force to own the baseline, he says, “If you can incentivize contractors to work together in a common interface, you can do open systems. The basic architecture has to be defined by the Air Force. This puts you on a path when you’re not beholden to a single contractor.”

The Pentagon procurement red tape — particularly requirements to document what a product costs and share internal company data with the government — is going to continue to keep many companies away from the defense market, he says. “This was a problem we had on multiple systems when I was there. I don’t think they’ve done anything to solve that yet. At some point the Defense Department is going to have to look at a system it wants and decide that, if it has value, it is willing to pay what the vendor asks for,” he adds.

“That’s going to have to be part of the discussion if they’re going to take advantage of the capabilities that are out there in Silicon Valley.”

The use of “other transaction authority” contracting is well suited to small R&D projects and studies, he says. “They’re quick to do. They’re very good for maturation or developmental activity.” The innovation the Pentagon wants from the tech industry, though, will require more than OTA contracting.The Pentagon has to figure out how to do commercial contracting for high-tech products, says Davis. “If innovations take off and consortiums start turning out decent ideas, you’re going to have to figure out how to move to a commercial buyer approach.”

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The Centennial-based rocket launching business -- a joint venture of Lockheed Martin Corp. and the Boeing Co. -- said it plans to spend $5 million upgrading a 28,000-square-foot industrial building near the Pueblo airport.

In a statement, ULA said the Pueblo facility “will support the Vulcan rocket, ULA’s next-generation launch vehicle, as well as ULA’s current rockets, the Atlas V and Delta IV.” According to the Pueblo Economic Development Corp., the city of Pueblo and Pueblo County are providing various incentives to ULA, including $2 million from the City of Pueblo’s half-cent-per-dollar sales tax fund for economic development (subject to approval by the Pueblo City Council) and a 50 percent personal property tax credit from the county, also subject to an OK by commissioners.

McDonnell Douglas, an aerospace company later acquired by ULA parent company Boeing, opened a Delta rocket assembly plant in Pueblo in 1987. Production was later moved to Decatur, Alabama, and the Pueblo factory closed in 2004, the Chieftain reported.

ULA currently has a storage facility in Pueblo for its Delta II rocket. While the company is headquartered in Colorado, its manufacturing and assembly operations are elsewhere, especially Alabama, Texas and California.

“ULA is pleased to partner once again with Pueblo,” said Bob Roberts, ULA’s director of propulsion systems. “We thank both the city and county for the collaboration, as well as the strong partnership we have enjoyed in the past and look forward to building on that with the new work we are bringing to the area.”

ULA provides space-launch services for U.S. government agencies, including the Department of Defense, NASA and the National Reconnaissance Office.

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Boeing has delivered 503 commercial aircraft through the end of August, keeping it on pace for its target of between 750 and 755 aircraft for the year.

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That would mark an increase over the record 723 commercial aircraft that Boeing delivered in 2014.

However, its total number of 737 deliveries was 12 aircraft shy of the current build rate of 42 aircraft per month.

Aviation analysts said that Boeing may have a production gap on the 737 program between the current model and the arrival of the upgraded 737 MAX in the next few years.

Boeing also reported that it has delivered 90 of its 787 Dreamliners this year, with sources telling Reuters that the program should help propel Boeing to strong financial results later this year, as the bulk of payment for any aircraft typically doesn’t come unit it is delivered.

Deliveries on the 787 are outpacing the production rate of 10 aircraft per month as the company works through jets it already had in the pipeline.

The delivery boost keeps it on pace to meet its target of 120 Dreamliner deliveries in 2015.

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“We’re proud to have created a strong set of aerospace manufacturing partnerships,” said Ben Hart, managing director of business services at the Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED). “For this important industry to continue to flourish, we’re working to train a workforce that will fill the current gaps. With vested stakeholders at all levels, we plan to have initiatives in place to accomplish our goals.”

Utah’s aerospace industry is playing an active role and taking preliminary steps to respond to workforce development challenges. Boeing, Harris, Hexcel, Janicki, Orbital ATK and Hill Air Force Base have all come to the table with ideas and initiatives that they agree will help fill the pipeline and ultimately create the strongest aerospace manufacturing workforce in the nation.

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One such initiative that will soon launch is the Aerospace Manufacturing Certificate. The certificate is a high school program geared toward high school seniors looking for a different but competitive option to higher education.

“We continue to work with all interested parties to address our significant workforce challenges,” said Val Hale, executive director of GOED. “It’s great to see our industry partners not only recognize these challenges, but provide a proactive plan of action to improve our state.”

Utah’s economic development vision is that Utah will lead the nation as the best performing economy and be recognized as a premier global business destination. GOED utilizes state resources and private sector contracts to fulfill its mission. For more information please contact: Michael Sullivan, 801-538-8811 or mgsullivan@ utah.gov A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain

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Jensen Precision Offers Superior Machining and Fabrication, Investing In The Latest Machine Tool Technology Jensen Precision Machining, Inc. has a very unique history.The company was ‘born’ from a well-known entity in the computer industry, called Iomega.

Iomega was founded in 1980 and located in the town of Roy, Utah a community about 35 miles north of Salt Lake City. Iomega was for many years, a significant name in the data storage industry. Their most famous product, the Zip Drive, was revolutionary as it offered large amounts of storage on easily portable compact cartridges. The original Zip disk’s 100MB capacity was a huge improvement over the 1.44MB limitation of floppy disks.

Jeff Jensen was one of the many great machinists employed by Iomega, which at its height employed more than 3500 people. When the company closed its Utah operations, they offered Jeff the opportunity to purchase the machine shop. And so Jensen Precision opened for business in 2006, nearly a decade ago.

Jeff is a very talented machinist. As a young man right out of high school, Jeff attended Weber State University with a scholarship, studying the machining trade. When he accepted Iomega’s offer to purchase the machine shop, Jeff hired his son-in-law Jade Wood and a colleague in manufacturing. Jade says, “I didn’t have a background in the industry, but I was newly married, and had just purchased my first house, and for the next 2.5 years, I had the best mentors one can imagine. There were just 3 of us, and I really learned how to be a machinist from these two mentors.” Jade also received a scholarship and studied briefly at Ogden Weber Tech College.

Though Jensen Precision was initially formed to support Iomega, as life often turns out, their work with Iomega was short lived. This wasn’t an issue for the new company, as Jensen Precision’s reputation was quickly

established with companies in the aerospace, defense and medical industries. In fact, their quality of manufactured parts is so superior that nearly 40% of their work today comes from medical manufacturing companies. They offer CNC and manual machining, sheet metal punch and brake, mold making, injection molding, EDM machining, heat treating and laser engraving, all in-house.

Jade says, “We excel at Jensen Precision because of our quality and on-time delivery. Not only do we have some of the best machinists in the industry working at Jensen Precision, but we also do ‘whatever it takes’ to get parts to our customers on time.” He continued, “As an example, we recently received a rush order on the Friday of Labor Day weekend, and Jeff and I worked until 1AM Saturday morning to get our customer their parts on time.”

Jensen Precision is proud of their team. They are growing exponentially, and recently hired 3 new machinists. The company’s machinists have an average of 25 years’ experience.

When you consistently deliver quality parts on time, it isn’t all that surprising that your business will grow. Jensen Precision not only is adding new team members, but they are expanding their facility. The most recent expansion offers them 25% more floor space, which facilitated new machine tool purchases.

Not long ago, the company purchased two new 4-axis CNC machining centers, a Mitsubishi EDM machine, and a Universal Laser Systems Engraver. They also have a Brown & Sharp CMM for inspection, two 3-axis CNC machining centers, CNC lathe, four Bridgeport EZ-Traks, two manual lathes, Trumpf CNC punch and Wysong precision brake, as well as heat treating capabilities to support their customers’ fabrication requirements.

Jade says, “We still have some old school manual machines, which we are able to utilize today because we have such skilled Journeymen machinists.We knew that we could increase our productivity with newer equipment.” He continued, “As an example, our saw was a 25+ year old manual. It still works, and we continue to use it today, but we invested in a stateof-the-art Marvel/Spartan Series PA260EPC saw. This saw is amazing – with our older technology; we had to leave 1/8”

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extra on the part to clean up both edges. With our new Marvel/Spartan Series saw, we have less waste. The rigid double column horizontal design allows for straighter and more accurate cuts. We can set up the machine to cut parts at different lengths unattended on the same bar. Set up is easy with the automatic material height setting and easy programming. Where it took 15 minutes to cut a bar with our old saw, we can now do the same cut in 1/3 the time with our Marvel/ Spartan Series saw. Buying the Marvel/ Spartan Series PA260EPC wasn’t a difficult decision to make.” Jade says that machine shops in the area call on Jensen Precision specifically to cut their raw stock with Jensen’s Marvel/ Spartan Series saw.

Jensen Precision makes their machine tool purchases utilizing detailed spreadsheets on the features, functionality and price of several different alternatives. Jade says, “We also make our machine tool purchase decisions on the customer support we receive.

Smith Machinery is where I’ve purchased the Marvel/Spartan saw, the Mazak machining center, and our Mitsubishi EDM machine. Smith Machinery, and their customer service is outstanding. As an example, our spindle on a machining center went out a few days before Thanksgiving a couple of years ago. Smith Machinery had our spindle replaced and we were up and running overnight. You just can’t ask for better service.” He continued, “Smith Machinery has really great local service people on staff and their service technicians are just so good.”

Jade and Jeff don’t know ‘banker’ business hours – for them, it is ‘do whatever it takes’ to deliver quality parts on time. They are family members, and after running the shop by day, they regularly work on bids in the evenings and weekends.

To learn more about Jensen Precision, proven experts at all aspects of precision manufacturing, contact them at 801-866-0175 or visit jensenprecision.com 4 generations of the Smith family are proud to serve the manufacturers and job shops of Utah, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. In their SLC showroom, Smith Machinery stocks a variety of technologies and provides custom demonstrations, test cuts, process development, training classes and turnkey projects. Contact Smith Machinery, an ISO 9001:2008 Registered company at 801-263-6403 or visit SmithMachineTools.com to learn how they can help your manufacturing business.

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Samuel, Son & CO. ___ 303-422-8282 TW Metals ________ 800-203-8000 United Perf. Metals ___ 888-282-3292 Western States Metals _ 801-978-0562 NEW MACHINERY CHIP CUTTING CNC Drilling/Tapping Methods West ______ 602-437-2220 CNC Mills Action Machine _____ 303-532-2900 AME, Inc. ________ 303-922-9266 Automatics & Machinery 800-543-7666 Hurco __________ 800-634-2416 J.M. Grisley _______ 801-486-7519 J.M. Grisley _______ 208-861-8991 Jend Machinery _____ 303-775-3697 King Machine ______ 208-345-9600 KTR Machine ______ 303-659-6690 Methods West ______ 602-437-2220 MMT, A Div of Productivty 303-571-4933 New West Machine Tool _ 801-561-2001 Romi Machine Tools LLC 859-647-7566 Smith Machinery Co __ 801-263-6403 Todd Machinery ______801-294-6390 Tornos USA ________951-695-0342 Triad Machine _______303-424-0268

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CNC Lathes Action Machine _____ 303-532-2900 AME, Inc. ________ 303-922-9266 Automatics & Machinery 800-543-7666 J.M. Grisley _______ 801-486-7519 J.M. Grisley _______ 208-861-8991 Jend Machiney _____ 303-775-3697 Hurco __________ 800-634-2416 King Machine_______208-345-9600 KTR Machine _ _____303-659-6690 Methods West ______ 602-437-2220 MMT, A Div of Productivty 303-571-4933 New West Machine Tool _ 801-561-2001 Romi Machine Tools LLC 859-647-7566 Smith Machinery Co __ 801-263-6403 Todd Machinery _____ 801-294-6390 Triad Machine ______ 303-424-0268 CNC Swiss Turn Machines AME, Inc. ________ 303-922-9266 Automatics & Machinery 800-543-7666 Jend Machinery _____ 303-775-3697 Methods West ______ 602-437-2220 MMT, A Div of Productivty 303-571-4933 Tornos USA ______ 951-695-0342 Triad Machine ______ 303-424-0268 EDM Drilling Machines Current EDM Inc ____650-966-9676 EDM Machines Action Machine _____ 303-532-2900 AME, Inc. ________ 303-922-9266 Desert EDM Sales ____ 480-816-6300 EDM Network ______ 480-836-1782 Jend Machinery _____ 303-775-3697 Methods West ______ 602-437-2220 MMT, A Div of Productivty 303-571-4933 Smith Machinery Co __ 801-263-6403 Todd Machinery _____ 801-294-6390 Triad Machine ______ 303-424-0268 EDM Tooling Systems Desert EDM Sales ____ 480-816-6300

EDM Network ______ 480-836-1782 ED Press Brakes EDM Perform. Access. ___ 800-336-2946 AMADA America _____ 303-670-9406 Global EDM Supply___ 480-836-8330 Fabricating Equip Sales _ 303-466-7342 King Machine ______ 208-345-9600 End Mills Helical Solutions ____ 866-543-5422 S&S Machinery Sales __ 602-368-8542 Shearing Machines Micro Hole Drilling Action Machine _____ 303-532-2900 Machines Current EDM Inc ____650-966-9676 Fabricating Equip Sales _ 303-466-7342 Swiss Screw Machines King Machine ______ 208-345-9600 Schenk Intertech ____ 949-360-1512 S&S Machinery Sales __ 602-368-8542 Welding Equipment NEW MACHINERY Rocky Mountain Saw Blades 303-761-3000 FABRICATION Band Saws Welding Equipment: Spot AIT _____________ 800-321-3195 Welders Fabricating Equip Sales _ 303-466-7342 AMADA America _____ 303-670-9406 King Machine ______ 208-345-9600 OTHER ACCESSORIES Bar Feeders Tooling Systems Edge Technologies _____ 562-597-7824 Desert EDM Sales _____ 480-816-6300 Trusty-Cook ________ 877-240-2462 USA EDM Supply _____ 480-836-8330 Cold Saws PALLET SYSTEMS Fabricating Equip Sales __ 303-466-7342 Automatic Pallet Systems CNC Punching Centers S&S Machinery Sales __ 602-368-8542 Midaco__________ 847-593-8420 AMADA America _____ 303-670-9406 Automatic Door Opener Systems Iron Workers Midaco__________ 847-593-8420 Fabricating Equip Sales _ 303-466-7342 Manual Rotary Pallet Systems S&S Machinery Sales __ 602-368-8542 Midaco__________ 847-593-8420 Laser Cutters Robotic Part Loading Systems Action Machine _____ 303-532-2900 Midaco __________ 847-593-8420 AMADA America _____ 303-670-9406 MMT, A Div of Productivty 303-571-4933 PRODUCTS PRODUCTS PrecisionFab Inc. ____303-779-9180 CASES S&S Machinery Sales __ 602-368-8542 PlaSteel __________ 888-752-7899 Sidley Diamond Tool __ 800-544-9070 Guns Triad Machine ______ 303-424-0268 Pipe &Tube Benders/Notchers Layke Tactical ______ 602-272-2654 Amada America _____ 303-549-9167 PROG. SYSTEMS CAD/CAMSoftware, CAD Fabricating Equip Sales _ 303-466-7342 S&S Machinery Sales __ 602-368-8542 AME, Inc. ________ 303-922-9266 Cimatron ________ 248-596-9700 Plate Rolls Fabricating Equip Sales _ 303-466-7342 Delcam __________ 877-35-2261

Feature Cam ______ 602-502-9654 SolidCAM ________ 530-863-0461 PROTOTYPE MACHINERY 3D Parts To Go_______801-380-7935 RECYCLING Recyclable Metals Iron & Metals, Inc ____ 303-292-5555 Utah Metal Works ____ 801-364-5679 Scrap Metal Recycling Iron & Metals, Inc ____ 303-292-5555 Utah Metal Works ____ 801-364-5679 ROBOTIC EQUIPMENT Integrated Systems Inc _ 928-649-9600 SAFETY Fire Protection Systems Rotarex _________ 480-689-8756 FOD Prevention PlaSteel _________ 888-752-7899 SERVICES AS9100 Certification ABS Quality Evaluations 702-371-7591 BMSC __________ 602-445-9400 MEP ___________ 801-863-7001 Sustaining Edge Solutions _ 888-572-9642 Calibration Services Advanced Coord. Tech __ 303-469-6161 Klontech Industrial ____480-948-1871 Consultants, Health & Safety CKC Services LLC ____ 303-905-2371 Consultant, ISO ABS Quality Evaluations 702-371-7591 BMSC __________ 602-445-9400 MEP ___________ 801-863-7001 Sustaining Edge Solutions_ 888-572-9642 Calibration Services Advanced Coord. Tech __ 303-469-6161 Klontech Industrial ____480-948-1871 Contract Inspection Advanced Coord. Tech __ 303-469-6161 Klontech Measure Sol__ 480-626-8131

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

Nick Hochuli Sales Engineer

C O R P O R A T I O N

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

Online Training For www.streamingteacher.com

Education SHOP FLOOR AUTOMATION Sustaining Edge Solutions _ 888-572-9642 S Ogden-Weber Tech College 801-395-3795 Hardware: USB X-Ray Engineering Services Certified Inspection Service _602-267-0661 Bytebox ___________ 888-Bytebox Advanced Coord. Tech __ 303-469-6161 Serial Port ISO9000 / AS9100 Cert.

Schenk Intertech ____ 949-360-1512 Bytebox ___________ 888-Bytebox American Global Standards 617-838-4648 Financing BMSC _____________ 602-445-9400 Software:CNC Networking IEC __________ 303-593-0403 Gladhill Associates ______719-495-8045 Bytebox ___________ 888-Bytebox Intech Funding _____ 385-553-9208 MEP ____________801-863-7001 Transportation Scottrade Bank Equip Fin _ 206-948-0022 Orion Registrar _______303-645-4017 IRH ____________801-972-5581 US Bank __________ 909-466-5020 Sustaining Edge Solutions _ 888-572-9642 SOFTWARE US Bank __________ 507-5328437 ISO Registrar CAD/CAM/CAE First Article Inspection American Global Standards 617-838-4648 SolidCAM ________ 530-863-0461 Advanced Coord. Tech ____303-469-6161 Orion Registrar _______303-645-4017 Business Mgmt Software Lean Manufacturing Datum Inspection _____ 602-997-1340 MEP ____________ 801-863-7001 Vision 33 _____ 303-937-6543x353 Heavyhaul IRH ___________801-972-5581 Sustaining Edge Solutions_ 888-572-9642 Consulting/Engineering Machine Tool Rebuilding Von Ruden Mfg _____ 763-682-0322 Injection Molding 3D Parts To Go _____ 801-380-7935 EDM Network ______ 480-836-1782 Vision 33 _____ 303-937-6543x353 Process Improvement ISO900/AS9100 Audits TOOLING BMSC _____________ 602-445-9400 American Global Standards 617-838-4648 Arc Cutting Tools ISO900/AS9100 Registration Sustaining Edge Solutions __ 888-572-9642 Helical Solutions______866-543-5422 American Global Standards 617-838-4648 Reverse Engineering Precision Toolholding Inspection Services Advanced Coord. Tech __ _303-469-6161 Products Advanced Coord. Tech ____303-469-6161 Diversified Metal Services__ 801-972-6093 Von Ruden Mfg _____ 763-682-0322 Datum Inspection _____ 602-997-1340 Klontech Measure Sol___ 480-626-8131 Tooling Systems Insurance Services Rigging & Transfer Sentry Insurance ____ 877-373-6879 Atlas Rigging & Transfer 801-539-3885 Von Ruden Mfg _____ 763-682-0322 Lean Consulting Live Tool Holders IRH ___________ _801-972-5581 ABS Quality Evaluations 702-371-7591 Schenk Intertech ____ 949-360-1512 Spindle Rebuilding Machine Repair/Servicing GMN USA _________ 800-686-1679Von Ruden Mfg _____ 763-682-0322 KTR Machine ______ 303-659-6690 Setco-Pope Spindles_____866-362-0699 Static Tool Holders Process Improvement/ Audit Schenk Intertech ____ 949-360-1512 Staffing ABS Quality Evaluations 702-371-7591 BMSC _____________ 602-445-9400 Resource Mfg________801-265-1999 Von Ruden Mfg _____ 763-682-0322 A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Rocky Mountain Mountain

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

TRAINING CAD/CAM Training Davis Applied Tech College__801-593-2483 CNC/Conventional Machining Davis Applied Tech College__801-593-2483 Machining Software Davis Applied Tech College__801-593-2483 USED MACHINERY Automatics & Machinery __ 800-543-7666 EDM Network ________ 480-836-1782 King Machine________208-345-9600 K.D. Capital Equipment___480-922-1674 KTR Machine________303-659-6690 Methods West________602-437-2220 New West Mchine______801-561-2001 ReSell CNC West_______480-694-9919 S&S Machinery Sales____602-368-8542 WATERJET CUTTING MACHINERY Action Machine_______303-532-2900 Fabricating Equip Sales __303-466-7342 Flow International_______800-446-3569 Global EDM Supply____480-836-8330 Jend Machinery_______303-775-3697 King Machine________208-345-9600 OMAX Corp________ _800-838-0343 Triad Machine______ _ 303-424-0268 Abrasives/Blast Media GMA Garnet Group ____ 832-243-9300 Fives ____________909-263-9282

Buyer’s Guide & Card Gallery Processes ISO9001:2008

Joe Tripi President jtripi@micropulsewest.com

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

ADDITIVE MFG/ 3 D PRINTING Faustson __________303-420-7422 ASSEMBLIES Advantage Manufacturing _ 877-727-0281 AEI Fabrication _______480-733-6594 Acu-Tec CNC _________ 303-365-9245 Bar-S Machine ________ 928-636-2115 Dayton Rogers _______ 763-717-6303 JD Machine _________801-782-4403 PlaSteel ___________ 480-491-8100 RAM Company ______ 435-673-4603 Wasatch Laser Processing__801-972-3500 Wrico ___________ 480-892-7800 Electronics Assemblies Advantage Manufacturing _ 877-727-0281 Cascade Systems Tech ___ 503-640-5733 Welded Assemblies Weiser Engineering _ 303-280-2778 BAR CODING Western Sintering _____509-375-3096 BENDING AEI Fabrication _______480-733-6594

DESIGN/ CAD/CAM Bar-S Machine _______ 928-636-2115 Precision Investment Castings Since 1972 801-710-7891 www.dolphincasting.com H& S Machine _______ 801-755-7627 mikeb@dolphincasting.com MICHAEL BUTLER DIES Manager Ext. 3335 Phone:Sales 602-272-6747 3063 North 575 East Able Machining & Eng. _ 801-268-6766 mikeb@dolphincasting.com North Ogden, UT 602-272-6747 Ext. 3335 ISOPhone: 9001, PED Directive 97/23/EC EDM EliteMachineSales@Gmail.com ISO 9001, PED Directive 97/23/EC EDM: Drilling Small Hole Precision Mach’d Products 970-482-7676 Coating: Nickel/Teflon/Chrome EDM Express_______800-780-7075 Specialty Steel Services __ 801-539-8252 Coating Technologies ___623-581-2648 LAYKE, Inc.__________ 602-272-2654 CASTINGS LA Specialties _______ 602-269-7612 Micropulse West ______ 480-966-2300 Die Casting Coating:Zinc & Mag.Phos. EDM: Ram-Type (Sinking) TVT Die Casting ______ 800-280-2278 Coating Technologies ___623-581-2648 EDM Express ______ 800-780-7075 Die Casting: Aluminum/Zinc Our company logo Innovative Precision____ 801-334-6317 COMPOSITES TVT Die Casting ______ 800-280-2278 Maverick Mold & Machine 970-535-4604 Precision Investment Casting Elite Machine___________ 801-710-7891 Micropulse West ______ 480-966-2300 Dolphin Inc. ________ 602-272-6747 S.A. Composites _________ 970-776-3877 Prec. Mach’d Products ___ 970-482-7676 CUTTING COATING EDM: Wire Metal Coating:Abrasive Blasting Bandsaw LLC ________ 303-744-7181 Custom Design & Mfg ___ 435-257-0668 LA Specialties _______ 602-269-7612 Font Verdana size 9 (I dropped in this cell EDM Express ______ 800-780-7075 Plasma Cutting because the “Precision Investment Castings” Foremaster Tool ______801-737--0265 Coating:Black Oxide Bandsaw LLC ________ 303-744-7181 very clear.

LA Specialties _______ 602-269-7612 on the logo is not Plastic Innovative Precision ____ 801-334-6317 Coating:Chemfilm Jensen Precision ______ 801-866-0175 Bandsaw LLCInvestment ________ 303-744-7181 Precision Castings Since 1972 www.dolphincasting.com LA Specialties _______ 602-269-7612 ImageTek __________ 303-806-8111 Micropulse West ______ 480-966-2300 Paramount Machine ___ 801-886-2755 Saw Cutting Coating: Liquid BROACHING Ponderosa Ind________303-298-1801 Pilkington Metal Finishing 801-972-2146 Bandsaw LLC ________ 303-744-7181 Qualtek ________719-598-3394 X23 Jeffrey Peterson

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Paramount Machine

www.paramount-machine.com sales@paramount-machine.com Office: 801.886.2755 Fax: 801.886.2759

The Toolroom Inc. _____ 801-773-6331 Thompson Machine ____ 505-823-1453 Wrico ___________ 480-892-7800 ELECTRONICS Contract Cascade Systems Tech ___ 503-640-5733 Design Cascade Systems Tech ___ 503-640-5733 Electromechanical Design RAM Company ______ 435-673-4603 Kitting Cascade Systems Tech ___ 503-640-5733 Prototype Cascade Systems Tech ___ 503-640-5733 ELECTROPOLISHING Qualtek ________ 719-598-3394 X23 ENGINEERING/DESIGN Advantage Manufacturing 877-727-0281 AzMark __________480-926-8969 Custom Design & Mfg ___435-257-0668 RAM Company ______ 435-673-4603 Solenoids/ Valves RAM Company ______ 435-673-4603 A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain

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Fabrication: Medium & Large Arrow Sheet Metal Prod __ 303-427-6419 Bandsaw LLC ________303-744-7181 EMJD Corp _________ 303-761-5236 EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540 Falcon Sheet Metal ____801-298-5064 Group Mfg Serv ______480-966-3952 Kustom Koncepts _____ 307-472-0818 Weiser Engineering _ 303-280-2778 Fabrication: Plastic ImageTek _________ 303-806-8111 Fabrication: SheetMetal Advantage Manufacturing 877-727-0281 AEI Fabrication ______480-733-6594 Arrow Sheet Metal Prod __ 303-427-6419 AzMark __________480-926-8969 Cygnet ___________ 818-240-7574 Denver Machine Shop ___303-295-6000 EMJD Corporation _____ 303-761-5236 EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540 Fabrication: Enclosures Falcon Sheet Metal __ 801-298-5064 Falcon Sheet Metal __ 801-298-5064 Group Mfg Serv ______480-966-3952 Kustom Koncepts _____ 307-472-0818 JD Machine ________801-782-4403 Star Precision _______303-926-0559 Jensen Precision ______ 801-866-0175

FABRICATION Advantage Manufacturing 877-727-0281 AEI Fabrication ______480-733-6594 Aero Tech _______ 801-292-0493 Arrow Sheet Metal Prod 303-427-6419 Cygnet ___________ 818-240-7574 Dayton Rogers ______ 763-717-6303 EMJD Corporation _____ 303-761-5236 EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540 Jensen Precision ______ 801-866-0175 Kustom Koncepts _____ 307-472-0818 Mountain View Machine _435-755-0500 Star Precision _______303-926-0559 Wrico ___________480-892-7800 Custom Auto/Truck/Bike H& S Machine ______ 801-755-7627 Fabrication: Filament Winding S.A. Composites ______ 970-776-3877 Fabrication: Composites S.A. Composites ______ 970-776-3877

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Kustom Koncepts _____ 307-472-0818 Metalcraft _________888-280-7080 Precision Tech _______801-285-7288 Richards Fab _____ 801-409-0392 Star Precision _______303-926-0559 Weiser Engineering _ 303-280-2778 Wrico ___________480-892-7800 Fabrication: Steel Bandsaw LLC ________303-744-7181 EMJD Corp _______303-761-5236 Falcon Sheet Metal __ 801-298-5064 FINISHING Advantage Manufacturing 877-727-0281 Arizona Finishing _____602-438-4443 Coating Technologies ___623-581-2648 Gold Tech Industries ____ 480-968-1930 Phoenix Heat Treating __ 602-258-7751 Precision Mach’d Prod___ 970-482-7676 Qualtek _______ 719-598-3394 X23 Star Precision _______303-926-0559 Superior Grinding _____801-487-9700 TVT Die Casting ______800-280-2278 Finishing: One Stop Advantage Manufacturing 877-727-0281

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TTCI CI Precision Metals __800-234-5613 800-234-5613 The Toolroom Inc. _____ 801-773-6331 Grinding, Blanchard Diversified Metal Services _801-972-6093 Dix Metals ________ 800-477-4349 Steel Services Grinding __ 800-662-0126 Sun Grinding _______602-238-9595 Superior Grinding _____ 801487-9700 TCI Precision Metals __800-234-5613 Grinding, Centerless Ron Grob Co. _______970-667-5320 Sun Grinding _______602-238-9595 Grinding, Double Disc Dix Metals ________ 800-477-4349 TCI Precision Metals __800-234-5613 Grinding: OD AzMark __________480-926-8969 Precision Tech _______801-285-7288 Ron Grob Co. _______970-667-5320 Sun Grinding _______602-238-9595 Superior Grinding _____ 801487-9700 Grinding: Surface ChemResearch_______ 602-253-4175 Sun Grinding _______602-238-9595 Superior Grinding _____ 801487-9700 Grinding: Tool & Cutter Exact Tool Grinding ____ 801-712-2720 Passivation

Galvanizing: Hot Dip Glass Bead Clean Jordan River Galvanizing _801-282-9375 Coating Technologies ___623-581-2648 Galvanizing: Zinc Gold Tech Industries ____ 480-968-1930 Jordan River Galvanizing _801-282-9375 Passivation GAS NITRIDING Certified Inspection Service___602-267-0661 Blanchard Metals Proc. __801-972-5590 Coating Technologies ___623-581-2648 GEAR CUTTING Gold Tech Industries ____ 480-968-1930 Ponderosa Ind _______ 303-298-1801 Qualtek _______ 719-598-3394 X23 Specialty Steel Svcs ___ 801-539-8252 Photochemical/Etching Gear Hobbing VACCO Industries _____626-443-7121 Ponderosa Ind _______ 303-298-1801 Powder Coating GRINDING Arizona Finishing _____602-438-4443 AzMark __________480-926-8969 Pilkington Metal Finishing 801-972-2146 ChemResearch_______ 602-253-4175 Qualtek _______ 719-598-3394 X23 Diversified Metal Services _801-972-6093 Star Precision _______303-926-0559 Dix Metals ________ 800-477-4349 Silk Screening Arizona Finishing _____602-438-4443 Fives ____________ 909-263-9282 GMN USA ________ 800-686-1679 Aluminum (Medium & Large) Prec. Mach’d Products _ 970-482-7676 Aero Tech _______ 801-292-0493 Precision Tech _______801-285-7288 Ron Grob Co. _______970-667-5320 FOUNDRY Steel Services Grinding __ 800-662-0126 Gold Tech Industries ____ 480-968-1930 May Foundry & Machine 801-531-8931 Sun Grinding _______602-238-9595 Polishing GALVANIZING Jordan River Galvanizing _801-282-9375 Superior Grinding _____801-487-9700 Gold Tech Industries____ 480-968-1930

Selective Coatings ImageTek __________303-806-8111 FORMING AEI Fabrication ______ 480-733-6594 EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540 JD Machine ________801-782-4403 Star Precision _______303-926-0559 Wasatch Laser Processing _801-972-3500 HEAT TREATING Blanchard Metals Proc. __801-972-5590 Phoenix Heat Treating __ 602-258-7751 Pilkington Metal Finishing__801-972-2146 Qualtek ________ 719-598-3394 X23 The Toolroom Inc. _____ 801-773-6331 Heat Treating/Aerospace Phoenix Heat Treating __ 602-258-7751 Large Capacity Drop Bottom Oven/Aluminum Phoenix Heat Treating __ 602-258-7751 HONING/LAPPING LAYKE, Inc.__________ 602-272-2654 IDENTIFICATION Silk Screen Arizona Finishing ______ 602-438-4443

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HIRSH PRECISION PRODUCTS, INC .

Specializing in Production CNC Turning & Milling

Quality Work Delivered On Time Mike Hirsh Tel: 303.530.3131 Fax: 303.530.5242 Email: mike.hirsh@hppi.com

INDUSTRIAL HARDWARE Electronic Locking Systems EMKA Inc. ________ 717-986-1111 Gasketing EMKA Inc. ________ 717-986-1111 Handles & Hinges EMKA Inc. ________ 717-986-1111 Locking Systems EMKA Inc. ________ 717-986-1111 Qtr Turns/Rod Controls EMKA Inc. ________ 717-986-1111 INJECTION MOLDING LMI Machining_______303-776-6629 INSPECTION Inspection, First Article Klontech Measure Sol ___ 480-626-8131 Inspection Services Klontech Measure Sol ___ 480-626-8131 Micropulse West ______480-966-2300 Sustaining Edge Solutions_888-572-9642 LASER CUTTING Laser Cutting Advantage Manufacturing ___ 877-727-0281 AEI Fabrication _______480-733-6594 Arrow Sheet Metal Prod 303-427-6419 EMJD Corporation_____303-761-5236 EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540 Howell Precision______ 623-582-4776 Kustom Koncepts _____ 307-472-0818 Richards Fab _____ 801-409-0392 Star Precision _______303-926-0559 VACCO Industries ____ 626-443-7121 Wasatch Laser Processing _801-972-3500 A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain

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6420 Odell Place Boulder, CO 80301 www.HirshPrecision.com

Henry Parker

EMAIL: HenryParker4me@comcast.net

Weiser Engineering _ 303-280-2778 Wrico ___________480-892-7800 Laser Cutting: Pipe&Tube Wasatch Laser Processing _801-972-3500 Laser Engraving 4 Axis Machining Inc. ___ 303-295-1544 Jensen Precision ______ 801-866-0175 Laser Marking 4 Axis Machining Inc. ___ 303-295-1544 LMI Machining_______303-776-6629 Jensen Precision ______ 801-866-0175 MACHINING A&L Machining ______303-373-1540 Acu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245 Advantage Manufacturing __ 877-727-0281 AG Machining _______805-531-9595 American Machine & Eng. _ 801-973-0494 Apex Engineering ____ 435-713-0072 CM Manufacturing ___ 406-543-4450 Custom Design & Mfg ___435-257-0668 Elite Machine___________ 801-710-7891 EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540 Evans Precision Machining 623-581-6200 Fives ____________ 909-263-9282 Hirsh Precision Products__ 303-530-3131 LMI Machining_______303-776-6629 Loveridge Machine Co. __ 801-262-1414 Mountain View Machine _435-755-0500 Northwest Swiss, Inc. ___ 208-772-4011 R&H Machine _______801-621-7922

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RD Machine & MFg ___ 801-977-0447 Radtech _________ 303-789-4247 RP Machining ______ 719-550-1724 Skydandee Mfg _____ 801-774-8031 Machining Teton Machining_____ 208-642-9344 TVT Die Casting _____ 800-280-2278 Weiser Engineering _ 303-280-2778 Machining: 3D Micropulse West ______480-966-2300 Machining: 5 Axis 4 Axis Machining Inc. ___303-295-1544 Accutech Machine _____ 801-975-1117 AzMark __________480-926-8969 Faustson __________303-420-7422 JD Machine ________801-782-4403 Paramount Machine __ 801-886-2755 Premier Technology Inc __208-785-2274 RP Machining ______ 719-550-1724 S.A. Composites ______ 970-776-3877 Machining: Aerospace AzMark __________480-926-8969 CM Manufacturing ___ 406-543-4450 Evans Precision Machining 623-581-6200 LAYKE, INC_________602-272-2654 Micropulse West ______480-966-2300 Mountain View Machine _435-755-0500 Northwest Swiss, Inc. ___ 208-772-4011 Paramount Machine ____801-886-2755 Pinnacle Precision ___435-563-2722 Ponderosa Ind _______ 303-298-1801 Precision Mach’d Products 970-482-7676 Precision Tech _______801-285-7288 Radtech _________ 303-789-4247 RD Machine & MFg ___ 801-977-0447 RP Machining ______ 719-550-1724 Skydandee Mfg _____ 801-774-8031 Teton Machining_____ 208-642-9344

Machining: CNC 4 Axis Machining Inc. ___303-295-1544 A&L Machining ______303-373-1540 Able Machining & Eng. _ 801-268-6766 Acu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245 AG Machining _______805-531-9595 Apex Engineering ____ 435-713-0072 Accutech Machine _____ 801-975-1117 American Machine & Eng. _ 801-973-0494 Apex Engineering ____ 435-713-0072 Bar-S Machine______ 928-636-2115 CM Manufacturing ___ 406-543-4450 Custom Design & Mfg ___435-257-0668 Denver Precision Products_ 303-469-1771 DMSI___________801-972-6093 Elite Machine ______ 801-710-7891 EPOCS Mfg ________ 970-535-4540 Evans Precision Machining 623-581-6200 Faustson_________ 303-420-7422 Foremaster Tool____ 801-737--0265 H& S Machine ______ 801-755-7627 Hirsh Precision Products__ 303-530-3131 HPMP ___________ 801-619-9850 Innovative Precision __ 801-334-6317 JD Machine ________801-782-4403 Jensen Precision ______ 801-866-0175 L.A.R. Manufacturing __ 801-280-3505 LAYKE, INC_________602-272-2654 Leading Edge Machine _ 435-563-9425 LMI Machining_______303-776-6629 Loveridge Machine Co. __ 801-262-1414 Maverick Mold & Machine 970-535-4604 Pinnacle Precision ___435-563-2722 Premier Technology Inc __208-785-2274 R&H Machine _______801-621-7922 Electromechanical Design RAM Company ______ 435-673-4603 RD Machine & Mfg ___ 801-977-0447

sales@aandlmachining.com

Darrin J. Caschette President

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Weiser We Engineering _ 303-280-2778 Machining:Medical A&L Machining ______303-373-1540 Northwest Swiss, Inc. ___ 208-772-4011 Pinnacle Precision ___435-563-2722 Teton Machining_____ 208-642-9344 Machining RP Machining ______ 719-550-1724 Star Precision _______303-926-0559 Teton Machining_____ 208-642-9344 The Toolroom Inc. _____ 801-773-6331 Wrico __________ 480-892-7800 Machining: Composites Metalcraft _________888-280-7080 Machining: Contract Acu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245 AG Machining _______805-531-9595 American Machine & Eng. _ 801-973-0494 Evans Precision Machining 623-581-6200 JD Machine ________801-782-4403 Jensen Precision ______ 801-866-0175 Paramount Machine ___801-886-2755 Radtech _________ 303-789-4247 Electromechanical Design RAM Company ______ 435-673-4603 Skydandee Mfg _____ 801-774-8031 Machining: DoD CM Manufacturing ___ 406-543-4450 Machining: Laser AzMark __________480-926-8969 Faustson_________ 303-420-7422 Foremaster Tool _____ 801-737--0265 Gerome Mfg_______520-622-8402 Innovative Precision __ 801-334-6317 L.A.R. Manufacturing __ 801-280-3505 RD Machine & Mfg ___ 801-977-0447 Southwest Waterjet-Laser _480-306-7748 VACCO Industries ____ 626-443-7121

Machining: Milling A&L Machining ______303-373-1540 Acu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245 American Machine & Eng. _ 801-973-0494 Elite Machine___________801-710-7891 EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540 Hirsh Precision Products__ 303-530-3131 JD Machine ________801-782-4403 Metalcraft _________888-280-7080 Mountain View Machine__435-755-0500 Ponderosa Ind _______ 303-298-1801 Prec. Mach’d Products__970-482-7676 Ron Grob Co. _______970-667-5320 Machining: Mold Base Maverick Mold & Machine __970-535-4604 Machining: Mold Making R&H Machine _______801-621-7922 Machining: Plastic ImageTek _________ 303-806-8111 Machining: Production A&L Machining ______303-373-1540 Able Machining & Eng. _ 801-268-6766 Acu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245 AG Machining _______805-531-9595 Apex Engineering ____ 435-713-0072 CM Manufacturing ___ 406-543-4450 Custom Design & Mfg ___435-257-0668 Elite Machine___________801-710-7891 Evans Precision Machining 623-581-6200 Faustson_________ 303-420-7422

Hirsh Precision Products__ 303-530-3131 HPMP ___________ 801-619-9850 Innovative Precision __ 801-334-6317 L.A.R. Manufacturing __ 801-280-3505 Loveridge Machine Co. __ 801-262-1414 Newport Tool _______801-295-7411 Northwest Swiss, Inc. ___ 208-772-4011 Paramount Machine __ 801-886-2755 Ponderosa Ind _______ 303-298-1801 R&H Machine _______801-621-7922 Radtech _________ 303-789-4247 RD Machine & Mfg ___ 801-977-0447 RP Machining ______ 719-550-1724 Star Precision _______303-926-0559 Machining: Prototype 4 Axis Machining Inc. ___303-295-1544 A&L Machining ______303-373-1540 Able Machining & Eng. _ 801-268-6766 Accutech Machine _____ 801-975-1117 Acu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245 American Machine & Eng. _ 801-973-0494 Apex Engineering ____ 435-713-0072 Bar-S Machine______ 928-636-2115 Custom Design & Mfg ___435-257-0668 Denver Precision Products_ 303-469-1771 Evans Precision Machining 623-581-6200 Faustson __________303-420-7422 Foremaster Tool _____ 801-737--0265 Innovative Precision __ 801-334-6317 JD Machine ________801-782-4403 Jensen Precision ______ 801-866-0175 L.A.R. Manufacturing __ 801-280-3505 LAYKE, INC_________602-272-2654 Leading Edge Machine _ 435-563-9425 Micropulse West _____ 480-966-2300 Mountain View Machine 435-755-0500 Newport Tool _______801-295-7411 Northwest Swiss, Inc. ___ 208-772-4011

801-621-7922 R&H Machine _______801-621-7922 Radtech _________ 303-789-4247 RD Machine & Mfg ___ 801-977-0447 RP Machining ______ 719-550-1724 Skydandee Mfg _____ 801-774-8031 S.A.Composites _____ 970-776-3877 The Toolroom Inc. ____ 801-773-6331 Machining: Precision A&L Machining ______303-373-1540 4 Axis Machining Inc. __ 303-295-1544 Able Machining & Eng. _ 801-268-6766 Advantage Manufacturing 877-727-0281 AG Machining _______805-531-9595 American Machine & Eng. _ 801-973-0494 CM Manufacturing ___ 406-543-4450 Elite Machine _______801-710-7891 Evans Precision Machining 623-581-6200 Jensen Precision ______ 801-866-0175 Loveridge Machine Co. __ 801-262-1414 Newport Tool _______801-295-7411 Pinnacle Precision ___435-563-2722 Ponderosa Ind _______ 303-298-1801 RP Machining ______ 719-550-1724 Precision Machined Prod. _ 970-482-7676 Precision Tech _______801-285-7288 TVT Die Casting ______800-280-2278 Machining: R & D Acu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245 American Machine & Eng. _ 801-973-0494 Custom Design & Mfg ___435-257-0668 Evans Precision Machining 623-581-6200 JD Machine ________801-782-4403 Jensen Precision ______ 801-866-0175 Wasatch Laser Processing _801-972-3500 Machining: Swiss Bar-S Machine______ 928-636-2115 Denver Precision Products_ 303-469-1771

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HPMP ___________ 801-619-9850 Northwest Swiss, Inc. ___ 208-772-4011 Pinnacle Precision ___435-563-2722 Ron Grob Co. _______970-667-5320 Teton Machining ______208-642-9344 White Rock Inc _______ 435-750-6414 Machining: Turning Acu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245 American Machine & Eng. _ 801-973-0494 Apex Engineering ____ 435-713-0072 AzMark __________480-926-8969 Bar-S Machine______ 928-636-2115 Custom Design & Mfg ___435-257-0668 Denver Precision Products_ 303-469-1771 EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540 Evans Precision Machining 623-581-6200 Faustson_________ 303-420-7422 Hirsh Precision Products__ 303-530-3131 HPMP ___________ 801-619-9850 JD Machine ________801-782-4403 LAYKE, INC_________602-272-2654 Leading Edge Machine __ 435-563-9425 Metalcraft _________888-280-7080 Mountain View Machine__ 435-755-0500 Premier Technology Inc __208-785-2274 RD Machine & Mfg ___ 801-977-0447 RP Machining ______ 719-550-1724 A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain

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Molds Steel 208-642-9344 Teton Machining ______208-642-9344 Weiser Engineering _ 303-280-2778 DMSI___________ 801-972-6093 Aero Tech ________ 801-292-0493 Machining: Ultra-Precision Pinnacle Precision ___435-563-2722 Arizona Finishing ____602-438-4443 ChemResearch ______ 602-253-417 Machining: Waterjet Colorado Waterjet ___970-532-5404 Loveridge Machine Co. __ 801-262-1414 MANUFACTURING PAINTING A&L Machining ______303-373-1540 Coating Technologies ____ 623-581-2648 AG Machining _______805-531-9595 Jet Processing ______623-869-6749 x117 Elite Machine _______801-710-7891 Richards Fab_________ 801-409-0392 Group Mfg Serv _____480-966-3952 PLATING Electromechanical Design RAM Company ______ 435-673-4603 Blanchard Metals Proc. _ 801-972-5590 RD Machine & Mfg ___ 801-977-0447 ChemResearch _____ 602-253-4175 Foresight Finishing ____480-921-0000 Composites Gold Tech Industries __ 480-968-1930 S.A. Composites ______ 970-776-3877 LA Specialties ______ 602-269-7612 Contract Anodizing AG Machining _______805-531-9595 Apex Engineering ____ 435-713-0072 Blanchard Metals Proc. __801-972-5590 Teton Machining ______208-642-9344 ChemResearch_______ 602-253-4175 Manufacturing: Electrode Pilkington Metal Finishing 801-972-2146 Wire-Tech ________ 480-966-1591 Qualtek _______ 719-598-3394 X23 Production Copper Aero Tech ________ 801-292-0493 Foresight Finishing ____480-921-0000 EMJD Corporation_____303-761-5236 Electroless Nickel L.A.R. Manufacturing __ 801-280-3505 White Rock Inc _______ 435-750-6414 LA Specialties _______ 602-269-7612

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Foresight Finishing ____480-921-0000 Gold/Silver Plate Gold Tech Industries __ 480-968-1930 Nickel/Chrome/ Copper Foresight Finishing ____480-921-0000 Gold Tech Industries __ 480-968-1930 LA Specialties _______ 602-269-7612 Tin Plate Foresight Finishing ____480-921-0000 Gold Tech Industries __ 480-968-1930 POLISHING Gold Tech Industries __ 480-968-1930 PRECISION FORMING AEI Fabrication ______480-733-6594 Richards Fab________801-409-0392 Thompson Machine ____505-823-1453 Wrico ___________480-892-7800 PRINTING 3D Printing The 3D Printing Store ___720-443-3733 3D Prototyping The 3D Printing Store ___720-443-3733 Custom Screen ImageTek _________303-806-8111 PROCESSING: METAL Chemical LA Specialties _______ 602-269-7612 Etching/Photochemical VACCO Industries ____ 626-443-7121 PUNCHING JD Machine ________801-782-4403 Group Manufacturing Serv 480-966-3952 Star Precision _______303-926-0559 Weiser Engineering _ 303-280-2778 REPAIR Bearing Surface Denver Machine Shop ___303-295-6000 Hydraulic Cylinder Denver Machine Shop ___303-295-6000 ROLL FORMING Lifetime Products _____801-728-1260 Rolling: thread Ron Grob Co. _______970-667-5320 ROUTERING, CNC Micropulse West ______480-966-2300 SAW CUTTING Diversified Metal Services _ 801-972-6093 SHOT PEENING Blanchard Metals Proc. __801-972-5590 SINTERING Western Sintering _____509-375-3096 SPINNING: METAL Metal Spinning Solutions _ 480-899-0939 SPLINES Specialty Steel Services _ 801-539-8252

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SPRINGS Flat & Wire SPRING WORKS Utah ___ 801-298-0113 STAMPING AEI Fabrication ______480-733-6594 Cygnet ___________ 818-240-7574 Dayton Rogers ______ 763-717-6303 Metalcraft _________888-280-7080 Precision Die & Stamping _480-967-2038 Qualtek _______ 719-598-3394 X23 Richards Fab _____ 801-409-0392 The Toolroom Inc. _____ 801-773-6331 Thompson Machine __ 505-823-1453 Wrico _________ 480-892-7800 Stamping:Aerospace Precision Die & Stamping _480-967-2038 Thompson Machine ____ 505-823-1453 Qualtek _______ 719-598-3394 X23 Stamping:Deep Draw Qualtek _______ 719-598-3394 X23 Thompson Machine __ 505-823-1453 Wrico _________ 480-892-7800 Stamping:Design The Toolroom Inc. _____ 801-773-6331 Stamping:Flat Forming SPRING WORKS Utah ___ 801-298-0113 Thompson Machine ____ 505-823-1453 Stamping:Foil Forming Thompson Machine ____ 505-823-1453 Stamping: Light Cygnet ___________ 818-240-7574 SPRING WORKS Utah ___ 801-298-0113 Thompson Machine ____ 505-823-1453 Stamping:Precision Cygnet ___________ 818-240-7574 Metalcraft _________888-280-7080 Precision Die & Stamping _480-967-2038 Qualtek _______ 719-598-3394 X23 Thompson Machine ____ 505-823-1453

Wrico ___________480-892-7800 480-892-7800 Stamping:Prototype Thompson Machine ____ 505-823-1453 Wrico ___________480-892-7800 Stamping:Short Run Cygnet ___________ 818-240-7574 Thompson Machine ____ 505-823-1453 Wrico ___________ 480-892-7800 SWISS SCREW MCHG. Denver Precision Products_ 303-469-1771 White Rock Inc _______ 435-750-6414 Screwing: Lead Ron Grob Co. _______970-667-5320 TESTING Testing: Non-Destructive Blanchard Metals Proc. __801-972-5590 Jet Processing ____ 623-869-6749x117 Pilkington Metal Finishing __ 801-972-2146 THERMFORMING LMI Machining_______303-776-6629 TOOL & DIE Foremaster Tool _____ 801-737--0265 Newport Tool _______801-295-7411 The Toolroom Inc. _____ 801-773-6331 Thompson Machine ____ 505-823-1453 Wrico ___________480-892-7800 Tool & Cutter Grinding Exact Tool Grinding ____ 801-712-2720

Southwest Waterjet-Laser _480-306-7748 WELDING Able Machining & Eng. _ 801-268-6766 Advantage Manufacturing __ 877-727-0281 AEI Fabrication ______480-733-6594 Arrow Sheet Metal Prod __ 303-427-6419 Dayton Rogers ______ 763-717-6303 Denver Machine Shop ___303-295-6000 H& S Machine ______ 801-755-7627 JD Machine ________801-782-4403 Kustom Koncepts _____ 307-472-0818 Mountain View Machine _435-755-0500 Precision Tech _______801-285-7288 Premier Technology Inc __208-785-2274 Richards Fab _____ 801-409-0392 Star Precision _______303-926-0559 Wasatch Laser Processing _801-972-3500 Weiser Engineering _ 303-280-2778 Wrico _________ 480-892-7800 Welding: Aluminum Medium & Large Premier Technology Inc __208-785-2274 Skyline Products _______719-392-9046 Richards Fab _____ 801-409-0392 Welding: Orbital Richards Fab _____ 801-409-0392 Welding: Precision Advantage Manufacturing 877-727-0281 Arrow Sheet Metal Prod __ 303-427-6419 Premier Technology Inc __208-785-2274 Richards Fab _____ 801-409-0392 Weiser Engineering _ 303-280-2778 Welding: Robotic Metalcraft _________888-280-7080 Welding: TIG Arrow Sheet Metal Prod __ 303-427-6419 Mountain View Machine__ 435-755-0500 WIRE FORMING SPRING WORKS Utah ___ 801-298-0113 ASSOCIATIONS

TOOLING Elite Machine _______801-710-7891 Mountain View Machine _ 435-755-0500 Northwest Swiss, Inc. ___ 208-772-4011 Precision Tech _______801-285-7288 Western Sintering _____509-375-3096 TUBE FORMING AG Machining _______805-531-9595 Formed Tubing AG Machining _______805-531-9595 Tube Bending /Fabrication Madisen AG Machining _______805-531-9595 Wardle WATERJET CUTTING Training & Colorado Waterjet __ 970-532-5404 Recruiting Diversified Metal Services _801-972-6093 NUNTMA Chapter Exec.

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AEI Fabrication...20,68 Aero Tech Mfg...64 AG Machining...68 AIT...59 AMADA America...57 AmCON...56 AME, Inc...58 APEX Engineering...67 Arizona Finishing...66 Arrow Sheet Metal...65 Atlas Rigging & Transfer...62 Automatics & Machinery...32,60 AZ Tool Steel...63 AZMark Aerospace...63 bandsaw.com...3 bandsawreviews.com...50 Bar-S Machine, Inc...64 biz-pi.com...16 Bemsco...64 Bilz...13 Blanchard Metals Proc...64 BMSC..42,62 Bytebox...58 Canyon State Oil ...57,58,72 Cascade Systems Tech...64 Castrol ...60,72 ChemResearch...65 Chiron...31,57 Christensen Oil..57,72 Cimatron..8,62 CM Manufacturing...67 Coastal Metals...12,60 Coating Technologies...41,65 Colorado Waterjet...66 Current EDM Inc...61 Custom Design & Mfg...63 Cygnet Stamping...65 Datum Inspection Services...60 Davis Applied Tech College...59 DCM Tech...14,44-45,57 Delcam...57 Denver Machine Shop...64 Denver Precision Products...66 Desert EDM Sales...60 Dix Metals...18,61 DMSI...63 A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain

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Roentgen USA...60 Romi Machine Tools, Ltd...60 Ron Grob CO....65 Rotarex...61 Royal Products...52,57 RP Machining, Inc. ..66 Ryerson...9,57,59-61 SA Composites...69 S&S Machinery...58 Samuel Son & CO..5,53,59-60 Sandvik...60 Sawblade.com...3 Schenk Intertech...58 Scottrade Bank Equip Finance...62 Seco Tools Inc...58 Sentry Insurance...62 Setco Spindles & Slides...58 Shop Tools, Inc..58 Skydandee Mfg...63 Smith Machinery...57,71 Southwest Waterjet & Laser...22,69 Specialty Steel Serv....34,64 SPRING WORKS Utah...68 Spyderco...44-45 Stacy Machine & Tooling,..,63 Star Metal Fluids...23,57 Star Precision...64 Steel Services Grinding...65 Streaming Teacher...36,62 Sun Grinding...65 Superior Grinding..16,65 Sustaining Edge Solutions...58 TCI Precision Metals...39,59 Teton Machining...66 The 3D Printing Store...69 The ToolRoom Inc...69 Todd Machinery...42,57 Thompson Machine...65 Tornos...11,57 Triad Machinery...47,58 Trusty Cook...21,62 TVT Die Casting...48-49,63 TW Metals...60 United Performance Metals...46,61 US Bank...62 Utah Metal Works, Inc...25,60 Vacco...65 Vision 33...62 Von Ruden Mfg...57 Wasatch Laser Forming...67 Weiser/Mile High Precision...69 Westec...56 Western Sintering...69 Western States Metals...28,58 White Rock...69 Wohlhaupter...62 Wrico Stamping...40,65

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