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Editors Corner

As You Think, So You Are!

“ I am no longer cursed by poverty because I took possession of my own mind and that mind has yielded me every material thing I want, and much more than I need.

But this power of mind is a universal one, available to the humblest person as it is to the greatest. “ by ~ Andrew Carnegie “ Whether you think you can or can’t either way you are right. “ by ~ Henry Ford “ Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions. “ by ~ Albert Einstein I know this is a manufacturing magazine, and we make things with our hands, our machines, our software, and our minds!

So, I was talking with a very wise businessman and he shared with me he concentrated on a certain project. He wanted it. It would be a game changer for his business. At that time he focused, and went to bed thinking he would win it. Of course there was paperwork involved and a bunch of quoting, but this focused individual wanted this job and he asked the universe through his focused persistence for this job and he won it!

“I wanted this aerospace job so bad, I focused on it and made it my mission. I won it and I was not surprised, yet very surprised! My team and I have created a great precision business and I knew we were poised to evolve to the next level. I knew this aerospace job was a top tier level job and this was my goal, to be a “Top Tier Supplier”. With concerted effort and the right team, I made this happen, and with what I would like to call luck, preparedness that meets opportunity, my company won this work and we continue to grow and meet my vision of a World Class Manufacturing Company.”

This visualization is one of many for small business owners. They have a vision, they make it happen in their mind and then in their garage, they work to make it happen, assemble a positive team, dream much more, work hard, and the vision becomes a viable business!

The stories I like to write about the most are the small garage shop type of start ups, that have a dream, they work it hard, they focus on the outcome, and make it happen almost effortlessly, without too much blood, sweat, and tears.

It’s not easy but it’s worth it. And, “At The End Of The Day”, if you can sell your business to Microsoft or some other big fish, you have a big payday.

However, most of these companies I’m talking with choose to continue to keep and work the business they have built and pass it on to their hard working sons and daughters.Yes, the boy or girl who swept the floor, deburred parts, and answered the phone, and helped with the books has now many years in the business and though they can move on with their college degree, for some reason choose to continue the legacy and eventually run the business and even take it to the next level!

U.S. Manufacturing is everything to the U.S. positive future! Thank you all for your service! I encourage you all to believe in your dream, work it, believe it, and see it as if it is already here in your hands! Then, enjoy it, share it, and be greatful! Gratitude is the icing on the cake!

Thank you all for supporting our magazines!

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Cover & Inside Cover This Month’s Cover , Inside Cover, Shop Profiles, & Articles:

UPM Usher Precision Manufacturing A-1 Performance & Delcam Announcements/Releases ....................6-21 Front Cover & Shop Profile .............1,24-25 Feature Articles................................... 48,49 Buyers Guide Equipment....................68-74 Buyers Guide Processes ......................75-81 Card Gallery ........................................68-81 Index Of Advertisers ...............................82 Editorial .................................. Throughout

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

Mail Address: PO Box 33857 Portland, OR 97292 Telephone: (480) 773-3239 CONTRIBUTORS

Linda Daly, Hugh Taylor, Eugene Wirth, Stephen Hannemann, Kate Carpenter Published bi-monthly to keep precision manufacturers abreast of news, contracts, trends, and to supply a viable supplier source for the industry.

Circulation: A2Z Manufacturing West Coast maintains a master list of over 14,000 decision makers consisting of fortune 1000 companies, small manufacturing companies, engineering firms, DOD & Scientific Lab facilities, machine shops, fab-shops, and secondary source businesses. It has an estimated pass on readership of more than 25,000 people. The majority of our readers are based in CA, OR, WA area!

Advertising Rates have remained the same since 1999, deadlines and mechanical requirements furnished on our website at: www.a2zManufacturing.com.

All photos and copy become the property ofA2Z Manufacturing.

The Publisher assumes no responsibility for the contents of any advertisement, and all representations are those of the advertiser and not that of the publisher.

The Publisher is not liable to any advertiser for any misprints or errors not the fault of the publisher, and in such event, the limit of the publisher's liability shall only be the amount of the publishers charge for such advertising.

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

Stainless Steel Tube

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

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

Alloy Steel Bar • • • •

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

Aluminum Bar

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

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

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

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

Fabrication

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

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

Plate processing: Oxy-fuel Cutting Plasma Cutting Shearing

Ryerson simplifies customer manufacturing and procurement. From one-of-a-kind components to parts in production quantities, our one-stop shopping reduces overall costs and streamlines operations.

Lower Production Costs Trim outsourcing handling costs and inspection points. Eliminate scrap handling costs and inspection points. Minimize capital expenditures. Our ready-to-assemble parts reduce customer work-in-process inventory.

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

Consolidate Supplier Base Save transportation and administrative costs. We’re responsible for all work

Plate processing: Sawing Band Saw Cutting Shearing Cutting to Length

Plate processing: Plasma Cutting Sawing Shearing Cutting to Length Precision Leveling

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

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

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

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

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Announcements & Releases Northwest Metalcraft Is Formed Mystique Engineering & Manufacturing (Marysville, WA) and Dan’s Machine Works (Arlington, WA) have been acquired in a recent transaction by Metalcraft Industries (Denver, CO).

The newly formed entity, Northwest Metalcraft Inc., has consolidated operations in Marysville,WA. Northwest Metalcraft has a long history of machining aerospace components and subassemblies for the interior and commercial market, as well as machined parts for the medical device OEMs. Northwest Metalcraft an AS9100C and ISO9001:2008 certified company is a proud member of the Pacific Northwest Aerospace Alliance (PNAA).

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CHIRON Announces Eugene Hendrix As West Coast Regional Manager CHIRON America is pleased to announce that Eugene Hendrix will manage sales and distribution for the company, supporting customers in CO, UT, ID, MT, WY, CA, OR, WA, AZ, NV and NM. Eugene is a mechanical engineer, ear ning his deg ree from Northwestern University. He is also a card carrying Journeyman Mold and Die maker. Eugene spent more than 24 years working in shops, from apprentice to head designer and programmer.

After his career as a mold and die maker, Eugene held positions supporting machine shops while working for machine tool builders and dealers.

Eugene says, “I am so proud to work for CHIRON America, where we have the best engineering team to support us in the field. Customers can expect superior support when they purchase machines from CHIRON America.”

Machining centers and turnkey solutions “Made by CHIRON” are the world’s first choice in all metalworking industries, from small to large-sized companies.When it comes to high-quality machining of parts at minimal costs, CHIRON engineers implement perfectly matched components to meet specific customer requirements and the most economical solution.

From conception to mass production process, the total solution is provided from a single source. CHIRON machines can be found in nearly every automotive manufacturing company, as well as in a number of aerospace and medical manufacturers. CHIRON is one of the largest automation integrator in the US for lights out manufacturing.

To learn more about how you can increase your automation, and offer ‘lights out’ manufacturing to your customers, contact Eugene at 704-534-5436. Eugene and the CHIRON team are also looking for experienced service personnel in theWestern region.

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SHARP Industries Introduces New Rotary Table Sharp Industries, Inc of Torrance, California has released its new rotary table, Model SR-6.7. The units will have a table diameter of 6.7” and is designed to provide an optimum way to handle small parts by using the commonly available 5C collet and collet closure system.

SHARP Rotary Table accuracy is achieved through quality manufactured parts and custom manufactured Dual Lead Worm Gear System. This system is designed specifically for the SHARP model. It is a one piece unit that is more rugged and accurate than the other Split Worm Gear System. Besides providing a smooth, uninterrupted motion, high worm gear efficiency, and easy adjustment for backlash, it also offers rigidity and excellent wear characteristics. The unit has a continuous type input increment of 0.001 degree. It is compatible with CNC drives from FANUC, SIEMENS, and FAGOR.

For more information contact: Sharp Industries, Inc. 3501 Challenger St., Torrance, CA 90503, Tel. 310-3705990 www.sharp-industries.com

Romi Machine Tools, Ltd. Introduces Jeff Kiszonas as Western Regional Sales Manager Romi Machine Tools, Ltd. is pleased to announce that it has recently hired Jeff Kiszonas to support theWestern United States. Jeff will support customers through distribution, including Smith Machinery Co. Inc. (UT, ID, MT, WY); Machine Toolworks Inc. (OR, WA, Western Canada), and People Tech (Northern CA and Northern Nevada).

Jeff is new to Romi Machine Tools, but he brings a wealth of experience to Romi’s customers.When he left the Marine Corps as an electrical technician, he spent several years working for a machine shop in Southern California.

He additionally supported EDM and CNC machine tool builders, in such roles as a Service Engineer, Applications Engineer, and Product Manager.

Later, he supported customers’ EDM consumables requirements, and he has worked for machine tool dealers throughout the USA. Jeff says, “I am so delighted to work with such a great company as Romi Machine Tools. We are renown in machine tool manufacturing in South America, particularly in Brazil, where we are a market share leader. With Eduardo Paiva now running our US operations, we are poised to grow the

market here in the United States.”

Founded by Americo Emilio Romi in 1930 as an automobile repair shop in Santa Barbara d’Oeste, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Industries Romi S.A. has grown to become a global leader in Machine Tools, Plastic Injection Molding Machines, High Precision Adjustable Boring Systems and Rough and Machined Castings. Its products and services are marketed domestically and exported to five continents for industries such as automobile and automotive components manufacturing, consumer goods, agricultural machinery and implements, and industrial machinery and equipment.

We’re Your Specialist in Specialty Metals!

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Romi Machine Tools, Ltd. manufactures Machine Tools (metal cutting machines and metal removal equipment such as CNC Lathes, Conventional Engine Lathes, and Machining Centers); Plastic Injection Molding Machines; and Rough or machined grey, ductile and vermicular castings.

In the Western United States, contact Jeff to learn how your machine shop can benefit from the Romi Machine tool line at 480-510-4146. If you are interested in becoming a distributor in this region, you can talk to him directly. Visit RomiUSA.com to learn more about the company’s superior products.

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What do wiffle balls, robots, and teenagers have in common?

All were present at the 2015 FIRST® Tech Challenge (FTC) in Oakland on March 28th – where 72 young engineering teams from 13 states came together at the Western US Teen Robotics Competition.

FTC is a global program that ignites an enthusiasm for science, technology, and discovery among students – which fits in perfectly with Treske’s mission of innovation.This year Treske Precision Machining had the honor of helping one of the young teams compete – by manufacturing custom parts for one inventive young team, and seeing them through to the super regional championship!

Named for their collective love of Lord of the Rings, “The Fellowship of the Robot” consists of Jackson Friess, Nic Quattromani, AJ Rise, Ethan Schaezler, and Reed Slobodin – all passionately interested in science and engineering.

A vast majority of participants leveraged prefabricated parts and kits to design a robot for this competition – where their contestant creations would be tasked with completing a variety of challenges for varying point values.

But for a team of five sophomores from Lake Oswego High School, that

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Rather than using prefabricated parts, “The Fellowship of the Robot” elected to design their own custom parts in CAD design software (representing only one percent of teams at the competition), and reached out to Treske to help machine and manufacture their original parts for a competitive advantage.

Using 3D models provided by the team,Treske fabricated and iterated the parts out of the specified materials – and in turn, played a key role in the development of the bot.

“Treske really came through and saved the day,” reflected team mentor, Jim Rise, “Their support has been fantastic and made a real difference for these aspiring engineers.”

And the team’s hard work has paid off – they have been the proud recipients of the First-Place Inspire Award at the qualifying tournament, and the Rockwell Collins Innovate Award (granted based on innovative engineering design) at both the super-qualifying and Oregon state championship.

Our commitment to the next generation AtTreske, we believe in pushing it forward – and we take this commitment seriously when it comes to nurturing the next generation of our field.

We’re thrilled to have contributed the team’s ongoing success, and to have played a role in such a noble cause. We wish The Fellowship the best of luck in their continued endeavors, and look forward to seeing great things from these engineers of tomorrow!

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multiple parts and orders to achieve the greatest yield with the least amount of scrap.

The result will lower job costs and move customers closer to Just InTime production.

“Nesting laser orders is nothing new. Nesting orders from multiple laser customers through the Global Nest program is smart.

We can match up your metal requirements with others and drive down part costs by utilizing multiple parts and orders on a sheet at one time,” commented Ryan Getz, Laser Cell Business Leader for United Performance Metals. “The outcome will save our customers both time and money.”

We believe first impressions are everything and are meticulous with our fabrication processes to ensure quality throughout your order, from design to your doorstep. We believe anything is possible. Our 6,000-Watt Amada LC3015F1-NT laser system cuts up to 1.25-inch steel, up to .75-inch stainless steel/aluminum and is the only precision laser cutting system of its kind in Arizona.

A video has been created that cleverly describes the Global Nest program. View the video on the United Performance Metals’ website at http://www.upmet. com/videos or on the company YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/ user/upmetals.

At AEI, we believe in our business and want to turn your first impression into a lasting relationship.

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Announcements Continued

United Performance Metals Introduces Global Nest, A Multi Customer Nesting Program For Laser Cut Parts United Performance Metals introduces Global Nest, an enhanced, multipart, multi-customer laser nesting program.

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United Performance Metals is a leading supplier of stainless steel, duplex stainless steel, nickel alloys and cobalt alloys. The company’s comprehensive inventory of high temperature, high strength and corrosion resistant alloys includes sheet, coil, strip, plate and near net shapes that can be processed to customers’ exact specifications using its proprietary FIRSTCUT+® Services.

Headquartered in Hamilton, Ohio, United Performance Metals maintains branches in La Mirada, California and Houston, Texas as well as sales and stocking locations worldwide. Specialty divisions of the company include Plus Ten Stainless located in Benicia, California, and Vulcanium located in Northbrook, Illinois.

United Performance Metals is a subsidiary of O’Neal Industries (onealind. com), the U.S.A.’s largest family-owned group of metals service centers, composed of more than a dozen leading brands. With sales of approximately $2.66 billion in 2014, O’Neal Industries is based in Birmingham, AL and has more than 90 specialized facilities throughout North America, South America, Europe, and Asia.

For more information on United Performance Metals and its specialty divisions, visit www.upmet.com.

Savage Machining Continues To Step Up Their Certifications To Provide Aerospace Quality To Their Customers

For more information on Savage Machining Inc. contact them at: 805.584.8047 quotes@savagemachininginc.com

Savage Machining Inc. takes pride in producing quality products that meet the needs of their customers. Savage offers a full selection of CNC milling and turning services; specializing in production and prototypes.

Providing the best product possible at an exceptional value is their number one priority.

Savage Machining Inc. specializes in manufacturing for the aerospace industry, including fueling products, unmanned aircraft parts, electronic control boxes and many other components. Savage works with many different industries: aerospace, electronics, automotive, motion picture and automation.

Savage Machining Inc. works as a team, and every person there is thoroughly trained in order to perform their tasks smoothly and efficiently.

Some employees have been with the company for more than 20 years.

Savage is AS9100 certified and maintains the capability to work with extremely tight tolerance parts. As an AS9100 certified company Savage’s quality management system guarantees every product goes through a comprehensive inspection process. The use of top of the line inspection equipment, combined with their experienced staff, gives Savage the capability to ensure customers receive the highest quality possible.

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Steel Doesn’t Bend Itself! The Process Requires a Qualified & Reputable Bender-Roller Company Do you ever ask yourself “What process is used to bend steel?” Albina Co. Inc., a family owned and operated bending and fabrication company, located in Tualatin, Oregon, has been providing customers with innovative, quality bent and curved steel products since 1939.

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Albina works with all forms of structural steel including: angle (up to 8”), wide flange (up to 40”), channel (up to 18”), square and rectangular tubing (up to 20” x 12”), and solid bars. In addition to structural steel, Albina also bends pipe and round tubing (up to 26” OD) and has the ability to roll plate.

Albina can virtually bend any ferrous and non-ferrous metals produced.

Some manufacturing products include boiler tubes, heat exchangers, coils, pipe sections and tanks, pipe spools, hydraulic lines, solar panels, chip lines and much more. In addition, we serve the marine, locomotive, aviation, automobile, agricultural, and medical and dental industries with unique, high quality parts that require metal rolling or bent steel.

Albina has produced rolled metal parts and components for several divisions of the Armed Forces including parts for aircrafts, blimps, helicopters, Ground Missile Defense (GMD), Ground Support Equipment and launch systems, as well as for Navy boats, ships and submarines.

There are six typical methods of bending in the industry: rotary-draw bending, roll bending, plate rolling, point bending / gag pressing, incremental bending, and hot bending (using induction or other heating sources).

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Rotary-Draw/Compression Bending Material is bent by rotating it around a bend die (and typically pulled or pushed over mandrel rod). A bend die is formed to fit a specific material size/ type and at a specific diameter to fit the bend requirements. The material to be bent is clamped to the bend die and then is drawn/pulled around the bend die until the desired degree of bend is met.

Roll bending (a.k.a.“Pyramid” Rolling) Typical method of curving steel for construction related projects and is usually the most economical bending method for curving members to larger radii. A steel member is placed in a machine and curved as it moves through the three rolls. All three rolls are independently rolling / spinning and two of the rolls can move adjacent to the material creating more or less pressure on the material, resulting in tighter or larger radii.

Plate Rolling (Three or Four Roll Configuration) Typical method of curving plate (i.e. sheet of material) into round / cylindrical or conical shapes.This method of rolling is similar to the pyramid rolling method where individual “shafts / rolls” turn independently to form the sheet of material to desired radii.

Point Bending or Gag Pressing (i.e. cambering) Used for cambering and sweeping members to very large radii. Bending is achieved by applying a minimal number of point loads with a hydraulic ram or press at selected points.

Synchronized Incremental Cold Bending Performed by applying pressure in a highly synchronized fashion (typically in very small sections at a time) over an entire length of material. This can result in tight or large radii bends with minimal distortion.

Hot Bending Structural member is heated directly, which can done either internally or externally, and then bent.The heat source could be induction, direct flame or furnace. Hot bending allows one to bend to extremely tight radii and to meet AESS quality standards.

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The New And Next Generation Of Pvd Coating SwiftTool has added a 2nd Platit π80 coating furnace to get your tools back on the job FAST! • Increase tool life up to 200% • Coated tools back on the job as soon as TWO DAYS • Highest quality PVD Coatings: MDC, AlTiN+ and Super Tin WE’LL EVEN PAY THE RETURN SHIPPING!

Recognizing the need for more technical training to be offered in order to bridge the skills gap, Delcam is waiving all fees for any nonprofit organization incorporating its FeatureCAM and Delcam for SolidWorks CAM software in its manufacturing education programs.

This applies to all non-profit institutions qualifying to DelcamTraining Center (DTC) requirements in the United States and Canada starting from April 6th, 2015.

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FeatureCAMTraining Centers, the forerunners to the DelcamTraining Centers, were introduced over 15 years ago to help prepare students that wanted to further their education in engineering or get knowledge and training for entry level jobs in manufacturing. Commenting on the new initiative, Delcam North America President, Glenn McMinn, said, “The program was created with the intention of allowing training centers the opportunity to properly train students and machinists with skills to seek employment effectively or to improve their current skills.

With the U.S. manufacturing sector as competitive as it has been in decades for new jobs and investment, we are looking to build on this momentum in the classroom by improving our offerings in CADCAM.” The Delcam Training Center program allows students to program and create parts in their school’s lab with full access to the 2.5D, 3D and turning modules within FeatureCAM, as well as 2.5D, 3D and turning modules for Delcam for SolidWorks. In addition, full seats of FeatureCAM and Delcam for Solidworks will be available to qualifying DTC, plus free access to Delcam’s online training program, Delcam University.

Commenting on the new Delcam initiative, Brian Janes, a DTC instructor from South Central Kentucky Community and Technical College said, “I have used many of the CAM packages on the market today both in work situations and in teaching. The FeatureCAM package has unsurpassed power and is by far the easiest to use and most efficient software on the market. While a lot of CAM programs run the users through endless menus, FeatureCAM has a user interface that gets you right to the actual building and coding of the part model.

The addition of the online training will help students and new users get up to speed even faster.”

Delcam University, an online certification course, was built to conveniently meet the standards for helping bridge the skills gap in the manufacturing market for both students and teachers alike. Delcam University is an online program, allowing students to become certified in Delcam products. Self-paced classes can be taken anytime, anywhere, with 24/7 access to Delcam University, offering the flexibility to fit in qualifications around existing study and work commitments. Delcam University consists of a series of videos, written exercises and quizzes leading to certification. Teachers have the choice to either integrate the training into their daily curriculum or use it as homework, thus avoiding conflict with pre-existing curriculum.

For more information regarding on the Delcam Training Center Program and Delcam University, please go to www.DelcamUniversity. com or contact Delcam on 877 335 2261 D e l c a m ’ s FeatureCAM software is free of charge to nonprofit educational establishments that qualify as Delcam Training Centers

Western precision Products, Inc., has been in the machining business for over 30 years. As a second generation familyowned business, we make it a priority to listen to our customers in order to provide the best ser vice exper ience.

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Western Precision Products, Inc. (WPP) WPP, located in Tualatin Oregon and in business for nearly 30 years, has been known mostly for their CNC milling services. In order to better service existing customers and to develop relationships with new customers, WPP has invested in more state of the art CNC turning technology by adding a Mori Seiki NLX2500 SY lathe with a magazine bar loader. With this new lathe, WPP adds capacity for additional turning work, which may not require the full complexities and versatility of WPP’s existing Mori Seiki NTX2000 multi-tasking mill-turn center, while still offering two spindles and live tooling with a Y-axis.

In addition to the new NLX2500 lathe, WPP further added a Mori Seiki NHX4000 horizontal machining center to its CNC milling capacity.

With its inventory of precision CNC horizontal and vertical milling machines, robotic cellular manufacturing of high mix low volume work statements and high volume fully programmed lights out manufacturing, Tsugami SS20 and Citizen L20 Swiss type lathe’s providing turning work for very small and precise components,WPP has added new capabilities and capacity to better service your needs.

See WPP’s website at www.westernprec.com for a full complement tool list as well as a description of all services available.

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David Crewe Named Senior Vice President of Engineering at Flow International Corporation Flow International Corporation, the world’s leading developer and manufacturer of industrial waterjet machines for cutting applications, announces the appointment of David Crewe as senior vice president of engineering reporting to Waterjet Holdings president & CEO David Savage.

Crewe will be responsible for technology d eve l o p m e n t a n d n ew p r o d u c t development, and will manage the engineering research and development teams globally. As a key member of the Waterjet Holdings leadership team, Crewe will participate in common strategy development and execution.

Crewe joins Flow from VEECO Instruments, where he led companywide engineering and product development teams across all business unit product lines. During his tenure, he successfully developed innovative products while also developing cross functional processes and business tools in product development, manufacturing, sales, service, and marketing.

For more information, visit www.FlowWaterjet.com.

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A Big Thank You From Helical Scott Tiehen, National Sales Manager, and Rick Woods, Applications Engineer for the Northwest, thank their customers for visiting them at the NW Pacific Machine Tool Expo held in early April.

Helical Solutions, LLC manufactures high performance custom and standard end mills. Scott says, “We design and manufacture all of our carbide cutting tools with the end user in mind, creating application-specific tooling to suit your needs.

At Helical, we strive for quality in everything we do, beginning with the highest quality carbide available. Our end mills are inspected using the latest in optical and laser touch-free inspection equipment.We believe in 100% repeatability in performance, ensuring that our customers always receive the best tool for their job. Our commitment to excellence, combined with our consideration toward value and service, has helped us create a high performance product that is also affordable. We are confident that our tools will exceed your expectations and improve your productivity.”

To learn more about Helical Solutions’ high performance end mills, contact Rick Woods at 207-887-7616 or email him at rick@1helical.com

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Oregon’s Premier Supplier of Complex Aerospace Airframe and Engine Components, Cascade Engineering Technologies, Inc. Has An Addition To Their Precision Family Cascade Engineering Technologies, Inc. (CET Inc.) specializes in the development and production of challenging and complex aerospace airframe and engine components for both new and aging aircraft.They provide design and manufacturing solutions for complex aerospace systems through their talented and highly motivated team members.

CET Inc. would like to announce the addition of the Makino T1 to their highly sophisticated arsenal of precision machine tools. The Makino T1’s unique kinematic structure is virtually unmatched in the industry.

Its 155-degree tilting A-axis and deep chest column provide full fivesided machining capability for parts up to 1,500 mm in diameter. The key to the T1’s flexibility is its 12,000-rpm spindle. The T1 tackles titanium with 1,000 Nm of duty-rated torque from spindle start to 1,000 rpm. Aluminum structural components are at home on the T1 with continuous power output of 76 hp out through 12,000. While titanium and aluminum highlight the extreme boundaries of the T1 spindle capability, mid-range power and torque levels are well suited for materials ranging from stainless steel to Inconel®. The 5-Axis Makino T1 delivers the productivity and flexibility CET’s customer’s need for any shape and any material.

CET Inc. is one of the only precision manufacturing companies to have the T1 in operation on the West Coast. CET prides themselves as being and living their mantra of “Being The Best Of The Best” by utilizing the best in class machine tools with the best family of talented and trained employees in the industry.

People utilize CET Inc. because they are the best.

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Fahey Machinery is the regional proud distributor of Accurpress precision press brakes. JUST IN: Accurpress Edge Model 425012, 12 X 250 Ton Hydraulic Press Brake.

This 250 ton, 144” long bed, is equipped with Vision Control, Elite 6-Axis CNC Backgauge w/ 39” Travel, Machine Groove in Bed, Front Swing-Stock Support Arms, Wila American Style Hydraulic Ram Clamping System plus Wila CNC Crowning/Hydraulic Clamping Die Holder and Hydraulic Oil. We invite you to come by our show room to tour our fully stocked facility for any of your service, new and used equipment, parts, and tooling needs. We are prepared to make you the best deal around!

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Intel-Backed Tech Startup Grabs 36,000 Square Feet In East Bay Office Park A technology startup backed by Intel Capital is nearly doubling its space with a move to an evolving office park in Pleasanton.

SmartZip Analytics, which gives leads to residential real estate brokers on potential home sellers, has signed a 36,000-square-foot lease at Rosewood Commons.

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The lease comes as the p r o p e r t y ’s new owner is crafting plans to boost amenities to entice similar tech tenants, who are often more attracted to offices in San Francisco. Source: San Francisco Business Times

Oregon Small Businesses Could Soon Collect $2M For R&D Work A Beaverton Democrat is pushing a bill that would boost the maximum corporate tax credit for research done within the state. It would also allow smaller businesses the ability to access the credit.

A bill before the Oregon legislature aims to broaden the availability of the state’s research and development tax credit to a wider selection of companies.

House Bill 2752, could also boost the maximum credit given through the program, according to the measure sponsored by Rep.Tobias Read, a Beaverton Democrat.

Read wants to increase the R&D tax credit from its current maximum level of $1 million to $2 million.The bill also proposes to provide “refundability of credit” which would allow companies reporting less than $1 million in Oregon sales to get a refund on credit eligible activities.

The idea behind this proposal is to encourage smaller businesses and startups to invest in research and development.

Oregon’s R&D tax credit allows companies tax breaks on research conducted within the state. The program follows definitions set out in the federal R&D tax credit statutes.

The research is used by companies on future product development and can incur costs well before a product hits the market.

“If managed well and facilitated by everyone (economic development) makes everything else possible — investing in education, and infrastructure and quality of life,” Read said.

Many states offer these incentives on R&D as a relatively affordable and effective investment for the state to stay competitive.

“We need to have the kind of innovation economy that is predicated on innovative companies and innovative people and that exciting collision of interesting tech and people and educational institutions,” he added.

Oregon’s tax credit has been around since 1989. It was dropped from $2 million to the $1 million level in 2011 amid other budget priorities.

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How A Sacramento Manufacturer Used Technology To Cut Energy Expenses Tri Tool Inc. makes custom-designed, precision portable machine tools for clients in the U.S. and around the world.That means the Rancho Cordovabased firm faces all the competitive challenges of a globalized economy — and needs every advantage it can find.

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“In the middle of the night, when no one is in the parking lot, we can drop that wattage down to under 200 watts a pole,” Walton said.

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Installation of Climate Wizard at Tri Tool was the first test of this 60-ton, 24,000-cubic-feet-per-minute indirect evaporative system in the U.S. It was designed to supplement the 90-ton HVAC unit that was ill-equipped to handle cooling in the plant production area.

In addition to substantial energy savings – the system uses 80 percent less energy than conventional large HVAC systems – the facility has realized additional benefits.These include improved air quality, lower humidity and an enhanced working environment for workers and machinery.

“Everything we’ve done with SMUD has been driven by solving a business problem,” Walton said. “In the process, we ended up saving energy.”

Taken together, the energy-saving projects cut the company’s power bill by 25 percent, he said.

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It might be surprising that SMUD would be so eager to help a major customer reduce the amount of electricity it purchases.The publicly-owned utility says saving energy is compatible with its core mission. Helping business customers succeed with lower operating costs is, in the long run, good for the business, Pertl said.

TORMACH Enabling Your Ideas With Affordable Personal CNC (PCNC) Tormach PCNC mills represent a new approach in small and bench top CNC milling machines, providing unprecedented value and versatility to machinists, engineers, inventors, makers, and hobbyists.

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More than Just Milling for NASA’s Tormach PCNC 1100 The Tormach PCNC 1100 that NASA’s Goddard Spaceflight Center has in their lab is used for all the milling projects you might expect from an aeronautics organization. Alan Kogut, an astrophysicist at the center, explains, “We’re using it for making parts for flight projects, high-altitude

balloons, and prototyping things for an eventual satellite mission.”

NASA uses the PCNC 1100 to mill enclosures, brackets, and braces for satellite missions that perform specialized measurements related to quantum gravity and the way physics behaves at energies that are about a trillion times higher than can be reached with the world’s largest atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. “We build a fair amount of instrumentation for various projects. One of the things we’re using it for is building a telescope,” Alan continues. “It’s a project called Primordial Inflation Polarization Explorer (PIPER) that’s going to fly in a high-altitude balloon this fall. The balloon will carry the telescope up to where the atmosphere sort of thins out to outer space, about 25 miles up.”

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

Genentech opened its Hillsboro plant in April 2010 as part of the company’s strategy to increase manufacturing capacity.

Genentech, which is headquartered in South San Francisco, is a unit of Swiss drug-maker Roche.

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A Texas firm that specializes in modular buildings used for schools, multifamily housing and hospitals has expanded into Oregon and the Northwest.

“Our efficiency has been increasing incredibly. I know it has impacted our bottom line. We can take on more business, because we are not spending as much time in design. The flow from design to manufacturing is much smoother, shortening our delivery dates, making us more efficient and improving quality.”

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

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

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Aries Building Systems has launched its Pacific Northwest Major Projects group, which includes one manager in Bend and others in Washington in Vancouver. The group will be headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. Greg Pfeiffer, a senior account manager and educational/commercial specialist, will be stationed in Vancouver, and Mary Grim, an administrative manager, will work from Bend.

According to the company,Aries Building Systems’ PNW group will focus on providing both standard and custom designed temporary and permanent modular buildings for a variety of growing businesses and organizations throughout the Northwest and Rocky Mountain regions.

“We’re very pleased to be opening an office to serve the Northwest market, and feel strongly we can play an important role in providing organizations in the region with the space they need to grow,” said Barry Roman, president of Aries Building Systems.

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Genentech Announces $125M Expansion In Hillsboro

Biotech giant Genentech plans to invest more than $125 million to expand its fill/finish production 1/16/13 10:45 AM Modular buildings can also be disassembled and facility in Hillsboro, resulting in up to 100 new reused, which reduces the consumption of raw skilled manufacturing jobs, the company announced. materials and energy used to construct a new building.

The investment in sterile production operations will bring the total number of Genentech jobs in At the same time, Aries notes that modular Oregon to more than 500 over the next five years, structures are built to meet or exceed the codes Larry Sanders, Genentech general manager and vice and standards of on-site construction and use the president of Hillsboro Technical Operations, said in same materials — wood, concrete and steel — as traditional buildings.

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“This announcement is another indicator that this is an exciting time in Oregon’s history,” Gov. Kate Brown said in a statement. “Genentech’s investment in its Hillsboro campus and Oregon’s robust workforce underscore that Oregon is a great place for all businesses to build their future and for the biotech sector to grow.”

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Aries specializes in remote workforce housing and commercial modular buildings.The company touts its buildings as “better for the environment,” as modular buildings are built in a controlled factory environment that produces less waste.

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The PNW group currently has contracts in western Washington along the I-5 and I-90 corridors. Source: Portland Business Journal

Just Like Dimples On Golf Balls, Reshaping Aircraft In Flight Could Make Planes Fly Better In the not-too-distant future, airplanes will scythe into the wind with an airframe that can virtually streamline its shape using nothing but air. In pursuit of this goal, researchers at NASA and Boeing moved a vertical tail from an old 757 inside the world’s largest wind tunnel at NASA Ames Research Center in California to test technology called active flow control.

Active flow uses tiny air jets to reduce friction and turbulence across flight surfaces.

The idea is definitely in the air. Last summer, Austrian mathematician Martin Hairer received a Fields Medal, considered to be math’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize, for his study of the flow of air around aircraft wings.

The NASA and Boeing teams outfitted the tail with a technology called sweeping jet actuators, which are devices with no moving parts that pump pressurized air across the tail. Just like dimples on golf balls, the actuators create a thin, turbulent layer of air that helps “reattach” air flows to the surface and make flight more efficient.

Once refined, the technology could allow aircraft designers to make smaller and lighter tails that produce less drag, which could translate into more efficient flight, lower fuel burn and save airlines millions of dollars. Boeing plans to conduct flight tests in 2015.

Scientists at GE’s Global Research Center have separately been studying active flow control for aviation and to improve wind turbines’ ability to convert wind into electricity. The GE scientists are using a technology called synthetic jet actuators, or SJAs, which have no moving parts but use tiny amounts of energy to breathe in and pump out air jets through small holes along a wing or blade’s surface.

SJAs speed up air that naturally slows as it flows over the surface due to friction. “By expanding and contracting a chamber such that air is sucked in and ejected through a single hole, this device works similar to a human lung,” says Seyed Saddoughi, principal engineer in Aero-Thermal & Mechanical Systems, who is leading the actuator’s development. “The advantage is that there is no need for pumps that use external flow, or fans with moving parts.The device is lightweight and very simple in operation, with minimal power usage.”

The actuators pump air efficiently by applying an alternating current to two parallel plates separated by a slight space. Employing a phenomenon called the piezoelectric effect, the two plates bend and straighten as electricity moves through them, causing the middle chamber to rapidly pull in and push out air. GE has already licensed the technology to cool consumer electronics and computers, where it will replace bulkier fans that need more energy and space.

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The Premier Aerospace Manufacturing Partner Utilizing State Of The Art Machine Tools

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Usher Precision Manufacturing (UPM) was started in 1972 in Darryl and Barbara Usher’s garage. Darryl wanted to build an experimental airplane.

He formed a bond with Bob Bushby, the founder of an experimental aircraft kit called the Midget Mustang. Bob was looking for someone to make small aluminum aircraft parts. In those days, all you needed was the will and knowledge to do it, a pair of metal cutting tin snips and a card table.

Darryl had all three. That would be the foundation for the start of Usher Precision Manufacturing (formerly Usher Enterprises).

Around 1974 Darryl’s good friend Dick Vangrunsven (Van’s Aircraft) had developed an aircraft that was creating great excitement in the experimental aircraft industry.At that time history was being made with theVan’s Aircraft design.Van’s Aircraft was gaining so much popularity that DickVangrunsven needed help, and called on his friend Darryl to help him. Darryl then solicited his son (Karl Usher) to join forces to help him process the many parts for Van’s Aircraft.

Darryl was a full time employee for IBM and worked there for 30 years.

During his tenure working for IBM, his wife and son were holding down the fort at the recently formed Usher Precision Manufacturing. By 1984 Van’s Aircraft was Usher’s only customer, but had become a sizable customer for just two employees. Through Darryl’s relationships at IBM, the Vice President of Payless Drug Store approached Darryl about manufacturing a design change in a cash register for Payless. Darryl agreed to design this modification and install it on every cash register Payless had. Knowing he bit off more than he could chew, he solicited Karl to graduate early from college to come home and help with this project. Payless was so happy with the modification that Usher Precision did to their existing cash register that Payless asked Usher to develop a new cash register from the ground up and they guaranteed to purchase 7000 registers. Usher tackled this project for the next 7 years.

During the time Usher built the 7000 cash registers, Van’s Aircraft was becoming the largest kit manufacturer of experimental aircraft in the world.

Their website indicates that nearly 9000 aircraft are flying.

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Brad Durham the General Manager that oversees all operations of Usher Precision Manufacturing Inc. said, “At some point in your company’s development you have to decide what type of equipment that you want to utilize to promote your growth and direction. Being keenly aware of the dollar and the business model at the time, Usher chose lower cost equipment. As we continued to the develop and expand over the years, the “true” cost to manufacturing came to light when we stepped up to our first DMG Mori Seiki Machine. In very simple terms it was 3 times the cost, but made better parts 4 times faster. The Mori Seiki machines are more rigid than lower cost machines. The rigidity leads to longer tool life, greater depth of cut, faster feed times, finer finishes, and an overall more accurate part. Tool change times were also dramatically faster. We also found that the “UP” time was longer because the machines are just built to last, so repairs are minimal. In every area the DMG Mori Seiki machines won. We are basically a Mori shop to this day.”

Brad continued, “I think one of our key strengths is our ability to change with our customers’ demands.With the mindset that you will do whatever it takes to make your customers happy, you must be willing to invest in change as your customers evolve. Usher does just that which is evidenced in our investment into the DMG Mori Seiki machine tools we continue to utilize and invest into. I think the willingness to go the extra mile to make sure our customers are happy is another key to our successful business model. Everyone including our customers say Usher goes the extra mile for their customers’. Usher Precision Manufacturing puts it on a whole new level and we lead the field. We also consider ourselves as a single source solution for our customers. We pride ourselves as a valued partner and we supply a completed part to our customers without them having to send parts to multiple shops for multiple processes.”

Dean Trump, Machine Shop Manager for Usher said, “We started using Mori over 10 years ago and it has just been bullet proof and accurate. We started with a Mori Seiki lathe and we looked around at a lot of other brands and the Mori Seiki machines fit our business. We also looked for the best support system in regard to service and we chose Ellison Technologies.

Ellison’s service is great! Their service techs actually give us their cell phone numbers and they have gotten to know us personally. If we have a problem we just call and we are taken care of on the spot. Steve Witmer (our Sales Pro from Ellison) is always there to help us with our next big challenge and he is a huge help with the knowledge of all the machines.

He always steers us in the right direction. I really appreciate that they have always been there for us when we have a need. Our need is always urgent to them and they take good care of us.”

In 2008 Usher Precision stepped up their game plan to support their customers more with one of the highest aerospace certifications in the industry, AS9100 Rev C and ISO 9001:2000.With this certification added to the Usher arsenal, along with 25,000 square feet of manufacturing space and another 12,000 square feet available for expansion, Usher is poised to grow in the right direction. Add to that the great employee base and their ethic of “doing anything to make the part correct for their customers”, the Usher business is a win win for everyone involved.

Usher Precision has evolved into a manufacturing partner and is much more than a job shop with capabilities that include precision machining/turning, laser cutting, sheet metal, welding, hydroforming and assembly. They are

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No. 4 on that list was a job familiar to many Washingtonians: Aerospace engineer.

“Aerospace engineers were frequently paid six-figure salaries in 2012,” the report said. “Because many of those employed in this occupation work on national defense projects, prospective employees are also often heavily screened and require security clearances.”

Security clearances are difficult and time-consuming to get, so once an organization pays for an employee to get them, it’s unlikely to send that employee packing without some serious thought.

Thousands of Boeing engineers are shaking their heads in affirmation right now.

Considering the growth the aerospace industry is experiencing right now, it’s no surprise that the job of aerospace engineer is one of the most secure positions in the U.S. Economic news site Marketwatch sifted through U.S. unemployment and sector growth data to rank the top 10 jobs in the country if you’re looking to stay employed for the long term.

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The report showed that aerospace engineers have an unemployment rate of 0.3 percent. Compare that to the U.S. unemployment rate, which is currently a little more than 5 percent.

Aerospace engineers had a median salary of $103,720 in 2012, and the report also predicts that sector jobs will grow 7.3 percent by 2022.

That’s good news for Washington’s engineers. And as companies like Elon Musk’s SpaceX open offices here, and local space exploration companies expand, the workforce will diversify. Washington will become the home of not only one of the world’s top commercial airline production facilities, but also the place where engineers design the rockets to take us to Mars.

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A central theme of Hoover’s new company will be to produce parts more cheaply, and he said hot-forming titanium, a new manufacturing process, will be key to that.

The creator of one ofWashington state’s most creative aerospace companies is back at it after a four-year “retirement.”

Jim Hoover, founder and former CEO of Primus Aerospace, has created a new company he has named “Omada International.”

“I believe it can replace machined parts and composite parts...lower the cost and maintain the performance,” he said.

Last month, Hoover announced that Kirkland-based Omada has acquired Carlson Formetec, a Tacoma company that specializes in a technology for forming titanium for aerospace.

The Tacoma company, which now operates in a 25,000-square-foot facility, is the second acquisition for Omada.

Hoover, who is CEO of Omada, started building the new company by acquiring an Oklahoma City company called Pro-Fab Inc., which makes precision machined parts for aerospace in a 195,000-square-foot facility.

Omada, which was formed in 2013, also is building a 150,000-squarefoot plant in Thailand. That facility will open in 2016.

The Thailand plant parallels part of Hoover’s business plan for the former Bellevue-based Primus Aerospace, which included balancing the cost and requirements of manufacturing at plants in Puget Sound region versus plants in Thailand and in China.

Portland-based Precision Castparts Corp. bought Primus in 2011, and Hoover remained through the transition, staying on for about 18 months.

Hoover has homes in Seattle and in Thailand, and spends half his time in each region.

“I failed retirement,” said Hoover, who is 68 years old. “I think there’s a need for a different kind of supplier, and I have an idea what that might look like, based on the volume of work ahead in the industry.”

Boeing and Airbus have record backlogs right now, and are ramping up to unprecedented production rates for the smallest models of their planes, the Boeing 737 and Airbus A320.

Boeing is now building 42 model 737s monthly, already a record, and that is set to rise to 52 monthly.

Hoover said it took him six months to choose the name Omada, which means “teamwork” in Greek.

“I’m trying to create something a little different and create an opportunity for some people to be part of it,” he said. “The term is very important to me in how we’re going to be successful.”

The new company is being backed by private investors, he said.

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Jason Wilder, who is the company’s “chief value officer” and who negotiated purchase of the Tacoma plant, said he believes the new hotforming process brought by Formetec will be industry-changing.

“Omada and its customers see a significant opportunity to improve the manufacturing buy-to-fly ratio and lower the cost of aircraft production,” he said. “We are excited to build upon Formetec’s decades of experience and help the business capitalize on its numerous growth opportunities.”

Hoover plans to move theTacoma factory to a new facility of about 50,000 square feet. He declined to say how many people work there.

Steve Wilhelm covers manufacturing, aerospace and trade for the Puget Sound Business Journal.

Ag Industry Takes Notice Of Wilsonville Drone Maker A year after receiving $150,000 from Oregon BEST and the Portland Development Commission, Wilsonville startup HoneyComb Corp. is adding staff and attracting attention from some of the biggest names in the agriculture industry.

The drone maker has grown from its three original founders to 17 fulltime employees and raised $1 million in funding. It has also won attention from John Deere and Case-New Holland, which together operate more than 3,000 dealerships selling agricultural-related gear to farmers. Both are interested in selling HoneyComb’s fixedwing drones at their dealerships nationwide, according to Oregon BEST. CEO Ryan Jenson credits Oregon BEST, the agency responsible for promoting Oregon’s cleantech sector, with recognizing its potential early on. In the intervening year, awareness is soaring about the potential for aerial surveys by unmanned aircraft to improve management of farms and forests. Source: Portland Business Journal

Lockheed Martin receives 1-year extension of ISS cargo contract Lockheed Martin has announced a $23 million, one-year extension of its

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The company delivered 184 jets in the first quarter —— 121 of those the high-volume 737, Boeing’s smallest model.

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A particular bright spot was the delivery of 30 787 Dreamliners, which puts Boeing exactly where it wants to be, pumping out 10 a month of the carbon composite jets. That compares to an average of six a month in the first quarter of 2014.

Within the Dreamliner segment, a significant development this year is the increasing volume of 787-9s, the newer, middle-sized version. Ten of the 30 Dreamliners delivered were those 787-9s, which have been coming off the line far more smoothly than the smaller 787-8 did in the early years.

So far, Boeing has delivered more than half of the 787-8s ordered, compared to fewer than 5 percent of the newer 787-9s, wrote Uresh Seth, who produces the widely read website All Things 787.

“The more of these airplanes (787-9s) that are delivered the better Boeing’s financial results will look,” Seth wrote.

Down on the bottom end of its backlog, Boeing (NYSE: BA) delivered four 747s and five 767s in the first quarter.

The twin-engine 767s are all freighters, and all will be delivered to FedEX. Three of the 747s are passenger versions destined for Lufthansa, which has supported the model, while the fourth is a Cargolux freighter.

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President Obama Witnesses $6.6 billion Deal Between Panama’s Copa Airlines And Boeing For 737s

Copa Airlines has ordered 61 Boeing 737 Max 8 and Max 9 planes.

Emily Parkhurst Puget Sound Business Journal A Panama airline announced this week it will buy $6.6 billion worth of Boeing 737s, a significant order for Boeing’s smallest jetliners.

Copa Airlines will buy 61 of the single-aisle 737 Max 8 and Max 9 planes to expand its fleet. This is the largest-ever deal between a Panamanian and U.S.-based company, according to Boeing(NYSE: BA).

As a result, U.S. President Barack Obama and Panama President Juan Carlos Varela Rodriguez came out to witness the deal.

“It is an honor to be joined by Presidents Varela and Obama on this great day. All of us at Boeing are proud to partner with Copa as it works to remain one of the most progressive airlines in the world,” said Boeing CEO Jim McNerney in a statement. “Copa has a history of leading the way for Latin America’s aviation industry, and this order shows their dedication to continuous improvement in performance, customer satisfaction and efficiency.”

The order is a big win for Washington state, as the 737 Max planes are built in Renton. Orders for the re-engined 737s helped Boeing edge out Airbus in its number of orders for the first quarter of the year.

Oman Airlines recently ordered 20 737s, including some of the new Max planes, and Garuda Indonesia airlines ordered 50 of the 737 Max planes last year.

Boeing has ramped up production of the aircraft to try to meet the growing demand. The company plans to hit a rate of 52 planes per month by 2018.

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“Invest in more STEM,” Carson said in a recent interview. “I’m a big proponent of STEM education. It’s a big challenge and it’s both a general challenge but it’s also a genderspecific challenge.”

According to the most recent data available, 30 percent of all employed people worked in the aerospace industry in Washington state.

Gross revenue for the hundreds of aerospace businesses in the state – including Boeing was nearly $60 billion in 2014.

Of the 93,400 people employed in the aerospace cluster, Boeing employs 80,000.

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Basically, the pipeline from elementary, middle and high school to the aerospace industry needs to be beefed up. That’s true for the software industry as well.

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When MI gets a component with multiple interfaces, Tomson said they can be much more accurate on their machines, than the original builders ever could have been, especially in the field when the equipment was being installed. When the order first comes to MI, it is typically fairly generic, giving the MI team lots of flexibility to make the necessary repairs to make the product even better.

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Aerojet Rocketdyne Wins NASA Contract For DeepSpace Propulsion Aerojet Rocketdyne announced it won a $18 million contract from NASA to develop a deepspace propulsion system.

The company makes all kinds of in-space propulsion for satellites in orbit, but this contract from the Glenn Research Center, near Cleveland, will be for interplanetary propulsion. It opens a potential new line of business for Aerojet Rocketdyne, which is often a subcontractor for defense companies. In this case Aerojet is a direct contractor for NASA. The NASA Evolutionary Xenon ThrusterCommercial -- or NEXT-C -- will be developed for at Aerojet Rocketdyne’s campus in Redmond, Wash., said spokeswoman Lynn Machon.

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Pure Grit: Material With Skateboarding Heritage Could Make Planes, Trains and Automobiles Use Less Power Power management chips are like second-born kids. They do a lot of hard work, but don’t always get the recognition they deserve.

Like microchips inside computers and laptops, power management chips are pieces of semiconductor as small as a cornflake. But they move electricity (watts), not data (bytes).Their circuits help extend battery life and reduce power consumption for a broad range of devices: from smartphones and tablets to brain scanners and jet engines. They can make machines smaller, lighter, and more efficient.

The best ones are made from a hard material called silicon carbide, which was originally used for abrasives like sandpaper and still gives many skateboards their rough grip. It can work at temperatures that are twice the boiling point of water where ordinary silicon chips falter. They handle megawatts of power, an order of magnitude higher than silicon, and operate at much higher frequencies, which makes them much more efficient.

But until recently, they’ve also been very difficult to make.

Manufacturing a silicon carbide chip requires as many as 300 steps performed in a clean room, and companies have to negotiate pitfalls opened by the complicated interactions between silicon, carbon and metal oxides.

(The full name of the device is silicon carbide metal-oxide semiconductor field effect transistor, or SiC MOSFET.)

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But scientists at GE Global Research have figured out how to bypass silicon carbide’s limitations and came up with new ways to make power management chips that could revolutionize the power electronics industry and bring in big savings for users. They are providing their technology and intellectual property valued at more than $100 million to a power electronics manufacturing consortium created in Albany, NY, last summer.

Ljubisa Stevanovic, chief engineer for energy conversion at the GE lab’s advanced technology office, says that scaling up production from the current four-inch wafers to six inches will nearly triple the number of chips per wafer and reduce manufacturing costs by a factor of two. “This will be revolutionary,” he says. “We could soon compete with existing silicon chips on price with a better technology. Silicon carbide is more robust, requires much less cooling and can deliver cleaner power than ordinary silicon.”

GE plans to use the new fabrication plant to manufacture power management chips for its own machines ranging from oil and gas pumps to MRI scanners.The company will license its technology to other companies using the plant to bring products to market.

Merfeld and Stevanovic estimate that the chips could make trains, planes and automobiles run up to 10 percent more efficiently, reduce the energy footprint of data centers by 5 percent, and improve the efficiency of wind and solar farms by more than 1 percent.

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An MQ-9 Reaper successfully hit a sea-going target with an AGM-114 Hellfire missile during a joint service training exercise over the Gulf of Mexico.

This was the first time a remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) hit a maritime target.

“It was the first time we had put live weapons into boats and participated in maritime (exercises),” said Capt.Timothy Ford, a 26th

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In addition to this being the first time an RPA squadron hit a maritime target; it was also a chance to integrate with other aircraft including A-10Thunderbolt IIs, F-16 Fighting Falcons and F-35A Lightning IIs. “It’s the first opportunity for us to fly with the F-35, talk to each other and coordinate attacks between the two platforms and ensure deconfliction while we’re doing that,” said Capt. Ryan Cross, a 26th WPS training officer.

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Another high note of the exercise was that it gave the RPA community a chance to demonstrate to operators of other aircraft, the unique capabilities the MQ-9 can bring to the fight.

The MQ-9 is able to stay in a potentially hostile area for hours. It can collect intelligence and pass that information on to other aircraft when it becomes a more volatile situation.

“As soon as it does become a situation where the shooting happens, we’re the ones with the situational awareness because we’ve been there so long and we’re able to pass that on to other fighters as they check in and build their situational awareness,” Ford said. “That’s our role in a lot of mission sets. It’s nice to be able to prove it in a maritime environment.”

Through this exercise, the MQ-9 demonstrated its abilities in destroying sea-going targets, integrating and deconflicting with other aircraft, as well as being able to stay in an area far longer than any other platform.

Ford stated, now that they have built relationships with other aircraft

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Google announced on Friday it would also contribute nearly $100,000 for computer science education in Wasco County’s schools.

Google touts its data centers are some of the most efficient in the world in that they use a 50 percent less energy than typical data centers. Google said it’s the first major Internet services company to gain external certification of the high environmental, workplace safety, and energy management standards of its data centers.

“We have the right land, energy infrastructure, and workforce to support their expansion,” said Steve Lawrence, mayor of The Dalles. “In turn, they have provided quality jobs and make annual payments we can put toward the community.”

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Aegis uses an array of ship-based computers and radar to track and guide interceptor missiles to destroy enemy targets. It has been sold to five navies outside the United States, which have equipped 19 ships with the system.

Arms sales of big-ticket systems like Aegis now require substantial industrial incentives and technology transfer, said DougWilhelm, director of international Aegis programs at Lockheed Martin. “One of the constants in international programs is the growing desire for technology transfer and for the local defense industries to have a significant role in the program,” he told reporters.

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“Aegis has become the naval combat system of choice for top tier navies,” Wilhelm said. Brand-name appeal alone, however, is not enough.To open up the Aegis market, Lockheed is sweetening deals not only by offering traditional industrial offsets but also by funding technology upgrades to make it easier for foreign buyers to adapt Aegis to their specific ships models and command-and-control systems.

The company is making a big push for international sales amid worries that the U.S. Navy is delaying Aegis upgrades for current and future ships.

Although Aegis is a 40-year-old system, it has been updated over the years.

Its latest version, baseline 9, is capable of simultaneous anti-air warfare and ballistic missile defense. Aegis tracks, cues and fires automatically.

The newest version uses the Standard missile 6, made by Raytheon. The Aegis system includes Lockheed Martin’s SPY radar. Ships can intercept and destroy short and medium-range ballistic missiles.

“I would have thought there would have been a greater outcry from the Navy about that,” said Jim Sheridan, director of Aegis U.S. Navy programs at Lockheed Martin.

Navy leaders frequently warn about shortages in the sea-based missile defense fleet to meet the demands of regional commanders, Sheridan said. “Yet you look at the president’s budget for 2016 and several ships have been removed.”

Of the Navy’s fleet of 62 destroyers and 22 cruisers, just 33 (28 destroyers and five cruisers) are equipped with the Aegis ballistic missile defense system. Sheridan believes the Navy needs at least 40, and some combatant commanders have hinted they need 70.

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Sheridan predicts the number might drop below 33 as the Navy begins to temporarily take some aging cruisers out of service until it can modernize them. “And new construction ships are not moving that quickly,” he said.

The Navy continues to fund hull, mechanical and electrical ship upgrades but combat systems modernization is slowing down. Navy leaders have asked Congress to restore funding for one destroyer in 2016, but whether

that happens won’t be known for months.

Lockheed officials are skeptical. “The way I observe the Navy balance its books is always by reducing the number of modernizations,” Sheridan said.

“Back in the day, four to five ships would be modernized per year. Now we are lucky if we get one. Maybe two.”

With growing uncertainty about U.S. defense spending, Lockheed is ratcheting up efforts abroad. Besides 19 Aegis ships already in service six in Japan, five in Spain, five in Norwayand three in South Korea there are three more soon to be commissioned by Australia.

Two of Japan’s newest ships will be undergoing an Aegis modernization similar to the U.S. Navy’s program, said Wilhelm. This will be the first time that Aegis baseline 9 with the most advanced integrated air and missile defense configuration will be brought to an international partner, he said. These upgrades are scheduled for 2017 and 2018.

Lockheed has teamed up with Spain’s largest shipbuilder Navantia, and with other top yards in South Korea, Japan and Australia for Aegis work. “Our designs are adaptable,” said Wilhelm.

This is a good deal for everyone, he said, as governments seek advanced military technology while also creating jobs for their countries’ economy, and it could lead to more Aegis sales.The partnership

with Navantia paved the way to the deal with Norway and possibly to more sales in the coming years. Navantia was chosen as the designer for an air warfare missile destroyer in Australia.

Spain likely will place additional Aegis orders when it builds a new ship class to replace older frigates, saidWilhelm. “They are interested in what we can do with baseline 9.”

Lockheed’s business philosophy: “make it easier to increase the role of our partners,” said Wilhelm. Other foreign partners have developed components for Aegis and for the SPY radar, and sell them to the United States and other countries. “The engineering know-how we transfer helps them improve.They want the benefits to flow back into their economies.”

The company invested internal corporate R&D funds to design an “international Aegis fire controller” so foreign navies can use their own computer systems to operate key Aegis components. “It’s really resonating well with customers,” Wilhelm said. Navies want to use command and control systems with which they are familiar, he said.When Aegis was first sold to Japan and Spain, the approach was that the U.S. government would sell them the “whole thing and that’s what was installed,” Wilhelm explained. “That doesn’t allow the use of their own operator look-andfeel systems.”

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A Glass Half Full: These Water Treatment Technologies Are So Powerful They Can Fight Drought In The Desert Water scarcity has again become a hot topic as California and Texas lurch into their fourth year of drought and Brazil’s Sao Paulo may start rationing water in 2015. But in some parts of the world the lack of water has been a problem for as long as anyone can remember.

In Algiers, the capital of Algeria, residents could not depend on having enough water in their pipes to fill up their teapots for decades. But in 2008, the North African country built the continent’s largest desalination plant and tapped a huge body of water located on its doorstep: the Mediterranean Sea. Today, the plant, located in the central Hamma neighborhood, is using GE technology to supply the city with 53 million gallons of drinking water every day. That’s enough to satisfy one quarter of Algiers’ daily usage.

Engineers at GE’s Power & Water business can tick off many similar examples, where innovation and new technologies helped solve nagging water problems.

They say that nano-scale membranes, high-tech filters, bioreactors and other systems are helping process and recycle 5 billion gallons of water every day in 130 countries.There are more projects in the pipeline. Motors, transformers and drives from GE Marine power one of the world’s largest desalination plants near Melbourne, Australia. They will also go inside the world’s largest wastewater treatment facility in Abu Dhabi.

Above: If water desalination was only this easy. Above: All of Earth’s water fits into a sphere roughly 950 miles in diameter. GIF by Julian Glandder based on data from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

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The lack of water is a complex problem that affects almost every country. A recent U.N. report found that two-thirds of the world’s population could be

vulnerable to water shortages and 1.8 billion people would be living in “countries or regions with absolute water scarcity” by 2025. No wonder water is a $450 billion global market.

Many water challenges spring from inefficient usage. Nearly 20 percent of global fresh water resources, for example, are swallowed by industrial installations like power plants, and refineries. In the U.S., the number is close to 45 percent.Yet only 6 percent is being reused.

That’s changing. In Texas, the U.S. utility Exelon is building two huge 1,000 MW power plants equipped with the latest GE power generation turbines cooled with air, rather than water. As a result, the plants will need just one tenth of the water amount typically required to cool such large installations, and save “millions of g a l l o n s ” eve r y day, according t o E x e l o n ’s spokesman Bill Harris.

As much as half the water on Earth is older than the solar system.

The tech is also helping the environment. In New Zealand, GE’s ZeeWeed bioreactors are using high-tech membranes riddled with tiny holes just 40 nanometers wide to filter out protozoa, bacteria, sediment, and unwanted nutrients like phosphorus and nitrogen. They treat 50 million gallons of wastewater and agricultural runoff per day that used to threaten the Great Barrier Reef.

In Algiers, the Hamma facility has become a model for a dozen other desalination plants strung along the Algerian coast, where a third of country’s population lives. When it opened, it was the first large-scale water treatment facility to strip salt from seawater with a process called reverse osmosis. The process uses huge pressure to push saltwater molecules through a superfine filter that stops the salt and lets fresh water pass.

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“People don’t see just water, they see GE.” GE’s water business is over 90 years old. The company used this 1922 film called Beyond the Microscope to explain the science of water formation. Image credit: Museum of Innovation and Science Schenectady.

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Congress Wants The Pentagon To Develop A Long-Range, Deadly Superdrone Northrop Grumman’s X-47B is one contender to provide new drone aircraft through the Navy’s Unmanned Carrier-Launched Airborne Surveillance and Strike program. (Photo courtesy Northrop Grumman) The revolution in unmanned aerial flight has advanced quickly and in dramatic leaps, perhaps none more momentous than the historic landing of an autonomous Navy drone on an aircraft carrier.

That happened for the first time two years ago, when Northrop Grumman’s X-47B, which looks more like a UFO than a military aircraft, took off and landed on the USS George H.W. Bush.

It made history again last year, when it flew alongside F/A-18 fighter jets, the first time a drone flew in concert with piloted planes off a carrier.

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the Pentagon is being too cautious in its development of a technology that they think could push the boundaries of unmanned flight—and the future of warfare.

In what has become a made-for-Washington drama, a group of Congress’ most influential members are pushing the Pentagon to develop what to some sounds like sci-fi fantasy: drones that could not just take off from carriers, but fly for days at a time, covering hundreds, if not thousands, of miles, and perhaps most importantly, haul a hefty arsenal of bombs deep into enemy territory.

That might sound like a tall—and expensive— order, especially at a time when congressionally mandated budget caps are forcing the Pentagon to balance wish lists against necessities.

[Don’t look now, but the plan for massive drones on aircraft carriers is coming] But proponents of a more ambitious approach, including Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), fear that the Navy’s plan to primarily use the drones as eyes in the sky designed to fly around the carriers and detect incoming threats, is misguided. Potential adversaries have developed advanced anti-ship missiles, pushing aircraft carriers well

off shore, beyond the striking distance of piloted fighter jets, such as the F/A-18 and the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.

To counter that, the carriers need stealthy, unmanned aircraft that can fly long distances, in a combat environment, they say.Without that ability, the U.S.’s long-held air dominance is lost and its fleet of aircraft carriers, long a symbol of the U.S.’s ability to project power from wherever, whenever, is at risk of obsolescence.

“If you take the most elementary missiles the Chinese have developed they have already pushed our carriers to a standoff of about 1,000 miles,” said Rep. J. Randy Forbes (R-Va.). “If our carriers get set back that far the F/A-18 and the F-35 are not going to get us where we need to go.”

[Meet the most fascinating part of the F-35: The $400,000 helmet] In a letter last month, McCain, chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, urged Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter “to ensure that the Navy’s first unmanned combat aircraft is capable of both providing persistent ISR [intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance] and conducting strike missions from the carrier at standoff distances in contested environments.”

But defense consultant LorenThompson said that if the program becomes too expensive, the Navy might decide it can’t afford to pursue it.

“If you ask for too much, it either won’t work or it will be the size of a B-52 Bomber,” he said. “Every time Congress tries to add another requirement to this program, it undercuts support in the Navy for what was supposed to be a relatively modest effort.”

He also said that the Pentagon has plenty of aircraft that can attack from long distances, and noted that it is close to awarding a contract for what’s known as the Long Range Strike Bomber, which would have nuclear capabilities.

[Pentagon’s $55 billion mystery plane is secret but debate over cost is appearing] Last year, Congress held up funding for the X-47B program until the Pentagon figures out what it exactly it wants. And now the Defense Department is doing a review that would determine whether it should be able to strike at long distances or primarily a surveillance aircraft.

Bryan Clark, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, predicted that the review would find that there are “a lot of other aircraft that can do surveillance around the carrier.”

While creating a drone that can fly long distances, while also carrying a heavy weapons payload, sounds like a massively complicated endeavor, he said that the X-47B “has been so successful it seems like building an aircraft like that is not as risky a proposition as we had thought.”

Forbes said he was glad the Pentagon was taking a deliberate approach.

The decision it makes “will lock us in to the direction we will go for the next 20, 30 years,” he said. “That’s why it’s so important …we make the right decision now.”

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The former A-1 Performance under the direction of Marvin was a tightly run business and like most small businesses in the sixties and seventies everything was in the owner’s head. So, when the Bowdish team negotiated for the purchase of the business Marvin and his shop foreman Carlos were part of the deal for an interim. Marvin and Carlos were great teachers and instructed the new A-1 Performance team for over a year on all the processes of the A-1 product line.

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The other software programs out there give you way too many options and to me that is real confusing and time consuming. This FeatureCAM software by Delcam is real user-friendly to the point it pretty much does the programing for you automatically. If you have a model the software does automatic features and recognizes everything that is on there.We just generate our own tool list and it will find what tools we have available and picks those tools only (not random tools that you don’t have) to utilize in the program for production. FeatureCAM literally took parts made manually into production from days to an hour.”

A-1 Performance will obtaining a 5 axis machine soon and will be upgrading their FeatureCAM to the top end of the milling capabilities shortly. David continued, “Ben Gowers, our Delcam sales engineer that helped us, was great to work with. Ben made it so easy for us to get started and to use the software that we were all truly amazed. He helped us get set up and got the software to work perfectly on the laptop we use to run the FeatureCAM software. He set up our user interface so it was real easy to use, he gave us real helpful tips on things to watch out for. Ben helped us also get set up with the correct post processer for the Haas Machine tools we have and we were directed over the phone and changed it quickly to the model of machines we are running to get the correct posting.”

Adam said, “I know there are a lot more Delcam products that we will want to use in the future, but one thing I’ve got to say is, I was sold a program that works very well for what I’m doing now and I wasn’t over sold. Ben looked at what we are doing and what we needed and how we ran our business and fit us perfectly to a Delcam software package that fits and works. We are very happy with our FeatureCAM software and we recommend it to any shop that needs to program multiple parts fast and effectively.”

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Army Orders As Many As 32 Boeing Ch-47 Heavy-Lift Helicopters In $713.9 Million Deal

By John Keller U.S. Army aviation experts are ordering as many as 32 Boeing CH-47 Chinook multi-mission, heavy-lift transport helicopters under terms of a $713.9 million contract.

Officials of the Army Contracting Command at Redstone Arsenal, Ala., are asking the Boeing Co. Defense, Space & Security segment in Ridley Park, Pa., to provide 26 remanufactured CH47 helicopters, four new CH-47 helicopters, and the option to build two additional CH-47s.

The Chinook’s primary mission is to move troops, artillery, ammunition, fuel, water, barrier materials, supplies, and equipment on the battlefield. Its secondary missions include medical evacuation, disaster relief, search and rescue, aircraft recovery, fire fighting, parachute drops, heavy construction, and civil development.

Under the U.S. Army Modernization Program, new-build CH-47F began deliveries in 2006. Under the same program, CH-47Ds are being upgraded to remanufactured CH-47F aircraft.

The CH-47F is an advanced multi-mission helicopter for the U.S. Army and international defense forces. It contains an integrated, digital cockpit management system, common aviation architecture cockpit, and advanced cargo-handling.

Boeing Delivers New-Build MH-47G Special Operations Chinook Helicopter The twin-rotor CH-47F Chinook is 52 feet long, 12.4 feet wide, nearly 19 feet tall. It has two 60-foot-diameter rotors and has two Honeywell T55-GA-714A engines.The rotorcraft can lift 24,000 pounds, fly as fast as 170 knots at ranges to 200 nautical miles, and can fly as high as 20,000 feet.

With a crew of three, the CH-47s can transport 44 seated troops or 24 casualty litters.The aircraft can carry palletized cargo internally, including the U.S. Army HMMWV, or sling-loaded external cargo, using its triple cargo hooks for stability.

The CH-47’s triple-hook system stabilizes large external loads like the 155-millimeter howitzers, and can fly these loads at speeds to 140 knots.

The helicopter can deliver external loads like fuel blivets to three separate destinations in one sortie.

On this contract Boeing will do the work in Ridley Park, Pa., and should be finished by the end of 2020. For more information contact Boeing Defense, Space & Security online at www.boeing.com/boeing/bds, or the Army Contracting Command-Redstone at www.acc.army.mil/ contractingcenters/acc-rsa.

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Q, How have the light curtains affected your performance with the brake?

A, “The light curtain set up is really non existent on the Safan. They are hidden away, your operators don’t have to worry about them. You can’t damage or hit them easily, you don’t have to move them or block them out. That is all done while building the program. Which reduces the set up time dramatically compared to other press brakes.The set up with the light curtain has been hugely beneficial.”

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thousands of part numbers we run, I would say somewhere between 10-20 percent increase per shift. Some may be higher, but mostly in that 10-20 percent range.”

Above remarks were taken from an interview with a Safan customer in Cincinnati, OH.

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Below are a few of my favorite reasons for keeping design and production in the USA, but before I get to it, I want to mention a few things: A) Our production is highly vertically integrated i.e. we own the factory where all our glasses are made.This is an extreme and in many cases, I wouldn’t recommend it. Working with onshore factories that already exist to keeping production close to design has many (if not more) of the benefits with a little less blood, sweat, and dust than doing everything on your own.

B) I say “Made in USA” many times in this article but these benefits hold true no matter where you live. For Capital that is the USA, but keeping production in the same location as the design process provides these benefits no matter where you live.

1) Deep Knowledge Improves Design Many jobs today are highly specialized.

When designs are made in one place and products are made in a far away land, knowledge of the total process becomes fragmented. Being the best designer possible requires a deep knowledge over the processes used to make that product.

You can read about processes all you want, but that will only get you so far. A great way to learn processes is to see them in action. Getting your hands dirty and experimenting is even better. The closer you are to your production, the deeper your knowledge will run and the more ideas you’ll have on how to make your product even better.

3 Major Perks Of Producing In America

My name is Steven, and I’m the founder of Capital. For the last 5 years, I’ve been building a brand and a small factory to make eyewear in the USA. The goal has always been to make the highest quality eyewear in the most responsible way possible. We do this by keeping production in-house and maintaining control over the details. It’s not the easiest way to make glasses, but I believe it’s crucial to making a quality product.

When we started making acetate sunglasses, we needed a way to apply text to our glasses for branding, legal markings, etc.There are a few ways this is typically done on eyeglasses, but today, the most likely candidates are pad printing, foil stamping, or a custom made part that’s attached to the frame. Pad printing and foil stamping don’t last for more than a few years and all of these processes require you to commit to a single mark for a significant run. I don’t like that kind of commitment and I wanted the text to last a lifetime so I had to find a new way. It was time to step out of the office and into the studio.

Building a brand takes hard work.When you have to simultaneously build a factory, the workload is compounded beyond belief. On more than a few occasions, the end of a long day has left me covered in dirt, dust, grease, and a little blood. As I lock up the studio on night like that, I sometimes ask myself “Why am I going to the trouble of building onshore production when it’s never been easier to outsource?”

The obvious choice was to engrave the text into the glasses. A hole doesn’t really exist so it can’t wear off but it didn’t look great either. After a few weeks of tests on different paints, pigments and fillers, I found a way to fill the text so that I could change the color or graphic without any significant investment. Not only is this a really cool detail on our glasses (On the clear frames you can see the depth of the text on the inside of the temples which

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I love) but it’s opened doors to other things we can do in- house. By using the same process on other items like displays or signage, we can make beautiful customized text and images on any material without the hassle and cost of custom dies or parts.

2) Faster Product Development When I have a new idea for our product or process, I have to walk about 20 steps from my office to the studio where all our glasses are made. There’s no need for emails to different time zones and no complications from language barriers. This allows us to try new things with incredible ease and speeds up the rate at which we can develop new products or improve existing ones.

Modern communication allows us to connect across time zones, but it’s no replacement for a solid face to face relationship with your factory or supplier.

“Modern communication is no replacement for a solid face to face relationship with your factory or supplier.” Being in the same time zone as your partners allows multiple communications per day. When dealing with a factory halfway around the world, one exchange per day is pretty normal and extra emails are often necessary to communicate what gets lost in translation. Ultimately, there is no better way to develop and perfect a product than to sit down with the people producing it to make sure every detail is dialed in.

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Depending on the product that might be true, but I know for a fact that after 5 years of WA2z-May-VFM7039.indd 1 4/9/15 3:41 PM knowledge and won’t have to bear the entire burden of production on developing processes for making sunglasses—a product that might appear your own. simple on the surface—if that were the road I took, I’d have purchased enough plane tickets for elite status on every airline by now.

3) Show Your Motives (And Have Good Motives to Show) Products are never finished. They are developed through an ongoing process.The more you can speed up that process by removing unnecessary complications, the more your product will stand out from your competitors.

“There is no better way to develop and perfect a product than to sit down with the people producing it.”

A word of warning: Again, our in-house production is an extreme and one that I wouldn’t recommend for most cases. There’s a fine line between simplifying production by doing things in-house and diving into a huge money/time sink.The best case scenario is to find a partner who is willing to sit down with you to help develop and produce your product. If you can make that relationship mutually beneficial, you’ll learn from their

As a consumer, when you purchase goods such as shoes, food, or a car, how often do you purchase the cheapest possible option? Price is almost always a consideration, but most of us understand that paying a bit more is worth the benefits we’ll receive in style, health, or reliability.

When a company outsources production to the cheapest place possible, it says something about where their heart lies. Choosing the lowest priced option suggests that money trumps all other issues and worker’s rights, quality products, or even unnecessary carbon emission from shipping goods halfway around the world is not a priority.

“Choosing to produce your goods in the USA tells customers that you are interested in making a quality product responsibly.”

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The Manufacturer’s Secret Weapon American Manufacturing Is On The Uptick

“It seems strange to say “Save the Date” for an event three years from now, but that’s what I recommend!”

By Stephen Hannemann, President of SMH Inc., LLC

all up and running. In the Makino and Uddeholm booths we saw the latest mold making equipment and cutter technology in operation and learned of the new steels available for mold longevity. The event featured the latest state of the art rapid manufacturing technology for both plastics and metal, a testament that rapid is no longer just a prototyping process. It is a rapidly growing industry for steady state manufacturing of production parts.

What we saw is too much to describe here, but the point to make is, no matter what facet of manufacturing we are in, events that showcase our industries are well worth the investment to attend. They inform, energize and make us better at what we contribute to the American manufacturing juggernaut. Hope to see you at the next IMTS 2016 in Chicago, IL and of course again in Orlando, FL 8.

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Last month three colleagues from 3D Plastics and I attended the 2015 National Plastics Expo (NPE) in Orlando, FL. With over a million square feet showcasing the latest equipment and technology, we returned home with a sense of excitement and awe, and a renewed confidence that American manufacturing is on the uptick. More importantly, we came away with ways to improve and leverage our businesses for growth in the future.

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DoD Tech Needs Private Sector

By Andrew Clevenger

Kendall, Others Stress Need To Better Engage Silicon Valley The US Department of Defense needs to do a better job of engaging Silicon Valley in its acquisition process if the US is to maintain its military technology superiority, Pentagon acquisition head Frank Kendall said.

Speaking at an event at The Brookings Institution, Kendall touted the potential of the Pentagon’s new Better Buying Power 3.0 program, which officials unveiled last week.

“3.0 is a focus on a culture of technical excellence,” he said, adding that the reform effort would not radically reshape the acquisition process. “This is more about continuity than it is about change. The idea here is a shift in emphasis, not a fundamental break with what we’ve done in the past.”

Technology poses a particular challenge, because the DoD’s structure does not make it attractive to many American technology companies, he said. For Silicon Valley giants with global reach, working with the DoD may not be worth the trouble.

“We don’t have enough business to make them excited,” Kendall said. Smaller start-ups, where lots of innovation happens, are often put off by the red tape that comes with working with the Pentagon, he said.

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Kendall pointed to the F-35 joint strike fighter as an example of where the DoD’s slow-moving development process was outstripped by progress in the private sector.Three times during the fighter’s decadeslong development, the project needed technology refreshes to keep it up to date with commercial developments.

Bill Lynn, the CEO of Finmeccanica North America and DRS Technologies, said that in the first half of the post-Cold War period, the DoD was a “net exporter” to the private sector of technologies it had developed in-house, like GPS and early Internet breakthroughs. In recent years, the Pentagon has become a net importer of technology that it makes operational for defense applications, with the private sector taking the lead in 3-D printing, nanotechnology and IT, the former deputy secretary of defense said.

“We’re just not agile enough, we’re not fast enough, we’re not modular enough” when it comes to military information technology, Lynn said.

Jason Tama, a US Coast Guard commander who is also a Brookings fellow, said part of the issue is the cultural divide between Silicon Valley and the Pentagon. In the private sector, entrepreneurs foster “a culture of trying lots of things and failing fast and failing often,” he said, which allows them to quickly get past ideas that don’t work to ones that do.Too often on large military contracts, developers invest up front in meeting the program’s requirements, then move forward.

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There are 150,000 people working in defense acquisition, 90 percent of whom are civilians. Roughly three-fifths of the DoD’s acquisition employees are between the ages of 40 and 60, putting its workforce out of step with the private sector’s workforce, Tama said.

“If you want top talent on a technical level, you’re not going to build that on the inside of the US government,” he said.

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The housing for the sensor, known asT25, recently became the first 3D-printed part certified by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to fly inside GE commercial jet engines.

GE Aviation is currently working with Boeing to retrofit more than 400 GE90-94B jet engines – some of the world’s largest and most powerful - with the 3D printed part. The GE90 family of engines powers Boeing’s 777 planes.

But the 3D-printed housing won’t be an outlier for long. GE has already started flight tests with the next-generation LEAP jet engine, which holds 19 3D-printed fuel nozzles.The engine, which will power new narrow-body planes like the Boeing 737MAX and the Airbus A320neo, was developed

by CFM International, a 50/50 joint venture between GE Aviation and France’s Safran (Snecma).

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The 3D-printed housing for the T25 sensor. Located in the inlet to the high-pressure compressor, the sensor provides pressure and temperature measurements for the engine’s control system. Image credit: GE Aviation GE is also developing 3D-printed fuel nozzles and other parts for the GE9X engine for Boeing’s new 777X aircraft. The GE9X will be the largest jet engine ever built.

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A 3D-printed fuel nozzle for the LEAP below. Both of the engines feature new materials like ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) and carbon-fiber fan blades. But parts made by 3D printing represent perhaps the most attention-grabbing breakthrough.

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It would normally take GE several years to design and prototype this part, but the GE team was able to shave as much as a year from the process. “The 3D printer allowed us to rapidly prototype the part, find the best design and move it quickly to production,” says Bill Millhaem, general manager for the GE90 and GE9X engine programs at GE Aviation. “We got the final design last October, started production, got it FAA certified in February, and will enter service next week.

We could never do this using the traditional casting process, which is how the housing is typically made.”

Technologies, started by 3D printing pioneer Greg Morris.

The 3 printer shoots a laser or electron beam into a thin layer of cobaltchrome powder to make the part.

Jonathan Clarke, program manager for the project, says that the team ended up with a faster and simpler design, and superior material properties. “Once we found a workable solution, it went straight to production,” Clarke says. “This technology is a breakthrough.”

Unlike traditional manufacturing methods that mill or cut away material from a metal slab to produce a part, additive manufacturing “grows” components directly from a CAD file using layers of fine metal powder fused together with an electron beam or laser. The method can produce complex parts that would be difficult or even impossible to make otherwise.

It creates them in a fraction of the time, compared with traditional methods like machining and welding, and leaves behind little waste.

As a result, additive manufacturing allows engineers to replace complex assemblies with single parts that are lighter than previous designs, saving weight and boosting a jet engine’s fuel efficiency.

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Textron Aviation’s presence at ABACE includes the static display of five aircraft: the Beechcraft Bonanza G36, Beechcraft King Air C90GTx, Beechcraft King Air 350i, Cessna Grand Caravan EX Amphibian, and an XLS-Plus.

Textron Aviation said it had taken orders from four companies in China – three general aviation operators and one flight training academy – for 11 single-engine Cessna Skyhawks and two CessnaTurbo Stationair airplanes.

It did not disclose the value of those orders.

It also said it took an order from FT Business Jets Co. Ltd., based in Shanghai, for a Cessna Citation XLS-Plus.That airplane will be delivered later this year by Textron’s joint venture in China, Cessna-AVIC Aircraft (Zhuhai) Co. Ltd.That joint venture, established in 2012, currently takes assembled XLS-Pluses, installs interiors, paints them and makes them flight ready for delivery.

In an interview last month, Bill Schultz, Textron Aviation senior vice president of business development in China, said the joint venture is moving in a “phased approach” toward adding final assembly of the XLSPluses in China for customers based there.

He said the deliveries of the first two XLS-Pluses in China last year “is particularly good news for us” because China has generally been a largecabin jet market Textron Aviation, through the joint venture seems to be making inroads into the market with last year’s deliveries of – and a 2015 order for – its super-light business jet, Schultz said.

“This represents a new normal in China,” he said, adding the new normal means a “more predictable and steady rate” of growth that will mean “better quality and value in the economic base.”

Industry analyst Brian Foley said in a note last week that business aviation in China “has already experienced a full market cycle from frothy peak to today’s quiet trough.”

“One leading indicator, the Shanghai Composite index, has nearly doubled in the past year to a seven-year high with a favorable environment for further government stimulus,” Foley wrote. “As investors and companies gain confidence in financial market vitality and stability we’ll begin to see more discretionary income move into general aviation.”

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How Industrial 3D Printing Will Transform Business And Save Money There is a widespread, contagious conversation taking place today about Additive Manufacturing (AM), also known as industrial 3D printing. For a manufacturing process to generate this much excitement is pretty rare in contemporary times.

The enthusiasm is spreading so broadly because “additive” technologies that “grow” parts and products, rather than “subtract” material (via machining), are being embraced by young entrepreneurs and industry giants alike.

From the wings of a Victoria’s Secret angel to patient-specific cranial-plate implants for skull injuries to high-tech nozzles for aircraft jet turbines, the reach and attraction of AM is indisputable. Those who apply themselves can learn to make something unique, be they engineers or artists. And they can do it very quickly and relatively inexpensively at a local service bureau—if not from their home, lab or office.

This is why additive manufacturing, industrial 3D printing and all the variations of growing parts by laser, electronic beam and other means, will dramatically change business!

Moreover, such innovations can truly be made anywhere in the world—thereby promoting domestic production and greater in-country consumption. Beyond its reshoring possibilities, AM now means build-itwhere-you-sell-it: create to local needs in only the volumes necessary, and radically change supply-chain economics along the way.

Additive manufacturing allows more functions of value (things people want a product to do) to be included in a single part.This has huge business and manufacturing implications, as we will see.

Part consolidation, as it is called, has been a 30-year industry obsession.

Taking individual components of a product, and combining them into fewer, more functional parts and assemblies, lowers their cost and increases quality. Molded plastic was the initial material of choice for executing part-consolidation strategies—and that industry exploded with growth.

Machining also worked harder to cut fewer, more complex shapes out of blocks of material.

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And this time why not optimize for less assembly labor and weight? Here is where the new money of AM really starts to take shape.

AM embedded in complementary work cells, spread across the globe, allows companies to avoid large capital investments, material and inventory buildup, long-distance shipping, currency-exchange issues, and demands for localization. If a successful product should call for higher volumes, then scaling up using traditional manufacturing and design is much less risky.

There are challenges ahead. Designers need to visualize shapes as pure functions of value. This will change the supply chain, too—how they prepare themselves, understand new delivery cycles and formulate design strategies. Many of them are more than ready. AM is the medium that will accelerate a long effort towards better collaboration between the top office, its engineering staff and key suppliers.

Make no mistake, AM is already being used for high-end production parts in aerospace and beyond. Its quality is increasingly repeatable and predictable, on par with traditional machining, molding and casting.

As the debate moves forward on globalization versus domestic production, AM sheds a different light on how both can co-exist. Making things to serve individual tastes is a trend that AM does well. With its ability to mass customize and take advantage of local economics, AM/3D printing has business-profit dimensions that are becoming more evident every day.

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CONTRACTS: General Dynamics National Steel and Shipbuilding Co., San Diego, California, was awarded a not-to-exceed amount $61,780,484 undefinitized contract action to previously awarded cost-plus-award-fee contract N00024-13-C-4404 on March 31, 2015, for USS Makin Island (LHD 8) fiscal 2015 phased maintenance availability. A phased maintenance availability includes the planning and execution of depot-level maintenance, alterations, and modifications that will update and improve the ship’s military and technical capabilities. Work will be performed in San Diego, California, and is expected to be completed by November 2015. Fiscal 2015 operations and maintenance (Navy) and fiscal 2015 research, development, test and evaluation funding in the amount of $35,196,683 will be obligated at time of award. Fiscal 2015 operations and maintenance (Navy) funds in the amount of $25,551,329 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Southwest Regional Maintenance Center, San Diego, California, is the contracting activity.

Astronics Test Systems Inc., Irvine, California, is being awarded a $36,402,740 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity supply contract for the manufacture, test and delivery of radio frequency distribution and control systems (RFDACS) and system parts which is a major subsystem within the common submarine radio room installed on board all submarine classes. The RFDACS provides a means of routing signals and information between the various antenna systems and other submarine communication subsystems. Work will be performed in Irvine, California, and is expected to be completed by March 2020. Fiscal 2015 other procurement (Navy) funding in the amount of $949,380 will be obligated at time of award and will not expire at the end of the current

fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via the Federal Business Opportunities website, with two offers received. The Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Division Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, is the contracting activity (N66604-15-D-1083).

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc., Poway, California, was awarded a $47,700,000 modification (P00023) to contract W58RGZ13-C-0109 for the full-rate production II Gray Eagle unmanned aircraft system - acquisition of ground equipment. Fiscal 2014 other procurement (Army) funds in the amount of $47,700,000 were obligated at the time of the award. Estimated completion date is July 30, 2017. Work will be performed at Poway, California. Army Contracting Command, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, is the contracting activity.

Raytheon Missile Systems, Tucson, Arizona, is being awarded a $517,300,000 cost-plus-incentive-fee and cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the Evolved Seasparrow Missile (ESSM) Block 2 engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) requirements. This contract will procure all necessary efforts to design, qualify and test ESSM Block 2 and prepare the program for a successful ‘Milestone C’ decision, currently planned in FY18. The ESSM Block 2 is an international cooperative effort to design, develop, test, and procure ESSM Block 2 missiles. ESSM Block 2 provides enhanced ship self-defense. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, District of Columbia, is the contracting activity (N0002415-C-5420).

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Quick Turn Financial _________415-608-5692 Pacific Continental Bank________503-310-3604 Scottrade Bank Equipment Finance __206-948-0022 U.S. Bank Equipment _________800-810-0038 Gantry & Bridge Systems Ellison Technologies __________ 206-669-3578 Horizontal Boring & Milling Machines (CNC ) Rosco Precision Machinery ______ 253-333-2439 Jig Boring Methods Machine Tools Inc. ______ 623-826-1025

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Cobalt Alloys Aerodyne Alloys ___________800-337-3766 United Performance Metals ______888-282-3292 Copper Gorilla Metals Inc.___________855-516-3825 Industrial Metal Supply Co. ______818-729-3333 Ryerson Corporation _________425-204-2601 Sequoia Brass & Copper _______800-362-5255 Drill Rod AZ Tool Steel _____________877-795-1600 Electrical Steels Fry Steel _______________800-423-6651 HighTemperature Alloys United Performance Metals ______888-282-3292 Laser Cut Material Laser Cutting Services, Inc _______ 503-612-8311 Lead Industrial Metal Supply Co. ______818-729-3333 Material Sales Coastal Metals ____________ 800-811-7466 Fry Steel _______________800-423-6651 Laser Cutting Services, Inc _______ 503-612-8311 Temtco Steel ____________ 480-389-2883 United Performance Metals ______888-282-3292 Metals: Bar & Plate Fry Steel _______________ 800-423-665 Ryerson Corporation _________425-204-2601 Sequoia Brass & Copper _______800-362-5255

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

8300 SAN FERNANDO ROAD SUN VALLEY, CA 91352

Sales Manager

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Plate Bending & Rolls Fahey Machinery Co., Inc._______ 503-620-9031 Jorgensen Machine Tools _______ 800-952-0151 PowerTools Icon Machine Tool, Inc. WA ______ 306-434-8844 Icon Machine Tool, Inc. OR_______ 503-887-1003 MP Industrial _____________800-759-4282 Presses Bixby Machine Tool Supply ______ 509-534-1208 Press Brakes Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. _______ 503-620-9031 Fab - Line Machinery__________206-972-6215 Gladwin Machinery__________ 360-448-0951 Icon Machine Tool, Inc. WA ______ 306-434-8844 Icon Machine Tool, Inc. OR_______ 503-887-1003 Jorgensen Machine Tools________800-952-0151 Punches Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. _______ 503-620-903 Gladwin Machinery__________ 360-448-0951 Icon Machine Tool, Inc. WA ______ 306-434-8844 Icon Machine Tool, Inc. OR_______ 503-887-1003 Rolling Machines Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. _______ 503-620-9031 Shearing Machines Fab - Line Machinery _________ 206-972-6215 Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. _______ 503-620-9031 Jorgensen Machine Tools ______ _800-952-0151 Sign & Graphic Cutting Solutions

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8300 SAN FERNANDO ROAD SUN VALLEY, CA 91352 C

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

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

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

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REPAIR ACS/MultiCamNW __________ 360-318-7534 CNC-PROS ______________ 602-344-9753 Tooling Bar Feeder Repair Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. _______503-620-9031 Edge Technologies __________ 562-243-4659 Welding Equipment Rocky Mountain Saw Blades _____ 303-761-3000 QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS PALLET SYSTEMS UL DQS Inc.______________ 360-901-4785 Manual & Automatic Pallet Systems ROBOTICS Midaco Corporation__________847-593-8420 Ellison Technologies __________ 206-669-3578 Manual Lift Off Pallet LMI Machinery Inc. __________ 866-437-7315 Systems Robotic Part Loading Systems Midaco Corporation__________847-593-8420 Midaco Corporation__________ 847-593-8420 Manual Rotory Pallet Systems ROUTERS Midaco Corporation__________847-593-8420 Rosco Precision Machinery ______ 253-333-2439 Shipping Solutions SERVICES Perry Pallet Co. ____________360-366-5239 Wood Pallets AS9100 Registration

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Flow International __________909-620-5707 King Machine Inc.___________ 509-435-6741 Jorgensen Machine Tools _______ 800-952-0151 Machine Toolworks __________ 800-426-2052

North Western Machinery________ 206-583-2333 Performance Machine Tools_______ 510-249-1000 WATERJET CUTTING ACS/MultiCamNW ___________ 360-318-7534 Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. ________ 503-620-9031

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Architectural Forming & Fabrication QUAL-FAB, Inc. ___________ 206-762-2117 Albina Co., Inc. _________866-252-4628 SMH Inc LLC ____________ 360-341-2226 Fabrication: Sheet Metal Valley Machine Shop, Inc. _____ 425-207-5951 AEI Fabrication__________480-733-6594 Weiser/Mile High Precision ____303-280-2778 Aeroform, Inc. __________ 360-403-1919 Wrico________________480-892-7800 Aero Tech MFG __________ 801-891-2740 Forming & Fabrication AG Machining __________805-207-0584 Buyken Metal Products _____ 206-947-9122 Albina Co., Inc. __________866-252-4628 Precision Sheet Metal Fabrication: Cygnet Stamping & Fab _____ 818-240-7574 Medium & Large Laser Cutting Services Inc _______ 503-612-8311 AEI Fabrication ___________480-733-6594 NW Metalcraft Industries ____888-280-7080 Mountain View Machine _____435-755-0500 Aeroform, Inc. ___________ 360-403-1919 QUAL-FAB, Inc. __________ 206-762-2117 AG Machining ___________805-207-0584 SMH Inc LLC ___________ 360-341-2226 Bending Solutions, Inc. _____ 360-651-24443

Solid Form Fabrication______ 503-435-1400 Weiser/Mile High Precision ___303-280-2778

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

Gold Tech Industries _______ 480-968-1930

Fabrication: Custom Metal AEI Fabrication__________480-733-6594 AG Machining __________805-207-0584 Buyken Metal Products _____ 206-947-9122 Cygnet Stamping & Fab _____ 818-240-7574 Group Mfg Serv _________480-966-3952 Industrial Machine Svcs _____ 503-240-0878 NW Metalcraft Industries ____888-280-7080

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FINISHING Arizona Finishing ________602-438-4443 Arizona Hard Chrome ______ 602-278-8671 Coating Technologies ______ 623-581-2648 Gold Tech Industries _______ 480-968-1930 Real Axis Machining _______360-723-5386 Galvanizing: Hot Dip TMM Precision __________800-448-9448 Glass Bead Clean Byington Steel Treating, Inc. ___408-727-6630 Coating Technologies ______ 623-581-2648

Liquid Painting Aero Tech MFG __________ 801-891-2740 Industrial Machine Svcs ______503-240-0878 MPI International ________956-631-6880 Laser Cutting Services Inc ________ 503-612-8311 Passivation Marketcraft ____________ 503-329-7678 Coating Technologies _____ _623-581-2648 NW Metalcraft Industries _____888-280-7080 Gold Tech Industries _______ 480-968-1930 QUAL-FAB, Inc. ___________ 206-762-2117 Polishing SMH Inc LLC ____________ 360-341-2226 Group Mfg Serv __________480-966-3952

www.tfcplating.com Mystique Engineering & Mfg Dan's Machine Works

Darrin J. Caschette President

13305 41st Ave NE | Marysville, WA 9827I 360-386-6294 | 888-280-7080 x204 djc@nw-metalcraft.com www.nw-metalcraft.com

ISO9001:2008

Shawn Carlin scarlin@gmsaz.com

AS9100C ISO9001:2008

503-771-0969

info@tfcplating.com

Joe Tripi President jtripi@micropulsewest.com

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

bourdelaisgrinding@yahoo.com

Arizona Hard Chrome ______ 602-278-8671 Ron Grob Co ___________ 970-667-5320 Superior Grinding ________ 801-487-9700 Powder Coating TCI Precision Metals _______ 800-234-5613 Aero Tech MFG __________ 801-891-2740 Grinding, Blanchard AG Machining __________ 805-207-0584 AZ Tool Steel _____________ 877-795-1600 Sandblasting Byington Steel Treating, Inc. ___ 408-727-6630 Bourdelais Grinding Co., Inc.______805-583-9966 Diversified Metal Services ____ 801-972-6093 Silk Screening Arizona Finishing ________ 602-438-4443 Evans Precision _________ 623-582-4776 Industrial Precision Grinding___ 310-352-4700 FIXTURING Superior Grinding ________ 801-487-9700 Real Axis Machining _______ 360-723-5386 TCI Precision Metals _______ 800-234-5613 FORGINGS Grinding, Centerless Aluminum Ron Grob Co ___________ 970-667-5320 Aluminum Precision _______ 714-227-2098 Grinding, Double Disc Hand Forgings Bourdelais Grinding Co., Inc.______805-583-9966 Aluminum Precision _______ 714-227-2098 Industrial Precision Grinding___ 310-352-4700 Titanium TCI Precision Metals _______ 800-234-5613 Aluminum Precision _______ 714-227-2098 Grinding: OD GASKETS Arizona Hard Chrome ______ 602-278-8671 3-D Plastics, Inc. _________ 503-720-0572 Bourdelais Grinding Co., Inc.______805-583-9966 GRINDING Precision Tech __________ 801-285-7288 AZ Tool Steel _____________ 877-795-1600 Ron Grob Co ___________ 970-667-5320 Bourdelais Grinding Co., Inc.______ 805-583-9966 Superior Grinding ________ 801-487-9700 Grinding: Surface ChemResearch __________ 602-253-4175 EDM Express ___________ 800-780-7075 Bourdelais Grinding Co., Inc.______805-583-9966 Evans Precision _________ 623-582-4776 ChemResearch __________ 602-253-4175 Industrial Machine Svcs _____ 503-240-0878 Industrial Precision Grinding___ 310-352-4700 Industrial Precision Grinding___ 310-352-4700 Superior Grinding ________ 801-487-9700 Mountain View Machine_____ Machine _____ 435-755-0500 TCI Precision Metals _______ 800-234-5613

Grinding: Tool & Cutter Inland NW Metallurgical______800-379-2231 Superior Grinding_________888-487-9701 HONING Valley Machine Shop, Inc. ____ 425-207-5951 GUN DRILLING HYDRAULIC REPAIR Evans Precision _________ 623-582-4776 Arizona Hard Chrome ______ 602-278-8671 HEAT TREATING GASKETS RUBBER PRODUCTS Byington Steel Treating______408-727-6630 RJM Sales Solutions _______ 630-849-8644 Controlled Thermal Tech______602-272-3714 INJECTION MOLDS Evans Precision _________ 623-582-4776 Plastic Injection Molding _____ 509-531-2634 Inland NW Metallurgical______800-379-2231 INJECTION MOLDING MET-TEK Heat Treating______503-519-9864 Plastic Injection Molding _____ 509-531-2634 Phoenix Heat Treating_______602-258-7751 LABELS-DECALS-OVERLAYS Thermal-Vac Technology______714-997-2601 RJM Sales Solutions _______ 630-849-8644 Cryogenics LASER CUTTING Phoenix Heat Treating ______ 602-258-7751 Laser Cutting AEI Fabrication__________ 480-733-6594 Heat Treating/ISO/AS9100 Byington Steel Treating______408-727-6630 AG Machining __________ 805-207-0584 Phoenix Heat Treating_______602-258-7751 Buyken Metal Products ______206-947-9122 Thermal-Vac Technology______714-997-2601 Laser Cutting Services Inc ________ 503-612-8311 Marketcraft ___________ 503-329-7678 Heat Treating/Aerospace Byington Steel Treating______408-727-6630 Metal Products Company ____ 800-345-2069 Inland NW Metallurgical______800-379-2231 United Performance Metals __ _888-282-3292 Phoenix Heat Treating_______602-258-7751 Wrico_______________ 480-892-7800 Laser Cutting: Micro Thermal-Vac Technology______714-997-2601 Laser Cutting Services Inc ________ 503-612-8311 Large Capacity Drop Bottom Laser Cutting: 3D Oven/Aluminum Byington Steel Treating______408-727-6630 Laser Cutting Services Inc ________ 503-612-8311 MET-TEK Heat Treating_______503-519-9864 Micro-Laser Vacuum Vacco Industries _________ 626-450-6472

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Rebecca Prentice Business Manager www.IndustrialMachineServices.com

SCOTT FERGUSON

Marketing & Sales Manager

AEIFABRICATION RONKOTLOFF Founder / CEO

E-Coat MPI International ________ 956-631-6880 EMI/RFI Shielding IndustrialEX ___________ 303-456-6847 Laser Engraving Marketcraft ___________ 503-329-7678 PMA Photometals ________ 480-773-3239 Laser Marking PMA Photometals ________ 480-773-3239 Precision Etched Parts PMA Photometals ________ 480-773-3239 LEVELING United Performance Metals __ _888-282-3292

TEL FAX EMAIL WEB MAIL

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

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Ron Grob Co ___________ 970-667-5320 SMH Inc LLC ___________ 360-341-2226 Treske Precision Machining ___ 503-625-2821 St. Vrain _____________ 303-702-1529 Teton Machine __________208-642-9344 TVT Die Casting _________ 800-280-2278 SMH Inc LLC ___________ 360-341-2226 Treske Precision Machining ___ 503-625-2821 Western Precision Products, Inc. _ 503-786-8923 Machining: CNC Milling Treske Precision Machining ___ 503-625-2821 Western Precision Products, Inc. _503-786-8923 Accutech Machine Inc _______801-975-1117 Machining: Chemical TVT Die Casting _________ 800-280-2278 Valley Machine Shop, Inc. ____ 425-207-5951 NW Etch _____________ 408-364-6001 Alpha Precision Machining, Inc. _ 253-395-7381 Western Precision Products, Inc. _ 503-786-8923 Vacco Industries _________ 626-450-6472 A.R.E. Manufacturing, Inc. ____ 503-538-0350 Bar-S Machine, Inc. __ _____ 928-636-2115 Machining: Horizontal Boring Machining: 5-Axis Machinists Inc. __________360-202-7342 Cascade Engineering Tech ____ 503-266-1300 Accutech Machine Inc _______ 801-975-1117 Central Valley Machine _____ 435-752-0934 Machining: Proto-R & D Cascade Engineering Tech ____ 503-266-1300 Alpha Precision Machining, Inc. _ 253-395-7381 EDM Express ___________ 800-780-7075 Machinists Inc. __________ 360-202-7342 Bar-S Machine, Inc. _______ 928-636-2115 Faustson _____________ 303-420-7422 St. Vrain _____________ 303-702-1529 Cascade Engineering Tech ____ 503-266-1300 Howard Precision Machined Prod. 801-619-9850 Treske Precision Machining ___ 503-625-2821 Central Valley Machine _____435-752-0934 Industrial Machine Svcs _____ 503-240-0878 Western Precision Products, Inc. _ 503-786-8923 Industrial Machine Svcs _____ 503-240-0878 Larkin Precision Machine ____ 831-438-2700 MacKay Manufacturing _____ 509-922-7742 Layke Inc. ____________ 602-272-2654 Machining: Aerospace Alpha Precision Machining, Inc. _ 253-395-7381 Portland Precision Manufacturing 503-253-6700 MacKay Manufacturing _____ 509-922-7742 Bar-S Machine, Inc. ________928-636-2115 Proto Technologies. _______ 509-891-4747 NW Metalcraft Industries ____ 888-280-7080 Larkin Precision Machine ____ 831-438-2700 Real Axis Machining _______360-723-5386 Metal Products Company ____ 800-345-2069

MACHINING AG Machining __________ 805-207-0584 Alpha Precision Machining, Inc. _ 253-395-7381 Bar-S Machine, Inc. ________928-636-2115 Cascade Engineering Tech ____ 503-266-1300 Central Valley Machine _____ 435-752-0934 EDM Express ___________ 800-780-7075 Faustson _____________ 303-420-7422 Howard Precision Machine_____801-619-9850 Larkin Precision Machine ____ 831-438-2700 Machinists Inc. __________ 360-202-7342 MacKay Manufacturing _____ 509-922-7742 NW Metalcraft Industries ____ 888-280-7080 Metal Products Company ____ 800-345-2069 Layke Inc. ____________ 602-272-2654 Ron Grob Co ___________ 970-667-5320 Micropulse West, Inc. ______ 480-966-2300 Portland Precision Manufacturing 503-253-6700 Portland Precision Manufacturing 503-253-6700 Savage Machining Inc.______ 805-584-8047 Portland Precision Manufacturing 503-253-6700 Real Axis Machining _______ 360-723-5386 St. Vrain _____________ 303-702-1529 SMH Inc LLC ___________ 360-341-2226 Real Axis Machining _______ 360-723-5386

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Heather Cutler Sales Manager OFFICE 503-406-3774 MOBILE 503-853-6234 hcutler@omep.org

Passivation, Electroless Nickel, Gold, Hard Chrome, Silver, & Tin Plating. 206-947-4052 geoffs@askogroup.com Savage Machining Inc.______805-584-8047 SMH Inc LLC ___________360-341-2226 Stevens Tool & Die ________ 503-682-3185 Teton Machine __________208-642-9344 Treske Precision Machining ___ 503-625-2821 Valley Machine Shop, Inc. ____ 425-207-5951 Western Precision Products, Inc. _503-786-8923 Machining: Large Accutech Machine Inc ______ 801-975-1117 Alpha Precision Machining, Inc. _ 253-395-7381 Cascade Engineering Tech ____503-266-1300 Machinists Inc. __________360-202-7342 Valley Machine Shop, Inc. ____ 425-207-5951 Machining: Medical Cascade Engineering Tech ____503-266-1300 Portland Precision Manufacturing 503-253-6700 Teton Machine __________208-642-9344 Machining: Production Accutech Machine Inc ______ 801-975-1117 Alpha Precision Machining, Inc. _ 253-395-7381 A.R.E. Manufacturing, Inc. ____503-538-0350 Cascade Engineering Tech ____503-266-1300 Howard Precision Machined Prod. 801-619-9850 Larkin Precision Machine ____831-438-2700 MacKay Manufacturing _____509-922-7742 Portland Precision Manufacturing 503-253-6700 Teton Machine __________208-642-9344 Western Precision Products, Inc. _503-786-8923 Machining: Shaft Turning Machinists Inc. __________360-202-7342

Ron Grob Co ___________ 970-667-5320 Group Mfg Serv _________ 480-966-3952 Teton Machine __________ 208-642-9344 Larkin Precision Machine ____ 831-438-2700 Western Precision Products, Inc. _ 503-786-8923 MacKay Manufacturing _____ 509-922-7742 NW Metalcraft Industries ____ 888-280-7080 Machining: Turning Metal Products Company ____ 800-345-2069 Accutech Machine Inc _______ 801-975-1117 QUAL-FAB, Inc. ___________206-762-2117 A.R.E. Manufacturing, Inc. ____ 503-538-0350 Portland Precision Manufacturing 503-253-6700 Bar-S Machine, Inc. ________928-636-2115 Teton Machine __________ 208-642-9344 EDM Express ___________ 800-780-7075 Treske Precision Machining ___ 503-625-2821 Faustson _____________ 303-420-7422 TVT Die Casting _________ 800-280-2278 Howard Precision Machined Prod. _801-619-9850 Western Precision Products, Inc. _ 503-786-8923 Industrial Machine Svcs _____ 503-240-0878 Industrial Manufacturing Larkin Precision Machine ____ 831-438-2700 Albina Co., Inc. _________ 866-252-4628 Layke Inc. ____________ 602-272-2654 Turnkey Product Services MacKay Manufacturing _____ 509-922-7742 Aero Tech MFG __________ 801-891-2740 NW Metalcraft Industries ____ 888-280-7080 METAL INJECTION MOLDING Portland Precision Manufacturing 503-253-6700 Real Axis Machining _______ 360-723-5386 RJM Sales Solutions _______ 630-849-8644 METAL POLISHING Savage Machining Inc.______ 805-584-8047 Commercial Polishing SMH Inc LLC ___________ 360-341-2226 Teton Machine __________ 208-642-9344 Masic Industries _________ 503-232-9109 Valley Machine Shop, Inc. ____ 425-207-5951 Metal Polishing By Timothy ___ 503-253-5294 Western Precision Products, Inc. _ 503-786-8923 Custom Airplane to Marine Polishing Metal Polishing By Timothy ___ 503-253-5294 Machining: Turning Large Personal Collectables Polishing Machinists Inc. __________ 360-202-7342 Metal Polishing By Timothy ___ 503-253-5294 Valley Machine Shop, Inc. ____ 425-207-5951 Production Polishing MANUFACTURING VALUE ADDED Metal Polishing By Timothy ___ 503-253-5294 Contract Manufacturing Timesaving AATC ____________ 866-792-2814 X 235 Masic Industries _________ 503-232-9109 AEI Fabrication__________ 480-733-6594 METALIZING Aeroform, Inc. ___________360-403-1919 Controlled Thermal Tech ____ 602-272-3714 Alpha Precision Machining, Inc. _ 253-395-7381 METROLOGY Cascade Systems Technology __ 503-640-5733

Machining: Swiss Bar-S Machine, Inc. _______ 928-636-2115 Howard Precision Machined Prod. 801-619-9850 G & G Custom Metal Fab ____ 503-931-7069

Part Probing & Inspection

Blum Novotest ___________805-823-3255 Production Metrology Blum Novotest ___________805-823-3255 Tool Measurement Blum Novotest ___________805-823-3255 Tool Breakage Blum Novotest ___________805-823-3255 MOLDING: RUBBER Molds: Plastic Injection Plastic ________________509-531-2634 Plastic Injection Molding _______509-531-2634 SMH Inc LLC _____________360-341-2226 MOLDS Aero Tech MFG ____________801-891-2740 Arizona Finishing _________ 602-438-4443 Jet Processing _________ 623-869-6749x117 Milco Wire EDM,, Inc. ________714-373-0098 Plastic Injection Molding _______509-531-2634 Molds: High Volume Class 100 Stevens Tool & Die __________503-682-3185 Molds: Fast Turn Prototype and Bridge Molds Stevens Tool & Die __________503-682-3185 Molds: Expertise in Overmold and Insert Molding Stevens Tool & Die __________503-682-3185 PAINTING & POWDER COATING A.R.E. Manufacturing, Inc. _____ 503-538-0350 Marketcraft _____________503-329-7678 Masic Industries ___________503-232-9109 Precision Industrial Painting ____ 602-256-0260 Intricate Masking

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Precision Industrial Painting ___602-256-0260 602-256-0260 Coating Technologies ______623-581-2648 Passivation Coating: Dry Film Lube ASKO Group ____________206-947-4052 Coating Technologies ______623-581-2648 Coating: Nickel/ Teflon/Chrome TFC Plating_____________503-771-0969 Coating Technologies ______623-581-2648 PC BOARDS Coating:Zinc & Mag.Phos.

Surface Mount & Thru Hole Cascade Systems Technology ___503-640-5733 Coating Technologies ______623-581-2648 Copper PLASTIC MACHINING MacKay Manufacturing ______509-922-7742 Gold Tech Industries _______480-968-1930 Portland Precision Manufacturing _503-253-6700 Foresight Finishing________480-772-0387 Masic Industries _________ 503-232-9109 PLASTIC MOLDING 3-D Plastics, Inc. __________503-720-0572 TFC Plating____________503-771-0969 Plastic Injection Molding ______509-531-2634 Embrittlement Relief SMH Inc LLC ____________360-341-2226 EPSI _______________ 714-519-9423 Electroless Nickel Mold Making ASKO Group ___________206-947-4052 3-D Plastics, Inc. __________503-720-0572

TFC Plating____________ 503-771-0969 GTin / Zinc Plate ASKO Group ___________ 206-947-4052 EPSI _______________ 714-519-9423 Gold Tech ____________ 480-968-1930 Masic Industries _________ 503-232-9109 TFC Plating____________ 503-771-0969 Olive Drab-Chromate Masic Industries _________ 503-232-9109 Silver Plating ASKO Group ___________ 206-947-4052 EPSI _______________ 714-519-9423 Gold Tech ____________ 480-968-1930 Precious Metal Plating Co. ____ 800-481-6271

Chemical LA Specialties ___________ 602-269-7612 MPI International ________ 956-631-6880 Chem-Film Conversion Masic Industries __________503-232-9109 Plating Alodine MPI International ________ 956-631-6880 Phosphate MPI International ________ 956-631-6880

TFC Plating____________ 503-771-0969 PROTOTYPES Tin Plating Cascade Systems Technology __ 503-640-5733 Precious Metal Plating Co. ____ 800-481-6271 NW Rapid Mfg. __________503-434-8557

Plastic Injection Molding ______509-531-2634 Gold Tech Industries _______480-968-1930 Foresight Finishing________480-772-0387 TFC Plating____________ 503-771-0969 PLATING PLASMA CUTTING ASKO Group ____________206-947-4052 Masic Industries _________ 503-232-9109 ChemResearch ___________602-253-4175 Precious Metal Plating Co. ____ 800-481-6271 G & G Custom Metal Fab ____ 503-931-7069 Oxy Fuel-Plasma Cutting East Side Plating __________503-654-3774 TFC Plating____________503-771-0969 Chapel Steel ____________ _503-928-7442 EPSI ________________ 714-519-9423 Gold Foresight Finishing_________480-772-0387 Gold Tech _____________480-968-1930 Masic Industries __________503-232-9109 Anodizing ChemResearch ___________602-253-4175 Bright Tin Foresight Finishing_________480-772-0387 Precious Metal Plating Co. _____800-481-6271

ASKO Group ___________206-947-4052 EPSI _______________ 714-519-9423 Foresight Finishing________480-772-0387 Gold Tech ____________480-968-1930 Precious Metal Plating Co. ____ 800-481-6271 Hard Chrome Arizona Hard Chrome ______ 602-278-8671 ASKO Group ___________206-947-4052 Chrome/Nickel/Palladium NAD CAP & Boeing Approved EPSI ________________ 714-519-9423 Processes Gold Tech _____________480-968-1930 Precious Metal Plating Co. ____ 800-481-6271 Masic Industries __________503-232-9109 Nickel-Bright

PUNCHING AEI Fabrication__________ 480-733-6594 AG Machining __________ 805-207-0584 Cygnet Stamping & Fab ______ 818-240-7574 Group Manufacturing Serv ___ 480-966-3952 Pacific Tool, Inc___________425-882-1970 QUAL-FAB, Inc. ___________ 206-762-2117

PRECISION FORMING Aeroform, Inc. _ _________360-403-1919 RECYCLING MATERIALS Cygnet Stamping & Fab _____ 818-240-7574 Pacific Tool, Inc__________ 425-882-1970 Aluminum, Brass, Copper, Nickel, Plastics, Stainless Steel, Steel, Tin QUAL-FAB, Inc. __________ 206-762-2117 SpringWorks Utah ________ 801-298-0113 Calbag Metals Company _____253-283-8657 Wrico_______________ 480-892-7800 Metro Metals Northwest _____503-819-1284 Bin Service PRINTING Calbag Metals Company _____253-283-8657 Excess Material Handling UV LED Printing Calbag Metals Company _____253-283-8657 Stratavision Industries ______ 951-272-5700 Full Service Scrap Management Flat Bed Digital Printing Calbag Metals Company _____253-283-8657 Marketcraft ___________ 503-329-7678 Scrap Metal Prrocessing Coating Gold Tech Industries _______480-968-1930 PROCESSING: METAL Coating Technologies _______623-581-2648 Foresight Finishing________480-772-0387 Calbag Metals Company _____253-283-8657 Acid Pickle Controlled Thermal Tech _____602-272-3714 Masic Industries _________ 503-232-9109 Waste Metal Management Calbag Metals Company _____253-283-8657 MPI International ________ 956-631-6880 Precious Metal Plating Co. ____ 800-481-6271 Coating: Black Oxide Inland Northwest Metallurgical Services, Inc. 16203 E Marietta Ave Spokane Valley, WA 99216

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Wood Products Perry Pallet Co. ____________ 360-366-5239 REPAIR CNC-PROS ______________ 602-344-9753 Derest Machine Tool Repair ___ 480-226-3128 ROLLING AG Machining __________ 805-207-0584 Albina Co., Inc. _________ 866-252-4628 ROUTING -CNC Marketcraft ___________ 503-329-7678 SANDBLASTING Byington Steel Treating, Inc. ___ 408-727-6630 Masic Industries _________ 503-232-9109 SAWS: AUTOMATIC A.R.E. Manufacturing, Inc. ____ 503-538-0350 Production Sawing Bourdelais Grinding Co., Inc.______ 805-583-9966 SHEARING United Performance Metals __ _888-282-3292 SIGNAGE & DISPLAYS Marketcraft ___________ 503-329-7678 Milco Wire EDM,, Inc. ______ 714-373-0098 SILICONE 3-D Plastics, Inc. _________ 503-720-0572 SINTERING Western Sintering ________ 509-375-3096 SLITTING United Performance Metals __ _888-282-3292 SOFTWARE Machining Delcam _____________ 877-335-2261 Mechanical Design Delcam _____________ 877-335-2261 SPINNING Evans Precision _________ 623-582-4776 SPLINES Specialty Steel Services _____ 801-539-8252 SPRINGS SpringWorks Utah ________ 801-298-0113

STAMPING PRECISION AEI Fabrication__________480-733-6594 Cygnet Stamping & Fab _____ 818-240-7574 Metal Products Company ____800-345-2069 NW Metalcraft Industries ____888-280-7080 Precision Die & Stamping ____480-967-2038 SpringWorks Utah ________ 801-298-0113 Weiser/Mile High Prec. _____303-280-2778 Stamping:Design SpringWorks Utah ________ 801-298-0113 Weiser/Mile High Prec. _____303-280-2778 Stamping:Flat Forming NW Metalcraft Industries ____888-280-7080 SpringWorks Utah ________ 801-298-0113 Stamping: Light NW Metalcraft Industries ____888-280-7080 SpringWorks Utah ________ 801-298-0113 Stamping: Production/ Precision Precision Die & Stamping ____480-967-2038 SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT Cascade Systems Technology __503-640-5733 TESTING Testing: Corrosion, Product Stress, Vibration Cascade TEK ___________888-835-9250 Testing: Non-Destructive Noranco Jet Processing _____ 623-869-6749 THERMAL SPRAY Controlled Thermal Tech ____ 602-272-3714 TOOL & DIE DESIGN Metal Products Company ____800-345-2069 Wrico_______________480-892-7800 TOOL Cutting & Grinding Powerhaus Precision_______480-225-8845 TOOLING Industrial Machine Svcs _____503-240-0878 Lambie Engineering _______ 509-868-3100 Mountain View Machine _____435-755-0500

Medium & Large G & G Custom Metal Fab ____ 503-931-7069 TUBE BENDING & Industrial Machine Svcs _____ 503-240-0878 CUTTING FAB Friction Welding: AG Machining _________ 805-207-0584 RJM Sales Solutions _______ 630-849-8644 Albina Co., Inc. ________ 866-252-4628 Robotic Welding Bending Solutions, Inc. ____360-651-24443 Bending Solutions, Inc. _____360-651-24443 Cygnet Stamping & Fab _____818-240-7574 Real Axis Machining ______ 360-723-5386

WATERJET CUTTING Accutech Machine Inc ______ 801-975-1117 Aeroform, Inc. __________360-403-1919 Marketcraft ___________503-329-7678 Marzee Inc. ___________602-269-5801 Milco Waterjet __________714-373-0098 United Performance Metals _ _888-282-3292 WELDING Custom Metal Fabrication ____503-788-5701 Cygnet Stamping & Fab _____818-240-7574 G & G Custom Metal Fab ___ 503-931-7069 Evans Precision _________623-582-4776 Industrial Machine Svcs ____ 503-240-0878 Mountain View Machine ____ 435-755-0500 Weiser/Mile High Prec. ____ 303-280-2778 Weld Metal Works ________503-788-5701 Welding: Aluminum

Welding: Precision A.R.E. Manufacturing, Inc. ____ 503-538-0350 AG Machining __________ 805-207-0584 G & G Custom Metal Fab ____ 503-931-7069 Evans Precision _________ 623-582-4776 Industrial Machine Svcs _____ 503-240-0878 Weiser/Mile High Prec. _____ 303280-2778 Welding: MIG-TIG A.R.E. Manufacturing, Inc. ____ 503-538-0350 G & G Custom Metal Fab ____ 503-931-7069 Evans Precision _________ 623-582-4776 Industrial Machine Svcs _____ 503-240-0878 WIRE FORMING Evans Precision _________ 623-582-4776 WIRE HARNESSES Cascade Systems Technology __ 503-640-5733 RJM Sales Solutions _______ 630-849-8644

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