Vol. 21, No. 4 July / Aug 2015
Southwest Edition (AZ, NV, and NM)
Reliance Metalcenter Phoenix Invests In Technology To Better Service Its Customers
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“Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.” Eleanor Roosevelt “The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.” Albert Einstein
I was talking to a friend recently about hiring a new machinist. My friend said, “I don’t think he is going to work out. He is just so quiet.” Well this got me thinking, because of the many jobs I can imagine a quiet person (aka an introvert) could excel at, machining would definitely be one of them. Just think how productive we all are when we are not engaged in chatter. Abraham Lincoln, Emma Watson, Eleanor Roosevelt and Michael Jordan have something in common. They, like an estimated one third to one half of the population, are introverts. Others who call themselves introverts include Bill Gates, Albert Einstein, Mahatma Gandhi, Barbara Bush, Rosa Parks, Warren Buffet, Harrison Ford, Charles Darwin and David Letterman, to name a few. The workplace is a melting pot of personalities. All types of employees must work together and are expected to overcome personal differences to reach a common goal. As a general characterization, introverts and extroverts interact very differently in the workplace. Is one better suited for leadership than the other? These traits tend to be associated with most extroverts: √ They never seem to meet a stranger. Everyone is a potential client, or better yet, a potential friend. √ They seem to volunteer for everything that comes along. √ They involve themselves socially with everyone who will have them. They instigate personal discussions and often become the social directors for the department. On the other hand, extroverts can initiate interactions that may not be appreciated. √ They can emotionally overpower a client who prefers to remain “strictly business,” causing mistrust. √ They can become overly friendly with staff and clients, pushing appropriate boundaries. What about traits associated with most introverts? √ They often prefer to work in solitude. They may not appreciate interruptions. √ They acknowledge the lives of others but don’t enter social discussions. They rarely show up at gatherings that are not business related. It sounds as if introverts would make poor leaders, doesn’t it? Well, this is clearly not the case. √ They can have impressive powers of concentration and problem solving. When this individual presents his plan, it will usually be detailed and well thought out. √ They are perceived as being good listeners, and this often leads to more meaningful interations. √ They can act as a buffer or diplomat, given that they tend to observe behavior from a distance. √ They can become effective leaders, not in spite of but because of the fact that they don’t push themselves forward. They tend to have a realistic view of their abilities and the patience to figure out the job as it progresses. While extroverts tend to gain their energy in social situations, introverts typically recharge through solitude and feel drained from too much stimulation. It might be easy to assume that those who gravitate toward the spotlight of fame are extroverts, but the truth is that many of our most prominent faces, past and present, were actually identified as introverts. I think we can agree that both introverts and extroverts offer unique value in all relationships, whether in business or in our personal lives. Until next issue, enjoy your summer and God Bless our Troops!
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Reliance Metalcenter Phoenix Invests In Technology To Better Service Its Customers Photography by Takashi Sato Announcements............. 6-7,10,12,14,16,18 Feature Articles..........28-29,42-43,54-55 More Feature Articles........... 62,66,72-73 Buyers Guide Equipment............... 77-85 Buyers Guide Processes................ 86-97 Card Gallery................................... 77-97 Index of Advertisers............................. 98 Editorial.................................Throughout
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Haas Factor y Outlet-Phoenix Invites Machinists to CNC Training
Mill and lathe classes are scheduled every other month. Each course consists of 3 days of hands on instruction led by a Haas Certified Instructor. Students will learn the basics of the Haas control, operation of machines, and Haas programming using G & M codes. Classes are help Monday through Wednesday from 3:30 to 7 pm. Please join us for an upcoming session of the Haas CNC training. We recommend registering as early as possible as class sizes are limited. July 20th – 22nd: Mill Training August 17th – 19th : Lathe Training Training is held at Haas Factory Outlet- Phoenix, a Division of Ellison Machinery, located at 1610 S Priest Drive, Tempe, AZ. To register or for additional information, call 480-968-5877 or visit ellisonaz.com
Methods Machine Tools Appoints James Kucharski As National Sales Manager For Nakamura-Tome Products Methods Machine Tools, Inc., a leading supplier of innovative precision machine tools, has appointed Mr. James Kucharski as National Sales Manager for Nakamura -Tome in the U.S. M r. Ku c h a r s k i ’s b a c k g ro u n d i n manufacturing is extensive. He has close to 25 years of experience and has held numerous product, engineering, sales and management positions in the Swiss turning industry. “Jim’s background in turning centers and his in-depth manufacturing knowledge make him a solid choice to represent Nakamura -Tome,” commented Mr. Richard Parenteau, Director of Application Development/Nakamura -Tome, at Methods Machine Tools, Inc. “He is a seasoned professional and his sales guidance will be invaluable.” Nakamura-Tome is the premier multi-tasking turning center manufacturer, offering more than 20 twin spindle machine configurations. From raw stock to complete parts in one setup, Nakamura -Tome multi-tasking machines can reduce cycle times and eliminate extra operations. Methods Machine Tools, Inc. has been a leading supplier of precision machine tools, automation and accessories for over 55 years, providing installation, parts, service and training through a network of dealers throughout North America. Methods Machine Tools Inc. is the exclusive importer of Nakamura-Tome machines in the U.S. For more information, please contact Methods at 65 Union Avenue, Sudbury, MA 01776, TEL: (978) 443-5388, FAX: (978) 440-9405, Email: sales@methodsmachine.com or visit their website at http:// www.methodsmachine.com A2Z METALWORKER SW •
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Anovaprise Opens For Business As Your Local Provider of Specialized Grinding, Machining, and Precision Fabrication Services Jeff Jennings recently founded Anovaprise Precision Industries here in the Phoenix Metroplex. Jeff says, “Manufacturers of exotic high strength fasteners for the aerospace and performance automotive and off-road industries no longer need to outsource their products to the Los Angeles area for complex precision grinding services. Anovaprise has brought that specialized capability to Arizona.” Jeff is a very skilled precision grinder and toolmaker, having started at the age of 14 working for his friend’s father’s precision grinding shop in California. Over the course of the next decades, he expanded his skills, working for industry giants including McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing), Rohr Industries, Fairchild, and numerous 2nd tier suppliers as a manufacturing engineer specializing in grinding and abrasive machining processes. During his aerospace manufacturing career, Jeff earned a degree in business management, and worked not only as a manufacturing technology expert, but also in the capacity of mechanical design engineer. His product designs have resulted in a number of patents for his previous employers. Jeff says, “Within the large companies where I worked, I had the good fortune to develop specialty techniques and tools that expanded the capabilities of centerless grinding machinery. Those techniques resulted in substantial quality and efficiency improvements for my employers.” Recently, Jeff and his wife made the decision to launch their own business, one that would specialize in what Jeff has been doing his entire adult life. They researched several cities throughout the United States, and selected Phoenix for its pro-small business climate and its demand for a local provider of a very specialized manufacturing capability that has been rooted in southern California. Jeff says, “Although many of the aerospace and defense giants left the west coast years ago, smaller specialty grinding and manufacturing contractors stayed behind. Anovaprise brings a critical niche technology to Phoenix that was unavailable in this part of the country.” When asked about the name ‘Anovaprise’, Jeff says, “We wanted a name that people would remember -- it had to be unique. ANOVA (ANalysis Of VAriance) is an acronym that is familiar to the quality control community. It represents the methodology behind statistical quality control. Prise’, Jeff explained, means to extract or expose via leverage. He says, “Anovaprise represents the means by which we measure our own performance, in terms of the quality and value we deliver to our customers, against our target values.” To learn more about how Anovaprise can help you with your precision centerless and cylindrical grinding, CNC machining, and tool Announcements Continued Page 7
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Announcements & Releases Continued fabrication, here locally in Arizona, call them at 623-551-5775 or email Jeff at service@anovaprise.com
Perma-Finish, Inc. Celebrates 30 Years In Business and Thanks Its Loyal Customers and Vendors With A Celebration! Owner/ Partners Richard (Rick) Quiroz and Angel Castellano are pleased to announce that Perma-Finish, Inc., one of the largest independent powder coating facilities in Arizona is now celebrating 30 years in business! To thank its loyal customers and vendors, the company is hosting a 30 year celebration.You are invited to come by to share in the event: July 1, at 74 North 4th Avenue, Phoenix from 10:00 - 2:00 Mexican pastries and food provided (Mariachis from 11:00 to 1:00) Rick says, “We owe our start to Jerry Greitzer. He rolled the dice in 1985 that launched his vision of operating the largest powder coat line in Phoenix. He was a darn good metal finisher and he dreamed big.” Angel added, “We also owe our ability to keep going to the same man. Jerry taught us to finish what we start, to start with the end in mind and never back down from a fight - he was an amateur boxer, tough as nails and afraid of nothing.”
Rick says, “Jerry died in 1997 but his legacy lives in us as powder coaters, metal finishers and amateur businessmen. We fought through and survived some pretty tough times; off shore outsourcing, inflation/ deflation/stagflation, high/low oil prices, two Gulf wars, 911, the housing boom/bust, two normal recessions and the Great Recession of 2008 that took down banking institutions, competitors and customers – we have survived and thrived.” Over the years, the company invested heavily so that they could keep prices very competitive. Angel says, “You will have to seek a supplier in Texas or California to find a shop that offers linear volume at the price we do.You will find it most cost effective here at Perma-Finish.” Contact Perma-Finish to see what they can do for you or to RSVP for their celebration. They can be reached at 602-278-1733 or email Rick at rick@perma-finish.com
Ellison Machinery Introduces Brad Burnham To Service Team! Ellison Machinery Company, LLC is pleased to announce that Brad Burnham Announcements Continued Page 10 A2Z METALWORKER SW •
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EXPERIENCED APPLICATIONS ENGINEERING Time Studies, Programming Services, Training, Turnkey Projects, Automation If you are looking for a partner to help solve your machining challenges and optimize your cycle times turn to our applications engineering department. You benefit from the knowledge and experience that comes with people who work full time solving tough problems for various companies every day. Whether it’s evaluating your parts to help you make your machine selection, training the people in your facility to maximize your productivity or providing you a full turnkey system we are committed to your success.
PROFESSIONAL SALES ENGINEERS RELIABLE SERVICE SUPPORT Local, Responsive, Factory Certified Your emergency is our emergency. So don’t panic. If anything goes wrong with your equipment, call Arizona CNC. You will get a quick response from an expert, factory certified service engineer. On-site or over the phone, AZCNC's team of expert service personnel can solve problems fast-usually within hours. Your uptime is our goal. Keep in mind time spent preventing problems can save you the unwanted costs of having to fix them later. AZCNC offers preventive maintenance programs to help you avoid unexpected downtime through managed care of your equipment. Arizona CNC Equipment, LLC 1205 S. Park Lane, Suite 2 Tempe, AZ 85281 www.arizonacnc.com
Knowledgeable, Experienced Our goal is to provide you with the right solution and improve your profitability. The cheapest machine on the market is seldom the best value or the most cost effective. Our sales engineers are trained professionals with the ability to recognize and apply the appropriate manufacturing process for your needs. Their understanding of processes as well as product enables them to find the most efficient machine tool for your application. Our sales staff also can present you with the financing options that make your machine tool purchases more affordable.
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In this positon, Brad will be fielding the incoming service related calls and scheduling one of Ellison Machinery’s 10 service technicians to ensure that customers’ machines are up and running.
Ganesh Machinery has identified many ways to help you be more successful and will be providing an Automation Solutions Presentation, focusing on labor reduction and seamless production. A 5-Axis Milling Presentation will be given, showing enhanced milling efficiency for 5-sided work pieces. The 36-tool Cyclone BY-2 will be showing the angular cutting capabilities of its B-Axis machine, while demonstrating how complex lathe parts with milled and drilled angles can be easily machined.
Brad has worked in the customer service industry for nearly 10 years. However, he finds the machine tool industry particularly rewarding because he says, “Getting machines up and running means that our customers can get back to producing their products”. Brad admits he is mechanically inclined, and is anxious to learn more about the machine tool industry as well as Ellison Machinery’s line of machine tools. Rick Fleming, Chief Operating Officer of Ellison Machinery says, “We are delighted to bring Brad on board to help support our customers. He is a great addition to our service team.” To contact Brad, please call him at 480-968-5877.
Ganesh Machinery Open-House - September 1st, 2015 Ganesh Machinery announced their 2015 open house for Tuesday the 1st of September from 10:30 to 3:30pm. The event will feature 20 CNC Machines with state-of-the art cutting demonstrations.The event will be held at the Ganesh Machinery A2Z METALWORKER SW •
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Ganesh offers Multi-Tasking lathes with up to 11-axis to make shortwork of complex parts for profitable production.The “Big-Bore” lathe series starts at 30” swings and goes up to 55” lathe swing capacity, with spindle bores up to 14”. Rear chuck mounts are available for oil field applications and bed lengths up to 315” are available to meet your requirements. The Ganesh CNC vertical milling machine line starts at 24” x 16” and goes up to 100” in X and 39” in Y. Ganesh has extensive capabilities in production analysis, automation and turn-key solutions in support of challenging production applications. Ganesh offers a complete line of CNC milling and turning machines to meet your needs. The new 44-page catalog presents the entire Ganesh machine tool lineup, showing solutions that will provide you with greater manufacturing efficiency. Come to the Ganesh Open-House on September 1st and challenge them to offer the best solution for your production problems and Announcements Continued Page 12
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IRH Welcomes Steve Nielsen as Business Development IRH is pleased to announce that Steve Nielsen recently joined the IRH team handling Business Development for Millwright and Rigging services. Steve has a strong background in industry and construction with over 25 years of experience. He has experience in Facilities Management, Project Management and Plant and Industrial Engineering. Steve has a wealth of knowledge from both the contractor’s and the customer’s perspective.
American Spirit Investments (ASI) Manufacturing Company Announces New Leadership American Spirit Arms, maker of precision, high quality AR15 and AR10 rifles is pleased to announce its sale to American Spirit Investments, LLC. American Spirit Investments, LLC, is a Scottsdale, Arizona investment company headed by CEO Phil Tomczyk and President Rob Dunaway. Together with CFO Durenda Benton-Tomczyk and Vice President, Michael Manning, the new management team brings decades of precision firearms manufacturing, executive and financial management, and legal experience to American Spirit Arms.The company has confirmed that the American Spirit Arms brand will be retained. The entity ASI is also focused on their business as a precision aerospace parts manufacturer.The company is located at 16001 N Greenway/Hayden Loop Suite B, Scottsdale, AZ 85260. A2Z METALWORKER SW •
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For further information, please contact Michael Manning at 480.367.9545 or email him at michael@ americanspiritinvestments.com
Moore Tool Announces Addition of Knuth MachineTools and Roll-In Saw! (And Plan For Their Open House September 24th and 25th!) Moore Tool and Equipment is pleased to announce the addition of Knuth Machine Tools to their product line. KNUTH is a one-stop source for machine tools and accessories, covering the entire bandwidth of sheet metal work and machining centers. The manufacturer is world class builder with 90 years of experience. Tom Moore, owner of Moore Tool and Equipment, says, “Knuth Machine Tools approached us to come on board Announcements Continued Page 14
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Local Sales, Processing, Inventory & Support Announcements & Releases Continued as their new distributor. The are a perfect match for our company, bringing both manual and CNC, fabricating and chip equipment. They have superior installation and maintanence support. I am excited to be able to offer this superior line to our customers.” Moore Tool also added the Roll-In Saw line.Tom says, “Roll-In Saw is the American manufacturer of “The Original” band saw – the band saw often copied, but never duplicated. Roll-In Saw’s unique, gravity feed features were patented in 1940 and set the standard for the industry. These features combine to improve the accuracy and ease of every cut you make.” He continued, “ I selected the Roll-In Saw line because several of our customers are specifically asking for it by name.We are the only stocking distributor in Arizona, and we plan to have a Roll-in A2Z METALWORKER SW •
To learn more about Moore Tool and Equipment, call them at (602) 455-8904 or visit Moore-Tool.com
Partners In THINC Welcomes Newest Member, CGTech And Their Product VERICUT® Okuma America Corporation, a world leader in CNC machine tools, is pleased to announce that CGTech, a leading developer of CNC software specializing in simulations, verification, optimization and analysis technology for the manufacturing industry has joined Partners in THINC.
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Members of Partners in THINC provide superior technologies that are integrated with Okuma’s CNC machines and controls to deliver advanced manufacturing system solutions. Since 1988 CGTech’s product, VERICUT® software, has been the industry standard for simulating CNC machining in order to detect errors, potential collisions, or areas of inefficiency. VERICUT enables users to eliminate the process of manually proving-out NC programs. The program also optimizes NC programs to both save time and produce higher quality surface finish.VERICUT simulates all types of CNC machine tools and runs standalone, but can also be integrated with most leading CAM systems. For more information on VERICUT software, CGTech,and other members of Partners in THINC, visit http://www.okuma.com/ partners-in-thinc.
Larry Arroues and Associates Invites Local Area Machine And Manufacturing Shops To Test The Comco Accuflo Blaster And ProCenter Plus Larry Arroues and Associates is the proud distributor of Comco MicroBlasting equipment. Comco’s MicroBlasting technology is used Announcements Continued Page 16
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Contact us at 888-572-9642 • admin@sustainingedge.com Announcements & Releases Continued for surface texturing, precision deburring, selective cleaning, controlled erosion, and precision peening. Larry Arroues is offering your company the opportunity to try the Comco AccuFlo blaster and ProCenter Plus free of charge! Larry says “The AccuFlo is the most advanced MicroBlaster available and the only one equipped with the patented Simoom(R) Technology. The ProCenter Plus is a workstation with downdraft dust collection and HEPA filter integrated into a single unit. The AccuFlo and ProCenter Plus in tandem offer a complete turn-key micro-abrasive blast system that is clean, quiet, and economical.” You must call quickly if you want to see if you are eligible for a free demo.To learn more about how may qualify for a Comco AccuFlo and ProCenter Plus free demo, contact Larry at 623 444-0430 or email: larry@larroues.com.To learn more about the benefits of Comco’s products and their microblasting technology visit them at: www. comcoinc.com.
Weiser Engineering Expands Metal Fabrication Capabilities To Meet Increasing Customer Demand In an effort to meet the ever-increasing demand for quality metal fabrication and quick-turn prototypes, Weiser Engineering, a fullservice metal fabrication shop with machining, sheet metal and welding A2Z METALWORKER SW •
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capabilities, has recently added another HAAS VM-3 Mill which will be used to increase capacity and focus on fast turnaround of prototypes. This expansion continues the trend of earlier in the year when they secured an automated loader for their sheet metal department to increase capacity for larger batch runs, add more flexibility to respond to customers’ needs, and increase lights-out operation. A 3rd shift was also added to increase capacity and service short lead time, high volume demands.“Our strategy is to create a clear advantage in the marketplace by understanding customer needs and providing superior value by focusing on customer service, quality, and on-time delivery,” says Peter Weiser, President and CEO. “Our largest clients have been with us for over 10 years, proving that long term relationships based on mutual benefits, a win/win approach and open communication strengthen our business year after year. Our customer rejection rate and scrap rate are less than 2% and our on-time delivery rate is more than 95%. Expanding our capacity is just another facet of our continued commitment to meet and exceed our customers’ expectations.” Weiser Engineering has been a fixture in the Colorado business community since 1989. The business evolved from a machine shop to a full service metal fabrication business that is ISO9001 certified.Today, the business continues to serve the needs of lighting, medical, aerospace and military customers locally and nationally. For more information on Weiser Engineering call 303-280-2778 or visit www.weimhp.com. Announcements Continued Page 18
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services. Sunshine Metals customers can log in to view their quotes, existing orders, track shipments, and retrieve test reports from shipments already made. In addition, users can actually use our Quote Builder function that will help you estimate material cost. If you are a current Sunshine customer you can contact your local sales representative to retrieve your log-in and password. If you are not yet a Sunshine Metals customer, we invite you to explore our site and use the resources we have provided to meet your needs. To become an active customer, you can download our current credit application and send it in, or you can contact us directly. Call: 888-638-2514 with your aerospace or marine aluminum requirements and experience how Sunshine Metals sets the service standard worldwide! www. sunshinemetals.com
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Sunshine Metals Has A New Website That Sets The Customer Service Standard Worldwide Sunshine Metals is a world-class supplier of specialty metals and custom supply chain services for aerospace and defense applications. They provide near net shapes, semi-finished products, and just in time kitting from their expansive inventories of plate, rod, bar, and forgings. Our innovative forged block program allows for shipment from stock, cut to size and delivered in days, avoiding mill minimum quantities and long lead times. Their professional team of industry veterans is knowledgeable in all aspects of the market.Their quote response time and delivery integrity consistently lead the industry. Four strategically located Service Centers deliver quantifiable improvements that impact cost, waste, quality, inventory and productivity. Sunshine Metals’ commitment to quality is reflected in their industry approvals by the world’s most prestigious airframe manufacturers. Sunshine Metals new website now allows our customers full access to our Quote Builder product line and A2Z METALWORKER SW •
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When Larry Geczy learned that Maricopa Skill Center (MSC) would receive part of the federal Trade Adjustment Assistance Community C o l l e g e a n d C a re e r Tr a i n i n g (TAACCCT) grant, he said he would have done a somersault if he were 20 years younger. Geczy, the lead instructor for Precision Machining at MSC, a division of GateWay Community College, is responsible for spending $2.1 million of the federal money to upgrade the Center’s Machining program. The money comes from the $10 million federal job-training grant given in late 2014 to a local consortium lead by Central Arizona College. Announcements Continued Page20
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RevAZ, The ACA Technical Assistance Program For Small And Medium Manufacturers,Will Be Hosting Informational Monthly Workshops RevAZ, the ACA technical assistance program for small and medium manufacturers, will be hosting informational monthly workshops (ISO Certifications & Lean 101 just to name a few) throughout 2015 along with many other specialized programs. Watch for the new RevAZ website for all the details. www.azcommerce.com/revaz
Announcements & Releases Continued Geczy has big plans to expand the reach of his program, including a new lab space that will open in fall 2015. “There is a critical skills shortage today,” says Geczy. “We need to get more students in so we can train them as entry-level machinists and prepare them for the growing aerospace industry.” Geczy is ordering upgraded mills, lathes, and a nine-color 3D printer, just to name a few items.The new lab space expects to accommodate three shifts of students, running 18 hours a day. The grant will allow Geczy to hire another instructor as well as a lab technician, and new hires that also will enhance the curriculum. Students can attest to the program’s quality. “I guess I was made to be a machinist,” says Reggie Williams, a recent MSC graduate. “As a kid, I always took things apart and put them back together. This program gave me a chance to learn different types of math, which was a challenge that I liked. I was supported every step of the way.” Geczy, who has been in the profession for more than 40 years, is passionate about his students’ success and is quick to turn the spotlight away from himself. “Reggie is one of the students I almost lost to lack of interest,” says Geczy. “I entered him into a team competition that they won, and that lit the fire under him. This career is going to set him up for a lifetime. Before he came to us, he was doing cold call telemarketing. I told him he could do something about it. He took off, and hasn’t stopped since.” Source: Maricopa Community College District A2Z METALWORKER SW •
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By Maxine Jones, Executive Director,AzPMAP The goal of AzPMAP, Arizona Precision It’s been a busy year so far. AzPMAP Manufacturing Apprenticeship Program has participated in Job Fairs and is to provide reg ional precision Open Houses, presented to students manufacturers with a world class at Maricopa Skills Center, Estrella workforce through the proven process Mountain Community College, of apprenticeship. Registered with the West-Mec, the Westside YMCA, and Arizona Apprenticeship Office, AzPMAP the Arizona Department of Economic serves industries in aerospace, medical, Security Workforce Connection. renewable energy, and semi-conductor. AzPMAP did its first mock interviews AzPMAP is responsible qualifying, testing, providing candidates with West-Mec highfor students (juniors andand seniors). The purpose thatof have passed the mechanical, math, verbal, and reasoning such interviews were to provide students with feedback ontests, how approved by the Tooling and Machining Association, to do their bestNational in the interview process. AzPMAP plans to the and opportunity to interview precisionmock manufacturers thatwith havethe signed has already discussed with conducting interviews skill to centers our program. Once selected the apprentice will have On-The-Job and community colleges. training and will have, as it is awarded, scholarship funds to attend classes thatInlead to aforjourneyman certification. with order AzPMAP to continue AzPMAP to grow, has the partnered manufacturing thecommunity communityshould collegesconsider throughout the valley to provide correct AzPMAP as a resource forthe entry level manufacturing curriculum required in today’s precisionbut machining positions. There are many resources for apprentices AzPMAP industry. qualifies, tests, and upon passing candidates become eligible to interview with companies that have signed with AzPMAP. As of this writing, 19, 2014, AzPMAP has 25 active Besides on theDecember job training, manufacturing classes are apprentices available to working at 10 employers. Azpmap is here to assist employers obtaining our apprentices through scholarships funded by theinGene Haas qualified apprentices to become journeyman certified Machinist, CNC Foundation. Announcements Programmer and Setup Milling and Turning, MachineContinued Operator Page I, Tool22 and Die Maker, and Model Makers, Metal and Plastic.
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Sandvik Coromant Partners With Hanna Tools Sandvik Coromant and Hanna Tools have signed a cooperation agreement to establish a partnership to strengthen the offer to the global automotive industry. This mutually beneficial partnership with Hanna Tools will allow Sandvik Coromant to further develop and strengthen its global position within the automotive segment. In addition, Hanna Tools will introduce its tool portfolio to a wider customer base. The aim of this partnership is to continue to develop and offer world-leading engineered solutions to the global automotive industry - mainly for machining aluminum and cast iron. Today, both companies are active in offering specific solutions for machining key component features. These solutions involve advanced engineered precision tools and require specific engineering competence. “The existing cooperation between Sandvik Coromant and Hanna Tools has led to new business opportunities, and with this partnership, we intend to further develop and strengthen the global business within the automotive segment,” says Klas Forsström, President of Sandvik Coromant. The combination of Sandvik Coromant’s global presence matched with Hanna Tools’ unique technologies offer a competitive assortment dedicated to targeted customers and machine tool makers.The joint engineering competence, innovative solutions and new technologies allows both companies to leverage and improve their global automotive offer.
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Intel Continues As No. 1 On Manufacturers List No. 1 on the Manufacturers list since it was reconfigured in 2011, Intel Corp. continued its string with the 2015 version of the list. The list in ranked by number of employees, and Intel reported 11,300 at its Chandler facilities.
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“Yes…Steel Is Just A Commodity... But It’s More About Being Best In Class For Service, Quality And Value” And It’s Right Here… Right Now… In Arizona If you haven’t considered Reliance Metalcenter Phoenix for your steel material requirements or if maybe it has been awhile since you have, now is the time to evaluate them as your new supplier. The company is Arizona’s leading steel service center (based in Central Phoenix, Arizona). They have been supporting customers in Arizona for more than six decades servicing customer needs across a broad range of industries including structural steel, HVAC, fabrication companies and ornamental iron. Reliance Metalcenter Phoenix is a division of Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co., a Fortune 500 company since 2004, which achieved its highest ranking of 283 this year. They aren’t the only steel service center in town. So, if you aren’t getting your metals from them today, you might feel compelled to ask, “Why should I use them?” Well…here are some of the many good reasons to do so. A+ Quality The company recognized the need to implement superior processes in their operations, and they did so long before it became popular, or in some cases mandatory. Reliance first certified to the rigorous ISO 9001standard in 1997. As all ISO certified companies do, Reliance Metalcenter Phoenix surveys its customers to gain valuable feedback on how they are performing while also seeking opportunities for continued improvement. In the past year, more than 500 of Reliance Metalcenter Phoenix’s customers responded to their survey with an astounding customer rating of A+. Capital Investments into New Technology As a full line steel service center, Reliance Metalcenter Phoenix offers a number of processing capabilities for their customers, including: √ Oxy Fuel & Plasma Burning Machines √ Sawing √ Plate & Sheet Shearing √ Custom Sheet & Plate Cut-to-Length leveling lines √ And, now, drilling, tapping, and countersinking/bore, and beveling The company is extremely excited to announce its latest capital equipment acquisition, the Kinetic Plasma Cutting and Drilling Machine. The machine they purchased last year, the K5000XMC, is a top-of-the line machine with the following features: • A 48 Horsepower spindle • Drill Diameter up to 4” • Tapping Capacity of 1-¼” • Standard Cutting widths of 10’8” • A 24 Automatic Tool Changer • 50’ Dry Table Bed Grant Hoffman, Sales Manager for Reliance Metalcenter Phoenix, says, “We are a steel processing A2Z METALWORKER SW •
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center, and our customers number in the thousands. A couple of years ago, we recognized that many of our customers wanted their steel processing center to perform all first stage operations, so that they wouldn’t have to invest in the labor and capital equipment to do it themselves. Our ~$1.5 million investment into this new machine, the Kinetic K5000XMC - the world’s most accurate combination machine - gave us the capability to offer something very distinctive to our customers.” (Kinetic Cutting Systems Inc. manufactures a variety of precision CNC plasma and flame (oxyfuel) cutting machinery and multi process machines that combine machining operations like drilling and tapping with cutting operations.) Gary Prenovost, Operations Manager, said, “We continually invest in superior technology to provide our valuable customers with cost effective solutions. There are very few companies who have invested in a machine like the Kinetic K5000XMC. Today, there are six of these machines installed at Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co. locations around the United States, but to our knowledge, no other steel service center in all of Arizona has this machine.” Steve Thompson, Assistant Division Manager, explains, “The special processing we are doing for our customers is helping them with their turnaround. What used to take hours in first line processes, now takes minutes, or even seconds.” He continues, “Reliance Metalcenter Phoenix is making an investment
into manufacturing in Arizona, and the Kinetic K5000XMC is a great example of our commitment to our customers.” “Our Kinetic machine allows us to do drilling, end milling, counter sinking, face milling, positive and negative plasma beveling with landing, oxy fuel cutting, and etching – all on this one machine”, adds John Powers, Plate Products Manager. “We want Reliance to be your single source for production-ready parts.” The Kinetic K5000XMC provides up to 45-degree beveling and 360 degrees of rotation capabilities, and drilling of up to 4” holes through 8” thick material. Gary Prenevost says, “Before we had the Kinetic K5000XMC, customers who needed to outsource first stage processing had to go to California or Texas for this service.This resulted in delays in getting end products to their customers.Today, they can get this processing done by Reliance Metalcenter here in Phoenix, and we can deliver it to them anywhere in Arizona.” Reliance Metalcenter Phoenix has also made the investments in software to better support their customers. “We have in-house AutoCAD, SigmaNEST and the proprietary Kinetic Primecut software suites,” according to John Powers. SigmaNEST® is a comprehensive nesting software solution, and it allows Reliance Metalcenter to optimize their metal cutting for multiple customers in one run, thereby eliminating costly scrap. The company further invested millions in ‘Cut to Line’ equipment that allows their customers to receive the carbon steel delivered to the length they need, not to a standard length that would naturally cost their customers time and money to further customize. Customer Centered “Steel is a readily available commodity,” states Grant Hoffman. “Reliance Metalcenter Phoenix offers our customers the added value of the industry’s best service.” What that means, he continues, is “24-hour service, 5 days a week. It means we invest in new technology, which helps us deliver exactly what our customers want. It means stocking inventory so that, for most standard orders, we can deliver within 24 hours.” As Gary elaborates, “We have 15 tractor trailers – the largest fleet of tractor trailers for a steel service center in Arizona – and we have one steel hauler.” The company delivers anywhere from 80 to 110 stops each day, and their delivery services are available throughout Arizona.They also offer expedited delivery service when customers are in a jam.
Patrick Roeser, CNC Programmer/Scheduler, says, “Our latest generation equipment means that we can hold tighter tolerances and offer so many more processes to our customers. The processes we offer means that we are getting the material prepped so that it is immediately available for our customers’ welders to begin welding.” Inventory Reliance Metalcenter Phoenix’s metal inventory typically ranges from $6 to $7 million, and includes multi-grades and multi-thicknesses, and plates from 3/16” to 6”, Gary Prenevost says. He adds, “All of our products are tested and certified, and for all manufacturing companies that require ‘just in time’ inventory levels, we are the company that will carry the inventory for you.” Grant Hoffman adds, “We make the inventory investment in carbon metals so that our customers don’t have to.” The company additionally inventories a substantial amount of tooling, in excess of hundreds, and their tooling is typically available same or next day. Experienced and tenured team Reliance Metalcenter Phoenix employs a team of 62 employees. Everyone in our industry understands the cost of employee turnover and the negative effect it can have on quality and service when in a constant training mode. The tenure of the team is extraordinary: the average employee has been a team member at Reliance Metalcenter Phoenix for 11 years; and the office staff has an average tenure of 16 years! It is quite understandable, then, why Reliance Metalcenter Phoenix’s customer satisfaction grades are so high. Gary Prenevost explains, “We just don’t bring on new employees unless they expect to make a career here!” Your Local Arizona Source Reliance Metalcenter Phoenix has made a commitment to Arizona. When you buy from Reliance Metalcenter Phoenix, you get local service. You get a company that embraces new technology, which results in better carbon steel materials.You realize the benefit of their inventory. Why go outside of Arizona for your carbon steel needs? Buy local. Buy from an ISO certified business that has been supporting customers in Arizona for over 60 years. Come for a tour of Reliance Metalcenter Phoenix to see how much they can do for your business. Approximately 500 businesses just recently did this when Reliance Metalcenter hosted an open house to demonstrate their Kinetic K500XMC capabilities. Prepare to be amazed. To learn more about how Reliance Metalcenter can help your business, call 602-275-4471 or visit ReliancePHX.com. A2Z METALWORKER SW •
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Taking Over The Controls Of The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Lightning II at Honeywell What’s it like to fly the world’s most advanced military aircraft? Honeywell put members of the media, invited guests and employees behind the controls of the most technologically sophisticated fighter aircraft ever built during a special event last month at Honeywell Aerospace in Phoenix. The opportunity came courtesy of prime contractor Lockheed Martin, which brought its F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Lightning II interactive cockpit demonstrator to town. Honeywell serves as one of 27 Tier One suppliers for the program, producing mechanical parts and subsystems for the 5th generation fighter from 13 Aerospace sites worldwide. The event was held at Honeywell’s Engines facility, which produces the integrated power package for the F-35 power thermal management system. The integrated power package saves weight and space by combining a conventional auxiliary power unit, emergency power unit and environment control system into a single mechanical power system. The F-35 is the first fighter aircraft with the revolutionary advancement. “With the forecasted aircraft build rates expected to triple in three years, the F-35 program is one of the main growth engines for the Honeywell Aerospace Defense & Space business,” said Carey Smith, President of Honeywell’s Defense & Space. “We are proud to be on A2Z METALWORKER SW •
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this Lockheed Martin team, and we look forward to supporting the growth of this next-generation aircraft that will protect our nation for decades to come.” U.S. Rep. Ruben Gallego from Arizona’s 7th Congressional District called the F-35 “critical to our U.S. defense strategy,” noting it provides “the most advanced technology in the world.”
Small Diameter Bomb II Program Awarded $31 Million After achieving Milestone C, Raytheon Company has been awarded a $31 millionfixed-price incentive firm contract for the Small Diameter Bomb II (SDB II). Raytheon will provide low-rate initial production for 144 SDB II Lot 1 munitions, 156 SDB II Lot 1 single weapon containers, eight SDB II weapon load crew trainers and conventional munitions maintenance trainers, four SDB II Lot 1 practical explosive ordnance disposal system trainers, and data.Work will be performed in Tucson and is expected to be complete by May 30, 2017. SDB II employs Raytheon’s unprecedented tri-mode seeker. The new seeker operates in multi-attack modes: millimeter-wave radar, uncooled imaging infrared and semi-active laser. These sensors enable the weapon to seek and destroy targets, even in adverse weather conditions from standoff ranges. SDB II can strike targets from a range of more than 40 nautical miles, with a dynamic warhead that can destroy both soft and armored targets, while keeping collateral damage to a minimum through a small explosive footprint. The Department of Defense has validated SDB II as a weapon that meets a critical warfighter need and has invested more than $700 million in the SDB II program.
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How Intel and Boeing Are Helping These Kids Learn STEM Skills As a tech analyst, one of the areas I’m highly interested in is STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education. I have written columns in TIME about why the San Francisco 49ers and Chevron are willing to spend millions of dollars getting kids up to speed on STEM.Their central goal is to help kids prepare for a world where technology has become pervasive, one where there will be a need for millions of STEM-educated students to work for and run all types of companies around the world. I was recently told about an entire region in Arizona that has made education — and especially STEM education — a core tenet of its economic development strategy. A few weeks ago, I had the privilege of going to Phoenix and attending what was called the PHX East Valley THRIVE Economic Diversity Summit. It was sponsored by what is known as the PHX East Valley Partnership, which encompasses Tempe, Mesa, Chandler, Queen Creek, Apache Junction, Gilbert and Scottsdale. This partnership was created in 1982 as a 501(c)(6) nonpartisan coalition of civic, business, educational and political leaders dedicated to the economic development and promotion of the East Valley of Greater Phoenix. The group advocates for improvements in areas such as economic development, education, transportation and infrastructure, arts, healthcare, and other important areas. The PHX East Valley Partnership is led by the energetic Roc Arnett, who serves as its president and CEO and is quite a visionary when it comes to leading this group of cities and helping them expand their overall economic fortunes. In my many discussions with Mr. Arnett during the event, A2Z METALWORKER SW •
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he kept coming back to the importance that education plays in his region and how he, along with the mayors of the six cities involved, are highly dedicated to making education and STEM-related programs a fundamental emphasis of many of the companies in this area. According to Gilbert, Arizona Mayor John Lewis: “[The] presence of firms like Intel, Orbital, Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Banner MD Anderson in the Phoenix East Valley, coupled with an emerging pipeline of technologies and a specialized workforce from state universities, solidify the region’s competitiveness for rapidly growing science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) occupations. Our communities are working together with the world class companies and educational institutions in our region to ensure the most educated workforce is ready for our future.” The first company involved in the partnership I met with was Boeing. Its facility in Mesa, Arizona produces the Apache helicopter and supports other Boeing-related projects around the world. Boeing’s STEM-related program is called “Engineering is Elementary.” According to Boeing officials, Engineering is Elementary is a professional development program for pre-K, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers, initially developed by the Museum of Science in Boston. It’s designed to foster students’ understanding of engineering and technology, with a goal of boosting students’ problemsolving abilities in STEM. The program, supported by Boeing grants to the Mesa School District since 2012, has impacted 530 teachers and 16,875 students in 66 schools. “Boeing has a strategic community focus to increase teacher effectiveness in math and science and to attract more students into STEM-related careers,” said Mary Baldwin, Arizona community investor for Boeing Global Corporate Citizenship. “Engineering is Elementary provides teachers and students a greater understanding of engineering, and it accomplishes that in a fun, interactive way. Our goal is to interest students in engineering at an early age and increase the number of scientists and engineers for Arizona’s future workforce.” I also met with Intel officials at the company’s Chandler, Arizona facility to hear about
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Microchip Technology To Acquire Micrel Microchip Technology Incorporated, a leading provider of microcontroller, mixed signal, analog and Flash IP solutions, and Micrel,Incorporated announced that Microchip has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Micrel . Micrel shareholders may elect to receive the purchase price in either cash or shares of Microchip common stock. The acquisition price represents a total
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Raytheon is getting $20 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, the Pentagon branch best known for having sponsored the invention of the Internet. This time, the agency wants a technology that weapons designers have dreamed of since the 1930s — a hypersonic missile that travels so fast there’s virtually no defense against it. Details of the project are closely guarded secrets; DARPA and Raytheon declined to provide specifics. But similar efforts have been underway for decades. The German scientist Eugen Sanger worked on hypersonic cruise missiles during the 1930s, but the effort was abandoned as impractical.Today, though, Russia, China and India are all making big investments in hypersonic hardware. The United States is working on several similar projects, including the Army’s land-based Advanced Hypersonic Weapon and the X-51 WaveRider being developed by the Air Force. As its name implies, the Raytheon-DARPA Tactical Boost Glide system would travel shorter distances, compared to the strategic missiles that can cover tens of thousands of miles. Launched from a conventional aircraft, the missile’s rocket motor would thrust it to the outer layer of the planet’s atmosphere at speeds faster than Mach 5 — more than 3,800 miles per hour. The booster would then fall away and the hypersonic missile would skim along the surface of the atmosphere before plunging down onto its target. Unlike a typical ballistic missile, the boost glide weapon could be steered in flight, meaning operators A2Z METALWORKER SW •
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AmyWoolf, a specialist in nuclear weapons policy at the Congressional Research Service, noted the $20 million Raytheon contract was a relatively small job focused only on the feasibility of the technology. But just proving the theory could work would be a major breakthrough for Raytheon and the US military. “The problem is we have yet to get a boost glide system to work,” Woolf said. Building a hypersonic missile has proven ferociously difficult. It needs special materials to withstand the immense heat and stress of hypersonic flight, and control systems that can precisely aim an object moving far faster than a bullet. Still, nobody doubts the problems will eventually be solved. But a bigger question remains for US military planners:What’s it for? “ The US has never articulated a clear doctrine for these weapons, a clear reason why they want them,” said James Acton, codirector of the nuclear policy program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
“People who develop technology kind of take the attitude [of] develop the weapon and then work out what to use it for.” For example, some planners have theorized about using hypersonic weapons to nail terrorist targets. But today’s slowflying drones have already carried out many successful attacks. Woolf said it is unlikely faster missiles would offer much of an advantage over drones. Hypersonic missiles could also defeat a growing threat to the Navy: advanced missiles developed by China to sink naval carriers and shoot down their aircraft. Acton said these systems could give China control of the South China Sea. But US hypersonic missiles, Acton said, could take out those systems before China could respond. China, though, is also developing hypersonic missiles. It’s shaping up as a new arms race, fought in miles per hour instead of megatons.
US ISM Manufacturing PMI Grew At A Stronger Rate In May
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The ISM’s (Institute for Supply Management) PMI (purchasing managers’ index) gauges the factory sector in the US. A number below 50 indicates contraction. A number above 50 indicates expansion, while 50 indicates no change.
Orbital ATK, a global leader in aerospace and defense technologies, has delivered the 1,000th Common Munitions BIT Reprogramming Equipment (CMBRE) to the U.S. Air Force. CMBRE is a portable field tester and mission programmer with a common interface that provides the warfighter seamless test and reprogramming capability of precisionguided smart weapons in the field that supports time critical missions.
The US manufacturing PMI for May was 52.8—compared to 51.5 for April and March. Strong manufacturing activity should help boost economic growth in the US after a weak first quarter. It was marred by transient factors like West Coast ports’ labor strike and severe winter weather. Out of the ten component indices of the manufacturing PMI, only the index for supplier deliveries was slowing at a faster rate. The new orders index rose to a five-month high value of 55.8, while the backlog of orders index climbed to a six-month high of 53.5. The employment index also jumped to 51.7 in May from 48.3 in April. This means that job additions in the manufacturing sector are quicker. Why does the manufacturing PMI matter? Although manufacturing isn’t as large a part of economic growth as it used to be, it’s still a big enough influence. Strengthening manufacturing activity has a fallout impact on other sectors. The labor market is also positively impacted by strong manufacturing activity. The US dollar is also influenced by the state of manufacturing. In turn, this impacts gold prices and gold-backed ETFs like the SPDR Gold Trust.
Orbital ATK first introduced CMBRE in 1998. CMBRE represents the first munitions-support equipment to incorporate the Department of Defense’s (DOD) common Automated Test Systems (ATS) criteria and was awarded the Defense Standardization Program award in 2002. These standards reduce the total cost of DOD ATS ownership, provide interoperable ATS, reduce logistics footprint, and improves the quality of test while reducing repair cycle time. The CMBRE system is deployed worldwide in some of the most adverse and hazardous environments and exceeds its reliability predictions in real-world operations.The CMBRE system currently supports AARGM, Sidewinder, AMRAAM, JSOW, JASSM, Harpoon, MALD, Paveway, JDAM, MOP, and Small Diameter Bomb weapons systems with BIT, test results and upload/download of operational flight software. Orbital ATK Defense Systems Group is an industry leader in providing innovative and affordable ammunition, precision and strike weapons, electronic warfare systems, and missile components across air-, sea-, and land-based systems. A2Z METALWORKER SW •
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are getting better,” citing the availability of faster, larger and less-expensive AM machines and higher-temperature materials that address some previous issues with rapid moldmaking. “We’re seeing some really good fits for additive manufacturing in composites tooling,” confirms project engineer Dan Cottrell at Aurora Flight Sciences. But the key is that AM now enables its users to circumvent much of the lead time — the wait time — and eliminate many of the multiple toolmaking steps that stand between the molder and the beginning of his first part production-and-assembly cycle. “Metal tools take months,” Cottrell points out. “AM tools take days … or hours.” The focus here is on polymeric tooling (3D printing of metal tooling is a growing trend as well), and the sources interviewed for this article use fused deposition modeling (FDM) processes for 3D-printed tooling applications, at least at present. FDM is currently the most mature and widely used AM method. Given those parameters, the use of AM for aerospace tooling can be broken down into three broad areas:
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Some pundits predict that 3D printing, or additive manufacturing (AM), will change our world forever. While that may yet be, one thing is clear: The growth of 3D printing over the past two decades has wrought significant change in composites tooling. Although AM’s most obvious advantage is direct part production without tooling, the growing trend in the aerospace and automotive sectors at present is its use for fast, on-demand builds of mold tools to keep pace with accelerating composite part design cycles and demand for
Although AM’s most obvious advantage is direct part production without tooling, the growing trend in the aerospace and automotive sectors at present is its use for fast, on-demand builds of mold tools to keep pace with accelerating composite part design cycles and demand for faster overall part processing speeds. One tooling expert recently said, “We’ve been looking at this for years, but now the technologies A2Z METALWORKER SW •
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• Rapidly-produced master models, from which a part splash or reverse is made with more traditional composite materials •Actual layup tools used to produce composite parts, either for autoclave or out-of-autoclave processes • Washout mandrels for trapped tooling. A fourth category — ancillary holding fixtures, jigs, trim tools, or metal forming dies — is expanding as well. AM for tooling still presents some challenges. For one, printer working size is limited, but sources agree that envelope restrictions do not limit tool size because a large tool or jig can be printed in segments and joined using thermal welding or structural adhesive bonding methods. Another challenge is that the use of 3D printing is what Mike Vander Wel, head of equipment and tool engineering for Boeing Commercial Airplanes, refers to as “application dependent.” Low-temperature, short-run tools for prototyping that won’t see high temperatures, for example, are
commonly 3D-printed and well within AM’s scope. But tools that must withstand the heat of a cure cycle in an autoclave? These, he says, are more formidable. “But our application envelope is expanding,” he adds, because new materials may expand that space. Challenges also include surface finish and tool porosity. “The way FDM works and lays down layers, yes, it creates some roughness on the surface, and there is going to be porosity,” says a tool maker. With some hand sanding — they point out that sanding is normally done in any case to finish tools made with composite materials — an acceptably smooth surface finish can be achieved. Limitations and challenges notwithstanding, AM tooling is earning a place in the aerospace composites toolbox. Boeing and Airbus are following this trend, closely. Boeing was an early adopter, and began 3D printing as early as the 1980s, says Mike Vander Wel, head of equipment and tool engineering for Boeing Commercial Airplanes: “We were pushing the envelope back then. In the past few years we’ve been looking harder at this, and integrating it into our operations more systematically.” Vander Wel notes that it has been an “evolutionary, not a revolutionary” journey, and says, “It is absolutely viable as a technology, for both parts and tools.” He cites three factors for Boeing’s increasing adoption of the technology: the cost of printing itself has dropped, material cost has also decreased and the degree of innovation is changing radically, resulting in continuous improvements. Vander Wel points out that AM’d tooling enables the company to accelerate design cycles: “In the past, it was long lead times to get parts and tooling to the factory floor, but with this technology we can turn around design concepts much faster.” The cultural change has been encouraged by the fact that Boeing has made industrial 3D printing machines — mostly Stratasys Fortus 400 and 900 systems — directly available to engineers right at its manufacturing sites, to encourage experimentation and use.
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Dave met with 3 different machine tool dealers. “The Haas was the first machine we ever purchased”, he said.We hired Brett Balcerzak nearly 4 years ago, and he launched us into the machining business.” The machine shop that Dave purchased came with some existing machines. Dave says, “I knew the names of the service people who repaired our acquired machines. I knew them because they were here regularly.” He continued, “I don’t know the names of the Haas service guys from Haas Factory Outlet, a Division of Ellison Machinery, because the Haas machines are just so reliable.They are always up and running.” Brett adds, “We only see the Haas Factory Outlet service people for our planned preventative maintenance.” Since acquiring the machine shop, Precision Billet only owns Haas machines.
Precision Billet does something that you don’t hear much about...it is a small manufacturer based in the Phoenix, Arizona area...and it exports a significant amount (~30%) of its finished products overseas. In fact, the company’s products ship all over the world, including such lower cost of manufacturing countries as China. Precision Billet designs and manufactures some of the finest quality and most innovative billet accessories for motorcycles and recreational vehicles. Some of the specific accessories they make are for Harley Davidson, Polaris, and Can-AM Off-Road vehicles.They recently added a new line of accessories for Victory Motorcycles.The company performs most of the manufacturing operations in-house, from machining, to bending, to welding, to assembly. Dave and Kathy Shano own the business - in fact they own several businesses. Womanowned, one of their first business ventures was as an electronics contract manufacturer. The company, called Innovative Circuits Arizona Inc., opened for business nearly 3 decades ago. It is thriving today (double digit growth year over year) and resides across the street from Precision Billet. Dave says, “When Innovative Circuits Arizona opened, our business model was to be an electronics manufacturing service provider and build the inside of electronic products for our customers. Our assemblies went into a vast array of consumer products.” He continued, “When one of our circuit board customers told us they were unhappy with the machine shop that they were outsourcing to, we made the decision to acquire one on our own. This was 5 years ago, and we renamed the company Precision Billet. ” A2Z METALWORKER SW •
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Recently, the Ellison machinery team invited Dave and Brett to tour the Haas Automation manufacturing facility in Oxnard, California. Dave says, “It was such an impressive visit. Anyone who has the chance to tour their manufacturing facility should do so. They are so vertically integrated and more than 80% of the Haas machine is manufactured on a Haas machine.” Jameson Pack, Precision Billet’s sales engineer from Ellison Machinery says, “Gene Haas and Haas Automation recently acquired a precision sheet metal company in their continuous effort to keep costs down and perfect the Haas machines.” He added, “And to my knowledge, Haas Automation is the only machine tool builder who publishes all pricing online.” Since their initial Haas purchase 4 years ago, Precision Billet has continued to buy Haas Machine tools. “We are a true Haas machine shop, with 4 Haas machines”, Dave says. “Our team of machinists all value the fact that the Haas machines are fast, they are very user friendly, and they are easy to train new machinists on. Brett says, “In our shop, everyone uses the same controllers -- since we are all Haas. This is key to our success. We prefer to hire apprentices who come to us with general experience and then we train them our way -- and the Haas machines are the best machine tools for both our apprentices and our experienced machinists.” Dave also values his relationship with Jameson and the Ellison Machinery team. “They are extremely knowledgeable about their machine tools and they do a great job at customer support for us.” Brett
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Big Company, Small Vehicle? General Dynamics Offers Flyer For ULCV Can the big guys go fast? In the race to build the Army’s new UltraLight Combat Vehicle, General Dynamics is the second biggest competitor, after Boeing, now that aerospace giant Lockheed Martin has dropped out altogether.A traditional defense contractor that builds everything from Army tanks to Navy submarines, GD faces outsiders like commercial offroad vehicles maker Polaris and special ops start-up Vyper Adamas, who are proud of their innovation and nimbleness. As the Army seeks a new, nimbler way of doing business, how can the big guys keep up?
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Business remained strong for Vehr Manufacturing until 2013, when the tactical shot gun market experienced a downturn. Two years ago, Tom was again attending the SHOT Show®, when he saw a trend that would change his business. “AR manufacturers were looking for creative ways to differentiate themselves, and the drop in triggers that were available that could differentiate them were all very expensive.”Tom made the decision to make his own AR drop in triggers, and they would be better and less expensive than anything else on the market. Parent companyVehr Manufacturing formed an entity called Velocity Trigger for this new business.
Velocity Triggers Finally!!! A high quality precision engineered AR trigger at the affordable price of $150.00. Owner Tom Vehr And Ellison Machinery Business Manager Chris Hansen In Front Of Vehr Manufacturing’s Newest Haas Machine, the VF-4SS
Simply stated, The Velocity Trigger makes your AR feel like a true bolt-action sniper rifle.
Vehr Manufacturing can’t produce enough triggers. In fact, they are on schedule to double their revenues this year over 2014. And, it’s not surprising; owner Tom Vehr has been making triggers for more than 3 decades, since he was 24 years of age.
• The trigger group comes as a pre-assembled housing. • It is designed to be installed into any AR lower receiver. • It drops into your gun easily and no Gunsmithing is required.
A Little History Tom was hired by a machine shop just out of high school, where his first job was sweeping floors. “I needed a job, and I knew that if I worked hard, good things would happen.” He wasn’t sweeping floors for long -- hard work paid off, and his first employer quickly moved him into a machinist position. In 1981, Tom’s parents purchased Timney Triggers, a replacement trigger manufacturing company and Tom came to work with them. “Part of the purchase agreement called for owner Allen Timney to train me for a year, and this was the best training I could ask for. Allen was a genius.”
VelocityTriggers offers several unique quality features. These include: √ Every trigger is 100% Made in America. √ EDM wire technology and All Tool Steel are used to precision manufacture the trigger, hammer and the disconnect.
Tom worked for the family business, Timney Triggers, from the time his parents purchased the business in 1981 until 1995. He was involved in all aspects of the business from marketing, to testing triggers, to machining, to new product design, as well as working directly with firearms OEMs. In 1995,Tom left the family business to work with an up and coming company, called Knight Rifles. “They were looking to manufacture their own trigger assembly in house, and I knew that I could help them to build this business”, Tom said. Though the company was based in Centerville, Iowa, Tom’s agreement was that he could run a division for the company in Phoenix,Arizona. During the 13 years thatTom worked for Knight Rifles, (which was acquired by EBSCO Industries), the company manufactured more than .5 million trigger assemblies as well as other parts.
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Vehr Manufacturing is Formed Tom had the opportunity in 2008 to purchase the EBSCO facility and manufacturing equipment when EBSCO’ Knight Rifles was floundering, and Vehr Manufacturing was born. Tom says, “I went to the SHOT Show®, which is the shooting, hunting and outdoorTrade Show for the firearms, ammunition, hunting and shooting accessories industry.” He immediately secured customers from the show, including MesaTactical and Freedom FighterTactical, where Vehr Manufacturing did their assemblies. A2Z METALWORKER SW •
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√ They are heat-treated to give you an exceptional lifetime of service. √ The housing for the trigger assembly is machined from 6061T6 billet aluminum, and then black anodized. √ The trigger is black oxide coated then hand polished to create the smoothness you desire from an exceptional trigger. √ The hammer and disconnect are treated with NP3 by Robar to give you the super smooth feel you expect from a high quality trigger.
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Tom knew that his growing business would need to invest in quality machine tools. “My first machine tools acquired through my purchase of the EBSCO facility included a Haas VF2 that was built in 1995. My second machine was also a Haas VF-2 that was in EBSCO’s Alabama facility, and I bought it back from them.” Tom made additional machine tool purchases over the year, some which weren’t Haas machines. “They are almost all gone now”,Tom says. “The first Haas VF-2 we owned was just retired 2 years ago (after nearly 20 years in service!). He admits that it was much slower than any new machines on the market, but this older machine still held very tight tolerances. His second HaasVF-2 is a 2009, and is working very well for the company. Last year, Vehr Manufacturing purchased its 3rd vertical machining center, a Haas VF2-SS. Tom says, “A part we were manufacturing on a non-Haas machine is being done with better cycle time and a better finish now that we’re machining it on the Haas VF2-SS.” He continued, “Haas machines, made in the United States, were great, cost effective machines decades ago, and they remain that way today. Vehr Manufacturing just took possession of its newest Haas machine, the Haas VF-4SS. This will give their company 4th axis capabilities, needed for the explosive growth of Velocity Triggers. They are working with Stevens Engineering to build a 6-sided tombstone that will enable them to machine the Velocity Triggers in one operation, down from 3 operations needed today.
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Tom says, “A superior relationship with my suppliers is key to my success. Among my many outstanding suppliers, Ellison Machinery is definitely in this category.” He continued, “Chris Hansen started coming to me on a
Shawna Proudly Displays A Packaged Velocity Trigger Ready To Ship
regular basis since he joined Ellison Machinery. Chris has what it takes to be a superior resource to our company.As a degreed engineer and one who has run a machine shop himself, we get invaluable support from him.” He continued, “Chris knows how to make parts, and he often makes suggestions on how to make our parts better.” Tom has a recommendation to machine shop owners -- if you want to buy a Haas machine tool -- don’t buy it used. “Haas machines hold their value so well that a used machine is in such demand, and that means the price is high. Just buy a new machine”, he says. The Vehr team has a recommendation to our readers from first hand experience. Attitude is everything, and do what it takes to keep yourself healthy, relaxed and energized... Do Yoga! Nearly every team member participates in Yoga (some are even Yoga trainers and Tom first met many of them through Yoga). Additionally, everyone knows that dogs bring happiness.Tom’s dogs come to work every day and provide a level of enjoyment for customers and employees alike. Contact Velocity Triggers to purchase their superior yet economical triggers. Their AR platform triggers are compatible with .22, .223/5.56mm, .30 caliber, at an affordable price of only $150.The company even offers a “Serve and Protect” discounted price if you are serving in the Armed Forces or on your local Police and Fire Departments. You can reach them at (602) 595-5931 or visit velocitytriggers.com To learn more about Ellison Machinery and Haas Factory Outlet, contact them at (480) 968-5877 or visit ellisonaz.com A2Z METALWORKER SW •
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Scottsdale Buying Part Of Former Semiconductor Plant Property For Water Treatment, Flood Controls Arizona’s semiconductor sector is seeing fewer workers and closed plants. In another example of Arizona’s shrinking semiconductor sector, part of a former computer chip plant property in Scottsdale is slated to become a city water treatment and flood control facility. The Scottsdale City Council will consider a proposal Tuesday to buy approximately five acres of land at the former Microsemi semiconductor plant at Pima and Thomas roads in Scottsdale. Orange County-based Microsemi closed that plant and cut 225 jobs in 2011. The city plan is to buy land behind the former plant building for $3.68 million from a group called Pima Thomas Venture LLC. Pima Thomas Venture is an arm of Phoenix-based Wentworth Property Co. and recently bought the 10.8-acre former Microsemi property including a 128,800-square foot building for $6.75 million, according to Business & Real Estate Weekly of Arizona. The city purchase is for land behind the former chip plant. This is the second reuse of a former semiconductor plant.The former STMicroelectronics plant on Bell Road in north Phoenix is being demolished. A mixed-used project that includes apartments is slated to be built on that site. Closed semiconductor plants in Tempe and Chandler also have been repurposed. A2Z METALWORKER SW •
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G l o b a l i z at i o n a n d c h a n g e s i n t h e semiconductor sector have seen the number of computer chip workers in the state dwindle. There are currently 33,000 semiconductor workers in the state, according April numbers from the Arizona Department of Administration.There were 60,000 in 2000.
L ow - C o s t C a r r i e r s A r e The Future Of Aviation, According To Boeing Boeing sees enormous promise in the booming low-cost carrier model — especially as developing countries grow in prosperity and more travelers take to the skies. No-frills models such as those used by AirAsia, Spirit, and Ryanair, which are predicated on a growing interest in flying as long as the prices are affordable enough, will soon be the most prevalent worldwide. In its annual market outlook, the airline manufacturer sees the market soaring to $5.6 trillion in the next 20 years. The most popular planes in this market will be single-aisle planes, like the 737, that can comfortably run mid-range routes alongside any short-haul routes. The global fleet could include up to 43,560 planes, with a vast retrenchment in demand for the fuel-hungry four-engine aircraft such as the 747. Boeing predicts that it will sell 13% fewer 400+ passenger aircraft in the next 2 decades than it predicted in last year’s report. The nar row bodies, whic h are the workhorses of many airlines relying on huband-spoke models, will make up at 26,730 of those sales, or at least $2.8 trillion of that total by 2034. Of that number, low-cost carriers will purchase about 35%. These aircraft also allow smaller destinations to be serviced by carriers, thus expanding the airline industry as a whole. Given the long lead times for selling aircraft, the pressure is high for the ongoing success of next-generation single-aisle aircraft like the Dreamliner 787.These styles of aircraft provide speed, fuel savings, comfort and range as a flexible aircraft for both legacy and low-cost carriers.
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Apple To Hire Up To 500 More Than Planned For Mesa Command Center The wisps of iCloud over Mesa are filled with solid silver linings. More than 300 additional workers – up to as many as 500, will be added to the 150 Apple executive-level positions planned for the tech giant’s Mesa command center.
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Apple CFO Luca Maestri and other top executives told Mesa Mayor John Giles the now firm plans for its EastValley facility are better news than the speculation earlier this year.The 1.2 million-square-foot Apple Mesa data center will be led by a small contingent of Apple executives moving to the Silicon Desert from Silicon Valley. The remaining executive, leadership and engineering staff will be hired from local talent. The additional 300- to 500-person workforce will start as contract workers for Apple, and virtually all are expected to be local hires. Giles said that Apple executives reminded him that the first round of hiring in Austin totaled 150 people.
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A SpaceX Competitor Just Released Plans They’ve Been Developing In Secret For Years That Could Revolutionize Spaceflight Since 2010, engineers have been secretly working in a warehouse located outside of Paris, France. But until now, few people knew what exactly they were up to. The warehouse belongs to one of Europe’s leading aerospace companies, Airbus, and on June 5, the company unveiled design plans for a reusable Ariane rocket, made by the French-based company Arianespace. Arianespace is a big competitor of the American company SpaceX, and SpaceX’s promise for extremely cheap reusable rockets in the near future has left Arianespace scrambling to find a way to compete when A2Z METALWORKER SW •
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Airbus is calling their reusable rocket design Adeline, which is short for Advanced Expendable Launcher with Innovative engine Economy. And during these last five years, Airbus engineers have been hidden away working on designs to secure the patents they needed to build Adeline, which they say could reduce Arianespace’s launch costs by up to 30%.
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The company hopes to see their design fly by as early as 2025. Reusable rockets are the next technological landmark in the future of spaceflight — by flying the same rocket multiple times, aerospace companies can save hundreds of millions of dollars. Right now, each mission to space requires a brand-new rocket. Think about if you had to buy a new car every time you needed to drive somewhere. That would get very expensive very quickly. If you compare the reusable designs from Airbus with those of SpaceX, you might be hard-pressed to find many similarities. That’s because of the way each company aims to retrieve their rockets from space — a feat that has never before been accomplished, despite SpaceX’s attempts in January and April of this year. For example, SpaceX has designed its Falcon 9 rocket to land much like it launches, just in reverse. Airbus, on the other hand, has a completely different approach. And according to SpaceNews, Airbus has been closely examining SpaceX’s failed attempts to come up with, what they consider, a better design. Instead of retrieving the giant body of the rocket — called the first stage — Airbus’s design includes a miniature version of the first stage, shown below separating from the main body: By contrast, SpaceX is attempting to retrieve the entire body of its first-stage Falcon 9 rocket.That’s because the bottom half of their rockets do not detach like they
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Early into business ownership, Southwire, a leading manufacturer of wire and cable used in the distribution and transmission of electricity, came to Pierpont when they needed a tool built immediately. The tool would be used to make drum trucks for hauling barrels of wire. David and Robin took the project on, and completed it quickly and accurately. Today this is Pierpont Manufacturing’s largest customer. David says, “In order to continue to win more and more of Southwire’s business, as well as to grow our list of customers (currently numbering ~25), we had to be one of the best suppliers -- we had to be resourceful and extremely price conscious.” Today, Pierpont specializes in taking products from idea to production. David says, “Our wide range of tools and equipment allow us to help you take your idea and produce a prototype, small production, or large production quantity quickly and efficiently.”
Pierpont Manufacturing is nothing short of astounding. David and his 3 partners purchased the company 4 years ago. In just these few years, the company has experienced 6-fold revenue growth! Their facility, at 5000 square feet at the time of the purchase, is now expanding to a 34,000 square foot facility. And the Pierpont Manufacturing team has grown to 33 today from 6 that they had when they purchased the business. David and Robin Bardin grew up in the automotive industry. Robin was a store manager for Goodyear Tires for many years, and she managed the team of mechanics as well as the P&L for her operation. David also worked in the automotive industry, managing tire stores and subsequently working for Hunter Engineering, a manufacturer of wheel alignment systems, tire and brake service equipment. David met an investment group while he and Robin were working in Saint Louis, Missouri. On a chance tour of the shop David was managing, the investment group had an interest in buying a shop and making David a partner. Many months later, the group approached David and proposed the purchase of a machine shop in Phoenix, Arizona, called Chips Manufacturing. The shop, founded in 1991 by Steve Schwartzkopf, did primarily machining. When David and his partners purchased the company in June of 2011, they renamed it Pierpont Manufacturing. For David and Robin, leaving Saint Louis to move to Phoenix to have ownership in a new company that they would run seemed exciting. Robin says, “Our kids were grown and we were at a point in our life when we were ready to take on a new challenge.” Not strangers to hard work, the two came to the company that the investment group had purchased fully prepared to work long hours and to help the entity to grow. Robin says, “Every job David and I had in the past years groomed us for success at Pierpont Manufacturing.” Though the company David and his partners had purchased was successful, David admits running ‘just a machine shop’ was boring. He wanted to expand the business. David knew fabrication and assembly from his years in automotive, and with the buy-in from David’s 3 partners, he purchased equipment that would facilitate Pierpont’s expansion from a machine shop to a manufacturing entity where customers who need machining, fabrication and assembly could come. A2Z METALWORKER SW •
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Pierpont Manufacturing offers its customers machining and fabrication capabilities, and they do complete assemblies. They have hired engineers who help their customers take an idea from concept to production, finding ways to reduce manufacturing costs. David says, “We have to be lean for our customers, because we are helping them to bring projects back from China. This is such a meaningful part of what we do.” Many companies plan for ISO 9001 certification because their customers are requiring it. Not so for David and Robin. “We wanted to certify to ISO 9001:2008 because we knew it would help us to improve our processes, and enable us to take Pierpont to the next level.” David had attended a lean manufacturing workshop sponsored by RevAZ, a program of the Arizona Commerce Authority, and he learned that they could match him to a superior ISO certification company. “This was BMSC, owned by Bretta Kelly”, Robin said. When Robin and David met Bretta and her colleague Debbie Hart, they were very impressed. “They were extremely knowledgeable about the certification process”, David said, and though he had been through certification at previous companies, even David didn’t believe the company could prepare for certification in just 4 months. David admits that the certification process went well, and he credits some of this to the buy-in the company got immediately from its 6 supervisors. Bretta felt that the company already had many processes in place, and that the task of certifying would be relatively easy for this already well-run company. To learn more about how Pierpont Manufacturing, an ISO 9001: 2008 certified company, can help you with your machining, fabrication and complete assembly requirements, contact them at 602-233-1335 or visit pierpontmfg.com.They just might be able to help your company bringing manufacturing back from Asia! The BMSC team has helped more than 100 companies in the Valley and West of the Mississippi, to achieve ISO 9001: 2008 and AS9100 certification. To learn what BMSC can do for you, call them at 602-445-9400 or visit BusinessMSC.com
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Navy Orders More Raytheon Sm-6 Air Defense Missiles Raytheon is producing additional Standard Missile-6 all up rounds for the U.S. Navy under a $149 million contract modification. The modification is for 74 of the air defense missiles, together with spares, containers and company services. “The SM-6 has advanced capabilities and speed,” said Mike Campisi, Raytheon’s SM-6 senior prog ram director. “Combatant commanders want their deployed ships armed with as many of these interceptors as possible, and we’re ramping up production to meet that need.” SM-6 is a surface-to-air supersonic missile that uses both active and semiactive guidance modes and advanced fuzing techniques to destroy incoming aircraft and missiles. It was first deployed by the Navy in 2013, and Raytheon has so far delivered more than 160 of them. Raytheon said the new order, when combined with the nearly $110 million long-lead material purchase made in March 2015, brings the total value of full-rate production of SM-6 missiles for fiscal year 2015-16 to $259 million. “Future contract modifications include options which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to nearly $563 million,” it said.
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Stakes Are High For BAE Systems In Upcoming Army Contract Award The Army is expected to select a contractor next month to design and produce a new antimissile system for helicopters and fixedwing aircraft. The estimated billion-dollar competition pits BAE Systems against archrival Northrop Grumman. The companies are the military’s top providers of aircraft self-protection systems — BAE is the dominant Army supplier and Northrop Grumman has a large portion of the Navy and Air Force market — so the outcome of this competition could have far-reaching ramifications for the industry. The upcoming award is for a laser antimissile system, called common infrared countermeasure, or CIRCM, to protect Army aircraft from shoulder-fired, heat-seeking missiles and other guided weapons. It will be installed in Army Black Hawk, Apache and Chinook helicopters, and small fixed-wing airplanes. It will replace an existing infrared countermeasure system, made by BAE Systems, that the Army bought six years ago for emergency combat deployments but now considers too heavy and too
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“There’s only two of us that do directional infrared countermeasures,” he said in an interview. The constant competition over the years has created a “vibrant industrial base” that could be weakened as a result of the CIRCM award, Ager said. If BAE wins, Northrop Grumman would still have a substantial workload supplying infrared countermeasures to the Air Force and Navy
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blinding its guidance system and preventing it from homing in on the aircraft. 12/11/14 9:04 AM The Army wants to eventually produce CIRCM in large quantities so it can provide aircraft with 360-degree coverage. “They didn’t build enough ATIRCM for the entire Army fleet because of weight and cost,” Ager said.With the lighter replacement, the Army plans to install two lasers kits in each aircraft to get near spherical coverage. “That’s one of the big advantages of CIRCM,” he said. Whoever is selected next month will receive a 26-month development contract for 21 systems, with options for low-rate production and the possibility of supplying additional CIRCM units to the Navy. Full production would begin in 2019. The Army has budgeted about $1 billion over the next five years for the program, including contractor and government costs. Defense industry consultant LorenThompson said winning this contract is “crucially important” to BAE Systems and Northrop Grumman. “For the loser, living without the revenue from CIRCM will be a heavy blow,” Thompson wrote in Forbes.com. Source: National Defense Magazine A2Z METALWORKER •
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Proudly Announces ISO9001:2008 / AS 9100 Rev C Certification! did and started thinking maybe I should try to go in to business for myself.” Soon he contacted Jim Gray, who had been a minority owner in one of the shops he had worked for, and Campro was born. Robert and Jim had a “5 year plan” in which Robert would buy Jim out and he did just that in 2000.
Campro Manufacturing is pleased to announce that it is now certified to ISO 9001: 2008/ AS9100 Revision C! Robert Shaffer founded the company 20 years ago, in 1995. Robert didn’t plan to become a machinist back in high school. In fact, his plan was to become a dentist, though he later changed his major to Business Finance. While attending college, he worked full time in a tool & die shop owned by his friend’s father. He was just the shop ‘go fer’ at the time. Going to school full time while working full time, while having fun as a young man, was all encompassing. Robert says, “I was burning out a bit when my foreman told me I could make as much money as a machinist as I could getting a college education, so I decided I might as well learn the trade while I’m here.” Robert took a year off in college, and never looked back.” Robert picked up the machining trade quickly and the same foreman that convinced him to be a machinist told him that he would be wise to learn CNC’s going forward. So he left the tool & die shop and worked for a couple of local companies honing his CNC skills and learning to program – first manually, then on PC-based CAD/CAM systems.
Over the course of two decades of business ownership, Robert says no 5-year stretch has been dominated by the same industries as the previous.The first 5 years was dominated by customers in the semiconductor industry, the next 5 by medical, the 3rd 5 years was a ‘nice mix’ and in the last 5 years, Campro’s customers are largely in the aerospace segment, with some semiconductor.The fact that Campro Manufacturing did so much work for aerospace customers without their ISO 9001/ AS9100 Certifications speaks to the quality of their work! ISO/AS9100 certification was something Robert always planned for to facilitate Campro Manufacturing’s growth. He paid a consultant to write the manuals for certification in 2000, and the 10 thick manuals that resulted from this endeavor were never used or implemented. Robert says, “It was just too much.” Robert and his general manager Jason Brown (both pictured in front of one their Matsuura’s) kicked ISO/AS9100 certification around for a few years. “Within our current customers, we saw that there were opportunities that we weren’t asked to participate in, and we knew we couldn’t even approach some
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other new Aerospace customers without the certification.” Robert researched consultants who could help Campro Manufacturing to achieve ISO/AS9100 certification. “We always see Bretta Kelly, owner of BMSC, in the A2Z Metalworker magazine, and we know the customers she is certifying. Robert asked around for feedback from peers in the industry, and made the decision to hire BMSC. “Both Bretta and her colleague Debbie Hart are outstanding. They know ISO/AS9100 certification well and I certainly wouldn’t have wanted to embark on it without their expertise.” As a small business owner, Robert was able to prepare for the certification with help from RevAZ, a program of the Arizona Commerce Authority. He particularly thanks RevAZ team member Lauri Larson for helping manufacturers create a roadmap of growth and providing expertise in that growth. While Robert admits that ISO/AS9100 certification was difficult and time consuming, he knows that it will open up new opportunities with new customers. He also says that the structure behind ISO/AS9100 certification has forced the company to implement new policies and procedures that are necessary as the company grows. When I asked Robert if there was pushback from his team as they were going through the certification process, Robert says, “It was really strange. Our machinists, some pictured above, are mostly young, and we hire and train them.” He continued, “They actually like the structure that comes with certifying, and as they have to become more involved in the processes, they are becoming better machinists with a deeper understanding of our business.” He admits that the structure in certifying with BMSC isn’t 10 manuals; it is a single one half-inch manual. They are also pleased to announce that they completed their final Registration audit with ‘Zero Findings’! Call Campro Manufacturing, an ISO9001/AS9100 Rev. C certified company, to see what they can do for you.You can reach them at 602-298-8700 or visit campromfg.com If you have been thinking about certifying to ISO9001 and/ or AS9100, don’t wait anymore. Call BMSC at 602-4459400 or visit BusinessMSC.com
Why Manufacturing Is Vital To Engineering Education If nearly everything we use today, from baby bottles to computers, is made in China, why would a young, talented student choose to study manufacturing? And why should U.S. colleges and universities be concerned about improving manufacturing education?
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Of course, not everything is made in China. The U.S. manufactures many goods, especially high value products in the technology, aerospace, defense, automotive and food industries. U.S. manufacturing produces $1.7 trillion in goods, comprises nearly 12% of the GDP, and employs 9% of Americans, according to the National Association of Manufacturers. Manufacturing is a vital sector of the U.S. economy and contributes significantly to America’s overall economic strength. And according to the Boston Consulting Group, the U.S. will soon be manufacturing even more. BCG’s research shows that the cost to produce goods in China is rising, while U.S. production costs are decreasing because of automation and efficiency programs. In fact, the U.S. is becoming one of the most competitive places to do business, with the added benefits of better quality control and easier resolution of IP issues. Even if a U.S. company outsources production, it still needs highly skilled professionals who understand the manufacturing process.
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Yet colleges and universities are not educating enough students to fill even the current available positions in manufacturing. According to the Society for Manufacturing Engineers (SME), there is a serious skill gap in the U.S. manufacturing workforce—from technician to engineer to manager. SME estimates that 600,000 manufacturing jobs in the U.S. went unfilled at the height of the recent recession, from 2009-2012, due to a lack of skilled professionals.
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A recent white paper from SME called on higher education to improve its manufacturing courses and programs. The report states, “There are relatively small numbers of manufacturing students and graduates, outdated manufacturing curricula, resource shortages and a lack of emphasis on hiring, preparing and supporting manufacturing educators.” SME recommends attracting more students to manufacturing by showing them that the field can be creative and high-tech; integrating manufacturing topics into STEM courses and developing more manufacturing faculty.
House Passes One Voice-Endorsed Medical Device Tax Repeal Last month, One Voice succeeded in helping the House pass legislation to repeal the costly medical device tax. In a 280-140 vote, 46 Democrats joined 234 Republicans to approve the Protect Medical Innovation Act (H.R. 160), introduced by Rep. Erik Paulsen (R-MN). The legislation repeals the $29.1 billion excise tax on medical devices provided for in the Affordable Care Act (ACA).The bill would also allow device companies to seek refunds for taxes already paid under the law, since it was implemented in January 2013. To help pay for the healthcare law, a 2.3 percent excise tax is currently levied on the total revenues of a company, regardless of whether the company generates a profit. Without the repeal of this tax, many manufacturers will be forced to cut their research and development
budget as well as eliminate jobs. The United States is a leader in medical device technology and this tax must be repealed for American manufacturers to remain competitive in the global marketplace. One Voice has long supported the repeal of this burdensome and costly tax on America’s medical device manufacturers and it was thanks to the efforts of members who contacted their representatives that this important measure passed.
Tucson Lunch and Learn: Dealing with Scanned, Repaired, and Legacy Geometry The focus these days in additive manufacturing is on the machines, processes, and materials. But in reality, people doing 3D printing often spend the majority of time dealing with the geometry they want to print. From scanning real parts into the computer, to repairing bad geometry, to modify legacy files, not having the right tools and skills to deal with these situations can be a major productivity hit. In this seminar PADT’s experienced team will go over the ins-and-outs of getting, repairing, and modifying geometry for 3D Printing. We will demonstrate the scanners and software we use every day in our consulting and services business, sharing tips and lessons learned as we go. By the end of the session attendees will have the knowledge they need to improve their throughput, increase final part accuracy, and reduce cycle time for whichever additive manufacturing processes they use. Date: Wednesday, July 8, 2015 from 11:30am - 1:00pm Location: Connect Coworking, 33 South 5th Ave., Tucson, Arizona A2Z METALWORKER SW •
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BMSC is now offering packages to come in and conduct Internal Process Audits and Facilitate Management Reviews to ensure you are effectively collecting data, measuring performance to meaningful and measureable objectives, reviewing the results of internal audits and continually verifying the effectiveness of all actions coming from your ISO 9001:2008 or AS9100C / ISO 9001:2008 System. Contact us today BMSC, LLC bretta.bmsc@cox.net 602-445-9400 www.businessmsc.com UTC To Review Sikorsky Options Following Offers United Technologies Corp’s board of directors is scheduled to meet to review options for its $8 billion Sikorsky aircraft business after receiving offers for it, people familiar with the matter said. UTC is considering two potential tax-efficient transactions for Sikorsky: either a spin-off or a combination with peerTextron Inc, which submitted an offer for Sikorsky earlier this month, the people said. The merger between Textron and Sikorsky could be structured as a Reverse Morris Trust (RMT), a transaction that allows a parent company to sell its subsidiary while avoiding a hefty tax bill. Alternatively, UTC may decide to sell Sikorsky outright to another company. Lockheed Martin Corp and Boeing Co are among those that have expressed interest in a potential deal, according to the sources. UTC is carrying out extensive due diligence on the offers it received for Sikorsky and is unlikely to have made a decision by the time it meets with analysts at the Paris Air Show next week, some of the sources said.
that other defense companies, such as Northrop Grumman Corp and ITT Corp, have had with spinning off non-core units, one of the people added. Textron, the maker of Bell helicopters, Cessna aircraft and E-Z-GO golf cars, conducted a strategic review in 2012 which examined spinning off parts of its aerospace and defense conglomerate, sources familiar with the situation told Reuters at the time. It may have to sell some assets to make an RMT with Sikorsky work. Sikorsky said it would cut 1,400 jobs over the next 12 months and consolidate facilities due to a drop in production volumes and lower investment in offshore oil projects.
Pluto Awaits: NASA Spacecraft 20 Million Miles From Epic Encounter NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is less than one month away from its flyby of Pluto and in great shape for what promises to be a truly epic encounter with the dwarf planet.
UTC is contemplating a tax-free spin-off of Sikorsky or an RMT with Textron because any takeover offers by suitors would need to surmount a steep $3 billion tax bill associated with an outright sale of Sikorsky.
New Horizons, the first spacecraft ever sent to investigate Pluto, has been traveling for nine long years and has just 20 million miles (32 million kilometers) to go before it makes a historic flyby of the dwarf planet. During its close encounter with Pluto, New Horizons will fly within 7,750 miles (12,500 km) of the dwarf planet and capture the first-ever close-up views of the icy world.
A tax-free spin-off of Sikorsky remains the most likely outcome given UTC’s limited appetite to become an investor in Textron and the success
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Smart Manufacturing: A Path to Profitable Growth A bullet train is leaving the station, and it promises to transform and propel US manufacturers who climb on board on a wave of information technology known as smart manufacturing.
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The big names are not just aboard, they’re driving the train: IBM announced in March it will spend $3 billion in the next four years to create an “Internet ofThings” unit and develop software to help customers do the same, taking advantage of a paradigm of embedded, intra-machine connectivity, enabling machines (including everyday appliances) to communicate with one another and to adjust, without human assistance, to changing conditions. But small- and medium-sized companies in the $3-trillion US manufacturing sector largely are missing out on the benefits of smart technology, which uses embedded sensors and integrated software to collect plant operations and supply chain data, analyze that data and drive real-time improvements in production, procurement and processes. Some industry observers, including The Wall Street Journal, have called it the “New Industrial Revolution,” touched off by an advancing wave of technology with sensors and microprocessors plummeting in cost and size, cheap and easy cloud storage, and newly nimble forms of communication and software. Smart Manufacturing Benefits: For the companies that embrace it, smart manufacturing has the potential to trigger innovation and productivity, enable and spur growth, facilitate greater worker and product safety, and improve the environmental profile of operations. By driving efficiency throughout the manufacturing process, smart technology helps eliminate waste: Better scheduling prevents idle machines and manpower; optimized runs shrink water and energy use; and fewer human errors divert from landfills wasted raw materials and spoiled finished product. Other ways smart technology improves the supply chain include enhancing communication to facilitate planning and helping manufacturers react to events in real time. Yet, the majority of US companies are not using smart manufacturing — some 87 percent, according to the 2014 Manufacturing Outlook Survey by the American Society for Quality (ASQ). Still, among those whose leaders reported they had at least partially implemented smart manufacturing: a majority (82 percent) reported increased efficiency 49 percent reported lower product defects 45 percent reported customer satisfaction gains What’s more, those gains flow from only partial implementation. Less than a third of those who had made the switch reported applying the practice throughout their operations. Given such impressive results, why haven’t more US companies embraced smart technology? Unsurprisingly, cost is at the top of the list, according to the ASQ survey, followed by resistance from management. Capital Costs: Companies must find ways to overcome those hurdles — or face the prospect of battling competitors who have — likely within the decade. Some 37 percent of manufacturers surveyed by ASQ report
having no interest in smart manufacturing. True, new capital investments will be required, but that doesn’t mean scrapping the existing physical plant. Most existing manufacturing equipment has at least some viable capacity. Many small- and medium-sized factories are running older, one-size-fitsall enterprise software systems that are “expensive to use … and buy,” as William P. King, chief technology officer of DMDII, explained at a recent Forbes roundtable “The Digital Factory.” In the future, these companies can benefit from deploying less expensive, individualized, modular software, allowing engineers to assemble tailored, factory-fit solutions. There will be new capital equipment costs, notes GE SVP and CIO Jamie Miller, but most manufacturing equipment can be retrofitted with external sensors and computing equipment, connecting the formerly segregated factory floor with an outrigger of notebook computers and control towers. Human Resources: Of course, smart manufacturing isn’t just about equipment. Leaders must also rethink the way they hire and organize workers, says GE’s Miller. Rather than being grouped and siloed by job title, the cross-referential and collaborative nature of smart manufacturing calls for multidisciplinary, outcomes-based teams organized around optimizing tasks and processes. Finding appropriately tech-savvy employees for these teams could be a challenge, as already some 2 million manufacturing positions may go unfilled in the next decade, predicts The Manufacturing Institute, the National Association of Manufacturers’ research arm, in part because of a skills gap for younger workers, as outlined in The Atlantic. Phasing IT In: For most manufacturers, embracing smart manufacturing will happen in phases. We know many of our customers choose to implement capital improvements over time, generating performance gains that, in turn, help pay for future investments.Yet having a holistic overview and a structured plan for implementation is paramount and will prevent wasted effort and investment. Using a customized automation solution designed to work together with processing and packaging equipment can allow manufacturersto gain omniscience and control of their plants. It’s a sound strategy and a path forward-thinking company leaders have within their power, if they can muster the will. Manufacturers who create comprehensive and realistic implementation strategies and begin to act now can stay decisively ahead of the competition, reaping the benefits of the smart manufacturing future.
3D Printing And The New Economics Of Manufacturing 3D printing production is just scratching the surface of the multi-trillion dollar global manufacturing industry. But its dominance is already inevitable. This is because modern manufacturing, despite numerous technological and process advances over the last century, is still a very inefficient global system. Today’s world of mass production is based on one simple rule: the more things you make, the lower the cost of each of those things.We have literally pushed this equation to its extreme limits. This approach was dramatically accelerated by Henry Ford, arguably the most impactful character in the industrial revolution. For starters, Ford proved out the model of mass production. He wasn’t the first to create
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the assembly line, but he was the first of his time to perfect it. He built massive factories, and greatly standardized his product and processes. He once famously stated, “Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants, so long as it is black.” The quote may be familiar, but do you know why only black? It wasn’t due to Ford’s forward-thinking design sense, but rather because black was the only color that could dry fast enough to keep up with his assembly lines. By 1915 he had reduced the time it took to build an automobile by 90%. By 1916, an astounding 55% of the automobiles on the road in America were Model Ts. Ford mastered mass production and created the world’s first mass consumer product. But there is another reason why Ford is such an important figure historically. Henry Ford literally punctuated the industrial revolution. We have all been taught about the industrial revolution as if it were a binary switch. There was a before and an after. We all believe we live safely in the after. This IS the future. But what if that’s wrong? What if mass production is not the end of this story, but rather just a stop along the way to something completely different? What if a technology came along that could turn everything upside down all over again? 3D printing is a technology that allows you to create things differently, from the ground up, layer by layer until you have a fully formed 3 dimensional object. Just like you now send a computer file of a document to a printer in your home or office, you can now send a computer file of an object to a 3D printer, and out comes that physical object. Eventually, you will be able to print almost anything you can imagine. A2Z METALWORKER SW •
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tournament and donating 50% to the Ty Louis Campbell F cars in 115 degree weather and earned close to $1,000 Foundation and $500 to the AZ Flames Football organiza Kids Fighting For KidsTM Cindy Campbell sending them Gold SuperTy.org Shoela laces were overnighted Children’s Medical Center! to San Diego as soon as they arr In 2012 my son Nick Kelly was playing tackle first football the midst of and arrived lacesand madewe forwere youth in football / sports!!) before for fundraising the first game this of thetime tournament. It w fundraising season to raise money to go to a football tournament. During our Bretta andleaving Nick Kelly’s boys won their first game against the Bullz wearing the efforts began a few years ago, in family was following a blog about Ty Louis Campbell, a beautiful little boy who was 2012. Nick was participating in tackle next morning theylittle defeated thestory Green Machine battling cancer. For more than a year Nick and I followed this boy’s and even32 to 2 football, and as Red, many teams do, they win again 33 to 0 and then Bandits AZ Flames more so the story of his brave and loving mother and father. Nick’s would held numerous fundraising events Championship against thetofootball Houston team Panthers and the Ar attend tournaments. Bretta’s sonalways Nick have carwashes to raise money for tournament. boys were miserable andblessing andThe get the Gold Ring! We know we had extra an in idea. Through hisand mother, superTy.org Shoelaces complaining at Kids these carwashes because we had live Arizona it he is really One and loo Campbell “SuperTy” throughout thehot! tournament Kids Fighting For TM knew about the ‘Ty Louis Campbell Fighting for Kids in the fall to raise more money to figh day we were driving and saw a carwash on the corner raising money for cancer. My
BMSC’s Bretta Kelly Announces ‘Kids Fighting For Kids™’
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In 2012 son Nick playing and we were thewashes midst of to raise money for then my 9 year old Kelly Nick was asked me tackle “mom,football why don’t we do incar fundraising season to raise money to go to a football tournament. During this timelost our my breath. Ty to fight cancer, why do we do it for football stuff”. Well, I almost family was following blog aboutout Ty to Louis a beautiful whothem was the following Immediately wea reached ourCampbell, friends and familylittle andboy sent battling cancer. For more than a year Nick and I followed this little boy’s story and even email: more so the story of his brave and loving mother and father. Nick’s football team would have carwashes to raise money for tournament. The boys were always miserable and My son Nick carwashes who is forever grateful his health ability play a sport at this complaining at these because we livefor in Arizona and and it is really hot!toOne day we were drivinglevel and saw a carwash the corner raising money for cancer.donations My competitive would like toon donate HALF of the fundraising that come then 9 year oldthrough Nick asked me “mom, why don’t we do car washes to raise money for our family, friends and colleagues to fight pediatric cancer. Ty to fight cancer, why do we do it for football stuff”. Well, I almost lost my breath. Immediately we reached out to our friends and family and sent them the following Nick and our family and friends have been following the story of Ty Louis Campbell email:
AZ Flames Win the National Championship in 2013 “SuperTy” for the past two years. SuperTy lost hisThe battle to pediatric cancer a few weeks ago who and isthe Ty Louis Campbell foundation support to eliminate My son Nick forever grateful for his health and abilityistothe playcharity a sportwe at this fight against pediatric cancer in honor of Ty Louis Campbell Super competitive level would like to donate HALF of the fundraising donations that come The AZ Renegades win the Arizona State Championship May 2015 this disgusting disease that attacks our children and takes away opportunities like(aka Nick Ty). If you are a customer of Bretta’s, you too saw the blogs of Ty, coming ourcompete family, friends and colleagues pediatric has to through play and in whatever sport toorfight activity theircancer. little heart’s desire. from his mother Cindy, detailing Ty’s (and the whole family’s) life
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doing it for football stuff?” B r e t t a ’s l a t e s t volunteer effort is Bretta nearly lost her breath, called ‘Kids Fighting and over the next months, For Kids’™. Nick raised $4000, half of Bretta’s son Nick which went to the Ty Louis is on the AZ Campbell Foundation. Bretta Cindy & Ty Campbell Renegades football Ty Campbell with his amazing mom Cindy in her SuperTy thanks her many BMSC t e a m , a n dT-shirt t h e y at a football game with a team that has adopted Ty! clients for helping with Nick’s fund raising efforts! are saving Ty money for the National should have had the chance to grow up and play football Championshipany in San Diego, CA. Thisgive that Nick can send to the Ty Louis donation you teams and in early 2013 began playing for the AZ year, 10% of the money the entire team Ty Campbell withCampbell his amazing mom Nick Cindyswitched in her SuperTy Foundation makes a difference!!!! T-shirt football with a teamFlames that has adopted Ty! team. Bretta says, “When the entire team, Tackle NYS Football raises will at be adonated to game the Cardon’s Ty should have Center had the–chance up andamazing play football including coaches Chris Somerville and Joe Trojan, heard Children Medical Banner to grow Nick Kelly Health The to Ty Louis Foundation 100% dedicated anyFoundation donation you give Campbell that Nick can sendNick’s to is the Ty raising Louis about fund effortstotospreading help children, they made a group support the fight The 50% that goes to Nick’s awareness and funding research for better treatment options to cure Campbell Foundation makes decision a difference!!!! to always donate a portion of their fundraising to helping less against childhood diseases. As they are football team will go towards pediatric cancer. All donations will be carefully applied to research fortunate children.” heading to the Nationals in San Diego, raffle tickets that will take place opportunities that we believe in. No child should ever have cancer. We Nick Kelly The Ty Louis Foundation the team met theirCampbell goal of $10,000, and is 100% dedicated to spreading th Nick Kelly in 2012 , 2012 with November 29 won't stop until no child has to go through what Ty has been through. The 50% that goes to Nick’s awareness and funding research for better treatment to cure Joe Trojanoptions says, “When our kids see other children who are less is able to donate $1000 to the Cardon football teamGreat will go Prizes!! towards pediatric cancer. All donations will be carefully applied to research
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fortunate, who may never have the chance to play football, or any other sport for that matter, they realize that what they are doing when they are raising money is bigger than what they’ve done before, when they were raising money to fund the team.” Chris Somerville elaborates, “The boys on the team are good kids — it’s really a great group! AZ Renegades in 2015 with Amy Kaufman, But when they got involved Banner Health Foundation first in helping Super Ty and then this year, helping children with any disease or illness — they have a larger goal than just winning championships.” He continued, “I have seen such a big impact on the boys over the two years since they started doing fundraising for others less fortunate. They all plan to bring this spirit of volunteerism into high school as they enter it after next fall.” Bretta says, “When the boys laced their football cleats with superty. org shoelaces, they all prayed for Super Ty.” In 2013, The AZ Flames team arrived in San Diego, prepared to play to win. When they arrived at the hotel, there was a package for the team – Ty’s mother Cindy had sent all team members gold AZ Renegade Team Members superTy.org shoelaces for their championship tournament. Hugging Bretta It is not surprising that AZ Flames became the National Champions!
the team feel so blessed that they are healthy enough to play on a football team, and that there are so many children throughout the world, but even closer to home, in Arizona, who suffer from debilitating illnesses.” She continued, “Our efforts, however small”, have a positive impact on seriously ill children, and as an added benefit, these fundraisers have helped our boys to experience empathy, and to want to help others.” Bretta and her husband Pat Kelly enlisted the help of their friends, From left Tyler Beverett, Jeremiah Trojan, Quintin Somerville and Nick Kelly Kerry and Zalena Kersting, owners of Jimmy’s of Chicago when they planned the end of season fund raising effort (the barbeque raffle). Bretta says, “We asked for a room to celebrate with pizza. We were thankful when the restaurant owners said that they would donate 10% of the dinner tab to ‘Kids Fighting For Kids.” It seems that this spirit of volunteerism and giving back is contagious! The goal of ‘Kids Fighting For Amy Kaufmann, Bretta and Pat Kids”™ is that organizations all Kelly With Restaurant Owners over the United States who engage Kerry and Zalena in fundraising efforts to help children can not only help those less fortunate than our children, but it will teach them such a good life long lesson – one of kindness and giving back.
Bretta says, “ ‘Kids Fighting For Kids”™ is about donating money primarily to pediatric cancer, but the teams that participate can choose other Now There is Bretta causes suc h as Juvenile Diabetes, Autism, etc. As long as it is Kids Fighting For Kids, we will do it!”
Two years, later, Nick is playing for the AZ Renegades (same core team as the AZ Flames and the same amazing coaches pictured above, just a new name and new colors!), and when he and his teammates return from San Diego, hopefully as National Champions for the second time, they will proudly deliver a check to the Cardon Children’s Medical Center.
Bretta says, “Trademarking ‘Kids Fighting For Kids”™ is important to me for a number of reasons. I have seen the enormous impact it has had on Nick and his football team players.”
To learn more about starting your own fund raising efforts with your youngsters, and specifically about doing it t h ro u g h ‘ K i d s F i g h t i n g For Kids”™, go to www. kidsfighting4kids.com or call 602-445-9400.
She continued, “Car washes can be fun, but the boys used to complain about the 115° degree temperatures in Phoenix. Now that their fundraising efforts are supporting ‘Kids Fighting For Kids™’, there are no more complaints.” Bretta says, “All of the boys on
A Typical AZ Flames Day of Fundraising
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The multi-attack mode bomb is a key weapon destined for deployment Raytheon Secures $31M DoD Deal Methods West Bomb Hosts Another Successful Open House in Phoenix on use on the Lockheed Martin F-35 joint strike fighter.
Raytheon Missiles secured its first production order for the Small Diameter Bomb II in a $30.9 million deal with the US Defense Department, revealed just ahead of the Paris Air Show. The low rate initial production contract will see 144 weapons, 156 single weapons containers and various training equipment and data delivered, the company said in a statement. Signed June 12, it’s the first of three LRIPs planned before full production go-ahead. The LRIP could be the trigger for a production run for thousands of bombs over more than a decade to arm many of the combat airframes in the US military inventory. Deliveries of this initial lot of weapons set to come off the production line at the company’s facilities in Tuscon, Arizona, is scheduled to be complete by May 2017, Raytheon said. The LRIP award follows Raytheon’s achievement of what is called Milestone C, a requirement for 11 flight tests, including two live firings. Earlier issues with flight tests delayed the LRIP contract several months. A2Z METALWORKER SW •
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The plan is for the F-15E to achieve initial operating capability in late summer 2017, followed by the F-35 and F/A-18EF between 2020 and 2022, said a Raytheon spokesman. The unpowered weapon has a range in excess of 40 nm. SDBII features a tri-mode sensor guidance pack involving a millimeter wave radar, uncooled imaging infrared and a semi-active laser giving it the capability to engage stationary and moving targets. The weapon is also being offered to potential export customers including the British, who have a requirement known as Spear Capability 3 for a medium range stand-off. A decision whether to adopt the Raytheon weapon or buy a new guided missile being developed by European missile company MBDA is expected in 2018 the British MoD said recently.
Industry Is Eager For Boeing “Middle Of Market” Aircraft Many industry players are eagerly anticipating Boeing’s “middle of market” aircraft, the first all-new offering since the company rolled out the 787 Dreamliner. “I would argue that certainly there’s a market there,” said David Joyce, CEO of GE Aviation, noting his company is “working on some technologies and some capabilities” for a 757-class plane. Source: Bloomberg A2Z METALWORKER SW •
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BAE Wins Night Vision Contract BAE has been awarded an Army night vision contract worth up to $434 million. Under the five-year contract, BAE will supply its integrated night vision and thermal targeting system. “With an initial award of $35 million, the U.S. Army selected the BAE Systems team to meet its Enhanced Night Vision Goggle III and Family of Weapon Sight-Individual program goals of providing a smaller, lighter, tightly integrated, and cost-effective night vision and targeting solution,” said a BAE announcement. The integrated system will spare troops the need to carry separate night vision goggles and weapons-mounted thermal sights.
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Cell: 937/503-4708 Office: 937/885-1878 E-mail: hn@wohlhaupter.com Wohlhaupter Corporation 10542 Success Lane Centerville, Ohio 45458
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C O R P O R A T I O N
An ISO 9001 Company
Jeff Klimowicz Senior Sales Engineer Southwest Region: AZ, UT, NV, CO, ID All Products Proudly Made in the USA
Mobile: 480‐320‐0308 jklimowicz@qualichem.com www.qualichem.com
Inserts Ingersoll Cutting Tools___ 480-599-0273 Live Centers Royal Products_______ 800-645-4174 Live Tool Holders Von Ruden Manufacturing_ 763-682-0322 Lubricants / Systems Dust Collectors Safety Collet Fixtures Canyon State Oil______ 800-894-7773 Royal Products_______ 800-645-4174 Lone Arrow________480-507-8074 Hangsterfers________ 316-640-2462 R.S. Hughes________ 602-275-5565 End Mills CompressedAir Piping Systems Spindles Pioneer Distributing Co.__ 602-278-2693 Ingersoll Cutting Tools___ 480-599-0273 GMN USA__________ 800-686-1679 Airtek____________480-966-5267 Star Metal Fluids______ 800-367-9966 Setco Spindles & Slides______866-362-0699 Coolant Systems Filtration Equip. MachineTool Accessories Chemetall__________ 714-739-2821 Canyon State Oil______ 800-894-7773 Static Tool Holders DCM Tech__________800-533-5339 Chemetall__________ 714-739-2821 Von Ruden Manufacturing_ 763-682-0322 Von Ruden Manufacturing_ 763-682-0322 Ebbco Inc__________ 800-809-3901 Ebbco Inc__________ 800-809-3901 Magnetic Particle Ins Equip. Steel Service Center Hangsterfers________ 316-640-2462 Qualichem, Inc._______ 480-320-0308 DCM Tech____________ 800-533-5339 Apache Steel Company___602-323-2200 Star Metal Fluids______800-367-9966 Star Metal Fluids______ 800-367-9966 Milling and Turning Products Tapes Von Ruden Manufacturing_ 763-682-0322 R.S. Hughes________ 602-275-5565 Cutting Tools EDM Tooling Systems Cutting Tools Consultants_ 602-277-1342 Desert EDM Sales _____ 480-816-6300 Pallet Systems Vibratory Equipment Fives_____________ 909-263-9282 EDM Network________ 480-836-1782 Adams Machinery________ 480-968-3711 Adams Machinery________480-968-3711 Ingersoll Cutting Tools___480-599-0273 EDM Performance _____ 800-336-2946 Arizona CNC Equip_____480-615-6353 Vises and Vise Jaws Rocky Mountain Saw Blades_303-761-3000 Global EDM Supply_____ 800-676-7336 D & R Machinery_________ 480-775-6462 Arizona CNC Equip________480-615-6353 Sandvik Coromant_____480-233-0997 Filtermist Mist Collectors Ellison Machinery________ 480-968-5335 Desert EDM Sales________480-816-6300 Sandvik Coromant_____602-628-4242 Parts Washing Equipment Waterjet Abrasives Von Ruden Manufacturing_ 763-682-0322 Royal Products_______ 800-645-4174 Qualichem, Inc__________ 480-320-0308 Barton International ___ 800-741-7756 Fluid Control Products (Valves Digital Readout Units Star Metal Fluids_________ 800-367-9966 GMA Garnet________ 882-243-9300 & Filters) Adams Machinery______ 480-968-3711 Power Tools Lone Arrow_________ 480-507-8074 VACCO Industries______ 626-443-7121 D & R Machinery______480-775-6462 R.S. Hughes________ 602-275-5565 Form T ools Waterjet Replacement Parts Lone Arrow_________ 480-507-8074 Magnum Precision Mach__602-431-8300 Ingersoll Cutting Tools___ 480-599-0273 R8 Quick-Change Tool System Arizona CNC Equip_____480-615-6353 Guard & Vacuum Pedestals Royal Products_______ 800-645-4174 Barton International ___ 800-741-7756 Door Opening For Grinders Systems: Automatic Rota-Rack Parts Accumulator GMA Garnet________ 882-243-9300 Midaco Corporation_____ 847-593-8420 Midaco Corporation______847-593-8420 Royal Products_______ 800-645-4174 Work Holding Ellison Machinery_____ 480-968-5335 Kurt Manufacturing_____ 763-574-8320 CONSUMMABLES Cleaners: Ultrasonic Pro- Ultrasonics_______602-938-0603 Cutting Fluids & Oils (Coolants) Canyon State Oil______800-894-7773 A2Z METALWORKER SW •
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Von Ruden Manufacturing, Inc. Fluid Power / Mechanical / Tool Products ISO 9001:2008 Certified
Since 1946
Brandon Anderson President
MOBILE: 612.251.0868 E-MAIL: brandon@vonruden.com
DIRECT: 763.682.0322 PHONE: 763.682.3122 FAX: 763.682.3954
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T echnicalSalesManager Arizona T erritory
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Canyon State Oil
(855) 400-2269 Tel
A Division of SC Fuels
(602) 369-5185 Mobile
2640 N. 31st Avenue,
(602) 269-2685 Fax
Phoenix, AZ 85009
swatkins@canyonstateoil.com
Davis Salvage Co______ 602-267-7208 Tubing & Pipe Apache Steel Company___ 602-323-2200 AZ Metals_________ 602-688-8003 Ind. Metal Supply______ 602-454-1500 Reliance Metal Center ___ 602-275-4471 Samuel, Son & Co.____ 800-631-9765 TW Metals__________800-203-8000 Sandvik Coromant_____ 602-628-4242 Tube Service Company___ 602-267-9865 Sandvik Coromant_____ 480-233-0997 Ulbrich of California___ 800-237-2888 Tooling Columns Tubing: Titanium & Hastelloy Sandvik Coromant_____ 602-628-4242 Ellison Machinery_____ 480-968-5335 Metals End Mills Advanced Metal Sales___623-434-8343 Apache Steel Company___ 602-323-2200 Tooling: Cutting Tools GASES Coast Aluminum Sales___ 480-797-5162 Custom Apache Steel Company___602-323-2200 AZ Metals_________ 602-688-8003 Cylinder Storage/Microbulk Cutting Tools Consultants _602-277-1342 B & T Tool & Engineering____ 602-267-1481 Tooling Systems AZ Tool & Steel_______ 480-784-1600 Praxair Distribution_____ 602-269-2151 Helical Solutions______ 866-543-5422 Purification Units Ellison Machinery______480-968-5335 Bralco Metals________ 602-252-1918 Marshall Tool & Supply___602-269-6295 (CO2 and Hydrogen) Coast Aluminum______ 877-977-6061 Sandvik Coromant_____ 480-233-0997 Global EDM Supply_____ 800-676-7336 Praxair Distribution_ _ ___ 602-269-2151 Davis Salvage Co______ 602-267-7208 Sandvik Coromant_____ 602-628-4242 Sandvik Coromant_____ 480-233-0997 Welding and Cutting Sandvik Coromant_____ 602-628-4242 Ind. Metal Supply______ 602-454-1500 Form Tools Praxair Distribution_ _ ___ 602-269-2151 Von Ruden Manufacturing___ 763-682-0322 Interstate Steel Salvage__ 623-536-2512 B & T Tool & Engineering_ 602-267-1481 TOOLING Reliance Metal Center ___ 602-275-4471 PALLET SYSTEMS Coast Aluminum Sales___ 480-797-5162 Manual & Automatic Pallet Boring Bars Samuel, Son & Co.____ 800-631-9765 Systems State Industrial Prod____602-275-0990 B & T Tool & Engineering__ 602-267-1481 Cutting Tools Consultants_ 602-277-1342 _ _ 602-269-6295 Marshall Tool & Supply_ Horizon Carbide_ _ _____ 480-968-0957 Midaco Corporation_____ 847-593-8420 Sunshine Metals_____ 714-225-4972 Carbide Manual Lift Off Pallet Holders TCI Precision Metals_____ 800-234-5613 B & T Tool & Engineering_ _ 602-267-1481 Systems Bilz USA___________ 800-227-5460 Temtco Steel_________480-389-2883 Cutting Tools Consultants_ 602-277-1342 Midaco Corporation_____ 847-593-8420 Tube Service Company___ 602-267-9865 Inserts, Indexable Manual Rotory Pallet TW Metals__________800-203-8000 Helical Solutions______ 866-543-5422 Coast Aluminum Sales___ 480-797-5162 Horizon Carbide_ _ _____ 480-968-0957 Systems Ulbrich of California___ 800-237-2888 Horizon Carbide_______ 480-968-0957 Midaco Corporation_____ 847-593-8420 Magnum Precision Mach__ 602-431-8300 United Performance Metals__888-282-3292 Marshall Tool & Supply___602-269-6295 ROBOTICS Western States Metals__ 801-978-0562 Marshall Tool & Supply___ 602-269-6295 Sandvik Coromant_____ 480-233-0997 Robotic Part Loading Systems The Tool Crib________ 602-978-3130 Metals-Bar & Plate Sandvik Coromant_____ 602-628-4242 Midaco Corporation_____ 847-593-8420 Chucks Aerodyne Ulbrich Alloys__ 800-337-3766 PROG. SYSTEMS Apache Steel Company___602-323-2200 Bilz USA___________ 800-227-5460 Inserts, PCD/CBN Business Software Cutting Tools AZ Metals_________ 602-688-8003 Coast Aluminum Sales___ 480-797-5162 520-431-4349 Infor_____________ Cutting Tools Consultants_ 602-277-1342 AZ Tool & Steel_______ 480-784-1600 Horizon Carbide_______ 480-968-0957 CAD/CAM Coast Aluminum______ 877-977-6061 Fives _____________ 909-263-9282 Marshall Tool & Supply___602-269-6295 Adams Machinery______ 480-968-3711 Davis Salvage Co______ 602-267-7208 Helical Solutions______ 866-543-5422 Reamers & Drills, PCD Arizona CNC Equip_____ 480-615-6353 Ind. Metal Supply______ 602-454-1500 Horizon Carbide_______ 480-968-0957 Bilz USA___________ 800-227-5460 Cimatron__________ 248-596-9700 Interstate Steel Salvage__ 623-536-2512 Sandvik Coromant_____ 480-233-0997 Coast Aluminum Sales___ 480-797-5162 Delcam___________ 877 335 2261 Reliance Metal Center ___ 602-275-4471 Sandvik Coromant_____ 602-628-4242 Marshall Tool & Supply___602-269-6295 Feature Cam________602-502-9654 Cutting Tools: Custom Samuel, Son & Co.____ 800-631-9765 PrecisionToolholding Products MLC CAD (MasterCAM)___480-696-6056 Sunshine Metals_____ 714-225-4972 B & T Tool & Engineering__ 602-267-1481 Von Ruden Manufacturing___ 763-682-0322 MLC CAD (SolidWorks)___480-696-6056 Temtco Steel_________480-389-2883 Horizon Carbide_______ 480-968-0957 Thread Mills SolidProducts________ 480-206-0330 Steel Sheet Drills TMI (GibbsCAM)_______ 602-618-6553 Coast Aluminum Sales___ 480-797-5162 Reliance Metal Center ___ 602-275-4471 Cutting Tools Consultants_ 602-277-1342 ERP Software Horizon Carbide_ _ _____ 480-968-0957 Marshall Tool & Supply___ 602-269-6295 Tool Steel Infor_____________ 520-431-4349 Apache Steel Company___602-323-2200 Moore Tool & Equipment__ 602-455-8904 Sandvik Coromant_____ 480-233-0997
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Rob Schwister
Relationship Manager 480.905.2407 rschwister@alerusmail.com alerusfinancial.com
Ellison Machinery_____ 480-968-5335 Klontech Measure Sol____480-626-8131 CNC Training 30 Years Experience Adams Machinery______ 480-968-3711 MIKE SMITH Ellison Machinery______ 480-968-5335 602-397-4008 mike.amts@hotmail.com Design Services amtsmike@hotmail.com Metalcraft Inc.________480-967-4889 CAD/CAM Software Global EDM Supply_____ 800-676-7336 BMSC____________ 480-445-9400 Electrical Installation/ Nesting and Automation Arizona Machine Tool Service,Tooling AMTS Systems Rev AZ____________ 602-845-1200 Maintenance Opening a new chapter in my life, after 30 years, 22 in Arizona as Machinery Sales SIGMATEK____________513-674-0005 Global EDM Supply_____ 800-676-7336 Lights Out Electric _____ 623-703-2950 Sustaining Edge Solutions___888-572-9642 Co. Senior Service Engineer, servicing Bridgeport, Cincinnati, Hardinge, Okamoto, and many others, CNC and ManualPRODUCTS Machine Tools, I will continue to provideEngineering service Software, Inv. Control Services Management Systems to Arizona, Guns Advanced Coord. Tech ___ 623-780-4137 Delcam___________ and 877repair 335 Certification/Training Thank you 2261 Layke Tactical________ 602-272-2654 Metals Eng & Testing Lab._602-272-4571 ABS Quality Evaluations_ 702-644-2770 Smith Feature Cam________ Mike 602-502-9654 Banks Machine Tool Utilization Financial Services MLC CAD (MasterCAM)___ 480-696-6056 Alerus Bank & Trust______ 480-905-2407 Tracking Alerus Bank & Trust_____ 480-905-2407 MLC CAD (SolidWorks)___ 480-696-6056 National Bank of Arizona_ _ _ 460-756-7124 E Solutions________ 602-524-0192 National Bank of Arizona__ 460-756-7124 SolidProducts________ 480-206-0330 Manufacturers Rep Business Consulting Software, NC Programming BMSC_____________ 480-445-9400 Quick Turn Financial___ 480-385-1738 Trepanning Specialties___ 562-633-8110 SBG Capital________ 480-897-4988 Adams Machinery______ 480-968-3711 Quick Turn Financial_____ 480-385-1220 US Bank__________ 909-466-5020 Quality Training Consultants__ 928-284-0856 Delcam___________ 877 335 2261 Rev AZ_____________ 602-845-1200 US Bank__________ 507-532-8437 Rigging/Machinery Moving Ellison Machinery______ 480-968-5335 IRH _______ ____________ Calibration Services Heavyhaul Feature Cam________ 602-502-9654 800-334-2409 Advanced Coordinate Tech_ 480-921-3370 IRH ____________ 800-334-2409 Political Consultant MLC CAD (MasterCAM)___ 480-696-6056 Arizona CNC Equip______ 480-615-6353 Insurance Services Jill Norgaard________ 602-753-9155 MLC CAD (SolidWorks)___ 480-696-6056 Klontech Industrial Sales__ 480-948-1871 NFP Property & Casualty_ 480-458-6052 Real Estate, Commercial SolidProducts________ 480-206-0330 Washington Calibration___ 480-820-0506 Sentry Insurance_____ 877-373-6879 Lee & Associates______602-956-7777 TMI (GibbsCAM)_______ 602-618-6553 ISO/AS9100 Consulting Calibration: Repair & Certify Recycling ABS Quality Evaluations_ 702-644-2770 Software, Servicing Advanced Coordinate Tech_ 480-921-3370 Auerbach Waste LLC_____ 623-536-1015 BMSC____________ 480-445-9400 Delcam___________ 877 335 2261 Washington Calibration___ 480-820-0506 Barry Metals_________ 602-484-7186 Quality Training Consultants__ 928-284-0856 Feature Cam________ 602-502-9654 Consolidated Resources Inc._ 623-931-5009 Computer/Web Services MLC CAD (MasterCAM)___ 480-696-6056 Gartman Technical Services__ 602-788-8121 Rev AZ____________ 602-845-1200 Davis Salvage Co______602-267-7208 Sustaining Edge Solutions__ _888-572-9642 Phoenix Metal Trading___602-257-4660 MLC CAD (SolidWorks)___ 480-696-6056 Consulting IT/ Network Support SolidProducts________ 480-206-0330 ABS Quality Evaluations__ 702-644-2770 Reverse Engineering Gartman Technical Services__602-788-8121 TMI (GibbsCAM)_______ 602-618-6553 BMSC_____________ 480-445-9400 BMSC____________ 480-445-9400 Leasing and Financing Quality Training Consultants___ 928-284-0856 Alerus Bank & Trust_____ 480-905-2407 Jimmy Wahbeh Rev AZ_____________ 602-845-1200 Certified Sales Professional National Bank of Arizona__ 460-756-7124 Sustaining Edge Solutions___ 888-572-9642 Quick Turn Financial____ 480-385-1220 Contract Inspection Celebrating three decades of “Unbeatable Service” Klontech Measure Sol____ 480-626-8131 US Bank___________480-303-5422 Contract Programming Phone 480-696-6056 Ext 1080 800-364-1652 Ext 1080 Lean Manufacturing Fax 866-465-0652 Email jimmyw@mlc-cad.com Adams Machinery______ 480-968-3711 ABS Quality Evaluations_ 702-644-2770 A2Z METALWORKER SW •
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Vision Certification Exams, Onsite Hollie Perlow, Nurse____ 602-910-0956 Working Capital, Credit Lines Alerus Bank & Trust_____ 480-905-2407 National Bank of Arizona__ 460-756-7124 Quick Turn Financial___ 480-385-1738 SAFETY Jemelco, Inc.________ 480-804-9541 Datum Inspection _____ 602-997-1340 SBG Capital________ 480-897-4988 Fire Protection Systems State Industrial Prod____ 602-275-0990 Klontech Measure Sol____ 480-626-8131 US Bank__________ 909-466-5020 480-689-8756 Rotarex__________ The Werks C&C, Inc_____ 602-569-1809 Metalcraft Inc._________ 480-967-4889 US Bank__________ 507-532-8437 WATER TREATMENT White’s Niche Products___ 602-290-9402 Metals Eng & Testing Lab._ 602-272-4571 SYSTEMS REPAIR/DESIGN Mold Repairs Rigging Chemetall__________ 714-739-2821 Bar Feeder Repair IRH _ _ ___________ 800-334-2409 Edge Technologies_____ 562-597-7824 B&B Tool_________ 520-397-0436 Stamping Repairs Schools, Custom Training Machine Tool Design/ B&B Tool._________ 520-397-0436 AZPMAP___________ 602-723-8191 Engineering Your Business Card Here Prev. Maint Programs Ellison Machinery______ 480-968-5335 Ellison Machinery______ 480-968-5335 In The Buyers Guide. It’s Adams Machinery______ 480-968-3711 TechShop__________ 480-327-0820 Machine Tool Rebuilding Good For Business. Advanced Precision _____ 602-525-0156 Schools, Membership Based API Services_________ 757-223-4157 AMTS____________ 602-397-4008 Adams Machinery______ 480-968-3711 Machining &Training AMTS____________ 602-397-4008 API Services_________ 757-223-4157 TechShop__________ 480-327-0820 DM Machine Repair_____ 480-709-1450 Arizona CNC Equip_____ 480-615-6353 Reach Over 8500 Schools, Your Own Machine EDM Network________ 480-836-1782 DM Machine Repair_____ 480-709-1450 Decision Makers in The Shop for Hobbiests Jemelco, Inc.________ 480-804-9541 D & R Machinery______ 480-775-6462 Southwest... TechShop__________ 480-327-0820 Setco-Pope Spindles_____ 866-362-0699 Ellison Machinery______ 480-968-5335 More than 27,800 if You The Werks C&C, Inc_____ 602-569-1809 Jemelco, Inc.________ 480-804-9541 Systems Integration Get Into Our 3 Editions! Ellison Machinery_______ 480-968-5877 Machine Retrofitting/CNC The Werks C&C, Inc_____ 602-569-1809 Adams Machinery______ 480-968-3711 Testing, Metallurgical Repair -Hydraulic And Just $260 For The ARTL______________ 602-374-3770 API Services_________ 757-223-4157 Advanced Precision _____ 602-525-0156 Metals Eng & Testing Lab.___ 602-272-4571 Arizona CNC Equip_____ 480-615-6353 The Werks C&C, Inc_____ 602-569-1809 Whole Year. Machinery Moving Starrett Co___________ 978-249-3551 Repair - Portable Trade Show Booth Design Advanced Precision _____ 602-525-0156 Advanced Precision _____ 602-525-0156 Call 602.412.7696 API Services_________ 757-223-4157 Fry Fabricators________ 602-454-0701 The Werks C&C, Inc_____ 602-569-1809 Maint/Repair Services Transportation Adams Machinery______ 480-968-3711 Spindle Rebuilding info@azMetalworker. IRH _____________ 800-334-2409 Advanced Precision _____ 602-525-0156 API Services_________ 757-223-4157 com Lynden Intl._________ 602-252-2911 AMTS____________ 602-397-4008 Setco-Pope Spindles_____ 866-362-0699 Transportation:Air/Freight/ Arizona CNC Equip_____ 480-615-6353 GMN USA__________ 800-686-1679 Ground a2zMetalworker.com DM Machine Repair_____ 480-709-1450 Tool Repair, Coating, Treatment IRH _____________ 800-334-2409 D & R Machinery______ 480-775-6462 Lynden Intl._________ 602-252-2911 Ellison Machinery______ 480-968-5335 Cutting Tools Consultants_ 602-277-1342 A2Z METALWORKER SW •
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WESTERN CAST PARTS LLC
www.daytonrogers.com 800-677-8881
Steve Whisel ● Complex Stampings ● On Time Delivery ● Quality Assurance
Field Sales & Engineering
● Difficult Assemblies ●Contract Mfg. ●Design Assistance
9630 N Rock Ridge Trail Fountain Hills, AZ 85268 (480) 2846618 Office (480) 2509764 Mobile swcastings@cox.net, email
Mark Erickson ● General Manager merickson@daytonrogers.com 763-717-6303
Hi-Tech Machining & Eng___ 520-889-8325 ASSEMBLY Abrams Airborne Mfg____ 520-887-1727 KLK Ind._____________ 602-267-1331 Acme Metalworks_______ 480-926-4171 Morsch Machine_________480-961-7673 AEI Fabrication________ 480-733-6594 Pierpont Manufacturing_____602-233-1335 CAID Industries________ 520-294-3126 Precise Metal Products____ 602-272-2625 Campro Mfg_______ 602-298-8700 Profiles Tool & Engineering__ 480-894-1008 2820 520-579-9873 Brandt Ave Cascade Systems Tech_____ 503-640-5733 ProtoTech___________ Nampa, ID DNKB Inc___________ 480-659-7703 Wrico_____________ 480-892-7800 83687 Fry Fabrications________ 602-454-0701 Cable/Harness Assembly Ph: 208-442-1999 928-636-2115 GHT Services__________ 480-396-1800 Bar-S Machine_______ www.rpmmachineinc.com Systems Tech_____ 503-640-5733 JD Machine__________ 801-782-4403 Cascaderpm@rpmmachineinc.com
BROACHING Marilyn Kahler Ponderosa Ind________303-298-1801 Industrial Sales Marilyn@TriFabSales.com Precision Mach’d Products 970-482-7676 phone: 480-607-1876 480-607-7695 Specialty Steel Servicesfax:__ 801-539-8252 Panasil Impression Material used in inspection for consistent, accurate measurements
Turning: Automatic Matrix Machine ______ 480-966-4451
Clean Room Assembly Innovia____________ 480-966-6090 Jan’s Inc.___________ 480-833-7305 Bending: CNC L&W Fluid_________ 602-323-2560 B&B Fabrication & Machine___623-271-6855 BAR CODING Innovia____________ 480-966-6090 Western Sintering______ 509-375-3096 Precise Metal Products____ 602-272-2625 BENDING BRAZING Advanced Metal Sales___ 623-434-8343 AEI Fabrication________ 480-733-6594 Bolt’s Metallizing________602-244-2432 AG Machining_________ 805-531-9595 Thermal-Vac___________714-702-0488 Brazing: Aluminum Dip B&B Fabrication & Machine__ 623-271-6855 Abrams Airborne Mfg_____520-887-1727 Fry Fabrications________ 602-454-0701
Precision Investment Castings Since 1972 www.dolphincasting.com MICHAEL BUTLER mikeb@dolphincasting.com Manager Ext. 3335 Phone:Sales 602-272-6747 mikeb@dolphincasting.com
602-272-6747 3335 ISOPhone: 9001, PED DirectiveExt. 97/23/EC ISO 9001, PED Directive 97/23/EC
ASSEMBLIES Coating: Nickel/Teflon/Chrome Plasma Cutting CASTINGS Bar-S Machine ________ 928-636-2115 Die Casting Coating Technologies ___623-581-2648 Bandsaw LLC _______ 303-744-7181 ISO9001:2008 Joe Tripi Dayton Rogers _______ 763-717-6303 Watkins Tool & Supply __ 303-295-9603 Collins Metal Finishing __ 602-275-3117 President Plasticjtripi@micropulsewest.com Progway ___________435-656-9585 TVT Die Casting ______ 800-280-2278 LA Specialties _______ 602-269-7612 Bandsaw LLC _______ 303-744-7181 444 W. 21st Street / Suite 101 / Tempe, AZ 85282 RPM CNC Precision Machine 208-442-1999 Die Casting: Aluminum/Zinc Coating:Zinc & Mag.Phos. ImageTek _________ (480) 966-2300 / Fax (480) 966-2323 303-806-8111 Our company logo Steen & Sons Machine Shop 208-522-7341 TVT Die Casting ______ 800-280-2278 Coating Technologies ___623-581-2648 Saw Cutting A Z METALWORKER SW • 86 • July / Precision Superior Metal Products__ 303-791-7550 Aug 2015 Investment Casting Collins Metal Finishing __ 602-275-3117 Bandsaw LLC _______ 303-744-7181 Wasatch Laser Processing__801-972-3500 Dolphin Inc. ________ 602-272-6747 Powder Extreme Coatings _ 801-450-2819 2
ROBERT ASSENMACHER PRESIDENT
t 520.294.3126 c 520.834.7444 roba@caid.com www.caid.com
Collins Metal Finishing_____602-275-3117 Louie’s Black Oxide______ 602-257-0530 Coating: Chem Film Collins Metal Finishing_____602-275-3117 FutureWeld__________ 602-437-2426 Gold Tech Industries_____ _480-968-1930 Castings: Production Brazing: Vacuum AATC_____________602-268-1467 LA Specialties_________ 602-269-7612 Bolt’s Metallizing_______ 602-244-2432 Dolphin____________ 602-272-6747 Lynch Brothers Mfg______ 602-267-7575 BROACHING May Foundry & Machine__ 801-531-8931 Perfection Industrial Finishing_520-434-9090 Apache Gear, Inc_______ 623-934-7144 Western Cast Parts_____ 480-250-9764 Precision Industrial Painting_ 602-256-0260 Ayers Gear & Mach______ 623-934-6913 COATING Treffers Precision_______ 602-744-2636 Arizona Finishing_______ 602-438-4443 CASTINGS The Metal Man________ 800-448-9448 AATC_____________602-268-1467 Bolt’s Metallizing_______ 602-244-2432 Coating Technologies_____ 623-581-2648 Sav-On Plating_________ 602-252-4311 Dolphin____________ 602-272-6747 Collins Metal Finishing_____602-275-3117 Coating: Dry Film Lube May Foundry & Machine__ 801-531-8931 LA Specialties_________ 602-269-7612 Coating Technologies_____ 623-581-2648 Western Cast Parts_____ 480-250-9764 Louie’s Black Oxide______ 602-257-0530 Perfection Industrial Finishing_520-434-9090 Castings: Prototype Perfection Industrial Finishing_520-434-9090 Precision Industrial Painting_ 602-256-0260 AATC_____________602-268-1467 Precision Industrial Painting_ 602-256-0260 Coating: Liquid Dolphin____________ 602-272-6747 Southwest Powder Coating__ 602-272-0878 Collins Metal Finishing____602-275-3117 Coating: Black Oxide May Foundry & Machine__ 801-531-8931 Western Cast Parts_____ 480-250-9764 Coating Technologies_____ 623-581-2648 Pilkington Metal Finishing__ 801-972-2146
Coating: Nickel/Teflon Coating Technologies______623-581-2648 Collins Metal Finishing_____ 602-275-3117 Coating: NP3 Coating Technologies______623-581-2648 Coating:Zinc & Mag.Phos. Chemetall___________ 714-739-2821 Coating Technologies______623-581-2648 Collins Metal Finishing_____ 602-275-3117 Louie’s Black Oxide______ 602-257-0530 Powder Coating Collins Metal Finishing_____ 602-275-3117 AG Machining________ 805-531-9595 Pilkington Metal Finishing__ 801-972-2146 CUTTING Advanced Metal Sales___ 623-434-8343 bandsawparts.com_____ 800-240-2932 Echols Saw & Supply______602-278-3918 Harschco LLC________ 602-617-7514 Southwest Waterjet-Laser_ 480-306-7748 The Metal Man________ 800-448-9448 Bandsaw Cutting bandsawparts.com_____ 800-240-2932
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Spring & Manufacturing Co.,Inc.
Patrick H. Stewart II President
21631 N. 3rd Avenue Phoenix, AZ 85027 p (623) 492 9400 x215 f (623) 492 9071 pstewart@stewartmfg.com www.stewartmfg.com
A Complete Manufacturing Facility for Fabrication, Machining and Assembly SPRINGS- STAMPINGS- MACH INED PARTS- WASHER S -WIR E FORMSFORMED TUB ING-ASSEMBLIES
3325 East Wier Avenue Phoenix, Arizona 85040 Phone: (602)243-4329 Cell: (602)370-5777
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EDM: Wire Tube Laser Cutting Echols Saw & Supply____ 602-278-3918 EDM Tech___________ 602-278-6666 Craig Roth Tube Service Company___ 602-267-9865 President/C.O.O. CNC Router LAYKE, Inc.__________ 602-272-2654 3D Machine LLC_______480-239-8254 Micropulse West_________480-966-2300 DIE CASTING Micro-Tronics, Inc_______ 602-437-8995 Arizona Wire&&Manufacturing Tool_______ 480-813-1002 Spring Co.,Inc. A Complete Manufacturing Facility for Fabrication, Machining and Assembly Arizona Wire Specialists_ _ __ 480-829-6530 Micropulse West________ 480-966-2300 TVT Die Casting_________800-280-2278 3325 East Wier Avenue Phoenix, Arizona 85040 Die Cutting Die Casting/Aluminum & Milco Wire EDM/Waterjet___ 714-373-0098 Auer Precision__________480-834-4637 Phone: (602)243-4329 Cell: (602)370-5777 Sun Tech__________480-921-1665 Continental Machining___800-777-2483 Zinc CGS Technologies_______ 623-434-3136 Laser TVT Die Casting_________800-280-2278 EDM: Ram-Type (Sinking) EDM Express___________800-780-7075 EDM Express__________ 800-780-7075 EDM Tech____________602-278-6666 APMI______________480-668-0024 DIES EDM Tech___________ 602-278-6666 Micro-Tronics, Inc________602-437-8995 CGS Technologies_______ 623-434-3136 Arizona Wire & Tool_______ 480-813-1002 Micro-Tronics, Inc_______ 602-437-8995 Fine Line Laser Cutting____ 602-863-3196 Micro-Tronics, Inc________602-437-8995 Micropulse West________ 480-966-2300 Micropulse West________ 480-966-2300 Precision Die & Stamp’g____480-967-2038 Milco Wire EDM/Waterjet___ 714-373-0098 Milco Wire EDM/Waterjet___ 714-373-0098 Wrico_____________ 480-892-7800 Quality Mold_________ 480-892-5480 PGI_______________505-884-5782 Powill Manufactuing_____623-780-4100 EDM Sun Tech__________480-921-1665 EDM: Drilling Small Hole EDM: Dialectric Systems Quality Mold___________480-892-5480 Ilene Price: iprice@precise-metals.com Sun Tech__________ 480-921-1665 Arizona Wire Specialists_____480-829-6530 /Filtration Steve Bangerter: sbangerter@precise-metals.com 4534 N. 44th Ave, Phoenix AZ 85031 EDM Express___________800-780-7075 Ebbco Inc__________ 800-809-3901 Thompson Machine_____505-823-1453 602-272-2625
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sales@abrams.com
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FAA CRS AI0R143N - EASA.145.4079
3301 EAST MADISON STREET PHOENIX, ARIZONA 85034
Fry Fabrications_________ 602-454-0701 Innovia_____________480-966-6090 DT Products Metal Fabrication_ 928-776-4129 Fine Line Fabricating______602-863-3506 Fry Fabrications_________ 602-454-0701 Hollow Metal Xpress_______866-936-7001 Innovia_____________480-966-6090 Jan’s Inc.____________480-833-7305 JD Machine___________801-782-4403 Phoenix Metalcraft_____ 602-279-4810 Pierpont Manufacturing_____ 602-233-1335 Precise Metal Products_____602-272-2625 Precision Metalworks___ 602-455-9575 Precision Metal Products__ 408-699-5037 Stewart Precision Mfg______623-492-9400 TMM Precision _________800-448-9448 Weiser/Mile High Precision___303-280-2778 FINISHING Arizona Finishing________602-438-4443 Arizona Hard Chrome______ 602-278-8671 Coating Technologies______623-581-2648
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Arizona Wire & Tool_______ 480-813-1002 Auer Precision__________ 480-834-4637 AzMark_____________ 480-926-8969 Blue Streak Grinding______ 602-353-8088 ChemResearch__________ 602-253-4175 EDM Express___________ 800-780-7075 Grinding: Centerless Fives ______________ 909-263-9282 Grinding: ID/OD Industrial Precision Grinding__310-352-4700 GMN USA___________800-686-1679 Blue Streak Grinding_____ 602-353-8088 Arizona Hard Chrome_____ 602-278-8671 National Grinding & Mfg____602-588-2869 Grindworks___________ 623-582-5767 Grindworks__________ 623-582-5767 AzMark____________ 480-926-8969 Osborn Products_________623-587-0335 JWB Manufacturing_______ 480-967-4600 National Grinding & Mfg___ 602-588-2869 Blue Streak Grinding_____ 602-353-8088 Phoenix Grinding________ 602-437-8401 McFarland Machine & Eng___ 480-966-1388 Osborn Products________ 623-587-0335 Grindworks__________ 623-582-5767 Quality Mold_________ 480-892-5480 Osborn Products_________ 623-587-0335 Phoenix Grinding_______ 602-437-8401 National Grinding & Mfg___ 602-588-2869 Sun Grinding__________602-238-9595 Phoenix Grinding________ 602-437-8401 Ron Grob Co._________ 970-667-5320 Osborn Products________ 623-587-0335 Superior Grinding________ 888-487-9701 Powill Manufacturing______ 623-780-4100 Shaw Precision________ 480-785-4925 Ron Grob Co.__________970-667-5320 WC Machine & Tool______ 480-507-4620 Ron Grob Co.__________ 970-667-5320 Sun Grinding_________ 602-238-9595 Superior Grinding_______ 888-487-9701 Grinding: Tool & Cutter Steel Services Grinding_____ 800-662-0126 Superior Grinding_______ 888-487-9701 B & T Tool & Engineering____ 602-267-1481 Grinding:Mattison Grinding, CNC/Contour Sun Grinding__________ 602-238-9595 Sun Grinding_________ 602-238-9595 CTE______________ 800-783-2400 Superior Grinding________ 888-487-9701 Blue Streak Grinding_____ 602-353-8088 Gilbert Metal Stamping_____480-503-1283 Grinding: OD TCI Precision Metals______ 800-234-5613 National Grinding & Mfg___ 602-588-2869 Arizona Hard Chrome_____ 602-278-8671 Superior Grinding________ 888-487-9701 Powill Manufacturing_____623-780-4100 Grindworks__________ 623-582-5767 Grinding, Blanchard GUNDRILLING Superior Grinding_______ 888-487-9701 Micro-Tronics, Inc_______ 602-437-8995 Acme Metal Works_______ 480-926-4171 Air Gear Industries_______ 602-275-7996 Grinding… Cylindrical National Grinding & Mfg___ 602-588-2869 Trepanning Specialties____ 562-633-8110 Industrial Precision Grinding__ 310-352-4700 Grindworks__________ 623-582-5767 HEAT TREATING Grinding: Surface McFarland Machine & Eng___ 480-966-1388 Grinding… Double Disc Bolt’s Metallizing________602-244-2432 Annovaprise__________ 623-551-5775 Steel Services Grinding ____800-662-0126 Sun Grinding__________ 602-238-9595 Industrial Precision Grinding_ 310-352-4700 Arizona Wire & Tool______ 480-813-1002 Byington Steel Treating____ 408-727-6630 Superior Grinding________ 888-487-9701 Phoenix Grinding_______ 602-437-8401 Blue Streak Grinding_____ 602-353-8088 Controlled Thermal Tech’y___602-272-3714 TCI Precision Metals______ 800-234-5613 TCI Precision Metals______ 800-234-5613 Grindworks__________ 623-582-5767 Desert Fire____________ 602-268-1511
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3422 West Wilshire Drive Phoenix, AZ 85009
edgibson@continentalmachiningco.com www.continentalmachiningco.com
602 278 6704 602 278 6717 Fax
TechMark___________ 480-820--9444 Process Improvement/ Audit BMSC_____________480-445-9400 Silk Screen Arizona Finishing_______ 602-438-4443 Quality Training Consultants__ 928-284-0856 Precision Industrial Painting_ 602-256-0260 Sustaining Edge Solutions___ 888-572-9642
JIGS INSPECTION RB Machine Co, Inc______ 602-272-6869 Calibration L A Specialties_________ 602-269-7612 MACHINING Phoenix Heat Treating____ 602-258-7751 Washington Calibration____ 480-820-0506 Inspection, First Article Machining: 3D Thermal-Vac__________ 714-702-0488 Datum Inspection_______ 602-997-1340 3D Machine LLC_______480-239-8254 Heat Treating/ Aerospace Klontech Measure Sol______480-626-8131 Arcas Machine Inc_____ 480-632-9414 Bolt’s Metallizing_______ 602-244-2432 Byington Steel Treating____ 408-727-6630 Total Quality Systems_____ 480-377-6422 Cassavant Machining____602-437-4005 Inspection Services Challenger Aerospace______ 480-894-0802 Phoenix Heat Treating____ 602-258-7751
Arizona Wire & Tool_______480-813-1002 JD Ellen LLC________ 623-587--0253 Heat Treating/ISO9001/ Challenger Aerospace_____ 480-894-0802 L&W Machine Co_____ 602-323-2560 AS9100 Byington Steel Treating____ 408-727-6630 Datum Inspection_______ 602-997-1340 Micropulse West________ 480-966-2300 Large Capacity Drop Bottom Oven/ Klontech Measure Sol______480-626-8131 Profiles Tool & Engineering__ 480-894-1008 Aluminum HeatTreating Metals Eng & Testing Lab._ 602-272-4571 Pro Precision_________ 602-353-0022 Bolt’s Metallizing_______ 602-244-2432 Micropulse West________ 480-966-2300 Machining: 5 Axis Byington Steel Treating____ 408-727-6630 Sustaining Edge Solutions___ 888-572-9642 Accutech_____________ 801-975-1117 Phoenix Heat Treating____ 602-258-7751 Total Quality Systems_____ 480-377-6422 Cassavant Machining____602-437-4005 HONING/LAPPING Inspection Services, Welding Hi-Tech Machining & Eng___ 520-889-8325 Grindworks__________ 623-582-5767 Metals Eng & Testing Lab._ 602-272-4571 Industrial Tool Die & Eng_ 520-745-8771 LAYKE, Inc.__________ 602-272-2654 ISO9000 / AS9100 Cert. Metalcraft Inc._________ 480-967-4889 National Grinding & Mfg___ 602-588-2869 American Global Standards__ 617-838-4648 Morsch Machine_________480-961-7673 Osborn Products________ 623-587-0335 BMSC_____________480-445-9400 St. Vrain Manufacturing_____303-702-1529 Phoenix Grinding_______ 602-437-8401 Gladhill Assoc_________ 623-939-4412 Uni-Tek_____________602-272-2601 Powill Manufacturing_____623-780-4100 Machining: Aerospace Orion Registrar_________303-645-4017 IDENTIFICATION Sustaining Edge Solutions___ 888-572-9642 AATC ______________602-268-1467 Labels & Bar Code Quality Training Consultants__ 928-284-0856 Abrams Airborne Mfg_____520-887-1727 EPSI______________714-256-8950 _ Absolute Turning & Machine_ 520-624-5628 ISO Registrar American Spirit Investments_ 480-367-9545 American Global Standards_ _ 617-838-4648 Tool / PartMarking (Laser) B & T Tool & Engineering____ 602-267-1481 Orion Registrar_________303-645-4017 Arcas Machine Inc_____ 480-632-9414 A2Z METALWORKER SW •
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AzMark____________ 480-926-8969 B&B Fabrication & Machine__ 623-271-6855 Backerworks Mfg_____ 505-342-2943 Campro Mfg_______ 602-298-8700 Cassavant Machining___ 602-437-4005 Challenger Aerospace_____ 480-894-0802 Continental Machining__ 800-777-2483 Evans Precision Machining__ 623-581-6200 Excaliber____________ 623-878-6800 Glover Precision Inc.______ 480-464-0150 Hi-Tech Machining & Eng___ 520-889-8325 HK Machining________ 602-278-6704 Infinisys____________ 602-276-2276 JB’s Precision_________ 623-581-9088 JD Ellen LLC________ 623-587--0253 JD Machine__________ 801-782-4403 KLK Ind._____________602-267-1331 L&W Machine Co_____ 602-323-2560 LAYKE, Inc.__________ 602-272-2654 Matrix Machine________ 480-966-4451 Metalcraft Inc._________ 480-967-4889 Metzfab_____________602-618-2841 Micro-Tronics, Inc_______ 602-437-8995 Morsch Machine________ 480-961-7673 Nelson Engineering_______602-273-7114 Nichols Precision_____ 480-804-0593 Osborn Products________ 623-587-0335 PGI _____________ 505-884-5782 Powill Manufacturing____ 623-780-4100 Precise Metal Products____ 602-272-2625 Pro Precision_________ 602-353-0022 R&D Specialty Manco_____ 602-278-7700
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Swami Subramanian
860 East 46th Street, Tucson AZ 85713 520-624-5628 • Cell 602-418-2171• Fax 520-624-5636 www.atmswiss.com • swami@atmswiss.com
NATHAN CONSULTING, LLC dba
ABSOLUTE TURNING & MACHINE
Machining: Large Service & Sales________ 480-968-9084 Accutech_____________ 801-975-1117 LAYKE, Inc.___________602-272-2654 Southwest Swiss Precision __ 602-438-4670 Abrams Airborne Mfg_____520-887-1727 Matrix Machine________ 480-966-4451 Alpha Machine_________602-437-0322 St. Vrain Manufacturing_____303-702-1529 Absolute Turning and Machine_520-624-5628 Metalcraft Inc.__________480-967-4889 Backerworks Mfg______ 505-342-2943 Trepanning Specialties____562-633-8110 Alpha Machine_________602-437-0322 Metzfab_____________ 602-618-2841 Continental Machining___ 800-777-2483 Uni-Tek_____________602-272-2601 American Spirit Investments_ 480-367-9545 McFarland Machine & Eng___480-966-1388 Empire Precision Mach.____480-633-4580 Annovaprise___________623-551-5775 Micropulse West_________480-966-2300 HK Machining_________ 602-278-6704 Machining: Contract Absolute Turning & Machine_ 520-624-5628 Arcas Machine Inc_____ 480-632-9414 Micro-Tronics, Inc_______ 602-437-8995 KLK Ind._____________ 602-267-1331 Mach: Turning CNC Aero Design & Mfg______ 602-437-8080 Nichols Precision______480-804-0593 Milco Wire EDM/Waterjet____ 714-373-0098 3D Machine LLC________480-239-8254 AERO Spring & Mfg Co_____602-243-4329 Arizona Wire & Tool_______ 480-813-1002 Morsch Machine_________ 480-961-7673 Absolute Turning & Machine__520-624-5628 Annovaprise__________ 623-551-5775 AzMark_____________480-926-8969 Nichols Precision______ 480-804-0593 Alpha Machine_________602-437-0322 Arizona Wire & Tool_______480-813-1002 B&B Fabrication & Machine___623-271-6855 Osborn Products_________623-587-0335 American Spirit Investments_ 480-367-9545 Campro Mfg________602-298-8700 BID Machine, Inc_______ 480-892-7304 PGI _______________505-884-5782 Annovaprise___________623-551-5775 Evans Precision Machining__ 623-581-6200 CAID Industries_________520-294-3126 Pierpont Manufacturing_____ 602-233-1335 Arcas Machine Inc_____ 480-632-9414 Flex-Pro____________ 623-581-0551 Campro Mfg________602-298-8700 PMBC____________ _602-431-8131 AzMark_____________480-926-8969 GHT Services__________ 480-396-1800 Challenger Aerospace_____ 480-894-0802 Powill Manufacturing_____623-780-4100 Bar-S Machine_______ 928-636-2115 Gilbert Metal Stamping____ 480-503-1283 Continental Machining___800-777-2483 Precise Metal Products_____602-272-2625 Campro Mfg________ 602-298-8700 Group Mfg Serv.________ 480-966-3952 Evans Precision Machining___ 623-581-6200 Profiles Tool & Engineering___480-894-1008 Cassavant Machining____ 602-437-4005 HK Machining________ 602-278-6704 Fives _____________ 909-263-9282 Pro Precision__________602-353-0022 Continental Machining___ 800-777-2483 Infinisys____________ 602-276-2276 Flex-Pro____________ 623-581-0551 ProtoTech____________520-579-9873 Jan’s Inc.___________ 480-833-7305 GHT Services___________480-396-1800 Quality Mold________ 480-892-5480 EDM Express___________ 800-780-7075 JC Machine & Motorsports___602-790-2207 Glover Precision, Inc._____480-464-0150 R&D Specialty Manco______602-278-7700 Exactitude Precision_______ 602-316-6957 JD Machine__________ 801-782-4403 HK Machining_________602-278-6704 RMSS______________ 623-780-5904 Flex-Pro____________ 623-581-0551 KLK Ind._____________ 602-267-1331 Hi-Tech Machining & Eng____520-889-8325 St. Vrain Manufacturing_____ 303-702-1529 GHT Services___________480-396-1800 McFarland Machine & Eng___480-966-1388 HPMP______________ 801-619-9850 Sunshine Metals_______ 714-225-4972 Glover Precision, Inc._____ 480-464-0150 Micropulse West________ 480-966-2300 Infinisys____________ 602-276-2276 Toolcraft of Phoenix_____623-435-5405 Hi-Tech Machining & Eng____520-889-8325 Pierpont Manufacturing_____602-233-1335 Jan’s Inc.____________480-833-7305 Uni-Tek_____________ 602-272-2601 HPMP______________ 801-619-9850 Profiles Tool & Engineering__ 480-894-1008 JB’s Precision_________ 623-581-9088 Val-Tech Mfg___________ 480-966-7376 JC Machine & Motorsports___ 602-790-2207 ProtoTech___________ 520-579-9873 JC Machine & Motorsports___602-790-2207 WC Machine & Tool_ ______480-507-4620 JD Ellen LLC________ 623-587--0253 JD Machine___________801-782-4403 TVT Die Casting________ 800-280-2278 JD Ellen LLC________ 623-587--0253 Wire-Tech___________480-966-1591 Wrico_____________ 480-892-7800 JD Machine___________801-782-4403 Wrico_____________ 480-892-7800 McFarland Machine & Eng___ 480-966-1388 Metzfab_____________ 602-618-2841 KLK Ind._____________ 602-267-1331 Machining Composites Machining: CNC 3D Machine LLC_______480-239-8254 L&W Machine Co______602-323-2560 Absolute Turning & Machine__520-624-5628 Morsch Machine________ 480-961-7673 93 93
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Flex-Pro____________ 623-581-0551 JC Machine & Motorsports__ 602-790-2207 Glover Precision , Inc.______ 480-464-0150 Rentzel Tool Compnay____ 480-832-0700 Machining: Prototype Hi-Tech Machining & Eng____ 520-889-8325 A A T C ____________602-268-1467 HK Machining_________ 602-278-6704 HPMP______________ 801-619-9850 Absolute Turning & Machine_ 520-624-5628 JB’s Precision________ 623-581-9088 Accutech_____________ 801-975-1117 Nichols Precision______ 480-804-0593 Val-Tech Mfg__________ 480-966-7376 JC Machine & Motorsports___ 602-790-2207 Alpha Machine________ 602-437-0322 Wire-Tech___________ 480-966-1591 Osborn Products________ 623-587-0335 JD Ellen LLC________ 623-587--0253 Annovaprise__________ 623-551-5775 PGI _______________505-884-5782 Machining: Quick Turn JD Machine___________ 801-782-4403 Arcas Machine Inc____ 480-632-9414 Annovaprise__________ 623-551-5775 Precision Metalworks___ 602-455-9575 Jemelco, Inc._________480-804-9541 Backerworks Mfg_____ 505-342-2943 Flex-Pro___________ 623-581-0551 Profiles Tool & Engineering___480-894-1008 JWB Manufacturing_______ 480-967-4600 Bar-S Machine_______928-636-2115 HK Machining________ 602-278-6704 Rentzel Tool Compnay_____480-832-0700 LAYKE, Inc._________ 602-272-2654 BID Machine, Inc_______480-892-7304 JC Machine & Motorsports__ 602-790-2207 RMSS ______________623-780-5904 Lynch Brothers Mfg_______ 602-267-7575 Continental Machining__ 800-777-2483 Jemelco, Inc.________ 480-804-9541 Ron Grob Co.__________970-667-5320 Matrix Machine_______ 480-966-4451 Evans Precision______ 623-581-6200 RB Machine Co, Inc______ 602-272-6869 St. Vrain Manufacturing_____ 303-702-1529 Micropulse West_________480-966-2300 Exactitude Precision______ 602-316-6957 Rentzel Tool Compnay____ 480-832-0700 Stewart Precision Mfg______623-492-9400 Micro-Tronics, Inc______ 602-437-8995 Flex-Pro___________ 623-581-0551 RMSS______________623-780-5904 Uni-Tek____________ 602-272-2601 Metalcraft Inc.__________ 480-967-4889 GHT Services__________ 480-396-1800 Machining: Milling Val-Tech Mfg__________ 480-966-7376 Morsch Machine_________ 480-961-7673 Glover Precision, Inc.____ 480-464-0150 3D Machine LLC______ 480-239-8254 Metalcraft Inc.__________ 480-967-4889 Nelson Engineering____ 602-273-7114 HPMP_____________ 801-619-9850 AG Machining_________805-531-9595 Morsch Machine_________ 480-961-7673 Nichols Precision______ 480-804-0593 Infinisys____________ 602-276-2276 Bar-S Machine______ 928-636-2115 St. Vrain Manufacturing_____ 303-702-1529 Osborn Products_________ 623-587-0335 Jan’s Inc.___________ 480-833-7305 Challenger Aerospace______480-894-0802 Sunshine Metals_______ 714-225-4972 PGI ______________ 505-884-5782 Jemelco, Inc.________ 480-804-9541 EDM Express__________ 800-780-7075 Uni-Tek_____________ 602-272-2601 Powill Mfg____________ 623-780-4100 JC Machine & Motorsports__ 602-790-2207 Exactitude Precision______ 602-316-6957 Machining Plastic Pro Precision__________602-353-0022 JD Ellen LLC________ 623-587--0253 Fives _____________ 909-263-9282 Absolute Turning & Machine__520-624-5628 ProtoTech____________520-579-9873 JD Machine__________ 801-782-4403 Flex-Pro___________ 623-581-0551 Glover Precision, Inc._____ 480-464-0150 Quality Mold________ 480-892-5480 JWB Manufacturing______ 480-967-4600 GHT Services__________ 480-396-1800 Machining Precision R&D Specialty Manco______602-278-7700 KLK Ind.____________ 602-267-1331 Glover Precision, Inc.____ 480-464-0150 3D Machine LLC_______480-239-8254 Rentzel Tool Compnay_____480-832-0700 L&W Machine Co_____ 602-323-2560 Hi-Tech Machining & Eng___ 520-889-8325 AATC _____________ 602-268-1467 RMSS_____________623-780-5904 McFarland Machine & Eng__ 480-966-1388 Infinisys____________ 602-276-2276 Accutech_____________ 801-975-1117 Service & Sales_______ 480-968-9084 Metalcraft Inc._________ 480-967-4889 JC Machine & Motorsports__ 602-790-2207 Abrams Airborne Mfg_____ 520-887-1727 Southwest Swiss Precision ___ 602-438-4670 Metzfab_____________602-618-2841 JD Machine__________ 801-782-4403 Absolute Turning & Machine__520-624-5628 St. Vrain Manufacturing_____ 303-702-1529 Micropulse West________ 480-966-2300 L&W Machine Co_____ 602-323-2560 Alpha Machine_________602-437-0322 Stewart Precision Mfg______623-492-9400 Nichols Precision_____ 480-804-0593 Metalcraft Inc._________ 480-967-4889 Arcas Machine Inc_____ 480-632-9414 Sun Tech__________ 480-921-1665 Osborn Products________ 623-587-0335 Micro-Tronics, Inc_______602-437-8995 Arizona Wire & Tool_______ 480-813-1002 Toolcraft of Phoenix____ 623-435-5405 PGI_______________505-884-5782 Morsch Machine________ 480-961-7673 Auer Precision__________ 480-834-4637 Uni-Tek_____________ 602-272-2601 Rentzel Tool Compnay____ 480-832-0700 RMSS _____________ 623-780-5904 AzMark___________ 480-926-8969 Val-Tech Mfg___________ 480-966-7376 Pro Precision________ 602-353-00220 Stewart Precision Mfg_____ 623-492-9400 Backerworks Mfg______ 505-342-2943 WC Machine & Tool_______480-507-4620 ProtoTech___________ 520-579-9873 Uni-Tek____________ 602-272-2601 BID Machine, Inc________480-892-7304 Weiser/Mile High Precision___303-280-2778 R&D Specialty Manco_____ 602-278-7700 Wire-Tech___________ 480-966-1591 Cassavant Machining____ 602-437-4005 Wire-Tech__________ 480-966-1591 RB Machine Co, Inc______ 602-272-6869 Machining: Semiconductor Challenger Aerospace______480-894-0802 Machining: Production RMSS ____________ 623-780-5904 KLK Ind.____________ 602-267-1331 Continental Machining___ 800-777-2483 GHT Services___________ 480-396-1800 St. Vrain Manufacturing____ 303-702-1529 L&W Machine Co_____ 602-323-2560 Evans Precision Mach’g__ 623-581-6200 HPMP______________ 801-619-9850 Stewart Precision Mfg_____ 623-492-9400 Machining: Swiss Fives ______________909-263-9282 Innovia_____________480-966-6090 Uni-Tek____________ 602-272-2601 Absolute Turning & Machine_ 520-624-5628 94
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Office: 480.306.7748 4221 E. Raymond Str. Fax: 480.306.7769 Suite #103 Info@swwj-laser.com Phoenix, AZ 85040
www.swwj-laser.com Bar-S Machine_______ 928-636-2115 Cassavant Machining___ 602-437-4005 HPMP______________801-619-9850 Ron Grob___________ 970-667-5320 Southwest Swiss Precision __ 602-438-4670
Molds: Steel Manufacturing: PC Boards Aero Tech___________ 801-292-0493 503-640-5733 Cascade Systems Tech Dennis Reynolds PH 602-863-3196 OUTGASING Manufacturing: Electrode 17464 N. 25th Ave. Ste B1 Wire-Tech____________ 480-966-1591 CGS Technologies______ 623-434-3136 Phoenix, AZ 85023 DR@finelinefabricating.com Mfg: PhotoChemical PAINTING Machining: Ultra-Precision Aero Tech____________ 801-292-0493 Arizona Finishing_______ 602-438-4443 Auer Precision_________ 480-834-4637 The Metal Man________ 800-448-9448 Vacco Industries_________ 626-443-7121 Coating Technologies_____ 623-581-2648 Southwest Swiss Precision __ 602-438-4670 TMM Precision ________ 800-448-9448 Etching Fabrication Hollow Metal Xpress______ 866-936-7001 Nichols Precision_____ 480-804-0593 Tube Service Company___602-267-9865 Turnkey Product Services Precise Metal Products____ 602-272-2625 Machining: Turning: Wrico_____________ 480-892-7800 Aero Tech____________ 801-292-0493 Precision Industrial Painting_ 602-256-0260 Automatic Vacco Industries________ 626-443-7121 Vacco Industries_________ 626-443-7121 STP Performance Coating LLC__ 602-276-1231 Absolute Turning and Machine_520-624-5628 Laser Cutting:Rotary Axis METAL FORMING Painting& Blast Booths American Prec. Machine___ 602-269-6298 K-zell Metals, Inc.____ 602-232-5882 Allfab Engineering_______ 602-437-0497 STP Performance Coating LLC__ 602-276-1231 Ayers Gear & Mach_____ 623-934-6913 Laser Engraving & Etching B&B Fabrication & Machine___ 623-271-6855 Phosphate AzMark___________ 480-926-8969 TechMark___________ 480-820--9444 Creedbilt Inc________ 623-939-8119 Coating Technologies_____ 623-581-2648 Challenger Aerospace___ 480-894-0802 Vacco Industries________ 626-443-7121 Fry Fabrications_________ 602-454-0701 Powder Coating EDM Express__________ 800-780-7075 Laser Marking Arizona Finishing_______ 602-438-4443 Evans Precision Mach’g___ 623-581-6200 TechMark___________ 480-820--9444 TMM Precision _________ 800-448-9448 LA Specialties__________602-269-7612 METAL STAMPING HPMP______________801-619-9850 MANUFACTURING High Production Precision Perfection Industrial Finishing_520-434-9090 JB’s Precision Ind______ 623-581-9088 Abrams Airborne Mfg____ 520-887-1727 Perma-Finish, Inc_______ 602-278-1733 Stamping LAYKE, Inc._________ 602-272-2654 Aero Tech___________ 801-292-0493 Southwest Powder Coating__ 602-272-0878 Precision Die & Stamping____480-967-2038 Matrix Machine_______ 480-966-4451 APMI _____________ 480-668-0024 Wet Paint/CARC Thompson Machine_____ 505-823-1453 Micro-Tronics, Inc______ 602-437-8995 B&B Fabrication & Machine__ 623-271-6855 Perfection Industrial Finishing_520-434-9090 METALIZING PGI ______________ 505-884-5782 CAID Industries________ 520-294-3126 Precision Industrial Painting_ 602-256-0260 Rentzel Tool Compnay____ 480-832-0700 Cascade Systems Tech_____ 503-640-5733 Bolt’s Metallizing________ 602-244-2432 Sandblast/Automated RMSS _____________ 623-780-5904 Creedbilt Inc_______ 623-939-8119 MOLDING: RUBBER STP Performance Coating LLC__ 602-276-1231 Stewart Precision Mfg_____ 623-492-9400 Exactitude Precision______ 602-316-6957 Micro-Tronics, Inc________602-437-8995 Screenprinting & Pad Harschco LLC________602-617-7514 MACHINING: LASER MOLDS Printing Hi-Tech Machining & Eng___ 520-889-8325 PMBC_____________ 602-431-8131 Laser Cutting STP Performance Coating LLC__ 602-276-1231 AEI Fabrication________ 480-733-6594 Group Manufacturing Serv_ 480-966-3952 JWB Manufacturing_______ 480-967-4600 PLATING Allfab Engineering______ 602-437-0497 KLK Ind.____________ 602-267-1331 Quality Mold_________ 480-892-5480 Arizona Hard Chrome______602-278-8671 Fine Line Laser Cutting__602-863-3196 Metzfab____________ 602-618-2841 Toolcraft of Phoenix____ 623-435-5405 ChemResearch__________602-253-4175 CAID Industries________ 520-294-3126 PMBC____________ 602-431-8131 Molds: Construction KLK Ind._____________602-267-1331 Precision Metal Products_ 408-699-5037 JWB Manufacturing_______ 480-967-4600 Coating Technologies_____ 623-581-2648 Collins Metal Finishing_____ 602-275-3117 McFarland Machine & Eng__ 480-966-1388 RMSS______________ 623-780-5904 Molds: Plastic Injection Precise Metal Products____ 602-272-2625 Scriven Precision_______ 480-961-9775 Micro-Tronics, Inc________602-437-8995 E.P.S.I._____________ 714-256-8950 Precision Metal Products_ 408-699-5037 Wire-Tech____________ 480-966-1591 Gold Tech Industries______ 480-968-1930 Manufacturing: Cable L A Specialties__________602-269-7612 Molds: Rubber Research Engineering Dev_ 602-484-8982 Assemblies Southwest Waterjet-Laser_ 480-306-7748 Cascade Systems Tech_____ 503-640-5733 Toolcraft of Phoenix____ 623-435-5405 Louie’s Black Oxide______ 602-257-0530 95 95
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BOB HUDZIK
E.D.M. Specialists Precision Machining
SUN TECH Since 1980 1930 E. 3rd St., #13 Tempe, AZ 85281
& ENG.
(480) 921-1665 Cell: (480) 215-7144 suntech@suntecheng.net
AEIFABRICATION RONKOTLOFF Founder / CEO
TEL 480.733.6594 FAX 480.733.6596 EMAIL Ron@AEIFab.com WEB www.AEIFab.com MAIL 1113 W. Birchwood Avenue Mesa, Arizona 85210
6532 W Flint St. Ste. 1 Chandler, AZ 85226
SPINNING: Metal Nelson Engineering_______ 602-273-7114 SPLINES Apache Gear, Inc_______ 623-934-7144 SPRAY: METAL, PLASMA Gold PRODUCT DESIGN Bolt’s Metallizing________602-244-2432 E.P.S.I.______________714-256-8950 Design and Modeling Empire Precision Mach.___ 480-633-4580 Foresight Finishing_______480-921-0000 Bar-S Machine_______ 928-636-2115 Gold Tech Industries_______480-968-1930 PROCESSING: CHEMICAL SPRINGS LA Specialties__________ 602-269-7612 Flat and Wire Springs Nickel/ Chrome/Palladium PRODUCTION AERO Spring & Mfg Co____ 602-243-4329 Collins Metal Finishing_____ 602-275-3117 Precision Metalworks___602-455-9575 E.P.S.I.______________714-256-8950 Challenger Aerospace______ 480-894-0802 SPRINGWORKS Utah_____ 801-298-0113 Sav-On Plating__________602-252-4311 Foresight Finishing_______480-921-0000 Louie’s Black Oxide______ 602-257-0530 STAMPING PUNCHING AERO Spring & Mfg Co____ 602-243-4329 Anodizing Gold Tech Industries_______480-968-1930 AEI Fabrication_________ 480-733-6594 Chemetall___________714-739-2821 LA Specialties__________ 602-269-7612 Auer Precision__________480-834-4637 Fry Fabrications_________ 602-454-0701 ChemResearch__________602-253-4175 Perfection Industrial Finishing_ 520-434-9090 CygnetStamping & Fab_____ 818-240-7574 Collins Metal Finishing_____ 602-275-3117 Sav-On Plating__________ 602-252-4311 Group Manufacturing Serv__ 480-966-3952 Gilbert Metal Stamping____ 480-503-1283 Hollow Metal Xpress_______ 866-936-7001 FutureWeld__________ 602-437-2426 Precise Metal Products____ 602-272-2625 Silver Plating McFarland Machine & Eng___ 480-966-1388 Gold Tech Industries______ 480-968-1930 E.P.S.I.______________714-256-8950 Precision Die & Stamping___ 480-967-2038 Nelson Engineering_______ 602-273-7114 Perfection Industrial Finishing_520-434-9090 Gold Tech Industries_______480-968-1930 Scriven Precision_______ 480-961-9775 Phoenix Metalcraft_____ 602-279-4810 Pilkington Metal Finishing___ 801-972-2146 Tin: Bright Thompson Machine_____505-823-1453 Precision Metalworks___ 602-455-9575 Foresight Finishing_______480-921-0000 Brass Plating Weiser/Mile High Precision__ 303-280-2778 Precision Metal Products__ 408-699-5037 Tin: Matte Sav-On Plating__________602-252-4311 Whitley Machine_______ 602-323-5550 WC Machine & Tool_______ 480-507-4620 Gold Tech Industries_ _ _____480-968-1930 Bronze Plating Wrico_____________480-892-7800 ROBOTICS Tin / Zinc Plate Sav-On Plating__________602-252-4311 Precision Metal Forming Collins Metal Finishing_____ 602-275-3117 CAID Industries_________ 520-294-3126 SPRINGWORKS Utah______ 801-298-0113 Copper ROLLING Foresight Finishing______ 480-921-0000 E.P.S.I.______________714-256-8950 Thompson Machine_____505-823-1453 AG Machining_________ 805-531-9595 Perfection Industrial Finishing_ 520-434-9090 Gold Tech Industries______ 480-968-1930 Wrico_____________ 480-892-7800 SAW CUTTING Sav-On Plating_ _ ________ 602-252-4311 Electroless Nickel Stamping: Aerospace POLISHING Gold Tech Industries______ 480-968-1930 Industrial Precision Grinding__ 310-352-4700 Wrico_____________ 480-892-7800 SINTERING Gold Tech Industries_____ 480-968-1930 Embrittlement Relief Stamping: Deep Draw E.P.S.I._____________ 714-256-8950 L A Specialties_________ 602-269-7612 Western Sintering_______ 509-375-3096 Thompson Machine_____505-823-1453 96 96
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Hughes........................................80 Delcam... ............................................88 LA Specialties....................................91 S&S Machinery Sales.........................79 Desert Fire.. .......................................91 Larry Arroues and Assoc................. 80 Samuel, Son & Co.........................33,81 Desert EDM Sales.............................80 Layke Inc...........................................87 Sandvik Coromant....................... 79,85 DM Machine Repair........................ 84 Layke Tactical...................................85 Sav-On Plating....................................94 DNKB...........................................71,86 Lights Out Electric............................84 Savage Machine ................................78 Dolphin..............................................86 Lone Arrow...................................... 80 Sawblade.com...................................99 DT Products Metal Fab....................89 Louie’s Black Oxide....................88,90 SBG Capital.........................................83 E Solutions................ .......................84 Louie’s Gun Finishing...................... 90 Scriven Precision Fab........................86 Ebbco Inc......................................... 78 Lynch Brothers................................. 90 Sentry Insurance................................85 Echols Saw & Supply........................77 Lynden Intl........................................86 Service & Sales...................................96 Edge Technologies..........................80 Machinery Sales........................... ... 79 Setco Spindles & Slides ....................82 EDM Express.................................... 88 Magnum Prec.............13,47,77-79,85 Shaw Precision Grind’g.....................88 EDM Network............................. 38,81 Makino........................................ 25,77 SIGMATEK..........................................97 EDM Perform Access....................... 82 Marshall Tool & Supply...................83 Southwest Powder............................90 EDM Tech........................................ 88 MarZee...................................60,89,97 Sonic Tool & Gage.............................90 Ellison Machinery.........5,65,69,77,79 Mario Pinto.......................................84 Southwest Powder............................90 Empire Precision Mach................... 93 Matrix Machine.......................... 86,87 Southwest Swiss Precision...............92 EPSI................................................... 95 May Foundry.................................... 89 Southwest Waterjet-Laser................95 Evans Precision Mach’g...................89 McFarland Machine..........................92 Spectrum Aerospace.........................95 Exactitude.........................................91 Mesa 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GoSynergy Petroleum.....................49 National Grinding & Mfg................ 89 TMM Precision............................. 86,89 GHT Services LLC............................. 86 Nelson Engineering....................71,88 T.S.M. Mach. .....................................77 Gilbert Metal Stamping................... 86 NFP Property & Casualty..................84 TechMark...........................................89 Gladhill Assoc.............................. 76,91 Nichols Precision..............................93 TechShop...........................................97 Global EDM Supply.........................80 North-South ...............................18,80 Temtco Steel......................................81 Glover Precision, Inc.........................91 OGP....................................................78 The Metal Man............................ 86,89 GMA Garnet................................58,79 Omax................................................ 79 The Werks C&C.................................82 GMN USA....................................64,80 ONA EDM USA..................................78 Thermal-Vac.......................................93 Gold Tech Industries............... ...36,91 Orion Registrar.................................91 Thompson Machine..........................88 GoSynergy.........................................41 Osborn Products........................87,89 TMI (GibbsCAM)................................84 Grindworks.......................................87 Perfection Industrial Finishing........94 Toolcraft of Phoenix..........................92 Group Manufacturing..................... 88 Perma-Finish Inc...............................95 Tornquist Machinery.........................78 Hangsterfers...............................81,82 PGI......................................................91 Total Quality Sys................................81 Helical Solutions.............................. 84 Phoenix Grinding.............................87 Trepanning Specialties......................94 Hi-Tech Machining & Welding....... 88 Phoenix Heat Treat......................... 90 Treske.................................................59 HK Machining.................................. 92 Phoenix Metalcraft...........................95 Triad.............................................. 52,85 Hoffman Filter..................................49 Phoenix Metal Trading....................85 Trusty-Cook................................. 45,79 Hollie Perlow....................................97 Pierpont Manufacturing.......62-63,93 Tube Service......................................81 Hollow Metal Xpress....................... 88 Pilkington Metal Finishing...............96 TVT Die Casting........................... 39,89 Horizon Carbide.............................. 86 Pioneer Distributing Co...................87 TW Metals..........................................82 HPMP................................................ 96 Powill Mfg........................................ 90 US Bank..............................................85 Hurco.................................................17 PPE Engineering...............................97 U S Shop Tools............................ 21,80 HydMech.....................................20,77 Precise Metal Products....................88 Ulbrich of CA......................................81 Ind. Metal Supply.......................70,82 Precision Billet............................42-43 United Performance Metals...........44,80 Ind.Tool Die......................................91 Precision Die & Stamping................86 Universal Laser Systems Inc.................78 Industrial Precision Grinding..........90 Precision Industrial Painting............87 Uni-Tek...............................................91 Infinisys....................................... 87,91 P. ro Precision ....................................89 Vacco Industries................................87 Infor.................................................. 85 Profiles Tool & Eng...........................88 Val-Tech Mfg......................................88 Ingersoll Cutting Tools....................81 ProtoTech..........................................78 Vehr Manufacturing.................... 54-55 Innovia.............................................. 88 QS Machinery....................................78 Verisurf...............................................79 Integrated Systems Inc................... 96 Qualichem, Inc...................................81 VonRuden.................................... 82,84 Interstate Steel Salvage.............26,83 Quality Improvement Consulting....85 Washington Cal. .........................90 IPE Aerospace..................................24 Quality Mold.....................................89 WC Machine & Tool..........................88 IPG.....................................................90 Quick Turn Financial.........................85 Weiser/Mile High Precision..............89 IRH.................................................... 86 R&D Specialty Manco......................92 Western Cast Parts............................86 ITDE...................................................91 RB Machine........................................96 Western Sintering Co.......................96 Jan’s Inc............................................. 92 Reliance Metal Centee.......1,28-29,83 Western States Metal.................. 58,84 J B’s Prec Ind.....................................91 Rentzel Tool Co.................................94 White’s Niche Products.....................79 JC Machine & Motorsports.........................93 Research Engineering Dev......................87 Whitley Machine .........................89 JD Ellen .............................................91 Resell CNC. 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