A2Z Metalworker Magazines for AZ, NV, & NM

Vol. 17, No.3 May/June 2011

Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico Edition

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New Owners of Landmark Manufacturing One of First in Arizona to Certify to ISO9001:AS9100 Rev C With the Help From BMSC’s Bretta Kelly

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A Division of Ellison Machinery Co. LLC A Division of Ellison Machinery Co. LLC Specifications subject to change without notice. Not responsible for typographical errors. Machines shown with optional equipment.

Editors Corner I call myself an editor, a publisher, but the reality is I am a sales person.Without our loyal advertisers, the magazines wouldn’t exist. With their ads, I also have the ability to add lots of content about what is happening in the industry. So, I’ll call myself what I am…a sales person.

Sales can be oh so easy, when it works! I interviewed two machine shops that recently purchased some very high tech, high-end machines for their businesses. In both cases, how the sale occurred and who finally was awarded the business, is very interesting. In the case of Satowfi, a dying battery served as the basis for the end machine purchased (and likely follow-on business). In the case of start-up Howell Precision Fab, the company that believed in a start-up won the sale. Howell will also likely remain faithful to the company that helped them to get their start.

I was browsing through a home improvements ad magazine that came to my house a few weeks ago. I was intrigued with “retractable screens”, allowing a nice breeze to flow through the house in the few months in Arizona when you can take advantage of this. I browsed the 3 companies whose ads appeared in the magazine, and saw that all offered comparable pricing.

On that Sunday, I contacted each of the 3 companies online to request their complimentary on-site measurement and quote. One company called me within an hour, and asked if I was available Sunday evening for the in-home survey. I was available, and they came on time.

I was very impressed with the product and the level of expertise the installer demonstrated. In fact, I made the decision then and there to purchase through this company.Two days later, the 2nd company contacted me, and I told them I had already made my purchase decision. The 3rd company never contacted me at all!

Though the company that I contracted with wasn’t able to do the installation on the date planned, due to a serious medical emergency, they got in touch with another distributor of their product, and scheduled the install a few days after our initial plan.

They communicated throughout the process, when the delay occurred.

It seems simple. Respond immediately to sales leads. Follow-up as needed, and when there are unforeseen problems that occur, communicate with the customer. No surprises.

It’s amazing how it works when you just do the right thing, and do what you say you will do. If everything in life could just be this easy!

I wish you a very successful, happy and healthy NewYear, and God Bless our Troops.

Linda Daly Publisher

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Cover Landmark Manufacturing Owners Proudly Display Their ISO9001/AS9100 Rev C Certification With BMSC’s Bretta Kelly. Photography

by Robbie.

Announcements/Releases......................6-7

Shop Profile......................................1,28-30 Feature Articles........................ 50-51,54-55

Buyers Guide Equipment....................76-82

Buyers Guide Processes.....................83-93

Card Gallery........................................76-93

Index of Advertisers..................................94

Editorial..................................... Throughout

Published by: A2Z Metalworker

PUBLISHER/EDITOR Linda Daly linda@azmetalworker.com Mail Address: PO Box 93295 Phoenix, AZ 85070 Telephone: (602) 412-7696 Website: www.azmetalworker.com E-mail: info@azmetalworker.com

CONTRIBUTORS Robbie Barrkman Gene Wirth Kim Carpenter Published bi-monthly to keep metalworkers abreast of news and to supply a viable vendor source for the industry.

Circulation: The A2Z Metalworker has compiled and maintains a master list of approximately 6300 people actively engaged in the precison manufacturing Industry. It has an estimated pass on readership of more than 19,300 people.

Advertising Rates, deadlines and mechanical requirements furnished upon request or you can go to www.azmetalworker.com.

All photos and copy become the property of A2Z Metalworker.

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

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

Makino

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Introducing the a51nx. It’s a one-machine expansion program.

It expands the cutting envelope by 14%, boosts spindle torque 19%, and improves rigidity for higher metal-removal rates and reduced vibration. Its 1G linear axis acceleration and one-second 90-degree table indexing significantly reduce non-cut time. The reliability of the a51nx expands on the industry-leading performance of Makino’s 1-Series. Most of all, the a51nx enables you to expand your ability to make lower-cost parts faster. See how at makino.com/a51nx.

For more information on all Makino products in Arizona, contact David Gundersen at 602-228-0347 or David.Gundersen@makino.com. © 2011 Makino

Announcements & Releases Expertise Boosts Semiray Capabilities!

Mike Rakowsky recently joined Semiray to concentrate on boosting the firm’s sales volume through attention to major customers. Mike brings 25 years’ experience in Industrial Marketing & Management as former President of a significant Defense Contractor. Mike is a graduate of Brown University.

Michael Howcroft joins Semiray Special Process Division on February 7, 2011 as Chemical Process Manager. Mike graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 1978 with a degree in Chemistry and pursued graduate studies in Analytical Chemistry at the University of Arizona. Mike has worked in the Aerospace Metal Finishing business in the areas of Laboratory Management, Special Process Finishing, Environmental and Safety Compliance, and Process Improvement. He was a Governor appointed Commissioner and Chairman for the Commission on the Arizona Environment.

Mike has been instrumental in developing corrosion protection processes for magnesium including anodizing and conversion coating. His attention to detail insures that all metal finishing processes meet the requirements of NADCAP and industry specifications, while his keen ability to problem solve ensures that no part is too complex to meet chemical process blueprint requirements. Semiray welcomes Mike and Michael to our team of dedicated professionals.

For more information contact Stefanie M. Villa, Sales Manager at 602.275.1917 ext. 241 or visit our website at www.semirayinc.com to obtain a competitive quote.

Micro 100 Announces Micro-Quik!

Micro 100 is proud to announce their NEWEST product offering which is taking the industry by storm! Micro-Quik is the name, and features a complete proprietary Quick-Change Tooling System that was designed to supply products for those who utilize Swiss CNC, Small Machining Centers and Lathes for their day to day manufacturing needs.

Micro 100’s “Unique” and proprietary 3-point Locating/Locking system is engineered for Maximum Tool Rigidity and Centerline Repeatability within +.0005” from Tool to Tool! This is unheard of and un-matched in today’s industry!

Whether your applications require… Boring, Grooving, Profiling, or Threading, MICRO 100 has solutions that will Reduce Machine Setups, Downtimes, and Tooling Costs while Boosting Productivity!

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For more details, contact your Local MICRO 100 Authorized Distributor or Charlie Mersinas (AZ Regional Manager) at:(480) 495-1454 Email: micro100az@gmail.com or Micro 100 Direct at 1-800-421-8065.

Marshall Tool & Supply Corp. Introduces Parlec Presetter MarshallTool & Supply is pleased to announce its expanded relationship with Parlec. Barry Powell, General Manager of Marshall Tool says, “We are now a master distributor of Parlec products. As such, we are installing a Parlec Presetter in our Tech Center in Phoenix, and over the next few months, we will be hosting technical seminars on the Parlec presetter and toolholder technology.

Parlec Presetters are most advanced and precise presetters available.”

Barry says thast the Marshall Tool & Supply team will also be offering a Parlec Shrink fit machine. “No other distributor in Arizona has a presetter in their facility”, Barry continued.

Marshall Tool & Supply, in business since 1937, has the largest inventory of cutting tools and related supplies in Arizona. For more information, contact them at 800-331-0213.

EPSI Announces Electroplating Services Electronic Precision Specialties, Inc. (EPSI) has been providing quality electroplating services for the Electronic, Telecommunications, Medical, and Aerospace industries since 1980. In 1985, the current ownership, led by Henry “Hank” Brown, has dedicated itself to providing Quality First electroplated finishes for their customers. Their commitment to quality includes investments in new equipment and technology, which has enabled them to offer customers unequalled quality, service, and reliability.

A new modular line was added during the last quarter of 2010 for the express purpose of processing an additional chemistry, notably Palladium Cobalt, for the Electronics Industry. They are also researching additional equipment for the miniature and nano technology parts arriving at our door.

EPSI is located in Brea, CA. Parts with deep ID’s, complex shapes and/ or dimensional considerations are the specialty of EPSI’s daily production.

Processing systems to support EPSI include: MRP/SIBS---use of barcodes to identify all received product with tracking ability throughout the processing of product. Information including

planning, processing and results is accessible to all EPSI associates via the SIBS program.

TruChem---chemical laboratory control program monitoring the results of real time daily analysis, providing SPC and analysis of the chemistries necessary for quality plating.

S i m p l e Tr a k - - - p ro g r a m f o r monitor ing calibrations of equipment as well as continuous improvement projects, reject determinations, corrective actions and Management review of the Quality Management System governed by our ISO 9001:2008 Certification.

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HaasTec Open House Draws More Than 2100 Visitors

• Effective experience discussing applications • Local demonstrations and customer references • On staff warranty service support to our new sales • Inventory of common wear parts and tooling • 40 years positive vendor and customer feedback

Haas Automation, Inc., reports that its recent HaasTec open house was a complete success, drawing more than 2100 attendees to the company’s headquarters and manufacturing facility in Oxnard, California. The 3-day event drew visitors not only from across the U.S. and Canada, but also from around the world, with attendees from India, China, Israel, Latin America, and several European countries.

Held March 10 – 12, HaasTec included machine demos, extensive tours of Haas Automation’s 1-million-square-foot facility, a catered lunch, and 25 vendor booths with representatives from major CAD/CAM, tooling, and workholding manufacturers. As an added bonus, Stewart-Haas Racing had two racecars on display at the event, including the #14 Chevrolet that Tony Stewart drove to a 2nd-place finish at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Of the 20 machines on display and cutting metal at HaasTec, four were brand-new for 2011, and two – the large-capacity ST-40 and ST-40L turning centers – debuted at the show. Also on hand were the rest of the Haas new generation ST and DS turning centers – including dual-spindle and Y-axis models – as well as the DT-1 Drill/Tap Center, a wide array of new generation Haas VMCs, and a pair of Haas horizontals.

In addition to the CNC machines, HaasTec also featured a selection of Haas rotary products on display, including the brand-new HRT160SS high-speed rotary table. The HRT160SS is the fastest rotary table Haas has built to date, providing a maximum speed of 570° per second – more than four times the speed of the standard HRT160. Its compact size and high speed make it the perfect complement for the DT-1 Drill/ Tap Center, and other high-speed Haas machines.

HaasTec received rave reviews from visitors and vendors alike. “We had such a great time!” enthused Andy Weinberg, of the UCSB School of Engineering. “We were blown away by your factory! It was like going to Disneyland, but better! Our shop is actively trying to raise money to buy a Haas mill and lathe for our student shop, and now, I’m really motivated.”

Peter Marton of Surfware, Inc., had this to say: “It was a tremendously successful event in terms of having very focused and targeted visitors coming by to see how we could provide complimentary solutions to their Haas machines, or new customers looking for ways to be more competitive.”

HaasTec 2011 was the first time in nearly a decade that Haas Automation – America’s leading machine tool builder – has hosted such an expansive event. And by all accounts, it was an overwhelming success.

For more information about Haas Automation and Haas products, call 800-331-6746, or visit www.HaasCNC.com.

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Venture capitalists unite Pentagon with small companies

The Pentagon, in an effort to keep up with commercial technology, is relying on a group of venture capitalists to connect it with small companies that build products with potentially useful military applications.

Called the Defense Venture Catalyst Initiative — or DeVenCI — the program is convening later this month to give companies a chance to pitch energy-related technologies, such as those focused on greener data centers or more efficient wastewater treatment.

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Companies generally first pitch their offerings to the venture capitalist representatives, who then nominate a group to meet with Pentagon officials.

The initiative, which does not fund the development of products or technologies, was conceived as a way to help the Pentagon become more aware of what’s available commercially while helping small companies intimidated by government buying policies make inroads.

H. Lee Buchanan, formerly the Navy’s top acquisition official and now a venture partner at Paladin Capital Group, said the need was clear when he worked at the Pentagon.

“There was never any doubt that the military needed a new window into what was going on in the commercial community,” he said.

At Paladin, Buchanan focuses on “dual-use” companies, or companies that have commercial products that might also be of interest to the government.

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“Our companies have found DeVenCI a great way to get introduced,” Buchanan said. “For these small companies, a large part of the problem is just breaking through that outer shell.”

Herndon-based Xceedium, which ensures organizations can safely provide third parties such as contractors or vendors access to their IT assets, found that the program helped it make inroads in the Pentagon.

The small company, which was selected to move forward in 2008, had a pilot deployment in a single Pentagon office. But after meeting with Defense Department officials through the DeVenCI program, the company soon added more of the department’s offices as customers and expanded into the Department of Homeland Security.

The Pentagon said 10 technologies identified through DeVenCI are now in use.

Roger Novak, founder of Novak Biddle Venture Partners, said the group is improving as it attracts a broader group of defense and intelligence agencies and more venture capitalists with experience working with the military.

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As the government’s budget shrinks, Novak said he expects the program to be all the more relevant as a way to provide the Pentagon and the intelligence community with a means to find innovative products that could be purchased more cheaply.“Agencies [are] coming in and saying, ‘Here are real problems we have that we need to solve,’ ” Novak said.

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The company’s regular business development team will continue to chase projects as small at $2 million.

Wayne Einbinder has been promoted to vice president to spearhead the new division. He works out of the Tempe office.

“The fact that we’re trying to grow our business requires more focus,” he said. “We’ve been chasing a lot of things.”

Sundt recently opened a new office in San Antonio. Einbinder said Sundt is trying to “increase its presence” beyond its core Arizona and California markets.

The company is also steering itself into more joint-venture work.

Currently, Sundt is building the Health Sciences Education Building at the Phoenix Biomedical Campus in a joint venture with DPR Construction. That’s a $100 million project.

At Denver International Airport, Sundt is joint-venturing with Denverbased Haselden Construction LLC to pursue a $175 million project.

Arizona beats nation in small business jobs A new report from Intuit shows Arizona was among the national leaders in small business job growth in last month.

The Intuit Small Business Employment Index found that nationwide, small businesses added about 50,000 jobs last month for a monthly growth rate of 0.3 percent. In Arizona, that rate was higher, at 0.7 percent.

The index is based on figures from the country’s smallest businesses that use Intuit Online Payroll, of which there are more than 1,000 in Arizona.

The report also found that nationwide, small business hourly employees worked an average of 107.6 hours in February, translating to a 24.8hour work week.That’s a 0.1 percent increase from the revised January figure of 107.5 hours.

Average monthly pay for all small business employees was $2,612 per month, a 0.1 percent decrease compared to the previous month revised estimate of $2,614 per month. This translates to wages of about $31,300 per year, part-time work for many small business employees.

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“This month’s report is a lot like last month’s,” said Susan Woodward, the economist who worked with Intuit to create the index. “Small businesses are hiring and their people are working more hours, but measures of compensation are pretty flat, showing that the labor market is still soft.”

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generation of press brakes can reduce the cost of manufacturing by up to 60% and showed how file to part software can automate and streamline the process allowing fabricators to do more with less.

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Jim Johnson, Bystronic Vice president for Sales and marketing, gave a couple of examples on how companies in the Midwest managed to reduce cost and increase sales by using the latest technology.

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Manufacturing Driving Force Behind Economic Gains, Beige Book Shows Under the headline “Beige Book Shows Manufacturers Lead Activity,” the Financial Times reports on the results of the Fed’s Beige Book survey, quoting the central bank as saying, “While many districts described the improvements as only moderate, most districts stated that gains were widespread across sectors.

Manufacturing continued to lead, with virtually every district citing examples of steady improvement, often with reports of increased hiring.”

AFP reports, “The US economy has improved since early March, the Federal Reserve said recently, describing a broad but moderate recovery.” The Fed’s Beige Book states that “economic activity generally continued to improve,” and “while many districts described the improvements as only moderate, most districts stated that gains were widespread across sectors.

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The San Jose Mercury News reports, “After decades of sputtering starts and stalled hopes, the electric vehicle is poised to enter the mainstream.” And “advocates argue that EVs are not simply another type of car but a game-changer for the country,” leading to reduced “greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming and enhance[d] national security by reducing the country’s dependence on foreign oil.”

Still, “sales of EVs are expected to be modest for the next few years because of their limited range, relatively high cost and a shortage of charging stations.” GM is boosting Volt production, saying that it “underestimated” demand.

One expert says the growing fuel efficiency of gasoline vehicles, along with the drawbacks of limited range and high cost reduces the interest in EVs, but even he thinks there may be as many as “700,000 to 750,000 plug-in and pure EVs...on American roads by 2015.”

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Half-Humanoid Robot Designed To Assist Industrial Workers The Wired “Gadget Lab” blog reports, “ABB has introduced FRIDA, a half-humanoid robot designed for the industrial life.” FRIDA “features a human-like torso with padded arms that are capable of a wide range of motion, a flexible gripper for handling small components, and cameras for identifying and locating parts.”

And while it “could easily replace a horde of human workers, it’s actually designed to work side-by-side with its mortal counterparts.”

Popular Science reports FRIDA, an acronym for Friendly Robot for Industrial Dual-Arm Assembly, “is designed for the express purpose of working with people, either side-by-side or face-to-face, and as such it calmly obeys the first law of robotics and keeps people safe. It stops its weird hand-clasping motion if any human limbs happen to get in the way, for instance.” Popular Science offers a video of FRIDA in action.

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Ganesh Expands Training Area Ganesh Machinery has greatly expanded the classroom training area at their Chatsworth campus to accommodate the needs of their customers. The new 500 square foot classroom is equipped with computers and projection equipment to facilitate an efficient transfer of the knowledge necessary to make the Ganesh 7 & 8-axis machines as productive as possible. Harvinder Singh, President of Ganesh Machinery, stated, “our business model relies on the satisfaction of our customers and their ability to get the highest level of performance out of their Ganesh machines.”

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Manufacturing’s Strong Performance Sets High Expectations. Under the headline “US Manufacturers Face A High Bar This Quarter,” Reuters reports that manufacturing’s strong performance in the past several quarters, when it has taken point in the US economic recovery, has created very high expectations from investors.

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IndustryWeek reports, “The results of the quarterly Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI Survey on the Business Outlook -- March 2011 suggest a continued growth trend for manufacturing,” with an index reading of 72, this sixth month it has been above the 50 mark, indicating expansion. But“the rate of growth may start slowing later this year.”

Air Transpor t Intelligence repor ted, “EADS and GKN have teamed up at their Filton research centres to drive a radical new manufacturing technology to the aerospace market” known as additive layer manufacturing (ALM).

Donald A. Norman, a MAPI economist and the survey’s coordinator, said, “The results of the March survey show the indexes to be strikingly robust and relatively stable. ... As such, they paint a clear and consistent picture of continued growth in manufacturing sector activity.”

ALM can be used “for effectively growing parts from layers of resin and plastic powder or from layers of metallic powder sintered together by laser or plasma beams,” a technique demonstrated earlier this year to build a bicycle. “The partners are pushing to do the same for aircraft.”

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While the Army prepares to award contracts next month for the Joint Multi-Role (JMR) rotorcraft technology demonstration program, an industry coalition continues to push for funding to perform rapid, incremental “pre-X-plane” demonstrations that would promote innovation.

The term “Joint Multi-Role” has been around for more than a decade, applied to the concept of a common rotorcraft that could replace the current U.S. fleet of attack and utility helicopters. Recently, JMR has been broadened to encompass four classes of rotorcraft that would meet all of the U.S. military’s vertical-lift requirements.

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This impending production cliff has motivated U.S. industry to press with increasing stridency for a new-start program.The Army’s response is the JMR technology demonstration, which falls well short of launching a new acquisition program but sets the stage for development of a nextgeneration rotorcraft to begin around the end of this decade.

In January, the Army’s Aviation Applied Technology Directorate issued a broad agency announcement (BAA) soliciting proposals for JMR demonstrator configuration trades and analyses.These paper studies will identify essential technologies required to meet the broad performance, survivability and sustainability attributes outlined in the BAA. Configuration studies will be focused mainly on the JMR medium class—to replace today’s AH-64D, UH-60M, AH‑1Z and UH-1Y— with excursions into the light (OH-58D) and heavy (CH-47F) classes to identify technologies that are common across a range of rotorcraft, regardless of size.

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Mazak projects monthly output of its Florence plant to reach 130 machine tools per month by the close of Q2 2011 and growing throughout the remainder of 2011.

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integration allows us tremendous control in reacting to market conditions. With the present value of the dollar, we will be exporting more machines in future months from our Florence plant, in addition to building for domestic manufacturers.”

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GE, Cessna Developing New Skin For Planes Popular Science continued coverage of the recent NASA awards to companies to further develop concepts that will lead to “quieter, more fuel efficient, and ultimately safer and better airliner technology,” focusing on the grant given to GE and Cessna for a “self-healing ‘magic skin’” that could repair itself after impacts or lightning strikes as well as protect airplanes from other environmental effects.

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Landmark Precision Manufacturing is in some ways a new company - it celebrated its first year of new ownership on April 22nd of this year. But the company was founded in 1983 as Landmark Tool & Gage, and had a long successful history under previous ownership.

Today, Landmark epitomizes the best ownership in Randy Chamerski, a journeyman machinist, and 3 times successful manufacturing business owner. Over the past 3 decades, Randy owned a machine shop in Chicago, IL, which he later sold, and was instrumental as a co-owner in taking a machine shop in Arizona from near bankruptcy to a multi-million dollar a year precision aerospace operation. Randy says, “We plan to continue our double digit annual growth at Landmark Precision Manufacturing, but we plan a conservative growth strategy that will enable us to continue to provide superior customer support.”

Landmark also represents in its ownership team the talents of one of the most renowned manufacturing companies in the world, Intel Corporation, in Brian and Colleen Walski. The two, husband and wife, who met at Intel, each held high level management positions, Colleen for 19 years and Brian for 25 years.

Today, Landmark Precision Manufacturing is a 50/50 partnership, between the Chamerski’s and Walski’s. “The name change from Landmark Tool & Gage to Landmark Precision Manufacturing was made”, Brian says, “to accurately reflect our company’s capabilities.”

Brian says, “We have been very quiet to the outside world in the first year of our ownership.We used this time to improve our processes, re-engineer our infrastructure, build a team, and to diversify our customer base. I feel really good about what we have accomplished, and now it is time to let everyone know about Landmark Precision Manufacturing.” He continued, “Our internal operations offer an extremely efficient and lean supply chain and manufacturing environment, enabling our processes to be flexible, low cost and produce the highest quality product within the industry.”

When we first purchased Landmark a year ago, the company’s business was primarily dedicated to only a handful of customers; in fact, one customer comprised nearly 80% of their sales. Colleen says, “We knew that a strong business requires a diversified customer base, both in industries and customers. Over this past year, we have increased our customer base well over 400% and added additional corporate divisions to the original key customers.” Landmark’s customers span the Aerospace, Defense, Medical, and Commercial industries, and they can support builds from prototype to production.

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ISO/AS9100 field, and in November, they selected Bretta Kelly of BMSC. Colleen says, “Bretta came highly recommended, and her cost for certification was substantially lower than competitive bids we received. Once Bretta interviewed us, and learned that my background at Intel was in business systems, and Brian’s expertise was in supply chain management, Bretta determined that we could complete the ISO/AS9100 certification with her customizable templates.This meant that we would do much of the up-front work, with little need for a consultant, and the cost would be very palatable for a company in its first year of ownership.”

Bretta says, “When I met with the owners of Landmark to quote their AS9100 system, it was clear that my templates would be the perfect solution for them. Although they were not too familiar with the AS9100 Rev. C Standard, they were very motivated to implement the system themselves. I spent two hours with Colleen explaining how to map out the processes and customize the manual, procedures and

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flow charts around their processes. Once they were complete I spent another two hours reviewing the work that was done and giving some inputs. Colleen then attended one of my internal audit seminars and one week later Landmark passed their AS9100 Rev. C / ISO 9001:2008 audit with only one minor nonconformance. This is absolutely unheard of!”

She continued, “Landmark was the perfect example of how if a company has great processes and focus on customer satisfaction, they can implement an effective management system and be registered to a standard with no pain or stress at all, it was actually the opposite, a very positive and successful experience. I was most impressed with Landmark’s commitment to implement the AS9100 system for the right reasons; not to get a certificate on the wall, but to baseline their current processes and use the AS9100 system to continually improve their processes and their company.”

In fact, the company completed their ISO/AS9100 certification in just less than 3 months! Colleen says, “We actually could have certified earlier, but we were certifying to the newest revision of AS9100, Rev C, and there were very few auditors who could audit to this new revision. Bretta told the team at Landmark Precision Manufacturing that they were one of the first 5 companies in all of Arizona to certify to Rev C.

Randy admits that the team at Landmark isn’t your standard machine shop team, either. Randy’s 10 plus years of running a manufacturing facility in Phoenix earned him the reputation as a successful business owner and machinist. And so, when superior machinists, sales people, and front office people learned that Randy had purchased a manufacturing business, many came to Randy to work for him. Randy says, “We have an A+ caliber team today that is almost triple the size of what we were when we first bought the business, and our team has an average of 35 years of manufacturing experience.”

Brian says, “Landmark’s corporate strategy is to further expand the 28 year reputation of providing quality high tolerance materials into all markets, at a competitive price. Our commitment is to provide our customers with outstanding service and the ability to provide a single source solution to our customers is the key differential to our competition.”

Colleen continued, “What makes me so proud of our team is their strong desire to be the best, to make the best parts for our customer, and their pride in our company.”

Landmark’s Business Systems Manual is 29 pages in length, much smaller than any examples BMSC’s competitors proposed. The manual is their commitment to quality and comprised of all the required policies, objectives, procedures and work flow diagrams. Randy says that the BMSC ISO/AS9100 Management System templates are “the way to go for a small manufacturing company with in-house process/ quality expertise”.

For more information on Landmark Precision Manufacturing, a 28 year old company that has morphed itself in the last year, now with ISO/AS9100 Rev C. certifications, contact them at 480- 940-4001 or go to www. landmarktg.com.

Landmark Precision Manufacturing isn’t just your standard precision manufacturing company. While they are skilled at precision machining, they additionally have capabilities and equipment to handle their customers’ EDM, precision grinding, and certified welding, all done in-house. Their facilities include areas for assembly, manual machines and the

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Hear From Landmark’s Customers.

“I would recommend Landmark to other companies because they are extremely customer oriented. They are very capable of making the complex parts we require, their quality is very good, and they are reasonably priced.

What stands out about Landmark is that they are willing to work with us on prototypes, and now our volumes are in small products. In essence, Landmark is working jointly with our company to improve the end product.

Their recent ISO/AS9100 certification is a critical requirement as we move our prototypes into production.”

Company President, Military Manufacturer Brown and Randy Chamerski from one of their previous employers.

“Commitment to quality.That is what impresses me most about Landmark.They make a variety of parts for our company, and they have supported us with machined parts, laser cutting and stamping.

We tried them out, and we find that their quality is exceptional, their turn-around (delivery schedules) are attractive, and their pricing is very competitive.

I would definitely recommend Landmark Manufacturing to other customers.”

R&D Engineer, Military Manufacturer

We consider them every time we need machining done, and we highly recommend them to others.

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“Amazing and Grateful are the words that describe Landmark’s experience through ISO 9001 / AS9100 C implementation. Working with Bretta, using her BMSC program templates enabled us to take an 27 year old company, under new ownership (as of April 2010), and implement a complete business system in two and half months with very little consulting time. Easy to read and follow Landmark passed our final compliance audit, and were ISO 9001 / AS9100 C registered with ease.

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Schawbel then offers “five ways to break through the clutter and land your dream job.” Among them are demonstrating one’s knowledge and enthusiasm for a particular company, becoming “an early adopter of innovative technologies,” making effective use of networking opportunities, and being “willing to work for free” in order to transition to a paid position.

Boeing Offering Rapid-Scan Inventory Tool Boeing is teaming with Fujitsu to create a maintenance inventory and verification tool designed to enable airline ground crews to check out an airplane’s fitness-to-fly about as fast as they can walk around it or down a passenger aisle.

The idea originated in 2005 with a plea from Japan Airlines (JAL), which noted that Boeing was pushing for suppliers to use radio frequency identification (RFID) tagging on its 787.

Boeing and Airbus have led an industry effort to develop RFID standards under the auspices of the Air Transport Association’s Spec 2000 aviation e-market initiative.

JAL was spending as much as 13 hours to perform one-by-one visual inspections of oxygen generators, often with poor data results. It wondered if RFID chips might wirelessly transmit the maintenance and performance status of the generators to speed the process. Coop says they can; a technician with a scanner can complete an oxygen generator survey in about 8 min. Similarly, RFID tags on emergency life vests can tell if all are in place and whether passenger interference might have compromised them.

To do so, it detects whether the seal of a protective pouch has been breached.

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The JAL initiative was stalled by the 2008 airline recession but has subsequently been renewed. CMO is to be jointly certified by the FAA and Japan Civil Aviation Bureau.

Beyond its initial emphasis on emergency equipment for passengers, CMO products will later be developed to manage rotables— equipment with serial numbers and manuals that are refurbished—and repairables, which are simpler items either discarded or fixed.

RFID tags are not acceptable for all of these applications, often because of antenna interference. For a more rugged device, Boeing has turned to a long-time military supplier, MacSema of Bend, Ore., which makes the Contact Memory Button. It looks like a thickened gold coin. Unlike RFIDs, which can be wirelessly read from 1-3 meters away, the buttons must be touched for a data download. However, they can contain more data than a chip, says MacSema VP Denis Boulet.

CMO will be fleet-agnostic. Of the 12 carriers looking at it, only one flies an allBoeing fleet, Coop says.

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Economist Compares Manufacturing’s Transformation To That Of Agriculture Industry Josh Feinman, chief global economist for DB Advisors writes in a guest blog for CNBC “Most people think that US manufacturing has been on the wane for years.” By some measures, he writes, that is true. Manufacturing now represents a much smaller part of the workforce, and in terms of value added the sector accounts for slightly over 10% of GDP, down from roughly a quarter of GDP in the years after World War II. At the same time, however, manufacturing has become much more efficient, and these efficiencies have in turn allowed manufacturers to offer lower-priced goods to consumers.

“This puts a whole different perspective on manufacturing’s so-called decline,” Feinman writes, comparing it “in some ways” to “the transformation of agriculture” in the previous century.

Air Force orders AMRAAM telemetry modules Warhead Replacement Tactical Telemetry Modules for AMRAAM missiles are being supplied to the U.S. Air Force by Harris Corp.

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Under the follow-on delivery order, Harris will deliver 135 WRTTMs to the Air Logistics Center at Warner Robins Air Force Base.The follow-on contract, worth $15 million, brings the overall value of the program for Harris to more than $170 million since 1991.

DOE to hand out $112.5 million under SunShot solar power inititative Under its SunShot Initiative, the U.S. Department of Energy announced that it will hand out up to $112.5 million over the next five years to fund the development of advanced solar photovoltaic (PV) manufacturing processes throughout the U.S.The Department says that its SunShot Advanced Manufacturing Partnerships will assist the solar power industry in overcoming technical barriers and reducing costs for PV installations. This, the DOE hopes, should help the U.S. regain its position as a worldwide leader in solar technologies.

The SunShot Initiative aims to reduce the total cost of solar energy systems by roughly 75 percent - equivalent to approximately $1 a watt or 6 cents per kilowatt-hour for utility systems - before 2020. Energy Secretary Steven Chu said in a statement that: Expanding the U.S. solar energy industry is an important part of the Administration’s goals to diversify our electricity supply and rebuild America’s manufacturing base to create jobs now and in the future.

U.S. Projects More Than $46 Billion in Arms Exports in 2011 The U.S. Defense Department expects fiscal year 2011 arms exports to exceed $46 billion, driven by demand for aircraft and air-defense systems, a defense official said recently.

“This fiscal year is forecast to be higher than ever -- higher than $46 billion,” said Richard Genaille, deputy director of the Pentagon’s Defense Security Cooperation Agency, at the annual conference.

Lockheed Martin Corp.’s C-130J and Boeing Co.’s C-17 transport planes were “hot” items in demand by arms-buying nations, he said.

The C-17s, C-130Js, aerial drones, F-35 fighter jets and missile defense systems typify “new areas where we can expect to see growth over time” that keeps sales at as much as $40 billion over the next several years, he said.

Saudi Arabia’s $60 billion purchase of Boeing’s F-15 jets, helicopters, munitions and infrastructure improvements and the purchase by the United Arab Emirates of Lockheed’s proposed $6 billion Terminal High Altitude Area Defense missile system have been approved and are proceeding without delay, Genaille said.

Tech Sector Enjoys Employment Boom USA Today reports Silicon Valley companies “are swooping in and scooping up potential employees in a frenzy of hiring not seen since the Internet bubble of a decade ago.” The competition “is so fierce, many employers are dangling goodies such as iPads, nifty cubicles, shuttle service and meals to harvest top talent in engineering, social-media, website and product design, data crunching and analysis, and management.”

Nationally, “148,000 tech jobs are expected to be added by the end of 2011, says Sophia Koropeckyj, an economist at Moody’s Analytics.”

New Fab Process Could Produce Denser Arrays Of Nanotubes Technology Review reports researchers at Stanford University “have developed a new way of producing very dense arrays of carbon nanotubes suitable for making complex integrated circuits.”

Their fabrication process reportedly offers “a method for holding down layers of nanotubes while more layers are deposited on top” by depositing “a thin layer of gold with each stamp.”

The gold is then etched away through a series of steps as the researchers create the circuits. “This entire structure is built up on top of a silicon dioxide wafer patterned with back gates for the transistors.”

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Pratt & Whitney, buoyed by string of major engine orders, sees revenue doubling by 2020 Jet engine maker Pratt & Whitney spent much of last year fighting to shut two engine repair shops in Connecticut due to fierce competition and the recession. Now the economy is recovering, orders are rising for a marquee product and a competitor has been eliminated for a military fighter jet engine.

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“The backlog keeps getting bigger,” Pratt & Whitney President David Hess told reporters last month.

United Technologies has spent $1 billion over 20 years to develop its geared turbofan jet engine. The East Hartford-based Pratt & Whitney, which says the engine generates fewer carbon emissions, cuts airlines’ fuel costs and produces less noise than other airplane engines, “hung the future” on its product, said Matt Collins, an analyst at Edward Jones.

Pratt & Whitney also was the beneficiary of a decision by Congress last month to halt production of an alternate engine developed by General Electric Co. As a result, Pratt & Whitney is the sole manufacturer of the Pentagon’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jet engine.

Projected revenue will double by 2020 and employment is expected to hold steady, Hess said. Revenue was $12.9 billion in 2010 at Pratt & Whitney, the No. 3 jet engine maker after GE and Rolls Royce.

USAF To Use Rapid Process to Buy Bombers The U.S. Air Force will bypass the regular acquisitions channels when it buys its next bomber, relying instead on the same process used by urgent procurements such as the MC-12 Project Liberty surveillance aircraft, Air Force Secretary Michael Donley told reporters recently.

The effort to buy between 80 and 100 stealthy penetrating bombers by the mid-2020s will use “a more streamlined management process going forward, where we are using the Rapid Capabilities Office to help manage this project,” Donley said at a DefenseWriters’ Group breakfast.

Paul Kaminski, who chairs the Pentagon’s Defense Science Board (DSB), applauded the decision. Kaminski noted that last summer’s DSB study called for an incremental approach to buying new weapons, instead of attempting to build something that has every capability from the start.

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Northrop Grumman has proven the increased duration of gallium nitride-based high-power transmit/receive (T/R) modules — a development that could pay dividends in the company’s efforts to secure major military radar-related contracts, including the U.S. Navy’s Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR).

AMDR is considered the brass ring of U.S. military sensor contracts, a next-generation radar system designed to provide ballistic missile defense, air defense and surface warfare capabilities.

AMDR will consist of an S-band radar for ballistic missile defense and air defense, X-band radar for horizon search, and a radar suite controller that controls and integrates the two radars.

The Navy expects AMDR to provide the foundation for a scalable radar architecture to defeat advanced threats, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) notes in its report on Pentagon acquisition programs released earlier this year.

GAO estimates the cost of the AMDR program at about $15.7 billion — a price tag that has many shaking their heads, including contractors vying for the program. GAO reports $2.3 billion for research and development and another $13.4 billion to buy the radar systems.

The major competitors for AMDR include Lockheed Martin, which developed and deployed the stalwart Aegis defense system; Raytheon, which developed a dual-band radar system for the truncated DDG-1000 Zumwalt-class destroyer program; and Northrop, also a major radar-program player that reportedly has been looking to leverage the technology honed for active, electronically scanned array (AESA) systems developed for U.S. combat aircraft.

The recent successful tests of the gallium nitride-based high-power T/R modules “prove that the AESA is capable of reliable operation while producing much greater radar sensitivity, at higher efficiency and lower cost,” Northrop says in a statement.

The T/R modules were tested by using high-stressing operational long-pulse waveforms, which operated on the modules nonstop for more than six months in tests conducted by the company’s Advanced Concepts and Technology Div. The modules operated more than 180 days during continuous high-power testing, essentially proving they can last six months, or 4,000 hr.

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If your company is certified to AS9100B, you should already know that the transition to AS9100C Aviation, Space, and Defense Standard starts July 1, 2011. If your surveillance or re-certification audit is going to take place after this date, you must have completed the transition to the new requirements, and have the correct documentation and objective evidence to demonstrate effectiveness.

AS9101D Audit Requirements for Aviation, Space, and Defense is the new, completely rewritten standard that defines the requirements for Certification Bodies (CBs) to audit your system. This standard creates common auditing methods and document formats (seven appendices) that the CB auditor will use, and can be used by your organization in support of your internal audits, and external audits at your suppliers.

Key differences to the audit requirements and CB audit process include: • Expanded scope of what and when a Major nonconformity will be written. Major nonconformity situation example, “a nonconformity where the effect is judged to be detrimental to the integrity of the product.”

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the auditor determines the nonconformity classification (major/minor). The “observations and opportunities for improvement” grade no longer exists for borderline correction actions.

• Audit results will be posted on the Online Aerospace Supplier Information System (OASIS) for approved parties to view (i.e., your customers).

This transparenc y alone only emphasis the need to seriously examine your current documented system and its conformity and effectiveness.

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Alex Ismail, President and CEO of Honeywell Transportation Systems, Discusses the U.S. Turbo Revolution on CNNMoney Alex Ismail, President and CEO of Honeywell Transportation Systems, appeared on CNNMoney to discuss the evolution and benefits of turbocharging, and the expected increase in the production of turbocharged cars for the United States.

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“Think about the turbocharger being a small jet engine under the hood of your car,” said Ismail. “The turbocharger industry has evolved a lot over the last 10 years. It’s a pretty efficient technology that delivers performance across the board as well as fuel-efficiency.”

Intel and Micron Sample 20nm NAND Flash Intel Corporation and Micron Technology Inc. last month introduced the most advanced, 20-nanometer (nm) process technology for manufacturing NAND flash memory.

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“We are honored to have been selected by Soekarno-Hatta International Airportin Jakarta and at international airports throughout Indonesia,” said Jim Johnson, Oshkosh Corporation executive vice president and president, Fire & Emergency. “Oshkosh is proud to have the Striker brand grow throughout Southeast Asia, and these new Striker vehicles reflect Oshkosh Corporation’s dedication to increasing our presence in this region of the world.”

“Oshkosh Striker ARFF vehicles are known the world over for their quality and firefighting abilities, and we are happy to add Indonesia to the growing list of international airports using our products,” added Desmond Soh, Oshkosh Corporation president, Asia operations.

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NASA, Boeing Working On Better Procedure For Making Composites Design News reported how NASA helped Boeing develop a “new approach” for developing composite for planes known as Pultruded Rod Stitched Efficient Unitized Structure (PRSEUS). PRSEUS uses less resin than typical composites and could “eliminate the need for thousands of fasteners” on each plane. Andy Harber, senior project manager, design engineering for Boeing, “says Boeing expects to use the technology in a next-generation blended wing body aircraft designed for reduced noise and pollution.” The article notes the “testbed” is the X-48 blended wing aircraft NASA and Boeing designed.

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Doug Cooke, associate administrator for exploration systems, told the House Science subcommittee on space and aeronautics that the final design selected probably will not be able at first to lift the full 130 metric tons ordered in the three-year NASA Authorization Act that Congress passed and President Barack Obama signed last year.

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Instead, it will evolve into a system capable of orbiting the full 130-metric-ton load, with incremental capabilities along the way. Even at the lower end — 70-100 metric tons — a backup using the planned SLS and its Orion-based deep-space crew capsule to carry astronauts to the International Space Station will be “inefficient” compared to the commercial vehicles now tapped for the job, Cooke says.

Pressed by Rep. Donna Edwards (D-Md.), at a hearing on the transition between the old Constellation program of exploration vehicles and the new approach, Cooke said the earliest NASA expects to settle on a final path for the new heavy lifter will be late June — and that would be “a success-oriented approach.”

So far, he told Edwards, the reference design announced in January is still holding up. That would be a hybrid of space shuttle and Constellation heritage hardware using five liquid oxygen/liquid hydrogen space shuttle main engines (eventually in a throw-away variant); an upper stage powered by the J-2X developed for Constellation upper stages that would match the 27.5-ft. dia. of the shuttle external tank; and twin five-segment versions of the four-segment shuttle solid-fuel boosters originally developed as the first stage of the Ares I crew launch vehicle.

However, engineering teams continue to study a kerosene-fueled alternative to the reference mission, and a “modular” approach that would mount three smaller-diameter main stages side-by-side, a configuration comparable to the Delta IV Heavy. And NASA is awaiting the results of 13 separate industry studies aimed at producing a better heavy lifter.

“Right now we’re not altering the reference design,” Cooke says. “We are updating some of the approaches in the design that would make it more efficient. We are also studying alternative designs to make sure we challenge our own thoughts. At this point we’ve not made changes.”

Like their counterparts in the Senate, members of both parties on the House committee said they were frustrated with NASA’s approach, particularly as it is reflected in the fiscal 2012 budget request that emphasizes commercial cargo and crew and open-ended technology research over near-term, heavy-lift development.

The uncertainty is making it hard for NASA contractors to develop business plans, according to Jim Maser, president of Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, who testified on behalf of the corporate membership of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

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This new theory was developed to better explain recent large-scale three-dimensional kinetic simulations that describe the physics of this process at the most basic level.

“Previous kinetic studies have been primarily limited to simple twodimensional models,” said Daughton. “A team of researchers from across the Laboratory employed a first-principles approach to study the dynamic evolution in three dimensions using the plasma simulation code VPIC, a particle-in-cell plasma physics code.”

Daughton continues, “These 3-D calculations required a thousand times more computational resources than the 2-D models.This only became possible recently due to the development of petascale supercomputers, first with Roadrunner at Los Alamos and more recently on the Kraken machine at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Funding from the LANL Laboratory Directed Research & Development program has allowed us to exploit these powerful new machines as soon as they became available.”

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Experience, technology savvy, passion and best in class machine tools. That is what you get at Satowfi Machining Solutions LLC. Co-owners, Brian Wing and Mike Eckendorf, each have more than 3 decades of experience at a variety of high precision machine shops, and Brian is a degreed manufacturing engineer. In total, Satowfi’s experienced staff consists of over 120 combined years of manufacturing process and machining experience in the aerospace, semi-conductor and medical fields.

Satowfi Machining Solutions LLC was established in 2004, when both Brian and Mike decided they didn’t want to work under the direction of other owners. Today, it is located in a 3500 Sq. foot modern fully air conditioned facility in Mesa, Arizona.

Mike says, “We work 7 days per week, haven’t had a vacation in 2 years, but we are so proud to be doing this for our customers, and under our own control as business owners. It makes it all worth it.”

Satowfi is an ISO 9000 and Aerospace Standard AS9100 Compliant Company that continues to grow, utilizing the teachings of lean manufacturing, JIT and SPC. The company has been successful since its inception, primarily, the two owners believe, because they offer high quality, low cost, short lead times with dependable “on time deliveries” to their customers, in both R&D and production environments.

And even when the company was in its infancy, Brian and Mike understood the value of technology. “We own 5 machines today, and since we opened for business, we have never purchased a used machine”, Brian said. “We buy new, and we buy quality.” Mike continued, “When you buy a machine that is 4 years old, for example, you are purchasing technology that immediately puts you behind your competitors. In fact, it generally means that you have to charge more for the parts you make.”

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Brian is a degreed manufacturing engineer who spent the past nearly 30 years working in machine shops. He and wife Denise grew up in an island community in Massachusetts. Brian spent his first decade of employment at Arwood Machine Corp., based in Newburyport, Massachusetts. During Brian’s tenure there, Brian was a manufacturing manager in charge of a team of 200 employees. He was also tasked by the company owner for transitioning the company’s legacy mainframe network to the new Local Area Network. Brian wasn’t versed in IT at the time. “I’ve been going to school ever since I finished my undergraduate degree in manufacturing engineering”, Brian says. “I continually take courses based upon what I need to learn at a given time to do my job better, or to take on more responsibilities.

I also want to be able to judge what is accurate when I am given information by a 3rd party.”

Brian and Denise always envisioned themselves as business owners. First, their plan was to purchase a commercial fishing boat in their hometown. When they calculated the number of days weather would allow them to run their business, they knew they wanted to get to a new climate. And so in 1994, Brian gave employer Arwood one year notice that he would be leaving the company.

Once the Wing’s moved out to the Phoenix metroplex, Brian worked for a number of precision machine shops over the course of the next decade.

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to make the jump to business ownership. They agreed that, beginning immediately, their combined sweat equity would be utilized to increase the value of their own business.

Customers are really now seeing the value in putting their parts into Satowfi Machining Solutions LLC, with very attractive pricing and outstanding quality, with consistency in every part they receive.

In 2010, the company’s business tripled over previous years, and in Q1 of this year, again Satowfi is seeing explosive growth.

Just last year, the company won a new family of bearing liner parts. The co-owners did extensive analysis of the parts to determine how they could make them cost effectively. With the solution Mike and Brian developed, they knew that they would have to purchase a new high speed CNC lathe.

were only able to continue to run our business by borrowing machine time from other friendly machine shop owners. We knew that with our incredible growth in business over the past 15 months , we could not tolerate machines going down. So, service became the key driver for our purchase decision.

“We purchased the Mazak Nexus QTN 250 CNC turning center from local dealer Magnum Precision Machines. The Mazak QTN Series brings together advanced technology, productivity and value. It came equipped with the Mazatrol Matrix CNC control, featuring M Code and G Code programming as well as simple smart conversational programming, complete with monitoring and diagnostics. Our sales applications guy, Jeff Trimble, was instrumental in our purchase decision.”

The company interviewed a number of machine tool dealers for their latest purchase. “We have a variety of different manufacturers’ machines in our facility today. Really, all of the machines have been pretty good for us. But what differentiates our experience with the machines is the support we receive when we have a problem.We have had machines go down that remained down for over a month. We

Brian explains a turning point in their machine tool vendor selection. He says that one Saturday, the battery on one of their machines was almost dead. They didn’t receive the warning messages they were supposed to receive, and if the machine battery died, they were going to lose all of the positioning/parameters on the machine. Brian contacted every one of their current vendors, and not one of them was available to take the Saturday call. In fact, the vendors didn’t call Satowfi until the following Tuesday!

“I started using Satowfi about 4 years ago, and initially had them making parts for the Dreamliner. They didn’t even need prints - they exclusively used Solidworks. They did such a good job that I have continued to grow the number of parts they make for us -- it’s probably up to 50 or 60 now.

In desperation, Brian called machine tool dealers he wasn’t currently doing business with, including Jeff Trimble from Magnum Precision Machines. Jeff answered the call immediately on that Saturday morning, and instructed Brian to go to Batteries Plus, where they could build us a custom battery. Jeff’s solution worked, and it sold co-owners Brian and Mike on Mazak and Magnum Precision Machines.

Today, Satowfi makes all of our liners and bushings for helicopters, and they manufacture parts for our larger customers, including Goodrich, Boeing, Hamilton Sundstrand, to name a few.

Satowfi’s pricing is very good, their quality is outstanding and they are spot on in terms of on-time delivery.The only time they ever slip their schedule is when one of the outside special processing houses causes a delay. The team at Satowfi works 7 days a week to ensure we get high quality product, on-time!”

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Magnum Precision Machines has been in business for nearly 30 years, and their services include technical consulting, support and training.

Brian and Mike are very aware of the reduction in service and support that other machine tool vendors made during the economic downturn.

“Mazak and Magnum Precision Machines didn’t take this approach, and that is absolutely one of the key drivers for our machine purchase through them”, Brian said. He continued, “We provide superior service and support to our customers, and we expect this from our vendors. Magnum Precision Machines delivered for us.”

Find out more about Satowfi Machining Solutions LLC.You can call them at (480)-374-5706 or go to www.satowfi.com.

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Honeywell Turbo Technologies Wins 2011 Automotive News PACE™ Award For DualBoost Turbocharger Honeywell Transportation Systems received the 2011 Automotive News PACE™ (Premier Automotive Suppliers Contributions to Excellence) Award for its VNT DualBoost Turbo. This turbocharger brought to market five distinct innovations to provide Ford Motor Company’s Power Stroke engine with improved engine performance, fuel economy, and responsiveness —all while cutting emissions.

“We are honored to be recognized for our continued leadership with this prestigious award,” said Alex Ismail, president and CEO of Honeywell Transportation Systems. “Technology and innovation continue to lead the agenda for the automotive industry as the demand for fuel efficient solutions remains a priority across vehicle segments.”

At the heart of Honeywell’s DualBoost turbocharger is a dual-sided compressor wheel that provides the performance approaching that of a two stage turbo system in a single turbo package. The reduced packaging requirements allowed Honeywell to position the turbo between the banks of the V engine for optimal performance.

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Future Looking Up For Robinson Helicopter, Experts Say The Los Angeles Times reports “things are looking up for Robinson Helicopter Co., which for decades has manufactured low-cost helicopters for use by television news operations, banks transporting money between branches and, of course, police departments that depend on them for surveillance and rescue missions.”

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This is an astonishing article about a start-up company, just months old. Howell Precision secured approximately $1 million in financing to procure their equipment, their facility, and to orchestrate their build-out. And we are just now coming out of one of the most severe economic downturns in decades!

It took a superior business plan, long term customer relations who knew and respected Rob Howell, and a major machine tool builder and dealer who believed in Rob. MC Machinery, manufacturers of the Mitsubishi Laser and Press brake’s, say they haven’t funded a start-up like this in 5 years.

Rob Howell had a lifelong plan...to open his own precision fabrication business by the time he was 40. It happened a little earlier than the plan, as Rob is now only 38 years old. The company is named after Rob’s grandfather’s business, Howell Precision, that Bud Howell ran in Northern California. “Grandpa (Bud) taught me the trade, he mentored me, and in his honor my new business is named after him.”

Rob moved to Arizona eleven years ago and worked for a precision sheet metal shop. During his tenure, the company grew from 11 employees to 130, with Rob promoted to general manager of the company.

Before he left, Rob managed accounts as large as $17 million in annual sales. “It was a excellent stepping stone in my career”, Rob says, “and it prepared me for what I endeavored to do in life - own my own business.”

Rob prepared well for the move to business ownership. First, he enlisted the help of his family friend, a professor, to help develop a thorough business plan for Howell Precision. “Charlie Grantham founder of Community Design Institute has a basement designed for brainstorming. For 2 days, Charlie asked me questions and we drafted the plan. I owe much of what is happening with Howell Precision to Charlie”, Rob said.

Rob’s next task was to purchase the best equipment for his business. “I believe that you can buy used machinery in some cases, like the tube bending machine I acquired. It can bend parts that are 20’ long and 3” in diameter.” But, he added, “In my view point, there are some machines that you can’t buy used, and a state of the art laser machine is one of them. The technology re-invents itself so quickly that a used laser is behind the times, and is less efficient in cuts and higher operating costs.”

Rob contacted a number of laser machine dealers in preparation for opening his new business. “One laughed at me, and the others said they wouldn’t be able to help me, particularly in this economy,” Rob said. “Only one sales person, North-South Machinery’s Glen Zachman, believed in me and said he would make it work.”

“Glen warned me that it wouldn’t be easy, and that I would really have to be persistent and well prepared in order to get the financing.”

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“As a Senior Purchasing Agent, I have had the extreme pleasure of conducting business with Rob for a couple of years now, and know him to be very professional.

He is extremely knowledgeable in his field and is very customer service minded. He has a good business sense, and knows how to make quality parts that are delivered on time. Rob is efficient, extremely competent, and has an excellent rapport with his customers. I hope to have the opportunity to do business with Rob in the future.”

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“I have been associated with Robert for approximately 8 years. He has a high regard for customer satisfaction, on time delivery, and quality. His outstanding professionalism, integrity and academics for a successful business are hard to come by these days.

I have always known Robert to be upfront and candid and willing to discuss and rectify issues that might present itself during

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miracle after miracle to get my orders completed correctly and on time (and this sometimes required overnight and weekend work).

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Rob is very honest, hardworking, and he does what needs to be done to get the job done.”

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“I have always found Mr. Howell to conduct himself in a professional manner.

He has been instrumental in resolving crises that have arisen in normal manufacturing with speed and skill.

I look forward to continuing a vendor partnership with Mr. Howell. Knowing him for a number of years, I feel he is capable of performing up to our vendor standards.”

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“Rob’s strong work ethics, attention to customer needs, and willingness to do what it takes to help his customers has continued to impress me over the 12 years I have worked with him.

I can securely say that without this level of professionalism from Rob, our business would have been negatively impacted. We will keep any and all of our business with Rob no matter where he conducts business.”

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The facility has 3 weld booths for MIG/ TIG welding, an inspection department, 2 deburr rooms, and its air conditioning system is designed specifically for a weld shop.

“With our system, air doesn’t blow down”, Rob said, “as this can cause bad welds”.

build-out to maximize efficiency,” Rob said.

Some of the major things customers will appreciate in Howell Precision include: • Experience, commitment to quality, and on time delivery. Howell Precision is ready to support customers in the electronics, medical, semi-conductor, aerospace, and defense industries, and can cut and form stainless steel, aluminum, hard and mild steel, titanium, and armor plate.

• Partnerships - Howell Precision is located in a complex near the Deer Park Airport, and is, in essence, part of a “fabrication/ machine network”.Within the complex, you will find a Waterjet company (Harschco Waterjet), and a precision machining company (RPM Industries), and of course, Howell Pre-

cision Fab. So, between the 3 companies, who all work closely together, the network will be able to manufacture anything a customer requires, and they’ll do it with the most cost effective processes, with a key promise of on time deliveries.

• A facility that has immediate access to more square footage, as business dictates. It additionally is designed with designated, self contained departments, organized, Rob says, so that work can flow efficiently through the shop. All the necessary tools for operation are contained in each department, with lean manufacturing key to the design. Even the Mitsubishi laser is “automation ready”, which means that as production jobs grow the machine can be expanded to include a multi shelf tower, Howell Precision can quickly support 24x7 unattended (lights-out) production.

Howell Precision is ready to provide superior service and on time deliveries to new and existing customers. And Rob wants to thank all of his new teammates who helped make this possible: long term colleagues and key employees Travis Nelson and Gabe Cruz, Bill Isaac from MC Machinery, Glen Zachman from North-South Machinery, professor Charlie Grantham, and especially wife Leslie.

“I will remain loyal to North-South and MC Machinery. Not only are their machines, service and support superior, but they believed in me. They are even providing me with advertising support to help me create marketing materials to promote my business. It doesn’t stop there.

The Open House that we will be announcing, hosted by Howell Precision, is provided courtesy of North-South Machinery and MC Machinery.”

For a superior precision fab company, call Howell Precision at 623-582-4776 or visit their website (howellprecisionaz.com).

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Bell flies OH-58 with new engine Bell Helicopter has completed first flight of a re-engined OH-58F Kiowa Warrior designed to meet the US Army’s new requirements for a more powerful scout helicopter.

The internally funded OH-58 Block II climbed to about 500ft (150m) on its first flight at Bell’s Xworx research and development facility near Fort Worth, Texas.

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The HTS900-2 provides nearly twice the power of the R-R engine, potentially allowing the OH-58 to hover at 6,000ft in 35°C (95°F) temperatures.

The current OH-58 was originally designed to hover at 4,000ft in similar temperatures, but has struggled to keep pace as upgrades and modifications have increased its empty weight over the past three decades.

The army is considering several options for meeting the new requirement, including buying an all-new helicopter to replace the OH-58D. Sikorsky is offering the S-97 Raider that is derived from the coaxial, high-speed X2 demonstrator. EADS North America and Lockheed Martin have proposed an armed scout version of the UH-72 Lakota called the AAS-72X. Boeing is offering the AH-6S Phoenix.

Other options include a design from start-up AVX, which would remanufacture the OH-58 with a coaxial rotor and pusher-propeller.

The army is not planning to make any contract decisions for at least a few years.

In the meantime, the service has decided to invest more than $1 billion to upgrade the OH-58D to the F-model standard, which includes new cockpit displays and replaces the mast-mounted DRS Technologies targeting sight with a nose-mounted Raytheon common sensor payload.

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New Intel® Atom™ Processor for Tablets Spurs Companion Computing Device Innovation Intel Corporation announced that the Intel® Atom™ platform, formerly codenamed “Oak Trail,” is now available and will be in devices

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General Dynamics gets services contract The U.S. Missile Defense Agency has contracted General Dynamics to provide the agency with infrastructure and deployment services.

The multi-award contract from MDA, an indefinite-delivery/

indefinite-quantity award, is for five years and has a $565 million ceiling value for all awardees.

The contract, however, has no initial award value.

Under the contract, General Dynamics will have an opportunity to compete for task orders to provide professional services support for infrastructure and facilities planning from the incident of attack to deployment of Ballistic Missile Defense Systems. The company will perform program management support and infrastructure logistics management and assist with facility standards, space and facility management to enhance the safety and quality of the agency’s workplace environment, General Dynamics said.

General Dynamics could also provide operational fielding, sustainment and technical support for the MDA-developed systems as they are being prepared for operational use by the warfighter community.

“The General Dynamics team has continually supported several of MDA’s currently deployed BMD systems since their inception,” said Bill Cobb, general manager and vice president for General Dynamics Information Technology’s Combat Systems sector. “Our knowledge of bases, missions, infrastructure and personnel will allow us to quickly react to changing circumstances and customer requirements to ensure the MDA is responsive when warfighters call.”

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Governor Jan Brewer Announces Sempra Generation Photovoltaic Solar Power Plant Arizona Governor Jan Brewer joined executives from Sempra Generation recently to announce the company’s plans for a large scale photovoltaic solar power generation plant. The planned Mesquite Solar Complex will be built in Arlington, Arizona, on former agricultural land near existing transmission lines.

“This is about my plan to diversify our economy – exporting our greatest natural resource and creating jobs for Arizonans,” said Governor Jan Brewer. “Our state is a national and global leader in the solar industry. Sempra’s Mesquite Solar Complex has incredible potential – at full build out, the site could grow to 600 megawatts becoming one of North America’s largest photovoltaic solar generation plants. Today’s historic announcement is a result of the leadership efforts of many, including Senators Barbara

Leff and John Nelson, and Representatives Lucy Mason and Michele Reagan.”

lasting impact as we compete to attract other global companies to our great state.”

Phase One of the project will generate 150 megawatts at a capital investment estimated at $500 million; at full build out it is a $2 billion capital investment. Sempra Generation provides power to key wholesale electricity markets in North America. It has entered into a 20-year power-purchase agreement with Pacific Gas & Electric Company for 150 megawatts.

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Construction on Mesquite Solar is expected to begin in 2011, creating approximately 300 construction jobs at peak and as many as 10 long-term positions to operate the facility.

“Arizona’s solar resources are unmatched by any other state – we offer a comprehensive vision to renewable energy, a skilled workforce, and progressive policies such as SB1254 which attract these kinds of projects and presents incredible future opportunity for this state,” said Arizona Commerce Authority president and CEO Don Cardon. “This project significantly raises Arizona’s global leadership in the solar space, and will have

Textron Marine & Land Systems has been awarded a contract by the US Army Tankautomotive and Armaments Command (TACOM) for 88 M1117 armored security vehicles (ASV) and M1200 armored knight vehicles.

The $64.3m firm-fixed-price award exercises options for 37 M1117 ASVs, 51 M1200 Armored Knights and associated support equipment.

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General Dynamics Selected for $565 Million Infrastructure Services Program by Missile Defense Agency General Dynamics Information Technology has been awarded a contract by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Engineering and Support Services (MiDAESS) program to provide infrastructure and deployment services in support of the Ballistic Missile Defense System. The five-year, multiple-award, indefinite delivery / indefinite quantity contract has a $565 million ceiling value for all awardees; the contract has no initial award value.

Through the MiDAESS contract, General Dynamics will have an opportunity to compete for task orders to provide professional services support for infrastructure and facilities planning from the incident of attack to deployment of Ballistic Missile Defense Systems (BMDS).The company will perform program management support and infrastructure logistics management and assist with facility standards, space and facility management to enhance the safety and quality of the Agency’s workplace environment.

General Dynamics could also provide operational fielding, sustainment and technical support for the MDA-developed systems as they are being prepared for operational use by the warfighter community.The company will assist MDA site surveys and selection, environmental compliance, interface with the operational users, and site activation and weapons systems sustainment from initial deployment through transition and transfer to the lead Military Service.

“The General Dynamics team has continually supported several of MDA’s currently deployed BMD systems since their inception,” said Bill Cobb, general manager and vice president for General Dynamics Information Technology’s Combat Systems sector. “Our knowledge of bases, missions, infrastructure and personnel will allow us to quickly react to changing circumstances and customer requirements to ensure the MDA is responsive when warfighters call.”

The MDA was created in 2002 to develop a layered integrated BMDS that will destroy all ranges of ballistic missiles by engaging them in all phases of flight. The MiDAESS program has several objectives: implement national engineering and support services for the BMDS mission across the enterprise, enhance the sharing of BMD expertise and knowledge across the agency, centralize the acquisition of support services manpower in a more efficient manner and reduce the agency overhead cost enterprise-wide.

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Allison Arieff writes that in contrast to the image of decline people often associate with manufacturing in the US, “there are many parts of this country where manufacturing is very much alive, albeit in a different form.” Arieff focuses on the work being done by San Francisco’s SFMade and New York’s Made in NYC, “geographic ingredient branding” groups which “are increasingly able to share success stories of how manufacturing has developed new models for doing business in the 21st century.” Part of these companies’ success stems from a growing consumer desire to get locally produced goods, as have “growing consumer demand for greener, more ethically produced products, along with skyrocketing unemployment and nervousness about globalization.”

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Effectively Reducing Cycle Times in Aqueous Cleaning Processes Jeffrey J. Beard, Petroferm Inc., Gurnee, Illinois Silvio J. Pioli, Baron-Blakeslee SFC Inc., Northbrook, Illinois

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Test Preparation Steel test coupons were coated in a controlled, uniform process with various cutting fluids and lubricants.The same oils were also applied into blind threaded holes on motor end-bell cases. A series of test were performed to determine the cleaning times with and without solution agitation. Cleanliness was determined using water break test, Q-tip and magnified visual observation.

Cleaning Product under Evaluation An aerospace approved aqueous alkaline cleaner diluted at 20% volume was heated to 140ºF in a soak cleaning tank. This cleaner was selected because of its non-foaming behavior and exceptional materials compatibility on a broad range of metals and composite.

Results Overall, the use of eductor solution agitation versus a stagnant dwell in the aqueous cleaner wash tank was very beneficial. Using an agitation rate equivalent to 50x turnover/hr reduced the required time to remove the surface contamination by about 33%, from 15 minutes to 10.

In the case of blind holes, with directed eductor solution agitation the reduction in dwell time necessary to remove soil was found to be up to 50% less.

Discussion The objective of this evaluation was to determine the effects of solution agitation on reducing cleaning cycle times. It was found that with 50x turnover/hr solution agitation that the cleaning cycle time can in fact be reduced by 33-50%, resulting in improved production capability and considerable cost savings.

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New Technique Enables Much Faster Production of Inexpensive Solar Cells TU Delft has demonstrated that the speed at which inexpensive solar cells are produced can be increased by a factor of ten -- and that this can be achieved without any detriment to the energy yield of the cells. This will almost certainly result in a further reduction in the price of the cells, which are made of amorphous silicon.

Recently, Michael Wank defended his thesis on this subject at TU Delft.

Crystalline silicon The production of electricity from solar cells is potentially a very attractive and sustainable technology. However, the problem is that the cost of electricity generated using solar cells is still considerably greater than is the case for conventional fossil sources. The higher cost is partly owing to the characteristics of the most widely used material in solar cells: crystalline silicon.

Alternative “An interesting alternative to crystalline silicon is amorphous silicon,” says Professor Miro Zeman of TU Delft, Michael Wank’s PhD supervisor. “Although this material has a lower energy yield than crystalline silicon, these solar cells can be produced far more cheaply. The nature of the material means that much thinner layers can be used -- around 250 nanometres thick, compared with the 200-micrometre thickness in the case of crystalline silicon.”

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Not fast enough Amorphous silicon solar cells are already being produced for this reason. “One significant problem for the industry, however, is that the usual production technique (vaporising layers of silane gas) is too slow. It takes about one second to apply a 0.1-nanometre layer, so to apply a complete 250-nanometre layer requires about 40 minutes,” explains Professor Zeman. “That is really too long, and is reflected in too high a cost-price.”

Energy yield It was for this reason that PhD student Michael Wank concentrated on the new ETP-CVD (expanding thermal plasma chemical vapour deposition)production technique, with which he achieved remarkable success. The production technique was developed by Eindhoven University of Technology; Michael Wank’s project, which

was subsided by Agentschap NL, was carried out in collaboration with the Plasma and Material Processing group of Professor Richard van de Sanden. The speed of production was eventually increased by a factor of ten, to one nanometre per second, while maintaining a good energy yield (for amorphous silicon) of around 7 per cent.

Obstacle There was one remaining obstacle Wank had to overcome, though -- the fact that the ETP-CVD technique requires a temperature of around 350 degree Celsius in order to make amorphous silicon of the required quality. However, a production temperature of that level causes damage to the solar cells, which affects their energy yield. In order to circumvent this,Wank applied an ion bombardment (charged particles) during the production process. The ions provide the developing surface with sufficient energy, so that production can take place at a much lower and therefore non-harmful temperature of around 200 degrees Celsius.

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“The financial crisis caused a great deal of damage to the capacity of innovators to access capital, and we can’t promote innovation and investment in the United States unless we help innovative companies get the funding they need to succeed,” Mr. Geithner said.

Credit markets froze in 2008, making it difficult to impossible for start-ups to access financing from venture capital funds, banks and other sources. The overall situation has improved, but the Obama administration still sees lingering effects from the economic crisis— with more difficulty tapping equity markets and more stringent requirements from other would-be sources of funding.

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Mr. Geithner said solutions could range from tax incentives and direct lending to “the innovative and alternative, such as creating a way to efficiently pool investments in small companies.”

Engineering Majors Continue To Offer Highest Salaries CNNMoney reported, “Engineering majors continue to boast fatter salary offers than their peers, according to the survey from the National Association of Colleges and Employers.” Engineering once again “dominated the association’s list of top-paying degrees for the class of 2011, with four of the top five spots going to engineering majors,” and the fifth going to computer science.

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looking for ways to protect themselves from similar situations in the future.

Japan’s massive earthquake and tsunami and resulting nuclear crisis have disrupted supply chains for everything from electronic components to car parts to paint.

“We have identified points of risk within the supply chain and are developing mitigation plans. We feel confident we will be able to manage these risks with minimal disruption to our supply chain,” said Boeing spokesman Damien Mills.

That has some companies with local operations — including Sumco Phoenix Corp., Boeing Co. and Avnet Inc. — rethinking their supplychain processes and whether to line up more suppliers to provide key parts on a contingency basis. Still, local experts say businesses are not likely to bring their offshore operations back to the U.S. or switch permanently to local suppliers.

Sumco Phoenix spokeswoman Nancy Norman said the silicon wafermaker is considering changing its supply chain because of what happened in Japan. Tokyo-based Sumco has had a plant in northeast Phoenix since 1997.

The Chicago-based company makes helicopters in Mesa and has aerospace production in Washington state.

“The situation in Japan remains fluid, and we are working closely with our business partners and customers to determine what kind of assistance the company can provide,” Mills said.

Jackson said the disaster would affect all auto manufacturers, and Japanese cars will not be available in certain colors or with certain equipment for some time. Some automakers have temporarily closed their U.S. manufacturing facilities, and others are considering doing so because of shortages of parts that come from Japan.The inventory is expected to remain low for three to four months, with normal production levels resuming by July or August.

“We have two or more sources for most of our raw materials presently.

As a result of the earthquake and tsunami last month, we are going beyond that good business practice and looking for third and fourth potential sources that are not from Japan,” she said. “We’ve been very fortunate that there has been no actual disruption of the supply of our key raw materials to date. However, the scheduling of those materials has gotten very tight in some cases.”

Andrew Martin, spokesman for Goodrich Corp. in Phoenix, which makes safety slides and rafts to be outfitted on airplanes, said his company’s supply chain is fine, but officials are watching the situation closely.

Other companies also are reacting to the Japanese disasters and

“Goodrich is closely monitoring its Japanese supply-chain elements. At

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this time, we have confirmed that our first- and second-tier suppliers are safe and not significantly impacted by this tragedy, and (we) do not expect them to cause any delay to our current product delivery schedules,” Martin said.

Mary Teagarden, an international business professor and supplychain expert at Thunderbird School of Global Management, said she’s been talking with major U.S. corporations about supply-chain contingencies since the quake and tsunami. In the short term, she said companies are looking to establish backup or minority suppliers for key components when single-source suppliers are in potential danger zones.

“I don’t see us benefiting from this at all,”Teagarden said. “I think you’ll see some redundancy built back in the supply chain.”

She said those backup sources generally will be located in Asian markets such as Korea and China, rather than the U.S. “I doubt they will bring stuff back here,” she said.

Arizona State University supply-chain expert Phil Carter said companies need to weigh risk factors against costs as they figure out whether to create a backup plan.“There’s a lot of hedging going on right now,” said Carter, a business professor at ASU’s W.P. Carey School of Business.

He said businesses already were re-evaluating their supply chains

because of rising fuel prices, higher operating costs in China, and turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa creating international uncertainty.

Carter said some companies could move their production and supply operations from Asia to Mexico. But he cautions that Mexico needs to curtail the violence that has hit northern cities.

Mexico is Arizona’s largest trading partner, and there are some cross-border supply and production chains linking the Southwestern U.S. to industrial regions of northern Mexico.

Falling Steel Prices Expected To Continue The Wall Street Journal reports that steel prices have not declined everywhere – for example, it remains higher in both the US and Brazil – but continued high production combined with weaker demand stemming from global uncertainties could eventually push them down everywhere.

“Steel buyers in the United States are bearish on the price outlook for hot-rolled,” one analyst said. “They’re now receiving offers for hot-rolled band from abroad in the $740-$800 per-net-ton range, which compares to the domestic price in the $870-$890 per-ton range.” Analysts added that in the long-term steel prices would likely rise again.

Lockheed Martin Scientists Discover Mechanism That Could Feed Solar Explosions Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are violent solar explosions that can propel up to 10 billion tons of the Sun’s atmosphere – at a million miles an hour – out through the corona and into space.

These fast, powerful ejections can take as little as 18 hours to reach Earth and give rise to geomagnetic storms, which can disrupt radio transmissions, induce large currents in power lines and oil pipelines, seriously disrupt spacecraft and be extremely hazardous to astronauts. New instruments on advanced spacecraft have provided fresh insight into these cataclysmic phenomena, and illuminated a path toward predicting space weather.

In a paper published in the journal Nature, researchers from the Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory (LMSAL) of the Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center (ATC), along with colleagues at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Kyoto University, and the High Altitude Observatory of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (which is sponsored by the National Science Foundation) – have discovered a turbulent convective flow system in solar “quiescent” prominences suspended in the corona–the Sun’s outer atmosphere– that point to a mechanism by which hot coronal plasma (and presumably magnetic flux) are injected upwards into the coronal cavity system. Coronal cavities are large magnetic flux

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ropes suspended in the corona, typically in the polar regions of the Sun. These flux ropes all eventually erupt in the form of CMEs that can impact the interplanetary and terrestrial space environments.

“How these large flux ropes erupt is a poorly understood fundamental process in the science of space weather. Our discovery points to a way in which intermittent ‘bubbles’ in solar prominences can inject new mass and magnetic flux into the flux ropes, thus slowly building up their magnetic buoyancy over time. These ‘bubbles’, which can be as wide as several Earth diameters, are analogous to the blobs of material in a Lava Lamp that are heated by a light from below, become buoyant, and rise to the top to deposit their energy, then drop back down again. By this mechanism coronal cavity flux ropes could grow slowly until they are able to exceed the ‘tethering’ forces of overlying magnetic fields and thus erupt as CMEs,” said Dr. Thomas Berger, lead author of the Nature paper, and solar physicist at the Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Lab at the ATC. “If we can show in further research that the prominence bubbles are indeed magnetic flux emergence events taking place below prominences, we can verify that we’ve found a new mechanism for transferring magnetic flux from the convection zone into the corona, and perhaps establish a predictive tool for the eruption of CMEs based on the rate of observed flux injection.”

The researchers used observations from the Atmospheric Imaging

Assembly (AIA) on NASA’s recently launched Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and NASA’s Focal Plane Package for the Solar Optical Telescope (SOT) on the Japanese Hinode satellite. Both instruments were designed and built at the ATC. It was the high spatial and temporal resolution of SOT, combined with the broad temperature coverage of AIA that unlocked the mystery.

SOT movies from 2006--2009 reveal dark “bubbles” forming below 10,000 K prominence material. These bubbles go unstable and form turbulent upflow plumes that rise into the prominence and the 1,000,000 K “coronal cavity” above the prominence. SOT images alone couldn’t identify the source of the bubbles’ buoyancy¬–was it magnetic field concentration or thermal energy that led to the buoyancy relative to the heavy prominence above?

In August 2010, using a simultaneous prominence observation by SOT and the newly launched AIA instrument suite, Berger and his team discovered that the bubbles were heated to temperatures of at least 250,000 K and more likely 1,000,000 K before rising into the prominence. This is 25-100 times hotter than the overlying prominence and implies that in addition to any magnetic buoyancy in the system, there is significant thermal buoyancy as well.

“This discovery is significant because it revises the common view that the magnetic field in the corona dominates the gas pressure and allows only simple, laminar, flows along magnetic field lines. Here we establish that the prominence bubbles and resultant plumes are a form of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability, a buoyant turbulent flow system

that, combined with the cool downflowing plasma in quiescent prominences, represents a form of convection, or overturning motion in the prominence/corona system – the first confirmed discovery of convection in the solar outer atmosphere,” added Berger.

“It is apparent that our understanding of basic forces at work in the corona must be revised to include turbulent motions that can deform the magnetic field lines and produce novel flow and mixing systems.”

The Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory at the ATC conducts basic research into understanding and predicting space weather and the behavior of our Sun including its impacts on Earth and climate.

It has a 47-year-long heritage of spaceborne solar instruments including the Soft X-ray Telescope on the Japanese Yohkoh satellite, the Michelson Doppler Imager on the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, the solar telescope on NASA’s Transition Region and Coronal Explorer, the Focal Plane Package on the Japanese Hinode satellite, the Solar X-ray Imagers on GOES-N, -O and –P, the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager instruments on NASA’s twin STEREO spacecraft, and the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager and the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly on NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory.

The ATC is currently building both the science instrument and spacecraft for NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrometer (IRIS), a Small Explorer Mission scheduled for launch in late 2012.

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Why calibrate/certify your flowmeters?

Why calibrate/certify your flowmeters? It is expensive for your company when compared to the certification cost of a static-calibration item such as a pressure gauge or OD micrometer. Also, many small companies have no spare flowmeters, so to calibrate means shutting down production lines.

I could give many reasons why you should get flowmeters calibrated/ certified such as: DCAS or FAA compliance, Prime-contractor requirements, or Medical/FDA regulations. Instead, this article will explain why money saved might be the best and simplest reason of all~

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We will use an example a small job-shop performing shielded-welding gas operations which use Argon or Helium in the process. Most companys meter their welding gas using a brass rotameter flowmeter combined with a pressure regulator attached to the CGA580 fitting on the Argon tanks.

These meters are inexpensive, costing around $175-$300 each and their accuracy is accordingly not very good without checking them against a flow standard. Calibration/certification of these Argon/Helium flowmeters at a Primary Standard Laboratory, such as NBS Calibrations, Inc. costs $200-$250 and typically takes 10 working days for turnaround time. Most owners or QC managers scream “How much?” when informed of this and we never hear from many of them again.

This reminds me of an old adage in the flow business: Calibration of flowmeters is a messy business. Since flow calibration/certification is a dynamic-calibration process, combining certified gauging with a fluidic flow circuit, something may spill on the floor!

The mess is trying to explain that such an expensive and time consuming certification is actually more cost efficient than a company initially perceives.

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Going back to the example of a welding process shop consuming Argon as a shield gas: At approximately $80/tank of Argon using 16 tanks per month (or 192 tanks/year).Argon is costing your company $15,400/year.

This business uses 2 of the combination Brass-body regulator/flowmeters to meter the flow of Argon. My experience with these meters over the years shows they are typically in error +/- 15% of indicated flowrate. For the sake of our example we assume ther meters are reading “low” showing 40 SCFH when the real/calibrated flowrate is 46 SCFH (40 x 1.15 or 15%).

This loss sounds small, but let’s look at the math and savings: If using your certified flowmeters to correctly meter the gas, 15% savings on $15,00/ year comes to $2300 saved in Argon each year. Subtracting two flowmeters (calibrated at $225 each per year) is $450, subtracted from $2300 in gas costs, this leaves $1850 in savings by using calibrated/certified flowmeters! This is a significant amount in these lean times.

At first glance it might seem a costly and production stopping endeavor to certify your flowmeters, but in reality it will save you money. Even considering the low cost of purchasing a “spare” flowmeter to rotate-out and keep your process going, this makes sense for even the smallest welding or process shops.

Contact NBS Calibrations Inc. for more information at 480-894-0592.

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U.S. Wants COIN Aircraft For Foreign Training For a time it looked as if the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan might spark demand for dedicated counterinsurgency (COIN) aircraft, the wayVietnam gave new life to the A-1 Skyraider and spurred development of the OV-10 Bronco.

A little more than two years ago, the U.S. Air Force envisioned operating a fleet of 100 light-attack/armed reconnaissance aircraft as part of a specialized irregular-warfare wing, and the Navy was evaluating an organic light-attack platform for its special operations forces. Now it looks unlikely that U.S. forces will use COIN aircraft in combat, instead acquiring small fleets with which to train and equip other nations.

History will likely blame the decline in U.S. interest in dedicated lightattack platforms on shifting requirements, inter-service rivalry and porkbarrel politics. But for manufacturers with aircraft to offer, even reduced fleets mean significant business and an inroad to export orders.

When USAF released the original “capability request for information” for the Light Attack Armed Reconnaissance (LAAR) program in July 2009, it drew responses ranging from an armed AirTractor AT-802U to a modernized OV-10(X) proposed by Boeing. LAAR has since been subsumed into the Light Air Support (LAS) program.

As outlined in the October 2010 request for proposals, the more modest LAS covers the procurement of 20 aircraft for delivery to the Afghan air force beginning in 2013, plus another 15 to meet USAF’s scaled-down LAAR requirement for aircraft with which to “build partner capability”— i.e., train less-capable air forces.

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Chemicals: Ultrasonic Mirachem__________ 800-847-3527 Petroferm Inc.________ 317-371-8899 Chip Management Arizona CNC Equip_ ____ 480-615-6353 Chip Removal Arizona CNC Equip_ ____ 480-615-6353 Chuck Jaws Abbott Workholding _ ___ 800-528-6459 Arizona CNC Equip_ ____ 480-615-6353 Chucks Adams Machinery______ 480-968-3711 Arizona CNC Equip_ ____ 480-615-6353 Elrod Machinery_ _____ 928-526-9032 Industrial Workholding___ 714--935-9686 InnovativeTool Sales_ ___ 714-780-0730 Marshall Tool & Supply___ 602-269-6295 Cleaners: Ultrasonic Pro- Ultrasonics_______ 602-938-0603 Cleaning Compounds Galaxy Associates, Inc.___ 480-393-3218 CompressedAir Piping Systems Airtek_ ___________ 480-966-5267 Total Filtration Services___ 800-224-4244 CompositeTubing Osprey Technologies_ ___ 480-755-0445 Coolant Systems Blaser______________801-722-4095

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DCM Tech_ _________ 800-533-5339 Ebbco Inc_ _________ 800-809-3901 Star Metal Fluids_ _____ 800-367-9966 Cutting Fluids & Oils (Coolants) ATS Industrial Supply____602-276-7707 Blaser______________801-722-4095 Canyon State Oil_ _____ 800-894-7773 ChemStation________ 623-435-1945 Diversified Diamond Products_480-443-4899 Echols Saw & Supply____ 602-278-3918 Galaxy Associates, Inc.___ 480-393-3218 Marshall Tool & Supply___ 602-269-6295 Rocky Mountain Saw Blades_ 303-761-3000 S. L. Fusco, Inc._ ______ 480-753-5000 Star Metal Fluids_ _____ 800-367-9966 Cutting Tools CVD Diamond Corp._____ 661-254-1788 Diversified Diamond Products_480-443-4899 Horn USA_ _________602-315-5258 Innovative Tool Sales____ 714-780-0730 Micro 100__________ 480-495-1454 NTK Cutting Tools._ ____602-315-5258 Rocky Mountain Saw Blades_ 303-761-3000 S. L. Fusco, Inc._ ______ 480-753-5000 Sumitomo Electric_____602-315-5258 Deburring Equipment S. L. Fusco, Inc._ ______ 480-753-5000 Die-Buttons, Die Springs Tipco Punch________513-874-9140 Digital Readout Units Adams Machinery______ 480-968-3711 D & R Machinery_ _____ 480-775-6462 Elrod Machinery_ _____ 928-526-9032 Lone Arrow_ ________ 480-507-8074 Magnum Precision Mach__ 602-431-8300

Dust Collectors Lone Arrow________480-507-8074 Total Filtration Services___ 602-244-0717 Factory Automation and Logistics Muratec__________ 949-466-8255 Filtration Equip.

Blaser______________801-722-4095 Canyon State Oil_ _____ 800-894-7773 Ebbco Inc_ _________ 800-809-3901 Hangsterfer’s________ 800-433-LUBE Qualichem, Inc._______480-320-0308 Star Metal Fluids_ _____ 800-367-9966 Total Filtration Services___ 800-224-4244 EDM Materials & Supplies Blaser______________801-722-4095 Canyon State Oil_ _____ 800-894-7773 D & R Machinery_ _____480-775-6462 Desert EDM Sales _____ 480-710-1547 EDM Network_ _______ 480-836-1782 EDM Performance acc's___800-336-2946 Global EDM Supply_____480-836-8330 Qualichem Inc________480-320-0308 Star Metal Fluids_ _____ 800-367-9966 EDM Tooling Systems CVD Diamond Corp._____ 661-254-1788 Desert EDM Sales _____ 480-710-1547 EDM Network_ _______ 480-836-1782

ELROD MACHINE

"One stop shopping for manufacturing success"

Dwayne Elrod Task Master CNC Knee Mills and CNC Retrofit Kits

CAD/CAM Software

www.elrodmachine.com E mail sales@elrodmachine.com 3880 E. Hwy 66 Ste. 6 Flagstaff, AZ 86004

Ph. (928) 526-9032 F: (928) 526-2301

Innovative Tool Sales Manufacturers Representatives

Bill Chambers Technical Support 9842 E. Diamond Dr. Sun Lakes, AZ 85248 bill@innovativetoolsales.com Cell: (602) 350-1658

755 East Debra Lane Anaheim, CA. 92805 Office: (714) 780-0730 Fax: (714) 780-0735

www.innovativetoolsales.com

EDM Performance _ ____ 800-336-2946 Global EDM Supply_____ 480-836-8330 Filtration -Grind Wheels & Belts S. L. Fusco, Inc._ ______ 480-753-5000 Hammers Abbott Workholding _ ___ 800-528-6459 Laser Accessories Canyon State Oil_ _____ 800-894-7773 Lubricants / Systems Canyon State Oil_ _____ 800-894-7773 Hangsterfer’s_ _______ 800-433-LUBE Star Metal Fluids_ _____ 800-367-9966 Machine Tool Accessories Industrial Workholding___ 714--935-9686 Machine Tool Cool. Filtration Blaser______________801-722-4095 Canyon State Oil_________ 800-894-7773 D & R Machinery_________ 480-775-6462 Hangsterfer’s_ _______ 800-433-LUBE Production Tool Co________ 800-266-3253 Qualichem, Inc__________ 480-320-0308 Star Metal Fluids_________ 800-367-9966 Total Filtration Services___ 602-244-0717 Magnetic Particle Ins Equip.

DCM Tech_ ___________ 800-533-5339 Metal Finishing Chemicals Galaxy Associates, Inc.______ 480-393-3218 Mist Collectors Production Tool Co________ 800-266-3253 Total Filtration Services___ 602-244-0717 Pallet Systems Adams Machinery________ 480-968-3711 D & R Machinery_________ 480-775-6462 Ellison Machinery_ _______ 480-968-5877

Parts Washing Equipment Blaser______________801-722-4095 Hangsterfer’s_ _______ 800-433-LUBE Mirachem__________ 800-847-3527 Production Tool Co________ 800-266-3253 Qualichem, Inc__________ 480-320-0308 Star Metal Fluids_________ 800-367-9966 Punches Tipco Punch___________513-874-9140 Solvents & Degreasing Agents Blaser______________801-722-4095 Canyon State Oil_________ 800-894-7773 Diversified Diamond Products_480-443-4899 Hangsterfer’s_ _______ 800-433-LUBE Mirachem__________ 800-847-3527 Petroferm Inc.________ 317-371-8899 Qualichem, Inc__________ 480-320-0308 Star Metal Fluids_________ 800-367-9966 Solvents: Vapor degreasing Petroferm Inc.________ 317-371-8899 Solvents:Hand Wipe Mirachem__________ 800-847-3527 Petroferm Inc.________ 317-371-8899 Solvents: Mil PRF 680 Petroferm Inc.________ 317-371-8899 Spindles Setco-Pope Spindles_ ______ 866-362-0699 Steel Service Center Ryerson _____________ 602-455-3374 Subplates Stevens Engineering_______ 800-635-0657 Toolholders- Teknics Unique Machine_________ 602-470-1911 Tooling Columns Abbott Workholding _______ 800-528-6459

BRALCO METALS 929 E. Jackson Street Phoenix. Arizona 85034 (602) 252-1918 (800) 544-8052 Fax: (602) 252-7813 Cell: (602) 722-3324 krandall@bralco.com

QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM _

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CERTIFIED BY DNV 1509001:2008_

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.BRALCO

Kevin Randall

Outside Sales Representative

AS9120:2002 -

Vacuum Pumps &Workholding Airtek_ _____________ 480-966-5267 Industrial Workholding_ ____714--935-9686 Vibratory Equipment Adams Machinery________ 480-968-3711 Production Tool Co________800-266-3253 Vises and Vise Jaws Arizona CNC Equip________ 480-615-6353 Elrod Machinery_________928-526-9032 Industrial Workholding_ ____714--935-9686 Waterjet Abrasives Barton Mines Co. ______951-676-7837 KMT Waterjet Systems_ __ 800-826-9274 Lone Arrow_________480-507-8074 Waterjet Replacement Parts Barton Mines Co. ______951-676-7837 KMT Waterjet Systems_ __ 800-826-9274 Work Holding Abbott Workholding ___ 800-528-6459 ATS Industrial Supply___ 602-276-7707 Diversified Diamond Products_480-443-4899 Ellison Machinery_____ 480-968-5877 Kurt Manufacturing Co._ 602-315-5258 Industrial Workholding___714--935-9686 Innovative Tool Sales____ 714-780-0730 Schunk_ _________ 602-315-5258 FIXTURING Industrial Workholding___714--935-9686 Stevens Engineering_ ___ 800-635-0657 Fixturing Designs Stevens Engineering_ ___ 800-635-0657 HARDWARE MATERIAL Alloys: High Temperature Aerodyne Alloys_____ 860-289-3820

Horizon Carbide Tool___ 480-968-0957 Mountain Rep_______ 480-899-1900 Western States Metals_ _ 801-978-0562 Alloys: Specialty Aerodyne Alloys_____860-289-3820 Aluminum AZ Metals_ ________ 602-688-8003 Bralco Metals_ _______ 602-252-1918 Ind. Metal Supply_____ 602-454-1500 Coast Aluminum_ ____ 877-977-6061 Fry Steel Company____ 800-423-6651 MarZee Inc.________ 602-269-5801 Phoenix Metal Trading__ 602-257-4660 Ryerson __________ 602-455-3374 Samuel, Son & Co._ ___ 800-631-9765 TCI Precision Metals_____ 800-234-5613 Tolleson Steel_______ 623-936-3325 Tube Service Company__ 602-267-9865 Aluminum Extrusions Bralco Metals_ _______ 602-252-1918 602-454-1500 Ind. Metal Supply Coast Aluminum_ ____ 877-977-6061 Samuel, Son & Co._ ___ 800-631-9765 Armor:Commercial Temtco Steel_________ 480-389-2883 Armor:Military Grade Temtco Steel_________ 480-389-2883 Bar: Large Diameter Bralco Metals_ _______ 602-252-1918 Coastal Metals_ ______ 800-811-7466 TW Metals__________ 800-203-8000 Brass AZ Metals_ ________ 602-688-8003 Bralco Metals_ _______ 602-252-1918 Coast Aluminum_ _____ 877-977-6061

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3 47 5 S y m m e s R o a d Hamilton, OH 45016 9830 Norwalk Blvd Suite 155 S a n t a F e S p r i n g s , CA 9 0 670 ph 888.282.3292 fax 513.860.6516

www.upmet.com

Coastal Metals_ ______ 800-811-7466 Fry Steel Company_ ____ 800-423-6651 Ind. Metal Supply______ 602-454-1500 Phoenix Metal Trading___ 602-257-4660 State Industrial Prod_ ___ 602-275-0990 Western States Metals_ __801-978-0562 Bronze AZ Metals_ ________ 602-688-8003 Coastal Metals_ ______ 800-811-7466 Ind. Metal Supply______ 602-454-1500 Phoenix Metal Trading___ 602-257-4660 State Industrial Prod_ ___ 602-275-0990 Western States Metals_ __801-978-0562

Carbon AZ Metals_ ________ 602-688-8003 Coastal Metals_ ______ 800-811-7466 Ind. Metal Supply______ 602-454-1500 Fry Steel Company_ ____ 800-423-6651 Cast Iron Western States Metals_ __801-978-0562 Castings Ind. Metal Supply______ 602-454-1500 Mountain Rep________ 480-899-1900 Phoenix Metal Trading___ 602-257-4660 Castings, Investment Mountain Rep________ 480-899-1900 An ISO 9001 Company

Jeff Klimowicz Senior Sales Engineer Southwest Region: AZ, UT, NV, CO, ID All Products Proudly Made in the USA

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Mobile: 480‐320‐0308 jklimowicz@qualichem.com www.qualichem.com

Ceramics Davia Water Jet_______ 602-442-4452 MarZee Inc._________ 602-269-5801 Chrome Rod Western States Metals_ __ 801-978-0562 Cobalt United Performance Metals__ 888-282-3292 Copper Apache Steel Company___ 602-323-2200 AZ Metals_ _________602-688-8003 Bralco Metals_ _______ 602-252-1918 Ind. Metal Supply______ 602-454-1500 Coast Aluminum_ _____ 877-977-6061 State Industrial Prod_ ___ 602-275-0990 Western States Metals_ __ 801-978-0562 Extrusions TW Metals__________ 800-203-8000 Lead Ind. Metal Supply______ 602-454-1500 Material Sales Samuel, Son & Co._ ____ 800-631-9765 TW Metals__________ 800-203-8000 Ulbrich of California_ ___800-237-2888 Metals Advanced Metal Sales___ 623-434-8343 Apache Steel Company___ 602-323-2200 AZ Metals_ _________602-688-8003 AZ Tool & Steel_______ 480-784-1600

Bralco Metals_ ________ 602-252-1918 Coast Aluminum_ ______ 877-977-6061 Ind. Metal Supply_______ 602-454-1500 Ryerson ___________ 602-455-3374 Samuel, Son & Co._ ____ 800-631-9765 State Industrial Pro______602-275-0990 TCI Precision Metals______ 800-234-5613 Tolleson Steel_________623-936-3325 Temtco Steel__________480-389-2883 Tube Service Company_ ___602-267-9865 TW Metals___________800-203-8000 Ulbrich of California_ ___ 800-237-2888 United Performance Metals___888-282-3292

Bar / Plate 24 Hour Delivery

Delivering Alloy Solutions to the World.

Nickel Cobalt. Titanium. Stainless.

Patricia Negoro 800.337.3766 x 148 AerodyneAlloys.com Santa Fe Springs, CA pnegoro@aerodynealloys.com

Western States Metals_ __ 801-978-0562 Metals-Bar & Plate Aerodyne Ulbrich Alloys_ _ 800-337-3766 AZ Metals_ _________602-688-8003 AZ Tool & Steel_______ 480-784-1600 Coast Aluminum_ _____ 877-977-6061 Ind. Metal Supply______ 602-454-1500 Samuel, Son & Co._ ____ 800-631-9765 Temtco Steel_________ 480-389-2883 Tolleson Steel________ 623-936-3325 TW Metals__________ 800-203-8000 Ulbrich of California_ ___800-237-2888 Metals-Strip, Wire & Bar TW Metals__________ 800-203-8000 Ulbrich of California_ ___800-237-2888 Mold Steel Apache Steel Company___ 602-323-2200 AZ Tool & Steel_______ 480-784-1600 New & used Metals Phoenix Metal Trading___ 602-257-4660 Nickel Alloys Apache Steel Company___ 602-323-2200 AZ Metals_ _________602-688-8003 AZ Tool & Steel_______ 480-784-1600 Fry Steel Company_ ____ 800-423-6651 MarZee Inc._________ 602-269-5801 Samuel, Son & Co._ ____ 800-631-9765 Ulbrich of California_ ___ 800-237-2888

High Performance Garnet Abrasives

Richard Amy Regional Sales Manager

Phone: 951.324.3221 Cell:

951.551.2685

Orders: 800.741.7756

E-mail: ramy@barton.com Six Warren Street | Glens Falls, NY 12801 | www.barton.com

United Performance Metals_888-282-3292 Plate: Wear and Structural Temtco Steel_________ 480-389-2883 Pre-Honed Tube Western States Metals_ __801-978-0562 Recyclable Metals Barry Metals__________602-484-7186 Consolidated Resources Inc._ 623-931-5009 MMR,LLC___________ 623-937-0385 Phoenix Metal Trading_ __ 602-257-4660 Recycling: Carbide Ebbco Inc_ _________ 800-809-3901 Rubber MarZee Inc._________602-269-5801 Scrap Metal Recycling Barry Metals__________602-484-7186 Consolidated Resources Inc._ 623-931-5009 MMR,LLC___________ 623-937-0385 Phoenix Metal Trading_ __ 602-257-4660 Stainless Steel Apache Steel Company__ 602-323-2200 AZ Metals_ ________ 602-688-8003 AZ Tool & Steel_______ 480-784-1600 Bralco Metals_ _______ 602-252-1918 Coast Aluminum_ _____877-977-6061 Coastal Metals_ ______ 800-811-7466 Davia Water Jet _ _____602-442-4452 Fry Steel Company____ 800-423-6651 Ind. Metal Supply______602-454-1500

MarZee Inc._________602-269-5801 Ryerson ___________602-455-3374 Samuel, Son & Co._ ____800-631-9765 TCI Precision Metals_____ 800-234-5613 Tube Service Company_ __ 602-267-9865 Ulbrich of California_ __ 800-237-2888 United Performance Metals_888-282-3292 Steel Advanced Metal Sales___ 623-434-8343 Apache Steel Company__ 602-323-2200 AZ Metals_ ________ 602-688-8003 AZ Tool & Steel_______ 480-784-1600 Bralco Metals_ _______ 602-252-1918 Coastal Metals_ ______ 800-811-7466 Davia Water Jet _ _____602-442-4452 Fry Steel Company_____800-423-6651 Ind. Metal Supply______602-454-1500 MarZee Inc._________602-269-5801 Ryerson ___________602-455-3374 Temtco Steel_________ 480-389-2883 Tolleson Steel_______ 623-936-3325 Tube Service Company___602-267-9865 United Performance Metals_888-282-3292 Steel Coil-sheet Ind. Metal Supply______ 602-454-1500 Ryerson ___________602-455-3374 Ulbrich of California_ __ 800-237-2888 United Performance Metals_888-282-3292 Steel Service Centers Advanced Metal Sales___ 623-434-8343

Samuel, Son & Co._ ___ 800-631-9765 Structurals Ind. Metal Supply______ 602-454-1500 Titanium Aerodyne Alloys_______ 800-237-2888 AZ Metals_ ________ 602-688-8003 MarZee Inc._________ 602-269-5801 Mountain Rep________ 480-899-1900 Ulbrich of California_ ___ 800-237-2888 Tubing AZ Metals_ ________ 602-688-8003 Ind. Metal Supply______ 602-454-1500 Samuel, Son & Co._ ___ 800-631-9765 Tube Service Company_ __ 602-267-9865 TOOLING Cutting Tools CVD Diamond Corp._____ 661-254-1788 Helical Solutions_ _____ 866-543-5422 Micro 100__________ 480-495-1454 Boring Bars B & T Tool & Engineering__ 602-267-1481 Criterion__________ 602-315-5258 Marshall Tool & Supply___ 602-269-6295 Micro 100__________ 480-495-1454 Carbide BC Tool Grinding________ 602-252-3507 B & T Tool & Engineering__ 602-267-1481

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Doug Klein, ASQ CQE

3021 St Lane 5730S.E.35th Leith Phoenix, AZAZ 85034 Scottsdale, 85254 480-626-8131 Fax 480-626-2101 doug@klontech.com www.klontech.com

CTE_____________ 800-783-2400 Cutting Tools Consultants_ 602-277-1342 Elrod Machinery_ _____ 928-526-9032 Helical Solutions_ _____ 866-543-5422 Innovative Tool Sales____ 714-780-0730 Magnum Precision Mach__ 602-431-8300 Marshall Tool & Supply___ 602-269-6295 Micro 100__________ 480-495-1454 S. L. Fusco, Inc._ ______ 480-753-5000 B & T Tool & Engineering__ 602-267-1481 Diamond Coated End Mills CVD Diamond Corp._____ 661-254-1788 Drills CTE_____________ 800-783-2400 Cutting Tools Consultants_ 602-277-1342 CVD Diamond Corp._____ 661-254-1788 BC Tool Grinding________ 602-252-3507 Elrod Machinery_ _____ 928-526-9032 Marshall Tool & Supply___ 602-269-6295 Moore Tool & Equipment__ 602-455-8904 End Mills CTE_____________ 800-783-2400 Cutting Tools Consultants_ 602-277-1342 CVD Diamond Corp._____ 661-254-1788 Elrod Machinery_ ____ 928-526-9032 Helical Solutions_ _____ 866-543-5422 Marshall Tool & Supply___ 602-269-6295

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Micro 100__________ 480-495-1454 S. L. Fusco, Inc._ ______ 480-753-5000 Form Tools CTE_____________ 800-783-2400 Cutting Tools Consultants_ 602-277-1342 B & T Tool & Engineering_ 602-267-1481 Inserts, Indexable Horizon Carbide Tool___ 480-968-0957 Marshall Tool & Supply___ 602-269-6295 Inserts, PCD/CBN Marshall Tool & Supply___ 602-269-6295 Loose Abrasive Grains S. L. Fusco, Inc.______ 480-753-5000 Reamers & Drills, PCD Marshall Tool & Supply___ 602-269-6295 Thread Mills Micro 100__________ 480-495-1454 Tooling Columns Ellison Machinery_____ 480-968-5877 Tooling Systems Ellison Machinery______ 480-968-5877 Global EDM Supply_____ 480-836-8330 Micro 100__________ 480-495-1454 Tool Repair, Coating, Treatment BC Tool Grinding________ 602-252-3507 B & T Tool & Engineering__ 602-267-1481 CTE_____________ 800-783-2400 Cutting Tools Consultants_ 602-277-1342 Tombstones/Subplates Stevens Engineering_ ___ 800-635-0657 METAL DISTRIBUTORS Western States Metals_ __801-978-0562 PROG. SYSTEMS CAD/CAM Adams Machinery______ 480-968-3711

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Arizona CNC Equip_ ____ 480-615-6353 Delcam_ __________ 877 335 2261 DDi (Solidworks)_ _____ 602-241-0900 Elrod Machinery_ _____ 928-526-9032 Feature Cam_ _______ 602-502-9654 TMI (GibbsCAM)_______ 602-618-6553 Software, Inv. Control Delcam_ __________ 877 335 2261 Feature Cam_ _______ 602-502-9654 Software,Lean/6 Sigma 4 Sight Technologies_ ___ 480-922-6484 Software, NC Programming Adams Machinery______ 480-968-3711 Delcam_ __________ 877 335 2261 Ellison Machinery______ 480-968-5877 Elrod Machinery_ _____ 928-526-9032 Feature Cam_ _______ 602-502-9654 TMI (GibbsCAM)_______ 602-618-6553 Software, Servicing DDi (Solidworks)_ _____ 602-241-0900 Delcam_ __________ 877 335 2261 Elrod Machinery_ _____ 928-526-9032

Feature Cam_ _______ 602-502-9654 Osprey Technologies_ ___ 480-755-0445 TMI (GibbsCAM)_______ 602-618-6553 Tooling Systems Global EDM Supply_____ 480-836-8330 REPAIR/DESIGN Machine Tool Design/ Engineering DDi (Solidworks)_ _____ 602-241-0900 Ellison Machinery______ 480-968-5877 Machine Tool Rebuilding A&J Ind Mch. Repair_ ___ 602-550-1339 Adams Machinery______ 480-968-3711 Advanced Precision _____ 602-525-0156 AMTS____________ 602-397-4008 CNC Machinery Sales____ 602-244-1507 EDM Network_ _______ 480-836-1782 Jemelco, Inc._ _______ 480-804-9541 Setco-Pope Spindles_____ 866-362-0699 The Werks C&C, Inc_____ 602-569-1809 Machine Retrofitting/CNC Adams Machinery______ 480-968-3711

602-550-1339

30 Years Experience

Rob Schwister

Relationship Manager 480.905.2407 rschwister@alerusmail.com

MIKE SMITH 602-397-4008 mike.amts@hotmail.com mike_amts@hotmail.com

alerusfinancial.com

AMTS____________ 602-397-4008 Arizona CNC Equip_ ____ 480-615-6353 Valves (Hydraulic, Arizona CNC Equip_ ____ 480-615-6353 Arizona Machine Tool Service, AMTS Pneumatic) D & R Machinery_ _____ 480-775-6462 Opening a new chapter in my life, after 30 years, 22 in Arizona as Machinery Sales CNC Machinery Sales____ 602-244-1507 All World Machinery Supply_ 815-943-9111 Ellison Machinery______ 480-968-5877 Co. Senior Service Engineer, servicing Bridgeport, Cincinnati, Hardinge, Okamoto, Jemelco, Inc._ _______ 480-804-9541 and many others, CNC andInc._ Manual Machine Tools, I will continue to provide service Jemelco, _______ 480-804-9541 and repair to Arizona, SERVICES Elrod Machinery_ _____ 928-526-9032 The Werks C&C, Inc_____ 602-569-1809 Thank you Banks Machinery Moving Mike Smith Advanced Precision _____ 602-525-0156 Total Filtration Services___ 602-244-0717 Alerus Bank & Trust______ 480-905-2407 A&J Ind Mch. Repair_ ___ 602-550-1339 Repair -Hydraulic Bank of Arizona________ 480-642-2876 Machine Repair Parts/Filters A&J Ind Mch. Repair_ ___ 602-550-1339 Business Consulting Total Filtration Services___ 602-244-0717 Advanced Precision _____ 602-525-0156 BMSC 480-445-9400 Road Machinery________ 520-623-8681 O’Donnell & Assoc._ _____ 602-843-8018 Maint/Repair Services A&J Ind Mch. Repair_ ___ 602-550-1339 The Werks C&C, Inc_____ 602-569-1809 Quality Training Consultants___ 928-284-0856 Adams Machinery______ 480-968-3711 Repair - Portable Advanced Precision _____ 602-525-0156 A&J Ind Mch. Repair_ ___ 602-550-1339 Calibration: Gauging Equipment AMTS____________ 602-397-4008 Advanced Precision _____ 602-525-0156 NBS Calibrations_ ____ 480-894-0592 Arizona CNC Equip_ ____ 480-615-6353 The Werks C&C, Inc_____ 602-569-1809 D & R Machinery_ _____ 480-775-6462 Calibration: Repair & Certify Spindle Rebuilding Ellison Machinery______ 480-968-5877 NBS Calibrations_ ____ 480-894-0592 Jemelco, Inc._ _______ 480-804-9541 Setco-Pope Spindles_____ 866-362-0699 Cash Flow Management MACHINERY REPAIR Bank of Arizona________ 480-642-2876 State Industrial Prod_ ___ 602-275-0990 PARTS Cleaning Services: Industrial The Werks C&C, Inc_____ 602-569-1809 Belts OpenWorks__________602-909-1167 Mold Repairs All World Machinery Supply_ 815-943-9111 Cleaning Serv. Clean Room B&B Tool._ _________ 520-397-0436 Bearings(Precision) OpenWorks__________602-909-1167 Stamping Repairs Computer Maintenance B&B Tool._ _________ 520-397-0436 All World Machinery Supply_ 815-943-9111 Metric O-Rings Clarity____________ 480-560-9497 Prev. Maint Programs Computer Services A&J Ind Mch. Repair_ ___ 602-550-1339 All World Machinery Supply_ 815-943-9111 Adams Machinery______ 480-968-3711 Switches (Proximity, Limit) Clarity____________ 480-560-9497 Advanced Precision _____ 602-525-0156 All World Machinery Supply_ 815-943-9111 Gartman Technical Services__ 602-788-8121

Consulting 4 Sight Technologies_ ____ 480-922-6484 BMSC 480-445-9400 Advanced Custom Screens_ _800-992-7936 Arizona MEP__________ 480-874-9100 Quality Advisory Services___ 602-910-1510 Quality Training Consultants___928-284-0856 Sustaining Edge Solutions___ 888-572-9642 Contract Inspection Advanced Coordinate Tech_ _ 623-780-4137 Klontech Measure Sol____ 480-626-8131 Contract Programming Adams Machinery______ 480-968-3711 Ellison Machinery______ 480-968-5877 Klontech Measure Sol____ 480-626-8131 CNC Training Adams Machinery_______ 480-968-3711 Ellison Machinery_______480-968-5877 Jet Products__________ 623-869-6749 Design Services DDi (Solidworks)_ _____ 602-241-0900

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Southwest Metal Fab_ ____ 602-470-1200 Castings: Repair Precision Casting Repair_ __ 800-622-2404 BONDING CLEANING Diffusion Vacco Industries________ 626-443-7121 A2Z Sandblasting_______ 602-716-5566 COATING BRAZING Accuwright Industries_____ 480-892-9595 CAD Enterprises_________ 602-278-4407 Arizona Finishing_ ______ 602-438-4443 Joined Alloys_ ________ 602-870-5600 Coating Technologies_ ____ 623-581-2648 Precision Casting Repair_ __ 800-622-2404 Collins Metal Finishing_ ____602-275-3117 LA Specialties_ ________ 602-269-7612 BROACHING Apache consolidate, Inc_____ 623-934-7144 Louie's Black Oxide______ 602-257-0530 Ayers Gear & Mach_ ______ 623-934-6913 MPI International_ ______ 956-631-6880 Lewis Aerospace_________ 623-581-0764 Perfection Industrial Finishing_520-434-9090 Perma-Finish_ ________ 602-278-1733 CASTINGS Precision Industrial Painting_ 602-256-0260 AATC____________602-268-1467 Precision Powdercoat_ ____ 480-894-5224 May Foundry & Machine___ 801-531-8931 Southwest Powder Coating_ _ 602-272-0878 Castings: Prototype Coating: Black Oxide AATC____________602-268-1467 Coating Technologies_ ____ 623-581-2648 May Foundry & Machine___ 801-531-8931 Collins Metal Finishing_ ____602-275-3117 Castings: Production Louie's Black Oxide______ 602-257-0530 AATC____________602-268-1467 Coating: Chem Film May Foundry & Machine___ 801-531-8931 AP Industrial _ ________ 480-968-1947

Certified Inspection Service____602-267-0661 Collins Metal Finishing_ ____ 602-275-3117 Gold Tech Industries______ _480-968-1930 Jet Products_ __________ 623-869-6749 METCO Metal Finishing_ ____ 602-276-4120 LA Specialties_ _________ 602-269-7612 Lynch Brothers Mfg_ ______ 602-267-7575 Perfection Industrial Finishing_ 520-434-9090 Precision Industrial Painting_ _ 602-256-0260 Treffers Precision_ _______ 602-744-2636 LAI Southwest__________602-304-1160 STP Performance Coating LLC__ 602-276-1231 The Metal Man_ ________ 800-448-9448 Coating: Dry Film Lube Coating Technologies_ _____ 623-581-2648 Jet Products_ __________ 623-869-6749 Perfection Industrial Finishing_ 520-434-9090 Precision Industrial Painting_ _ 602-256-0260 Coating: Nickel/Teflon Coating Technologies_ _____ 623-581-2648 Collins Metal Finishing_ ____ 602-275-3117 Coating: NP3 Coating Technologies_ _____ 623-581-2648

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CNC Router Micropulse West________ 480-966-2300 Laser APMI_____________ 480-668-0024 Fine Line Laser Cutting___ 602-863-3196 Taycar Enterprises_ ____505-265-2121 Tube Laser Cutting Tube Service Company___ 602-267-9865 DIES Arizona Wire & Tool_______480-813-1002 Micro-Tronics, Inc_ ______ 602-437-8995 Precision Die & Stamp'g___ 480-967-2038 EDM EDM: Drilling Small Hole Arizona Wire Specialists____ 480-829-6530 CAD Enterprises________ 602-278-4407 EDM Tech_ __________ 602-278-6666 EDM Express.com_______ 877-336-4548 Landmark Precision______ 480-940-4001 LAYKE, Inc.___________ 602-272-2654 Micro-Tronics, Inc_ ______ 602-437-8995

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Micropulse West________ 480-966-2300 Sun Tech_ ________ 480-921-1665 EDM: Ram-Type (Sinking) EDM Tech_ __________ 602-278-6666 Landmark Precision_____480-940-4001 Micro-Tronics, Inc_ ______ 602-437-8995 Micropulse West________ 480-966-2300 Petersen Inc_________800-410-6789 Quality Mold_ ________ 480-892-5480 Sun Tech_ ________ 480-921-1665 The Tech Group________480-281-4500 Tooling Molds West______ 480-921-9939 EDM: Dialectric Systems /Filtration Ebbco Inc_ _________ 800-809-3901 EDM: Wire 3D Machine LLC_ ____ 480-239-8254 Arizona Wire & Tool______ 480-813-1002 Arizona Wire Specialists_ __ 480-829-6530 AzMark_ ___________ 480-921-4128 Auer Precision_________ 480-834-4637

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JPS Manufacturing_ _____ 480-367-9540 Nelson Engineering_______602-273-7114 New Hope Machine_ _____ 520-825-7830 Phoenix Metalcraft_____602-279-4810 Plastic Eng._________480-491-8100 Precision Casting Repair_ __ 800-622-2404 Prime Machine___________801-575-8430 Scottsdale Precision. Inc.______480-991-0317 Scriven Precision________ 480-961-9775 Southwest Metal Fab_ ____ 602-470-1200 Systems 3___________ 480-894-2581 TMM Precision _ _______ 800-448-9448 Tolleson Steel________ 623-936-3325 Weiser/Mile High Precision__ 303-280-2778 Whitley Machine________ 602-323-5550 Wintech_ __________ 602-437-9001 Wrico______________ 480-892-7800 Fabrication: Custom Metal Arrow Sheet Metal_______ 303-427-6419

ASHER Metal Products______773-276-5007 Capital Stainless_ _____ 480-967-0016 CygnetStamping & Fab_____818-240-7574 Fine Line Fabricating_ ____ 602-863-3506 Howell Precision_________623-582-4776 Landmark Precision______ 480-940-4001 Systems 3___________ 480-894-2581 VACCO Industries_ ______ 626-443-7121 Fabrication: Medium & Large APMI______________480-668-0024 Arrow Sheet Metal________303-427-6419 ASHER Metal Products______773-276-5007 Continental Machining___800-777-2483 CGS Technologies_ ______ 623-869-0600 Elixir Industries_______480-834-1484 Fine Line Fabricating_ ____ 602-863-3506 Howell Precision_________623-582-4776 Precision Metalworks___ 602-455-9575 Prime Machine___________801-575-8430

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Semiray Aerospace Testing_ _ 623-842-3030 Dry Film Lubrication Jet Processing______ 623-869-6749 x117 Precision Industrial Painting_ 602-256-0260 Glass Bead Clean ABS Metallurgical Processors_ 602-437-3008 Arizona Hard Chrome_____ 602-278-8671 Coating Technologies_ ____ 623-581-2648 L A Specialties_________ 602-269-7612 Southwest Powder Coating_ _ 602-272-0878 ACME Metal Works_ _____ 480-926-4171 Gun Drilling ACME Metal Works_ _____ 480-926-4171 Gun Finishing Louie’s Gun Finishing_____ 602-257-0530 Passivation ABS Metallurgical Processors_ 602-437-3008 Certified Inspection Service___602-267-0661 Coating Technologies_ ___ _623-581-2648 Gold Tech Industries______ 480-968-1930 Jet Processing______ 623-869-6749 x117

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Grinding:Mattison Sun Grinding_ ________ 602-238-9595 Grinding: OD Arizona Hard Chrome_____ 602-278-8671 BC Tool Grinding________ 602-252-3507 Grindworks_ _________ 623-582-5767 Micro-Tronics, Inc_ ______ 602-437-8995 National Grinding & Mfg_ __ 602-588-2869 Road Machinery________ 520-623-8681 Grinding: Precision Tool US Carbide Tool LLC______ 480-755-3812 Grinding: Surface Arizona Wire & Tool______ 480-813-1002 Blue Streak Grinding_ ____ 602-353-8088 EDM Express.com_______ 877-336-4548 Grindworks_ _________ 623-582-5767 National Grinding & Mfg_ __ 602-588-2869 Osborn Products________ 623-587-0335 Phoenix Grinding_______ 602-437-8401 Quality Mold__________ 480-892-5480 Sun Grinding_ ________ 602-238-9595

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Superior Grinding_______ 888-487-9701 WC Machine & Tool_ _____ 480-507-4620 Grinding: Tool & Cutter BC Tool Grinding________ 602-252-3507 B & T Tool & Engineering_ ___ 602-267-1481 CTE_____________ 800-783-2400 Cutting Tools Consultants_ 602-277-1342 Gilbert Metal Stamping____ 480-503-1283 Superior Grinding_______ 888-487-9701 Grinding: Ultra Precision Systems 3___________ 480-894-2581 GUNDRILLING Trepanning Specialties_ __ 562-633-8110 HEAT TREATING ABS Metallurgical Processors_ 602-437-3008 CAD Enterprises________ 602-278-4407 Controlled Thermal Tech'y___ 602-272-3714 Joined Alloys_ ________ 602-870-5600 L A Specialties__________602-269-7612 Phoenix Heat Treating_____ 602-258-7751 Team Industrial Services_ __ 602-269-7868 Temperature Processing____ 303-772-0250 Heat Treating/ Aerospace CAD Enterprises________ 602-278-4407 Temperature Processing____ 303-772-0250 HONING/LAPPING Grindworks_ _________ 623-582-5767 LAYKE, Inc.___________ 602-272-2654

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IDENTIFICATION Labels & Bar Code EPSI______________714-256-8950 Tool / PartMarking (Laser) Ace Laser_____________ 480-924-3232 East Valley Laser Inc_______ 480-855-7137 East Valley Laser Tucson Inc___ 520-888-1259 TechMark_ __________ 480-820--9444 Silk Screen Arizona Finishing_ ______ 602-438-4443 Precision Industrial Painting_ 602-256-0260 INDUSTRIAL SEALINGS Gaskets:Manufacturing Cupps Ind Supply_ _______602-269-2301 Industrial Sealings Cupps Ind Supply_ _______602-269-2301 Packing Cupps Ind Supply_ _______602-269-2301 INSPECTION Calibration Advanced Coordinate Tech_ __623-780-4137 Southwest Metrology, Inc.____520-744-8510 Washington Calibration____ 480-820-0506 Inspection, First Article Advanced Coordinate Tech_ __623-780-4137 Datum Inspection________602-997-1340 Klontech Measure Sol______480-626-8131 Total Quality Systems_____ 480-377-6422 Inspection Services Advanced Coordinate Tech_ __623-780-4137 Arizona Wire & Tool_______480-813-1002

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Challenger Aerospace_ ___ 480-894-0802 Datum Inspection_ ______602-997-1340 Klontech Measure Sol_ ____480-626-8131 Metals Eng & Testing Lab._ 602-272-4571 Micropulse West_ ______ 480-966-2300 Niagara Testing West______480-968-2315 Sustaining Edge Solutions__ 888-572-9642 Total Quality Systems_ ___ 480-377-6422 Inspection Services (NDT) CAD Enterprises_ ______ 602-278-4407 Jet Processing_ _____623-869-6749 x117 Jet Products___________623-869-6749 Joined Alloys_________ 602-870-5600 Niagara Testing West______480-968-2315 Semiray Aero. Testing_ ____602-275-1917 Team Industrial Services_ __ 602-269-7868 Inspection Services, Welding Metals Eng & Testing Lab._ 602-272-4571 Niagara Testing West_____ 480-968-2315 ISO Consultant Arizona MEP_ ________ 480-874-9100 BMSC_____________480-445-9400 Gladhill Assoc_________ 623-939-4412

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Hi-Tech Machining & Eng____520-889-8325 Industrial Tool Die & Eng_ 520-745-8771 Metalcraft Inc.__________480-967-4889 Morsch Machine_________ 480-961-7673 MSL Precision__________480-773-3239 Petersen Inc___________ 800-410-6789 Prime Machine___________801-575-8430 Systems 3____________480-894-2581 Wintech___________ 602-437-9001 Machining: Aerospace AATC______________602-268-1467 Action Machine________ 623-435-0883 Adams Mfg & Eng______ 623-486-2019 Arizona Engineering_ ____ 520-586-1522 AzMark_ ____________ 480-921-4128 Bogue Machine Co_____505-344-9988 Cassavant Machining_ __602-437-4005 Central Components____ 520-571-1433 Challenger Aerospace______480-894-0802 Cling’s Manufacturing_ ____480-968-1778 Continental Machining___ 800-777-2483 EDM Express.com_______ 877-336-4548 Evans Precision Machining_ __623-581-6200 Excaliber_ __________ 623-878-6800 Foresight Technologies_ ____480-967-0080 Gerome Mfg_ _______ 520-622-8402 Gilbert Precision Machine____480-892-4730 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 JPS Manufacturing_ ______480-367-9540 Jet Products_ __________ 623-869-6749 Joined Alloys_ ________ 602-870-5600 L&W Machine Co_ _____ 602-323-2560 Landmark Precision______ 480-940-4001 LAYKE, Inc.____________602-272-2654 Lewis Aerospace_________ 623-581-0764 MSL Precision_ _________480-773-3239 Matrix Machine_ ________480-966-4451 Metalcraft Inc.__________480-967-4889 Micro-Tronics, Inc_ _______602-437-8995 Morsch Machine_________ 480-961-7673 Nelson Engineering_______ 602-273-7114 Osborn Products_________623-587-0335 Petersen Inc___________ 800-410-6789 PGI _ ____________ 505-884-5782 Pivot ______________602-306-2923 Powerhaus Precision_ ____ 480-225-8854 Powill Manufacturing____ 623-780-4100 Prime Machine_ ________ 801-575-8430 Pro Precision___________602-353-0022 Pro-Salez_____________480-773-3239 R&D Specialty Manco______602-278-7700 Service & Sales_ ________480-968-9084 Satowfi______________480-374-5706 Southwest Swiss Precision _ __602-438-4670 Stewart Manufacturing_ ____623-582-2261 Systems 3____________480-894-2581 Trepanning Specialties_ ___ 562-633-8110 White Rock Inc._ ________ 435-750-6414 Wintech_ __________ 602-437-9001

Machining: Contract Adams Mfg & Eng______ 623-486-2019 Aero Design & Mfg_ ______602-437-8080 AERO Spring & Mfg Co_ ____602-243-4329 Arizona Wire & Tool_______ 480-813-1002 B & T Tool & Engineering____ 602-267-1481 Banner Machine, Inc_ _____ 602-437-4984 Evans Precision Machining_ __623-581-6200 Gilbert Metal Stamping____ 480-503-1283 Gilbert Precision Machine____480-892-4730 Group Mfg Serv_______ 480-966-3952 HK Machining________ 602-278-6704 Infinisys____________ 602-276-2276 Jan’s Inc._ ___________480-833-7305 Joined Alloys_ ________ 602-870-5600 Lewis Aerospace_ ______ 623-581-0764 MSL Precision__________480-773-3239 Micropulse West_________480-966-2300 Pivot______________602-306-2923 Stellar Machining & Fab__ 480-961-3075 Stewart Manufacturing_____623-582-2261 Wintech___________ 602-437-9001 Machining: Chem. Etching Pro-Salez_ __________ 480-773-3239 VACCO Industries_ ______ 626--450-6472 Machining: CNC 3D Machine LLC_ _____480-239-8254 Absolute Turning and Machine_520-624-5628

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Glover Precision, Inc._____480-464-0150 Hawkeye Precision_ _____ 480-926-8642 Infinisys____________ 602-276-2276 Jan’s Inc.____________ 480-833-7305 Jemelco, Inc._ _______ 480-804-9541 JD Ellen LLC________ 623-587--0253 JWB Manufacturing______ 480-967-4600 L&W Machine Co_ _____602-323-2560 Landmark Precision______ 480-940-4001 Metalcraft Inc._________ 480-967-4889 MSL Precision_ ________ 480-773-3239 Micropulse West________ 480-966-2300 Osborn Products________ 623-587-0335 Petersen Inc___________800-410-6789 PGI_______________505-884-5782 Pro Precision__________602-353-00220 R&D Specialty Manco_____ 602-278-7700 Stellar Machining & Fab__480-961-3075 Stewart Manufacturing_ ____623-582-2261 SwissTech Tooling & MFg.____480-998-2005 Tooling Molds West_ _____ 480-921-9939 Tri-Matrix_ __________ 480-844-0165 Val-Tech Mfg___________480-966-7376 Wintech_ __________ 602-437-9001 Wire-Tech_ __________ 480-966-1591 Machining: Quick Turn Arizona Engineering_ ____ 520-586-1522 HK Machining________ 602-278-6704 Jemelco, Inc._ _______ 480-804-9541 Landmark Precision______ 480-940-4001 Powerhaus Precision_ ____ 480-225-8854 Tooling Molds West_ _____ 480-921-9939 Machining: Milling 3D Machine LLC_______480-239-8254 ACME Metal Works_ _____ 480-926-4171 Arizona Engineering_ ____ 520-586-1522 Bar-S Machine_ ______ 928-636-2115 Bogue Machine Co_ ___ 505-344-9988 Challenger Aerospace______ 480-894-0802 Cling’s Manufacturing ____480-968-1778 Gilbert Precision Machine___ 480-892-4730 Glover Precision, Inc._____480-464-0150 Hi-Tech Machining & Eng_ __ 520-889-8325 Infinisys____________ 602-276-2276 Jet Products__________ 623-869-6749 L&W Machine Co_ _____602-323-2560 Landmark Precision______ 480-940-4001 Metalcraft Inc._________ 480-967-4889 Micro-Tronics, Inc_ ______ 602-437-8995 Morsch Machine_________480-961-7673

Wire-Tech_ __________ 480-966-1591 Machining: Semiconductor Foresight Technologies_ ___ 480-967-0080 Gilbert Precision Machine___ 480-892-4730 L&W Machine Co_ ____ 602-323-2560 Powerhaus Precision_ ____ 480-225-8854 Satowfi_____________ 480-374-5706 Machining: Swiss Absolute Turning and Machine_520-624-5628 Bar-S Machine_ ______928-636-2115 Cassavant Machining___ 602-437-4005 Powerhaus Precision_ ____ 480-225-8854 Southwest Swiss Precision _ _ 602-438-4670 SwissTech Tooling & Mfg._____480-998-2005 White Rock Inc._ _______ 435-750-6414 Machining: Ultra-Precision Auer Precision_________ 480-834-4637 Southwest Swiss Precision _ _ 602-438-4670 White Rock Inc._ _______ 435-750-5534 Machining: Turning: Automatic Absolute Turning and Machine_520-624-5628 American Prec.Mach_ __ 602-269-6298 Ayers Gear & Mach_____ 623-934-6913 AzMark_ __________ 480-921-4128 Challenger Aerospace____ 480-894-0802 Evans Precision Mach’g___ 623-581-6200 Hawkeye Precision_ ____ 480-926-8642 JB’s Precision Ind______ 623-581-9088 Jet Products_________ 623-869-6749 LAYKE, Inc._ ________ 602-272-2654 Landmark Precision______ 480-940-4001 Lewis Aerospace_______ 623-581-0764 MSL Precision_ ________ 480-773-3239 Matrix Machine_______ 480-966-4451 Micro-Tronics, Inc______ 602-437-8995 PGI_______________505-884-5782 MACHINING: LASER Laser Cutting Ace Laser_____________ 480-924-3232 Elixir Industries______ 480-834-1484 Fine Line Laser Cutting__ 602-863-3196 Howell Precision________ 623-582-4776 LAI Southwest_________ 602-304-1160 Leach Laser_ __________ 602-254-1141 Petersen Inc__________ 800-410-6789 PMA PhotoMetals_______800-899-3366 Pro-Salez____________ 480-773-3239 Scottsdale Precision. Inc.______480-991-0317 Taycar Enterprises_ ____505-265-2121 The Metal Man_ _______ 800-448-9448 TMM Precision _ _______ 800-448-9448 Tube Service Company___ 602-267-9865 Wrco_____________480-892-7800 Laser Cutting: X- Large Vroom Engineering & Mfg_ _ 520-293-3819 Laser Cutting: Micro VACCO Industries_ ______ 626-443-7121

Laser Cutting:Rotary Axis K-zell Metals, Inc._ ____602-232-5882 Laser Engraving & Etching Ace Laser_____________ 480-924-3232 East Valley Laser Inc_______ 480-855-7137 East Valley Laser Tucson Inc___ 520-888-1259 TechMark_ __________ 480-820--9444 VACCO Industries_ ______ 626--450-6472 Laser Marking Ace Laser_____________ 480-924-3232 East Valley Laser Inc_______ 480-855-7137 East Valley Laser Tucson Inc___ 520-888-1259 Leach Laser_ __________ 602-254-1141 TechMark_ __________ 480-820--9444 Precision Etched Parts VACCO Industries_ ______ 626--450-6472 MANUFACTURING Adams Mfg & Eng_______ 623-486-2019 APMI ___ ___________480-668-0024 Creedbilt Inc_ _______ 623-939-8119 CAD Tools_ __________ 480-753-4290 Harschco LLC_ _______ 602-617-7514 Hi-Tech Machining & Eng_ __ 520-889-8325 Howell Precision_________623-582-4776 Glover Precision, Inc._____480-464-0150 Group Manufacturing Serv__ 480-966-3952 PMBC_ ____________602-431-8131 Stewart Manufacturing_ ____623-582-2261 Scottsdale Precision. Inc.______480-991-0317 Scriven Precision_ ______ 480-961-9775 Systems 3___________ 480-894-2581 Unique Machine________ 602-470-1911 Electrical - UL508A Panel Shop Unique Machine________ 602-470-1911 Manufacturing: Electrode Wire-Tech_ __________ 480-966-1591 Mfg: PhotoChemical Etching Fabrication VACCO Industries_ ______ 626--450-6472 METAL BAR CODING PMA PhotoMetal_______800-899-3366 METAL FORMING Creedbilt Inc_ _______ 623-939-8119 Scottsdale Precision. Inc.______480-991-0317 TMM Precision _ _______ 800-448-9448 Tri-Matrix_ __________ 480-844-0165 Metal Forming: Architectural ASHER Metal Products______773-276-5007 METALIZING Accuwright Industries_____ 480-892-9595 Jet Processing_______623-869-6749 x117 MOLDING: RUBBER Micro-Tronics, Inc_ ______ 602-437-8995 MOLDS Adams Mfg & Eng_______ 623-486-2019 PMBC_ ____________602-431-8131 JWB Manufacturing______ 480-967-4600 Quality Mold_ ________ 480-892-5480

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Southwest Metal Fab_ ____ 602-470-1200 Stellar Machining & Fab__480-961-3075 WC Machine & Tool__ ____ 480-507-4620 X5 Manufacturing_______ 602-454-7385 SPINNING: Metal Metal Spinning Solutions___ 480-899-0939 SPLINES Apache Gear, Inc_ ______ 623-934-7144 SPRAY: METAL, PLASMA Accuwright Industries_____ 480-892-9595 Bolt’s Metallizing_ ______ 602-244-2432 Empire Precision Mach.___ 480-633-4580 SPRINGS Flat and Wire Springs AERO Spring & Mfg Co_ ___ 602-243-4329 Tri-Matrix_ __________ 480-844-0165 STAMPING AERO Spring & Mfg Co_ ___ 602-243-4329 Astra Fab_ __________ 480-497-8250 Auer Precision_________ 480-834-4637 ASHER Metal Products______773-276-5007 CygnetStamping & Fab_____818-240-7574 Frontier Metal Stamping_ ___303-458-5129 Gilbert Metal Stamping____ 480-503-1283 Harco Metal Products____ 480-829-0450 Precision Die & Stamping___ 480-967-2038 Pro-Salez____________ 480-773-3239 Scriven Precision_ ______ 480-961-9775 Weiser/Mile High Precision__ 303-280-2778 Whitley Machine_ ______ 602-323-5550 Wrico _ ____________ 480-892-7800 Precision Metal Forming ASHER Metal Products______773-276-5007 Stamping: Aerospace Frontier Metal Stamping_ ___303-458-5129 Stamping Design Frontier Metal Stamping_ ___303-458-5129 Weiser/Mile High Precision__ 303-280-2778 Stamping: Prototype Frontier Metal Stamping_ ___303-458-5129 TAPPING Gilbert Metal Stamping____ 480-503-1283 Harschco LLC_ _______ 602-617-7514 TESTING Testing: Flow / Target Semiray Aero. Testing_____ 623-842-3030 Testing: Non-Dest/ Pressure Jet Products_ __________623-869-6749 Semiray Aero. Testing_____ 623-842-3030 THERMAL SPRAY Accuwright Industries_____ 480-892-9595 Controlled Thermal Tech'y____602-272-3714 Empire Precision Mach.___ 480-633-4580

THREADING Thread Grinding Blue Streak Grinding_ ____ 602-353-8088 Grindworks_ _________ 623-582-5767 Osborn Products________ 623-587-0335 Shaw Precision_ _______ 480-785-4925 Thread Rolling Shaw Precision_ _______ 480-785-4925 TOOL & DIE 3D Machine LLC______ 480-239-8254 Arizona Wire & Tool_______480-813-1002 Gilbert Metal Stamping____ 480-503-1283 Whitley Machine_ ______ 602-323-5550 Wrico _ ____________ 480-892-7800 TOOLING Frontier Metal Stamping_ ___303-458-5129 US Carbide Tool LLC_______480-755-3812 Tooling: Jig & Fixture Building New Hope Machine_ _____ 520-825-7830 TREPANNING Trepanning Specialties_ ___562-633-8110 TUBING Assembly Formed Tubing Service & Sales_ _______ 480-968-9084 Formed Tubing AERO Spring & Mfg Co_ ___ 602-243-4329 Cling’s Manufacturing____480-968-1778 Large Diam. Pipe & Tubing Trepanning Specialties_ ___562-633-8110 Tube Bending /Fabrication Cling’s Manufacturing ____480-968-1778 Harco Metal Products____ 480-829-0450 K-zell Metals, Inc._ ___ 602-232-5882 Osprey Technologies_ ___ 480-755-0445 Service & Sales______ 480-968-9084 WATER PURIF/ RECYC. USFilter_ _________ 760-525-9930 WATERJET CUTTING Aerodyne Ulbrich Alloys_ 800-237-2888 CAD Enterprises________ 602-278-4407 Centaur Technologies___623-516-8080 Creedbilt Inc_ _______ 623-939-8119 Davia Water Jet______ 602-442-4452 EDM Express.com_____ 877-336-4548 Elixir Industries_______480-834-1484 Flow International ____ 480-830-0431 Harschco LLC_ _______ 602-617-7514 Jan’s Inc.____________ 480-833-7305 LAI Southwest_________ 602-304-1160 MarZee Inc._________602-269-5801 New Hope Machine_ _____ 520-825-7830 Pro-Salez____________ 480-773-3239 Southwest Waterjet_____480-306-7748

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Val-Tech Mfg___________480-966-7376 Weiser/Mile High Precision__ 303-280-2778 WASHERS AERO Spring & Mfg Co____602-243-4329 X5 Manufacturing_______ 602-454-7385 Welding: Aerospace WIRE FORMS Arrow Sheet Metal________303-427-6419 AERO Spring & Mfg Co____602-243-4329 Central Components_ ___520-571-1433 Tri-Matrix_ __________ 480-844-0165 Joined Alloys_ ________ 602-870-5600 WELDING JPS Manufacturing_ _____ 480-367-9540 ACME Metal Works_ ______ 480-926-4171 MSL Precision_ ________ 480-773-3239 APMI _ ____________ 480-668-0024 X5 Manufacturing_______ 602-454-7385 Arrow Sheet Metal________ 303-427-6419 Welding: Alum. Med & Lg ASHER Metal Products______ 773-276-5007 Arrow Sheet Metal________303-427-6419 Astra Fab_ __________480-497-8250 ASHER Metal Products______773-276-5007 AzMark_ ___________ 480-921-4128 Continental Machining___800-777-2483 Banner Machine, Inc_ ____602-437-4984 Elixir Industries_______480-834-1484 BID Machine, Inc_ ______480-892-7304 Empire Precision Mach.___ 480-633-4580 Capital Stainless_ _____ 480-967-0016 Southwest Metal Fab_ ____ 602-470-1200 Central Components_ ___ 520-571-1433 Stellar Machining & Fab__480-961-3075 Continental Machining___ 800-777-2483 Vroom Engineering & Mfg_ __520-293-3819 Creedbilt Inc_ _______ 623-939-8119 Weiser/Mile High Precision__ 303-280-2778 Elixir Industries_______ 480-834-1484 Welding: Enclosures Empire Precision Mach.____ 480-633-4580 ASHER Metal Products______773-276-5007 Group Mfg. Serv_ ______480-966-3952 Southwest Metal Fab_ ____ 602-470-1200 Harco Metal Products_____ 480-829-0450 Welding: Design Howell Precision_________ 623-582-4776 Jan’s Inc._____________ 480-833-7305 Astra Fab_ __________ 480-497-8250 Welding: Inspection SVC Joined Alloys_ _________602-870-5600 K-zell Metals, Inc._ ____ 602-232-5882 Niagara Testing West_ _____480-968-2315 Landmark Precision_______480-940-4001 Team Industrial Services_ __ 602-269-7868 Welding: Orbital Lynch Brothers Mfg_ ______ 602-267-7575 MSL Precision_ _________ 480-773-3239 L&W Fluid_________ 602-323-2560 Welding: Spot Precision Casting Repair_ ___800-622-2404 ASHER Metal Products______773-276-5007 Precision Metalworks____ 602-455-9575 Nelson Engineering______ 602-273-7114 Pro-Salez_____________ 480-773-3239 Welding: Tig Quality Mold_ _________480-892-5480 Continental Machining___800-777-2483 Scriven Precision_ ______ 480-961-9775 State Industrial Prod_____602-275-0990 Cutting Edge Mfg_ ______ 480-609-7233 Stellar Machining & Fab__ 480-961-3075 Jan’s Inc.____________ 480-833-7305 Taycar Enterprises_ ____ 505-265-2121 JPS Manufacturing_ _____ 480-367-9540 Unique Machine_________ 602-470-1911 Stellar Machining & Fab__480-961-3075 A Z METALWORKER • 93 • May/June 2011 2

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3D Machine.....................................83 Controlled Thermal........................87 4 Sight Technologies......................81 Country Financial............................81 A&J Indus. Mch Repair.............26,81 Creedbilt Inc.............................72,90 AATC.................................................83 CRI..............................................44,81 Abbott Workholding....................80 Cupps Industrial Supply.....................89 ABS Quality.....................................16 Cutting Tool Consultants...................76 ABS Metallurgical Processors.........86 CTE........................................................77 Absolute Machining & Turning.....93 CVD Diamond Corp..............................79 ACC Machinery...........................7,74 Cygnet Stamping & Fab................92 Accuwright......................................86 D & R Mchy....................................41,74 Ace Laser.........................................84 DCM Tech..................................43,76 ACME Metal Works....................... 92 DDi..............................................80,95 Action Machine.............................. 85 Datum Inspection..........................87 Adams Mfg & Eng..........................86 DaVia Water Jet.......................10,90 Adams Mach..............11,45,49,74,96 Delcam...........................................80 Advanced Coating Technologies...92 Diversified Diamond Products....79 Advanced Coord Tech....................75 East Valley Laser Inc.....................88 Advanced Metal Sales.....................80 East Valley Laser Tucson Inc........89 Advanced Precision........................81 Ebbco Inc....................................... 75 Advanced Tooling.......................... 76 Echols Saw & Supply....................74 Aero Spring & Mfg................. ........85 EDM Express.com........................82 Aerodyne Alloys............................. 79 EDM Network..........................32,78 Airtek............................................... 78 EDM Perform Access...................79 Alerus Bank & Trust........................81 EDM Tech................................. 56,83 All World Machinery Supply.......18,81 Ellison Machinery.............3,61,74,76 Aluminum Precision......................86 Elixir Industries..............................84 American Aerospace..................... 83 Elrod Machine & Mfg................... 77 AMTS................................................81 Empire Precision Mach................. 90 Anchor Danly...................................14 EPSI...................................................92 Anodizing of Mesa......................... 92 Evans Precision Mach’g...............86 Apache Gear...................................86 Excaliber Precision.......................84 Apache Steel.................................. 78 Fine Line Fabricating Inc..............86 AP Industrial................................... 92 Fine Line Laser Cutting.................92 APMI................................................ 83 Flow Intl................................... 65,78 Arizona Bank & Trust.....................80 Foresight Finishing.......................92 Arizona Engineering......................88 Foresight Technologies................84 Arizona Finishing............................ 87 Frontier Metal Stamping.............92 Arizona Hard Chrome................... 87 Fry Steel Co....................................78 Arizona MEP...................................88 Galaxy Associates, Inc..................79 Arizona Wire Spec............... ..........83 Ganesh Machinery....................21,76 Arizona Wire Tool.......................... 93 Gartman Tech Services...........56,82 Arrow Sheet Metal.................. 40,86 Geiger Electric Inc......................... 75 Asher Metal Products................... 85 Gerome Mfg............................48,84 Astra Fab......................................... 83 Gilbert Metal Stamping...............83 Auer Precision................................86 Gilbert Precision Machine............90 Ayers Gear & Mach........................ 83 Gladhill Assoc...........................52,88 AZ CNC...8,9,22,23,57-59,68-71,74,76 Global EDM Supply....................... 77 AZMARK....................................84,92 Glover Precision, Inc.....................88 AZ Metals...................................62,78 Gold Tech Industries.....................88 AZ Tool Steel..............................78,79 Great Western .........................34,81 B&B Tool.........................................80 Grindworks....................................84 B & T Tool & Engr.......................... 78 Group Manufacturing..................85 Bank of Arizona............................. 79 Haas Factory Outlet.............3,76,77 Barry Metals..............................36,79 Hangsterfer’s...........................25,76 Bar-S Machine Inc.......................... 83 HK Machining................................89 Barton Mines . ..........................44,79 Hanna Tools & Machinery........... 77 BC Tool Grinding............................ 87 Harco Metal Products..................83 BID Machine, Inc............................ 85 Harschco .......................................87 Blaser............................................... 79 Hawkeye Precision.......................85 Blue Streak Grinding............... 46,86 Helical Solutions............................ 81 BMSC.....................................28-30,81 Hi-Tech Machining & Welding.....85 Bogue Machine..............................89 Horizon Carbide............................78 Bolt’s Metallizing, Inc....................89 Howell Precision ............... 54-55,86 Bralco Metals............................ 77,78 HUB Intl..........................................83 CAD Enterprises.............................88 Hurco...............................................41 CAD Tools........................................86 Ind. Metal Supply.....................10,79 CAID.................................................84 Ind.Tool Die....................................89 California Tool.................................77 Ind. Workholding Solution..........80 Canyon State Oil......................... 2,79 Infinisys....................................84,88 Capital Stainless........................ 52,82 Innovative Cutting Tools.............. 77 Cassavant Machining.....................91 Innovative Tool Sales................... 77 Centaur Technologies...................88 Intech Funding.............................. 35 Central Components.....................89 Integrated Systems Inc................82 Certified Comparator.....................77 International Machine Parts.......90 Certified Inspection Services . ..... 83 IRH.................................................. 81 CGS Technologies, Inc.................. 85 ITDE................................................89 Challenger Aerospace...................88 Jan’s Inc..........................................89 ChemResearch............................... 87 J B’s Prec Ind....................................88 CIS.....................................................72 JD Ellen LLC.......................................89 Cling’s Manufacturing................... 85 Jemelco Inc......................................81 CNC Machinery.............................. 76 J.K. Tool................................ .........76 Coast Aluminum...............................78 Joined Alloys..................................92 Coastal Metals............................42,80 Jorgenson ........... ...................76 Coating Tech................................63,83 JPS Manufacturing................................86 Collins Metal Finishing.................. 83 JWB Manufacturing...............................87 Continental Machining..................89 K D Capital............................ 38, 74 A Z METALWORKER • 94 • May/June 2011 2

Klontech Indus. Sales...............74,80 KMT Waterjet..................................75 K-Zell Metals, Inc............................ 85 L&W Machine Co...........................88 LA Specialties........................... 60,88 LAI International............................86 Landmark Precision.... 1,28-30,48,84 Larry Arroues & Co........................ 78 Layke Inc......................................... 84 Leach Laser................................ 66,91 Leavitt Group..................................81 Lewis Aerospace........................... 85 Lone Arrow.....................................77 Louie’s Black Oxide..................85,87 Louie’s Gun Finishing.................... 87 Lynch Brothers............................... 87 MSL Precision................................. 87 Machinery Sales............................. 76 MAC Packaging...............................92 Magnum Precision...............27,75,77 Makino......................................... 5,74 Marshall Tool & Supply.................80 MarZee.................................. 12,78,86 Matrix Machine.........................83,84 May Foundry..................................86 Mesa Machinery............................ 76 Metalcraft Inc.................................88 Metal Processing Intl.....................91 Metal Spinnng................................ 85 Metals Eng & Testing Labs............81 Metco Metal . ................................88 Methods Machine.....................31,76 Micro-Tronics..............................13,84 Micro 100....................................16,79 Micropulse West............................ 83 Milne.................................................81 Mirachem........................................77 MITSUBISHI.....................................53 Mitsui Seiki.......................................19 MMR LLC.........................................82 Moore Tool & Equip...................... 76 Mountain Rep.................................81 Morsch Machine............................ 83 MSC Industrial.................................33 MSL Precision................................. 85 Muratec.......................................... 76 National Grinding & Mfg............... 86 NBS Calibrations...................... 66,80 Nelson Engineering....................... 85 New Hope Machine...................... 84 Niagara Testing West.....................92 North-South .........................19,53,77 NTK Cutting Tools.......................... 76 O’Donnell & Associates................80 OGP..................................................75 Omax Corp............................22,23,74 Orion Registrar...............................88 Osborn Products......................84,86 Osprey Technologies..................... 86 Perfection Industrial Finishing......91 Perfection Powder Coating.............84 Perma-Finish................................... 87 Petersen Inc...................................90 Petroferm.............................64,77,84 PGI....................................................82 Phoenix Grinding........................... 84 Phoenix Heat Treat........................ 87 Phoenix Metalcraft........................92 Phoenix Metal Trading......................72,80 Pivot....................................................87 PMA Photometals .........................82 Powerhaus.....................................90 Powill Mfg.................................. .......87 Precious Metal Plating........... ..88 Precision Casting Repair.......... 83 Precision Die .......................................83 Precision Industrial Painting.............84 Precision Metalworks.......................93 Premier Precision..............46,84,85,88 Prime Machine.....................................84 P . ro Precision .......................................86 ProSalez.................................................82 Pro Ultrasonics.....................................78 Profiles Tool & Eng ...................................84 QTC ..............................................................80 Quality Advisory...............................77

Qualichem, Inc...................................78 Quality Mold.........................86 R&D Specialty Manco................89 Road Machinery...............................92 Rocky Mountain Saw Blades..........75 Ryerson.............................................80 S&S Machinery Sales....................... 76 Samuel, Son & Co............. 17,67,78,79 Satowfi....................................50-51,89 Savage Machine . .............................75 SBG Capital.......................................80 Scottsdale Precision Inc..................84 Scriven Precision Fab...................... 83 Semiray .......................................24,89 Service & Sales.................................80 Setco Marketing ............................. 79 Sharp................................................. 45 Shaw Precision Grind’g................... 85 Shop Floor Automations.................81 S L Fusco........................................... 78 Southwest Metal Fab.......................82 Southwest Metrology, Inc.............88 Southwest Powder......................... 87 Southwest Swiss Precision Mchg........89 Southwest Waterjet.........................92 Star Metal Fluids.....15,75,76,78,80,81 State Industrial Prod....................... 78 Steel Services Grind’g.................12,84 Stellar Machining & Fab Inc.............92 Stevens Engineering....................... 79 Sun Grinding................................20,86 Sun Tech............................................ 93 Superior Grinding............................ 87 Sustaining Edge Solutions.........43,80 Swisstech Tooling & Mfg.................91 Systems3...........................................89 TAYCAR.............................................86 TCI Precision Metals........................ 78 TMM Precision............................83,94 T.S.M. Mach. .................................... 74 Taylor Hobson Precision................. 76 Team Industrial Services............40,87 TechMark........................................86 Temperature Processing................ 87 Temtco Steel..................................... 78 The Metal Man......................... 83,86 The Tech Group............................. 90 The Werks C&C...............................79 Tipco Punch....................................78 TMI (GibbsCAM)............................. 81 TNT Sandblasting.......................... 89 Tolleson Steel..................................78 Toolcraft of Phoenix...................... 89 Tooling Molds West...................... 89 Tornquist Machinery......................75 Total Filtration Sys.......................... 77 Total Quality Sys....................... 60,78 Trepanning Specialties................... 91 Tri-Matrix Mach.............................85 Tsugami...........................................47 TW Metals.......................................79 Tube Service....................................78 U S Shop Tools...........................30,77 Ulbrich of CA..............................37,78 Unique Machine.............................76 United Performance Metals.........78 Universal Laser Systems................38 US Carbide Tools............................93 VACCO Industries...........................83 Val-Tech Mfg...................................85 Valley Industrial Painting...............92 Vroom Enginering & Mfg............. 90 Washington Cal. .......................87 WC Machine & Tool........................85 Weiser/Mile High Precision.......... 86 Western States Metal.................... 81 White Rock Inc.............................. 89 Whitley Machine ...................... 86 Widia................................................76 Wintech...........................................85 Wire-Tech........................................85 Wrico...............................................85 X5.....................................................85

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