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Vol. 9, No.1 Jan / Feb 2016

Rocky Mountain Edition (CO, UT, ID, MT and WY) IDS Machining Uses State-Of-The-Art Tools And Software To Provide Superior Parts For Their Customers

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MMT-Moncktons, an Authorized Distributor of

IN STOCK & READY TO SHIP MMT-Moncktons, a Division of Productivity Inc., is now locally stocking cutting tools in conjunction with Productivity Inc. in our Denver and Salt Lake City locations.

Our comprehensive selection of tooling and accessories from top quality suppliers include:

Plus Many More!

To order tooling, shop online at www.mmtproductivity.com or call us in Denver at (303) 757-2093 or Salt Lake City at (801) 521-1716.

Denver: (303) 757-2093 Salt Lake City: (801) 521-1716 mmtproductivity.com

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5-axis machining and turning center The latest B-Axis tool spindle machine from NakamuraTome, the NTRX-300 is a very heavy-duty machine with full twin spindles and a robust tool spindle. Featuring the new Smart X control from Nakamura using Windows 8 software and a unique built-in load/ unload device; a built in automation system and a compact footprint make this machine an unbeatable value.

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“Failure is not an option.” ~ Confucius Failure, of course, is an option, and it happens to us everyday in life. I fail when I am unsuccessful helping a new customer to see the benefits of advertising in the A2Z Manufacturing/Metalworker magazines, despite my belief that it is the right thing for this business owner to do. I fail on a regular basis when I make my list of what I must accomplish in a given day, and then some of my action items have to be carried over to the next day. And I fail at my person health and fitness goals regularly.

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This Issue’s Shop Profile

Announcements/Releases .....................6-21 Feature Articles ..................................1,24-25 Buyers Guide Equipment .....................49-54 I know failure well, and I simply continue to work at getting better Buyers Guide Processes ........................55-61 to ensure that my successes far exceed my failures. Over the past several weeks, I have met Card Gallery ..........................................49-61 with 2 inventors in our industry. One has been working in a small industrial bay developing Index Of Advertisers .................................62 and building an innovative patent pending solution for the cleantech/renewal energy industry. Editorial.....................................Throughout He and his partner have been at it for nearly 3 years now. Twice, the 2 partners have submitted their business plan to the ‘Innovation Challenge’, a government sponsored program that Published by: offers grant money to small businesses to continue research and development with a plan to A2Z Manufacturing bring new products to market.Year 1, these partners didn’t make it to the semifinals of the competition. They were given guidance on how to submit a plan that might help them to PUBLISHER/EDITOR win for the following year (2015), and indeed they were successful. They made it to ‘Top 10 Linda Daly Finalists’, only to learn that they weren’t one of the small subset of ‘Top 10’ that would win linda@a2zmanufacturing.com monies to continue their research and new product design. A hard blow, but they are getting Mail Address: 13442 N 50th St. closer, and must again hone their business plan to win in 2016. Failure, yes, but winning might Scottsdale, AZ 85254 still come. It isn’t easy.

Another inventor I met with recently has invented a product designed to help machine shop owners analyze the machine tool utilization of machines in their shop. It is web-based, so business owners can see real time which machines are making their company money, and those that are below performance requirements. This business owner’s invention helps machine shops increase their efficiency and subsequently their profitability. The sale should be an easy one, but it is not. Nonetheless, this inventor continues to pursue his dream of bringing a product to market, and in time, I believe he will succeed if he pursues his dream.

Michael Jordan says it well. “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”

I meet so many manufacturing business owners in the course of my business travels, and I often wonder why some who I meet talk about ‘how difficult the environment is’, how hard staying afloat and even thriving is for them on a day to day basis.Yet, I meet so many companies, often very small, who are getting work, growing, adding new customers, and exceeding customer expectations on a regular basis.You can read about a small company in this issue, literally run by a husband and wife team. In their small business tucked away near Ogden, Utah, they are running 6 machines – between just the two of them. Their spindles are turning, and business is good.They say they are blessed, and I am sure that they are. But they are doing what it takes to succeed — investing in great equipment and tools to increase their efficiency. They are keeping their costs down, with low overhead, and they are getting more work than I am sure they ever envisioned was possible.

So what does it take to succeed? Failure will come, guaranteed. In the words of Dan Pearce, American Author, “If your dreams and goals get derailed, they’re not dead. Derailed simply means off-track. Pick ‘em up and put ‘em back on again.”

Let’s make 2016 a great year. May it be filled with happiness, health, success and love. And God Bless Our Troops!

Linda Daly Publisher A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain

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Announcements & Releases MMT-Moncktons Announces It is Now Locally Stocking Cutting Tools, Including Kennametal and Many Others

Flow International Corporation Introduces Chad Mooneyham To New Position As New Western Regional Manager

MMT-Moncktons is proud to announce that it is now locally stocking cutting tools in its Denver and Salt Lake City locations.

After being an integral part of the success of Flow waterjets for over a decade, Chad Mooneyham was recently promoted to the role of Regional Manager for the Western US. This is a well-deserved promotion as he has served Flow in several roles for over 10 years.

Chad started installing and training customers back in 1996 as part of an internship with Flow.

Since then he graduated at the top of his class with a BS in business from UCR, and then relocated to the Northeast region to support Flow.

In June of 2015 Moncktons Machine Tools, a long standing machine tool company serving the Colorado and Rocky Mountain region, joined forces with Productivity, Inc. Productivity Inc. is the Midwest’s largest distributor of CNC machine tools and related metal working equipment. The new entity was named MMT, LLC, A Division of Productivity.

With the new partnership, MMT-Moncktons has added cutting tools to its line of products.Tooling Sales Manager Kip Shefveland, says, “We now offer our customers in the Rocky Mountain region local stocking of such quality cutting tools as Kennametal, HORN, Komet, Guhring, Harvey Tool, Allied Machine, RedLine Tools, plus many more.

To order tooling, shop online at www.mmtproductivity.com or you can call (303) 757-2093 in Denver and (801) 521-1716 in Salt Lake City.

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During his time in the Northeast, Chad was responsible for equipment installations, customer training, and application support. Due to Chad’s high level of contribution, he was given the role of Sr. Applications specialist. In 2010 Chad received another promotion and relocated back to California where he started supporting the Southwest customer base for Flow.Through his knowledge of waterjet technology, applications, and the ability to partner with our customers and our dealers, the Western region has become one of the top performing territory for Flow waterjets.To reach Chad, please call him at 714.393.3783 or email cmooneyham@flowcorp.com Announcements Continued Page 8

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

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

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

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mold and die machines, announced Michael Huggett, Hwacheon Machinery America president.

“The addition of the new, full-service dealer groups is a major part of the company’s plan to increase market share for its machine tools and it represents a substantial upgrade in the quality of our sales, application assistance, and service capabilities,” Huggett added.

“The recent sea-change in machine tool representation in the United States will benefit Hwacheon in terms of market penetration and customer service across our lines.The world-class quality and reliability of our machine tools certainly merits the kind of support and attention these new dealers will provide,” he said.

“Further, we at Hwacheon are excited that our machine tools will now be introduced to new customers and potential users who will see the quality and experience the low-maintenance reliability, durability, and metalcutting precision for themselves”, Huggett added.

The new Hwacheon dealers include:

•Foothills Machinery Sales, Broomfield, CO, covering the states of Colorado, Wyoming, and New Mexico •Technical Equipment Sales, based in Cincinnati, covering the states of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, and Kentucky •520 Machinery, Schaumburg, IL, covering the state of Illinois •Cardinal Machinery, Memphis,TN, covering the States of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Alabama •MD Machinery Inc., Eldersburg, MD, covering the States of Maryland, Delaware, www.cimatrontech.com and Washington DC Announcements Continued •Machinery Solutions, Lexington, SC, Hwacheon Revamps Dealer Group Nationwide And Adds covering the states of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia Foothills Machinery Sales To Its Team •Production Machinery Associates, WilliamsCimetron_CCI.indd 1 1/16/13 10:45 AM burg, VA, will cover the state of Virginia Recent change in machine tool representation will now have Technical Equipment Sales, 520 Machinery, Cardinal Machinery, MD Machinery Inc., Foothills Machinery Sales, Machinery •Mabscott Supply, Mabscott, WV, will cover the state of West Virginia Solutions, Production Machinery Associates, Mabscott Supply, and Mabscott representing Hwacheon.

Hwacheon Machinery America has added several well-known and successful machine tool dealers to represent its lines of high quality CNC turning machines, machining centers, and

Hwacheon will be announcing further changes in the near future.

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The 1-3/8-inch (36mm) or 1-5/8-inch (42mm) bar diameter opposed headstock CNC lathe features dual parallel gang-tooled slides and synchronized “C” Axis spindles and “dead-length” collet chucks for accurate synchronized part transfer.

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Announcements Continued Established in 1952, Hwacheon was Korea’s first Korean machine tool builder. Today it operates eight machine tool plants, delivering more than 3000 CNC horizontal and vertical lathes, machining centers and milling machines worldwide annually, half of which are installed in Korea at automotive, die and mold, and machining job shops.

Hwacheon is fully vertically integrated, operating not only machining and assembly floors and spindle production, but also a foundry in which it casts high quality meehanite machine bases and columns, and another plant producing gears and chucks. It is the one of the top producers of chucks globally, according to the company.

The ISO 9001:9004 and CE-certified Hwacheon machine tool operations are part of the Hwacheon Group of companies, a Korean public company.

To learn more about the fine line of Hwacheon machine tools in the Rocky Mountain states, contact Foothills Machinery Sales at 303466-3777 or visit foothillsmachinery.com

Makino Expands EDNC-Series Line with New EDNC10, EDNC15, EDNC20 Sinker EDMs Makino announces the latest expansion to its lineup of EDNC-Series sinker EDM machines, the EDNC10, EDNC15 and EDNC20. Designed to provide a powerful blend of power, speed and precision in A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain

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large work envelopes, these new EDNC sinker EDMs accommodate massive, heavy workpieces while still producing delicate, fine features with high accuracy and exceptional surface finish.

The rigid and precise construction of the EDNC-Series enables the EDNC10, EDNC15 and EDNC20 to achieve the accuracy and surface finish levels found on smaller sinker EDM machines, said Brian Pfluger, Makino’s EDM product line manager.

“Many large-commodity sinker EDMs will see a significant performance drop-off in accuracy, surface finish and machine speed when compared to standard-size sinker EDM machines. The Makino EDNC-Series machines overcome these challenges with key technologies that achieve small-sinker EDM performance on a large-platform machine,” Pfluger said.

Die and mold shops, aerospace and power-generation equipment manufacturers are sure to appreciate the larger work sizes of these machines.

The EDNC10, EDNC15 and EDNC20 feature 60-amp (80 Peak amps) power supplies as standard, with 120 or 240-amp options available.

The EDNC10 and EDNC15 machines are designed with a full threesided programmable drop tanks, providing unparalleled ergonomic access for setup and operation.The EDNC20 features a programmable rise and fall front door, which controls dielectric fluid level, and can be set to match the height of the workpiece while providing optimum viewing of the machining operation.

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“We are pleased to tell you that we are now operational in Colorado, and ready to handle all parts, service and sales for our new Doosan customers in Colorado and New Mexico. J.M. Grisley, in business for 90 years, has sold Doosan machine tools into Utah, Montana and Wyoming for the past 3 decades.

We additionally thank our customers for helping us to win the distinctive ‘Outstanding Distributor of the Year’ for 2 years running. In these uncertain times, you can feel confident when you purchase your Doosan machine tools from J.M. Grisley, whether your business is in Utah, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, or New Mexico. Trust your machine tool purchases from a family-run company that has been supporting the industry for 90 years now!”

Regards, Lars Grisley, Managing Director, J.M. Grisley Machine Tools, Inc. A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain

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Announcements Continued HyperCut technology is a new generator function that increases power levels without requiring additional reduction on the electrode, and it improves roughing speeds by up to 30 percent without affecting workpiece accuracy or surface quality. The technology minimizes electrode wear while providing the fastest possible machining speed.

Faustson Proud Partner in $2.4 million OEDIT Grant to Establish 3D Metal Additive Center

Faustson, a worldwide leader in the machining industry, is part of a consortium receiving a $2.4 million infrastructure grant from the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT) as Each EDNC-Series machine is equipped with the new Hyper-i con- part of the Advanced Industries Accelerator Grant Program. The group trol system, which is the same system used on Makino’s wire EDM – headed by Manufacture’s Edge – will use these funds to build infraproducts, signifying a standardization of Makino’s EDM machine structure to assist in 3D metal printing standardization and qualification controls. Hyper-i improves productivity by streamlining and sim- for businesses of all sizes. plifying the machine interface so that operators of all skill levels can achieve the most efficient results. Its 24-inch high-definition monitor “This work is the next step in our ongoing effort to lead Colorado in provides touch-screen technology similar to that of smartphones 3D metal printing expertise,” said Alicia Svaldi, president of Faustson. and tablets, enabling the use of pinch, swipe and spread movements “For thirty years, we’ve worked to be early adopters in metal machining to select machining conditions for workpiece and electrode mate- technologies and capabilities, and we’re proud to continue that tradition.”

Other members of the consortium include Ball Aerospace, Colorado rial type, and the desired feature shape and surface finish. The user friendliness of the Hyper-i Control is further enhanced with the School of Mines, and Lockheed-Martin. A research and development integration of on-board digital manuals, intelligent E-Tech Doctor center will be built at Mines and be dedicated to performing applied research and creating database infrastructure to qualify printers and their help functions, and an e-Learning training system. parts. Mines will continue ongoing research with Faustson and Concept SuperSpark IV: SuperSpark IV is an advanced adaptive control tech- Laser on the first U.S. Installed dual-laser 3-D metal printer at Faustson’s nology that optimizes the machining discharge power and electrode facility in Arvada. Work will continue in the effort to greatly reduce jump motions during roughing and finishing operations. This tech- manufacturing times and improve precision, accuracy and precision. nology is especially effective on rib or drafted electrodes, and when combined with HyperCut settings, can reduce total machining time Faustson VP Heidi Hostetter said, “Our team, which combines manuby up to 50 percent.For more information, call 1-800-552-3288 or facturing expertise, academia, support organizations, federal expertise, and the support of the state, is poised to further Colorado’s position as visit makino.com.

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Announcements Continued a leader in cutting-edge manufacturing. We’re able to create parts that are not possible using traditional machining techniques, and this will further Colorado’s position as a leader in additive manufacturing and aerospace.”

The 3D Metal Additive center will be a member-supported research center focused on understanding the characteristics and performance of 3D printed advanced metal alloys used in advanced manufacturing industries. OEDIT contributed $2.5 million of Advanced Industries Grant funds, while founding consortium members matched that with more than $5 million in matching funds, and contributed personnel and equipment resources to create the center at the Colorado School of Mines.

The first six months of activity will focus on building specified test parts at Lockheed Martin and Faustson, analyzing the characteristics of those parts at a microscopic level at the Colorado School of Mines, and analyzing the impact of the various manufacturing processes and conditions used to create the parts. This work will continue indefinitely, beyond the time frame of the grant, as the center will be a self-sustaining center of excellence for Colorado.

At the six-month mark, Manufacturer’s Edge and the Colorado School of Mines will roll out initial membership details for companies wishing to participate in further research efforts and results. At that time, the center will expand its scope to include new alloys and manA2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain

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ufacturing methods driven by the needs of Colorado manufacturers.

The Advanced Industries Accelerator Programs (AIA) were created in 2013 to promote growth and sustainability in Colorado’s advanced industries by driving innovation, accelerating commercialization, encouraging public-private partnerships, increasing access to early-stage capital and creating a strong infrastructure that increases the state’s capacity to be globally competitive. AIA encompasses three distinct grant programs: Proof of Concept, Early Stage Capital and Retention, and Commercialization Infrastructure.

Faustson Tool, a worldwide leader in the machining industry, provides services for clients worldwide in the medical, aerospace, aeronautics, defense, semiconductor and other industries.The company, founded in 1982, provides 3-, 4- and 5-axis milling and 5-axis EDM services, as well as turning capabilities for cutting-edge custom part production, and efficient production of standard parts. Faustson Tool is woman owned and operated small business. For more information, visit www.faustson.com, email hhostetter@faustson.com or call (303) 420-7422.

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and TH1500 turning insert grades by adding new positive and negative geometries, chip breakers and nose radius sizes to the line.The additions allow manufacturers that process hardened steels, superalloys and cast irons to further increase their machining capabilities.

With its reliable edge toughness and high chip resistance qualities available across a broader product range, the TH1000 TiSiN-TiAlN nanolaminate PVD-coated grade enables manufacturers to productively tackle a wider variety of ISO H5-H10 applications as well as maintain long tool life when machining hardened steels, from 50 to 62 HRC, hard surfaced components and superalloy materials.

fine grain substrate, TH1500 makes a great alternative to CBN and ceramic cutting tools in situations that involve machining hardened steel workpieces in unstable conditions.

Overall, the new additions to the TH1000 and TH1500 product lines significantly increase the number of optimal turning solutions available to parts manufacturers serving the aerospace, automotive

TH1000 excels in finishing operations and performing interrupted cuts in harden steels.With respect to machining superalloys, such as Inconel 718, Waspaloy and Nimonic C263, the grade brings fast cutting speeds to continuous finishing and semi-finishing operations. Furthermore, the latest TH1000 chipbreaker inserts bring optimum chip control and high process security to a broader working range.

Perfect for processing hardened steels, from 40 to 55 HRC, the Duratomic® TH1500 grade, through its product expansion, allows manufacturers to excel in an increased number of ISO H10-H15 applications that require high cutting data and continuous-cut operations. TH1500 also provides superior finish turning of grey and ductile cast irons in applications with low-to-moderate cutting speeds.

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and energy industry segments.The additions also allow the company to provide total solutions for machining challenging materials. TH1000, for example, complements the TS2000 and CP200 carbide grades and CBN170 grade to form a complete finish machining package for superalloy materials. TH1500, because of its superior finishing turning capabilities in grey and ductile cast iron, nicely complements the company’s TK1001 and TK2001 grades.

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C o m e To T h e N e x t NUNTMA Meeting And Hear About Manufacturing Trends From Washington Lobbyist Omar S. Nashashibi With the 2016 Presidential campaign officially underway, manufacturers have more at stake in Washington than ever before. This is your chance to hear directly from a Washington insider (Omar Nashashibi) about the latest on tax reform efforts, EPA and OSHA regulations, and how the new workforce training law will help your company.

The Northern Utah Tooling and Machining Association (NUNTMA) invites you to their next meeting, to be held on 2/11/16 at 12:00 noon.

The meeting scheduled to be held at the OWATC (Room UB 107109), will feature speaker Omar Nashashibi.

Omar Nashashibi is a lobbyist for the National Tooling and Machining Association inWashington, D.C. and will provide a unique perspective on the latest legislation, regulations, and battle for the White House.

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Omar Nashashibi is a Founding Partner with The Franklin Partnership, a bipartisan lobbying firm based in Washington, D.C. The National Tooling and Machining Association retained Omar’s firm in 2008 to be the voice of the industry in our nation’s capital. Omar has nearly twenty years of experience working in Washington with policymakers, politicians, and the media. For his manufacturing clients, Omar lobbies the White House, members of Congress and government agencies who issue thousands of new rules and regulations each year.

Before founding his own firm in 2005, Omar worked for the Office of Management and Budget, part of the Executive Office of the President at the White House. Earlier in his career, he served as a research assistant at the Institute for Public Accuracy, promoting public policy to the media. In 1995, he began his career in Washington, D.C. covering congressional hearings and agency proceedings for a nation-wide nonprofit publication.

Mr. Nashashibi graduated from the George Washington University in Washington, D.C., where he studied Political Science and International Affairs.

To reserve your place in this meeting, whether you are a member or not, contact Maddie Dahl via email at chapterexec@nuntma.org Announcements Continued Page 18 A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain

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Top Metalforming Industry Executives to Gather for PMA Leadership Conference

Beyond educational sessions and keynote presentations, the conference also will feature socializing and fun activities.

Attendees may enjoy a Rat Pack-inspired reception, golf shamble on the hotel’s championship designed courses, and excursions to the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway and San Andreas Fault. A gala with dinner and dancing will close the event.

Attendance at the conference is complimentary for credentialed members of the media and journalists are encouraged to attend and find sources for current and future manufacturing industry stories. Interested journalists should contact Christie Carmigiano at ccarmigiano@pma.org or 216-9018800 ext. 107.

Preparing for a Business Move Step 1: Know or Learn what you Need Now This series will cover six steps that will make your business move a snap. As an expert in the rigging and millwright industry, and with experience as a facilities manager, civil engineer and project manager, I’ve designed and refined these steps for optimal results.

The exciting future of the metalforming industry will be on display at the 2016 Precision Metalforming Association (PMA) Leadership Conference and Annual Meeting on March 9-12, 2016, at the JW Marriott Desert Springs Resort & Spa in Palm Desert, CA. The multi-day Forming Our Future conference is the industry’s premier event for metalforming executives. With a wide range of relevant and impactful keynote presentations and high-level educational sessions and elite networking opportunities, the conference will address the most pressing topics for the industry. Attendees will leave with new information and new connections to help their businesses compete and thrive.

The six steps you need to know: 1.Know or Learn what you Need Now 2.Review your Current Processes and Equipment 3.Explore your Options 4.Plan the Construction 5.Execute The Construction Project 6.Make The Move and Recover from It

“The Forming Our Future conference is unlike any other industry event,” said PMA President Bill Gaskin. “With a specific focus on the metalforming sector, participants will network with peers, hone their business skills and gain valuable insight into the latest industry trends.”

Step One: Know or Learn what you Need Now The initial step is knowing what you

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Royal Products’ Rota-Rack Designed for Lights Out Manufacturing The automated Rota-Rack Parts Accumulator from Royal Products, a leading U.S. manufacturer of machine tool performance accessories, gives manufacturers a competitive advantage by enabling their machine tools to run unattended for extended periods of time.

need now and making educated guesses about what you will need in the future.

Look at your Project with a Blue Sky Approach If money were no object, what would you do to make your move or expansion everything you ever wanted? Considering this will help you think creatively.

Look at the Relationships of Each Functional Area or Department First, look at what I call the macro level of the project, or the overall view of your plant’s layout and flow. Then, Look at the micro level, or the details of individual workflow. I recommend using relationship charts and diagrams.

Plan for Restraints Keep in mind there will be some obvious constraints so try to identify them and plan for them in your timeline and budget.

“The Royal Rota-Rack is reliable, doesn’t take sick days and will continue production long after your last employee has left for the night or the weekend,” explained Brian Mecca, Director of Sales, Royal Products. “And with its very competitive pricing, the Rota-Rack typically pays for itself within the first few months of use.”

The patented Rota-Rack safely collects finished parts as they come off a CNC lathe. It gets its name from a unique automated rotary spiral that safely directs parts to the center of the turntable. A low-friction UHMW material covering all contact surfaces provides superior parts

When you complete this step, you’ll have what you need to take on step two: review your current processes and equipment.

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Announcements Continued protection. The Rota-Rack is also ideal for protecting the straight edges of milled parts.

Part size capacity is up to three inches in diameter.

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“2015 brought a wave of historic legislative and legal victories for manufacturers, following months—and in some cases years—of aggressive advocacy from the NAM. Not only did we secure landmark provisions in Congress’ year-end omnibus bill, but we also achieved wins that will create jobs and grow the middle class.”

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“Manufacturers also secured other key tax provisions at the end of the year, such as the suspension of the medical device tax and a delay of the employee benefits tax, also known as the ‘Cadillac’ tax.”

“There’s still more work to be done in 2016, but we will build on our successes from 2015 so that manufacturers can compete to win for America.”

The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) is the largest manufacturing association in the United States, representing small and large manufacturers in every industrial sector and in all 50 states. To learn more about manufacturing priorities, visit www.nam.org.

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SNC’s Dream Chaser Picked By NASA For Cargo Deliveries NASA will use Sierra Nevada Corp. Space Systems’ Dream Chaser space plane to deliver cargo and scientific research material to the International Space Station, including it in future contracts worth billions of dollars.

The small Colorado company was among three vendors announced by NASA last month as winners of the contracts for space station cargo deliveries between 2019 and 2024.Winning the work is the biggest milestone in Louisville-based SNC Space System’s 11 years of developing the Dream Chaser, said Mark Sirangelo, lead executive of the company.

The other two companies also selected — Elon Musks’ SpaceX and OrbitalATK — already handle U.S. cargo deliveries to the orbiting research station under NASA contracts first awarded in 2008.

Both companies had mishaps destroy their rockets and NASA’s cargo on their last space station resupply attempts.

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NASA said it was careful in its selection process after the accidents, and due to the complexity of proposals. That delayed contract awards by seven months, and contributed to pushing back the earliest of the planned flights under the new contracts from 2018 to late 2019.

Lockheed Martin Space Systems and Sierra Nevada Corp. Space Systems both bid for some of the work using spacecraft they designed. They, like bidder Chicago-based Boeing Co., proposed using rockets made by Centennial-based United Launch Alliance.

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What Auto Manufacturer HasThe Most Loyal Buyers?

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IHS Automotive gave out its 20th Annual Automotive Loyalty Awards, as part of the North American International Auto Show, and General Motors took home the night’s top honor for the manufacturer having the most loyal buyers.

IHS says loyalty “is determined when a household that owns a new vehicle returns to market and purchases or leases another new vehicle of the same make, model or manufacturer.”

There are some very loyal car buyers: IHS said 14 percent of the overall car-buying market are “super loyalists,” who have bought at least three cars from the same manufacturer.

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IDS Machining just does it right. They purchase the best machine tool equipment and accompanying software, and with their superior tools, they maximize their output per employee. In fact, their ratio of machines to employees is an astounding 3:1, which means that machines are producing parts while an employee is performing a set-up on another machine…and another.

The company is a family owned, woman-owned business, with husband and wife Mark and Lynette Palmer running the company on a day-to-day basis. (IDS is also a pet friendly establishment with canine family members Emily and Brandie helping at the shop regularly.) The company offers precision CNC machining (mill and lathe),Wire EDM and Sinker EDM machining, and they are expert in mold making (vacuum form, lost wax and silicon injection) and die making (smashing, forming and tool and die).

This small business is renowned for its R&D work, and they support customers who require low quantity production runs.Their customers span many states west of the Mississippi, and they produce parts with such materials as stainless steel, tool steels, aluminum, nylon, plastic, and even have manufactured composite parts.

Mark says, “We offer general project advice, approaches to cost-effective tooling, drawing evaluations, and will even build a prototype and small runs to allow you the flexibility of making changes and fine tuning your project before going into production.”

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After high school, Mark studied Manufacturing Engineering at Weber State University. He trained as an employee at a plastic injection molding company, and he spent 13 years working at an investment casting house, building molds (many were for the Aerospace Industry). Later, he went on to build new tooling for production for a manufacturer of mountain climbing equipment.

Mark admits his years working for injection molding and investment-casting companies has been invaluable to his ability to support his customers. Mark’s wife Lynette is a credentialed and trained dental assistant, and her trade required precision and detail that is also mandatory for precision machining. When Lynette left her career to begin a new one, she went to work for a precision machine shop years before IDS Machining was opened. When she joined Mark at IDS Machining, she was already a skilled machinist.

Mark always had a plan to start his own business. While working for a mountain climbing equipment manufacturer by day, Mark and a partner worked weekends and evenings establishing a business that offered both machine shop capabilities while simul-

scraper & broom to clean the area. I just couldn’t believe it. Not only was he helping (in his clean clothes) to clean the shop area, but also the fact that he was there with us for the delivery and installation was just amazing. It was outstanding.”

When it came time to purchase a new EDM machine (their Sinker EDM had died), Mark and Lynette made the decision to purchase their new EDM from Smith Machinery.

“We hadn’t run a Mitsubishi EDM, but we were so confident in the support we would receive from Smith Machinery that we knew our decision was sound.We’re pretty much a ‘Smith Machinery’ shop today.

taneously supporting machine shops in the region as a distributor of a CAD/CAM software.

Business grew for Mark and his partner’s company, and Mark was able to leave his full time job to dedicate his time to supporting customers full time.When Mark’s partner and he made the decision to each open their own business, Mark launched his new company, called IDS Machining, in Clearfield, Utah, miles from Salt Lake City.

IDS Machining opened for business with a small number of machines, not new, and largely manual. Customers who knew Mark from his many years at different companies willingly added IDS Machining to their list of suppliers. Lynette says, “We have been blessed with steady business from loyal customers.”

When your company is run by a Journeyman caliber machinist, an investment casting expert and a mold maker, and that company offers superior service, including on-time delivery, business just naturally comes to you. And so it did with IDS Machining. Mark says, “About 9 years ago, we were prepared to purchase some superior new precision machine tools.” The company contacted several machine tool dealers in Utah.

Lynette adds, “Local support was key to our decision making, as we had already experienced the impact of purchasing machine tools that didn’t offer local service. It meant down time that we couldn’t afford.”The company that won IDS Machining’s new machine tool business was Smith Machinery. Mark says, “From the start, we saw really great service from Smith Machinery, and our Mazak mill and lathes are outstanding machine tools.” Lynette added, “We continue to evaluate several machine tools each time we are in the market for new machines, but the fact that we know the Mazak controls, coupled with the fact that we get great service, means we continue to buy machine tools from Smith Machinery.”

To learn more about Smith Machinery’s fine line of machine tools coupled with superior service, contact them at 801263-6403 or visit SmithMachineTools.com

Lynette says, “We were having our 4th Mazak machine delivered, and I was clearing out the floor and cleaning to prepare for the new installation. Mark got busy with a customer when the machine arrived, and Clark Smith, owner of Smith Machinery, was there with us for the installation. I was rushing around trying to get the floor ready and Clark picked up the floor

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David Soares, Sales Engineer at Smith Machinery, supports IDS Machining. “We have a great rapport with David”, Mark says, “and we are confident with each and every machine we purchase from the Smith Machinery team.” Lynette adds, “We have a ratio of 3 machines per employee, and to run multiple machines simultaneously, you need the best in class machine tools, coupled with great CAD/CAM software, and of course experienced machinists.You get this with IDS Machining.”

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Lockheed Wins $5.3 Bln Contract For C-130J Aircraft U.S. weapons maker Lockheed Martin Corp said it would deliver a total of 78 C-130J Super Hercules aircraft to the U.S. government as part of a multiyear contract, worth $5.3 billion.

The U.S. Department of Defense said that it had already awarded $1 billion in funding for the first 32 aircraft.The company said it would deliver the planes between 2016 and 2020.

Lockheed said in October it had reached a verbal agreement with the U.S. Air Force for a five-year contract to build up to 83 C-130J transport planes for the Air Force, Coast Guard and Marine Corps.

NASA’s Kepler Comes Roaring Back with 100 New Exoplanet Finds NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has bounced back nicely from the malfunction that ended its original exoplanet hunt more than two years ago.

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Kepler has now discovered more than 100 confirmed alien planets during its second-chance K2 mission, researchers announced at the 227th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS).

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Wings Aerospace Academy Teaches Kids to Fly The Denver sky is clear on a morning in September, blue except for a few wispy clouds. Normally, this would make for an ideal day for kids to play outdoors, but today, a group of middle-schoolers are waiting restlessly in the parking lot of the Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum, staring at the horizon.

“Four minutes, four minutes,” announces Dalton Peck, a 6-foot-1 eighth-grader who towers over the other kids, all wearing white polo shirts and black slacks. “In four minutes, we will get to the chopper.” He cackles dramatically, with the air of a mad scientist about to make a breakthrough.

Dalton and the 40 to 50 sixth- through eighth-graders standing around him aren’t mad—but they are fledgling scientists. Many want to be pilots or astronauts—people who fly into the sky and beyond. Riding in the oncoming yellow helicopter will be their first hands-on experience at Wings Aerospace Academy (WAA), a new aviation-focused charter school that’s run by the air and space museum and fueled by the dreams of ambitious kids.

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The charter school concept isn’t new, but it’s gained popularity over the past decade, particularly in Colorado. Upwards of 100,000 students were enrolled in Colorado charter schools as of 2014, representing more than 10 percent of the state’s K–12 population. The flexibility of these tuition-free schools, which are often designed with a specific focus, such as STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math), appeals to parents whose kids’ preferred learning styles fall outside the public or private school toolbox.

In WAA’s case, the school’s unorthodox schedule is composed of four days of online courses, which give students access to the best lectures available on the Internet. (The school will stream a lesson from, say, the foremost expert on quadratic equations instead of relying on Stannard or its several other staff members to teach it.) This method also makes it easier to customize the material; Stannard says a few of his eighth graders have reached the level of Algebra II, a class that’s not usually taught in public schools until 10th grade.

Students spend part of the week’s remaining school day on-site at WAA— which is housed in rooms just off the main museum space—where they work on assignments and ask questions of their supervisors or fellow students. The rest of that day, of course, is the best part, when kids who spend their free time listening to Denver International Airport’s frequencies learn to build rockets, fly drones, or on this particular morning, take a ride in a helicopter.

WAA will add another grade level each year until the program reaches through 12th grade (this year’s eighth-graders will graduate from high school in 2019). By then, they’ll have a huge advantage over the competition if they choose to pursue one of about 103,000 airline and commercial pilot jobs in the U.S. WAA parent Cliff Stults is thrilled that the school is investing in the future of the aerospace industry, especially through passionate kids like his daughter, McKenna. Before WAA was conceived, he says he would drive McKenna to the museum from Centennial every weekend to look at the planes and exhibits. Already a veteran of the Experimental Aircraft Association’s Young Eagles Program, designed to inspire kids to become aerospace professionals, McKenna’s now one of three girls out of 17 students in WAA’s inaugural eighth-grade class.

“I didn’t know what I wanted to do when I was 13,” he says. “The thing is, my daughter is so into aviation that she talks to everyone about it… They don’t want to talk about all the details with her, so it’s nice for her to have this community of aviation geeks.”

Only a few weeks into the school year, McKenna is thriving. She shakes my hand vigorously and starts talking about how she’s angling for a ride with acclaimed aerobatic pilot Sean D. Tucker when he comes to visit the school. “I made up my mind that I want to be a stunt pilot,” she says as her mop of golden curls bobs with enthusiasm. “It feels even more free.

When you’re on a roller coaster, it’s super cool. Combine it with aviation, and oh my god, this is amazing.”

Just then, Mark Hyatt, chief operating officer of Wings Over the Rockies, walks by and catches McKenna’s enthusiasm. A retired Air Force pilot and former executive director of the Colorado Charter School Institute, he’s Stannard’s kindred spirit but also his foil—the idea man to the headmaster’s practical knowhow.

“See, I think school needs to be exciting,” he says. “We need to light this person up. We need her to get excited about taking my place.”

He gestures to McKenna. “I want you to have my job.” Seeing her skepticism, he adds, “Well, now my job is to help young people, but I used to be a fighter pilot in the Air Force.”

“Whoa,” she says. “What planes did you fly?” “I flew F-4s, F-111s, F-5s,” Hyatt says. McKenna nods in recognition. “That’s sweet,” she says.

Later, Hyatt tells me he’s eager to recruit more young women like McKenna into aviation, as well as local kids in general. Colorado employs more private aerospace workers per capita than any other state, but imports most of the labor. And just over six percent of American pilots are women. He has big plans, some of which are already in motion.The Wings Aerospace Enrichment Program, for instance, allows kids between the ages of 10 and 17 to participate in experiences similar to WAA students, but after normal school hours. Here, they gain practical skills, are invited to STEM mini courses and guest lectures, receive priority application status for other Wings Education programs, and gain access to internship opportunities in the industry.

With the laser focus on one niche topic, it’s logical that families are clamoring to enroll their passionate kids. In fact, Hyatt says he’s gotten letters from neighboring schools complaining that WAA is “stealing their best students.” “Up your game,” Hyatt says in response. “Steal ’em back.”

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We take off quickly and zoom toward downtown from the school’s Lowry location. As the helicopter flies over skyscrapers and past Coors Field, the kids’ expressions have turned gleeful—even Nathan’s. Puckett asks Asia if she wants to take the controls, and her curiosity overpowers her fear. After a couple of minutes, she ventures a hopeful question: “Am I doing it?”

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Getting Old? This High-Tech Suit Simulates Aging Amid the hype about virtual reality and robotics at CES 2016, I strapped on a headset and exoskeleton designed to make you feel 40 years older. That’s right, older. The R70i Age Suit, made by a tech firm, Applied Minds LLC for Genworth Financial, an insurance company, simulates vision and hearing loss, as well as reduced mobility from muscle deterioration and arthritis.

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“I would like a new dialogue on aging,” said Bran Ferren, a former Disney Imagineer and president of R&D who co-founded Applied Minds. “You can intellectualize these things all day long, but when it becomes an emotional first-person experience, it is very different.”

Once I suited up in the 40-pound kit—a three-person job—Mr. Ferren guided me through the tech he’d developed to impair my senses and strength. As is often the case, my vision went first.

An Oculus virtual-reality visor was fitted with cameras so you can see what’s ahead through a screen. But then, the Age Suit’s augmented-reality software distorts that view, to simulate the effects of vision problems: cataracts, macular degeneration, floaters and more. The glaucoma simulation made my peripheral vision gradually decrease until I was left with tunnel vision of just what’s in front of me.

For hearing, the headphones in the Age Suit added the ringing of tinnitus and raised background noise, making regular conversation far more challenging.

The most shocking part of the experience came from the exoskeleton, which uses sensors to monitor eight joints in my arms, legs and hips, and then apply mechanical resistance to slow me down.

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Denver Startup Center Targets New Entrepreneurs, Women And Vets In 2016 A seven-month-old space for Denver startups plans to evolve in 2016 into more of a resource center and connection point for would-be entrepreneurs.

The Commons on Champa is a nonprofit co-working and event venue that the city, Downtown Denver Partnership and the Colorado Technology Association opened in May. It’s launching a series of programs meant to make startup advice and connections available to more entrepreneurs — especially first-timers, women and military veterans.

Ariel Galant, Melissa LaCome and Lindsey Garrett, of LaCome Inc., use workspace at the Commons on Champa earlier this year.

“We want to be that neutral resource that really unlocks opportunity for entrepreneurship in Denver,” said Erik Mitisek, head of the Colorado Technology Association.

More than 11,000 people attended various business events at the Commons on Champa, at 1245 Champa St., since it opened in a city-owned building in the shadow of the Buell Theater and across the street from the convention center.

The Commons is also home to the CTA headquarters, the city of Denver’s small business development center, the EatDenver independent restaurant association and the Colorado Advanced Manufacturing Association. The Small Business Administration hosts regular advisory sessions for entrepreneurs at the Commons.

The idea behind the Commons was always to provide resources for entrepreneurs, but the programs the center and its staff of three could put on were to be developed.

Denver’s startup scene has boomed in recent years, giving rise to hundreds of new tech, restaurant, boutique manufacturers and many other businesses. Several supporting, for-profit coding schools, business accelerators and co-working facilities sprouted to serve the startups.

Commons organizers believe there’s a lot that can be done to help entrepreneurs before they’re able to start paying for professional services.

A notable thing lacking, according to people who’ve used the Commons or who frequent the agencies based there, is mentorship from proven entrepreneurs, advice on starting out and getting pointed to resources available to businesses, said Tami Door, CEO and president of the Downtown Denver Partnership.

Feedback suggests the gap is particularly acute for female business founders, military veterans and other minorities, she said. Source: Denver Business Journal

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Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work said the Pentagon’s next budget request would include $12 billion to $15 billion in funding for war gaming, experimentation and the demonstration of new technologies aimed at ensuring a continued military edge over China and Russia.

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Kendall declined to give any details about the budget plan, or which weapons programs could take a hit given $17 billion in cuts required under a two-year budget deal with Congress.

Industry executives were heartened earlier this year when Kendall dropped a plan that would have required government “sponsors” in order for firms to bill IRAD projects as overhead.

But they say the department could still do more to encourage firms to scale back buybacks and shift funding into research, or even merger and acquisition activity, by allowing them to bill more of those costs to the government through overhead.

“Kendall has to get creative and create more incentives,” said one senior industry executive. The executive said companies often waited for years to find out that the department would not allow them to bill the costs of consolidating facilities after mergers, even though the moves were aimed at lowering the cost of weapons programs.

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Young people drawn to making things often struggle in high schools focused on memorizing things. The problem is a lack of technical training pathways that allow students to earn and learn in pathways to real careers.

In a paper, Next Generation Career Pathways: A Manufacturing Case Study, we assert that new career pathways that combine blended learning strategies with work-based experiences can close the manufacturing skills gap.

The rise of anywhere, anytime learning and competency-based approaches provides the opportunity for next generation career and technical education. Next generation programs provide learning experiences that are a personalized, blended, applied, and work-based.

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ented team, led by CEO Stephanie Borowski and CIO Andy Hepburn, are seeking corporate and district partners as well as impact investors.

The Kettle Moraine School District, a member of the League of Innovative Schools, sees the GPS education model as a key component to its overall district approach. Superintendent Pat Deklotz stresses the importance of real work experience for students and says, “Just talking about education and career pathways isn’t very useful. Instead, providing articulated options for students to gain college credit, certification and paid work experience is quite useful.”

GPS Education Partners is an innovative education model that uniquely prepares students to succeed in technical careers and is a cost effective approach to workforce development for business. Source: EducationWeek; by:Tom Vander Ark

2016 Manifest Preview: United Launch Alliance’s Busy Year Ahead Some of America’s most critical surveillance satellites, final members of other spacecraft series and a probe that will touch an asteroid are among 15 rocket flights planned by United Launch Alliance in 2016.

It will be the 10th anniversary year for ULA, the launch firm that flies Atlas 5, Delta 4 and Delta 2 rockets from Cape Canaveral in Florida and Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

A record-setting eleven Atlas 5 launches are slated to occur, nine from the Cape and two from Vandenberg. Four Delta 4 launches are planned, three from the Cape and one from Vandenberg. No Delta 2s will launch in 2016.

The constellations of Block 2F series of Global Positioning System navigation satellites for the Air Force and the Navy’s Mobile User Objective System communications spacecraft will be completed this year by Atlas 5 rocket launches.

In addition to the Navy’s mobile communications system, launches to bolster the Defense Department’s Wideband Global SATCOM and Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite networks are scheduled, too.

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On the national security surveillance front, four launches of classified payloads for the National Reconnaissance Office, the next SBIRS Geosynchronous missile-warning satellite and the another pair of Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program, or GSSAP, spacecraft are manifested.

The scientific highlight will be the launch of NASA’s Origins-Spectral Interpretation-Resource Identification-Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft to rendezvous with an asteroid and return samples to Earth.

The 100th Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle mission should come by the autumn, marking a major milestone for the program born of the Air Force’s need for new rockets. Both vehicles debuted in 2002.

In addition to the Orbital ATK Cygnus launch for the space station, two other commercial missions are slated to deliver the WorldView 4 imaging satellite and the EchoStar 19 broadband communications craft.

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In late 2012,Woodward agreed to pay $200 million for a GE Aviation unit based in California that makes thrust reverser actuation systems for commercial airliners. Thrust reversers divert jet engine exhaust, directing it forward, to help slow an aircraft when it touches down.

Woodward was founded in Rockford, Illinois, in 1870 when Amos Woodward received a patent for a “mechanical noncompensating waterwheel governor,” which controlled the speed at which waterwheels turned.

Eventually the company made governors for aircraft, and later branched out into fuel and electronic controls.

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The 50-50 joint venture “will design, develop, source, supply and service the fuel system, including components from the fuel inlet up to the fuel nozzle,” for GE Aviation’s GE90, GEnx and GE9X commercial engines and all future large commercial engines it develops, Fort Collins-based Woodward said in a statement.

The Reshoring Initiative®, an organization committed to helping manufacturers recognize the profit potential of local sourcing and production, has announced that “reshoring plus FDI remained strong in 2015” and surveys consistently show that the trend is increasing.

About 240,000 manufacturing jobs have been brought to the U.S. from offshore in the last six years, according to the Reshoring Initiative’s calculations.That job gain is the result of both new reshoring— the return of manufacturing work by U.S. companies—and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) by foreign companies into our manufacturing sector. It also represents about 28% of the total increase in U.S. manufacturing jobs since the low of 11.45 million in February 2010.

About 12.32 million Americans are now employed in the manufacturing sector. In fact, our research shows that more manufacturing work is now coming to the U.S. than leaving the country.

According to the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) Annual Survey released in December 2015, “the percentage of companies actively moving operations back to the U.S. continues to increase.” Of particular interest was the number of 2015 studies documenting the strength of the trend:

Woodward said it will use that $250 million in capital to buy back outstanding shares over the next 12 months.

• Multinational industries actively reshoring increased 140% from 7% in 2012 to 17% in 2015 • Medical Design Technology: 49% of medical device companies outsourced offshore. Almost half of those, 45%, are returning • Plastics News: 70% of plastics industry manufacturers have or will soon reshore • Alix Partners: U.S. is favored over Mexico 55% to 31% • Walmart continues to make good progress towards its $250 billion 10-year goal

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Reshoring Initiative’s preliminary statistics for 2015 show that reshoring and FDI resulted in around 66,000 U.S. manufacturing

Woodward received $250 million in cash from GE as part of the joint venture, and the two companies said they will participate jointly in the operating results of the programs. Woodward said it will be the preferred supplier to the joint venture.

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GF Machining Solutions Partners with Community College of Denver As U.S. manufacturing continues to struggle for skilled labor, GF Machining Solutions and Community College of Denver (CCD) collaborated to add 5-axis training to the college’s machine technologies program.This curriculum expansion, which recently drew the attention of the Obama administration, represents efforts to reduce the estimated 2 million manufacturing jobs expected to go unfilled over the next decade.

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Amazon Unveils More Drone Delivery Details Amazon is revealing a bit more about the scope of its planned drone delivery service. The idea is to deliver packages weighing up to 5 pounds using a 55-pound drone that has characteristics of airplanes and helicopters. “[W]e believe that these Prime Air drones will be as normal as seeing a delivery truck driving down the street someday. So the novelty will wear off,” said Paul Misener, Amazon’s vice president for global public policy. Source:Yahoo

As Boeing Turns 100, Defense Ops Look Pivotal To Its Future Performance If you were trying to make the case that having a hometown hero in the White House is helpful to big companies, look at how Chicago-based Boeing has fared during the Obama years. In 2009, the year that fellow Chicagoan Barack Obama was inaugurated president, Boeing shares traded below $30 and revenues were about $68 billion. Today, seven years later, the stock is trading around $145 and revenues are approaching $100 billion.The company’s net profit and earnings per share have increased every year since Obama took office.

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No doubt about it, the Obama years have been good for the world’s biggest aerospace company – which this year celebrates the centennial of its founding in 1916.

The irony, though, is that in the one area where the Obama Administration could have had the biggest direct impact on Boeing’s fortunes — defense spending — demand has been weak. The administration has killed or scaled back numerous big-ticket weapons programs that Boeing might have built.

So it is mainly the commercial side of Boeing that has fared well under Obama. In fact, the company has gone from a nearly even split between defense and commercial revenues during Obama’s first year ($33.7 billion versus $34.1 billion) to a lopsided mix in which commercial jetliner sales now account for over two-thirds of total revenues.

Not that Boeing’s defense operations have suffered greatly. They have held up well, given the prolonged downturn in Pentagon demand. In 2015, Boeing Defense, Space & Security (as it is called) generated about $30 billion in sales, down 9% from where it stood when Obama took office. But that’s a very different story from what is happening on the commercial side of the house, where surging demand for jetliners last year resulted in the company delivering over 750 planes to airlines and leasing companies around the world. The company expects the demand surge to continue for some time, estimating 38,000 commercial transports worth $5.6 trillion will be ordered from Boeing and rival Airbus between 2015 and 2034. With aSWbacklog of $426 A Z MANUFACTURING • 45 • Jan / Febbillion 2016 in 2

orders as of September 30, the outlook on the commercial side of the business is distinctly bullish.

Unfortunately, history tells us that demand in the commercial transport sector is cyclical, which is the biggest reason why Boeing decided to bulk up in defense at the end of the Cold War, while other players were exiting. At the time Boeing’s military sales didn’t even rank it among the top ten Pentagon contractors, and as a result its revenue and return profile looked like a roller coaster as the commercial transport cycle waxed and waned. During one Nixon-era recession, Boeing Commercial Airplanes cut its workforce from 83,700 to 20,750 and the whole enterprise courted bankruptcy due to a collapse in demand for jetliners.

Thus, when the heavily subsidized European aircraft company Airbus began taking a significant share of the commercial transport market in the 1990s, Boeing execs knew they needed a Plan B. Boeing’s defense unit manufactures some genuinely revolutionary combat systems, such as this V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor that combines the speed and range of an airplane with the vertical agility of a helicopter. The company has a plan for staying on the cutting edge in military technology while generating respectable margins, but its government customer sometimes behaves in mysterious ways.

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Resumes & Inquiries to: hrapply@productivity.com So Boeing went on a buying spree in Fax: 763-745-1152 • www.productivity.com • EEO/AA the defense sector, purchasing the military and space operations of Rockwell duction took up the slack. So far, the metaphor International in 1996; the military, space and commercial transport operations of of two counter-rotating gears has proven to be a McDonnell Douglas in 1997; and the space operations of Hughes in 2000. In the good reflection of market realities. process, it became the Pentagon’s second biggest supplier – a global leader in tactical aircraft, helicopters, satellites, missiles and other military systems. The logic to doubling down on defense at a time when Pentagon demand had collapsed was Which means that even though defense is contribtwofold. First, defense was adjacent to the markets in which Boeing already operated, uting less than a third of corporate revenues today, requiring similar skills and technology. Second, demand for jetliners and demand for it is vital to the long-term health of the enterprise. military systems tended to vary inversely, so that when one was up the other would There’s always a temptation when the up-cycle in jetliner demand has been going on for years for be down, smoothing out revenues and returns. analysts to start complaining that defense is a drag A common metaphor used by company leaders at the time was to describe Boeing’s on results. But it wasn’t so long ago that Boeing commercial and defense operations as two counter-rotating gears that combined to execs were coping with the opposite concern — create a smoothly-running mechanism. They recognized the relationship between that defense was going gangbusters while the comcommercial and defense demand cycles wasn’t mechanistic — both could turn up or mercial side was lagging. Boeing’s business strategy down at the same time — but the vision turned out to be remarkably prescient. When recognizes that being in both parts of the business is commercial transport demand tanked after 9-11, military demand surged. And when necessary to dealing with divergent demand cycles.

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Connected Devices Not Yet Living Up To Consumer Expectations When YouGov surveyed 2,076 adults on behalf of The BIO Agency to ascertain their attitudes towards ‘connected products’ they found that, as of now, connected devices are not necessarily bringing “anything new to the table, and are merely an add-on to the ever-growing list of devices consumers use each day”.

When asked what definition from a given list they felt best defined a connected product, survey respondents favoured the description “a digital product that is ‘smart’ and knows who I am or what I want” (24%) and “a product or app that recognises me and my needs or lifestyle, and provides me with content or services relevant to my needs” (22%). Yet, 94% of those surveyed said they did not intend to buy a connected device which indicates that they are yet to perform the expected functions.

Specifically, just 6% of those surveyed said they intend to buy a smartwatch in the next 12 months, rising to 11% among those aged 25034 and dropping to 2% of those aged 55 and over. Just 7% overall said they intended to purchase a fitness tracker, but among 35-44-year-olds that rises to 13%.

The least popular connect device was a ‘smart’ kitchen device, such as a fridge connected to a shopping app. Just 3% intended to purchase such a device.

According to Peter Veash, CEO of The Bio Agency, “in order for a connected product to be successful, it needs to enhance the customer’s digital experience and be genuinely useful in everyday life”, and that “it’s up to big tech companies to create something that changes their mind”.

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Elon Musk Says Apple Electric Car Is An ‘Open Secret’ Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk said there’s no question that Apple is developing an electric car.

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“Well, it’s pretty hard to hide something if you hire over a thousand engineers to do it,” Musk told the BBC. “This is an open secret.”

The race is on to build electric cars in Silicon Valley. Musk said he

would like to see more electric cars on the market, but that building one is “quite hard to do.” He doesn’t see Apple as much of a threat to Tesla’s bottom line.

“Tesla will still aspire to make the most compelling electric vehicles, and that would be our goal, while at the same helping other companies to make electric cars as well.”

There have been plenty of clues that Apple is in stealth mode with an electric car. The company met with DMV officials to discuss the laws and regulations surrounding self-driving vehicles in California in September.

Just last week, Apple registered three domain names, including apple.car, apple.cars and apple.auto.

But if the Apple Car, allegedly codenamed “Project Titan,” is an open secret, so is the competition between Tesla and Apple, and there is more friction than Musk claimed in his interview with the BBC. Last year, data on LinkedIn showed that Apple had been snapping up automotive engineers and experts from the luxury electric car company.

More than 60 formerTesla employees were employed by Apple, including dozens of hardware, software, manufacturing and supply chain engineers, recruiters, sales specialists, attorneys and product managers, according to Reuters. Apple reportedly offers up to 60-percent salary bumps and $250,000 signing bonuses to Tesla employees.

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Musk is poaching from Apple, as well. The Palo Alto-based company has added at least 150 former Apple staffers to its staff, according to Bloomberg.

Musk made a bold prediction in December that Tesla would have a self-driving car within two years.

“I think we have all the pieces,” Musk told Fortune, “and it’s just about refining those pieces, putting them in place, and making sure they work across a huge number of environments — and then we’re done. It’s a much easier problem than people think it is.”

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Musk tweeted a few weeks ago that Tesla was looking for 100 or so “hard-core software engineers” for the company’s autonomous car program.

“Should mention that I will be interviewing people personally and Autopilot reports directly to me,” Musk tweeted. “This is a super high priority.”

In addition to Apple, other tech companies like Google and car manufacturers such as Ford, Volvo and General Motors are also competing to be among the first to create some form of self-driving tech. Many believe that the early 2020s would be a realistic timeframe to expect to see the public engaging with self-driving cars.

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The worldwide fleet of commercial passenger and cargo aircraft - and the number of passengers flown each year - are expected to double over the next two decades.

Boeing Co and Airbus Group SE have dominated the market since 1997, but at least one additional competitor could enter the market in the next 20 years, it said.

The sector is expected to produce 1,420 large commercial aircraft in 2016, 40.5 percent more than just five years ago. By 2021, production is expected to rise to 1,627 aircraft, an increase of nearly 19 percent from 2015.

Defense sector revenues are expected increase 2.7 percent, driven largely by a $13 billion rise in U.S. military spending in fiscal 2016, the report said.

Deloitte expects further consolidations in both the commercial aerospace and defense subsectors after mergers and acquisitions surged 288 percent to a record $54.6 billion in 2015.

Further portfolio restructurings, divestitures and spin-offs are likely in 2016 as companies seek to lower costs and secure funds for needed investments. It cited Lockheed Martin Corp’s plan to sell a large chunk of its government services and information technology business.

Reuters reported last month that defense contractor CACI International Inc is the top contender for the Lockheed business. Annual revenues of the assets to be sold are between $4.5 billion and $5 billion, instead of the $6 billion initially projected. Source: Reuters

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Embraer said that in 2015 it delivered 120 planes to the executive aviation market, totaling 82 light aircraft, 38 large business jets, and 101 commercial airliners.The 221 aircraft delivered in the year was the company’s biggest volume for deliveries in the past five years, Embraer said.

The delivery figures matched the company’s guidance for business planes and was one more than the estimated range for commercial jets, Embraer said.

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Northrop received a nearly $33 million contract and BAE got a more than $20 million award to develop advanced radio frequency countermeasures (RFCM) for the AC-130J and MC-130J aircraft, both of which are derived from the C-130 cargo plane made by Lockheed Martin Corp.

The work could eventually be worth almost $400 million.The Pentagon plans to select one of the two companies for a production contract as early as September, according to a previous notice about the program.

The Air Force as of Sept. 30, 2014 had 19 MC-130J Commando II tankers, which fly clandestine missions to refuel special operations forces’ aircraft, transport troops or airdrop leaflets. New AC-130J gunships based on the MC-130J are in development. The service has some 100 C-130J across the active, Guard and Reserve components.

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This oversight does not represent a knowledge failure, but instead reflects a U.S-centric focus on general aviation.

In the world of conventionally-certified aircraft, such a viewpoint is correct.

An estimated 80% of the world’s such aircraft are produced and used in America.However, beyond our shores lies an international gold mine for small aircraft producers.

According to reports from the General Aviation Manufacturers Association, 986 new single engine piston aircraft entered service during 2014, the most recent year for which such figures are known. However, around 3,000 new Light-Sport, Very Light, or Microlight aircraft were delivered.

We’ve known for a long time that elsewhere on the planet, ratios are reversed.

In the USA, 80% or so of all aircraft delivered are Type Certified … Cessnas, Cirruses, Pipers, Diamonds, Mooneys, and the like. Only about 20% are Light-Sport, kit-built aircraft, Part 103s, or aircraft such as sailplanes.

Outside the USA, however, the situation is the opposite. Only 20% of all aircraft carry government certification, while 80% of the airplanes pilots fly are what can generically be called recreational. Overwhelmingly these are two seaters and the approval for their operation often comes from government-sanctioned aero clubs.

The method of gaining approval varies by country, a fact that also makes tracking exact aircraft counts very challenging. However, significant forward progress came with the FAA’s acceptance of ASTM International standards.

An industry group devised the approval prescriptions and these are now accepted by aviation authorities in many countries.

Before ASTM, a category referred to as “microlights” gained traction around the globe. Both systems continue. Both enjoy good safety records.

With avgas selling for more than $10 a gallon where offered and with availability a major challenge in many countries, engines that can operate on automobile fuel have earned loyal followings. The Rotax BRP company headquartered in Austria has cornered about 75% of the light aircraft market.This is true in the U.S. as well because its 9-series engines run on avgas, mogas, or any mixture of the two, making for great fuel versatility.

Nations boasting the largest number of aircraft trail far behind the USA, but with 200 countries, the figures add up quickly.

Through conversations with many pilots at airshows, I am keenly aware that Americans tend not to think much about aviation in other countries. That statement is less accurate when talking to recreational aviators, as many of them own an aircraft produced overseas. Regardless, the international market is large and growing faster than any other segment.

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Nearly all of these have been manufactured in the last 25 years, while the average age of an American type certified aircraft is now 38.2 years. The U.S. general aviation single engine piston fleet adds up to >137,000 aircraft.

Single engine piston type certified aircraft will dominate for years to come, thanks significantly to high build rates in the so-called Golden Age of Aviation, the 1950s to mid-‘70s. Even if the delivery ratio of 3 recreational aircraft to 1 TC holds far into the future, it will be 30 or 40 years before their numbers overtake the old guard.

What might be called “greater Europe” is the largest territory for recreational aircraft. Sailplane gliders in Germany alone are a major force, but the Continent has a rich history of embracing sport aircraft. Many readers may recall that the Allies forbade Germany from making powered aircraft for years at the end of World War I. That prohibition may have been a major stimulus for the growth of gliders first and then light aircraft created outside the established aircraft manufacturing system.

The EU accounts for around 40% of worldwide totals, with more than 20,000 light aircraft flying. To compare, even when combining LSA and all Experimental (homebuilt) aircraft in the USA — a major and steadily growing segment — Europe alone is nearly equal. Leaders in Europe include Germany, Italy, France, England, and the Czech Republic, but every country adds to the total. Scandinavian countries add hundreds more.

Outside European countries, South Africa adds more than 6,000, Canada has more than 7,000, while Australia and New Zealand add another 5,000 or so. Aviation interest remains high in Brazil, while Asian countries bring growing counts of aircraft nation by nation.

Two countries are still very small in the tallies of aircraft and pilots, but change is expected.

China and India are home to a third of the world’s people and both are embracing aviation like never before.

We’ve observed what China can accomplish with infrastructure and airports in their plans right now. Given the government’s blessing and a push by a growing middle class, the country could bloom like few nations we’ve ever seen.

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All the preceding discussion is about aircraft. The figures regarding pilot populations still significantly favors the USA.A major German airshow, Aero Friedrichshafen, has estimated worldwide pilot numbers at something north of 1 million. Of such a figure, the USA has well over half. A third of all Yankee pilots live in California, Florida, and Texas.

Some of the best news about pilots in America is that while the largest age section is the 50-64 group (at close to 180,000), the second largest group (174,000) is aged 20-35. Such interest from a younger cohort suggests that airline pilot shortage we persistently hear about has a solution coming up through the ranks.

While striving for accuracy, solid and reliable statistics are devilishly hard to obtain and are subject to all sorts of inconsistencies.Yet no matter how you cut it, light and sport aircraft are a very substantial sector of the worldwide family of aircraft.

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The city and company last month announced some details of the “smart city” infrastructure planned at DIA and a neighboring development called Peña Station NEXT, where the off-shoot of Tokyo-based Panasonic is putting its U.S. sales and engineering hub.

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Panasonic Enterprise Solutions Co. is a division of Newark, New Jersey-based Panasonic North America.

The Denver projects announced at CES include a solar energy collection and battery storage carport system built with the help of utility company Xcel Energy.

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Fives ____________ 909-263-9282 Horizon Carbide Tool __480-968-0957 Schenk Intertech ____ 949-360-1512 Seco Tools Inc. _______ 248-528-5960 Von Ruden Manufacturing 763-682-0322 Dielectric Fluid Hangsterfer’s _______ 316-640-2462 Hangsterfer’s _______ 760-580-1357 Drills Seco Tools Inc. _______ 248-528-5960 Wohlhaupter________ 937-503-4708 Dust Collectors, Filtration Equip.

Bytebox ___________ 888-Bytebox Castrol __________ 800-894-7773 DCM Tech _________ 800-533-5339 Star Metal Fluids _____ 800-367-9966 EDM Materials & Supplies Castrol ___________ 800-894-7773 A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain•

Desert EDM Sales ____ 480-816-6300 EDM Network _______ 480-836-1782 EDM Perform. Access. ___ 800-336-2946 Global EDM Supply ____ 480-836-8330 Star Metal Fluids _____ 800-367-9966 EDM: Tooling Systems Desert EDM Sales ____ 480-816-6300 EDM Perform. Access. ___ 800-336-2946 Filtermist Mist Collectors Royal Products_______ 800-645-4174 Garnet Abrasives Barton International____ 800-741-7756 Grinding Wheels Fives ____________ 909-263-9282 Knives: Replacement Superior Grinding _____ 801-487-9700 Laser Accessories Castrol ___________ 800-894-7773 Live Centers Royal Products_______ 800-645-4174

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Lubricants / Systems Castrol ___________ 800-894-7773 Hangsterfer’s _______ 316-640-2462 Hangsterfer’s _______ 760-580-1357 Qualichem, Inc. ______ 480-320-0308 Star Metal Fluids _____ 800-367-9966 Machine Tool Accessories Schenk Intertech ____ 949-360-1512 Von Ruden Manufacturing 763-682-0322 Machine Tool Cool. Filtration Castrol ___________ 800-894-7773 Hangsterfer’s _______ 316-640-2462 Hangsterfer’s _______ 760-580-1357 Hasco Oil__________ 562-595-8491 Star Metal Fluids _____ 800-367-9966 Milling and Turning Products Von Ruden Manufacturing 763-682-0322 Parts Washing Equipment Star Metal Fluids _____ 800-367-9966 R8 Quick Change Tool System Royal Products_______ 800-645-4174 Rota-Rack Parts Accumulator Royal Products_______ 800-645-4174 Solvents /Degreasing Agents Castrol ___________ 800-894-7773 Hangsterfer’s _______ 316-640-2462 Hangsterfer’s _______ 760-580-1357

Northwest Regional Manager

Oil Hasco Oil__________ 562-595-8491 Star Metal Fluids _____ 800-367-9966 Spindles GMN USA _________ 800-686-1679 Setco Spindles & Slides __ 866-362-0699 Tooling Systems Seco Tools Inc. _______ 248-528-5960 Vices and Vice Jaws Desert EDM Sales _____ 480-816-6300 Waterjet Cutting Abrasives Barton International____ 800-741-7756 GMA Garnet ________ 828-243-9300 Work Holding Schenk Intertech ____ 949-360-1512 CALIBRATION SERVICES Advanced Coord. Tech ___ 303-469-6161 Klontech Industrial Sales _ 480-948-1871 Total Qual. Syst. ______ 480-377-6422

Get to the Next Level People, Product, Process, Planet & Profit TECHNOLOGY THAT WORKS

801.863.8637 info@mep.org www.mep.org ACCUDYNE CORPORATION Daniel R. Kenner

2835 S. Raritan St Englewood, CO 80110 303 303-991-1500 (Ph) 303-991-1921 (Fax) 303 Web: www.ezpullerusa.com E-Mail: Dan@eztram.com THE

GRINDING Grinding Machines DCM Tech ________ 800-533-5339 Jend Machinery _____ 303-775-3697 Moncktons Mach Tools _ 303-571-4933 Triad Machine ______ 303-424-0268 Aircraft brake rotor DCM Tech ________ 800-533-5339 Grinders, Rotary Silicon & Quartz DCM Tech ________ 800-533-5339 Manual Lathes & Mills AME, Inc. ________ 303-922-9266 Pedestals for Grinders Midaco__________ 847-593-8420 Sawing Machines AIT _____________ 800-321-3195 Moncktons Mach Tools _ 303-571-4933 Rocky Mountain Saw Blades_303-761-3000 A2Z Manufacturing

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Saw Replacement Parts Rocky Mountain Saw Blades_303-761-3000 Tool Grinders Punch & Die DCM Tech ________ 800-533-5339 INSPECTION EQUIP Advanced Coord. Tech ___ 303-469-6161 Gage Lab Products_____ 801-716-2972 Klontech Indust. Sales ___ 480-948-1871 OGP ___________ 480-889-9056 Total Qual. Syst. ______ 480-377-6422 CMM Probes Datum Inspection _____ 602-997-1340 Gage Lab Products_____ 801-716-2972 Klontech Industrial Sales _ 480-948-1871 OGP ___________ 480-889-9056 Coordinate Measuring Mach.

Datum Inspection _____ 602-997-1340 Klontech Industrial Sales _ 480-948-1871 Moncktons Mach Tools _ 303-571-4933 OGP ___________ 480-889-9056 Gauging Equipment Gage Lab Products_____ 801-716-2972 Klontech Industrial Sales 480-948-1871 OGP ___________ 480-889-9056 Low Temp Instrumentation High Precision Devices _ 303-447-2558

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Metrology Instruments Datum Inspection ____ 602-997-1340 Gage Lab Products_____ 801-716-2972 Klontech Industrial Sales 480-948-1871 OGP

__________ 480-889-9056 Optical Comparators Datum Inspection ____ 602-997-1340 Gage Lab Products_____ 801-716-2972 Klontech Industrial Sales 480-948-1871 OGP ___________ 480-889-9056 Particle Inspection Mach DCM Tech ________ 800-533-5339 Video Measuring Systems Gage Lab Products_____ 801-716-2972 Klontech Industrial Sales 480-948-1871 HARDWARE Horizon Carbide Tool __480-968-0957 Metal Supermarkets __ 801-972-2441 Metal Supermarkets __ 303-424-1030 Utah Metal Works, Inc. _ 801-364-5679 METALS & MATERIALS Affiliated Metals _____ 800-748-4711 AZ Tool Steel LLC ____ 480-784-1600 Coastal Metals ______ 800-811-7466 Dix Metals ________ 800-477-4349 Erickson Metals _____877-543-6061

Kloeckner Metals Corp 480-389-2883 Metal Supermarkets __ 801-972-2441 Metal Supermarkets __303-424-1030 Olympic Metals _____303-286-9700 O’Neal Flat Rolled Metals _ 303-654-0300 O’Neal Flat Rolled Metals _ 801-399-5700 Ryerson _________303-227-6310 Samuel, Son & Co. __ 303-422-8282 TCI Precision Metals __ 800-234-5613 United Performance Metals888-282-3292 Western States Metals _801-978-0562 Alloys: Corrosion Resistant United Performance Metals 888-282-3292 Alloys: High Temperature United Performance Metals 888-282-3292 Alloys: Nichel & Cobalt United Performance Metals 888-282-3292 Aluminum Affiliated Metals ____ 800-748-4711 Dix Metals ________ 800-477-4349

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An ISO 9001 Company

Jeff Klimowicz Senior Sales Engineer

Automatic Barfeeds of all Types

Southwest Region: AZ, UT, NV, CO, ID All Products Proudly Made in the USA

Denver, CO 303.654.0300

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

Ogden, UT 801.399.5700

www.ofrmetals.com

Metal Supermarkets __ 801-972-2441 Metal Supermarkets __ 303-424-1030 Olympic Metals _____ 303-286-9700 O’Neal Flat Rolled Metals _ 303-654-0300 O’Neal Flat Rolled Metals _ 801-399-5700 TCI Precision Metals __ 800-234-5613 Armor: Military & Commercial Kloeckner Metals Corp 480-389-2883 TW Metals ________ 800-203-8000 Brass Coastal Metals ______800-811-7466 Metal Supermarkets __ 801-972-2441 Metal Supermarkets __ 303-424-1030 Olympic Metals _____ 303-286-9700 Ryerson __________303-227-6310 United Performance Metals 888-282-3292 Bronze Coastal Metals ______800-811-7466 Metal Supermarkets __ 801-972-2441 A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain•

Metal Supermarkets __ 303-424-1030 Olympic Metals _____ 303-286-9700 Carbon Coastal Metals ______ 800-811-7466 Ryerson __________ 303-227-6310 Copper Olympic Metals _____ 303-286-9700 Flat Rolled Metals O’Neal Flat Rolled Metals _ 303-654-0300 O’Neal Flat Rolled Metals _ 801-399-5700 Garnet Abrasives Barton International____________ GMA Garnet Group ___ 832-243-9300 Metals: Bar & Plate Affiliated Metals _____ 800-748-4711 AZ Tool Steel LLC _____480-784-1600 Coastal Metals ______ 800-811-7466 Dix Metals _________800-477-4349 Metal Supermarkets __ 801-972-2441 Metal Supermarkets __ 303-424-1030 Ryerson __________ 303-227-6310 TW Metals _________800-203-8000 Mold Steel AZ Tool Steel LLC _____480-784-1600 Nickel Alloys AZ Tool Steel LLC _____480-784-1600 Ryerson _________ 303-227-6310

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TW Metals _________ 800-203-8000 United Perf. Metals ___ 888-282-3292 Plate-Precision Saw Cut Erickson Metals _____877-543-6061 Pre-Honed Tube Western States Metals _801-978-0562 Stainless Steel Affiliated Metals _____ 800-748-4711 AZ Tool Steel LLC _____480-784-1600 Coastal Metals ______ 800-811-7466 Dix Metals _________ 800-477-4349 Kloeckner Metals Corp __ 480-389-2883 Metal Supermarkets ___ 801-972-2441 Metal Supermarkets ___303-424-1030 Olympic Metals ______303-286-9700 O’Neal Flat Rolled Metals 303-654-0300 O’Neal Flat Rolled Metals801-399-5700 Ryerson __________ 303-227-6310 Samuel, Son & CO. ___ 303-422-8282 TCI Precision Metals ___ 800-234-5613 United Perf. Metals ___ 888-282-3292 Steel Affiliated Metals _____ 800-748-4711 AZ Tool Steel LLC_______ 480-784-1600 Coastal Metals ______ 800-811-7466 Kloeckner Metals Corp __ 480-389-2883 Metal Supermarkets ___ 801-972-2441

Global Leader in Garnet Abrasives

Andy Wells ■

Regional Sales Manager

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

Metal Supermarkets __ 303-424-1030 Olympic Metals _____ 303-286-9700 Ryerson __________303-227-6310 Samuel, Son & CO. ___ 303-422-8282 Ryerson __________303-227-6310 TCI Precision Metals __ 800-234-5613 METAL DISTRIBUTORS Affiliated Metals _____ 800-748-4711 Erickson Metals _____ 877-543-6061 Coastal Metals ______ 800-811-7466 Dix Metals _________800-477-4349 Kloeckner Metals Corp _ 480-389-2883 Metal Supermarkets __ 801-972-2441 Metal Supermarkets __ 303-424-1030 Olympic Metals _____ 303-286-9700 Ryerson __________303-227-6310 Samuel, Son & CO. ___ 303-422-8282 TW Metals ________ 800-203-8000 United Perf. Metals ___ 888-282-3292 Western States Metals _ 801-978-0562

Scott HAISCH Sales Manager Cell: 1(480) 689-8756 haisch.scott@rotarex.com 221 Westec Drive – Westmoreland Technology Park I Mt. Pleasant, PA 15666 – USA – www.firedetec.com

NEW MACHINERY CHIP CUTTING CNC Drilling/Tapping Methods West ______ 602-437-2220 CNC Mills AME, Inc. ________ 303-922-9266 Automatics & Machinery 800-543-7666 Foothills Machinery Sales 303-4666-3777 Hurco __________ 800-634-2416 J.M. Grisley _______ 801-486-7519 J.M. Grisley _______ 208-861-8991 Jend Machinery _____ 303-775-3697 King Machine ______ 208-345-9600 KTR Machine ______ 303-659-6690 Methods West ______ 602-437-2220 MMT, A Div of Productivty 303-571-4933 New West Machine Tool _ 801-561-2001 Romi Machine Tools LLC 859-647-7566 Smith Machinery Co __ 801-263-6403 Todd Machinery _____ 801-294-6390 Tornos USA _______ 951-695-0342 Triad Machine ______ 303-424-0268 Ultimate Machinery ____ 480-966-2000 CNC Lathes AME, Inc. ________ 303-922-9266 Automatics & Machinery 800-543-7666 Foothills Machinery Sales 303-4666-3777 J.M. Grisley _______ 801-486-7519 J.M. Grisley _______ 208-861-8991 Jend Machiney _____ 303-775-3697 Hurco __________ 800-634-2416 King Machine_______208-345-9600 KTR Machine _ _____303-659-6690 Methods West ______ 602-437-2220 MMT, A Div of Productivty 303-571-4933 New West Machine Tool _ 801-561-2001 Romi Machine Tools LLC 859-647-7566 Smith Machinery Co __ 801-263-6403 Todd Machinery _____ 801-294-6390 Triad Machine ______ 303-424-0268 Ultimate Machinery ____ 480-966-2000 CNC Routers Ultimate Machinery ____ 480-966-2000

CNC Swiss Turn Machines C AME, Inc. ________ 303-922-9266 Automatics & Machinery 800-543-7666 Jend Machinery _____ 303-775-3697 Methods West ______ 602-437-2220 MMT, A Div of Productivty 303-571-4933 Tornos USA ______ 951-695-0342 Triad Machine ______ 303-424-0268 EDM Drilling Machines Current EDM Inc ____650-966-9676 EDM Machines AME, Inc. ________ 303-922-9266 Desert EDM Sales ____ 480-816-6300 EDM Network ______ 480-836-1782 Jend Machinery _____ 303-775-3697 Methods West ______ 602-437-2220 MMT, A Div of Productivty 303-571-4933 Smith Machinery Co __ 801-263-6403 Todd Machinery _____ 801-294-6390 Triad Machine ______ 303-424-0268 EDM Tooling Systems Desert EDM Sales ____ 480-816-6300 EDM Network ______ 480-836-1782 EDM Perform. Access. ___ 800-336-2946 Global EDM Supply___ 480-836-8330 End Mills Helical Solutions ____ 866-543-5422 Micro Hole Drilling Machines Current EDM Inc ____650-966-9676 Swiss Screw Machines Schenk Intertech ____ 949-360-1512 NEW MACHINERY FABRICATION Band Saws AIT _____________ 800-321-3195 Fabricating Equip Sales _ 303-466-7342 King Machine ______ 208-345-9600 Ultimate Machinery ____ 480-966-2000 Bar Feeders Edge Technologies _____ 562-597-7824

Trusty Trusty-Cook ________ 877-240-2462 Cold Saws Fabricating Equip Sales __ 303-466-7342 Ultimate Machinery ____ 480-966-2000 CNC Punching Centers S&S Machinery Sales __ 602-368-8542 AMADA America _____ 303-670-9406 Iron Workers Fabricating Equip Sales _ 303-466-7342 S&S Machinery Sales __ 602-368-8542 Laser Cutters AMADA America _____ 303-670-9406 MMT, A Div of Productivty 303-571-4933 PrecisionFab Inc. ____303-779-9180 S&S Machinery Sales __ 602-368-8542 Sidley Diamond Tool __ 800-544-9070 Triad Machine ______ 303-424-0268 Pipe &Tube Benders/Notchers Amada America _____ 303-549-9167 Fabricating Equip Sales _ 303-466-7342 S&S Machinery Sales __ 602-368-8542 Plate Rolls Fabricating Equip Sales _ 303-466-7342 Press Brakes AMADA America _____ 303-670-9406 Fabricating Equip Sales _ 303-466-7342 King Machine ______ 208-345-9600 S&S Machinery Sales __ 602-368-8542 Shearing Machines Fabricating Equip Sales _ 303-466-7342 King Machine ______ 208-345-9600 S&S Machinery Sales __ 602-368-8542 Welding Equipment Rocky Mountain Saw Blades 303-761-3000 Welding Equipment: Spot Welders AMADA America _____ 303-670-9406 OTHER ACCESSORIES Tooling Systems Desert EDM Sales _____ 480-816-6300 USA EDM Supply _____ 480-836-8330

PALLET SYSTEMS Automatic Pallet Systems Midaco__________ 847-593-8420 Automatic Door Opener Systems Midaco__________ 847-593-8420 Manual Rotary Pallet Systems Midaco__________ 847-593-8420 Robotic Part Loading Systems Midaco__________ 847-593-8420 PRODUCTS PRODUCTS CASES PlaSteel __________ 888-752-7899 Guns Layke Tactical ______ 602-272-2654 PROG. SYSTEMS CAD/CAMSoftware, CAD AME, Inc. ________ 303-922-9266 Cimatron ________ 248-596-9700 Delcam __________ 877-35-2261 Feature Cam ______ 602-502-9654 SolidCAM ________ 530-863-0461 PROTOTYPE MACHINERY 3D Parts To Go_______801-380-7935 RECYCLING Recyclable Metals Iron & Metals, Inc ____ 303-292-5555 Utah Metal Works ____ 801-364-5679 Scrap Metal Recycling Iron & Metals, Inc ____ 303-292-5555 Utah Metal Works ____ 801-364-5679 ROBOTIC EQUIPMENT Integrated Systems Inc _ 928-649-9600 SAFETY Fire Protection Systems Rotarex _________ 480-689-8756 FOD Prevention PlaSteel _________ 888-752-7899 SERVICES AS9100 Certification ABS Quality Evaluations 702-371-7591

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

Nick Hochuli Sales Engineer

C O R P O R A T I O N

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

Online Training For www.streamingteacher.com

BMSC __________ 602-445-9400 MEP ___________ 801-863-7001 Sustaining Edge Solutions _ 888-572-9642 Calibration Services Advanced Coord. Tech __ 303-469-6161 Klontech Industrial ____480-948-1871 Consultant, ISO ABS Quality Evaluations 702-371-7591 BMSC __________ 602-445-9400 MEP ___________ 801-863-7001 Sustaining Edge Solutions_ 888-572-9642 Calibration Services Advanced Coord. Tech __ 303-469-6161 Klontech Industrial ____480-948-1871 Contract Inspection Advanced Coord. Tech __ 303-469-6161 Klontech Measure Sol__ 480-626-8131 Education Ogden-Weber Tech College 801-395-3795 Engineering Services Advanced Coord. Tech __ 303-469-6161 Schenk Intertech ____ 949-360-1512 Financing IEC __________ 303-593-0403 Intech Funding _____ 385-553-9208 Scottrade Bank Equip Fin _ 206-948-0022 US Bank __________ 909-466-5020 US Bank __________ 507-5328437 First Article Inspection Advanced Coord. Tech ____303-469-6161 Datum Inspection _____ 602-997-1340 Heavyhaul IRH ___________801-972-5581 Injection Molding 3D Parts To Go _____ 801-380-7935 A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Rocky Mountain Mountain

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

Inspection Services Rigging & Transfer Advanced Coord. Tech ____303-469-6161 Atlas Rigging & Transfer 801-539-3885 Von Ruden Mfg _____ 763-682-0322 Static Tool Holders Datum Inspection _____ 602-997-1340 IRH ___________ _801-972-5581 Schenk Intertech ____ 949-360-1512 Insurance Services Spindle Rebuilding Von Ruden Mfg _____ 763-682-0322 Sentry Insurance ____ 877-373-6879 GMN USA _________ 800-686-1679 TRAINING Setco-Pope Spindles_____866-362-0699 Lean Consulting CAD/CAM Training ABS Quality Evaluations 702-371-7591 Staffing Davis Applied Tech College__801-593-2483 Machine Repair/Servicing Resource Mfg________801-265-1999 CNC/Conventional KTR Machine ______ 303-659-6690 SHOP FLOOR AUTOMATION Machining Hardware: USB Process Improvement/ Audit ABS Quality Evaluations 702-371-7591 Bytebox ___________ 888-Bytebox Davis Applied Tech College__801-593-2483 Machining Software BMSC _____________ 602-445-9400 Serial Port Sustaining Edge Solutions _ 888-572-9642 Bytebox ___________ 888-Bytebox Davis Applied Tech College__801-593-2483 Software:CNC Networking USED MACHINERY X-Ray Bytebox ___________ 888-Bytebox Automatics & Machinery __ 800-543-7666 Certified Inspection Service _602-267-0661 Transportation EDM Network ________ 480-836-1782 ISO9000 / AS9100 Cert.

IRH ____________801-972-5581 King Machine ________208-345-9600 BMSC _____________ 602-445-9400 SOFTWARE K.D. Capital Equipment___480-922-1674 Gladhill Associates ______719-495-8045 CAD/CAM/CAE MEP ____________801-863-7001 SolidCAM ________ 530-863-0461 KTR Machine________303-659-6690 Methods West________602-437-2220 Orion Registrar _______303-645-4017 Sustaining Edge Solutions _ 888-572-9642 Business Mgmt Software New West Mchine______801-561-2001 Vision 33 _____ 303-937-6543x353 ReSell CNC West_______480-694-9919 ISO Registrar S&S Machinery Sales____602-368-8542 Orion Registrar _______303-645-4017 Consulting/Engineering Von Ruden Mfg _____ 763-682-0322 WATERJET CUTTING Lean Manufacturing MACHINERY MEP ____________ 801-863-7001 Vision 33 _____ 303-937-6543x353 Fabricating Equip Sales __303-466-7342 Sustaining Edge Solutions_ 888-572-9642 TOOLING Flow International_______800-446-3569 Machine Tool Rebuilding Arc Cutting Tools Global EDM Supply____480-836-8330 EDM Network ______ 480-836-1782 Helical Solutions______866-543-5422 Jend Machinery_______303-775-3697 Process Improvement Precision Toolholding King Machine________208-345-9600 BMSC _____________ 602-445-9400 Products OMAX Corp________ _800-838-0343 Sustaining Edge Solutions __ 888-572-9642 Von Ruden Mfg _____ 763-682-0322 Triad Machine______ _ 303-424-0268 Tooling Systems Reverse Engineering Abrasives/Blast Media Advanced Coord. Tech __ _303-469-6161 Von Ruden Mfg _____ 763-682-0322 Barton International____ 800-741-7756 Diversified Metal Services__ 801-972-6093 GMA Garnet Group ____ 832-243-9300 Live Tool Holders Klontech Measure Sol___ 480-626-8131 Schenk Intertech ____ 949-360-1512 Fives ____________909-263-9282

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Buyer’s Guide & Card Gallery Processes ISO9001:2008

Joe Tripi President jtripi@micropulsewest.com

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

ZAC HUMES

VICE PRESIDENT FLUID SOLUTIONS GROUP

c 435.890.8823 zhumes@caid.com www.caid.com

Jeffrey Peterson 801-710-7891

3063 North 575 East North Ogden, UT EliteMachineSales@Gmail.com

Precision Investment Castings Since 1972 www.dolphincasting.com

mikeb@dolphincasting.com MICHAEL BUTLER Manager Ext. 3335 Phone:Sales 602-272-6747 mikeb@dolphincasting.com

602-272-6747 Ext. 3335 ISOPhone: 9001, PED Directive 97/23/EC ISO 9001, PED Directive 97/23/EC

ADDITIVE MFG/ 3 D PRINTING Faustson __________303-420-7422 ASSEMBLIES Advantage Manufacturing _ 877-727-0281 Acu-Tec CNC _________ 303-365-9245 Bar-S Machine ________ 928-636-2115 CAID Industries _______435-890-8823 Dayton Rogers _______ 763-717-6303 JD Machine _________801-782-4403 PlaSteel ___________ 480-491-8100 RAM Company ______ 435-673-4603 Wasatch Laser Processing__801-972-3500 Wrico ___________ 480-892-7800 Electronics Assemblies Advantage Manufacturing _ 877-727-0281 CAID Industries _______435-890-8823 Cascade Systems Tech ___ 503-640-5733

Welded Assemblies Plasma Cutting Coating:Black Oxide Weiser Engineering _ 303-280-2778 LA Specialties _______ 602-269-7612 Bandsaw LLC _______ 303-744-7181 Plastic BAR CODING Coating:Chemfilm Bandsaw LLC _______ 303-744-7181 Western Sintering _____509-375-3096 LA Specialties ________ 602-269-7612 ImageTek _________ 303-806-8111 BROACHING Coating: Liquid Saw Cutting company logo Ponderosa Ind________303-298-1801 Our Pilkington Metal Finishing 801-972-2146 Bandsaw LLC _______ 303-744-7181 Precision Mach’d Products 970-482-7676 Coating: Nickel/Teflon/Chrome DESIGN/ CAD/CAM Specialty Steel Services __ 801-539-8252 Coating Technologies ___623-581-2648 Bar-S Machine _______ 928-636-2115 CASTINGS LA Specialties _______ 602-269-7612 H& S Machine _______ 801-755-7627 Die Casting Coating:Zinc & Mag.Phos.

DIES TVT Die Casting ______ 800-280-2278 Able Machining & Eng. _ 801-268-6766 Coating Technologies ___623-581-2648 Die Casting: Aluminum/Zinc Font Verdana size 9 (I dropped in this cell EDM TVT Die Casting ______ 800-280-2278 because theCOMPOSITES “Precision Investment Castings” EDM: Drilling Small Hole theMachine logo is not very clear. 801-710-7891 Precision Investment Casting onElite ________ EDM Express_______800-780-7075 Dolphin Inc. ________ 602-272-6747 S.A. Composites _______ 970-776-3877 LAYKE, Inc.__________ 602-272-2654 Precision Investment Castings Since 1972 COATING CUTTING www.dolphincasting.com Micropulse West ______ 480-966-2300 Coating:Abrasive Blasting Metal EDM: Ram-Type (Sinking) LA Specialties _______ 602-269-7612 Bandsaw LLC ________ 303-744-7181 EDM Express ______ 800-780-7075 A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain

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Paramount Machine

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

Innovative Precision____ 801-334-6317 Maverick Mold & Machine 970-535-4604 Micropulse West ______ 480-966-2300 Prec. Mach’d Products ___ 970-482-7676 EDM: Wire Custom Design & Mfg ___ 435-257-0668 EDM Express ______ 800-780-7075 Innovative Precision _____801-334-6317 Jensen Precision ______ 801-866-0175 Micropulse West ______ 480-966-2300 Paramount Machine ___ 801-886-2755 Qualtek ________ 719-598-3394 X23 The Toolroom Inc. _____ 801-773-6331 Thompson Machine ____ 505-823-1453 Wrico ___________ 480-892-7800 ELECTRONICS Contract Cascade Systems Tech ___ 503-640-5733 Design Cascade Systems Tech ___ 503-640-5733 Electromechanical Design RAM Company ______ 435-673-4603 Kitting Cascade Systems Tech ___ 503-640-5733 A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain

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Prototype Cascade Systems Tech ___ 503-640-5733 ELECTROPOLISHING Qualtek ________719-598-3394 719-598-3394 X23 ENGINEERING/DESIGN Advantage Manufacturing 877-727-0281 AzMark __________480-926-8969 Fabrication: Composites CAID Industries _____435-890-8823 S.A. Composites ______ 970-776-3877 Custom Design & Mfg ___435-257-0668 Fabrication: Enclosures RAM Company ______435-673-4603 Falcon Sheet Metal __ 801-298-5064 Solenoids/ Valves Kustom Koncepts _____ 307-472-0818 RAM Company ______435-673-4603 Star Precision _______303-926-0559 FABRICATION Fabrication: Advantage Manufacturing 877-727-0281 Medium & Large Aero Tech _______ 801-292-0493 Arrow Sheet Metal Prod __ 303-427-6419 Arrow Sheet Metal Prod 303-427-6419 Bandsaw LLC ________303-744-7181 CAID Industries _____435-890-8823 CAID Industries _____435-890-8823 Cygnet ___________ 818-240-7574 EMJD Corp _________ 303-761-5236 Dayton Rogers ______ 763-717-6303 EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540 EMJD Corporation _____ 303-761-5236 Falcon Sheet Metal ____801-298-5064 EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540 Group Mfg Serv ______480-966-3952 Jensen Precision ______ 801-866-0175 Kustom Koncepts _____ 307-472-0818 Kustom Koncepts _____ 307-472-0818 Weiser Engineering _ 303-280-2778 Fabrication: Plastic Mountain View Machine _435-755-0500 Star Precision _______303-926-0559 ImageTek _________ 303-806-8111 Wrico ___________480-892-7800 Fabrication: SheetMetal Custom Auto/Truck/Bike Advantage Manufacturing 877-727-0281 H& S Machine ______ 801-755-7627 Arrow Sheet Metal Prod __ 303-427-6419 Fabrication: Filament Winding AzMark __________480-926-8969 S.A. Composites ______ 970-776-3877 CAID Industries _____435-890-8823

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Cygnet ___________ 818-240-7574 Denver Machine Shop ___303-295-6000 EMJD Corporation _____ 303-761-5236 EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540 Falcon Sheet Metal __ 801-298-5064 Group Mfg Serv ______480-966-3952 JD Machine ________801-782-4403 Jensen Precision ______ 801-866-0175 Kustom Koncepts _____ 307-472-0818 Metalcraft _________888-280-7080 Precision Tech _______801-285-7288 Richards Fab _____ 801-409-0392 Star Precision _______303-926-0559 Weiser Engineering _ 303-280-2778 Wrico ___________480-892-7800 Fabrication: Steel Bandsaw LLC ________303-744-7181 CAID Industries _____435-890-8823 EMJD Corp _______303-761-5236 Falcon Sheet Metal __ 801-298-5064 FINISHING Advantage Manufacturing 877-727-0281 Arizona Finishing _____602-438-4443 Coating Technologies ___623-581-2648

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Gold Tech Industries ____ 480-968-1930 Phoenix Heat Treating __ 602-258-7751 Precision Mach’d Prod___ 970-482-7676 Qualtek _______ 719-598-3394 X23 Star Precision _______303-926-0559 Superior Grinding _____801-487-9700 TVT Die Casting ______800-280-2278 Finishing: One Stop Advantage Manufacturing 877-727-0281 Glass Bead Clean Coating Technologies ___623-581-2648

Gold Tech Industries ____ 480-968-1930 Passivation Certified Inspection Service___602-267-0661 Coating Technologies ___623-581-2648 Gold Tech Industries ____ 480-968-1930 Qualtek _______ 719-598-3394 X23 Photochemical/Etching VACCO Industries _____626-443-7121 Powder Coating Arizona Finishing _____602-438-4443 Pilkington Metal Finishing 801-972-2146

QQualtek _______ 719-598-3394 X23 Grinding, Blanchard Star Precision _______303-926-0559 Diversified Metal Services _801-972-6093 Silk Screening Dix Metals ________ 800-477-4349 Arizona Finishing _____602-438-4443 Steel Services Grinding __ 800-662-0126 Aluminum (Medium & Large) Sun Grinding _______602-238-9595 Aero Tech _______ 801-292-0493 Superior Grinding _____ 801487-9700 TCI Precision Metals __800-234-5613 FOUNDRY Grinding, Centerless May Foundry & Machine 801-531-8931 Ron Grob Co. _______970-667-5320 GAS NITRIDING Sun Grinding _______602-238-9595 Blanchard Metals Proc. __801-972-5590 Grinding, Double Disc GEAR CUTTING Dix Metals ________ 800-477-4349 Ponderosa Ind _______ 303-298-1801 TCI Precision Metals __800-234-5613 Specialty Steel Svcs ___ 801-539-8252 Grinding: OD Gear Hobbing AzMark __________480-926-8969 Ponderosa Ind _______ 303-298-1801 Precision Tech _______801-285-7288 Ron Grob Co. _______970-667-5320 GRINDING Sun Grinding _______602-238-9595 AzMark __________480-926-8969 ChemResearch_______ 602-253-4175 Superior Grinding _____ 801487-9700 Grinding: Surface Diversified Metal Services _801-972-6093 ChemResearch _______ 602-253-4175 Dix Metals ________ 800-477-4349 Fives ____________ 909-263-9282 Sun Grinding _______602-238-9595 GMN USA ________ 800-686-1679 Superior Grinding _____ 801487-9700 Grinding: Tool & Cutter Prec. Mach’d Products _ 970-482-7676 Exact Tool Grinding ____ 801-712-2720 Precision Tech _______801-285-7288 Passivation Ron Grob Co. _______970-667-5320 Steel Services Grinding __ 800-662-0126 Gold Tech Industries ____ 480-968-1930 Sun Grinding _______602-238-9595 Polishing Superior Grinding _____801-487-9700 Gold Tech Industries____ 480-968-1930 TCI Precision Metals __800-234-5613 Selective Coatings The Toolroom Inc. _____ 801-773-6331 ImageTek _________ 303-806-8111

FORMING EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540 JD Machine ________801-782-4403 Star Precision _______303-926-0559 Wasatch Laser Processing _801-972-3500 HEAT TREATING Blanchard Metals Proc. __801-972-5590 Phoenix Heat Treating __ 602-258-7751 Pilkington Metal Finishing__801-972-2146 Qualtek ________ 719-598-3394 X23 The Toolroom Inc. _____ 801-773-6331 Heat Treating/Aerospace Phoenix Heat Treating __ 602-258-7751 Large Capacity Drop Bottom Oven/Aluminum Phoenix Heat Treating __ 602-258-7751 HONING/LAPPING LAYKE, Inc.__________ 602-272-2654 IDENTIFICATION Silk Screen Arizona Finishing ______ 602-438-4443 INDUSTRIAL HARDWARE Electronic Locking Systems EMKA Inc. ________ 717-986-1111

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Darrin J. Caschette President

888-280-7080 | djc@metalcraftind.com www.metalcraftind.com

ISO 9001:2008

HIRSH PRECISION PRODUCTS, INC .

Specializing in Production CNC Turning & Milling

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

Gasketing

EMKA Inc. ________ 717-986-1111 Handles & Hinges EMKA Inc. ________ 717-986-1111 Locking Systems EMKA Inc. ________ 717-986-1111 Qtr Turns/Rod Controls EMKA Inc. ________ 717-986-1111 INJECTION MOLDING LMI Machining_______303-776-6629 INSPECTION Inspection, First Article Klontech Measure Sol ___ 480-626-8131 Inspection Services Klontech Measure Sol ___ 480-626-8131 Micropulse West ______480-966-2300 Sustaining Edge Solutions_888-572-9642 LASER CUTTING Laser Cutting Advantage Manufacturing ___ 877-727-0281 Arrow Sheet Metal Prod 303-427-6419 EMJD Corporation_____303-761-5236 EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540 Howell Precision______ 623-582-4776 Kustom Koncepts _____ 307-472-0818 Richards Fab _____ 801-409-0392 Star Precision _______303-926-0559 VACCO Industries ____ 626-443-7121 Wasatch Laser Processing _801-972-3500 Weiser Engineering _ 303-280-2778 Wrico ___________480-892-7800 Laser Cutting: Pipe&Tube Wasatch Laser Processing _801-972-3500 Laser Engraving 4 Axis Machining Inc. ___ 303-295-1544 A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain

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

Henry Parker

EMAIL: HenryParker4me@comcast.net

Jensen Precision ______ 801-866-0175 Laser Marking 4 Axis Machining Inc. ___ 303-295-1544 LMI Machining_______303-776-6629 Jensen Precision ______ 801-866-0175 MACHINING A&L Machining ______303-373-1540 Acu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245 Advantage Manufacturing __ 877-727-0281 AG Machining _______805-531-9595 American Machine & Eng. _ 801-973-0494 Apex Engineering ____ 435-713-0072 CAID Industries _____435-890-8823 CM Manufacturing ___ 406-543-4450 Custom Design & Mfg ___435-257-0668 Elite Machine___________ 801-710-7891 EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540 Evans Precision Machining 623-581-6200 Fives ____________ 909-263-9282 Flex-Pro __________ 480-773-3239 Hirsh Precision Products__ 303-530-3131 LMI Machining_______303-776-6629 Loveridge Machine Co. __ 801-262-1414 Mountain View Machine _435-755-0500 Northwest Swiss, Inc. ___ 208-772-4011 R&H Machine _______801-621-7922 RD Machine & MFg ___ 801-977-0447 Radtech _________ 303-789-4247 RP Machining ______ 719-550-1724 Skydandee Mfg _____ 801-774-8031

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Machining Teton Machining_____ 208-642-9344 TVT Die Casting _____ 800-280-2278 Weiser Engineering _ 303-280-2778 Machining: 3D Micropulse West ______480-966-2300 Machining: 5 Axis 4 Axis Machining Inc. ___303-295-1544 Accutech Machine _____ 801-975-1117 AzMark __________480-926-8969 Faustson __________303-420-7422 JD Machine ________801-782-4403 Paramount Machine __ 801-886-2755 Premier Technology Inc __208-785-2274 RP Machining ______ 719-550-1724 S.A. Composites ______ 970-776-3877 Machining: Aerospace AzMark __________480-926-8969 CAID Industries _____435-890-8823 CM Manufacturing ___ 406-543-4450 Evans Precision Machining 623-581-6200 Flex-Pro __________ 480-773-3239 LAYKE, INC_________602-272-2654 Micropulse West ______480-966-2300 Mountain View Machine _435-755-0500 Northwest Swiss, Inc. ___ 208-772-4011 Paramount Machine ____801-886-2755 Pinnacle Precision ___435-563-2722 Ponderosa Ind _______ 303-298-1801 Precision Mach’d Products 970-482-7676 Precision Tech _______801-285-7288 Radtech _________ 303-789-4247 RD Machine & MFg ___ 801-977-0447

RP Machining ______ 719-550-1724 Skydandee Mfg _____ 801-774-8031 Machining_____ 208-642-9344 Teton Machining Machining: Ceramic O’Keefe Ceramics _____ 719-687-0888 Ceramic: Sapphire, Alumina, Silicon, Aluminum, Quartz O’Keefe Ceramics _____ 719-687-0888 Machining: CNC 4 Axis Machining Inc. ___303-295-1544 A&L Machining ______303-373-1540 Able Machining & Eng. _ 801-268-6766 Acu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245 AG Machining _______805-531-9595 Apex Engineering ____ 435-713-0072 Accutech Machine _____ 801-975-1117 American Machine & Eng. _ 801-973-0494 Apex Engineering ____ 435-713-0072 Bar-S Machine______ 928-636-2115 CM Manufacturing ___ 406-543-4450 Cornerstone Machine __ 801-731-8862 Custom Design & Mfg ___435-257-0668 Denver Precision Products_ 303-469-1771 DMSI___________801-972-6093 Elite Machine ______ 801-710-7891 EPOCS Mfg ________ 970-535-4540 Evans Precision Machining 623-581-6200 Faustson_________ 303-420-7422 Flex-Pro __________ 480-773-3239 H& S Machine ______ 801-755-7627 Hirsh Precision Products__ 303-530-3131 HPMP ___________ 801-619-9850 Innovative Precision __ 801-334-6317 JD Machine ________801-782-4403 Jensen Precision ______ 801-866-0175 L.A.R. Manufacturing __ 801-280-3505 LAYKE, INC_________602-272-2654 Leading Edge Machine _ 435-563-9425

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LMI Machining_______303-776-6629 Loveridge Machine Co. __ 801-262-1414 Maverick Mold & Machine 970-535-4604 Pinnacle Precision ___435-563-2722 Premier Technology Inc __208-785-2274 R&H Machine _______801-621-7922 Electromechanical Design RAM Company ______ 435-673-4603 RD Machine & Mfg ___ 801-977-0447 RP Machining ______ 719-550-1724 Star Precision _______303-926-0559 Teton Machining_____ 208-642-9344 The Toolroom Inc. _____ 801-773-6331 Wrico __________ 480-892-7800 Machining: Composites Metalcraft _________888-280-7080 Machining: Contract Acu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245 AG Machining _______805-531-9595 American Machine & Eng. _ 801-973-0494 Evans Precision Machining 623-581-6200 JD Machine ________801-782-4403 Jensen Precision ______ 801-866-0175 Paramount Machine ___801-886-2755 Radtech _________ 303-789-4247 Electromechanical Design RAM Company ______ 435-673-4603 Skydandee Mfg _____ 801-774-8031 Machining: DoD CM Manufacturing ___ 406-543-4450 Machining: Laser AzMark __________480-926-8969 Faustson_________ 303-420-7422 Gerome Mfg_______520-622-8402 Innovative Precision __ 801-334-6317 L.A.R. Manufacturing __ 801-280-3505 RD Machine & Mfg ___ 801-977-0447 Southwest Waterjet-Laser _480-306-7748 VACCO Industries ____ 626-443-7121

Weiser Wei Engineering _ 303-280-2778 Machining:Medical A&L Machining ______303-373-1540 CAID Industries _____435-890-8823 Northwest Swiss, Inc. ___ 208-772-4011 Pinnacle Precision ___435-563-2722 Teton Machining_____ 208-642-9344 Machining Machining: Milling A&L Machining ______303-373-1540 Acu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245 American Machine & Eng. _ 801-973-0494 Cornerstone Machine __ 801-731-8862 Elite Machine___________801-710-7891 EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540 Hirsh Precision Products__ 303-530-3131 JD Machine ________801-782-4403 Metalcraft _________888-280-7080 Mountain View Machine__435-755-0500 Ponderosa Ind _______ 303-298-1801 Prec. Mach’d Products__970-482-7676 Ron Grob Co. _______970-667-5320

Machining: Mold Base Maverick Mold & Machine __970-535-4604 Machining: Mold Making R&H Machine _______801-621-7922 Machining: Plastic Cornerstone Machine __ 801-731-8862 ImageTek _________ 303-806-8111 Machining: Production A&L Machining ______303-373-1540 Able Machining & Eng. _ 801-268-6766 Acu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245 AG Machining _______805-531-9595 Apex Engineering ____ 435-713-0072 CM Manufacturing ___ 406-543-4450 Cornerstone Machine __ 801-731-8862 Custom Design & Mfg ___435-257-0668 Elite Machine___________801-710-7891 Evans Precision Machining 623-581-6200 Faustson_________ 303-420-7422 Flex-Pro __________ 480-773-3239 Hirsh Precision Products__ 303-530-3131 HPMP ___________ 801-619-9850 Innovative Precision __ 801-334-6317

L.A.R. Manufacturing __ 801-280-3505 Loveridge Machine Co. __ 801-262-1414 Newport Tool _______801-295-7411 Northwest Swiss, Inc. ___ 208-772-4011 Paramount Machine __ 801-886-2755 Ponderosa Ind _______ 303-298-1801 R&H Machine _______801-621-7922 Radtech ___ ______303-789-4247 RD Machine & Mfg ___ 801-977-0447 RP Machining ______ 719-550-1724 Star Precision _______303-926-0559 Machining: Prototype 4 A x i s Machining Inc. _____ 303-295-1544 A&L Machining ______303-373-1540 Able Machining & Eng. _ 801-268-6766 Accutech Machine _____ 801-975-1117 Acu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245 American Machine & Eng. _ 801-973-0494 Apex Engineering ____ 435-713-0072 Bar-S Machine______ 928-636-2115 Cornerstone Machine __ 801-731-8862 Custom Design & Mfg ___435-257-0668 Denver Precision Products_ 303-469-1771 Evans Precision Machining 623-581-6200 Faustson __________303-420-7422 Flex-Pro __________ 480-773-3239 Innovative Precision __ 801-334-6317 JD Machine ________801-782-4403 Jensen Precision ______ 801-866-0175 L.A.R. Manufacturing __ 801-280-3505 LAYKE, INC_________602-272-2654 Leading Edge Machine _ 435-563-9425 Micropulse West _____ 480-966-2300 Mountain View Machine 435-755-0500 Newport Tool _______801-295-7411 Northwest Swiss, Inc. ___ 208-772-4011 R&H Machine _______801-621-7922 Radtech _________ 303-789-4247 RD Machine & Mfg ___ 801-977-0447 RP Machining ______ 719-550-1724 Skydandee Mfg _____ 801-774-8031 S.A.Composites _____ 970-776-3877 The Toolroom Inc. ____ 801-773-6331 Machining: Precision A&L Machining ______303-373-1540

4 Axis Machining Inc. __ 303-295-1544 Able Machining & Eng. _ 801-268-6766 Advantage Manufacturing 877-727-0281 AG Machining _______805-531-9595 American Machine & Eng. _ 801-973-0494 CM Manufacturing ___ 406-543-4450 Cornerstone Machine __ 801-731-8862 Elite Machine _______801-710-7891 Evans Precision Machining 623-581-6200 Flex-Pro __________ 480-773-3239 Jensen Precision ______ 801-866-0175 Loveridge Machine Co. __ 801-262-1414 Newport Tool _______801-295-7411 Pinnacle Precision ___435-563-2722 Ponderosa Ind _______ 303-298-1801 RP Machining ______ 719-550-1724 Precision Machined Prod. _ 970-482-7676 Precision Tech _______801-285-7288 TVT Die Casting ______800-280-2278 Machining: R & D Acu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245 American Machine & Eng. _ 801-973-0494 Custom Design & Mfg ___435-257-0668 Evans Precision Machining 623-581-6200 Flex-Pro __________ 480-773-3239 JD Machine ________801-782-4403 Jensen Precision ______ 801-866-0175 Wasatch Laser Processing _801-972-3500 Machining: Swiss Bar-S Machine______ 928-636-2115 Denver Precision Products_ 303-469-1771 HPMP ___________ 801-619-9850 Northwest Swiss, Inc. ___ 208-772-4011 Pinnacle Precision ___435-563-2722 Ron Grob Co. _______970-667-5320 Teton Machining ______208-642-9344

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Routering CNC DMSI___________ 801-972-6093 Small Part Pinnacle Precision ___435-563-2722 White Rock Inc _______ 435-750-6414 Turnkey Product Services Aero Tech ________ 801-292-0493 L.A.R. Manufacturing __ 801-280-3505 METAL STAMPING Qualtek _______ 719-598-3394 X23 Thompson Machine ____ 505-823-1453 Hi-Production Precision Stamping Metalcraft _________888-280-7080 Precision Die & Stamping _ 480-967-2038 Thompson Machine ____ 505-823-1453 MOLDS Loveridge Machine Co. __ 801-262-1414 Maverick Mold & Machine 970-535-4604 Molds: Blow Lifetime Products ____ 801-728-1260 Molds: Plastic Injection Lifetime Products _____801-728-1260 Maverick Mold & Machine 970-535-4604

White Rock Inc _______ 435-750-6414 Machining: Turning Acu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245 American Machine & Eng. _ 801-973-0494 Apex Engineering ____ 435-713-0072 AzMark __________480-926-8969 Bar-S Machine______ 928-636-2115 Custom Design & Mfg ___435-257-0668 Denver Precision Products_ 303-469-1771 EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540 Evans Precision Machining 623-581-6200 Faustson_________ 303-420-7422 Hirsh Precision Products__ 303-530-3131 HPMP ___________ 801-619-9850 JD Machine ________801-782-4403 A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain

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LAYKE, INC_________602-272-2654 602-272-2654 Leading Edge Machine __ 435-563-9425 Metalcraft _________888-280-7080 Mountain View Machine__ 435-755-0500 Premier Technology Inc __208-785-2274 RD Machine & Mfg ___ 801-977-0447 Molds Steel RP Machining ______ 719-550-1724 DMSI___________ 801-972-6093 Teton Machining ______208-642-9344 Aero Tech ________ 801-292-0493 Weiser Engineering _ 303-280-2778 Arizona Finishing ____602-438-4443 Machining: Ultra-Precision ChemResearch ______ 602-253-417 Pinnacle Precision ___435-563-2722 Loveridge Machine Co. __ 801-262-1414 MANUFACTURING PAINTING A&L Machining ______303-373-1540 Coating Technologies ____ 623-581-2648 AG Machining _______805-531-9595 Jet Processing ______623-869-6749 x117 CAID Industries _____435-890-8823 Richards Fab_________ 801-409-0392 Elite Machine _______801-710-7891 PLATING Group Mfg Serv _____480-966-3952 Electromechanical Design Blanchard Metals Proc. _ 801-972-5590 CAID Industries _____435-890-8823 ChemResearch _____ 602-253-4175 RAM Company ______ 435-673-4603 Foresight Finishing ____480-921-0000 RD Machine & Mfg ___ 801-977-0447 Gold Tech Industries __ 480-968-1930 LA Specialties ______ 602-269-7612 Composites Anodizing S.A. Composites ______ 970-776-3877 Blanchard Metals Proc. __801-972-5590 Contract AG Machining _______805-531-9595 ChemResearch_______ 602-253-4175 Apex Engineering ____ 435-713-0072 Pilkington Metal Finishing 801-972-2146 Teton Machining ______208-642-9344 Qualtek _______ 719-598-3394 X23 Manufacturing: Electrode Copper Wire-Tech ________ 480-966-1591 Foresight Finishing ____480-921-0000 Production Electroless Nickel Aero Tech ________ 801-292-0493 EMJD Corporation_____303-761-5236 LA Specialties _______ 602-269-7612 L.A.R. Manufacturing __ 801-280-3505 Foresight Finishing ____480-921-0000 Gold/Silver Plate White Rock Inc _______ 435-750-6414 Gold Tech Industries __ 480-968-1930 Rapid Prototyping Nickel/Chrome/ Jensen Precision ______ 801-866-0175 Copper White Rock Inc _______ 435-750-6414 Foresight Finishing ____480-921-0000 Robotic CNC DMSI___________ 801-972-6093 Gold Tech Industries __ 480-968-1930

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LA Specialties _______ 602-269-7612 Tin Plate Foresight Finishing ____480-921-0000 Gold Tech Industries __ 480-968-1930 POLISHING Gold Tech Industries __ 480-968-1930 PRECISION FORMING Richards Fab________801-409-0392 Thompson Machine ____505-823-1453 Wrico ___________480-892-7800 PRINTING 3D Printing The 3D Printing Store ___720-443-3733 3D Prototyping The 3D Printing Store ___720-443-3733 Custom Screen ImageTek _________303-806-8111 PROCESSING: METAL Chemical LA Specialties _______ 602-269-7612 Etching/Photochemical VACCO Industries ____ 626-443-7121 PUNCHING JD Machine ________801-782-4403 Group Manufacturing Serv 480-966-3952 Star Precision _______303-926-0559 Weiser Engineering _ 303-280-2778 REPAIR Bearing Surface Denver Machine Shop ___303-295-6000 Hydraulic Cylinder Denver Machine Shop ___303-295-6000 ROLL FORMING Lifetime Products _____801-728-1260 Rolling: thread Ron Grob Co. _______970-667-5320 ROUTERING, CNC Micropulse West ______480-966-2300 SAW CUTTING Diversified Metal Services _ 801-972-6093 SHOT PEENING Blanchard Metals Proc. __801-972-5590 SINTERING Western Sintering _____509-375-3096 SPINNING: METAL Metal Spinning Solutions _ 480-899-0939 SPLINES Specialty Steel Services _ 801-539-8252 SPRINGS Flat & Wire SPRING WORKS Utah ___ 801-298-0113 STAMPING Cygnet ___________ 818-240-7574 Dayton Rogers ______ 763-717-6303 Metalcraft _________888-280-7080

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Manufacturer of Industrial Hardware

Madisen Dahl

Chuck Pinkham Regional Sales Manager

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

Industries Served: HVAC, Transportation, Data Center, Oil and Gas, Commercial Vehicles, Telecommunications, etc.

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

TOOLING Elite Machine _______801-710-7891 Mountain View Machine _ 435-755-0500 Northwest Swiss, Inc. ___ 208-772-4011 Precision Tech _______801-285-7288 Western Sintering _____509-375-3096 TUBE FORMING AG Machining _______805-531-9595 Formed Tubing AG Machining _______805-531-9595 Tube Bending /Fabrication AG Machining _______805-531-9595 WATERJET CUTTING Diversified Metal Services _801-972-6093 WIRE FORMING Dix Metals ________ 800-477-4349 SPRING WORKS Utah ___ 801-298-0113 Leading Edge Machine __435-563-9425 ASSOCIATIONS Mountain View Machine _435-755-0500 N. Utah NTMA _______ 801-337-7097

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