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As we are all aware, last month the Boston Celtics won the NBA championship. Joe Mazzulla, the Celtics young head coach at 35 years, comments on the European basketball league. “I watch a lot of the Euro League in general. I think the lens through which the game is seen and the way in which it is played and managed is something that we can always learn from.”
There is no doubt that International players have had a large impact on the NBA. It is said that they bring to the game a higher skill set, they understand the game much better in terms of shooting decisions, understanding the defense, passing, off ball movement, and overall basketball fundamentals. European players just have high basketball IQ and versatility.
These skills help them to be successful in multiple positions on the court, which translates into the team’s success. European players are known for their work ethic, their discipline, and their nurturing of teamwork. The fact that the Celtics adopted many of these approaches to the game may be why they were favored to win the championship. Mazzulla truly did learn from his peers overseas.
Years ago, the late Kobe Bryant spoke about the differences in Europe versus the US. “In America, we’re not teaching players how to play all-around basketball. They don’t know the fundamentals of the game.” He adds, “I think European players are just way more skillful. They are taught the game the right way at an early age.” He continues, “I was kind of fortunate because when I was growing up in Italy, the Red Auerbachs and the Tex Winters and all those great coaches were doing clinics in Europe. They were teaching the club coaches, and the club coaches were following their advice like the bible, and they were teaching all of us kids that type of stuff. Me, Manu [Ginobili] and all these guys that grew up around that same time, we’re a product of that. It’s a big difference.”
I see some parallels in our world of precision manufacturing. Too often I visit shops with dozens of machinists, only to learn that only one or two can program, one or two can set-up, and that a majority are ‘button pushers’. Further, when I see a Horizontal machine or a 5 axis machining center, there are a select few machinists skilled enough to run these machines. Where is the understanding of print reading, geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T), speeds and feeds, tool geometry, materials and shop math?
In many cases, we mirror American NBA players. We’re hiring people who don’t have the machining fundamentals, and we’re not providing a path for them to learn the basics – skills that will enable them to get to the next level of proficiency.
Taking classes is one way new machinists can better learn the trade, especially if they take the classes while they are working, enabling hands on machining of real customer parts. Another way we can help our introductory machinists is pairing them with Journeyman caliber team members. Not only will your shop benefit from higher skilled machinists, but your customers will also realize the benefits, and your employees will likely feel a much higher level of satisfaction with their jobs.
I encourage you to do this before all the Journeyman caliber machinists on your floor retire. Until next issue, let’s see cheer for our USA Basketball Dream Team in the upcoming Olympics. And as always, I wish you the best and God bless our troops.
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American manufacturing equipment enables manufacturers to create almost every modern product, from the clothes on our backs to the cars we drive.
Acquiring the latest equipment and machinery consumes more than three-quarters of American manufacturers’ annual capital budgets, Census Bureau data shows. U.S. manufacturers spent more than $135 billion on new and used equipment and machinery in 2021, according to the most recent Annual Survey of Manufactures. In all but one state, these expenses comprised more than 60% of manufacturers’ annual capital expenses.
Machinery Partner analyzed equipment spending among manufacturing companies in Idaho as part of a larger national analysis, using 2021 data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Manufacturers in Idaho spent $727.4 million on equipment in 2021, comprising 65% of their overall capital expenditures. Equipment is one of two major capital expenditure categories measured by the Census Bureau. The other is buildings and structures, referring to money spent to create new facilities or renovate and expand existing ones.
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The shift to a hybrid-virtual world, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, has put pressure on manufacturers to get breakthrough technologies into peoples’ hands swiftly and without disruptions. Acquiring the latest tools helps manufacturers build products efficiently while meeting safety regulations. Explore the national story to further compare this spending between manufacturers of states.Read more at: https://www.idahostatesman. com/news/local/article289441076.html#storylink=cpy
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The Phoenix metro’s large labor pool and proximity to larger markets with R&D systems have attracted employers to the area as well.
The Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation (the Foundation) releases the June 2024 Monthly Confidence Index for the Equipment Finance Industry (MCI-EFI) . The index reports a qualitative assessment of both the prevailing business conditions and expectations for the future as reported by key executives from the $1 trillion equipment finance sector. Overall, confidence in the equipment finance market is 50.2, steady with the May index of 50.7.
Newmark found that the Phoenix market had nearly 75,000 advanced manufacturing workers as of 2023, although finding the labor to fill the new jobs will be a challenge across all markets, especially in smaller regions that do not have as diverse economies.
Growth is expected to continue for Phoenix and other markets in manufacturing as major projects are built out because of ancillary demand and third-party vendors that want to be close to the manufacturers.
employees over the next four months, an increase from 22.2% in May. 66.6% expect no change in headcount over the next four months, down from 74.1% last month.
Hess said companies are mostly looking for communities that have a sustainable plan and visions for partnerships and strategies to address quality of life, infrastructure, housing and more.
When asked about the outlook for the future, MCI-EFI survey respondent David Normandin, President and Chief Executive Officer, Wintrust Specialty Finance, said, “The stress the industry is experiencing in small business lending continues with elevated bankruptcy, delinquency, and a softening of credit quality. It is important to remember during these times that wellpositioned businesses actually grow, take share of wallet, and expand. Our industry is well positioned to help continue the success of these businesses, as well as help those struggling through a rough time in the economy.”
“There some challenges out there but I think Phoenix is always going to be a top 10 metro in the United States in the years to come,” Hess added. High-tech and digitalization such as semiconductors, automotive and transportation, energy and biomanufacturing are four of the main manufacturing sectors driving much of the growth.
3.9% of the leadership evaluate the current U.S. economy as “excellent,” up from none the previous month. 76.9% of the leadership evaluate the current U.S. economy as “fair,” down from 85.2% in May.
In Q3 2023, the manufacturing sector made up nearly 12% of the industrial inventory under construction in metro Phoenix, according to Newmark. In Austin, another major industrial market, manufacturing made up 13.5% of projects under construction in the same time period.
When asked to assess their business conditions over the next four months, 11.5% of the executives responding said they believe business conditions will improve over the next four months. 76.9% believe business conditions will remain the same over the next four months.
“Phoenix isn’t immune to the challenges of the greater advanced manufacturing sector,” Berthelette said. “Where Phoenix may excel is the diversity of its economy — it’s very large, there’s a lot of different industries there, the population growth is very fast.”
19.2% of the respondents expect more access to capital to fund equipment acquisitions over the next four months. 73.1% of executives indicate they expect the “same” access to capital to fund business.
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14.8% of the survey respondents believe that U.S. economic conditions will get “better” over the next six months, up from 7.4% in May. 48.2% indicate they believe the U.S. economy will “stay the same” over the next six months, a decrease from 63% last month.
Other large markets that are seeing the most growth in the industry were Atlanta, which has had 12,713 jobs announced since 2020, and Austin, which has had 11,465 jobs announced since then.In mid-size and small metros measured, Syracuse, New York saw the most manufacturing jobs announced with 9,000 new jobs for a new Micron facility, while Savannah, Georgia, had nearly 9,000 jobs announced across two facilities since 2020. By Audrey Jensen – Phoenix Business Journal
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In June, 14.8% of respondents indicate they believe their company will increase spending on business development activities during the next six months, an increase from 11.1% the previous month. 77.8% believe there will be “no change” in business development spending.
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The completion of the factory for building Boom Supersonic’s first supersonic commercial jetliner marks the start of a likely expansion that will double and perhaps even triple its footprint at North Carolina’s Piedmont Triad International Airport, its founder and chief executive said this week.
Founder and CEO Blake Scholl said at a ceremony marking the end of factory construction that Centennial-based Boom Supersonic expects to build 33 of its Overture jets a year but already plans to expand with another building housing a second manufacturing line to assemble that many a year, and perhaps a third. The is already working on a second and third version
of the aircraft, larger than the first, he said.
The additional facilities would be built on the 62-acre campus on the northwestern edge of PTI’s vast grounds, Scholl told media representatives after the ceremony. He likened the 180,000-square-foot building that’s now completed to a Lego block that the company can repeat as needed.
Chris Taylor, Boom’s vice president of manufacturing, told the Triangle Business Journal later than while there is enough land on that tract to accommodate a third building, the design work thus far place two on the site, with a third that would likely be built on other land at the airport. Scholl had noted in his remarks that future Superfactory blocks might need to be a bit larger to allow for larger models of the Overture.
Scholl noted that the factory’s completion came a few months after the successful flight of Boom’s XB-1 test aircraft, the world’s first non-military supersonic jet developed entirely by a private company.
“I’m looking forward to doing more impossible things, because that’s what we do,” Scholl said.
Boom Supersonic aims to make faster-than-sound passenger jets that Scholl predicts will revolutionize international travel by cutting trans-oceanic flight times in half. The company’s Overture commercial jetliner is meant to fly as many as 80 passengers at Mach 1.7 speeds across oceans. It would be the first
supersonic passenger airliner since the Concorde retired in 2003.
Building the Overture production facility in North Carolina, which Boom calls the Superfactory, was a $100 million construction project, Scholll said. Now, the next major step is procuring and installing tooling, starting with a test unit used to develop manufacturing processes, optimize the assembly line flow and generally prepare the aircraft, called Overture, for production.
Scholl said Boom has raised about $700 million from some notable investors, U.S. Air Force development contracts and deposits from airlines, which include American, United and Japan Airlines. The former two are nonrefundable deposits. “Of course, anything is cancelable, but what matters is whether there’s skin in the game,” Scholl said.
United put a deposit down to buy 15 planes, which Scholl said will sell for $200 million each.“We call that an order, and they made a pre-order for another 35. The American order was even bigger: a deposit on 20 airplanes and a pre-order for another 40.
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Boom has a lot to do before planes will be rolled out of the blue-and-white hangarlike building.
After the test equipment is installed and staffed, it’ll have to keep developing testing and refining every major component and system and get various levels of approval from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration because it’s a completely new aircraft. The test plane got the FAA’s go-ahead for supersonic-speeds testing but that will come only after a series of more subsonic shakedowns to test various performance and flying factors.
Scholl said it now expects to employ 2,400, a number that had been touted as possible during earlier announcements.
N.C. Gov. Roy Cooper acknowledged that state incentives for Boom were a bit of a risk, though he added most are contingent on the company meeting investment and hiring benchmarks, and he noted Boom plans to make Overture able to use sustainable aviation fuel to reduce its environmental effects.By David Hill – Triad Business Journal
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Colorado Company Wins $2.3 Billion Satellite Contract
Three months after launching the nation’s most sophisticated weather satellite for the U.S. government, a Colorado-based space company landed a $2.3 billion contract to do it again.
Lockheed Martin Space, based in Jefferson County, last month was chosen to design and build the next generation of federal government satellites watching for storms, extreme weather and environmental hazards over the Western Hemisphere.
The company is tasked with making at least three GeoXO satellites, which will be used by the National Weather Service and are projected to be launched into orbit in the early 2030s. The contract includes the option for the government to add as many as four additional satellites that will support the government’s weather monitoring into the 2050s.
“Our team is excited and ready to move forward to design and field this critical national capability,” said Kyle Griffin, vice president and general manager of commercial civil space at Lockheed Martin, in a statement.
“Our GeoXO design draws heavily from what we’ve learned with GOES-R spacecraft over the last 15 years, while incorporating new, digital technologies not only onboard the vehicles but in the design and development of this powerful, weather-monitoring platform of the future.”
The company is one of four business divisions of Bethesda, Maryland-based Lockheed Martin Corp. It built the GOES-R series of satellites that NASA procured for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s weather service.
The last GOES-R launched in April, capping a string of weather satellite additions started in 2016. The Lockheed Martin Space-built satellites collect and relay 30,000 times more data than NOAA’s
previous generations of weather satellites, helping forecasters protect U.S. residents from hurricanes, floods, tornadoes and severe thunderstorms by providing early detection of storm development.
The orbiters also map lightning strikes, track space weather and have instruments to detect search and rescue beacon signals on Earth.
GeoXO, the short name for Geostationary Extended Observations satellites, is meant to build on the success of those satellites.
Lockheed Martin Space’s contract goes beyond building the orbiters. It covers a 10-year period of Lockheed Martin Space helping manage the satellites after launch into space plus five years of on-orbit satellite storage, a NOAA announcement said.
The three-satellite constellation is envisioned to place operational satellites in slots over the hemisphere — one east, one central and one west. The east and west satellites will carry a weather imager, a lightning mapping instrument, an ocean-color measuring instrument and an auxiliary communication payload. The central satellite will carry an infrared sounder and atmospheric composition instrument, NOAA said.
The satellites are expected to enable the first geostationary observations of coastal ecosystems, near real-time mapping of the state of
the atmosphere, enhanced lightning observations for severe weather monitoring, and continent-wide observations of harmful air pollutants, Lockheed Martin Space said.
The company is a 21,000-employee business with thousands of engineers and other workers based in Denver-metro area’s southern and southwest suburbs plus thousands more working on its campuses around the country.
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Will This Merger Remake Utah’s Defense Industry?
Electric Vehicle Maker Acquires Large Site In West Valley
Utah’s largest industry associations in defense and advanced manufacturing announced they will combine forces to expand the state’s national security sector.
defense and cyber companies.”
Arizona-based vehicle maker Nikola Corp. quietly purchased nearly 1,000 acres in the Phoenix metro at the end of September for $16.5 million, according to Maricopa County records.
Utah’s largest industry associations in defense and advanced manufacturing announced they will combine forces to expand the state’s national security sector.
Nikola acquired the 920-acre site through Phoenix Hydrogen Hub LLC from Hardison Farms on Sept. 30, real estate database Vizzda shows. George Quinif of Peak Group LLC represented Nikola in the sale.
The merger between 47G, Utah’s recently rebranded association of aerospace and defense, and UAMMI, Utah’s Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Initiative, brings the state’s top advocates for military innovation and specialized mineral extraction and manufacturing under the same roof.
The massive site is located at 28702 W. Patterson Road in south Buckeye just west of State Route 85 near the Arizona Department of Corrections Lewis Prison, which is one of the largest prisons in the state and houses more than 4,400 inmates.
“What’s remarkable about this merger with UAMMI is that all of these advanced aircraft rely on minerals and materials for production and so this merger in a very real way is the coming together of a supply chain right here in our backyard,” 47G President and CEO Aaron Starks told the Deseret News.
The sale comes after Nikola made multiple announcements that it planned to break ground on a hydrogen production hub in Arizona. The company’s CEO said in August that Nikola would start construction on the new facility by the end of this year but did not disclose the location.
Starks, the former chief revenue officer of World Trade Center Utah, said by combining forces, the newly named 47G UAMMI Institute will continue to make Utah “the world’s premier ecosystem for aerospace,
The announcement is just the latest in a series of mergers and leadership changes meant to bring Utah to the leading edge of national security innovation.
According to the Arizona Corporation Commission, Corey Hessen and Omar Khayum, senior vice president and vice president of Canada-based TC Energy, respectively, are the managers of Phoenix Hydrogen Hub LLC. Oil and gas giant TC Energy partnered with Nikola last year to develop large-scale hydrogen production hubs across the U.S. and Canada.
Former Utah congressman and U.S. Air Force pilot Chris Stewart was named chairman of 47G shortly before its rebrand. Prior to his resignation from Congress on Sept. 15, Stewart served on the powerful House Intelligence Committee where he was regularly briefed on top-secret security information that built on his knowledge from 14 years in the United States Air Force.
Nikola hasn’t confirmed, though, whether it plans to build a hydrogen production hub in Buckeye. Nikola said it has no comment about the Buckeye land sale or its plans for the property. The city of Buckeye said nothing has progressed with the company beyond negotiations.
The automaker is currently producing battery electric vehicles and has produced several alpha prototypes of its fuel cell electric vehicles, which run on hydrogen. Nikola is planning to build out a hydrogen fueling network to support its vehicles. Its first three locations will be established in California.
“The 47G and UAMMI merger is a huge win for Utah and for the country,” Stewart said in a press release. “I have seen firsthand how advanced materials in the aerospace and defense industry enhance our economy and protect our national security.”
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the first-ever convening body for aerospace and defense companies in the state of Utah. It promotes and represents over 120 companies that are working to develop the next generation of national security technology across three industry sectors, according to the press release. Their members include aerospace behemoth Boeing, defense contractor Northrop Grumman, and drone delivery company Zipline.
They also work in close communication with the Governor’s Office of Economic Opportunity, World Trade Center Utah, the state Legislature and institutions of higher education.
“We celebrate the growth and development of our aerospace and defense industry which contributes to our vibrant workforce and expansion of critical infrastructure,” said Utah Gov. Spencer Cox. “This consolidation of resources between two great organizations will enhance 47G’s ability to elevate Utah’s status as a premier hub for industry and destination for innovation, entrepreneurship and investment.”
The aerospace and defense industry is booming in Utah. From well-known large companies, down to small startups, there are more than 1,000 companies and half a dozen military installations across the state. Together, they make up almost 20% of the state’s economic activity.
Retaining seven of the largest defense contractors in the world in Utah is only sustainable if the state’s universities work in concert with the industry, Starks said.
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Multiple Utah universities are also members of 47G. Starks said the state’s Higher Education Committee on aerospace and defense recently completed a process of sharing their vision of how they want to lead the nation in these sectors, including a proposal from the University of Utah to build a space station in the west desert, something they have approached Boeing about doing, Starks said.
“The next generation of talent is being developed on university campuses,” Starks said. “And we need to tell the aerospace and defense story in a compelling way to where we can win that talent and industry.” | Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
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Five Rivers Analytics LLC, Colorado Springs, Colorado (FA2518-24-D-0003), was awarded a $480,000,000 8(a) competitive hybrid firm-fixed-price and cost reimbursable, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity and first task order (FA2518-24-F-0013) in the amount of $205,474,842. This contract provides operations, remote site and mission partner support, training, and organizational-level maintenance for the Satellite Control Network (SCN). Work will be performed at Schriever Space Force Base, Colorado, and SCN sites across the globe. This contract was a competitive acquisition and two offers were received. Fiscal 2024 operation and maintenance funds in the amount of $166,446 are being obligated at the time of the contract and first task order award. U.S. Space Force, Space Operations Command, Space Acquisition and Integration Office, Schriever Space Force Base, Colorado, is the contracting activity.
The Boeing Co., Layton, Utah, has been awarded a $38,156,711 modification (P00001) to previously awarded contract FA8214-24-F-0001 for the definitization of the flight test telemetry termination production requirements contract, fiscal 2024 delivery order issued under FA821422-D-0001. Work will be performed at Layton, Utah, and is expected to be completed by Dec. 31, 2025. Fiscal 2024 missile procurement funds in the amount of $8,975,962 are being obligated at time award. The Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center, Hill Air Force Base, Utah, is the contracting agency.
CACI NSS Inc., Colorado Springs, Colorado, has been awarded a $54,198,829 modification (P00317) to previously awarded FA8823-16-C-0004 for the Satellite Control Network. This contract modification provides a one-year extension, in quarterly intervals, to avoid a break in service while waiting for the Satellite Control Network Tracking Station Operations, Remote Site, and Mission Partner Support follow-on contract to be awarded. The extension will be exercised in quarterly increments to afford the government the flexibility to offramp to the follow-on contract upon award. The modification brings the total cumulative face value of the contract to $668,642,992. Work will be performed in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and is expected to be completed by May 20, 2025. Fiscal 2024 operation and maintenance funds in the amount of $13,570,353 are being obligated at time of award. Space Systems Command, Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado, is the contracting activity.
Lockheed Martin Space, Littleton, Colorado is awarded a not-to-exceed $99,000,000, cost-plus-incentive-fee, and cost-plus-fixed-fee unpriced letter contract modification (PH0043) to a previously awarded contract (N0003022-C-1025) to provide systems engineering, test planning, and long lead material in support of missile production.
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Lockheed Martin Rotary & Missions Systems, Colorado Springs, Colorado, is being awarded an extension to the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract HQ0147-19-D-0002. The total value of this contract is $282,775,135. No task orders are being issued at this time. The work will continue to be performed in Huntsville, Alabama. This contract was previously competitively awarded to provide the development and sustainment of the Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA) Objective Simulation Framework modeling and simulation system. The government is awarding this extension with only one source under the authority of 10 U.S. Code 3204(a)(1) and Federal Acquisition Regulation 6.302-1. This extension will ensure continuity of critical work to deliver required capability increments. The ordering period end date is extended from April 15, 2024, to Oct. 15, 2026, and adds two 12-month options and one six-month option. The extension will allow for the execution of MDA’s integrated master test plan that includes ground test, flight test, and warfighter training and combatant command exercise events. The Missile Defense Agency, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, is the contracting activity (HQ0147-19-D-0002).
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The purpose of Northern Utah NTMA is moving through a change - for the better - we think. Over the years The Chapter has led a steady march of good things for the Utah Machining Industry. Chapter Meetings, Workforce Development, Recruiting Billboards, Golf Tournaments and many, many other things. The best outcome being a stronger industry and stronger stakeholder relationships.
So what is the change? More money wanted. We see a very positive impact to fulfilling our mission to Connect, Improve, Defend and Promote our Industry from having additional funds available.
Our intent is to gather more funds in order to increase our very significant and impactful outcomes coming from the Skills USA Machining Competition. This contest has been so successful that we can call it a pillar of our Chapter’s effort. Key industry stakeholders are participating in meaningful ways.
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and solid ways for they and their teams to get engaged as coaches, judges and volunteers.
Our education partners are able to showcase the event displaying the broad industry support for their programs. They are also able to use the contest in their curriculum, recruiting and training efforts. Industry suppliers are able to directly support students, shops and education with prizes and other contributions.
Oh and last but definitely not least the new machinists get to showcase their skills and compete for really cool prizes while connecting with many good people in their profession. These people are getting stoked about machining!
The contest has all of these great things and what do you know it’s fun too. It really is hitting the target, and very directly with our primary objective of recruiting, training and retaining skilled machinists.
The other pillar of the Northern Utah NTMA has been our Annual Golf Tournament held each fall. People throughout our industry look forward to and love the chance to connect with lots of people that they don’t get to see very often. This event has become quite popular with us filling up all of the golf team slots recently. There’s golf, raffles, food and mostly good people to connect with.
As we build the pillar of the Skills USA Machining Competition it like every construction project needs funding. In comes the Golf Tournament which has largely been a break even endeavor over the years. Great fun, incredible value, lots of work and lots of other positives
but gathering funds has not been the priority. The plan will be to increase most aspects of financial support for the golf tournament with the intent that those funds be gathered to focus on some Chapter expenses but mostly to concentrate and leverage the influence that the Skills USA Machining Contest is having. The $50 golf fees were not sustainable with increased course costs and just the cost of the tournament. Will there be increased costs? Yes. Is it going to a good cause? We say YES VERY MUCH SO!
We truly want to hear anyone’s feedback about including a fundraising element to the Golf Tournament. 100% the intent is to bring our combined strength to bear by putting a huge floodlight on the Skills USA Machining Contest and our other worthy efforts. We will strive to strike a balance between fundraising, fun and value. We do hope that wherever you sit in our industry that you will see a way that you can get involved and help those around you to get involved in The Cause of Manufacturing.
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Many companies express the need for continuous improvement. But have you ever stopped to ask why so many of these improvement efforts fizzle? More specifically, why are continuous improvement efforts not continuous?
Some well-known quality models have demonstrated clear value and been used by many quality professionals. But did you know that these models are over 30 years old?
Statistical Process Control: 1924
Total Quality Management: 1985
Six Sigma: 1986
ISO 9000: 1987
Lean Management: 1988
Think about some of the significant changes in our world over the last 30 years and how they have transformed the way we work. Consider some of the major changes we have been through, such as:
• Technology evolving at an exponential rate.
• Social media creating absolute transparency.
• Global logistics transforming supply chains.
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• Social movements increasing equal rights awareness.
• Pandemics changing workplace dynamics and structure.
Millennials’ technology expectations have been shaped by smartphones, Facebook and digital media – in other words, by easy and ubiquitous connectivity. It’s not surprising, then, that traditional manufacturing systems can seem as retro as waiting for dial-up internet to connect. And that’s bad for the manufacturing sector, because its skills gap is looming large.
• While all the above quality models have demonstrated success in the past, why are they not as effective as they once were? What is missing, and why have improvement efforts not been sustainable?
A joint study by the Manufacturing Institute and Deloitte Consulting projects a surge of nearly 3.5 million open manufacturing jobs created over the next decade. Some of the empty slots will come by way of retiring baby boomers, while others are related to new positions created as a result of natural business growth, the report found.What the report also predicts: As conditions stand now, 2 million of those jobs will go unfulfilled. In other words, the need for the manufacturing sector to appeal to Millennials – the generation typically defined as those born between 1981 and 1997 – is both critical and a very tall order.
I have had the opportunity to work in multiple companies over my 30+ year quality career, both Fortune 500 corporations and small startups. When I began to reflect and explore why some improvement efforts worked—and, more often, why some did not,—I realized that the companies’ culture played a big role in the success or failure of their improvement initiatives.
Indeed, manufacturing still has a negative image among younger generations, experts say. In a 2015 public perception of manufacturing study, also by The Manufacturing Institute and Deloitte, respondents ages 19 to 33 ranked manufacturing as their lowest preference in terms of potential career choices.
When people are engaged and excited about their company and their role in its success, quality efforts flourish. But when people are not engaged—or worse, actively disengaged—these quality efforts fade quickly and ultimately fail. In situations where the culture is toxic, nobody is thinking about doing their best. They are either “quiet quitters” (doing the bare minimum) or actively disengaged and searching for a new opportunity. They most certainly are not committed
Manufacturing’s image problem is complex and in, some aspects, based on false assumptions. But one real obstacle is that some manufacturing systems can seem antiquated, and it’s an issue that many manufacturers and related organizations are already addressing.
You must fix the culture before you can fix the products and processes.
Because so much has changed in our world over the last 30 years, I believe we need a new quality model. A model that starts with people, not a process or methodology.
I would like to introduce the Sustainable Quality model.The Sustainable Quality Model is comprised of three distinct tiers. The first tier (bottom of pyramid) is a Quality Culture. The second tier is Quality Strategy. The third and top tier is Quality Tools & Training. There is a set order to this model.
Think of these tiers as building blocks. You cannot start framing a house unless it is built on a solid foundation. Culture is that foundation--and that’s what we will focus on here.
Too often as quality professionals, we lead with methodologies and techniques. This is wrong thinking. Build the foundation first. Then create a vision and plan for the future. This sets direction and aligns people. The tools and techniques come last. At this point, your organization is in the position to select the right methodology for your specific situation.
Stop for a moment and think of a time in your personal or work life when you were at your very best. How did you feel about the environment you were working in? What type of encouragement and support did you have? How did you feel about the actual work you were doing? What were the driving factors that made this important to you?
I believe a long-term, sustained commitment to quality only comes from employees who are engaged and inspired to do their best. They have “bought-in” both to what they are doing and who they work for. They have a sense of purpose and understand how their role contributes to that purpose.
This type of performance mindset becomes possible when personal, team and company goals all align. It flows from a positive work environment where employees feel valued and appreciated. By: Joseph Diele
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At a typical machine dealer Open House, you might see tooling OEMs with booths. These are companies that sell ancillary products like tooling, coolants, tool holders, industrial supplies, vending/storage systems, and even robotics. At Productivity’s Open Houses, you will also see these OEMs. The difference is the Productivity sells these products direct, through the Productivity tooling division. This facilitates a complete package when you order your new machine and ensures that you will order the accessories that maximize the productivity of the machine when it hits your floor.
Productivity is committed to supporting its customers training needs. Their more than 300 formal CNC training classes each year includes both classroom and hands-on training, and they train over 1000 students every year. Their comprehensive CNC machine operator and programming training includes classroom and on-site training, phone support, and machine tool demonstrations.
Productivity’s customers regularly take advantage of the company’s webinars. Just a few of the current webinars
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Productivity’s ‘Don’t Fear Automation’ Demo Day will be hosted in their state of the art 17,500 square foot facility in Littleton, Colorado. Mark Smith, Vice President and General Manager, supporting all Productivity customers in the Rocky Mountain region, says, “ We still believe in brick and mortar, providing a great place for our customers to come and see our machines and our technology. We’ve been in our new building since 2022, and we renovated it to be a showcase for our machine lines, and for it to be a venue for training. In our training center, we regularly host CAD/CAM training, Mill and Lathe Classes, as well as Advanced Programming, Automation, Robotics and even turnkey solutions. Every week we host different training classes, and just today we hosted 8 machinists in a training session.”
In addition to the Haas Days Gala Open Houses, which typically are hosted annually at each of Productivity’s locations, again with the upcoming Haas ‘Don’t Fear Automation’ Demo Day happening this July 24th, the company is renowned for its ‘OCTOBERFEST’ events. Mark says, “Our OCTOBERFESTS are hosted every other year, on the off years of IMTS. The 3 day event brings more than 3,000 customers and 1000 students. Productivity’s OKTOBERFEST Tool Show is
the largest metalworking distributor show in the Midwest, if not in the entire US. If you haven’t been to one, they are worth the trip to Productivity’s headquarters in Plymouth, Minnesota.“
Since 1968 Productivity Inc., has been distributing a broad range of CNC machine tools, tooling and accessories and related metalworking products. Nearly a decade ago, in 2015, Productivity joined forces with Moncktons Machine Tool, and in 2020, the Rocky Mountain entity took the name of MMT Productivity. Just last year, in 2023, they officially were named Productivity, Inc. the final step in the merger of the two metalworking distributors.
Today, the company provides metalworking products and services in Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska and Western Wisconsin with facilities in Cedar Rapids and Omaha. Their facilities in the Rocky Mountain Region based out of the Denver area and Salt Lake City, support customers throughout Utah, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, and Wyoming.
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we will never be able to increase exports or create Biden’s 5 million manufacturing jobs as long as our prices are artificially high.
Subsidiaries of EchoStar Corp. have been chosen to supply the U.S. Navy with 5G internet service and mobile devices under a contract worth up to $2.7 billion.
I don’t see any alternative but to steadily reduce the value of the U.S. dollar. One approach would require the Federal Reserve to impose a “market access charge“ on foreign investments in the United States. This tax would cover asset purchases including stocks, bonds, real estate, or intellectual property – pretty much everything foreigners might want to buy, except for goods to be exported. The stated objective is to achieve a current account balance within five years
The Douglas County-based satellite services and telecommunications business won part of the Navy’s Spiral 4 program awards and a contract that could last 10 years, reaching the $2.7 billion total if all of the contract’s single-year optional extensions through 2034 are used, EchoStar said.
According to a CPA/Federal Reserve model, realigning the dollar by 26% would balance the current account and reduce the trade deficit to zero “
"EchoStar Corporation is proud to provide the DoD and other federal agencies with significant technological advancement using our innovative, Open-RAN based wireless connectivity capabilities," said John Swieringa, president and COO of EchoStar Corp.
The Spiral 4 program is administered by the Navy but covers 5G services and support for U.S. Department of Defense personnel in all 50 U.S. states, U.S. territories and during international travel on temporary duty, the company said.
America has finally reached a point where there is a great opportunity to reshore both industries and jobs. If the Biden Administration is serious about creating 5 million manufacturing jobs, it will need to focus on the critical industries that are fundamental to the manufacturing process, invest in apprentice training and devalue the dollar. Michael Collins is the author of Saving American Manufacturing and The Manufacturers Guide.
Getting part of that contract is a big deal for EchoStar, which acquired the Boost Mobile 5G wireless internet and mobile phone business as part of merging with sister company Dish Network Corp. at the start of 2024.
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Dish Network struck the deal to become part of EchoStar to find a way to refinance billions of dollars in debt coming due through 2026 and gain time to reverse subscriber losses at Boost Mobile and the Dish Network satellite TV business.
internet subscribers, giving it plenty of unused network capacity.
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Combining with EchoStar meant becoming part of the same company that owns Hughes Network Systems, which sells satellite-based internet and communications services.
AGCO, a global leader in the design, manufacture and distribution of agricultural machinery and precision ag technology, is investing to attract more talent across key product development disciplines to deliver new, valueadded precision ag technologies for all farmers. In Scottsdale, Arizona, the company has opened an acceleration center dedicated
Dish Network has invested more than $30 billion in establishing the nation’s most modern 5G network. It has just over 7 million mobile
Its consumer-banded satellite internet service, known as HughesNet, aims to provide connectivity to an estimated 24 million U.S. consumers, mostly in rural areas, who lack good access to high-speed internet networks offered by cable companies and traditional telecommunications carriers.
“The Phoenix metro area and nearby universities with thousands of engineering students create an environment rich with tech talent,” said Seth Crawford, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Precision Ag & Digital. “With more than 27 million acres of farmland and a year-round operating climate, Arizona also provides a great backdrop to continue putting farmers at the center of everything we do. AGCO is excited to attract more of the brightest minds helping us build our tech stack and advance agriculture.”
EchoStar hopes to capitalize on the ability to sell satellite connectivity and highspeed mobile data services in combination with large enterprise users, such as the Navy or national or international corporations."Rural customers have traditionally had limited options for TV and internet in rural America,” said Paul Gaske, chief operating officer of Hughes, in a statement. “Dish and Hughes are solving those hurdles by further advancing connectivity in rural communities to provide the best value in TV and Internet." By Greg Avery – Denver Business Journal
The acceleration center is located at SkySong Innovation Campus, which is an extension of Arizona State University (ASU) since 2003. SkySong supports the launch of startups and inventions in partnership with ASU researchers. This is AGCO’s second acceleration center affiliated with a university; AGCO’s acceleration center on the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana campus opened in 2018 and helps nurture tech talent within undergraduate and graduate student populations.
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Denver-Area Community College First To Join Space Force Effort To Teach Aerospace Workers
Arapahoe Community College is becoming an example of how a growing focus on technology and military capabilities in space will create job opportunities on the ground in Colorado.
And not just for would-be astronauts, rocket scientists and engineers designing spacecraft.
ACC last fall became the first community college to be accepted into U.S. Space Command’s Academic Engagement Enterprise, an effort involving the University of Colorado, Colorado School of Mines and other four-year colleges around the U.S. that are trying to build research and workforce resources for the growing space economy.
ACC attracted former Air Force Colonel Tom Coakley to be the school’s academic dean and head of its Colorado Aerospace Institute to begin developing an educational curriculum to train people for in-demand jobs in things like data analysis, cybersecurity, spacecraft operations and other non-engineering jobs expected to be key to the space industry.
ACC is offering classes hoping that students in all kinds of
“Retail sales are up, and sectors such as transportation, logistics, warehousing, and construction are performing extremely well,” Arora added. “Right now, business owners are confident in the future of their firms. August is typically a slow month for loan volume, but that wasn’t the case this year.”
disciplines learn something about orbital mechanics and space operations so they’ll have a general understanding of the realities faced by space companies.
Beyond generalizing, the ACC program is putting together a series of courses that will help build a civilian workforce with security clearances and an operational understanding of space jobs connected to national defense.
Business loan approval rates rose at regional and community banks as well. Small banks granted 49.8 percent of the funding requests they received in August, up one-tenth from July. It represents the highest figure for small banks since November 2014.
Much of that job growth will be on the ground, focused on making sense of the growing torrent of data that will be coming down from massive satellite constellations that the U.S. Space Force and others are establishing in orbit.
Institutional lenders — pension funds and insurance companies — remained unchanged at an Index record 64.9 percent, up one-tenth of a percent from July’s figure.
Loan approval rates among alternative lenders rose to 56.6 percent, one-tenth of a percent higher than in the previous month.
Coakley earlier in his career helped run the Aerospace Data Facility, a command-and-control center at Buckley Space Force Base in Aurora for U.S. intelligence agency and military satellites.
Alternative lenders have become a source of quick capital. When small business owners, alternative lenders could approve riskier loans via innovations in fintech, which give them more flexibility than the banks to adjust rates and covenants on the deals. This includes an ability to accept non-conventional sources of collateral, such as real estate and outstanding invoices (h/t Forbes).
A civilian Coakley met in janitorial services there, which required screening and background checks, saw firsthand the professional opportunities in the field. It motivated that worker to get a two-year degree at Community College of Aurora and then complete a four-year degree at Metropolitan State University of Denver before getting a well-compensated job in aerospace with an established major defense contractor in the area, Coakley said.
Credit unions approved 40.2 percent of loan applications in August, a slight drop of one-tenth of a percent from July and a large drop from their all-time high of 57.9 percent in March 2012. By Anthony Noto – Reporter, New York Business Journal
He said he admires the focus and dedication that took and thinks about it a lot as he puts together the ACC’s space program. “I want to shortcut that process for others,” Coakley said.
Economic developers and space industry advocates in the Denver metro have been trying to raise awareness about the growing number of good-paying jobs and the need for workers beyond the aerospace engineers and other specialized workers coming out of 4 year colleges.
Employment in the industry is expected to explode in coming years as companies establish commercial space stations and regular trips to and from orbit, and as more companies field large satellite fleets and build services from the information they collect.
According to a report by the U.S. Space Foundation, a nonprofit industry group based in Colorado Springs, the average space industry job pays 30% more than the average job in science, technology, engineering and math-related fields.
The ACC program aims to de-mystify what’s involved in those kinds of jobs and make them broadly accessible, especially those who may be looking to switch careers.
The Space Force estimates that about 60% of the workforce connected to Space Command in Colorado Springs will be civilian, or non-military. That reliance on
civilians is going to be true broadly across the Space Force bases, Coakley says.
Jobs in the space field, especially those connected to the establishment of the U.S. Space Force, have been growing steadily. The force’s own workforce jumped 34% annually last year, to 13,716 people, with about a third of those employees being civilians.
And outside government, nearly $18 billion was invested in space-related startups in 2023, the Space Foundation report said. Established companies, such as Blue Origin, Lockheed Martin Space, BAE Systems Inc.’s space and mission systems (formerly Ball Aerospace) and Sierra Space have each hired hundreds of people locally in recent years, many of them jobs that aren’t highly technical.
Industry advocates want to get the word out to younger people in Colorado about the career opportunities emerging here. A lot of that starts with simply telling students at area schools about the satellites, space stations, moon landers and spaceships being designed and built by companies across the region.
“It’s amazing, but a lot of people just don’t know these things are made in Colorado,” said Debra Wilcox, a member of the Colorado Space Business Roundtable.
Wilcox says she’s talked at high schools in Denver and surrounding communities for years and she still is startled when neither teachers nor students realize they live in one of the world’s most prominent areas for space technology and businesses.
That’s what has helped spur educational efforts, like the engineering-focused EPIC school in Littleton, and Arapahoe Community College’s growing space focus.
Industry advocates are also trying to explain to people how much space technology is becoming part of other industries on Earth.
John Deere, the manufacturer of lawnmowers and large farming combines, is increasing trying to incorporate systems that use location and ground condition data collected by satellites in near real time.
That’s putting space information to use far from orbit, but such services still benefit from understanding the reality of what satellites can collect and what space companies can do, Coakley said.He calls it “space-mindedness.”
It’s the sort of generalized understanding that will help build a space workforce, Coakley said. By Greg Avery –Managing Editor, Denver Business Journal
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Coolant Chillers
Chipblaster 310-502-4184
MP Systems ________ 909-282-7463
Custom Tools
Fullerton Tools 989-799-4550
Machine Tool & Cutter Grinding 435-512-4416 EDM: Tooling Systems
THINBIT 888-THINBIT
Cutting Fluids & Oils
Chemtool _________ 815-957-4140
Chipblaster 310-502-4184
Qualichem, Inc. 480-320-0308
Star Metal Fluids
Fullerton Tools
989-799-4550
Drills
Machine Tool & Cutter Grinding 435-512-4416
Dust Collectors, Filtration Equip.
Star Metal Fluids
800-367-9966
EDM Materials & Supplies
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
EDM Perform. Access. 800-336-2946
End Mills
Fullerton Tools 989-799-4550
HAIMER 503-726-8202
Machine Tool & Cutter Grinding 435-512-4416
Filtermist Mist Collectors
Royal Products 800-645-4174
Fire Detection Systems
Sulli Tool & Supply ___ 714-863-6019
Gage Blocks
Starrett 949-382-4123
Garnet Abrasives
Barton International 800-741-7756
Knives: Replacement
Superior Grinding 801-487-9700
Lifting & Material Handling Systems
Ingersoll Rand 206-472-0826 Live Tools Royal Products 800-645-4174
Sulli Tool & Supply 714-863-6019
Lubricants / Systems
Chipblaster 310-502-4184
Qualichem, Inc. 480-320-0308
Star Metal Fluids 800-367-9966
Machine Tool Accessories
Dormer Pramet 801-230-6794
Dormer Pramet 720-837-3232
HAIMER 503-726-8202
Industrial Supply 800-288-3838
SCHUNK 919-602-8294
Sulli Tool & Supply 714-863-6019
THINBIT 888-THINBIT
Von Ruden Manufacturing 763-682-0322
Machine Tool Cool. Filtration
Chipblaster 310-502-4184
Star Metal Fluids 800-367-9966
Milling and Turning Products
Dormer Pramet _____ 801-230-6794
Dormer Pramet _____ 720-837-3232
Industrial Supply ___ 800-288-3838
Von Ruden Manufacturing 763-682-0322
Parts Washing Equipment
Star Metal Fluids 800-367-9966
Power Tools
Ingersoll Rand 206-472-0826
R8 Quick Change Tool System
Royal Products 800-645-4174
Retention Knobs T.J. Davies 440-248-5510
Robot Accessories
SCHUNK 919-602-8294
Rota-Rack Parts Accumulator
Royal Products _______ 800-645-4174
Rotary Tables
Sulli Tool & Supply 714-863-6019
Shrink Fit Machines
HAIMER 503-726-8202
Solvents /Degreasing Agents
Castrol 800-894-7773
Hasco Oil 562-595-8491
Star Metal Fluids 800-367-9966
Spindles
GMN USA _________ 800-686-1679
Sulli Tool & Supply ____ 714-863-6019
Surface Plates
Starrett 949-382-4123
Toolholding
HAIMER 503-726-8202
Hainbuch 818-970-7874
Industrial Supply 800-288-3838
Sulli Tool & Supply 714-863-6019
Innovative
521 S 48th St. Tempe, AZ 85281
Ken
ken@innovativemeasuring.com
Innovative Measuring Systems
1711 W. 17th St. Tempe, AZ 85281 www.innovativemeasuring.com
With its robust C-frame construction, lightning-fast 4.5 second chip-to-chip tool changer, double-ended tilting table and enhanced rapid traverse rates –which add up to shorter non-cut times for the lowest part-cycle times – the VARIAXIS C-600 handles the most demanding jobs with its flexible, automation-ready design and a new MAZATROL SmoothAi CNC made for 5-axis machining. And it can handle what your rotary table HMCs take multiple setups to do in as few as one.
