A2Z Manufacturing Magazine Rocky Mountain Dec 2018

Vol. 11, No. 6 Nov / Dec 2018

Rocky Mountain Edition (CO, UT, ID, MT and WY)

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Is finding superior employees for your organization one of your top challenges? If you answered ‘yes’, you are in the same position as many employers in the USA. According to a recent Enterprise Bank andTrust survey, 80 percent of respondents said recruitment was among their top three challenges.

So, given this data, do you and your management team offer formal/ documented benefits that include a flexible workplace?

If you answered yes, you should be pleased that you work in a progressive company, one that has the ability to attract the brightest and best talent.You already have a substantial advantage over many of your competitors.

Another survey conducted by Fractl found that, after health insurance, employees place the highest value on benefits that are relatively low-cost to employers, such as flexible hours, more paid vacation time, and work-from-home options. Furthermore, the survey found that certain benefits could win over some job seekers faced with higher-paying offers that come with fewer additional advantages. Both flexible hours and work-from-home arrangements are affordable perks for companies that want to offer appealing benefits — and both of these benefits typically cost the employer nothing — and often save money by lowering overhead costs.

When flexible programs are not offered, managers often cite ‘lack of jobs that are conducive to flexibility’. If I ran a company in virtually any industry, I would suggest that this manager needs some ‘enlightenment opportunities’ in order to remain in his or her position. Many of our readers are employed in the manufacturing industry, and while ‘work from home’ options may not be feasible, flexible hours and part time options certainly are. Consider the benefits of phased retirement, where your long term workers no longer wish to work full time, but are enthusiastic to work 2 or 3 days a week. This arrangement can reduce health benefits for the employee, and it offers your company the best mentoring opportunities for new employees.

Flexible working or ‘Flex jobs’ not only means you have access to a much larger pool of talent for your team, it is good for business. In a study by WorldatWork, 2/3 of respondents to a management survey stated that ‘flexibility has a positive or extremely positive impact on employee engagement, motivation and satisfaction’.

In Ernst & Young’s Global Generations Research, findings indicate that, amongst other generations, Millenials want job flexibility, but in their words, ‘bosses just don’t get it.’ In their study, close to 80 percent of millenials surveyed are part of dual-income couples. Of Generation X workers, people in their 30s and 40s now, 73 percent are. But of baby boomers, the generation that now occupies most top management positions, less than 1/2 have a full-time working spouse.

“I really see that there’s an empathy gap in the workplace,” said Karyn Twaronite, EY global-diversity and inclusiveness officer. “When there’s frustration about work-life balance in the workplace, and you think your boss doesn’t get it, that very likely could be true. ” For employers considering the adoption of flexible work, the benefits of allowing employees to work a flexible schedule are numerous. From increased productivity to fewer missed days, employers reap the benefits that come from adopting flexible schedules in the workplace.

Such benefits include; productivity increases, decreased absenteeism, and healthier, happier employees.

In closing, I highly encourage you to formalize programs that include workforce flexibility.

You will likely see immediate benefits, and your ability to recruit and retain top talent will lead to increased profitability. Until next issue, I wish you the best and God Bless our Troops!

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Announcements & Releases Northern Utah NTMA Announces Its Newest Members!

The Northern Utah chapter fo the NationalTooling and Machining Association is pleased to announce its newest members: Northrup Gruman, Metro Recyclers, and CliftonLarsonAllen.

Maddie Dahl, Chapter Executive, says, “As a chapter focusing on supporting the precision machining and manufacturing industry along the Wasatch Front, NUNTMA welcomes machining companies and others concerned about creating a dynamic environment where businesses can grow and thrive. Our current focus is to develop the best talent from our Northern Utah communities by providing information about how to become a machinist apprentice.” For more information about the benefits of joining NUNTMA, contact: Maddie Dahl, Chapter Executive, Ph: 801.337.7097, Email: chapterexec@nuntma.org

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Clark Smith, 4th Generation owner of Smith Machinery, says, “We consistently strive to improve the supportInand Building CNC Machines Theservice U.S. For 43 Y we provide to our loyal customers. As such, weSmith are looking to expand sales team Machinery Co.our Thanks Its Custom with a Sales Engineer and our service team Year, The Company Is Celebrating O The chapters of the National Tooling & Machining Association participating in the event are Los with a Service Engineer.” Clark adds, “A Angeles, North Texas, Arizona, Houston, Rocky Mountain, San Fernando Valley, New Mexico, and background in the4th machine tool industry Clark Smith, Generation Smith of th San Francisco. There are still sponsorship opportunities open for companies that would like to get is highly desirable.” have sold more than 700 new Mazak mac in front of precision tooling & machining companies who participate.

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Star Metal Fluids Announces New Operations Manager

Aaron Kurzawski, General Manager for Star Metal Fluids LLC, says, “We are excited to announce the hiring of Brenton Shumway as our new Operations Manager at Star Metal Fluids. Brenton is a father of three wonderful children and just celebrated his 10-year wedding anniversary with his beautiful bride. He has spent a majority of his working career in the construction industry. Brenton is full of ambition and is excited to develop a great working relationship with all of our suppliers here at Star Metal Fluids. We are confident he will be a huge asset to our team.

Please feel free to take a minute and welcome Brenton to our team, b_shumway@metalfluids.com.

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If you are interested in working for Smith Machinery, contact Clar Smith directly at 801-263-6403 or send your resume to: csmith@smithmachinetools.com

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Anyone can pick it up and start making something in minutes.

Fusion 360 - Autodesk also offers its cloud-based integrated CAD/ CAM/CAE tool Fusion 360 free to students, educators and educational institutions. This is a professional tool widely used in industry by startups and large-scale manufacturers alike. Subscriptions cost $495 a year for commercial users.

Design Academy – Autodesk’s Design Academy is an online resource for people who want to learn or teach. It offers free self-paced courses, tutorials and more on how to design and make.

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program,Autodesk provides an educational resource created in tandem with VEX ROBOTICS. This site is a resource for students or anyone you want to help get involved with robotics. It includes a full-blown curriculum, kits and models that you can download and use for your robots, and lots of other helpful information.

Autodesk’s website is also full of valuable educational content in the Autodesk Education section as well as the various industry sections of the site. One excellent video for STEM events that can grab a student’s attention on what CNC Machining is here: https://www. autodesk.com/solutions/cnc-machining-software# (click on the CNC MACHINES IN ACTION at the top of the page). The same page explains distinct types of machining 2D vs. 3D machining, mills, lathes, 2.5 to 5 axis CNC, and more.

Through these resources, programs and more, Autodesk is committed to preparing the next generation to become the future work force for the manufacturing industry.

The Reshoring Initiative, PMA, AMT and NTMA Launch Reshoring Award Four manufacturing associations have announced the Second National Reshoring Award. Companies that have successfully reshored products, parts or tooling made primarily by metal forming, fabricating, casting or machining, including additive manufacturing, are invited to apply. AMT – The Association For Manufacturing Technology and NTMA (National Tooling and Machining Association) join the Announcements Continued Page 10

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inaugural sponsors of the award, the Reshoring Initiative and PMA (Precision Metalforming Association), in hosting this competition.

To be eligible for the award, the work must have been reshored between January 1, 2013, and December 31, 2018, from outside North America to within North America. Applications must be submitted by January 31, 2019.To view award details and enter to win, visit the AMT website.The awards will be presented inTucson,Arizona, March 8, 2019, at the MFG Meeting.

“In 2017 about 170,000 United States manufacturing jobs were announced to come back from offshore, up 2,800 percent from 2010,” says Harry Moser, founder and president of the Reshoring Initiative. “We anticipate that this award will motivate more companies to reevaluate their offshoring and see that it is often more profitable to produce or source domestically. We also hope that other associations will choose to support similar awards to show that their industries are now successfully reshoring.” Source: Modern Machine Shop; By: Tarah Rauch

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Utah Selected As One Of Four States For Policy Academy To Strengthen Manufacturing Four states have been selected to participate in a Policy Academy designed to help grow and strengthen manufacturing in their states.

State teams will begin meeting on Tuesday in Washington, D.C. with policy experts to develop or further refine strategies to bolster manufacturing. The four participants chosen for the Policy Academy are Kentucky, New Jersey, Puerto Rico and Utah. Each team includes representatives from the participants’ governor’s office, state economic development department, Manufacturing Extension Partnership center, manufacturing trade association, and other manufacturing centers.

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Announcements Continued manufacturing sector is imperative for the country’s strength and competitiveness,” said Dan Berglund, president and CEO of SSTI, which is helping to coordinate the Academy. “We are looking forward to supporting the states as they strengthen their manufacturing base and build on their success. We expect that each of the participants will develop new initiatives or expand on those already in place to advance their manufacturing agenda.”

The year-long Policy Academy will guide the states through a planning and implementation process to identify relevant manufacturing-related partnerships and policies to move their economic development strategies forward. Each participant will receive customized assistance through access to national experts and collaboration with colleagues in other states.They may choose to focus on addressing skills gaps, accelerating start-up growth, expanding their market, improving their supply chain or other priorities the state teams identify.

The Policy Academy is being coordinated by two national organizations — SSTI and the Center for Regional Economic Competitiveness (CREC) – with support from the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) based at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). SSTI works to strengthen initiatives to create a better future through science, technology, innovation and entrepreneurship. CREC works to provide policy-makers from around the world with the information and technical assistance they need to formulate and execute innovative, regional, job-creating economic strategies. NIST MEP’s mission is to enhance the productivity and technological performance of U.S. manufacturing which it does through 51 MEP Centers located in all 50 states and Puerto Rico, and more than 1,300 manufacturing experts at over 400 service locations, providing any U.S. manufacturer with access to resources they need to succeed.

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The four states were selected after a competitive application process. A second cohort for the Academy is expected to be selected in 2019.

Have You Reshored? Your Company May Be A Candidate ForThe National Metalworking Reshoring Award Companies that have successfully reshored products, parts or tooling made primarily by metal forming, fabricating, casting or machining, including additive manufacturing, are invited to apply. The NTMA, along with AMT (The Association For ManufacturingTechnology) the Reshoring Initiative and PMA (Precision Metalforming Association) are pleased to be hosting this competition.

To be eligible for the award, the work must have been reshored between January 1, 2013, and December 31, 2018, from outside North America to North America. A complete definition of reshoring is available here. Applications must be submitted by January 31, 2019. Contact NTMA. org to get all of the details.

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NoCO Manufacturing Partnership and Front Range Community College Offer Spring 2019 Supervisor Management Training NoCO Manufacturing Partnership and Front Range Community College partnered to develop supervisor management training designed for manufacturers – with funding through the Colorado Workforce Development Council.

This training is designed for individuals with manufacturing experience interested in moving into or new to the supervisor role. Part 1 includes traditional supervisor information such as developing employees, defining jobs and hiring, safety in the workplace, legal issues, and managing a high performance team. Part 2 explores business acumen, problem solving, lean principles, and operational improvement. Experts in manufacturing teach the courses, and you’ll get to tour a manufacturing site – seeing as well as learning the principles.

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More than four in five firms in the industry are raising wages or boosting signing bonuses, according to a survey of about 400 executives by Deloitte LLP and the Manufacturing Institute, part of the National Association of Manufacturers. More than two-thirds said compensation had a moderate to very high impact on retention, while 32 percent said it had low or no impact.

Raises are showing up in U.S. data: October marked the first month of annual wage gains above 3 percent since 2009. There are nearly half a million job openings in manufacturing, even after a strong pace of hiring that’s added almost that many to payrolls over the past two years, Labor Department data show. Pay raises should help to attract and retain people as the hiring pool shrinks.

A majority of executives said talent availability was a key issue, with many blaming shifting skill sets and negative views of the manufacturing industry.

Despite the labor shortage, just over half of executives sur veyed said workers should pay for their own retraining. At the same time, about three-quarters of respondents said industry associations should sponsor training for jobs facing the most serious talent shortages, and 69 percent of respondents said companies should fund the costs. Source: Bloomberg; By: Katia Dmitrieva

Tesla Semi Picks Up Another Big Backer, The Country’s 2Nd-Largest Grocery Chain Grocery giant Albertsons is buying 10 Tesla Semi trucks, and plans to operate them in Southern California.

Albertsons will add the new, all-electric delivery trucks to its fleet of more than 1,400 trucks nationwide.

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sustainability is an important g o a l f o r o u r c o m p a ny,” Albertsons Vice President of Transportation Tom Nartker said in a statement. “We’re excited to pilot this expansion of our transportation program with trucks that help us limit our overall carbon footprint.”

Albertsons says it expects the new trucks to travel up to 500 miles with a fully loaded trailer before needing to be recharged, suggesting the company pre-ordered the upgraded model, which starts at $180,000.

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It’s still unclear when Tesla will begin producing the Semi, which the company unveiled last year. CEO Elon Musk had suggested the first Semis would begin rolling off the assembly line in 2019, and ramp up production in 2020.

That uncertain timeline hasn’t stopped dozens of companies from putting down a minimum of $20,000 per truck to get on Tesla’s pre-order list.

Albertson’s likely paid at least $200,000 to pre-order 10 trucks.

On a conference call in May, Musk said the company had pulled in around 2,000 preorders for the new truck, which would mean around $40 million in revenue on the low end.

“We haven’t really tried to sell the Semi. ...Orders for the Semi are like, opportunistic,” Musk said on the call, according to Car and Driver magazine.

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It’s the country’s second-largest dedicated grocery chain, behind The Kroger Co.By Luke Stangel – Contributing writer A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain •

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Manufacturing Skill Levels Show Signs of Improvement For the first time in almost two decades, manufacturing skill assessment scores are improving. It indicates that the skills gap could be closing.

“For the first three quarters of 2018, assessment scores have increased in 38 states,” says Stephen Berry, CEO of Scientific Management Techniques, a company that specializes in manufacturing skill assessments and training. “Should the data remain at this level for the balance of the year, this will mark the first time in 19 years that average assessment scores have increased in two out of three consecutive years.”

After trending in a narrow range for 28 years, manufacturing skill assessment scores began a prolonged decline in 1999.

“Given the current state of the manufacturing workforce, our clients are hiring more entry-level staff today than any other time in the last 46 years,” claims Berry. “The manufacturing skills shortage has driven an increased demand for the ability to identify mechanical aptitude in [job candidates who] have no prior training or manufacturing experience.

“Individuals possessing mechanical aptitude assimilate training efficiently and become productive members of the workforce quickly,” Berry points out. Source: Assembly Magazine

Ford Buys Electric Scooter Company Spin Ford Motor Co. has purchased Spin, an electric scooter sharing company based in San Francisco, for a reported $80 million to $90 million.

“The acquisition of Spin is the latest strategic move by Ford in the mobility space, as the company builds a mobility portfolio to help customers get places more easily, more quickly and less expensively,” Ford said in a statement.

Spin, which started in March 2017, has operations across 13 cities and campuses nationwide. The purchase price was between $80 million and $90 million, according to reports.

“Over the next few years, we plan to scale quickly across hundreds of U.S. markets, including large metropolises, mid-sized cities and college campuses,” Spin’s founders said in a statement, adding that “we are immediately scaling up Spin’s team of engineers, designers, urban planners, policy makers, lawyers, and operators to create a affordable, convenient and sustainable form of last mile transportation.”

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Manufacturing Skill Levels Show Signs of Improvement For the first time in almost two decades, manufacturing skill assessment scores are improving. It indicates that the skills gap could be closing.

“For the first three quarters of 2018, assessment scores have increased in 38 states,” says Stephen Berry, CEO of Scientific Management Techniques, a company that specializes in manufacturing skill assessments and training. “Should the data remain at this level for the balance of the year, this will mark the first time in 19 years that average assessment scores have increased in two out of three consecutive years.”

After trending in a narrow range for 28 years, manufacturing skill assessment scores began a prolonged decline in 1999.“Given the current state of the manufacturing workforce, our clients are hiring more entry-level staff today than any other time in the last 46 years,” claims Berry. “The manufacturing skills shortage has driven an increased demand for the ability to identify mechanical aptitude in [job candidates who] have no prior training or manufacturing experience.

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National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) released the results of their Outlook Survey earlier this month, and while optimism was high among the 718 manufacturers of all sizes who responded, there was one overriding concern: the possibility of a “full-blown workforce crisis.”

Solving the problem before it reaches “full-blown crisis” mode is imperative for maximizing the potential created by growth in the manufacturing industry.

The shortage of skilled laborers in manufacturing is, in many ways, a direct result of the sector’s success over the past year. September 2018 showed a 3.5 percent increase in output from the year prior and the NAM report shows that 92.5 percent of those surveyed anticipate positive developments for their company while 58 percent anticipate they will be hiring more workers over the next year.

A skills-gap issue has already hit manufacturing, but as the industry continues to expand and unemployment remains low, the problem is exacerbated.

Meanwhile, manufacturing finds itself competing for the best employees with a lot of other sectors in the supply chain, shrinking the pool of qualified applicants and increasing wages.

As a result, 28.4 percent of the companies in NAM’s survey

claimed they had to turn down new business because of a shortage of workers.

Turning down work is the last thing a business of any size wants to do, so filling the estimated 500,000 available manufacturing jobs is a must. One of the simplest ways to increase the amount of skilled workers is by training existing employees. Upskilling workers who are already successful provides them with upward mobility, inspiring them to stay on staff while also freeing up entry-level jobs for less skilled workers.

Outreach programs and vocational education takes a bit more effort but is ultimately rewarding.

Developing training programs at high schools and community colleges attracts a new generation of workers who may not have even considered a career in manufacturing. These students are shown that they can make a good living by learning the right skills and are ready to enter the workforce highly skilled.

Veteran hiring programs are another potential source of qualified employees. In August 2018, the veteran unemployment rate was 3.8 percent, meaning there is an abundance of workers ready to learn new skills who are more than deserving of a chance.

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Surely, having such a successful year that there aren’t enough workers to fuel expansion isn’t the worst problem an industry could have but impediments on growth is problematic. By using some creative thinking in the hiring process, those in the manufacturing industry could be headed for an even more successful 2019. Boss Magazine; By: Matthew Flynn

(303) 466-3777 foothillsmachinery.com Manufacturing Day Events Draw Record Numbers There were a record number - over 3,000 - Manufacturing Day events held across the country this year. This growth in participation is reflective of the strength of the sector and the ongoing need to recruit a new generation of skilled workers to fill open positions.

NTMA and PMA continued their long-standing support for the national day dedicated to building awareness. Members of both associations opened their doors for tours and participated in other educational and inspirational events.

For example, members of the NWPA Chapter of NTMA joined in a local event which hosted over 2,000 students, parents, educators and community members.

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Colorado Manufacturing By The Numbers: Takeaways From 2018 And A Peek At 2019

second only to food manufacturing as the top manufacturing industry.

I’ve been fortunate to participate in CU Leeds’ excellent Colorado Business Economic Outlook the past two years, parsing manufacturing data with capable economists and business stakeholders lined up by Richard Wobbekind’s team at the Business Research Division. The 54th annual Report will be presented December 10 at the Grand Hyatt in Denver.

Readers have asked why we feature so many food and beverage companies, and growth in these industries reveals why. Food is today the single largest manufacturing industry in Colorado supporting just over 23,000 jobs. We track the sector as Food & Beverage, and total employment in those two sectors exceeds 30,000.

Here’s a first look at where manufacturing is forecast to end up in 2018 with a peek at ‘19, and what the numbers say about the state of Colorado manufacturing as this incredible economic year winds down. (The primary source of the following data is the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment.)

The 2018 employment numbers are on track to be the highest since 2006, basically reaching pre-Great Recession numbers. But even at that point, manufacturing was on a long and precipitous employment fall, bottoming out in 2010 at 124,000.

Manufacturing industries outpacing the overall sector’s steady but modest growth in 2018 include Transportation Equipment at 2.8% -- a category that includes Colorado’s robust aviation and aerospace industries; Beverage and Tobacco manufacturing (not be to confused with cannabis) at 3.6%; and the aforementioned Computer & Electronics sector at 3.6%. It seems a strong overall economy is helping print media hold on: a 1% dip seems relatively healthy given the disruptions in media.

In 2000, manufacturing sustained nearly 188,000 jobs in Colorado, fueled by a lively Computer & Electronics category (recall the technology corridor in Boulder/Broomfield) that alone supported nearly 47,000 employees. Today, Computer & Electronics is enjoying a comeback of sorts in Colorado, growing to 22,500 jobs and forecast to exceed 23,000 total jobs in 2019,

The 2018 numbers tell a fascinating story. For starters, while Colorado’s manufacturing standalone contribution is relatively modest (just under $25 billion, or about 7% of state GDP), contrary

Manufacturing is growing modestly in 2018 but faster than forecast in the report last year, with total employment expected to rise 2.8% by year’s end to 147,000 jobs, adjusted from a nearflat projection of 1.1%. The initial forward-looking forecast calls for 2% growth in 2019, to roughly 150,000 jobs.

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to a prevalent narrative, it’s growing. Jobs were to have been replaced by automated operations by now. But as CU’s Brian Lewandowski has noted in CompanyWeek, “With the multiplier effect, direct industry activity supports a total of 441,000 jobs in the state, and contributes approximately $47 billion to state GDP.” And only this week, the Economic Development Council of Colorado pointed to a new study and suggested the state is “poised to grow its manufacturing industry.”

But it’s growth industries here that hold so much promise, not only in leading employment gains, but in redefining the narrative around manufacturing. This is not your grandfather’s sector. Manufacturing today is a mix of disruptive food and beverage brands; of advanced fabrication sending satellites into orbit, fashioning electric motors, and developing the next wave of U.S.-made medical devices and bio-products; and of aspirational brands across the catch-all “Other” category in the language of economists.

It’s also a sector underpinned by a solid foundation -- a cadre of welders, benders, and cutters in such high demand that RK, a regional infrastructure giant, today has 300 apprentices in its fouryear program, with plans to hire them all. 300! Bart Taylor is publisher of CompanyWeek.

Solar Projects Planned For Grand Valley, CO Solar power projects are planned for locations near Grand Junction and Palisade, three of six projects along the Interstate Highway 70 corridor through Colorado.

Construction is expected to soon begin on a 2 megawatt solar garden planned for an industrial area in Grand Junction, Construction is underway on a 2 megawatt project in Palisade. Projects also are planned for sites in Parachute and west of Silt.Two more projects are planned for Grand Junction and Silt in 2019.

The solar gardens are a collaborative effort between Standard Solar and Pivot Energy. Standard Solar will finance, own and maintain the six solar gardens developed and constructed by Pivot

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“The shale operators obviously are very sensitive to prices. So as we saw price declines, they were going to pull back on operations and production,” she said, adding that recovering oil prices are helping spur production activity. “Any of the ancillary...manufacturers related to shale operations will also get a boost,” Ms. Bostjancic said.

The manufacturing sector was hit hard by the 2007-09 recession and later by a big drop in oil prices, which hurt energy production. It also has been buffeted by years of competition from low-cost countries such as China.

The Trump administration has imposed tariffs on imported steel and aluminum and also on a wide range of imports from China, moves meant to encourage more production in the U.S. at the expense of foreign competitors by driving up the price of imported goods. Cuts in U.S. corporate tax rates also were meant to spur domestic investment.

U.S. Manufacturing Capacity Increases for 16th Month in a Row U.S. manufacturers increased their capacity for the 16th straight month in September, fresh evidence that a strengthening economy is helping to propel a U.S. industrial rebound.

The Trump Administration has prioritized increasing manufacturing investment in the U.S. with tax cuts and tariffs on a range of imported goods. Manufacturing capacity, tracked by the Federal Reserve, is a measure of how much production plants could achieve if running at full steam, a proxy for how much they are expanding their plants and productivity.

Manufacturing capacity began recovering from a steep decline in 2011, faded in 2014 and resumed a modest march higher in mid-2015. In September it was up 1.4% from a year earlier.The report suggests investment in U.S. manufacturing has been increasing at a steady pace over the past three years. In June it passed its 2008 peak.

The latest Fed manufacturing report showed factory output also rose in September, helping drive overall industrial production up 0.3% for the month.

The Fed noted that output was “held down slightly” by Hurricane Florence but that the estimated effect was less than 0.1 percentage point.

The pickup in manufacturing production and capacity in recent years reflects a strong global economy and could also be tied to a resurgence in U.S. oil and gas output, said Kathy Bostjancic, head U.S. financial-market economist at Oxford Economics.

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“We are in the midst of a manufacturing renaissance—something which nobody thought you’d hear–-which means more jobs for our great electrical contractors,” President Trump said this month at an electrical-contractors convention in Philadelphia.

While some steelmakers have expanded U.S. production in the wake of the tariffs, other U.S. manufacturers remain heavily dependent on imported metals and have been constrained by the higher costs associated with tariffs.

Evidence of slack in the industrial sector persists. Manufacturers operated at 75.9% of their capacity in September, below a long-run average of 78.3%.

“That suggests there’s still excess capacity in manufacturing,” Ms. Bostjancic said, adding, “that’s a reason

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Space Foundation to expand Discovery Center Education Complex The Space Foundation closed on space to nearly triple the size of its Discovery Center education complex located near Garden of the Gods Road.

The additional 85,319 square feet, which was purchased for just more than $6 million, is at 4435 Arrowswest Drive and adjoins its current building at 4425 Arrowswest Drive. The acquisition will expand the total space from 45,716 square feet to a total of 131,035 square feet.

“This acquisition does more than increase our physical space. It allows us to expand and bring even more opportunity to the community and in particular our STEM education mission that every day, makes a difference in building a spacefaring future and developing the next generation workforce,” said Space Foundation CEO Thomas Zelibor in the release.

The purchase was funded through an agreement with the El Pomar Foundation, the release said. Additionally, the selling price was significantly reduced through a

$1.9 million donation from Grapevine Investments LLP. “None of this would have been possible without the help and generosity of our community partners, El Pomar Foundation and Grapevine Investments,” Zelibor said. “Their investment in us goes far beyond the physical structure of the Space Foundation We are humbled and grateful for their incredible support.”

The Space Foundation moved into its current location in 2011, and over the past years has expanded the Discovery Center to include El Pomar Space Gallery, Northrop Grumman Science Center featuring Science On a Sphere and the Lockheed Martin Space Education Center. There are more than 40,000 visitors to the Discovery Center each year.

President Trump Signs FY 2019 Funding Bill Increasing Grant Funding Last quarter, President Trump signed FY19 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education funding bill, increasing funding for Perkins state grants to $1.17 billion, $70 million above the current funding level.The increase in funding can apply to CTE programs, especially if geared towards college and career guidance services, education technology and STEM education.

Furthermore, it increases apprenticeship opportunities by $15 million to $160 million total and state grants for adult education programs by $25 million. Finally, Pell grants get a boost of $100 to $6,195 for the current academic year and continues funding for Year-round Pell.

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Air Force Kicks Off “VQ-Prize” Search For Space Awareness Innovators The Air Force and the Wright Brothers Institute launched a new competition with cash prizes for industry partners who can create augmented reality and virtual reality visualization tools for space.

The competition runs through Jan. 15, 2019 and the goal is to develop visualization tools that will “enhance DoD space operator understanding and awareness of satellites and other objects in Earth orbit,” according to a news release issued by the Air Force Research Laboratory and Wright Brothers Institute.

The Air Force Visionary Q-Prize Competition was developed to encourage nontraditional industry partners who have limited means to engage with military customers — like universities, small businesses and individuals — to find solutions for safe and secure operations in space.

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pabilities with visualization tools that enable operators to intuitively absorb and quickly navigate massive amounts of space object data,” Brig. Gen.William Liquori, architectures and analysis director with Air Force Space Command’s Strategic Requirements, said in the release.

Air Force Space Command Space Capabilities Division Director Col. Michael Kleppe said it’s not only critical for space operators to get upto-date information on this rapidly evolving environment, “they must also be able to quickly process and interpret the information necessary for decisive action on compressed timelines when only seconds may remain to prevent or mitigate catastrophic events.”

According to the release, select problems have been scoped and packaged for rapid concept generation and tangible product development.

Contestants may submit traditional user interface solutions, displayed or projected on a flat screen, or AR/VR interfaces.

Solutions are needed that present new ways of visualizing and understanding: • Satellite maneuvers • High-speed conjunctions in Low Earth Orbit • Proximity operations and relative orbital activity in • Geosynchronous Earth Orbit • New object discovery • Satellite/debris breakups • Constellation insertions (multiple satellites on a single launch) • Lost or “stale” objects All submissions will be evaluated by military space operators, space development professionals and human factors experts.

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SBA Approves 1,766 Loans In Colorado For FY 2018 The U.S. Small Business Administration approved loans 1,766 loans worth $884.9 million in fiscal year 2018 in Colorado.

According to a release, the loans created or retained more than 17,200 jobs in the state. The fiscal year ran from Oct. 1, 2017 to Sept. 30.

“The SBA continues to power small business growth and economic development across Colorado,” SBA Region VIII Administrator Dan Nordberg said. “The small business community has benefited from a

very good pro-business environment which was enhanced this year by the President’s tax cuts and reduction of red tape and regulations.

The end result has been more jobs being created in both rural and urban communities statewide.”

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Nationally, the agency approved 72,227 7(a), 504, and microloans loans worth $31.3 billion.

• 162 loans worth $152 million were approved through the 504 loan program.

The nation’s strong economy is allowing lenders to provide borrowers more conventional credit without the utilization of an SBA guarantee.

SBA’s loan programs continue to show strong performance in 2018, and this strength is projected to continue helping small businesses grow and prosper in the coming year.

• Average loan size for 7(a) loans was $508,357.

The SBA is now targeting rural communities for increased loan volume.

• 603 loans worth $281 million went to women-owned businesses.

“Colorado’s economy remains one of the strongest in the nation, and the SBA’s small business lending programs continue to be a critical economic development driver in the state, creating or retaining more than 17,000 jobs,” said Frances Padilla, SBA’s Colorado District Director.

• 97 loans worth $39 million were approved for veteran-owned businesses.

“None of this success would happen without our network of dedicated SBA lenders, the vital support of our resource partners, and our stellar team in the Colorado District Office,” Padilla said.

• Average loan size for 504 loans was $938,272.

• 390 loans worth $189 million went to minority-owned small businesses.

• The accommodations and food service industries received the greatest number of loans at 222.

• In Denver County, 259 7(a) loans were approved for $138.2 million.

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• 168 microloans (loans less than $50,000) for $3.16 million were approved.

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With high schools no longer offering specialized vocational training and apprenticeship programs a shadow of what they were 30 or 40 years ago, the National Tooling and Machining Association, which represents precision custom manufacturers, has ramped up its training in recent years. A newish online curriculum called NTMA-U offers coursework in metallurgy, moldmaking, dimensional metrology, advanced diemaking.

It also founded and supports* the National Institute of Metalworking Skills (NIMS), a credentialing program for precision machinists who have completed specialized training through their school or company. NIMS offers “train the trainer” workshops as well.

Dean Bartles, the new president of NTMA, says he is looking for ways to improve the curriculum and plans on spending the next six months visiting some of the organization’s 1,300 member companies, the bulk of them small and medium-sized operations, to find out what their needs and concerns are. Along with advocacy, NTMA can offer resources to help them the smaller players navigate and afford emerging technologies for their operations, he says.

Bartles, who has held a variety of association roles in the past decade, shepherded the development and construction of the John Olson Advanced Manufacturing Center at the University of New Hampshire, which opened in June 2018.

The center was designed to combine classroom engineering work with hands-on manufacturing training and visualization.

But he spent of the bulk of his career—35 years—in aerospace

manufacturing. For 13 years, he was vice president and general Manager of the Ordnance and Tactical Systems Division at General Dynamics, overseeing three plants, including one in Joplin, Pennsylvania, that produced large-caliber ammunition. The Joplin plant manufactured lightweight tactical vehicles for artillery systems. “Special Forces had a requirement for a small vehicle designed to go up narrow mountain paths in Afghanistan,” he says. “We won the contract. That was my swan song.”

Early in his career, he worked in specialized machining operations for several companies, including General Defense Corp., Olin Ordnance, and Fairchild Republic Company, at plants in Turkey and Egypt as well as in the United States.

Another priority for Bartles is working with industry to further develop MT Connect, an open-source protocol for the industry allows exchange of data between any machine tool, so machines with different software can share data. Bartles is on the board of the non-profit MTConnect Institute, which is developing the free, open standard. By: Laura Putre Industry Week A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain •

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Amazon has launched a training program aimed at filling the computer engineer career pipeline with more than just a dribble of future tech workers.

Kodak and Evolve Additive Solutions are both relatively new entrants to the 3D printing industry.

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The Amazon Future Engineer program hopes to inspire more than 10 million children and young adults a year from underserved and low-income communities to pursue careers in computer science.

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Jeff Wilke, CEO of Amazon’s worldwide consumer division, said the program will give young people from all backgrounds help “from childhood to career” so they have opportunities to work in the “highly-paid, rapidly-growing” computer science field.

Women who take AP computer science courses in high school are 10 times more likely to take computer science in college, Amazon’s research showed, yet most high schools don’t offer the courses. Black and Hispanic students who take high school computer science are up to eight times more likely to take computer science in college.

“This program from Amazon will play an important role in helping make computer science education – and high paying jobs – a reality for female and underrepresented, minority students,” said Hadi Partovi, Founder and CEO, Code.org.

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Funding for Intro to Computer Science and AP Computer Science courses at high schools, with a focus on low-income Title I and rural schools Four-year, $10,000 college scholarships for individuals from underserved communities who are pursuing an undergraduate degree in computer science. Funds will be available for students starting in Fall 2019.

Paid software development internships at Amazon for freshmen who have received a scholarship from the company. Internships will begin in the summer of 2020.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that by 2020 there will be 1.4 million computer-science-related jobs available but only 400,000 qualified applicants. A 2017 Pew Research study in found that women remain underrepresented in engineering (14 percent), computer (25 percent) and physical science (39 percent) occupations.

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DoD (Department of Defense) Contracts Birdon America Inc.,* Denver, Colorado, was awarded a $44,452,448 modification (P00062) to contract W56HZV-14-C-0015 for bridge erection boats and crew protection kits.Work will be performed in Denver, Colorado, with an estimated completion date of March 31, 2020. Fiscal 2019 other procurement, Army funds in the amount of $44,452,448 were obligated at the time of the award. U.S. Army Contracting Command, Warren, Michigan, is the contracting activity.

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KeysightTechnologies, Englewood, Colorado, was awarded an $8,977,287 firm-fixed-price contract for Oscilloscopes 307/U.Two bids were solicited via the internet with one received. Work locations and funding will be determined with each order, with an estimated completion date of Sept.

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FlightSafety Services Corp., Centennial, Colorado, is awarded an $8,354,866 modification (P00004) under a previously awarded firmfixed-price contract (N6134018C0019) for aircrew training services in support of the TH-57B/C community, including instruction, operation, and curriculum support. Work will be performed at the Naval Air Station, Whiting Field, Florida, and is expected to be completed in October 2019.

No funds are being obligated at time of award. The Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division, Orlando, Florida, is the contracting activity.

Federal Contracting Inc., doing business as Bryan Construction, Colorado Springs, Colorado, was awarded a $52,812,678 firm-fixed-price contract for design and construction of a squadron operations facility and associated operational training facilities at Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico. Bids were solicited via the internet with 15 received.Work will be performed in Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico, with an estimated completion date of April 1, 2021. Fiscal 2015 and 2016 military construction funds in the amount of $52,812,678 were obligated at the time of the award. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Albuquerque, New Mexico, is the contracting activity (W912PP-19-C-0001).

KBRwyle Technology Solutions LLC, Colorado Springs, Colorado, has been awarded a $40,230,542 firmfixed-price modification (P00019) to previously awarded contract FA880613-C-0001 for Air Force Satellite Control Network Hybrid upgrades.

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Birdon America Inc.,* Denver, Colorado, was awarded a $44,452,448 modification (P00062) to contract W56HZV-14-C-0015 for bridge erection boats and crew protection kits.Work will be performed in Denver, Colorado, with an estimated completion date of March 31, 2020. Fiscal 2019 other procurement, Army funds in the amount of $44,452,448 were obligated at the time of the award. U.S. Army Contracting Command, Warren, Michigan, is the contracting activity.

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This contract was competitively procured via publication on the Federal Business Opportunities website with three proposals received. Fiscal 2018 research and development funds in the amount of $1,700,000 are being obligated on the award of the first task order and will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.

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Olympic Metals was founded a little more than 40 years ago when Bill Gibb and Ado Rekart made the decision to start a small metals distribution company that would prosper through hard work and superior customer service. When the company was started it was little more than a metals broker in a small trailer and fenced lot. Through the years, the company has grown exponentially and is currently located in Centennial, Colorado in a state of the art 61,000 square foot facility. What started as two men with an idea has grown into the premier aluminum plate distributor in Colorado.

Bill made the decision to sell Olympic Metals to Reliance Steel and Aluminum Company in 2002. He felt this move gave the company the greatest chance to grow and succeed, and his biggest wish was that his employees would have the ability to thrive under the Reliance group. Once the sale was complete, Olympic’s minority owner Chris Pancoast assumed the leadership role for the company. After Chris’s passing in 2012, Bill’s son Greg moved up into the role of General Manager. Greg has worked for Olympic since 1990.

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that in order to truly capture this growing segment we needed to become AS9100 certified.”

Along with implementing a true quality system, they also made the decision to join forces with another Reliance Company, Bralco Metals.

Bralco is a premier aerospace aluminum plate distributor with eight locations spread across the western United States. “Joining the Bralco group truly enhanced our business. It gave us access to products that we otherwise would have struggled with, which is a huge benefit to our customers.”

Business has been growing ever since. Just this past year the company moved into its new state of the art metal service center, more than doubling its previous square footage. The company owned facility sits on an expansive piece of land in Centennial, Colorado and the new site has land to provide for future growth. Greg says, “Our new facility allows us to operate much more efficiently, which is a must as we continue to grow our business. Not only are we able to strategically add to our inventory, but we can operate quicker, more accurately, and much more safely than before.”

Olympic maintains a $2 million dollar inventory to complement its five precision aluminum plate saws. They supply a full size range up to 10” thick in aluminum 2xxx, 6xxx, 7xxx alloys. “Being able to offer a complete range of alloys and sizes really gives us an advantage in the market, and along with our 99.3% On Time Delivery record, we feel our customers should have no reason to look elsewhere for their raw material needs”, Gibb adds.

While business at Olympic Metals over the past two decades has been “anything but status quo,” many of the business principles that made the company successful 40 years ago remain in place today. For one, they have outstanding employee retention. Today, there are several employees who have remained loyal to Olympic Metals and its customers for decades, some for nearly as long as the company has been open.

Joe Young, the first employee that Bill and Ado hired 38 years ago says, “Olympic Metals has always been a great company to work for. Since I am in sales I get to hear from our customers on a daily basis. I have always been proud of our superior customer service; we always go above and beyond expectations.” He continued, “We still run the business like a family owned company - we will all deliver parts in the back of our cars when it is needed.” About the company’s move to its new facility, Joe says, “Each move we have made over the past 40 years takes us to a new level.”

Colleen Eachus, a 30 year employee, says her official title is Office Manager, but she elaborates, “We all wear many hats at Olympic Metals.” Colleen says she came to Olympic Metals specifically because she wanted to work for a small, family-run company. “Today, we are a part of a very large entity, but both Reliance and Bralco let us run our division as a business; they are hands off so we still maintain the small business feel.”

Greg adds that in the warehouse Olympic Metals is also privileged to have employees with decades of service, including Mike Flynn and Tim Ausler. He adds, “We even have the legacy of Chris Pancoast’s son Mike Pancoast, who today is our Operations Manager.”

While Olympic Metals specializes in aluminum, specifically sheet and plate, they also offer a wide variety of other metals including stainless steel, brass, bronze, and copper. Olympic was built supporting a variety of businesses, from companies that were “one person with a mill in their garage” to Fortune 500 entities. Greg says, “We’ve always enthusiastically supported small customers, and it is amazing how many of our larger customers now were once start ups that we serviced years ago.” He added, “When we were small and independent we had to out service all of our competitors. Today, we may be bigger but we only know one way to work, and that’s offering the best in quality and service that we built our reputation on.”

As part of their AS9100 certification, Olympic Metals receives report cards from a number of their customers, and they are consistently an A+ supplier. Their continuous improvement is paying dividends for the company; while retirements have resulted in a smaller employee

team, the company is seeing year over year revenue increases. Greg says, “Several factors have contributed to our significantly higher revenue per employee; our new facility that we designed for efficiency is paying off, our AS9100 certification has enabled our entry into a new market, aerospace, and new equipment enables more accurate and faster precision processing. We are getting more metal out on time with less people.”

Greg and the Olympic Metals team value their employees. In the new facility the company is building out an employee area that includes both a lounge and a workout area. Greg says, “We want Olympic Metals to be a great place to work.”

Olympic Metals supports customers’ non ferrous metal requirements throughout Colorado. The members of the AS9100 certified company invite you to tour their new state of the art facility. For more information, contact them at 303-2869700 or visit rsac.com.

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Total industrial production, which also includes mining and utilities, increased a below-forecast 0.1%, reflecting declines in those sectors.

Factory output continued to grow at a solid clip, supported by a range of sectors including metals, machinery, aerospace and furniture. While buoyant consumer demand and this year’s corporate tax cuts have helped boost production, the sector faces headwinds including higher costs for materials and supply constraints partly linked to the trade war with China.

The industrial production figures reflect a 0.5% decline in utility output, the biggest drop since June, and a 0.3% decrease in mining, the largest decline since January. Hurricanes Florence and Michael, which made landfall in September and October respectively, lowered industrial production during the two months, “but their effects appear to be less than 0.1% per month,” the Fed said.

Capacity utilization, measuring the amount of a plant that’s in use, eased to 78.4% from an upwardly revised 78.5% in the prior two months, the highest since January 2015. That compares with the long-run average of 79.8%.

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That plane is the Airbus A220, formerly the Bombardier C Series, which landed with the carrier last week complete with extensive flight testing done by Bombardier inWichita and production by Spirit AeroSystems Inc. of the aircraft’s engine pylons.

But it’s a jet that has also had an impact felt far beyond Wichita, as it was Delta’s original order for the aircraft that set in motion a turn of events that reshaped the commercial aviation landscape.

That order, made in 2016 with Bombardier for 75 of the aircraft, sparked a trade protest by the Boeing Co. that in turn led to a majority ownership stake in the C Series program being acquired

by Airbus.

And that in turn helped lead to the joint venture in the works between Boeing and Embraer of Brazil to partner on competing aircraft.

As the dust of the C Series-to-A220 saga settles, Delta now prepares to give U.S. travelers their first opportunity to fly on the newest member of the Airbus family.

That could someday include passengers out of the Air Capital, where Delta offers service to Atlanta and Minneapolis from Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport.

For now, though, passengers will have to catch flights on the inaugural routes between New York, Boston and Dallas that begin in January, or wait as markets including Minneapolis, Salt Lake City, Detroit and Houston are added through August.

“In many ways, the A220 represents our continued work to make flying better for everyone and represents the go-forward objectives of our fleet strategy,” Delta COO Gil West said. By Daniel McCoy – Wichita Business Journal

August U.S. Cutting Tool Consumption Rises 11.2% August U.S. cutting tool consumption totaled $223.47 million, according to the United States Cutting Tool Institute and AMT— The Association For Manufacturing Technology. This total, as reported by companies participating in the Cutting Tool Market Report (CTMR) collaboration, was up 11.2% from July’s $200.97 million and up 13.9% when compared with the $196.23 million reported for August 2017. With a year-to-date total of $1.636 billion, 2018 is up 12% when compared with 2017.

These numbers and all data in this report are based on the totals reported by the companies participating in the CTMR program.

The totals here represent the majority of the U.S. market for cutting tools.

“August results posted double-digit increases from the previous month, previous year-to-date and previous year-over-year,” said Phil Kurtz, vice chairman of Wetmore Tool and Engineering.

“August also set a new record for total monthly sales. The volume of cutting tools being consumed reflects the good backlogs in metal-cutting tool shops across the United States. While the increases may cool off through the fourth quarter, it appears the run rate will remain very strong.”

According to Chris Kaiser, president and CEO of BIG Kaiser Precision Tooling: “Our year-to-date sales reflect what we have seen from the data until August with a 12%-plus increase. More machine tools have been sold this year than last. Everyone is equipping their new machines with cutting tools and toolholders.

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Watch your cycle count adjustments. The more cycle count adjustments made, the less inventory control there will be.

Finish your job. If you’re not closing out jobs correctly, materials will continue to be issued out, leading to incorrect demand.

Have a plan. A plan to handle rework or bad parts on work orders where the bulk of the parts have been completed should be in place.

Every manufactured part has a story—including how something is made, how much it costs, how much it can be sold for and if you make it again. A good manufacturing story will be filled with precise detail and accuracy, and will guide your future processes based on a truthful history. And this means your customers will want more.Why? Because you are manufacturing like a boss, which means you must:

Track labor and perform daily balancing. It’s better to find labor mistakes as soon as they happen so the cost is corrected immediately. Don’t wait until it’s too late.

• Master the four key transactions: obtaining purchasing receipts; issuing material; WIP to finished goods; and shipping/invoicing.

• Know your costs (freight, labor, outside services, overhead, material, other) with great accuracy.

• Price your parts competitively and profitably.

• Quote your jobs with speed and accuracy.

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Compare estimates to actuals. Having something to base costing on is important because you don’t have a way to know if your cost is correct without a baseline.

When you are doing the above, you are making parts faster and better, watching it all in real time and knowing exactly what everything costs.

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Stop guessing and start knowing. Know your costs with high precision instead of guessing at what it really costs to get a part out the door.

In manufacturing, it’s easy to lose focus. As time goes by, we find ourselves working harder for the same results. Typically, this means we have stepped away from the successful plan that got us to the top of the mountain; at this point, we need to get back to basics.

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Jeff Klimowicz Regional Sales Manager 480.320.0308 mobile jklimowicz@qualichem.com qualichem.com ISO 9001:2015 | All products proudly made in the USA.

AlIen Webb Sales Associate

KNUTH Machine Tools USA, Inc. 590 Bond St. Lincolnshire, IL 60069

Ph: (847) 415-3333 x260 Fax: (847) 415-2402 a.webb@knuth-usa.com

www.knuth-usa.com

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CHIP CUTTING Jacquet West_______310-684-4370 CNC Drilling/Tapping Kloeckner Metals Corp___480-389-2883 602-437-2220 Methods West_______ Olympic Metals______ 303-286-9700 CNC Mills Ryerson___________ 303-227-6310 AME, Inc._________ 303-922-9266 Ryerson___________ 303-227-6310 Doosan__________ 973-618-2500 United Perform. Metals_ 317-946-0025 Foothills Machinery Sales__ 303-466-3777 Titanium Hurco___________ 800-634-2416 Laube Titanium___805-388-1050x124 J.M. Grisley________ 801-486-7519 METAL DISTRIBUTORS J.M. Grisley________ 208-861-8991 Erickson Metals______ 877-543-6061 King Machine_______ 208-345-9600 Coastal Metals_______ 800-811-7466 KTR Machine_______ 623-202-7177 Jacquet West_______310-684-4370 Methods West_______ 602-437-2220 Kloeckner Metals Corp___480-389-2883 MMT, A Div of Productivty_303-571-4933 Laube Titanium___ 805-388-1050x124 Romi Machine Tools LLC_ 859-647-7566 Olympic Metals______ 303-286-9700 Selway Machine Tool___ 888-735-9290 Ryerson___________ 303-227-6310 Sharp Precision______ 310-370-5990 TW Metals__________800-203-8000 Smith Machinery Co___ 801-263-6403 United Perform. Metals_ 317-946-0025 Tornos USA_________ 951-695-0342 Western States Metals__ 801-978-0562 Triad Machine________ 303-424-0268 CNC Lathes NEW MACHINERY 3D Metal/ Additive Manufactur- AME, Inc.__________303-922-9266 ing Machines Doosan___________ 973-618-2500 Renishaw__________ 847-286-9953 Foothills Machinery_____ 303-466-3777

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Graphics Materials Laird Plastics_______ 303-292-1687 Mechanical/Engineering Material Laird Plastics_______ 303-292-1687 PRODUCTS Guns Layke Tactical_______ 602-272-2654 PROG. SYSTEMS CAD/CAMSoftware, CAD AME, Inc._________ 303-922-9266 Delcam (Autodeck)_____ 877-35-2261 Feature Cam_______ 602-502-9654 SolidCAM_________ 530-863-0461 PROTOTYPE MACHINERY 3D Parts To Go________801-380-7935

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DAYTON Lamina

™

a MISUMI Group Company

Kevin Benson Die Components Marketing Director

39830 Grand River Ave. Suite B2 Novi, MI 48375

DAYTON Lamina Corporation a MISUMI Group Company

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PAS Technologies______ 480-487-1906 Micropulse West_______ 480-966-2300 COMPOSITES Paramount Machine____ 801-886-2755 S.A. Composites_______ 970-776-3877 Qualtek_________ 719-598-3394 X23 The Toolroom Inc.______ 801-773-6331 DESIGNCAD/CAM Bar-S Machine________ 928-636-2115 Thompson Machine_____ 505-823-1453 H& S Machine________ 801-755-7627 Wrico____________ 480-892-7800 DIES ELECTROPOLISHING Able Machining & Eng.__ 801-268-6766 Qualtek_________ 719-598-3394 X23 EDM ENGINEERING/DESIGN EDM: Drilling Small Hole Advantage Manufacturing_ 877-727-0281 LAYKE, Inc.__________ 602-272-2654 AzMark___________480-926-8969 Micropulse West_______ 480-966-2300 CAID Industries______435-890-8823 EDM: Ram-Type (Sinking) Custom Design & Mfg____435-257-0668 Innovative Precision____ 801-334-6317 Dynamic Design & Mfg___ 303-652-0431 Maverick Mold & Machine_ 970-535-4604 Precision Tech________801-285-7288 Micropulse West_______ 480-966-2300 Reverse Engineering Prec. Mach’d Products____ 970-482-7676 Precision Tech________801-285-7288 EDM: Wire FABRICATION Custom Design & Mfg____ 435-257-0668 877-727-0281 Advantage Manufacturing_ Dynamic Design & Mfg___ 303-652-0431 EDM Express_______ 800-780-7075 Aero Tech________ 801-292-0493 Innovative Precision______801-334-6317 CAID Industries______435-890-8823 Jensen Precision_______ 801-866-0175 Dayton Rogers_______ 763-717-6303 A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain •

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Dynamic Design & Mfg___ 303-652-0431 EMJD Corporation______ 303-761-5236 EPOCS Mfg_________970-535-4540 Jensen Precision_______ 801-866-0175 Kustom Koncepts______ 307-472-0818 Mountain View Machine __435-755-0500 Petersen__________ 800-410-6789 Pillar Machine______ 801-965-1900 Star Precision________303-926-0559 Wrico____________480-892-7800 Custom Auto/Truck/Bike H& S Machine_______ 801-755-7627 Fabrication: Filament Winding S.A. Composites_______ 970-776-3877 Fabrication: Composites S.A. Composites_______ 970-776-3877 Fabrication: Enclosures Kustom Koncepts______ 307-472-0818 Star Precision________303-926-0559 Fabrication: Medium & Large Bandsaw LLC_________303-744-7181 CAID Industries______435-890-8823 EMJD Corp__________ 303-761-5236 EPOCS Mfg_________970-535-4540 Group Mfg Serv_______480-966-3952 Kustom Koncepts______ 307-472-0818 Petersen__________800-410-6789 Weiser Engineering__ 303-280-2778

Fabrication: SheetMetal Advantage Manufacturing_ 877-727-0281 AzMark___________480-926-8969 CAID Industries______435-890-8823 Denver Machine Shop____303-295-6000 Dynamic Design & Mfg___ 303-652-0431 EMJD Corporation______ 303-761-5236 EPOCS Mfg_________970-535-4540 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 Pillar Machine______801-965-1900 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 Petersen__________ 800-410-6789

FINISHING Advantage Manufacturing_ 877-727-0281 Arizona Finishing______602-438-4443 Coating Technologies____623-581-2648 CPCS_____________303-438-8328 Gold Tech Industries_____ 480-968-1930 PAS Technologies______ 480-487-1906 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 Wasatch Powder Coating__ 801-718-7969 Finishing: One Stop Advantage Manufacturing_ 877-727-0281 PAS Technologies______ 480-487-1906 Glass Bead Clean Coating Technologies____623-581-2648 Gold Tech Industries_____480-968-1930 PAS Technologies______ 480-487-1906 Iron Phosphates Wasatch Powder Coating__ 801-718-7969

Passivation Gear Hobbing Certified Inspection Service___602-267-0661 Ponderosa Ind________ 303-298-1801 Coating Technologies____623-581-2648 GRINDING Gold Tech Industries_____ 480-968-1930 AzMark___________480-926-8969 Qualtek_________719-598-3394 X23 Diversified Metal Services__ 801-972-6093 Photochemical/Etching GMN USA_________ 800-686-1679 VACCO Industries______ 626-443-7121 Prec. Mach’d Products__ 970-482-7676 Powder Coating Ron Grob Co.________970-667-5320 Arizona Finishing______602-438-4443 Steel Services Grinding___ 800-662-0126 CPCS_____________303-438-8328 Sun Grinding________602-238-9595 Pilkington Metal Finishing_ 801-972-2146 Superior Grinding______801-487-9700 Qualtek________ 719-598-3394 X23 The Toolroom Inc.______ 801-773-6331 Star Precision________303-926-0559 Grinding, Blanchard Wasatch Powder Coating__ 801-718-7969 Diversified Metal Services__ 801-972-6093 Sandblasting Wasatch Powder Coating__ 801-718-7969 Steel Services Grinding___ 800-662-0126 Sun Grinding________602-238-9595 Shot Peen PAS Technologies______ 480-487-1906 Superior Grinding______ 801487-9700 Grinding, Centerless Silk Screening Arizona Finishing______602-438-4443 Ron Grob Co.________970-667-5320 Sun Grinding________602-238-9595 Aluminum (Medium & Large) Grinding, Cold Saw Aero Tech________ 801-292-0493 AA Carbide________ 801-486-4881 GAS NITRIDING Grinding: OD Blanchard Metals Proc.___801-972-5590 AzMark___________480-926-8969 GEAR CUTTING Ron Grob Co.________970-667-5320 Ponderosa Ind________ 303-298-1801 Sun Grinding________602-238-9595 Specialty Steel Svcs____ 801-539-8252 Superior Grinding______ 801487-9700

Sun Grinding________602-238-9595 Superior Grinding______ 801487-9700 Grinding: Tool & Cutter BC Tool & Cutter Grinding__ 713-638-0303 Exact Tool Grinding_____ 801-712-2720 Passivation Gold Tech Industries_____ 480-968-1930 Polishing Gold Tech Industries_____ 480-968-1930 FORMING Dynamic Design & Mfg___ 303-652-0431 EPOCS Mfg_________970-535-4540 JD Machine_________801-782-4403 Star Precision________303-926-0559 HEAT TREATING Blanchard Metals Proc.___801-972-5590 Pilkington Metal Finishing__801-972-2146 Qualtek_________ 719-598-3394 X23 Temperature Processing___ 303-772-0250 The Toolroom Inc.______ 801-773-63311 Heat Treating/Cryogenics Temperature Processing__ 303-772-0250 Heat Treating/Custom Temperature Processing___ 303-772-0250 Heat Treating/Nitriding Temperature Processing___ 303-772-0250 Vibrational Stress Testing Temperature Processing___ 303-772-0250

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HONING/LAPPING LAYKE, Inc._________602-272-2654 Precision Tech________801-285-7288 IDENTIFICATION Silk Screen Arizona Finishing_____602-438-4443 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 EMJD Corporation_____303-761-5236 EPOCS Mfg_________970-535-4540 Kustom Koncepts______ 307-472-0818 Richards Fab______ 801-409-0392 Star Precision________303-926-0559 VACCO Industries_____ 626-443-7121 Weiser Engineering__ 303-280-2778 Wrico____________480-892-7800 Laser Cutting: Pipe&Tube Richards Fab______ 801-409-0392 Laser Engraving Jensen Precision_______ 801-866-0175 Laser Marking Jensen Precision_______ 801-866-0175 MACHINING Acu-Tec CNC_________303-365-9245 Advantage Manufacturing___ 877-727-0281 American Machine & Eng.__ 801-973-0494 A2Z Manufacturing Rocky Mountain •

CAID Industries______435-890-8823 CM Manufacturing____ 406-543-4450 Custom Design & Mfg____435-257-0668 Dynamic Design & Mfg___ 303-652-0431 EPOCS Mfg_________970-535-4540 Flex-Pro___________ 480-773-3239 Kings Peak Manufacturing_ 801-337-5926 Loveridge Machine Co.___ 801-262-1414 LV Swiss___________435-635-1482 Machinists Inc_______ 800-244-4130 Mountain View Machine__435-755-0500 Petersen__________ 800-410-6789 RD Machine & MFg____ 801-977-0447 Radtech__________ 303-789-4247 RP Machining_______ 719-550-1724 Skydandee Mfg______ 801-774-8031 Teton Machining_____ 208-642-9344 TVT Die Casting______ 800-280-2278 Weiser Engineering__ 303-280-2778 Machining: 3D Faustson___________303-420-7422 Qualified Rapid Products__ 801-999-4297 Machining: 5 Axis Accutech Machine______ 801-975-1117 AzMark___________480-926-8969 Faustson___________303-420-7422 JD Machine_________801-782-4403 Machinists Inc_______ 800-244-4130 Paramount Machine___ 801-886-2755 Precision Tech________801-285-7288 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 Flex-Pro___________480-773-3239 LAYKE, INC__________602-272-2654 LV Swiss___________435-635-1482 Micropulse West_______480-966-2300 Mountain View Machine__435-755-0500 Paramount Machine____ 801-886-2755

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Petersen__________ 800-410-6789 Pinnacle Precision____ 435-563-2722 Ponderosa Ind________ 303-298-1801 Precision Mach’d Products_ 970-482-7676 Radtech__________ 303-789-4247 RD Machine & MFg____ 801-977-0447 RP Machining_______ 719-550-1724 Skydandee Mfg______ 801-774-8031 Teton Machining_____ 208-642-9344 Machining: Ceramic O’Keefe Ceramics______ 719-687-0888 Ceramic: Sapphire, Alumina, Silicon, Aluminum, Quartz O’Keefe Ceramics______ 719-687-0888 Machining: CNC Able Machining & Eng.__ 801-268-6766 Acu-Tec CNC_________303-365-9245 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 DRP Machine_______ 801-699-4372 Dynamic Design & Mfg___ 303-652-0431 EPOCS Mfg________970-535-4540 Faustson__________ 303-420-7422 Flex-Pro___________ 480-773-3239 H& S Machine_______ 801-755-7627 HPMP____________ 801-619-9850 Innovative Precision___ 801-334-6317 JD Machine_________801-782-4403 Jensen Precision_______ 801-866-0175 Kings Peak Manufacturing_ 801-337-5926 LAYKE, INC__________602-272-2654 Leading Edge Machine__ 435-563-9425 Loveridge Machine Co.___ 801-262-1414

LV Swiss___________435-635-1482 Maverick Mold & Machine_ 970-535-4604 Petersen__________ 800-410-6789 Pinnacle Precision____435-563-2722 Electromechanical Design 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 American Machine & Eng.__ 801-973-0494 JD Machine_________801-782-4403 Jensen Precision_______ 801-866-0175 Machinists Inc_______ 800-244-4130 Paramount Machine____801-886-2755 Petersen__________ 800-410-6789 Radtech__________ 303-789-4247 Electromechanical Design Skydandee Mfg______ 801-774-8031 Machining: DoD CM Manufacturing____ 406-543-4450 Petersen__________ 800-410-6789 Machining: Large Petersen__________ 800-410-6789 Machining: Laser AzMark___________480-926-8969 Dynamic Design & Mfg___ 303-652-0431 Faustson__________ 303-420-7422 Gerome Mfg________520-622-8402

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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 Engineering__ 303-280-2778 Machining:Medical A&L Machining_______303-373-1540 CAID Industries______435-890-8823 LV Swiss___________435-635-1482 Pinnacle Precision____435-563-2722 Teton Machining_____ 208-642-9344 Machining: Milling Acu-Tec CNC_________303-365-9245 American Machine & Eng.__ 801-973-0494 Cornerstone Machine___ 801-731-8862 DRP Machine_______ 801-699-4372 Dynamic Design & Mfg___ 303-652-0431 EPOCS Mfg_________970-535-4540 JD Machine_________801-782-4403 Kings Peak Manufacturing_ 801-337-5926 Machinists Inc_______ 800-244-4130 Metalcraft__________888-280-7080 Mountain View Machine__435-755-0500 Petersen__________ 800-410-6789 Pillar Machine______801-965-1900 Prec. Mach’d Products__970-482-7676 Ron Grob Co.________970-667-5320 Machining: Mold Base Maverick Mold & Machine___970-535-4604 Machining: Production Able Machining & Eng.__ 801-268-6766 Acu-Tec CNC_________303-365-9245

CM Manufacturing____ 406-543-4450 Cornerstone Machine___ 801-731-8862 Custom Design & Mfg___ 435-257-0668 Elite Machie_________ 801-710-7891 Faustson__________ 303-420-7422 Flex-Pro___________ 480-773-3239 HPMP____________ 801-619-9850 Innovative Precision___ 801-334-6317 Kings Peak Manufacturing_ 801-337-5926 Loveridge Machine Co.___ 801-262-1414 LV Swiss___________435-635-1482 Newport Tool________801-295-7411 Paramount Machine___ 801-886-2755 Petersen__________ 800410-6789 Ponderosa Ind________ 303-298-1801 Precision Tech________801-285-7288 Radtech____ ______303-789-4247 RD Machine & Mfg____ 801-977-0447 RP Machining_______ 719-550-1724 Star Precision________303-926-0559 Machining: Prototype 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______ 303-469-1771 Faustson___________303-420-7422 Flex-Pro ___________ 480-773-3239 Innovative Precision___ 801-334-6317 JD Machine_________801-782-4403 Jensen Precision_______ 801-866-0175 Kings Peak Manufacturing_ 801-337-5926

LAYKE, INC__________602-272-2654 Custom Design & Mfg____435-257-0668 Leading Edge Machine___435-563-9425 Dynamic Design & Mfg___ 303-652-0431 Micropulse West______ 480-966-2300 Flex-Pro___________ 480-773-3239 Mountain View Machine_ 435-755-0500 JD Machine_________801-782-4403 Newport Tool________801-295-7411 Jensen Precision_______ 801-866-0175 Petersen_________800-410-6789 Pillar Machine______ 801-965-1900 Pillar Machine______ 801-965-1900 Machining: Swiss Radtech__________ 303-789-4247 Bar-S Machine_______ 928-636-2115 RD Machine & Mfg____ 801-977-0447 Denver Precision Products__ 303-469-1771 RP Machining_______ 719-550-1724 HPMP____________ 801-619-9850 Skydandee Mfg______ 801-774-8031 LV Swiss___________435-635-1482 S.A.Composites______ 970-776-3877 Pacific Swiss & Manufacturing_ 503-557-9407 The Toolroom Inc._____ 801-773-6331 Pinnacle Precision____435-563-2722 Ron Grob Co.________970-667-5320 Machining: Precision Able Machining & Eng.__ 801-268-6766 Teton Machining_______208-642-9344 Advantage Manufacturing_ 877-727-0281 American Machine & Eng.__ 801-973-0494 CM Manufacturing____ 406-543-4450 Cornerstone Machine___ 801-731-8862 Flex-Pro___________ 480-773-3239 Jensen Precision_______ 801-866-0175 Kings Peak Manufacturing_ 801-337-5926 Loveridge Machine Co.___ 801-262-1414 LV Swiss___________435-635-1482 Newport Tool________801-295-7411 Petersen_________800-410-6789 Pinnacle Precision____435-563-2722 Ponderosa Ind________ 303-298-1801 RP Machining_______ 719-550-1724 Precision Machined Prod.__ 970-482-7676 TVT Die Casting_______800-280-2278 Machining: R & D Acu-Tec CNC_________303-365-9245 American Machine & Eng.__ 801-973-0494

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 DRP Machine_______ 801-699-4372 EPOCS Mfg_________970-535-4540 Faustson__________ 303-420-7422 HPMP____________ 801-619-9850 JD Machine_________801-782-4403 LAYKE, INC__________602-272-2654 Leading Edge Machine___ 435-563-9425 Machinists Inc_______ 800-244-4130 Metalcraft__________888-280-7080 Mountain View Machine___ 435-755-0500 RD Machine & Mfg____ 801-977-0447 RP Machining_______ 719-550-1724

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CPCS_____________303-438-8328 ROUTERING, CNC Pillar Machine______ 801-965-1900 Micropulse West_______480-966-2300 SAW CUTTING www.springworksutah.com Richards Fab_________ 801-409-0392 Diversified Metal Services__ 801-972-6093 sales@springworksutah.com PLATING (801) 298Ͳ0113 SHOT PEENING Blanchard Metals Proc.__ 801-972-5590 Blanchard Metals Proc.___801-972-5590 2261 S. 1560 W. ● Woods Cross ● UT 84087 Foresight Finishing_____480-921-0000 SINTERING Gold Tech Industries___ 480-968-1930 Western Sintering______509-375-3096 PAS Technologies______ 480-487-1906 SPINNING: METAL Anodizing Metal Spinning Solutions__ 480-899-0939 SPLINES Blanchard Metals Proc.___801-972-5590 801-539-8252 Specialty Steel Services__ Pilkington Metal Finishing_ 801-972-2146 SPRINGS Qualtek________ 719-598-3394 X23 Custom/Compression/ExtenCopper sion/Assembly/Torsion Foresight Finishing_____480-921-0000 Ace Wire Spring & Form__ 412-458-4831 Gold Tech Industries___ 480-968-1930 Flat & Wire Electroless Nickel Ace Wire Spring & Form__ 412-458-4831 Foresight Finishing_____480-921-0000 SPRING WORKS Utah____ 801-298-0113 Gold Tech Industries___ 480-968-1930 STAMPING Gold/Silver Plate Dayton Rogers_______ 763-717-6303 Gold Tech Industries___ 480-968-1930 Metalcraft__________888-280-7080 Nickel/Chrome/ Precision Die & Stamping__480-967-2038 Copper Qualtek________ 719-598-3394 X23 Foresight Finishing_____480-921-0000 Richards Fab______ 801-409-0392 Gold Tech Industries___ 480-968-1930 The Toolroom Inc.______ 801-773-6331 Routering CNC Tin Plate DMSI____________ 801-972-6093 Foresight Finishing_____480-921-0000 Thompson Machine___ 505-823-1453 Wrico__________ 480-892-7800 Skid Manufacturing Gold Tech Industries___ 480-968-1930 Stamping:Aerospace ENS Welding Service__ 208-670-0538 POLISHING Precision Die & Stamping__480-967-2038 Small Part 480-968-1930 Gold Tech Industries___ Thompson Machine_____ 505-823-1453 Pinnacle Precision____435-563-2722 Turnkey Product Services Qualtek________ 719-598-3394 X23 PRECISION FORMING Aero Tech_________ 801-292-0493 Richards Fab________801-409-0392 Stamping:Deep Draw L.A.R. Manufacturing___ 801-280-3505 Thompson Machine_____505-823-1453 Qualtek________ 719-598-3394 X23 METAL STAMPING Wrico____________480-892-7800 Thompson Machine___ 505-823-1453 Qualtek________ 719-598-3394 X23 Wrico__________ 480-892-7800 PROCESSING: METAL Thompson Machine_____ 505-823-1453 Stamping:Design Hi-Production Precision Chemical The Toolroom Inc.______ 801-773-6331 Stamping PAS Technologies______ 480-487-1906 Stamping:Flat Forming Metalcraft__________888-280-7080 Etching/Photochemical SPRING WORKS Utah____ 801-298-0113 Precision Die & Stamping__ 480-967-2038 VACCO Industries_____ 626-443-7121 Thompson Machine_____ 505-823-1453 Thompson Machine_____ 505-823-1453 Stamping:Foil Forming PUNCHING MOLDS Thompson Machine_____ 505-823-1453 Loveridge Machine Co.___ 801-262-1414 JD Machine_________801-782-4403 Stamping: Light Maverick Mold & Machine_ 970-535-4604 Group Manufacturing Serv_ 480-966-3952 SPRING WORKS Utah____ 801-298-0113 Star Precision________303-926-0559 Molds: Plastic Injection Thompson Machine_____ 505-823-1453 Maverick Mold & Machine_ 970-535-4604 Weiser Engineering__ 303-280-2778 Stamping:Precision REPAIR Molds Steel Metalcraft__________888-280-7080 Bearing Surface DMSI____________ 801-972-6093 Precision Die & Stamping__480-967-2038 Aero Tech_________ 801-292-0493 Denver Machine Shop____303-295-6000 Qualtek________ 719-598-3394 X23 Hydraulic Cylinder Arizona Finishing_____602-438-4443 Thompson Machine_____ 505-823-1453 Loveridge Machine Co.___ 801-262-1414 Denver Machine Shop____303-295-6000 Wrico____________480-892-7800 Rolling: thread Stamping:Prototype PAINTING Coating Technologies_____ 623-581-2648 Ron Grob Co.________970-667-5320 Thompson Machine_____ 505-823-1453 Wire Springs ● Flat Springs ● Wire Products

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“Technology Solutions For Competitive Manufacturing” 41 West Guest Ave, Salt Lake City, UT 801-263-6403 www.smithmachinetools.com

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Building CNC Machines In The U.S. For 43 Years

SMITH + MAZAK PARTNERSHIP

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People For - Background in the Sales and Manufacturing Desirable.

ClarkSALES Smith,ENGINEER 4th Generation Smith of Family Business, Says,Highly “Over the years we have sold more than 700 new Mazak machines to our customers in the Mountain States.

SERVICE Mechanical Aptitude Required. in with Machine Tool Servicing We haveENGINEER also sold -80 Mazak 5-Axis Machines.

OurExperience experience 5-Axis machining Preferred, But You Will Receive sets Extensive Training us apart. ” in Smith Machinery’s Lines.

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