A2Z Magazine SW Edition Sept 2018

Vol. 24, No. 5, Sept / Oct 2018

Southwest Edition (AZ, NV, and NM)

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Editors Corner “I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.” John D. Rockefeller

of work.

I visit a number of machine shops each month, and I often hear, “We don’t have a salesperson.” The truth is someone in your company is selling. In fact, we’re all sales people in some respect; whether we’re marketing an idea to our spouse or promoting a concept in our place

Sales people, whether by title or in life, must be persistent. Here are some startling statistics on what it takes to win a new client. Keep in mind that ‘contact’ doesn’t always have to mean a face-to-face meeting; it can be a phone call, an email, an ad, or even a Constant Contact media message.

• 48% of sales people never follow up with a prospect • 25% of sales people make a second contact and then stop.

• 12% of sales people make a 3rd contact and then stop.

• Only 10% of sales people make more than 3 contacts.

• 2% of sales are made on the first contact.

• 3% of sales are made on the 2nd contact.

• 5% of sales are made on the 3rd contact.

• 10% of sales are made on the 4th contact.

• 80% of sales are made on the 5th to 12th contact. *Source: National Sales Executive Association Despite all of the stereotypical descriptions of sales people (e.g. pushy, talkative, greedy, yes, even deceptive), in reality highly skilled salespeople listen to problems, create solutions and then guide prospects to success. Every word that comes out of their mouth is adding value to the prospect.

If the very mention of the word ‘Sales Person’ is distasteful to you, please remember these reasons for admiring your sales person:

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PUBLISHER/EDITOR Linda Daly linda@a2zMANUFACTURING.com

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CONTRIBUTORS

1.They keep everyone else employed – They bring in the revenue that allows everyone else to keep their jobs.

Kim Carpenter Takashi Sato Gene Wirth Hugh Taylor

2. Nothing gets done without sales – If you’ve ever sat in a meeting without a sales professional present you’ll understand that it’s generally the sales guys that make the decisions and move things forward.

Published bi-monthly to keep precision manufacturers abreast of news and to supply a viable vendor source for the industry.

3. They might end up being your boss – 20%+ of the fortune 500 CEO’s started their careers in sales (this is second only to those who started in finance).

4.Sales is a company’s security – If people are worried about being made redundant in difficult economic times remind them that it’s largely the sales team, not product features, benefits or promotions that help business survive through tough times.

So, go ahead, thank the person(s) who have ‘Sales’ in their job description, and recognize that sales takes perseverance.

On another note, IMTS, the largest North American machine tool show, is coming up in September. Let’s hope it’s impact this year matches last IMTS results (2 years ago), where the so-called ‘IMTS Effect’ drove U.S. machine tool orders up 56%.

Until next issue, I wish you the best and God Bless our troops.

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Announcements & Releases Haas Factory Outlet-Phoenix Invites Machinists to CNC Training Mill and lathe classes are scheduled every other month. Each course consists of 3 days of hands on instruction led by a Haas Certified Instructor. Students will learn the basics of the Haas control, operation of machines, and Haas programming using G & M codes. Classes are held Monday through Wednesday from 3:30 to 7 pm.

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Verdant Commercial Capital Has Acquired Intech Funding Verdant Commercial Capital, LLC (Verdant) of Cincinnati, Ohio announced that it has acquired Intech Funding Corp (Intech) of Monrovia, California. Intech is focused on financing and leasing for manufacturing companies nationwide.

Intech will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of Verdant and maintain its operations in Monrovia. All of Intech’s employees will continue in their current roles and capacities, including Jeff Glikman and Ric Rivett as President and Senior Vice President, respectively. This acquisition will give Intech opportunity for more growth along with a stronger capital base to expand. Intech is currently one of the leaders in machine tool financing with over $1 billion in lending for manufacturing companies since 1995.

“I believe Intech and Verdant will be a powerful combination with greater strategic depth than we could have accomplished on our own, Jeff Glikman, President of Intech said. “The combination benefits our customers, vendors and employees thus positioning Intech to be an even greater force in the marketplace.”

Verdant is led by Mike Rooney and a management team that helped grow PNC Equipment Finance into one of the largest equipment finance companies in the country.Verdant operates in five principal markets:Technology, Office Products, Energy Efficiency, SpecialtyVehicle and Industrials. Verdant features a substantial capital base and now a shared vision with Intech to become an even greater force in the Industrials market.

“I’ve long admired the way Jeff and Ric managed Intech.Their reputation in the machine tool market is unsurpassed and well deserved. Adding like-minded professionals, like the Intech team, that are focused on providing superior support to customers and vendors is whatVerdant is all about.” Mike Rooney, CEO of Verdant said. “We look forward to continuing the Intech success story”.

Verdant’s acquisition of Intech closed on June 29, 2018. No financial terms were disclosed.

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CMR Manufacturing Supports Tier 1 OEMs With Tight Tolerance Quick Turn Photo Chemical Machining CMR Manufacturing is celebrating 29 years supporting Aerospace, Defense, Medical and Semiconductor customers, including L3 Communications, On Semiconductor, Smiths Interconnect Americas, Comtech EF Data, and General Dynamics, to name a few.

More than 2 decades ago, owner Mike Negrelli purchased the business his father founded in 1989. In 2001, Kevin Foley, a loyal CMR Manufacturing customer, left Motorola, to join Mike.

Kevin says, “That was 17 years ago, and I am still here today.As a customer, I valued CMR’s expertise and business processes, and these are still in place today: a) We do 100% inspection b) We are renown for our ability to chemical etch with extremely tight tolerances (typically with chemical etching, your tolerance is 10% of the material thickness; at CMR we achieve accuracy to 2% of the material thickness c) Quick turnaround - we can turn products around to our customers in 3 days if needed, and if they are local, we deliver to them d)We specialize in difficult .001 thick to .020 metals, low volume R&D and prototypes including RF Shields.

We are proud to be a premier ITAR certified Photochemical Machining Manufacturer in the Southwest. Our complete in-house Engineering and Manufacturing facility allows us to provide precise hands-on completion of delicate, complex projects to hearty, robust products that would be extremely difficult to produce using standard fabrication methods. One of our many specialties include Leadframe and RF Shields, with Prototypes from concept to delivery in less than 3 weeks.

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The cost of changing or modifying photo tooling is far less expensive than modifying conventional hard tooling.

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Yushiro And Qualichem Announce Global Partnership Agreement Yushiro Manufacturing America, Inc., a subsidiary of Yushiro Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. (collectively “Yushiro”) and QualiChem, Inc. (“QualiChem”) are pleased to announce that they have entered into a global strategic partnership.

The announcement brings together two of the premier metalworking

fluids manufacturers in the industry. Yushiro is the largest supplier of metalworking fluids in the Asia Pacific region, and QualiChem is one of the fastest growing metalworking fluids businesses in North America.This partnership will allowYushiro and QualiChem to leverage their respective product lines, R&D, supply chain and manufacturing capabilities to expand each company’s world class technology, products, and services to the global metalworking and water treatment markets.

Mr. Glenn Frank, President of QualiChem, Inc., commented, “This is an excellent opportunity for our distributors, customers and employees.

Yushiro’s extensive R&D capabilities and complementary sales channels will help us to better serve our existing customer base. Additionally, Yushiro’s twelve manufacturing plants throughout Asia, North America and South America will provide immediate entry into new markets for our metalworking fluids and water treatment products.”

In the water treatment market, Yushiro will continue to build on QualiChem’s highly successful private label business model. “This water treatment market in the U.S. and globally is projected to grow significantly and we look forward to working with QualiChem’s Water Treatment team to expand its manufacturing base globally through Yushiro’s existing network,” said Mr. Takuya Ishikawa, President and CEO of Yushiro Manufacturing America, Inc. Yushiro and QualiChem take great pride in recruiting and retaining Announcements Continued Page 8 A2Z MANUFACTURING SW •

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Announcements & Releases Continued the most talented employees in the industry. QualiChem will continue to be led by its current leadership team of Mr. Glenn Frank as President and Mr. Dennis Butts as Executive Vice President.

US. The company’s extensive client-base includes (but is not limited to) businesses in the aerospace, oilfield, military, medical, automotive and motorcycle, maintenance and repair, and architectural industries.

MetzFab Industries Stands as a Purveyor of American Manufacturing

Working with MetzFab gives you access to any product your business needs that’s made with top-grade steel, aluminum and stainless steel, acrylic, glass, granite and more components through use of cutting-edge technology.With a team that is highly experienced in all types of metal manufacturing and product design, we can build anything that’s made of metal.We take the time to understand your specific requirements to ensure your order’s accuracy and on-time delivery, and most importantly, to guarantee your complete satisfaction. In helping you benefit from our impeccable craftsmanship and quality of services, MetzFab strives to be more than just a manufacturer: We want to be your partner.

Earlier this year, the US government implemented 25% and 10% tariffs on steel and aluminum product imports respectively. Following this initial implementation, there was a second round of tariff increases in July specifically on Chinese imports, which cover more than a thousand products, including a variety of metal-related products (check list 1 and list 2 for the complete list of items covered).

If metal plays a role in your business, these developments to trade are going to affect you, especially if your business is operating in aerospace, military, industrial machinery, architecture and automotive industries. Sadly, these tariffs on steel and aluminum are increasing your manufacturing costs by 25% or more.

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In fact, quality and craftsmanship, along with fair trade are the cornerstones of American manufacturing and, thanks to MetzFab, you can continue to support these values, while succeeding to drive growth for your business.Visit our website, http://metzfabindustries.com/ to learn more about our services.

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Schaeffer Oil Celebrates 179 Years In Business!

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The launch of this par tnership is foreseen for this year’s IMTS exhibition (International Manufacturing Technology Show), taking place in September in Chicago (USA). It is expected to include the unveiling of a new and commonly developed additive manufacturing machine. Further combined solutions, which will be distributed over both sales networks, will follow over the next few years.

3D Systems was co-founded by the 3D printing inventor Charles “Chuck” Hull in 1986. The New York Stock Exchange listed company, based in Rock Hill, South Carolina (USA), is an innovator of 3D solutions. It has spent its 30-year history enabling professionals and companies to optimize their designs, transform their workflows, bring groundbreaking products to market and drive new business models. 3D Systems’ products and services address a variety of advanced applications – ranging from Aerospace, Automotive, and Consumer Goods to Medical, Dental, and Jewelry.

Announcements & Releases Continued Schaeffer Oil in his high performance super late model and now is changing fluids over to Schaffer based on proven performance. To learn more about how Schaeffer Manufacturing Company’s products can help you in your manufacturing environment, contact Jason at: schaefferaz@gmail. com; Mobile: 602.647.0649

GF Enters Strategic Partnership with Leading 3D Printing Manufacturer GF Machining Solutions, a division of GF, and 3D Systems, Rock Hill (USA), a leader in additive manufacturing, announced their strategic cooperation for jointly developed, integrated manufacturing solutions based on 3D printing.

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GF Machining Solutions provides machine tools, automation solutions and customer services for the production of molds, dies and high value-added metal parts. The division has manufacturing facilities in Switzerland, Sweden, China and in the USA, and serves its customers in more than 50 countries.

RevAZ Sponsors Overview and Internal Audit Seminar With ISO/ AS9100 Consultant BMSC Dozens of Quality professionals attended a RevAZ Sponsored Overview and Internal Audit Seminar on August 9th With ISO/ AS9100 Consultants Bretta Kelly and Debbie Hart.

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More than eighty percent of the company’s certification audits resulted in zero non-conformance’s, and of the remaining, no more than one or two. She also conducts third party audits for several registrars in a wide variety of industries. In addition, she conducts internal audits and facilitates management reviews for her clients on an on-going basis helping them analyze data and implement cost saving improvements in their business operations. To learn more about BMSC’s services, contact them at BusinessMSC.com or call (602) 445-9400.

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For the sixth consecutive year, Arizona will celebrate the incredible diversity and depth of manufacturing across the state with October designated as Manufacturer’s Month.

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The result is a connection between sections that is cosmetically discernible in the part but not detrimental to integrity or precision. The part GE had on display showed a slight line between sections (a line more subtle than, say, the parting Renishaw is demonstrating of smart line in a molded part), butitsasrange evidence that factory process control solutions, which consistency and precision are maintained across are proven to help machine shops across this line and between sections, Panczyk points many industries transform their production to the STL file’s triangles that are also visible in capabilities. Renishaw’s product portfolio the part’s surface. These can be seen crossing the supports the full spectrum of industrial section line without discontinuity. metrology applications, delivering benefits speed,700 ease-of-use and flexibility, which At in roughly mm in diameter, the sample part help manufacturers integrate smart factory shown used much of the available work envelope theis, future into theiris existing of technologies the machine.of That the machine suited to operations today. this part. Panczyk says this suggests when and

how machines like this one might be developed in A high-productivity machining cell, featuring the future. As even bigger metal parts are found fully integrated process control, will be on to be significant candidates for powder-bed AM, display at Renishaw’s main booth (No. 135509) machines will be engineered to accommodate in the Quality Assurance pavilion (East Building, their size. Source: Peter Zelinski; Editor-in-Chief, Level 3). This exhibit will demonstrate how Additive Manufacturing Daily Deliveries Locally high levels of automation and connectivity Local In-House Coil Processing can be incorporated into CNC machining NAFTA Renegotiation Must Be ISO9001 Certified operations to improve productivity and process Tocapability.

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This in machines states like(CMMs) Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, submit-an-event system’s toNearly rapidly32,000 acquiremotor data about Alabama andability Illinois. vehicle The ATLAS machine, seen here at its Formnext debut, achieves large-format powder-bed dimensional and surface characteristics parts manufacturing jobs arefinish in California — and 3D printing engineering innovations GE is not yetwww.mfgday.org ready to disclose.

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Visit on a single platform allows manufacturers that number does not include the fast-growing to significantly reduceindustry measuring and automotive technology thattime has swept At the recent Formnext show, GE Additive introduced a beta machine resulting from its Renishaw Presents Its Latest Smart Factory Solutions at provides actionable data more quickly. through Silicon Valley and beyond. Just think Project ATLAS, a Concept Laser machine offering a build envelope of 1.1 by 1.1 by 0.3 IMTS 2018 about automated and autonomous vehicles, smart meter. Chris Panczyk, senior engineering section manager with GE Additive, was part of On and CNCgrid machines, SupaScan uses latest cities capabilities enabled by the vehicle-tothe international team (including GE personnel in North America and personnel with the OSP60 probe to offer the world’s fastest Renishaw, a precision engineering and manufacturing technologies company, is showcasing its infrastructure communications and vehicle-toGE-acquired Concepts Laser in Europe) responsible for developing this machine. Panczyk workpiece set-up cycles.— Thethese system can also diverse technology portfolio and extensive in automated process control point. at IMTSAs2018 vehicle communications current and says those envelope dimensions are just experience a way station for now, not a stopping on September 10 15 in Chicago. emerging technologies are motor vehicle parts a practical matter, because of the technology this machine employs, he says there is now Announcements Continued Page 18 • Jan//Oct Feb 2018 2018 1630• Sept

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Announcements & Releases Continued monitor surface condition (waviness), which is a critical-to-quality requirement for product efficiency.

Renishaw’s suite of AM software includes QuantAM build preparation software, InfiniAM Central remote process monitoring and InfiniAM Spectral for live feedback on energy input and emissions from the AM build process.

In addition, the increased flexibility and application range of the Renishaw Equator™ gauging system will be exhibited. The new Equator 500 accommodates larger parts, and the introduction of IPC (intelligent process control) software allows manufacturers to automate process control and tool offset correction directly to CNC machines from any Equator gauge.

For further information about Renishaw as a partner for innovative manufacturing at IMTS 2018, visit http://www.renishaw.com/imts.

IMTS 2018 visitors will also see the latest developments in Renishaw software, which deliver improved ease-of-use as metrology moves closer to the point of manufacture on the shop floor. These include MODUS™ 2 software for CMMs and Equator gauging systems, mobile apps for on-machine probing and CNC controller-based apps for probing and reporting.

Takumi USA will showcase 3D-Hybrid’s Metal 3D Printing Tool at IMTS 2018. The result will be one of the largest and fastest Metal 3D Printers with full in-process machining capability, according to Karl F. Hranka, founder of 3D-Hybrid Solutions

Renishaw technologies provide the data that enables intelligent decision-making for Industry 4.0. Machine calibration, on-machine measurement and off-machine gauging and verification allow manufacturers to optimize their processes and minimize quality problems and CNC machine stoppages.

In the 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing pavilion (West Building, Level 3), Renishaw is showcasing its latest AM system and software (Booth No. 431607). The new multi-laser RenAM 500Q increases productivity in the most commonly used machine platform size.

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Takumi USA to Partner with 3D-Hybrid Solutions at IMTS 2018

With Takumi’s large double-column machining center and 3D-Hybrid’s economicalWire-Arc Additive tool, we will be breaking new ground in the market for a high precision, lower cost metal 3D Hybrid machining center, said Hranka.

Takumi USA: The Takumi H12 double-column machining center is the perfect platform to accept the integration of the additive process, due to the large work envelope and high speed machining capabilities.

3D-Hybrid: “Large scale Metal Additive Manufacturing applications will be realized with the technology on Takumi’s machine.” – Karl Announcements Continued Page 20

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Production metal 3D printed parts require post machining to be joined to mating parts. 3D-Hybrid embraces that and is focused on evolving and advancing directed energy deposition technologies as 3D-Tools for the CNC environment, said Hranka.The company offers three metal AM technologies for CNC machines: Wire-Arc Additive Manufacturing, Laser Metal Deposition and Cold Spray. Together these technologies can handle almost any metal AM application and alloy, said Hranka.Visit Takumi USA and 3D-Hybrid Solutions at booth #338420 in the South Building

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OPEN MIND Technologies AG , a leading developer of CAD/CAM software solutions worldwide, has announced it has recently partnered with Okuma America Corporation, joining the Partners in THINC collaboration, founded by Okuma.

OPEN MIND’s strong focus on CAM, and its continued commitment to the latest technologies, produces trend-setting innovations that make it significantly easier for customers to achieve substantial quality, time and cost improvements. OPEN MIND’s hyperMILL® software is a state-of-the-art CAM solution with 2.5D, 3D, 5-axis milling and turning strategies, as well as specialty applications, that are all available in one interface.

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For more information on OPEN MIND Technologies and other Partners in THINC, visit https://www.okuma. com/partners-in-thinc. Partners in THINC is a collaboration network of more than 40 industry leaders who come together to solve problems and explore new productivity ideas for realworld manufacturing. With the open architecture, PC-based OSP control as its nucleus, Partners in THINC brings specialized equipment, expertise and a commitment to provide the best possible integrated solutions to the end-user.

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Select Machining Celebrates First Year In Business Coinciding with Expansion Select Machining thanks its customers for a successful first year in business. In the past months, the company tripled its square footage at its new facility, and it added a new VF-2 HAAS Mill to its shop.

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American Precision Manufacturing Inc. (APMI) Has Implemented DFARs 252.204-7012 / NIST 800-171 Greg Bickel founded APMI 19 years ago. Initially, it was a one-man operation; today it has grown into a 30,000 sq. ft. fully equipped facility, including an extensive weld shop that specializes in all welding disciplines. The many process capabilities of APMI enable them in producing precision sheet metal, mechanical assemblies and frame weldments. For many years, they have also been a CNC machine shop, but did machining only for internal use. Last year, APMI began adding machining to its list of capabilities for its customers.The ISO 9001: 2015 / AS9100 Revision D certified company can handle prototype, short run and production quantities to meet all customer demands in industries such as Aerospace, Semi-conductor, Medical, Military and Commercial.

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House issued Executive Order (EO) 13556. This order established an open and uniform program across Civilian and Defense agencies for managing information that requires safeguarding or dissemination controls pursuant to and consistent with law, regulation, and Government-wide policies.”

In Translation... the Department of Defense made DFARS Compliance required by any company that generates DoD-related revenue to protect its sensitive data that lies within its supply chain from being compromised.

Greg says, “At APMI, we take all measures to ensure we are in compliance with certifications and processes.The DFARS Cyber Security was no exception. We invested tens of thousand of dollars into new systems and software, and our implementation took about 1 full year.”

As an aerospace or defense buyer who requests DFARs 252.204 - 7012 / NIST 800-171 , the team at APMI recommends you ask the right questions to ensure that your supplier is not just checking a box.

Moore Tool & Equipment Transitionss To Online-Only Business Model After running a warehouse and showroom for (23) years,Tom Moore of Moore Tool & Equipment has closed his warehouse/ showroom effective June 30, 2018.

Now, Moore Tool & Equipment is selling online only. Moore Tool & Equipment is still selling the same great brands of equipment as before! All the brands you have come to know and trust, such as Sharp, Jet, Baileigh, Scotchman, Ercolina, Wellsaw, DoAll, Clausing, Dake, Mr Deburr, and many more.

Tom wishes to thank all of the many customers for their continued loyalty and patronage.

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Navigating The Technologies On Display At IMTS 2018

While the tiny town of Cameri may not look like one of the most beautiful cities and villages to dot the Thesaid International Technology even Italian landscape (even a local business owner it was not Manufacturing the prettiest), some would Show beg toamazes differ. Three regular visitors with the magnitude of new technologies years ago, Avio Aero, which designs, manufactures, and maintains systems and components for both and civil enthusiastic vibe manufacturing of technologistsfactory marveling at the advancements and military aviation, opened the most advanced additive in Europe on the edge of for operational excellence in the industry. town, and since then, they have received a steady flow of visitors: not tourists, but engineers, executives, and additive manufacturing professionals. Not long after the company opened the factory, they were acquired The Americas’ largest manufacturing show, IMTS 2018 will occupy

by GE Aviation, which is using the technology on-site to change how aircraft engines are manufactured. more than 1.3 million sq. ft. of exhibit space inside of Chicago’s McCormick Place fromon 10-15 September 2018.

In addition to displays andThis demonstrations of more GE is focusing efforts driving AM, after a disappointing Q4 2016. certainly seems to than be a2,400 smart exhibitors,Dario the show provides hundreds of conference sessionsengineer, and technology approach; Mantegazza, an Avio Aero manufacturing said it presentations. best, when he described 3D printing as having “no limits to complexity.” GE Aviation has facilities in Germany and Sweden, where they To maximize visitors’ timeinand experience IMTS groups together intohas Pavilions.

There are 10 acquired majority stakes Arcam and in Concept Lasertechnologies last year. The company a factory in Auburn, Pavilions spread throughout the four buildings of McCormick Place.

Visitors can download and use MyShow Alabama, and also owns AM pioneer Morris Technologies, located in southwest Ohio. But Joyce says the Planner to make meetings navigate the floor.

In July, IMTS strategy app (which little Italian town itineraries, of Cameri, schedule and Avio Aero, are and an important partshow of GE’s overall AMthe business and includes MyShow Planner) will be available for download to your mobile device. will be “at the center of the growth of our additive ecosystem.”

Eastplant Building The in Cameri is special, because it uses twenty Arcam-developed AM machines, which fuse together Anticipating a stronger show in 2018,using IMTSanworked with Place to expandbeam. exhibit space in thelighter East layers of titanium aluminide (TiAI) electron gunMcCormick to accelerate an electron TiAI is 50% Building.

New foralloys, IMTS 2018, of the Buildingplant is home to print the Machine Components/Cleaning/ than nickel-based and is Level being 2used in East the Cameri to 3D blades for the GE9X jet engine’s Environmental Pavilion, which covers the components essential for safe, efficient and environmentally low-pressure turbine. responsible operation, service and monitoring of machines and facilities. Exhibitors showcase reclaim, reuse The are able to additively manufacture blades that are four times than material ones created with and engineers recycle technologies, products for washing, purification, filtration and thicker separation, handling asystems laser-powered 3D printer, which is good, considering the GE9X is the largest jet engine ever built; and motion control components, as well as environmental management software and more. the 24•• 28 Sept •/ Oct 2018/ Apr 2017 March

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to manufacture TiAI parts. The Co-locating HANNOVER MESSE team is also able to use the same USA with IMTS 2018 increases the machine to change the part shape show’s emphasis on automation, and print different blades at the robotics and Industry 4.0, with same time. approximately 550 additional exhibitors occupying 130,000 sq. ft.

Aerospace Industry of floor space. HANNOVER MESSE USA features on Level 2 include Sets $146B Expor ta Digital Factory area and exhibitors Record In 2016 that focus on industrial surface treatment and finishing (Surface The U.S. aerospace and defense Technology USA), compressed industry set a new record for air and vacuum systems (ComVac inter national sales in 2016, USA) and industrial subcontracting deliver ing $146construction billion in and lightweight exports, the Aerospace (Industrial Supply USA).Industries To present Association announced. a complete spectrum of technology for industrial automation, IT, power Exports for theand sector havepower been transmission fluid on an upward swing for aMESSE while, technology, HANNOVER increasing by 52 its percent over USA will feature new show the past five years.

Compared ation & Drives Integration, Autom to 2015, companies were able USA on Level 3 of the East Building. to sell an additional $3 billion in products toBuilding international Level 3 of the East , as usual, will showcasein the2016, Controls & CADcustomers AIA data CAM, shows.EDM and Quality Assurance Pavilions.

Unsurprisingly, civil aerospace Fred Vice President salesMason, made upSenior the majority of the of Marketing at Quality Vision $146 billion total, with defense International (QVI), saysabout that, 15 “A products comprising lot of people don’t realize that IMTS percent of sales, AIA stated. The 2018 an unmatched opportunity U.S. ismilitary aerospace sector to connect with experts andworth see a shipped about $16 billion wide range of metrology technology. of products to foreign militaries With more 175 exhibitors in in 2016 —than a 5 percent increase the Quality Assurance Pavilion, it’s from 2015. Non-aerospace actually year’s biggest militarythe companies faredNorth even American quality show.” better, increasing exports almost 9 % from $5.6 billion to $6.1 Peter Claus, a CNC Supervisor at billion.

HFW Industries in Buffalo, N.Y., is doing exactly that.At IMTS 2014, he Europe impor ted about 34 brought a group of young machinists, percent of US aerospace and and “for IMTS 2018, this will be defense exports last year,our making the first time I’m bringing head it the industry’s largest regional inspector. We have a focus on new customer. equipment, However, sales to the inspection specifically East areCMM.” rapidly growing, aMiddle programmable increasing by 22 percent over the past year.

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Denver Precision South and North Buildings the company more than $100,000 implementing a system to guarantee a call back Products continues to upgrade its machining The Metal Cutting Pavilion occupies all of Level 3 of the South Building, Matt Guse, President of MRS Machining, a 47-person machine 30 minutes.

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For more information, contact:AmyupPrimrosse the Stevie® Award in the category Bestadvanced Customerdampening Their qualities enable machining to 10X at 303-469-1771 or visit their website at “You can find hidden gems everywhere on theService show floor,” says Hoffman, Department of the Year. bar diameter, while carbide reinforced adapters are optimized denverprecisioncncturning.com who credits a recent IMTS visit with finding an orbital TIG welding for overhangs up to 14X bar diameter. Extending boring depth solution that reduced welding time from five minutes to less than 60 Frank Fontana,VP of Sales expressed, “We are proud capabilities has reduced cycle time, opened machine capacity and seconds. He found the TIG solution in a small booth at the back of the of our success, believe in our quality andMRS we will enabled MachiningH2 to bring in more customers.

Manufacturing SoluFabrication & Lasers Pavilion. the Metal Cutting heon found show our appreciation with aIn5 year no cost limitedPavilion, warranty our 15 best-selling machines anover auto-loading lathe thatnext reduced rate us from 0.8from to 0.2any percent, “Wetool would’ve about this solution if we didn’t come tions the course of the year.failure This sets apart other machine brandsnever in learned reduced cycle time and earned EIMCo a multi-million-part contract. down to IMTS,” says Guse, noting how visiting the Tooling & the country.” Please visit www.knuth-usa.com/5yrs for additional details.

Hostetter, of H2 Manufacturing Workholding Pavilion is Heidi an essential part ofCEO his business strategy. “We “If I didn’t come to IMTS, I’d fall behind. We have to constantly look for Solutions, is oneand of eleven women take complex parts, apply technology reduce costs.honored Instead for of the next best thing,” says Hoffman, who has been Announces attending the show New Denver Precision Products Machinbuying a machine tool, maybe we can use tool or their achievements in holding business,technology philanthropy, since the 1980s. “At IMTS 2018, we will be looking for more high-speed long-life CBN cutting tools to increase utilization rate.” and government at BizWest’s Women of Disery Purchases load/unload solutions.” tinction Awards April 18th, 2018.

The Additive Manufacturing Pavilion has moved to the entrance of West Building Denver Precision Products two in order to expand space and increase the number the upgraded West Building The eleven women being honored have all After evaluating machines, many attendees then head topieces theWest of Building equipment at of theexhibitors end of 2017. to 56 for IMTS 2018. made considerable contributions in leadership, to optimize their investment by visiting the Tooling Workholding We&purchased a Miyano BNA-MSY42 and time, and philanthropy to the Larimer or Weld Pavilion and now the new Tooling & Workholding Annex.

For example, “Thetwo industry is producing more industrial additive manufacturing a Miyano BNA-42S. These machines county communities.

This year, nine women while walking the show floor at IMTS 2016, Geno Lemery discovered solutions than ever before, and it will all be at IMTS this year,” says replaced our older machines, 1983 Miyano won awards for nine different business, govspecial cubic boron nitride (CBN) cutting tools from previously GlynnBND34S-2.

Fletcher, President and CCA of EOS North America. “The BNC-a 34 and 1993 Miyano ernment, categories, unknown tooling supplier. Lemery is Director of Facilities for Winsert Additivewere Manufacturing Pavilion isora philanthropic must-visit destination foralong any Although our older machines still with a “Leading Lady” Award and an “OutInc., a 186-person company in Marinette, Wis., thatholding makes more than company serious about getting ahead.

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“Six of our 10 colleges are Hispanic Serving Institutions, serving many first-generation college goers,” said Chancellor Maria Harper-Marinick, “We are a pipeline to Arizona’s universities and industries, we impact every business, trade, and the economy. Preparing our students for the workforce is instrumental for our communities.”

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Difficulty recruiting staff, partly reflecting an unspoken stigma attached to factory jobs, is “my number one limiter of growth”, says Patrick Bass, US chief of ThyssenKrupp, the German conglomerate. “Through the late 1970s and all of 1980s it was drilled into households that if your children do not go to college, they will not have successful after-school years,” he said. “But there are more paths to success than just college.”

“In the US, an engineer usually comes out of university after five or five and a half years” and can earn an average starting salary of $45,000 to $50,000 with some debt, he said. “A certified welder after four years can be earning $85,000 to $100,000 a year without anywhere near the debt. But most households will still say the engineer has a successful career while the welder does not. That’s a fundamental issue we need to work on.”

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ThyssenKrupp is trying to tackle this problem with its own apprenticeship programmes in the US, drawing on the experience of its German home, where industrial apprenticeships are a common and respected career path.

The underlying challenge for US manufacturers is that their workforce is ageing. US Bureau of Labor Statistics figures show that half of manufacturing workers are 45 or older and younger people are not entering manufacturing at anything like the rate necessary to replace them when they retire. In the Chicago area, according to one study, one-third of manufacturing workers are over 55 and there are two manufacturing job openings for every hire.

In the next decade, largely as a result of retirements, there will be 3.4m manufacturing job openings, said Becky Frankiewicz, North America president at ManpowerGroup, a recruitment company, many of them in “digifacturing”: highly automated and data-driven manufacturing.

Introducing millennials to this opportunity remains a work in progress. Esra Ozer, chief communications officer at Arconic, which houses the downstream assets of the old Alcoa, told an FT Future of Manufacturing summit in Chicago in May that manufacturing jobs are still regarded, by parents and educators, as “dirty, repetitive — no pathway to the middle class”.

Tracey Massey, president of the Americas for MarsWrigley Confectionery, told the same summit that her company tries to play up the cool factor in advanced manufacturing. “If you can’t make it cool, you are not going to attract people,” she says, noting that hers is the only manufacturing company in Fortune’s Top 100 best US companies to work for.

The problem in the US has been exacerbated by the fact that industrial arts classes that were required in prior generations — and gave students a taste of skills such as carpentry or welding — have taken a back seat in recent decades to university-bound academic work, industry experts say.

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Most said their high school guidance counsellors did not steer them towards industry. Apprentice Barbara Westerfield, 18, said: “They have to be careful not to upset the parents: ‘Why are you telling my child to work in a factory?’” But though she “never planned to go into manufacturing”, she said she was “surprised about what I discovered here, it’s not dirty, it’s actually pretty clean.”

But Tom Warner, chief executive of ThyssenKrupp Presta Camshafts Danville, said some factories are simply cooler than others. “We have a tremendous amount of robots, that’s ‘cool’ for students, and the automotive sector is a sexier business that is easier for youth to relate to,” he said, doing his part to rebrand US manufacturing. Source: Financial Times;By: Patti Waldmeir A2Z MANUFACTURING SW •

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Cutting Tool Consumption up 10.1 Percent in 2018 May U.S. cutti ng tool consumption totaled $215.13 million according to the U.S. CuttingTool Institute (USCTI) and AMT – The Association For Manufacturing Technology. This total, as reported by companies participating in the Cutting Tool Market Report collaboration, was up 5.6 percent from April’s $203.68 million and up 12.1 percent when compared with the $191.93 million reported for May 2017.With a year-to-date total of $999.82 million, 2018 is up 10.1 percent when compared with 2017.

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However, Jarvis added that “it would be impossible not to mention the tariffs and potential trade wars and how these issues have the possibility to derail the economic train. The 25 percent steel tariffs are only starting to be seen in the economy and it is not clear how the NAFTA negotiations will end. Additionally, we have picked fights with our North American neighbors, our NATO allies, and economies like China.

“It is a great concern how these costs and negotiations will alter the ability for American manufacturers to compete,” Jarvis said. “The opposing tariffs, which have already been created, will have a significant impact on the agricultural sector of the economy. This will inevitably trickle down to a reduced demand for the tractors, combines, and other equipment that is manufactured for the farms. How other costs affect the larger industries like the automobile and aerospace segments remains to be seen.As someone else said, ‘an eye for an eye can leave everyone blind.’”

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Intel Says It’s Sold $1BWorth Of Ai ChipsTo Data Centers So Far Intel Corp. says it sold $1 billion worth of chips last year that powered artificial intelligence applications in the data center — a fast-growing segment of the market that the company is desperate to show investors it can eventually dominate, Reuters reports.

Naveen Rao, head of Intel’s artificial intelligence products group, told Reuters the $1 billion estimate was calculated from customers who told the company that they were buying the chips for AI purposes. “Honestly, it’s probably a lot higher. We left a lot on the table because we wanted to be conservative,” Rao said.

Onstage, Intel executive Navin Shenoy said the company believed demand for data center chips would grow from $160 billion last year to $220 billion by the year 2020.“After 50 years, this is the biggest opportunity for the company,” he said, according to ZDNet. Intel built its business on PC chips, but was caught flat-footed with the rapid rise of artificial intelligence, which requires chips capable of handling more data. A self-driving car can generate 4 terabytes of data every hour and a half, and requires an onboard computer to crunch that data in real-time.

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D r. Po t k ay h a s l o n g b e e n researching the advantages of using microfabrication to build artificial lungs with efficient gas exchange and blood paths similar to those in human lungs. He introduced a 2D printed artificial lung prototype back in 2011, made using traditional microfabrication methods with help from Case Western Reserve University and the Advanced Platform Technology Center at the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center. The unique prototype was efficient enough to use air, instead of pure oxygen, as a ventilating gas, which opens up new possibilities for potential implantation. Dr. Potkay says that the 3D printed version currently in the works will “provide the same basic advantages.”

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The goal behind the VA research is to create the first truly wearable artificial lung that’s compatible with living tissue and can provide both short- and long-term respiratory support, and microfluidic artificial lungs also use far less blood than current commercial devices do. According to Dr. Potkay, this is the first time that high-resolution polymer 3D printing has been used to fabricate microfluidic lungs with 3D blood flow networks.

“With a 2D design, you stack many single 2D layers together.That has limited the ease of creating devices that are large enough for human use.You have less freedom in how you design the blood channels,” Dr. Potkay explained. “3D printing these devices may be a solution to these problems.We can be much more precise and efficient with how the blood flow path is laid out in three dimensions.

“We hope that these microfluidic flow paths and biocompatible coatings will be more compatible with living tissue, thereby reducing the body’s immune response and increasing the lifetime of the device.The flexibility in design afforded by 3D printing gives us more freedom and thus the ease to build artificial lungs with a small size and pressure drops that are compatible for operation with the body’s natural pressures.”

Potkay works with a test print of artificial capillaries that will be part of a 3D artificial lung now in production.

Dr. Potkay is not sure yet how far away we are from implanting 3D printed lungs, and explained that the device was currently only being tested in rabbits, with sheep testing planned for the future.

“We’ll see how well it does in terms of lifetime. To be implantable, it needs to be able to operate for months without being swapped out,” Dr. Potkay explained.

“Although the 3D artificial lung is more promising, it is earlier in development and still not guaranteed to work. We’re further along in developing the 2D device, and we have plans to work around the challenges with that device.”

Tests with traditional microfabrication techniques and animal blood showed that the 2D small-scale artificial lungs had the “highest gas efficiency exchange of any artificial lung to date,” and Dr. Potkay believes that this will also translate to the 3D printed version; additionally, the expected lifetime of the 2D lung has “significantly improved” due to its biocompatible surface coatings.

Dr. Potkay said, “We believe the 3D-printed device should be better than the 2D version, but we don’t have proof yet.”

The 3D printed lung could also be used as a temporary solution for people with other lung diseases, like acute respiratory distress syndrome.

“It will depend largely on the needs of the patient.The removal of CO2 in the blood is the firstVeteran application we’re aiming for because it’s the simplest in terms of patient use, the required components, and the size of the device. CO2 removal is a critical need for many Veterans with COPD,” Dr. Potkay said. Source: Sarah Saunders 3D Printing A2Z MANUFACTURING SW •

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Enterprise Manufacturing Corp. is a relatively new business that specializes in precision machining. The AS9100/ISO 9001 certified company machines precision parts that are as small as .125” to as large as 26” x 30”. The company slogan is, ‘We make mechanical products; it’s what we know best’. But a little about how the company came to fruition bears note.

Initially, the goal was to open their shop in January of 2018, but since they had started planning so early in 2017, Nicholas says they were ready to launch the business in April of 2017 (8 months ahead of schedule!)That is when they officially opened for business in their 2500 square foot suite in the northwest valley.

Partners Nicholas Nguyen, Martin Hoang and Duy Thong were all Journeymen caliber machinists working for various precision machine shops in the Valley for the past decade plus (and prior to that in other parts of the US). Between the 3, they have more than a half-century of precision machining experience.

Interestingly, the 3 had never worked together; rather they all met at their church some years past.

Chris Hansen, Sales Engineer for Ellison Machinery, says, “Nicholas, Martin and Duy contacted me very early in 2017. Shortly after our first meeting, they arranged for me to meet with them again at a restaurant. It was at that very restaurant that they ordered their first 3 machines, paid for in the savings the 3 partners and their families had accumulated over the years. The machines, all USA Made HAAS machines, included a Haas VF-4SS CNC mill with the Coolant Tank Oil Skimmer, and two VF-2SS (Super-Speed Vertical Machining Center) machines.”

Nicholas says, “We didn’t each individually dream of owning our own machine shops – we just knew how difficult (and risky) this could be. But when the 3 of us met and subsequently got to really know each other, we realized that we shared the same goals, ambitions and work ethic. We were confident that as partners,

Martin says that the company’s early business came from the partners’ previous employers, and he adds that thankfully these companies continue to give Enterprise Manufacturing significant offload work. He elaborates, “From the start, we all agreed that Enterprise Manufacturing would be known for providing high quality parts at a cost lower than our competitors and with

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hasn’t had a Haas machine need servicing to date) faster turnaround.”

One of Enterprises’ vendors commented to me, “You cannot find a group of harder working business owners than Nicholas, Martin and Duy.” He added, “The team focuses on getting things done right the first time by simplifying all aspects of making the part prior to running a job.”

Months after launching the business, Enterprise was busy enough to purchase additional machines, including a Haas ST-20 lathe, and two additional Haas VF2-SS machines. Duy says that the additional 3 machines, bringing the company’s total to 6, essentially meant that they had little floor space to add more equipment.

It was right about this time that the partners made the decision to certify to ISO 9001: 2015 and AS9100 Revision D. Nicholas says, “We make parts for aerospace and commercial customers and we recognized that our strategy fro growth required these certifications.” The owners of the young company also recognized the need for an inspection department, which today includes a Numerex CMM, a comparator, and a precision surface plate, all installed in a temperature controlled area.

When the business in the suite next to Enterprise moved out of the facility just months ago, the partners took the opportunity to take over the suite, effectively doubling their square footage, and enabling the room needed to add new machines.

Just what do you do with a booming business, new square footage, and increasing customer orders? If you are Nicholas, Martin, and Duy, you acquire new machine tools. Duy says, “Immediately after our move, we ordered three more new Haas VF-2SS machine tools.” Chris adds, “I came to check on the machines 2 days after they were installed, and all machines were up and running.” Duy says, “They were making parts for our customers within days of installation.”

Though Enterprise Manufacturing Corp is a young company, Martin says, “I’ve known Ellison Machinery for more than a decade. In fact, I have worked with Connie Pardon from Ellison Machinery starting in 2006. She is one of the outstanding employees at Ellison Machinery, and we still enjoy working with her on a regular basis today.”

Nicholas adds, “We haven’t entertained other machine tools in our shop for a number of reasons: 1) We value consistency and uniformity of controls.We give Haas a lot of credit – they invented many options that make the machinists’ job easy.The controls are so user friendly. Nearly every potential new employee has experience with the Haas machines.

2) The Haas machine tools are priced cost effectively and they are extremely reliable (Enterprise

3) It’s not just Connie; the Ellison technical staff is extremely knowledgeable and friendly, including Fred Blouch and Rich Rice. Our Sales Engineer Chris Hansen does an outstanding job for us.”

What’s next for Enterprise Manufacturing?

Martin says, “We are aggressive but also conservative business people. We continue to invest in the business, but we do it with financial prudence.” Nicholas adds, “We plan to invest in 4th axis technology and bigger machines to support our customers’ requirements for larger parts.”

Enterprise Manufacturing prides itself on providing high quality parts at a cost lower than others with faster turnaround. If you are looking for a passionate, highly experienced, and incredibly dedicated young company to machine your precision parts, contact Enterprise Manufacturing Corp at 602-3308116 or visit emcorpusa.com.

Additionally, if you are interested in machining, have a great team and work ethic, you will find Enterprise Manufacturing to be an opportunity to work at a young, rapidly growing company.

Ellison Machinery Company maintains a local inventory of over $2.0 million in parts to make sure they have what you need, when you need it.

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Department of Defense (DoD) Awards Raytheon Missiles Systems,Tucson,Arizona, has been awarded a $13,100,000 cost-plus-fixed-fee, cost-plus-incentivefee, firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity modification (P00007) to contract FA8656-15-D-0019 for advanced medium-range air-to-air missile (AMRAAM) technical support.The contractor will provide technical services and analysis supporting the AMRAAM weapon system. Work will be performed in Tucson, Arizona, and is expected to be completed by Sept. 30, 2020.The modification brings the total cumulative face value of the contract to $35,000,000. No funds are being obligated at the time of award. Air Force Lifecycle Management Center, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, is the contracting activity.

NammoTalley Inc., Mesa,Arizona, has been awarded a maximum $49,500,000 five-year indefinite-delivery/indefinitequantity contract for intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) sustainment. This contract provides ICBM ballistic A2Z MANUFACTURING SW •

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gas generator and umbilical retract cartridge replenishment spares.Work will be performed at Nammo Talley Inc., Mesa, Arizona, and is expected to be complete by June 27, 2025.

This award is the result of a sole-source acquisition. Fiscal 2018 procurement funds in the amount of $9,318,692 are being obligated at the time of award. The Munitions Contracting Branch, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Hill Air Force Base, Utah, is the contracting activity.

MD Helicopter Inc., Mesa, Ar izona, was awarded a $38,431,373 modification (P00011) to foreign military sales (Afghanistan) contract W58RGZ-17-C-0038 to performance based, contractormanaged operations to support system readiness, material management, technical data management, repair, total asset visibility, engineering support, spares procurement, repair parts management, failure reporting and maintenance s u p p o r t . Wo r k w i l l b e performed in Mesa, Arizona, with an estimated completion date of Nov. 30, 2018. Fiscal 2018 other procurement (Army) funds in the amount of $38,431,373 were obligated at the time of the award. U.S. Army Contracting Command, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, is the contracting activity.

General Dynamics Missions Systems Inc., Scottsdale, A r i z o n a , i s aw a r d e d a $15,108,782 firm-fixed-price modification to previously awarded contract M6785417-C-0261 to exercise an option for the manufacturing, assembly and testing of nine Full Deployment Units of the Common Aviation Command and Control System, Air C o m m a n d a n d C o n t ro l

Subsystem in support of Program Executive Officer Land Systems, Quantico, Virginia. Work will be performed in Scottsdale, Arizona (94 percent); Fulton, Maryland (4 percent); Huntsville, Alabama (1 percent); and San Diego, California (1 percent), and is expected to be completed by July 2020. Fiscal 2018 procurement (Marine Corps) funds in the amount of $15,108,782 will be obligated at the time of award and funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.This contract was competitively procured via the Federal Business Opportunities website, with five offers received.The Marine Corps System Command, Quantico,Virginia, is the contracting activity.

Phoenix Logistics Inc.,* Mesa, Arizona, was awarded a $197,600,000 firm-fixed-price contract for training instructor operator support services. Bids were solicited via the Internet with eight received. Work locations and funding will be determined with each order, with an estimated completion date of July 29, 2023. U.S. Army Contracting Command, Orlando, Florida, is the contracting activity.

Raytheon Missile Systems, Tucson, Arizona, is awarded a $64,428,768 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for design agent and engineering support services for the Rolling Airframe Missile upgraded MK-31 Guided Missile Weapon System Improvement Program. The support procured is required to maintain current weapon system capability as well as resolve issues through design, systems, software maintenance, reliability, maintainability, quality assurance and logistics engineering services. This contract combines purchases for the Navy (90 percent) and the Federal Republic of Germany (7 percent) under a Memoranda of Understanding and the Arab Republic of Egypt (3 percent) under the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Program. This contract includes options which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to $301,743,310. Work will be performed in Tucson, Arizona, and is expected to be completed September 2020. If all options are exercised, work will continue through July 2023. Fiscal 2018 research, development, testing and evaluation; fiscal 2017 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy); non-foreign military sales German; fiscal 2018 weapons procurement (Navy); FMS Arab Republic of Egypt; fiscal 2018 other procurement (Navy); and fiscal 2012 and 2017 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funding in the amount of $14,573,033 will be obligated at time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Fiscal 2018 operations and maintenance (Navy) funding in the amount of $311,928 will be obligated at time of award and will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured under the exception 10 U.S. Code 2304(c)(4), International Agreement. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, District of Columbia, is the contracting activity.

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Sierra Nevada Corp., Sparks, Nevada, is awarded $10,888,562 for cost-plus-fixed-fee modification P00008 to a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract (N00019-17-D-0009) for outer wing station-430 (OWS-430) non-recurring engineering and manufacturing for KC-130J aircraft, including installation of one OWS-430 prototype. Work will be performed in Centennial, Colorado (99 percent); and Sparks, Nevada (1 percent), and is expected to be completed in July 2019. No funds will be obligated at time of award; funds will be obligated on individual delivery orders as they are issued.

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Department of Defense (DoD) Awards Continued Wamore Inc.,* Phoenix, Arizona, was awarded an $18,827,411 firm-fixed-price contract for the procurement of the Advanced Cargo Parachute Release System (ACPRS) and ACPRS coupling assembly.

Raytheon-Lockheed Martin Javelin JV,Tucson,Arizona, was awarded a $307,535,950 modification (P00107) to Foreign Military Sales (Australia, Estonia, Lithuania, Turkey Taiwan and Ukraine) contract W31P4Q13-C-0129 for Javelin Weapon System full-rate production. Work will be performed in Tucson, Arizona, with an estimated completion date of Aug. 31, 2021. Fiscal 2018 other procurement, Army funds in the 02/16/10 amount of $307,535,950 were obligated at the time of the award.

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N0042118F2061 against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N00421-15-G-0001) for maturation of the AN/SPN-35D system design through critical design review; manufacture of five AN/SPN-35D Engineering Development Model (EDM) systems; land-based integration testing and shipboard testing; and development of the AN/SPN-35D system logistics support plans and documentation references. This order also provides for the performance of E3/Environmental and Shock Qualification testing on configuration items of the AN/SPN-35D EDM system, and support the Navy-led qualification of a shipboard AN/SPN35D EDM system. Work will be performed primarily in Saint Inigoes, Maryland, and is expected to be completed in August 2020. Fiscal 2018 research, development, test and evaluation funds (Navy) funds in the amount of $1,500,000 will be obligated at time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.

Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., SierraVista,Arizona, was awarded a $7,503,509 modification (P00020) to contract W58RGZ-17-C-0019 to incorporate interoperability in support of the Hunter Unmanned Aircraft System. Work will be performed in Sierra Vista, Arizona, with an estimated completion date of A2Z MANUFACTURING SW •

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July 30, 2019. Fiscal 2018 operations and maintenance (Army) funds in the amount of $7,503,509 were obligated at the time of the award. U.S. Army Contracting Command, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, is the contracting activity.

Applied Research Associates, Albuquerque, New Mexico, has been awarded a $48,700,000 basic indefinitedelivery/indefinite-quantity contract for Joint Munitions Weapons Effectiveness Manuals and a $4,024,270 task order.

The contract provides for software development and training. Work will be performed at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida;Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio; and Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. This contract has a five-year ordering period with work expected to be completed Aug. 6, 2024. This award is the result of a competitive acquisition.

Fiscal 2018 research, development, test and evaluation funds in the amount of $300,000 are being obligated at the time of award. Air Force Test Center is the contracting activity.

Raytheon Co. Missile Systems, Tucson, Arizona, has been awarded a $93,000,000 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, for Small Diameter Bomb II (SDB II) F/A-18E/F integration. This contract provides for the testing, analysis, support and sustainment of SDB II weapon onto the F/A-18E/F platform with developmental and operational testing. Work will be performed in Tucson, Arizona, and is expected to be completed by July 1, 2023. No funds are being obligated at the time of award. This award is the result of a solesource acquisition. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, is the contracting activity.

Raytheon Missile Systems, Tucson, Arizona, has been awarded a $96,125,000 firm-fixed-price contract modification (P00008) to contract FA8682-16-C-0004, for Lot 11 Miniature Air Launched Decoy Jammer vehicles and support equipment. Work will be performed in Tucson, Arizona, and is expected to be completed by June 30, 2020. This award is the result of a sole-source acquisition. Fiscal 2016 procurement

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Orbital Sciences Corp. Chandler, Arizona, is awarded $52,880,606 for modification P-00001 to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee, cost contract (N00019-18-C-1047) to exercise an option for the procurement of 18 Lot 12 full rate production GQM163A Coyote Supersonic Sea Skimming Target (SSST) base vehicles and D6AC long lead steel in support of the GQM-163A SSST for the Navy; and the governments of Japan and Israel. Work will be performed in Chandler, Arizona (50 percent); Camden, Arkansas (37 percent); Vergennes, Vermont (6 percent); Lancaster, Pennsylvania (5 percent) and Hollister, California (2 percent), and is expected to be completed in May 2022. Fiscal 2018 weapons procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $49,961,065; and foreign military sales funds in the amount of $2,919,541 will be obligated at time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.

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interest in gun melts is increasing at some mills.

More than 1,000 guns were turned in last month in St. Paul at a steel mill run by Gerdau Long Steel North America, a subsidiary of a Brazilian company that processes scrap metal. The mill has produced steel used in wind turbine foundations, Harley-Davidson motorcycles and Caterpillar equipment.

The firearms come from a variety of sources: rifles confiscated by the police, shotguns surrendered by owners, handguns used as evidence in closed cases and deactivated service weapons.

A spate of mass shootings in the past year has led to boycotts, protests and legislation on both sides of the gun-control debate. Using the hashtag #OneLess, some gun owners publicly pledged to destroy or give up their assaultstyle firearms. Dick’s Sporting Goods said it had stopped selling the high-powered guns and would destroy its remaining inventory.

Artists have forged garden tools and jewelry from old rifles and pistols. A line of watches made from firearms seized from conflicttorn regions has garnered some $400,000 in pledges on Kickstarter — well over 10 times the goal.

For years, police departments and community groups have held gun buyback events around the United States, trading cash, gift cards and grocery vouchers for firearms handed over to law enforcement. Many reported an upswing in participation this year.

Where Guns Go To Be Reincarnated What should America do with its unwanted guns? At steel mills around the country, the answer is simple:Throw them into a giant caldron, heat them up to 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit and liquefy them into an orange ooze.

For years, firearms at these so-called gun melts have served as an inexpensive supply of scrap metal that can be turned into bars of high-grade steel and later used as components in mining, construction and energy projects.

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Many more guns than in previous yearsare being run through the shredding machines at GunBusters, a Missouri-based chain that pulverizes firearms around the country and sells any salvaged parts to gunsmiths and gun dealers, executives said. The company alsomakes money by recycling the resulting scrap steel.

In other parts of the country, unwanted firearms are sent to gun melts at steel mills, including Gerdau’s.

The St. Paul facility conducts its semiannual melt for free in exchange for the steel the firearms provide. The guns contribute a tiny portion of the 400,000 tons of steel that the St. Paul plant produces each year, but free metal

is hard to turn away when scrap is expensive.

County sheriff’s offices, small-town police departments and even airport law enforcement agencies participate.

Before each melt, a caravan of police cruisers, box trucks and trailers moves through radiation detectors — a standard precaution outside the St. Paul mill, which also processes a small amount ofmetal from the medical industry — before unloading their cargo.

The piles are usually studded with knives and, occasionally, some grenades, but the bulk consists of guns that have been stripped of ammunition.

A magnetic crane then hoists the firearms and plops them into a bucket that can hold 45 tons, which is driven into a warehouse. There, the bucket is positioned over a furnace, and at the right moment, its bottom opens like a clamshell.

The guns tumble into a pool of molten metal, causing a small fireball, said John Skelley, an environmental affairs manager for Gerdau Long Steel.

The weapons, heated by arcs of electricity, dissolve inside the furnace.

“It’s like an ice cube in a drink on a hot summer day, except it’s 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit and it’s a piece of steel melting,” he said.

In a single hour, the main furnace uses the same amount of electricity that three or four houses require in an entire year.The gun tincture often spends an hour and 20 minutes inside the caldron.

It is not a quiet process.

“While it’s melting and arcing and going, it’s quite vigorous, like the roar of a jet engine in an airport,” Skelley said. “As the steel gets melted, it calms down a lot, and it’s a loud hum like a lawn tractor.”

Eventually, the liquefied guns are poured into a ladle and sent to a refining station at the plant, and then on to a separate machine to be solidified. Gerdau installed the machine, an integral part of the mill’s operations known as a caster, for $60 million in 2014 with incentives and support from the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and state and local governments.

The caster is so large that it sits in its own eight-story warehouse, forming the molten steel into long rectangular blocks called billets and then cooling them. Later, Gerdau will move the billets into a furnace where they will be heated to more than 2,000 degrees and softened so they can be rerolled, “like Play-Doh,” into products, Skelley said.

Distributors then sell the steel to a variety of industrial customers. Steel from Gerdau facilities has been used in the 1 World Trade Center tower, the Burj Khalifa tower in the United Arab Emirates and the Taipei 101 tower in Taiwan.

Could distributors sell to gunmakers?“Absolutely,” Skelley said. “That’s something we have no control over.” By:Tiffany Hsu and Jenn Ackerman – The New York Times A2Z MANUFACTURING SW •

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How Companies Are Making Customers Pay For Trump’s Trade War President DonaldTrump’s trade war is making life uncomfortable for some large American corporations, but they have found a way to lessen the pain: Pass it on to customers.

The Trump administration’s tariffs have pushed up the prices of steel and aluminum and have raised costs for companies that make everything from cars and tractors to dishwashers.These companies face a choice.They can bear the higher costs themselves and report weaker profits. Or they can charge more for their products, in effect making their customers bear much of the financial burden of the tariffs, at least for a while.

Many firms are opting for the latter. As companies report second-quarter earnings, they are going out of their way to let their shareholders know that it is customers who are paying.

Caterpillar, while reporting record profits, predicted that tariffs would add as much $200 million to its costs in the second half of this year.The company added, however, that it would try to partly offset the hit by increasing the prices of its products. Whirlpool, which uses steel and aluminum in its dishwashers and washing machines, said it had hoisted its prices this year.

Coca-Cola said that it had increased prices in the United States in part because of tariff-related cost increases.

“It’s been very hard for companies to pass costs through to prices for many years,” said EdYardeni, chief investment strategist atYardeni Research. “The thing about tariffs is that they make a very good excuse: Blame it onTrump.”

The impact of the tariffs, and who bears their brunt, could have big implications for the wider economy. The tariffs are raising expenses at a time when companies are paying more for other materials and labor. If most of these costs are passed on to consumers, inflation, already rising after being dormant for years, could accelerate.And since the metals tariffs have been in effect only since the start of June, their full impact has not been felt.

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Some companies can’t foist higher prices on their customers because of the risk to their sales. General Motors, for instance, slashed its profits forecast in part because of higher steel prices.

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The Federal Reserve is raising interest rates to prevent the economy from overheating. But the tariffs, along with other pressures, could prompt the Fed to tap the brakes more firmly, which could spook the stock market.

Much depends on whether Trump follows through on his proposed trade policies.To some extent, the strength of corporate earnings has bolstered the United States’ position in its trade fights. Profit margins for companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 index are at their highest in many years, in part because of Trump’s tax cuts,Yardeni noted. But the longer the trade war drags on, the harder it will be for corporate America’s bottom line to hold up. By: Peter Eavis – The New York Times

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According to the LinkedIn report, based on job placements through that website, Phoenix attracted the most new job seekers in the 12 month period ended in July from Los Angeles, Chicago and just down the road in Tucson.

Camacho and Connie Weber, public relations director for Arizona Commerce Authority, both said the Valley is a strong innovation hub for technology, which also helps attract talent.The Phoenix metro area was ranked the secon- largest market in tech job growth in the nation by CBRE TechThirty in 2017 and third-hottest city for tech jobs in the nation by Money Magazine in 2017, Weber pointed out.

Arizona has more than 8,000 technology companies operating in the state, with a growing tech workforce of more than 168,200 jobs, according to a recent Arizona Technology Council report.

Indeed, the Valley’s surge in hiring is reflected in population gains. Overall, Maricopa County, which includes the Phoenix metro area, was the fastestgrowing county in the country during the 12-month period through March 2018 according to U.S. Census data.

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Report:While Phoenix still draws big influx of workers from California, some leave Valley for Austin Austin, the fast-growing capital of Texas, is pulling in more new workers than any other U.S. city, including people from the Phoenix area.

According to a recent LinkedIn workforce report, hiring in Austin was up more than 14 percent in July from the same month a year ago, as its tech-focused economy and extremely low unemployment rate means companies must bring in employees from other cities to keep up with growth. And the report noted that Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth, and Nashville were drawing the most workers from the Phoenix area, but at a much lower rate than new workers are rushing to get to the Phoenix area.

Chris Camacho, president and CEO of Greater Phoenix Economic Council, told Phoenix Business Journal Austin is “absolutely not” a threat but is definitely a competitor.

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Michael Hayes, director of business development for AtWork Group, an Arizona staffing agency, said as long as there is a worker shortage, the hiring environment will always be competitive among cities but agreed Austin is no threat to Phoenix.

Hiring on LinkedIn in Phoenix jumped 5.2 percent from a year ago through July, higher than the national average of 4.6 percent.

Hayes told Phoenix Business Journal the Valley remains attractive because of its lower cost of living, changing climates and elevation, and close proximity to California.

And Weber said the Phoenix-specific workforce report demonstrates that Arizona is drawing large numbers of people from both California and Illinois, and the Arizona Commerce Authority

expects that trend in migration to continue in terms of both companies and people relocating to Arizona.

However, the state’s education rankings may be drawing workers away, according to Hayes. Arizona was ranked as having the fifth-worst school system in America, a 2018 WalletHub report found. Hayes said people look at quality of life and educational opportunities when considering a move By Adrian Marsh – Editorial Intern, Phoenix Business Journal

3D Printing Used to Create Better Lithium-Ion Batteries You’ve likely needed to use lithium-ion batteries for at least one device at some point. They can be a pain to replace when they run out of juice, and though they typically last a long time, they don’t last forever. But a group of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Missouri University of Science and Technology have developed a method of 3D printing lithium-ion batteries which greatly improves their capacity and charge-discharge rates. The results are published in a paper entitled “3D printed hierarchically-porous microlattice electrode materials for exceptionally high specific capacity and areal capacity lithium ion batteries,” which you can access here.

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The research team, led by Carnegie Mellon Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Rahul Panat, has developed a new method of 3D printing lithium-ion battery electrodes. Their method creates a 3D microlattice structure with controlled porosity.

Panat and fellow author Mohammad Sadeq Saleh have been studying the 3D printing of microlattice structures for some time now, and used a method of Aerosol Jet 3D printing that they developed themselves to create the porous microlattice architectures for the battery electrodes.

The microlattice structure (Ag) used for the batteries’ electrodes improved battery performance in several ways, including a fourfold increase in specific capacity and a twofold increase in areal capacity when compared to a solid block (Ag) electrode.The electrodes were also incredibly robust, retaining their 3D lattice structures after 40 electrochemical cycles.The batteries can, therefore, have high capacity for the same weight or the same capacity for a greatly reduced weight, which is important for transportation applications.

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Over-Investing In Higher Education After decades worrying about a shortage of good-paying jobs, America has too many — manufacturing, construction and increasingly service businesses can’t find the qualified workers needed to expand. This is a significant barrier to permanently restoring 3 percent to 4 percent growth so that the nation can meet the needs of an aging population, finance its commitments to defend freedom — through our military and costly instruments of soft power — and invest in infrastructure and R&D without becoming dangerously indebted.

America is overinvesting in traditional higher education — it spends a much higher share of GDP than do other countries but gets too little return on these resources. Employers report that 4 in 10 graduates lack the critical thinking skills necessary for entry-level professional work, and too often four years of college adds little to students’ analytical abilities.

No one should be surprised. Universities are pouring millions in attractive amenities and big time sports. Students spend about onethird less time in class and studying than in the 1960s but have plenty of leisure to demonstrate against alleged micro aggression, sexism and racism of conservative professors and engage in social activism enabled by university presidents bent on molding intolerant liberals.

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criticism or economics. Many would profit more from a skills-based apprenticeship or a year or two of hands-on, focused training.

Parents and students shouldn’t be blamed, because employers give preference to college graduates in hiring for many jobs that hardly require the esoteric stuff we do at universities — for example, insurance adjusters, cellphone sales, makeup artists and the like.

Diplomas are used as evidence applicants can follow instructions, navigate a bureaucracy and show up every day — the only real requirements other than a big loan or rich parents for obtaining a B.A. these days.

Finishing college pays 73 percent more than going to work after high school but that’s an average, which includes engineers, accountants and the like. Many land in low-paying dead-end jobs and saddled with a lifetime of debt when more practical alternatives are available.

Source: Washington Times; By: Peter Morici

3 Ways The Industrial Internet of Things Is Changing The Workplace The workplace of tomorrow will be a smart workplace where everything communicates with everything else. This is essentially the definition of the Internet of Things or IoT. Smart devices are all around us and their ability to talk to each other is only getting better.

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Think of it as building a conscience into the overall system. By communicating with each other and identifying areas that can be optimized for greener practices, these systems can play a greater role in making the work environment and the entire plant greener.

3. Enhanced Efficiencies Efficiency = money saved. When a costly recall is avoided, this can save the vehicle manufacturer billions. When a potential oil spill is caught in time, this saves the oil company billions. Zooming in, when a line manager can see what is happening at the factory at a granular level thanks to IIoT, this provides a level of flexibility currently unavailable. As efficiencies go up, costs go down, helping industrial firms to invest more in innovation, staff benefits and overall improvement of the business.

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ANEWCO AKA ‘A NEW COMPANY’

Jerry Goff, founder and owner of Anewco since 1994, must have a 6th sense. Or maybe he is just extremely intuitive. The company name means ‘A New Company’.

Jerry says, “Anewco is just that. We are a 24-year-old company that is remaking itself again. We are, time and time again, ‘ A New Company’.” The company name also means ‘An Easier Way company’, named when one of his girls said, “Dad you always say there is (an easier way)”.

Anewco sits on a large parcel of land in Tucson, Arizona, and its sprawling facility measures ~ 100,000 square feet. The company is a designated Veteran-owned entity, and it is ISO 9001: 2015 / AS9100 Revision D certified and ITAR registered. Jerry says, “For nearly a quarter of a century, we have been specializing in precision CNC machining, prototype machining, precision turned products up to 55” in diameter, 5 axis machining, precision sheet metal, waterjet cutting, grinding, CNC milling up to 120” in length, Chem film, passivation, powder coating and mechanical assembly.”

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Coveted “Customer Satisfaction Award’ from Raytheon in 2012, to name a few. Just this past month, they received a letter from Raytheon stating, “The only way we could be successful was with the outstanding help and support of the Anewco team.”

The family owned and operated company can machine and fabricate parts made from metal, plastics, composites and exotic metals, and they serve a diverse range of industries, including: defense, semiconductor, aerospace, optics, mining, and renewable energy. Jerry says that more than 10% of the company’s employees are family members, and many of the employees have brought their family members into the Anewco family.

Like many in our industry, Anewco was impacted by the Government Sequestration of Defense spending in the past decade. This, plus other factors, contributed to the need for the company to remake itself. He says, “Linda (Jerry’s wife, also active in the business) and I gave the trailer building business to our daughter and her husband.” He continued, “ We sold off older CNC machines that were duplicates of newer machinery we had in place. We also increased our fabrication/sheet metal business, and this is where we made some substantial new capital equipment purchases, including a state of the art Amada laser and press brake. Perhaps our most notable purchase in the fabrication department is the Amada FabriVISION, an inspection machine that takes seconds to scan a sheet metal part into a digital drawing or to compare every measurement to the CAD drawing.”

Today, approximately 40% of Anewco’s business comes from its sheet metal/fabrication division. Through the company’s increased focus on sheet metal/fabrication, they were able to add such innovative companies as SpaceX and Blue Origin to their list

of customers.

As Jerry has analyzed A n e w c o ’s c h a n g i n g business, he has taken advantage of business coaches and organizational management experts. “I want my great grandson to be able to contribute to Anewco two decades from today”, he says.

Jerry was introduced to the book‘The Great Game of Business’ authored by Jack Stack, some time ago.

Jerry says, “The book was about a manufacturing entity in the 1980s. The company, Springfield Remanufacturing in Springfield, Missouri, was a near bankrupt division of International Harvester.

That’s when a young manager, Jac k Stac k, took over and turned it around. He didn’t know how to “manage” a company, but he did know about the principal of athletic competition and democracy: keeping score, having fun, playing fair, providing choice, and having a voice. With these principals he created his own style of management -- open-book management.”

who he refers to as family, to Anewco’s customers, and to their suppliers. “In reference to his premier machine tool supplier, Ellison Machinery, Jerry says, “I first met the Haas Dealer in Arizona in 1999, when I purchased my first Haas VF-4”. He admits he always liked the Haas machine tool line, for their user-friendly controls and especially because they are designed and manufactured in the US.

Jerry was so energized by the principles of The Great Game of Business (GGOB) that he sent 3 of his key team members to the 3-day training course offered in Springfield, Missouri. “They came back as enthusiastic as I was about what this could do for our business”, he says.

For almost the past decade, Jason McCurdy has been Jerry’s Haas Sales engineer, through Ellison Machinery. “Jason is like a relative to me. I was his first sale as a new employee at Ellison Machinery. Then, we really got to know each other when Ellison Machinery invited me to Japan where I learned about one of their product lines” He continued, “Our relationship has continued to grow over the years, and I have to say that if Jason has the machine I need, I will buy it from him. I have never had a sales person as good as Jason.”

For many years, Jerry has been interested in transitioning Anewco to a company owned business through an ‘ESOP’, or an Employee Stock Ownership Plan. He says, “I just haven’t moved forward with it and with the coaching I am receiving, I am prepared to do so.”

Jerry knows first hand just how outstanding Ellison Machinery’s service is, since he has been working with them for nearly 2 decades now. “My relationship with Ellison Machinery’s entire team, and particularly with Jason, works so well. Why would I go anywhere else?”

GGOB stresses ‘open book management’ and this means that the employees must have a solid understanding of the company’s financials.

Jerry says, “We will begin training all employees in Finance as a first step.”

Once employees understand the significance on their actions on the company’s financial performance, they will be ready to help improve it.”

Jerry says, “If you are going to work (and everyone should), you might as well enjoy it. I believe adopting GGOB coupled with the planned ESOP will be invaluable to our employees, and therefore make us the best possible extended team for our customers.” To learn more about Anewco, contact them at 520-751-1222 or visit anewco.com

Jerry says that GGOB executed successfully will prepare the employees for the ESOP.

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136 pounds were barred from flying the fifth-generation aircraft after testers discovered an increased risk of neck damage to lightweight pilots ejecting Industry experts and materials technologists had come together to talk about advancements in materials used for additive manufacturing, as well as to from the plane. The US Air Force has also acknowledged an “elevated level speak about market opportunities. of risk” for pilots between 136 and 165 pounds.

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shelf-scanning technology is used in combination with robots to help associates with repeatable, predictable, and manual tasks so they can focus on better serving the customer.

Things aren’t as dire as they appear. Human beings will still find employment even as automation-enabling technologies – e.g., robotics, machine learning, and artificial Intelligence (AI) make inroads in the manufacturing sector.

Lowe’s has a similar implementation with Fellow Robots, but for greeting and leading customers to the desired product; and Volvo Trucks is working with Uber Freight to eliminate inefficiencies in downstream logistics (due to wait time and/or the mix of short-haul versus long-haul trips) by coordinating load pickups and drop-offs with local truckers, changing the nature of not only trucking but also intermodal logistics.

“Most products are still assembled by human hands, monitored by localized systems, and inspected manually,” said Ryan Martin, principal analyst at ABI Research, discussing his company’s study, “Smart Workforces: Transformative Technologies for New Employment Paradigms.”

“Digitizing these processes amplifies the value—and payback profile—of balancing IT and OT asset availability with existing operational improvement projects,” Martin added.

What will change is the nature and scope of the jobs. “Transformative technologies like robotics, ML, and AI may substitute specific tasks previously carried out by humans, but they will also allow those professionals to focus on new tasks – and these new tasks will, by nature, redefine the core skills associated with the occupation at hand.”

One example is Amazon’s use of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) in Prime fulfillment centers. Contrary to the popular belief that the use of robotics would eat jobs, there are instances where net-new hires increased as result of overall efficiency improvements in e-commerce throughput.

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“The introduction and wider availability of self-service analytics, machine learning, and AI simply helps level the playing field by focusing the conversation on how to supplement—rather than supplant—today’s employees, putting the lens on the job itself rather than the organization or environment in which it resides,” concluded Martin.

But this adoption of technology is slow.The report found that 67% of manufacturing respondents did not have IoT solutions in operation.

Of those, 74% were either investigating, assessing, or planning to deploy such solutions in the next 12 months. Survey results show that while a lot of the activity in non-connectivity categories are relatively simplistic deployments, industrial IoT (IIoT) applications share a common propensity for automation enablement: 35% of respondents in manufacturing are assessing AI, and 47% have either deployed or plan to deploy robotics solutions in the next 12 months.

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Their customers hail from a variety of industries, including: Aerospace, Military, Semi-Conductor, Oil and Gas, Fiber Optics, and Medical, and though the majority of their parts go to customers in Arizona, they also ship parts to Texas and Florida. Eric says, “We have a small number of customers who are ‘walk ins’, requesting machining on one part, and we don’t turn anyone down.”

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Today, Alpha Machine offers waterjet, high production sawing, wire EDM, Lathe (6th axis), and mill machining. Eric says, “We invested in new capital equipment purchases in preparation to take on new clients.” He continued, “We knew that some of the large customers we are beginning to work with would require ISO 9001: 2015 certification, and some even recently inquired into our ISO status.”

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“With 15 of the 18 manufacturing sector industries predicting revenue growth in 2018, when compared to 2017, U.S. manufacturing continues to move in a positive direction. However, finding and onboarding qualified labor and being able to pass on raw material price increases will ultimately

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NM Energy Company Lands Lead Role On $1M DOE Project

Pajarito will have access to $999,814, which it will distribute to the other companies working on the project, according to Johnson. He declined to disclose those other firms and said Pajarito’s share of that money has yet to be determined.

An Albuquerque energy company has secured a contract worth nearly $1 million from the Department of Energy to continue developing fuel cells.

The project will bring together the expertise of various energy firms, with Pajarito the lead recipient, according to a press release.

Pajarito Powder is a venture-backed startup that creates fuel cell catalysts for the automotive and other industries. It is working to create cells without the use of precious metals, which drives up costs and is bad

“We could not do this without the immense support of the Fuel Cell Technology Office of the Department of Energy, which continues to lead the way in the development of these important energy technologies,” said Chief Scientist Alexey Serov in a prepared statement.

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Manufacturers Still Can’t Fill Open Jobs It’s not a new challenge for manufacturers, but it is one that seems to be getting tougher: finding enough people to fill all the open jobs.

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Low unemployment and a surplus of work shouldn’t be cause for concern, but together, they’re adding up to a problem for manufacturers, who have already been struggling to find qualified workers.

There were close to 6.7 million job openings in April, the most recent month for which Bureau of Labor Statistics data is available. Overall, that’s a small increase over March.

But manufacturing was a segment that saw notable growth. For April, the sector had 451,000 openings, about 30,000 more than it had in March and about 78,000 more year over year.

Custom Rubber Corp. in Cleveland has about 85 employees, but president Charlie Braun wishes employment was closer to 100. The company has consistently had 12 to 15 open positions for at least the last six months, and it’s been constantly hiring people. But they don’t stay, Braun said, either because their performance falls short or because they struggle with the company’s attendance policy. Last year, the company saw net employment increase by about 10 — but it hired more than 100 people throughout the year, Braun said.

Braun sometimes worries about taking on new work at the molded rubber products company, and he’s thinking about investing in more automation.

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Finding, training and keeping employees have remained concerns for members of the National Tooling and Manufacturing Association in Cleveland, said Stacey Schroeder, director of workforce development.

The trade association counts about 1,300 companies across the country as members.

Solving the skills gap problem is going to take a “holistic” approach, she said. And that seems to be happening.

Companies are partnering with community colleges and manufacturing consortia and working to get students engaged early through activities like robotics competitions and Manufacturing Day events. They run apprenticeship programs and other training.

“Our members understand that it’s not a simple problem that happened overnight, so it’s not going to have a simple solution either,” Schroeder said.

“You know, and I think they’re beginning to understand that to attract and retain especially younger people, it’s going to take some change to the culture of the companies, a little bit more analysis of what wages are in the region and really educating local community members by opening the doors and saying come see our shop.”

Right now is a “great time to be in manufacturing, if you can find people,”

said Miles Free, director of industry research and technology at the Precision Machined Products Association in Brecksville. The association represents about 425 companies, of which nearly 260 are job shops.

The shops are “overwhelmed” with work, Free said, and they’re looking for employees.

For a long time, manufacturers wanted to hire people who were already trained; they didn’t want to run the training themselves. But in recent years, owners and CEOs have realized trained people won’t be “dropping from the sky,” Free said.

“And so, I’ve seen a real resurgence in my members about taking this training thing serious,” Free said.

But training is a serious investment for a company. Last year, BioThane Coated Webbing Corp. in North Ridgeville tried an approach that helped take some of the pressure off, working with temp agencies to hire for entry-level jobs. Stacey Kuehner, director of human resources, said agencies found the workers, and BioThane got them started with a basic packing job.That let the company get a sense of fit with potential employees before they invested in training, Kuehner said. Ultimately, BioThane hired about five employees that way.

BioThane coats webbing with plastic, which its customers use in products ranging from horse harnesses to helmet chin straps. The company has about 60 employees.

Right now, BioThane has too much work to spare any time for training, but Kuehner said it will likely revisit the idea of working with temp agencies to find more employees in the fall.

Talan Products Inc. is always growing, but it hasn’t had a tough time finding employees, said CEO Steve Peplin. The Cleveland company has put a focus on training its own in positions where it employs a lot of people, like press operators. Peplin said the company has a formal training program for that position, in addition to apprenticeship programs and community outreach with local high schools to keep its talent pipeline full.

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“Our first hydrogen filling station will also be unveiled in Phoenix in the first quarter of next year at our tech day,” he added.

Nikola has over 11,000 trucks, and close to $11 billion, in pre-order reservations, Milton said.

“We’re seven years booked out on production,” he said.

Beer giant Anheuser-Busch ordered up to 800 trucks from Nikola in May, with the first deliveries planned for 2020.

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U.S. Manufacturing Activity Surged in June American factory activity accelerated for the second straight month in June, signaling momentum in the U.S. manufacturing sector.

this year, supported by recent tax cuts and strong consumer sentiment.Source:Wall Street Journal; By: Sharon Nunn

Albuquerque Biotech Firm Will ExpandTo Larger Facility

The Institute for Supply Management said its manufacturing index rose to 60.2 in June from 58.7 in May. Numbers above 50 indicate activity is expanding across the manufacturing sector, while numbers below 50 signal contraction.

Economists surveyed byTheWall Street Journal had expected a 58.1 reading for June.

“Demand remains robust, but the nation’s employment resources and supply chains continue to struggle,” said Tim Fiore, who oversees the ISM survey of factory purchasing and supply managers.

The index in February hit 60.8, its highest level since May 2004, before easing in March and April. It picked up in May and again in June.

Broader economic growth appeared to pick up in the just-completed second quarter after a modest slowdown in the early months of 2018.

The unemployment rate declined below 4% this spring, and forecasters expect solid growth

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“Our new facility will have expanded design, prototyping and testing capabilities to help us both meet the exploding demand for our existing solutions and allow us to accelerate new product development,” President Bruce McCormick said in a statement.

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U.S. Department Of Labor Offering Grants To Help More Women Into Apprenticeships The U.S. Department of Labor is offering grants to recruit and retain more women into apprenticeship programs for the skilled trades and other industry sectors.The goal is to help women get into careers in industries such as manufacturing, construction and cybersecurity where they are underrepresented.

The Women in Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Occupations grants will provide close to $1 million this year to community organizations that get women into apprenticeships or nontraditional skills training programs, set up support groups for women to improve retention, or provide ongoing orientations to create a successful environment for women to succeed in careers where they’re not as common in the workplace.

“We must continue our efforts to maximize opportunities for women to enter apprenticeship programs and secure good, family-sustaining jobs,” U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta said.

While women account for more than half of all workers in industry sectors such as education, health services, financial activities and leisure and hospitality, they make up less than half the workers in manufacturing, agriculture, transportation and utilities, mining and construction. Women comprise just 9 percent of construction workers, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. By: Joseph Pete A2Z MANUFACTURING SW •

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Tariffs? Time for a Plan B: ‘Gobble Up Every Bit of Material That I Can’ With tariffs driving up the price of stainless steel, the customscrew manufacturer Accu-Swiss in Oakdale, Calif., came up with a plan to save money: turn off the lights but keep the machines on.

“We are being hurt because of the cost increase,” said Sohel Sareshwala, the company’s owner and president.To squeeze more output from existing equipment, he is “running the machines in a lights-out operation.” After his regular staff leaves for the day at 6 p.m., Mr. Sareshwala said, the plant is experimenting with slowing down the machines and letting them run unattended for four more hours.

As every business school student learns, developing plans to deal with disruptions — from a hurricane to a rail strike — is as much a part of managing a company as billing or making payroll. The gathering storm of trade sanctions and retaliatory moves is forcing executives to put those lessons to use.

The 25 percent tariff on steel and 10 percent tariff on aluminum that President Trump put into effect in June precipitated a string of retaliatory tariffs from trading partners like China, Germany, Mexico and Canada.

Recently, the administration is placing tariffs on $34 billion of Chinese products, many of them used in American manufacturing, and China has threatened to respond with sanctions of its own.

Last month, the potential impact on American companies was thrust into sharp relief when

General Motors warned that a new wave of tariffs under consideration by the administration could lead to “less investment, fewer jobs and lower wages” at G.M. While the company has not drafted specific contingency plans for job reductions, a spokeswoman said, such a move is “something that could happen.”

For Mr. Sareshwala at Accu-Swiss, Plan B is already the new normal. In his 19 years at the company, he said, he has dealt with a few unanticipated events, from the dot-com bust to the Great Recession. But until recently, it probably would have made more sense for him to plan for an earthquake at his San JoaquinValley plant than a hefty tariff on his primary raw material.

Accu-Swiss doesn’t use imported steel, but the tariffs have ratcheted up the demand for domestic steel, making it harder to find and afford. So far, Mr. Sareshwala said, his priority is delivering orders on time, regardless of the cost.

At the plant, in addition to the lights-out operation, Mr. Sareshwala has begun to stagger daytime start times as a way to keep at least some employees on the floor longer.

Since the 2016 election, the president’s declarations about his readiness to wage a trade war have prompted heavy users of steel — foreign and domestic — to look into alternative supply lines. But some businesses said their contingency plans had not anticipated the extent of the shortages and rapidity of price increases, which started months ago.

“In a few days, domestic companies raised prices on stainless steel anywhere from 15 to 25 percent,” said Joe Carlson, president of Lakeside Manufacturing, a medical and food service equipment maker in Milwaukee. He is also president of the North American Association of Food Equipment Manufacturers, which represents more than 550 companies.

“I’ve been in this business 24 years, and I’ve seen price increases and tariffs,” Mr. Carlson said, “but haven’t seen this combination before.”

Edward Farrer, president of Principal Manufacturing in Broadview, Ill., which produces automobile parts, agreed. “The tariffs have been a springboard for domestic producers to increase their price,” he said.

Like thousands of others, his company has filed with the federal government for an exclusion from the tariffs, but has not yet heard back.

“We haven’t been able to find a domestic alternative,” Mr. Farrer said, and even if one emerged, his customers would have to affirm that it fulfilled all of the rigorous production requirements.

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“Tariffs will result in some long-term price increases as excess, artificially low-cost foreign material is taken out of the market,” he said, “but as steel buyers adjust to new supply chains and new domestic production comes online, we expect prices will normalize.”

Several manufacturers, however, said they were skeptical that domestic steel and aluminum makers had the capacity to meet the increased demand any time soon, and worried that prices would continue to rise.

Mr. Farrer has halted all hiring, leaving about 30 positions unfilled, and has canceled, at least for now, a major capital purchase, two large machine tools. Source: New York Times; By: Patricia Cohen 42

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Carbon Apache Steel Company_____602-323-2200 AZ Metals____________602-688-8003 Coastal Metals__________ 800-811-7466 Ind. Metal Supply________602-454-1500 Cast Iron Western States Metals______ 801-978-0562 Castings Ind. Metal Supply________602-454-1500 Chrome Rod Western States Metals______ 801-978-0562 Copper Apache Steel Company_____602-323-2200 AZ Metals____________602-688-8003 Ind. Metal Supply________602-454-1500 Coast Aluminum_________ 877-977-6061 Western States Metals______801-978-0562 Drill Rod Apache Steel Company_____602-323-2200 Extrusions TW Metals____________800-203-8000 Lead Ind. Metal Supply________602-454-1500 Material Sales Jacquet West__________ 310-684-4370 Kennametal___________800-446-7738 TW Metals____________800-203-8000 Metals Apache Steel Company_____602-323-2200 AZ Metals____________602-688-8003 AZ Tool & Steel_________480-784-1600

Bralco Metals Phoenix______ 602-252-1918 Bralco Metals Albuquerque___ 505-345-0959 Coast Aluminum_________ 877-977-6061 Davis Salvage Co________ 602-267-7208 Ind. Metal Supply________ 602-454-1500 Jacquet West___________ 310-684-4370 Kennametal___________ 800-446-7738 Kloeckner Metals________ 480-389-2883 Metal Supermarkets_______ 480-360-3680 Metal Supermarkets_______ 505-858-9953 Samuel, Son & Co._______ 800-631-9765 Sierra Alloys TSI_________ 800-423-1897 Tube Service Company_____ 602-267-9865 TW Metals____________ 800-203-8000 Western States Metals______ 801-978-0562 Metals-Bar & Plate Apache Steel Company_____ 602-323-2200 AZ Metals____________ 602-688-8003 AZ Tool & Steel_________ 480-784-1600 Bralco Metals Phoenix______ 602-252-1918 Bralco Metals Albuquerque___ 505-345-0959 Coast Aluminum_________ 877-977-6061 Davis Salvage Co________ 602-267-7208 Ind. Metal Supply________ 602-454-1500 Jacquet West__________ 310-684-4370

Kennametal___________800-446-7738 Kloeckner Metals________480-389-2883 Metal Supermarkets_______480-360-3680 Metal Supermarkets_______505-858-9953 Nickel Alloys Jacquet West__________ 310-684-4370 Stainless Steel Jacquet West___________ 310-684-4370 Sierra Alloys TSI_________ 800-423-1897 Tool Steel Apache Steel Company_____602-323-2200 Davis Salvage Co________602-267-7208 Titanium & Hastelloy Apache Steel Company_____602-323-2200 Sierra Alloys TSI_________ 800-423-1897 Tubing & Pipe Apache Steel Company_____602-323-2200 AZ Metals____________602-688-8003 Ind. Metal Supply________ 602-454-1500 Samuel, Son & Co._______ 800-631-9765 Tube Service Company_____602-267-9865 INDUSTRIAL HARDWARE TOOLING Boring Bars B & T Tool & Engineering____ 602-267-1481 Marshall Tool & Supply_____602-269-6295 The Tool Crib Inc.________ 602-978-3130 US Carbide____________ 480-755-3812 Carbide B & T Tool & Engineering____ 602-267-1481 Cutting Tools Consultants___ 602-277-1342

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Canyon State Oil

(855) 400-2269 Tel

A Division of SC Fuels

(602) 369-5185 Mobile

2640 N. 31st Avenue,

(602) 269-2685 Fax

Phoenix, AZ 85009

swatkins@canyonstateoil.com

Horizon Carbide_________ 480-968-0957 LRW Cutting Tools________ 602-269-1775 Magnum Precision Mach____ 602-431-8300 Marshall Tool & Supply_____ 602-269-6295 US Carbide____________ 480-755-3812 Cutting Tools Cutting Tools Consultants____ 602-277-1342 Horizon Carbide_________ 480-968-0957 LRW Cutting Tools________ 602-269-1775 Sandvik Coromant________ 480-233-0997 Sandvik Coromant________ 602-628-4242 The Tool Crib Inc.________ 602-978-3130 Toolnet International______ 602-244-0870 US Carbide____________ 480-755-3812 Cutting Tools: Custom B & T Tool & Engineering____ 602-267-1481 Horizon Carbide_________ 480-968-0957 LRW Cutting Tools________ 602-269-1775 Drills Cutting Tools Consultants____ 602-277-1342 LRW Cutting Tools_______ 602-269-1775 Marshall Tool & Supply_____ 602-269-6295 Moore Tool & Equipment____ 602-455-8904 Sandvik Coromant________ 480-233-0997 Sandvik Coromant________ 602-628-4242

Marshall Seely Applications Engineer Metalworking Solutions & Support Group Kennametal Inc. 1600 Technology Way | Latrobe, PA 15650 | USA T +1 800 446 7738 | M +1 509 638 8203 marshall.seely@kennametal.com

Edward Merkle

General Manager

602-978-3130 1-800-689-8665

THE TOOL CRIB INC.

YOUR PARTNER IN CUSTOM TOOLING SOLUTIONS

The MACHINE SHOP PIT STOP

CHRIS WINDSOR

Director of Business Operations

ttctime2@gmail.com www.ttcroundcutters.com 21640 N 19th Ave, # C-103,Phoenix, AZ 85027

ROBOTICS Robotic Part Loading Systems Midaco Corporation______ 847-593-8420 CAD/CAM Adams Machinery________ 480-968-3711 Arizona CNC Equip_______ 480-615-6353 Delcam_____________877 335 2261 Feature Cam___________602-502-9654 MLC CAD (MasterCAM)_____480-696-6056 MLC CAD (SolidWorks)_____480-696-6056 Coast Aluminum Sales_____ 480-797-5162 SolidProducts__________480-206-0330 Horizon Carbide_________ 480-968-0957 Software, Inv. Control Sandvik Coromant________ 480-233-0997 Delcam_____________877 335 2261 Sandvik Coromant________ 602-628-4242 Feature Cam___________602-502-9654 Tooling Columns/ Tombstones MLC CAD (MasterCAM)_____480-696-6056 Ellison Machinery________ 480-968-5335 MLC CAD (SolidWorks)_____480-696-6056 Stevens Engineering_______ 602-272-6766 SolidProducts__________480-206-0330 Tooling Systems Software, NC Programming Ellison Machinery________ 480-968-5335 Adams Machinery________ 480-968-3711 Sandvik Coromant________ 480-233-0997 Delcam_____________877 335 2261 Sandvik Coromant________ 602-628-4242 Ellison Machinery________480-968-5335 Von Ruden Manufacturing___ 763-682-0322 Feature Cam___________602-502-9654 MLC CAD (MasterCAM)_____480-696-6056 PALLET SYSTEMS Manual & Automatic Pallet Systems MLC CAD (SolidWorks)_____480-696-6056 Bayer Systems__________602-448-9409 SolidProducts__________480-206-0330 Software, Servicing Midaco Corporation_______847-593-8420 Delcam_____________877 335 2261 Manual Lift Off Pallet Feature Cam_ _ _________602-502-9654 Systems Bayer Systems__________602-448-9409 MLC CAD (MasterCAM)_____480-696-6056 MLC CAD (SolidWorks)_____480-696-6056 Midaco Corporation_______847-593-8420 SolidProducts__________480-206-0330 PRODUCTS Guns Layke Tactical__________602-272-2654 SERVICES Automation & Controls FourPac_____________602-751-2070

Reamers & Drills, PCD The Tool Crib Inc.________ 602-978-3130 US Carbide____________480-755-3812 Coast Aluminum Sales_____ 480-797-5162 Marshall Tool & Supply_____ 602-269-6295 End Mills Precision Toolholding Coast Aluminum Sales_____ 480-797-5162 Products Cutting Tools Consultants ___ 602-277-1342 LRW Cutting Tools________602-269-1775 5th Axis Fixtures_________ 858-505-0432 Marshall Tool & Supply_____602-269-6295 Von Ruden Manufacturing___ 763-682-0322 The Tool Crib Inc.________ 602-978-3130 Reamers Sandvik Coromant________480-233-0997 The Tool Crib Inc.________ 602-978-3130 Sandvik Coromant________602-628-4242 Thread Mills Fixtures 5th Axis Fixtures_________858-505-0432 Form Tools B & T Tool & Engineering____ 602-267-1481 Coast Aluminum Sales_____ 480-797-5162 Cutting Tools Consultants____602-277-1342 Horizon Carbide_________480-968-0957 LRW Cutting Tools________602-269-1775 Inserts, Indexable Coast Aluminum Sales_____ 480-797-5162 Horizon Carbide_________480-968-0957 Marshall Tool & Supply_____602-269-6295 Sandvik Coromant________480-233-0997 Sandvik Coromant________602-628-4242 Inserts, PCD/CBN Coast Aluminum Sales_____ 480-797-5162 Horizon Carbide_________480-968-0957 Marshall Tool & Supply_____602-269-6295 Key Cutters The Tool Crib Inc.________ 602-978-3130

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Banking • Mortgage Retirement • Wealth Mgmt TIM BRUNNER RELATIONSHIP MANAGER O: 480.905.2414 C: 602.501.0606 Tim.Brunner@alerus.Com 17045 N Scottsdale Rd, Scottsdale, AZ 85255

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Quick Turn Financial_______ 480-385-1738 SBG Capital___________ 480-897-4988 STRYDE Solutions________ 928-710-1463 Western Banks__________ 480-917-4243 Heavyhaul Hunter Machine Moving_____ 602-246-8783 IRH ______________ 800-334-2409 Insurance Services NFP Property & Casualty____ 480-458-6052 Sentry Insurance________ 877-373-6879 ISO/AS9100 Consulting BMSC______________ 480-445-9400 Paramount Leadership Group_ 480-442-7497 Quality Training Consultants__ 928-284-0856 Rev AZ______________ 602-845-1200 Sustaining Edge Solutions___ _888-572-9642 Leasing and Financing Alerus Bank & Trust_______ 480-905-2414 BMO Harris Bank________ 602-241-6586 BMO Harris Bank________ 602-650-3779 Droeg Financial Services____ 480-345-6575 Quick Turn Financial_______ 480-385-1220 STRYDE Solutions________ 928-710-1463 Western Banks__________ 480-917-4243

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Lean Manufacturing BMSC ______________480-445-9400 Rev AZ______________ 602-845-1200 Sustaining Edge Solutions___888-572-9642 Management Systems Certification/Training Paramount Leadership Group___ 480-442-7497 Machine Tool Utilization Tracking E Solutions_____________602-524-0192 Manufacturers Rep Quality Training Consultants928-284-0856 Machinery Installation Hunter Machine Moving_____ 602-246-8783 IRH _ ____________800-334-2409 S&M Moving__________ 602-586-3291 Machinery Moving Hunter Machine Moving_____ 602-246-8783 IRH _ ____________800-334-2409 S&M Moving__________ 602-586-3291 Machinery Storage Hunter Machine Moving_____ 602-246-8783 Photography Takashi Sato____________602-790-3160 Real Estate, Commercial NAI Horizon___________ 602-852-3433 Phil Terry_____________602-903-3762 Recycling Barry Metals____________602-484-7186 Broadway Metal Recycling___ 602-795-6328 Consolidated Resources Inc.____623-931-5009 Davis Salvage Co________ 602-267-7208 Phoenix Metal Trading_____ 602-257-4660

Reverse Engineering ARTL_______________602-374-3770 BMSC_____________ 480-445-9400 Klontech Measure Sol______480-626-8131 Metalcraft Inc.__________480-967-4889 Metals Eng & Testing Lab.____602-272-4571 Rigging Hunter Machine Moving_____602-246-8783 IRH ______________ 800-334-2409 S&M Moving__________ 602-586-3291 Schools, Custom Training AZPMAP_____________602-723-8191 Ellison Machinery_______ 480-968-5335 Gateway Community College_ 602-286-8050 Rev AZ______________602-845-1200 Schools, Machining & Training Gateway Community College_ 602-286-8050 Systems Integration Ellison Machinery_______ 480-968-5877 Ultimate Presentation Systems_480-966-2000 Transportation IRH _____________ 800-334-2409 S&M Moving__________ 602-586-3291

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Sales Manager

Ph: +1 724 696 4340 x3437 Direct: +1 724 213 7290 Cell: +1 724 309 1940 mcsweeney.michael@rotarex.com

ROTAREX NORTH AMERICA

101 Bilby Rd, Building #2 Hackettstown, NJ 07840 www.rotarexfiretec.com

STRYDE SOLUTIONS Cost Resolution

Mike Chonka Regional Manager 2121 N. Grace Blvd #135 Chandler, AZ 85225 (928) 710-1463 mikechonka@gmail.com • www.gmgsavings.com

Transportation:Air/Freight/Ground IRH _____________ 800-334-2409 S&M Moving__________ 602-586-3291 Working Capital, Credit Lines Droeg Financial Services____ 480-345-6575 Quick Turn Financial_______ 480-385-1220 SBG Capital___________ 480-897-4988 STRYDE Solutions________ 928-710-1463 Western Banks__________ 480-917-4243 REPAIR/DESIGN Bar Feeder Repair Edge Technologies________ 562-597-7824 Machine Tool Design/ Engineering Ellison Machinery________480-968-5335 Machine Tool Rebuilding Advanced Precision _______ 602-525-0156 API Services___________ 757-223-4157 Adams Machinery________ 480-968-3711 DM Machine Repair_______ 480-709-1450 EDM Network__________ 480-836-1782 FourPac_____________602-751-2070 Setco-Pope Spindles_______866-362-0699 The Werks C&C, Inc_______ 602-569-1809

Machine Retrofitting/CNC Adams Machinery________ 480-968-3711 API Services___________ 757-223-4157 Arizona CNC Equip_______ 480-615-6353 Contract Programming Adams Machinery________ 480-968-3711 Ellison Machinery________480-968-5335 Klontech Measure Sol______ 480-626-8131 CNC Training Adams Machinery________ 480-968-3711 Ellison Machinery________480-968-5335 Gateway Community College__602-286-8050 Design Services Metalcraft Inc.________480-967-4889 Engineering Services Advanced Coord. Tech _____ 623-780-4137 Metals Eng & Testing Lab.____602-272-4571 Schenk Intertech_________ 949-360-1512 Financial Services Alerus Bank & Trust_______ 480-905-2414 BMO Harris Bank________ 602-241-6586 BMO Harris Bank________602-650-3779 Droeg Financial Services____480-345-6575 Quick Turn Financial_______480-385-1738 SBG Capital___________480-897-4988 STRYDE Solutions________ 928-710-1463 Maint/Repair Services Adams Machinery________ 480-968-3711 Advanced Precision _______ 602-525-0156 Arizona CNC Equip_______ 480-615-6353 DM Machine Repair_______480-709-1450

D & R Machinery________ 480-775-6462 Ellison Machinery________ 480-968-5335 RIBAL Southwest Spindle Service___ 480-837-0368 BTADDINI Strategic Account Manager The Werks C&C, Inc_______ 602-569-1809 OEM WEST REGION White’s Niche Products_____ 602-290-9402 DATA COMMUNICATIONS DIVISION P: 888.668.6818 Mold Repairs C: 937.479.5381 B&B Tool__________ 520-397-0436 ribal.btaddini@legrand.us www.legrand.us Stamping Repairs Legrand, North America B&B Tool.__________ 520-397-0436 3555 Kettering Blvd.

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Field Sales & Engineering

4024 E. Casitas Del Rio Dr. Phoenix, AZ 85050 Phone: (480) 284-6618 Cell: (480) 250-9764 Email: swcastings@cox.net

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Danyelle Vigari Customer Service

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Masic Industries________ 503-232-9109 Perfection Industrial Finishing_520-434-9090

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Coating: Chem Film CAP _____________ 602-464-9629 Collins Metal Finishing_____602-275-3117 Frontier Techni-Kote______ 928-636-0130 Gold Tech Industries_____ _480-968-1930 Collins Metal Finishing_____ 602-275-3117 Perfection Industrial Finishing_520-434-9090 Frontier Techni-Kote_______ 928-636-0130 Precision Industrial Painting_ 602-256-0260 Louie’s Black Oxide_______ 602-257-0530 Semiray, A Div of Mistras____602-275-1917 PAS Technologies________ 480-487-1906 Treffers Precision_______ 602-744-2636 Coating:Passivation The Metal Man________ 800-448-9448 CAP ______________ 602-464-9629 Sav-On Plating__________602-252-4311 FutureWeld___________ 602-437-2426

Southwest Waterjet-Laser_____480-306-7748 Systems Integrators________623-434-3136 The Metal Man_________ 800-448-9448 Bandsaw Cutting bandsawparts.com_______ 800-240-2932 Echols Saw & Supply______ 602-278-3918 CNC Router Coating: Dry Film Lube Frontier Techni-Kote_______ 928-636-0130 Micropulse West_________ 480-966-2300 Coating Technologies_____ 623-581-2648 PAS Technologies________ 480-487-1906 Die Cutting Perfection Industrial Finishing_520-434-9090 Semiray, A Div of Mistras____ 602-275-1917 Systems Integrators________623-434-3136 Precision Industrial Painting_ 602-256-0260 Powder Coating Laser Semiray, A Div of Mistras____602-275-1917 Arizona Finishing________ 602-438-4443 APMI_______________ 480-668-0024 Collins Metal Finishing_____ 602-275-3117 Desert Precision Mfg______ 520-887-4433 Coating: Liquid Collins Metal Finishing____ 602-275-3117 District 7 Powder Coat______ 480-636-1145 Systems Integrators________623-434-3136 Perfection Industrial Finishing_520-434-9090 Frontier Techni-Kote_______ 928-636-0130 Fine Line Laser Cutting______602-863-3196 Pilkington Metal Finishing__ 801-972-2146 Masic Industries________5_ 03-232-9109 Tube Laser Cutting Perfection Industrial Finishing_ 520-434-9090 Tube Service Company_____ 602-267-9865 Coating: Nickel/Teflon Coating Technologies_____ 623-581-2648 Perma-Finish, Inc________ 602-278-1733 DEBURRING: PRECISION _ ____801-972-2146 Collins Metal Finishing_____602-275-3117 Pilkington Metal Finishing_ J&J Hand Finishing________480-828-2108 Perfection Industrial Finishing_ _ _520-434-9090 Coating: NP3 DIE CASTING Coating Technologies_____ 623-581-2648 Southwest Powder Coating___ 602-272-0878 TVT Die Casting_________ 800-280-2278 CUTTING Coating:Zinc & Mag.Phos.

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Craig Roth President/C.O.O.

Spring & Manufacturing Co.,Inc.

Patrick H. Stewart II President

A Complete Manufacturing Facility for Fabrication, Machining and Assembly

21631 N. 3rd Avenue Phoenix, AZ 85027 p (623) 492 9400 x215 f (623) 492 9071 pstewart@stewartmfg.com www.stewartmfg.com

SPRINGS- STAMPINGS- MACH INED PARTS- WASHER S -WIR E FORMSFORMED TUB ING-ASSEMBLIES

3325 East Wier Avenue Phoenix, Arizona 85040 Phone: (602)243-4329 Cell: (602)370-5777

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Craig Roth President/C.O.O.

Spring & Manufacturing Co.,Inc.

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3325 East Wier Avenue Phoenix, Arizona 85040 Phone: (602)243-4329 Cell: (602)370-5777

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Craig Roth President/C.O.O.

Spring & Manufacturing Co.,Inc.

A Complete Manufacturing Facility for Fabrication, Machining and Assembly SPRINGS- STAMPINGS- MACH INED PARTS- WASHER S -WIR E FORMSFORMED TUB ING-ASSEMBLIES

3325 East Wier Avenue Phoenix, Arizona 85040 Phone: (602)243-4329 Cell: (602)370-5777

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DIES Arizona Wire & Tool_______ 480-813-1002 Precision Die & Stamp’g____ 480-967-2038 Wissota Tool & Die_______ 480-507-3484 Wrico______________ 480-892-7800 EDM EDM: Drilling Small Hole Arizona Wire Specialists_____ 480-829-6530 EDM Tech____________ 602-278-6666 LAYKE, Inc.____________ 602-272-2654 Micropulse West_________ 480-966-2300 Quality Mold___________ 480-892-5480 Sun Tech_____________ 480-921-1665 Wire-Tech____________ 480-966-1591 EDM: Ram-Type (Sinking) ANEWCO_____________ 520-751-1222 EDM Tech____________ 602-278-6666

Faustson_____________ 303-420-7422 LAI International________ 480-968-6228 Micropulse West_________ 480-966-2300 Milco EDM & Waterjet______ 714-373-0098 Quality Mold___________ 480-892-5480 Sun Tech_____________ 480-921-1665 EDM: Dialectric Systems /Filtration Ebbco Inc____________ 800-809-3901 EDM: Electrodes/Reworking Graphel Corp__________ 800-255-1104 EDM: Wire 3D Machine LLC_________ 480-239-8254 ANEWCO_____________ 520-751-1222 Arizona Wire & Tool_______ 480-813-1002 Arizona Wire Specialists_____ 480-829-6530 Auer Precision__________ 480-834-4637 Continental Machining_____ 800-777-2483 EDM Tech____________ 602-278-6666 Faustson_____________ 303-420-7422 Graphel Corp__________ 800-255-1104 Micropulse West_________ 480-966-2300 Milco EDM & Waterjet______ 714-373-0098 Moore Tool & Die________ 480-622-1705

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Powill Manufacturing_____ 623-780-4100 Quality Mold__________480-892-5480 Sun Tech_____________480-921-1665 Thompson Machine______ 505-823-1453 WC Machine & Tool______ 480-507-4620 Whitley Machine_______ 602-323-5550 Wire-Tech____________480-966-1591 Wrico_____________ 480-892-7800 ENGINEERING/ PROGRAMMING Exactitude Precision_______602-316-6957 IMCOR Corp___________602-245-0148 K-2 Manufacturing______ 602-455-9575 FAA REPAIR STATION Air Gear Industries______ 602-275-7996 FABRICATION Abrams Airborne Mfg______520-887-1727 AERO Spring & Mfg Co____ 602-243-4329 Aero Tech___________ 801-292-0493 Allfab Engineering______ 602-437-0497 Americhem Engineering_____602-437-1188 ANEWCO____________ 520-751-1222 APMI _____________ 480-668-0024 AzMark____________ 480-926-8969 BEL Machining__________480-445-9881 BID Machine, Inc_______ 480-892-7304 CAID Industries_________520-294-3126 Continental Machining____ 800-777-2483 Creedbilt Inc___________623-939-8119 Dayton Lamina_________248-489-9122 Desert Precision Mfg_____ 520-887-4433

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Craig Roth President/C.O.O.

Spring & Manufacturing Co.,Inc.

A Complete Manufacturing Facility for Fabrication, Machining and Assembly SPRINGS- STAMPINGS- MACH INED PARTS- WASHER S -WIR E FORMSFORMED TUB ING-ASSEMBLIES

3325 East Wier Avenue Phoenix, Arizona 85040 Phone: (602)243-4329 Cell: (602)370-5777

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Dynamic Machine & Fabrication__ Craig 602-437-0339 Roth President/C.O.O. FMD Fabrication Services_____ 602-368-6835 FrySpring Fabrications_________ & Manufacturing 602-454-0701 Co.,Inc. A Complete Manufacturing Facility for 602-863-3506 Fine Line Fabricating______ Fabrication, Machining and Assembly 3325 East Wier Avenue Phoenix, Arizona 85040 Gilbert Metal Stamping_____ 480-503-1283 Phone: (602)243-4329 Cell: (602)370-5777 Group Manufacturing Serv___ 480-966-3952 Hollow Metal Xpress_______ 866-936-7001 IMCOR Corp____________602-245-0148 JD Machine___________ 801-782-4403 K-2 Manufacturing_______ 602-455-9575 Lynch Brothers Mfg_______ 602-267-7575 Metzfab______________ 602-618-2841 Nelson Engineering________602-273-7114 RM Garrison Machining_____ 623-582-6544 Scriven Precision_________ 480-961-9775 Stewart Precision Mfg______ 623-492-9400 TMM Precision _________ 800-448-9448

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Mike Sniegowski Precision Grinding for the Aerospace Industry since 1998 2821 W. Willetta Phone: (602) 353-8088

Phoenix, AZ 85009

Mike@BlueStreakGrinding.com

www.bluestreakgrinding.com

Info@sungrindingUSA.com

www.ceiglobal.com

Wal-Tek Industries________ 623-587-4611 Weiser Engineering_______ 303-280-2778 Whitley Machine________602-323-5550 Wrico______________480-892-7800 Fabrication: Chemical Processing Systems Americhem Engineering_____ 602-437-1188 Aluminum (Medium & Large) Aero Tech____________ 801-292-0493 FMD Fabrication Services_____602-368-6835 Fabrication: Custom Metal Allfab Engineering_______ 602-437-0497 Fine Line Fabricating______ 602-863-3506 K-2 Mfg_____________ 602-455-9575 Fabrication: Medium & Large Abrams Airborne Mfg______ 520-887-1727

ANEWCO____________ 520-751-1222 APMI______________ 480-668-0024 BEL Machining_________ 480-445-9881 Continental Machining____ 800-777-2483 Dynamic Machine & Fabrication_ 602-437-0339 Fine Line Fabricating_____ 602-863-3506 Fry Fabrications_________602-454-0701 Fine Line Fabricating_____ 602-863-3506 FMD Fabrication Services____ 602-368-6835 Fry Fabrications_________602-454-0701 Hollow Metal Xpress______ 866-936-7001 IMCOR Corp___________602-245-0148 Jan’s Inc.____________ 480-833-7305 JD Machine__________ 801-782-4403 Metzfab_____________602-618-2841 Precision Metalworks_____ 602-455-9575 RM Garrison Machiing___623-582-6544 Stewart Precision Mfg_____ 623-492-9400 TMM Precision ________ 800-448-9448 Weiser Engineering______ 303-280-2778 FINISHING Arizona Finishing_______ 602-438-4443 Arizona Hard Chrome______602-278-8671 Coating Technologies_____ 623-581-2648

EPSI______________714-256-8950 Gold Tech Industries______ 480-968-1930 Louie’s Black Oxide______ 602-257-0530 PAS Technologies_______ 480-487-1906 Perfection Industrial Finishing_ 520-434-9090 Phoenix Heat Treating____ 602-258-7751 Southwest Powder Coating__ 602-272-0878 TVT Die Casting________ 800-280-2278 Abrasive Blasting Perfection Industrial Finishing_ 520-434-9090 Semiray, A Div of Mistras____602-275-1917 STP Performance Coating LLC__602-276-1231 Dry Film Lubrication Bolts Metallizing - CWST____ 602-244-2432 CAP _____________ 602-464-9629 PAS Technologies_______ 480-487-1906 Precision Industrial Painting_ 602-256-0260

Semiray, A Div of Mistras____ 602-275-1917 Electro-Polishing Collins Metal Finishing_____ 602-275-3117 Finishing: One Stop PAS Technologies________480-487-1906 Perfection Industrial Finishing_ 520-434-9090 Glass Bead Clean A2Z Sandblasting________602-716-5566 Arizona Hard Chrome______ 602-278-8671 Byington Steel Treating_____408-727-6630 Coating Technologies______623-581-2648 Gold Tech Industries_______480-968-1930 Lone Arrow___________480-507-8074 PAS Technologies________480-487-1906 Southwest Powder Coating___602-272-0878 Gun Finishing Louie’s Gun Finishing______602-257-0530 Passivation CAP ______________602-464-9629

district7powdercoat.com

480-636-1145

sales@abrams.com A2Z MANUFACTURING •

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4045 W. Washington Phoenix, AZ 85009 (602) 267-7575 office (602) 909-5239 cell wayne@lynchbros.com

www.graphel.com

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Jeff W. Kiszonas Territory Sales Manager SW

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3301 EAST MADISON STREET PHOENIX, ARIZONA 85034

ISO9001 AS9100 NADCAP Certified ITARS Registered

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Coating Technologies_____ _623-581-2648 Frontier Techni-Kote_______ 928-636-0130 FutureWeld___________ 602-437-2426 Gold Tech Industries_______ 480-968-1930 PAS Technologies________ 480-487-1906 Semiray, A Div of Mistras____ 602-275-1917 Polishing Arizona Hard Chrome______ 602-278-8671 EPSI______________714-256-8950 Gold Tech Industries_______ 480-968-1930 RM Garrison Machining_____ 623-582-6544 Sand Blasting A2Z Sandblasting________ 602-716-5566 Byington Steel Treating_____ 408-727-6630 Coating Technologies______ 623-581-2648 District 7 Powder Coat______ 480-636-1145 Masic Industries_________ 503-232-9109 Perfection Industrial Finishing_ 520-434-9090 Southwest Powder Coating___ 602-272-0878 STP Performance Coating LLC__ 602-276-1231 Shot Peen PAS Technologies________ 480-487-1906 Stripping Coating Technologies______ 623-581-2648 Southwest Powder Coating___ 602-272-0878 FIXTURES Allset Precision_________ 480-753-1776 Exactitude Precision_______ 602-316-6957 Paragon Machining & Design__ 480-635-9163

GAGES Allset Precision_________ 480-753-1776 GASKETS Systems Integrators_______623-434-3136 GEAR CUTTING Air Gear Industries_______602-275-7996 Apache Gear, Inc________623-934-7144 GRAPHITE SOLUTIONS Graphel Corp__________ 800-255-1104 GRINDING

Air Gear Industries_______602-275-7996 Allset Precision_________ 480-753-1776 Arizona Hard Chrome______ 602-278-8671 Arizona Wire & Tool_______ 480-813-1002 Auer Precision__________480-834-4637 AzMark_____________480-926-8969 Blue Streak Grinding_____ 602-353-8088 ChemResearch__________ 602-253-4175 GMN USA___________ 800-686-1679 Grindworks___________ 623-582-5767 JWB Manufacturing_______480-967-4600 McFarland Machine & Eng___480-966-1388 Osborn Products_________623-587-0335 PAS Technologies________480-487-1906 Phoenix Grinding________602-437-8401 Powill Manufacturing______623-780-4100 Steel Services Grinding_____800-662-0126 Systems Integrators_______623-434-3136 Sun Grinding__________602-238-9595 FOUNDRY Superior Grinding________ 888-487-9701 AATC_______________ 602-268-1467 Wissota Tool & Die_______480-507-3484 Grinding, Blanchard Air Gear Industries_______602-275-7996 Industrial Precision Grinding__310-352-4700 McFarland Machine & Eng___480-966-1388 Steel Services Grinding ____800-662-0126 Sun Grinding__________602-238-9595 A2Z MANUFACTURING •

GRAPHEL CORPORATION 6115 Centre Park Drive West Chester, OH 45069 P 800-255-1104 C 480.510.4146 jeff.kiszonas@graphel.com

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Superior Grinding________ 888-487-9701 Grinding: Centerless Blue Streak Grinding______ 602-353-8088 Dynamic Machine & Fabrication__ 602-437-0339 Grindworks___________ 623-582-5767 National Grinding & Mfg____ 602-588-2869 Osborn Products_________ 623-587-0335 Phoenix Grinding________ 602-437-8401 Sun Grinding__________ 602-238-9595 Superior Grinding________ 888-487-9701 Grinding, CNC/Contour Blue Streak Grinding______ 602-353-8088 National Grinding & Mfg____ 602-588-2869 Powill Manufacturing__ ___623-780-4100 Superior Grinding________ 888-487-9701 Grinding… Cylindrical Grindworks___________ 623-582-5767 Grinding… Double Disc Industrial Precision Grinding__ 310-352-4700 Phoenix Grinding________ 602-437-8401 Grinding: ID/OD Air Gear Industries_______ 602-275-7996 Arizona Hard Chrome______ 602-278-8671 AzMark_____________ 480-926-8969 Blue Streak Grinding______ 602-353-8088 Grindworks___________ 623-582-5767 National Grinding & Mfg____ 602-588-2869 Osborn Products_________ 623-587-0335 Superior Grinding________ 888-487-9701 Grinding:Mattison Sun Grinding__________ 602-238-9595

Grinding: OD Arizona Hard Chrome______602-278-8671 Grindworks___________623-582-5767 National Grinding & Mfg___ 602-588-2869 Grinding: Surface Arizona Wire & Tool_______480-813-1002 Blue Streak Grinding_____ 602-353-8088 Grindworks___________623-582-5767 Industrial Precision Grinding__310-352-4700 National Grinding & Mfg___ 602-588-2869 Osborn Products________ 623-587-0335 Phoenix Grinding________602-437-8401 Quality Mold__________ 480-892-5480 Sun Grinding_________ 602-238-9595 Superior Grinding________888-487-9701 WC Machine & Tool______ 480-507-4620 Grinding: Tool & Cutter B & T Tool & Engineering____ 602-267-1481 CTE_______________ 800-783-2400 Gilbert Metal Stamping_____480-503-1283 Superior Grinding________888-487-9701 HEAT TREATING Bolts Metallizing - CWST____ 602-244-2432 Byington Steel Treating____ 408-727-6630 Controlled Thermal Tech’y____602-272-3714

PARAMOUNT HONING & MACHINE

Precision Honing Specialists Jeremy Johnson Owner

480.577.9774 Gilbert, AZ

AZ ASER ENGRAVING “Leave Your Mark” Sandi & Chuck

602 708 1204

Mobile Laser Service WWW.AZLASER-ENGRAVING.COM

Phoenix Heat Treating_____602-258-7751 Temperature Processing____ 303-772-0250 Thermal-Vac___________714-702-0488 Heat Treating/ Aerospace Bolts Metallizing - CWST____ 602-244-2432 Byington Steel Treating____ 408-727-6630 Phoenix Heat Treating_____602-258-7751 Temperature Processing____ 303-772-0250 Heat Treating/ISO9001/AS9100 Bolts Metallizing - CWST____ 602-244-2432 Byington Steel Treating____ 408-727-6630 Temperature Processing____ 303-772-0250 Large Capacity Drop Bottom Oven/Aluminum Heat Treating Byington Steel Treating____ 408-727-6630 Lynch Brothers Mfg_______602-267-7575 Phoenix Heat Treating_____602-258-7751 HONING/LAPPING Grindworks___________ 623-582-5767 LAYKE, Inc.____________602-272-2654 National Grinding & Mfg____602-588-2869 Osborn Products_________623-587-0335 Paramount Honing & Machine_ 480-577-9774 Phoenix Grinding________ 602-437-8401 Powill Manufacturing_____623-780-4100 IDENTIFICATION Labels & Bar Code AZ Laser Engraving_______602-708-1204 EPSI______________714-256-8950 Leach Laser___________ 602-254-1141

Inspection Services, Welding Metalcraft Inc.__________ 480-967-4889 Mobile PartMarking Metals Eng & Testing Lab.____602-272-4571 Morsch Machine_________ 480-961-7673 AZ Laser Engraving______ 602-708-1204 ISO9000 / AS9100 Cert.

Specialty Turn Products_____602-426-9340 Leach Laser___________ 602-254-1141 BMSC_____________480-445-9400 T-N Machining__________602-278-8665 Tool / PartMarking (Laser) Gladhill Assoc__________623-939-4412 Tech Five Machining_______ 480-699-4856 AZ Laser Engraving______ 602-708-1204 Sustaining Edge Solutions___ 888-572-9642 Uni-Tek_____________ 602-272-2601 B & T Tool & Engineering____602-267-1481 Quality Training Consultants_ 928-284-0856 Machining: Aerospace Frontier Techni-Kote______ 928-636-0130 Process Improvement/ Audit AATC______________602-268-1467 Leach Laser___________ 602-254-1141 Perfection Industrial Finishing_ 520-434-9090 BMSC_____________480-445-9400 Abrams Airborne Mfg______ 520-887-1727 TechMark___________ 480-820--9444 Quality Training Consultants_ 928-284-0856 Air Gear Industries_______ 602-275-7996 Sustaining Edge Solutions___ 888-572-9642 Allset Precision_________ 480-753-1776 Silk Screen JIGS American Spirit Investments__ 480-367-9545 Arizona Finishing_______ 602-438-4443 Perfection Industrial Finishing_ 520-434-9090 Allset Precision_________480-753-1776 ANEWCO_____________ 520-751-1222 Precision Industrial Painting_ 602-256-0260 AZ Datum____________ 602-687-6331 MACHINING Avtek Industries_________ 602-485-4005 Machining: 3D INSPECTION 3D Machine LLC________ 480-239-8254 AzMark_____________ 480-926-8969 Calibration Field Calibrations_______ 480-756-8828 Allset Precision_________480-753-1776 Backerworks Mfg________505-342-2943 Washington Calibration____ 480-820-0506 Cassavant Machining_____ 602-437-4005 Cassavant Machining______ 602-437-4005 Inspection, First Article Challenger Aerospace_____ 480-894-0802 Challenger Aerospace______ 480-894-0802 Klontech Measure Sol______480-626-8131 L&W Machine Co_______ 602-323-2560 Competitive Engineering____ 520-746-0270 Total Quality Systems_____ 480-377-6422 Micropulse West________ 480-966-2300 Continental Machining_____ 800-777-2483 Inspection Services Dynamic Machine & Fabrication__602-437-0339 Allset Precision_________480-753-1776 Pro Precision_________ 602-353-0022 Enterprise Manufacturing_____ 602-330-8116 Arizona Wire & Tool_______480-813-1002 Systems Integrators_______623-434-3136 Evans Precision Machining___ 623-581-6200 Machining: 5 Axis Challenger Aerospace_____ 480-894-0802 Accutech_____________ 801-975-1117 Gibbs Precision Machine____ 480-753-1166 East Valley Precision_______480-288-6601 Klontech Measure Sol______480-626-8131 ANEWCO_____________520-751-1222 Glover Precision Inc._______ 480-464-0150 Metals Eng & Testing Lab.___ 602-272-4571 Cassavant Machining_____ 602-437-4005 Hi-Tech Machining & Eng____ 520-889-8325 Micropulse West________ 480-966-2300 Competitive Engineering____520-746-0270 HK Machining__________ 602-278-6704 Sustaining Edge Solutions___ 888-572-9642 Dynamic Machine & Fabrication_ 602-437-0339 Infinisys_____________ 602-276-2276 Total Quality Systems_____ 480-377-6422 Dynamic Manufacturing & Eng_ 520-664-2210 Jaguar Precision Machine____ 505-242-6545 East Valley Precision_______480-288-6601 Evans Precision Machining__ 623-581-6200 Faustson____________ 303-420-7422 Hi-Tech Machining & Eng___ 520-889-8325 Industrial Tool Die & Eng____ 520-745-8771 Jaguar Precision Machine___ 505-242-6545 A2Z MANUFACTURING •

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JB’s Precision_________ 623-581-9088 JD Machine__________ 801-782-4403 KLK Ind._____________ 602-267-1331 L&W Machine Co_______ 602-323-2560 LAYKE, Inc.___________ 602-272-2654 Lynch Brothers Mfg______ 602-267-7575 Matrix Machine_________480-966-4451 Metalcraft Inc._________ 480-967-4889 Morsch Machine_________480-961-7673 Nelson Engineering_______602-273-7114 Osborn Products________ 623-587-0335 Powerhaus Precision_____ 480-225-8854 Powill Manufacturing_____ 623-780-4100 Pro Precision_________ 602-353-0022 Service & Sales________ 480-968-9084 Southwest Swiss Precision __ 602-438-4670 Specialty Turn Products____ 602-426-9340 Systems Integrators_______623-434-3136 Uni-Tek_____________602-272-2601 Wal-Tek Industries________ 623-587-4611

GHT Services___________480-396-1800 Gibbs Precision Machine____ 480-753-1166 Gilbert Metal Stamping_____480-503-1283 Group Mfg Serv._________480-966-3952 HK Machining_________ 602-278-6704 Infinisys_____________ 602-276-2276 Jan’s Inc._____________480-833-7305 JC Machine & Motorsports___602-790-2207 JD Machine___________801-782-4403 KLK Ind._____________ 602-267-1331 McFarland Machine & Eng___480-966-1388 Micropulse West________ 480-966-2300 RM Garrison Machining___623-582-6544 Select Machining_______ 602-881-5845 T-N Machining__________602-278-8665 TVT Die Casting_________800-280-2278 Wrico_____________ 480-892-7800 Machining: Ceramic O’Keefe Ceramics______ 719-687-0888 Ceramic: Sapphire, Alumina, Silicon, Aluminum, Quartz O’Keefe Ceramics______ 719-687-0888 Machining: CNC 3D Machine LLC_________480-239-8254 Accutech_____________ 801-975-1117 Abrams Airborne Mfg______520-887-1727 Allset Precision_________ 480-753-1776 Alpha Machine_________602-437-0322 ANEWCO_____________520-751-1222 Arizona Wire & Tool_______ 480-813-1002

Machining: Contract Aero Design & Mfg______ 602-437-8080 AERO Spring & Mfg Co____ 602-243-4329 Arizona Wire & Tool_______480-813-1002 Avtek Industries________ 602-485-4005 AZ Datum____________602-687-6331 Cleveland Electric Labs____ 480-967-2501 Contract Manufacturing Service_602-253-4744 Evans Precision Machining__ 623-581-6200 Flex-Pro_____________623-581-0551 A Z MANUFACTURING SW • 88 • Sept / Oct 2018

AZ Datum____________ 602-687-6331 AzMark_____________480-926-8969 BEL Machining__________ 480-445-9881 BID Machine, Inc________480-892-7304 CAID Industries_________ 520-294-3126 Challenger Aerospace_____ 480-894-0802 Cleveland Electric Labs____ 480-967-2501 Competitive Engineering____ 520-746-0270 Continental Machining_____800-777-2483 Dynamic Machine & Fabrication__602-437-0339 Dynamic Manufacturing & Eng__520-664-2210 East Valley Precision_______ 480-288-6601 Enterprise Manufacturing_____ 602-330-8116 Evans Precision Machining___623-581-6200 Faustson_____________303-420-7422 Flex-Pro_____________ 623-581-0551 FMD Fabrication Services_____602-368-6835 GHT Services___________480-396-1800 Gibbs Precision Machine____ 480-753-1166 Glover Precision, Inc.______480-464-0150 HK Machining__________ 602-278-6704 Hi-Tech Machining & Eng____520-889-8325 HPMP______________ 801-619-9850 IMCO Products__________480-632-2252 Infinisys_____________ 602-276-2276 Jan’s Inc._____________480-833-7305 Jaguar Precision Machine____505-242-6545 JB’s Precision__________623-581-9088 JC Machine & Motorsports___ 602-790-2207 JD Machine___________801-782-4403 Jemelco, Inc.___________480-804-9541

KLK Ind._____________ 602-267-1331 L&W Machine Co_______ 602-323-2560 LAYKE, Inc.___________ 602-272-2654 Matrix Machine_________480-966-4451 McFarland Machine & Eng___480-966-1388 Metalcraft Inc.__________480-967-4889 Metzfab_____________ 602-618-2841 Micropulse West________ 480-966-2300 Morsch Machine_________480-961-7673 Newport Tool__________ 801-295-7411 Osborn Products_________623-587-0335 Paragon Machining & Design__480-635-9163 Powerhaus Precision_____ 480-225-8854 Powill Manufacturing_____ 623-780-4100 Pro Precision_________ 602-353-0022 Quality Mold__________ 480-892-5480 RM Garrison Machining __623-582-6544 RMSS_____________ 623-780-5904 Select Machining_______ 602-881-5845 Systems Integrators_______623-434-3136 T-N Machining_________ 602-278-8665 Tech Five Machining______ 480-699-4856 Uni-Tek_____________602-272-2601 Val-Tech Mfg___________480-966-7376

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Wal-Tek Industries________ 623-587-4611 WC Machine & Tool_______480-507-4620 Wrico______________480-892-7800 Machining Custom Cutting Tools US Carbide___________ 480-755-3812 Machining: Industrial & Repair BEL Machining__________ 480-445-9881 Machining: Large Alpha Machine_________602-437-0322 Backerworks Mfg________505-342-2943 Continental Machining_____800-777-2483 Empire Precision Mach._____480-633-4580 FMD Fabrication Services_____602-368-6835 HK Machining__________ 602-278-6704 KLK Ind._____________ 602-267-1331 Systems Integrators_______ 623-434-3136 Machining: MultiSwiss Specialty Turn Products_____602-426-9340 Mach: Turning CNC 3D Machine LLC_ _______480-239-8254 Air Gear Industries_______602-275-7996 Alpha Machine_________602-437-0322 American Spirit Investments__ 480-367-9545 Avtek Industries_________602-485-4005 AzMark_____________480-926-8969 Bar-S Machine__________ 928-636-2115 BEL Machining__________ 480-445-9881 Cassavant Machining______ 602-437-4005 Cleveland Electric Labs____ 480-967-2501

Continental Machining_____800-777-2483 Arizona Wire & Tool_______ 480-813-1002 Dynamic Machine & Fabrication_ 602-437-0339 Auer Precision__________ 480-834-4637 Dynamic Manufacturing & Eng__520-664-2210 Avtek Industries_________ 602-485-4005 Enterprise Manufacturing_____ 602-330-8116 AZ Datum____________ 602-687-6331 Exactitude Precision_______ 602-316-6957 AzMark_____________ 480-926-8969 Flex-Pro_____________ 623-581-0551 Backerworks Mfg________ 505-342-2943 GHT Services___________480-396-1800 BID Machine, Inc_______ 480-892-7304 Glover Precision, Inc.______ 480-464-0150 Cassavant Machining______602-437-4005 Challenger Aerospace_____ 480-894-0802 Graphel Corp__________ 800-255-1104 Hi-Tech Machining & Eng____520-889-8325 Competitive Engineering____520-746-0270 HPMP______________ 801-619-9850 Continental Machining____ 800-777-2483 IMCO Products__________480-632-2252 Dynamic Machine & Fabrication_ 602-437-0339 JC Machine & Motorsports___ 602-790-2207 East Valley Precision_______480-288-6601 JD Machine___________801-782-4403 Enterprise Manufacturing_____ 602-330-8116 Jemelco, Inc.___________480-804-9541 Evans Precision Mach’g_____ 623-581-6200 McFarland Machine & Eng___480-966-1388 Faustson_____________ 303-420-7422 Metzfab_____________ 602-618-2841 Flex-Pro_____________ 623-581-0551 Morsch Machine_________ 480-961-7673 Gibbs Precision Machine____ 480-753-1166 Osborn Products_________623-587-0335 Glover Precision , Inc.______ 480-464-0150 Paragon Machining & Design__ 480-635-9163 Hi-Tech Machining & Eng____ 520-889-8325 Precision Metalworks______602-455-9575 HK Machining__________ 602-278-6704 RM Garrison Mach’ing____623-582-6544 HPMP______________ 801-619-9850 RMSS ______________623-780-5904 IMCO Products__________ 480-632-2252 Select Machining_______ 602-881-5845 Jaguar Precision Machine____ 505-242-6545 Stewart Precision Mfg______623-492-9400 JB’s Precision__________ 623-581-9088 Uni-Tek____________ 602-272-2601 JC Machine & Motorsports___ 602-790-2207 Val-Tech Mfg___________ 480-966-7376 JD Machine___________ 801-782-4403 Metalcraft Inc.__________480-967-4889 Jemelco, Inc.___________ 480-804-9541 Morsch Machine_________ 480-961-7673 JWB Manufacturing_______ 480-967-4600 Uni-Tek_____________ 602-272-2601 LAYKE, Inc.____________ 602-272-2654 Wal-Tek Industries________ 623-587-4611 Lynch Brothers Mfg_______ 602-267-7575 Matrix Machine_________ 480-966-4451 Machining Plastic East Valley Precision_______ 480-288-6601 Micropulse West_________ 480-966-2300 Glover Precision, Inc.______480-464-0150 Metalcraft Inc.__________ 480-967-4889 Systems Integrators_______623-434-3136 Milco EDM & Waterjet______ 714-373-0098 Morsch Machine_________ 480-961-7673 Machining Precision 3D Machine LLC_________480-239-8254 Nelson Engineering_______ 602-273-7114 AATC ______________ 602-268-1467 Newport Tool__________ 801-295-7411 Accutech_____________ 801-975-1117 Osborn Products_________ 623-587-0335 Abrams Airborne Mfg______ 520-887-1727 Paragon Machining & Design__ 480-635-9163 Allset Precision_________ 480-753-1776 Powerhaus Precision______ 480-225-8854 Alpha Machine_________602-437-0322 Powill Mfg____________ 623-780-4100 ANEWCO_____________520-751-1222 Pro Precision__________ 602-353-0022

Quality Mold___________ 480-892-5480 RM Garrison Mach’ing__ __623-582-6544 RMSS_____________623-780-5904 Service & Sales_________ 480-968-9084 Southwest Swiss Precision ___ 602-438-4670 Specialty Turn Products_____ 602-426-9340 Stewart Precision Mfg______ 623-492-9400 Sun Tech_____________ 480-921-1665 Tech Five Machining_______ 480699-4856 Uni-Tek_____________ 602-272-2601 Val-Tech Mfg___________ 480-966-7376 Wal-Tek Industries________ 623-587-4611 WC Machine & Tool_______ 480-507-4620 Weiser Engineering_______ 303-280-2778 Wissota Tool & Die_______ 480-507-3484 Machining: Production Dynamic Manufacturing & Eng__ 520-664-2210 GHT Services___________ 480-396-1800 FMD Fabrication Services_____602-368-6835 JC Machine & Motorsports___ 602-790-2207 HPMP______________ 801-619-9850 Newport Tool__________ 801-295-7411 T-N Machining__________ 602-278-8665 Tech Five Machining_______ 480699-4856 Machining: Prototype AATC______________602-268-1467 Accutech______________801-975-1117 Allset Precision_________ 480-753-1776 Alpha Machine_________ 602-437-0322 AZ Datum____________ 602-687-6331 A2Z MANUFACTURING •

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Power

AEROSPACE

MILITARY

COMMERCIAL

1826 W. Broadway Rd,# 46,Mesa, AZ 85202 Phone: 480-225-8854 powerhausprecision@yahoo.com www.powerhausprecision.com

Mike McCraren mike@dmeaz.com DYNAMIC MANUFACTURING & ENGINEERING, LLC 3980 E Columbia St.,Tucson, AZ. 85714

(O): 520-664-2210 • (C) 520-631-6360

Backerworks Mfg_______ 505-342-2943 RM Garrison Machining__623-582-6544 Bar-S Machine__________928-636-2115 RMSS ____________ 623-780-5904 BID Machine, Inc_______ 480-892-7304 Select Machining_______ 602-881-5845 Continental Machining____ 800-777-2483 Stewart Precision Mfg_____ 623-492-9400 Dynamic Manufacturing & Eng_ 520-664-2210 T-N Machining_________ 602-278-8665 East Valley Precision_______480-288-6601 Tech Five Machining_______480699-4856 Enterprise Manufacturing____ 602-330-8116 Uni-Tek_____________602-272-2601 Evans Precision________ 623-581-6200 Val-Tech Mfg___________480-966-7376 Exactitude Precision_______602-316-6957 Wal-Tek Industries________623-587-4611 Flex-Pro_____________623-581-0551 Wissota Tool & Die______ 480-507-3484 GHT Services__________ 480-396-1800 Machining: Quick Turn Gibbs Precision Machine____480-753-1166 AZ Datum____________602-687-6331 Glover Precision, Inc._____ 480-464-0150 Flex-Pro_____________623-581-0551 HPMP______________801-619-9850 Gibbs Precision Machine____480-753-1166 Infinisys_____________602-276-2276 HK Machining_________ 602-278-6704 Jaguar Precision Machine___ 505-242-6545 JC Machine & Motorsports___602-790-2207 Jan’s Inc.____________ 480-833-7305 Jemelco, Inc.___________480-804-9541 Jemelco, Inc.__________ 480-804-9541 Paragon Machining & Design__480-635-9163 JC Machine & Motorsports__ 602-790-2207 Powerhaus Precision_____ 480-225-8854 JD Machine__________ 801-782-4403 RMSS_____________ 623-780-5904 JWB Manufacturing______ 480-967-4600 Machining: Milling KLK Ind._____________602-267-1331 3D Machine LLC________ 480-239-8254 L&W Machine Co_______ 602-323-2560 Allset Precision_________480-753-1776 McFarland Machine & Eng__ 480-966-1388 Avtek Industries________ 602-485-4005 Metalcraft Inc._________ 480-967-4889 Bar-S Machine__________ 928-636-2115 Micropulse West________ 480-966-2300 Challenger Aerospace_____ 480-894-0802 Milco EDM & Waterjet_____ 714-373-0098 Dynamic Manufacturing & Eng_ 520-664-2210 Newport Tool__________ 801-295-7411 Enterprise Manufacturing_____602-330-8116 Osborn Products________ 623-587-0335 Exactitude Precision_______602-316-6957 Powerhaus Precision_____ 480-225-8854 Flex-Pro_____________623-581-0551 Pro Precision_________602-353-00220 FMD Fabrication Services____ 602-368-6835 A Z MANUFACTURING SW • 90 • Sept / Oct 2018 A Z MANUFACTURING • 90 • Sept / Oct 2018 2

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GHT Services___________ 480-396-1800 Gibbs Precision Machine____ 480-753-1166 Glover Precision, Inc.______ 480-464-0150 Graphel Corp__________ 800-255-1104 Hi-Tech Machining & Eng____ 520-889-8325 Infinisys_____________ 602-276-2276 Jaguar Precision Machine____505-242-6545 JC Machine & Motorsports___ 602-790-2207 JD Machine___________ 801-782-4403 Jemelco, Inc.___________480-804-9541 L&W Machine Co________602-323-2560 Metalcraft Inc.__________ 480-967-4889 Morsch Machine_________ 480-961-7673 Paragon Machining & Design__ 480-635-9163 RMSS ______________623-780-5904 Select Machining_______ 602-881-5845 Stewart Precision Mfg______623-492-9400 Systems Integrators_______ 623-434-3136 T-N Machining__________ 602-278-8665 Uni-Tek_____________ 602-272-2601 Wal-Tek Industries________ 623-587-4611 Machining: Semiconductor KLK Ind._____________ 602-267-1331 L&W Machine Co________602-323-2560 Machining: Swiss AZ Datum____________ 602-687-6331 Bar-S Machine__________ 928-636-2115 Cassavant Machining______ 602-437-4005 HPMP______________ 801-619-9850 Pacific Swiss & Manufacturing503-557-9407 RMGMach’ing_______623-582-6544

Southwest Swiss Precision __ 602-438-4670 Specialty Turn Products____ 602-426-9340 Machining: Ultra-Precision Auer Precision_________ 480-834-4637 Pacific Swiss & Manufacturing503-557-9407 Southwest Swiss Precision __ 602-438-4670 Machining: Turning: Automatic American Prec. Machine___ 602-269-6298 AzMark___________ 480-926-8969 Challenger Aerospace____ 480-894-0802 Evans Precision Mach’g___ 623-581-6200 FMD Fabrication Services___ 602-368-6835 HPMP_____________801-619-9850 JB’s Precision Ind______ 623-581-9088 LAYKE, Inc.__________ 602-272-2654 Matrix Machine_______ 480-966-4451 Paragon Machining & Design_480-635-9163 RMSS ____________ 623-780-5904 Stewart Precision Mfg____ 623-492-9400 Weiser Engineering_____ 303-280-2778 MACHINING: LASER Laser Cutting Allfab Engineering______ 602-437-0497 EDM Tech__________ 602-278-6666 Fine Line Laser Cutting___ 602-863-3196 CAID Industries_______ 520-294-3126 K-2 Manufacturing______ 602-455-9575 KLK Ind.____________602-267-1331 Laser One Engraving____ 623-640-9132 Marusiak LLC________ 480-318-8883 McFarland Machine & Eng_ 480-966-1388 Metzfab____________602-618-2841 Southwest Waterjet-Laser__ 480-306-7748 The Metal Man________ 800-448-9448 TMM Precision ________ 800-448-9448 Tube Service Company___ 602-267-9865 Wrico_____________ 480-892-7800 Weiser Engineering_____ 303-280-2778

Laser Marking Laser Engraving Laser Cutting Waterjet Cutting

Cody Hukill O: 602-539-9591

C: 602-320-8360

E: sales@metzfab.com W: metzfabindustries.com A: 23012 N 15th Ave, Phoenix, AZ 85027

Laser Cutting:Rotary Axis K-zell Metals, Inc.________602-232-5882 Laser Engraving & Etching Laser One Engraving______623-640-9132 Leach Laser___________ 602-254-1141 Marusiak LLC__________480-318-8883 Paragon Machining & Design__480-635-9163 Perfection Industrial Finishing_ 520-434-9090 TechMark___________ 480-820--9444 Laser Marking AZ Laser Engraving_______602-708-1204 Laser One Engraving______623-640-9132 Leach Laser___________ 602-254-1141 Marusiak LLC__________480-318-8883 Perfection Industrial Finishing_ 520-434-9090 TechMark___________ 480-820--9444 MANUFACTURING Abrams Airborne Mfg______520-887-1727 Aero Tech___________ 801-292-0493 APMI ______________480-668-0024 CAID Industries_________520-294-3126 Competitive Engineering____520-746-0270 Contract Manufacturing Service_602-253-4744 Creedbilt Inc___________ 623-939-8119 Exactitude Precision_______ 602-316-6957 Harschco LLC__________ 602-617-7514 Hi-Tech Machining & Eng____520-889-8325 Group Manufacturing Serv__ 480-966-3952 IMCOR Corp___________602-245-0148 K-2 Mfg_____________602-455-9575

KLK Ind.____________602-267-1331 Metzfab____________602-618-2841 MoldWORX__________ 480-668-8400 RM Garrison Mach’ing___623-582-6544 RMSS_____________________ 623-780-5904 Scriven Precision________ 480-961-9775 Systems Integrators______ 623-434-3136 Manufacturing: Electrode Allset Precision_________480-753-1776 Quality Mold__________ 480-892-5480 Mfg: PhotoChemical Aero Tech___________ 801-292-0493 Etching Fabrication Turnkey Product Services Aero Tech___________ 801-292-0493 METAL FORMING Allfab Engineering______ 602-437-0497 Creedbilt Inc___________623-939-8119 Desert Precision Mfg_____ 520-887-4433 Fry Fabrications_________602-454-0701 K-2 Manufacturing______ 602-455-9575 TMM Precision ________ 800-448-9448 METAL STAMPING High Production Precision Stamping Precision Die & Stamping___ 480-967-2038 Thompson Machine______ 505-823-1453 MOLDS JWB Manufacturing______ 480-967-4600 Milco EDM & Waterjet_____ 714-373-0098 MoldWORX__________ 480-668-8400 Quality Mold__________ 480-892-5480 Molds: Construction JWB Manufacturing______ 480-967-4600

MoldWORX__________ 480-668-8400 Quality Mold__________ 480-892-5480 Molds: Plastic Injection Competitive Engineering___ 520-746-0270 MoldWORX__________ 480-668-8400 Quality Mold__________ 480-892-5480 Molds: Steel Aero Tech___________ 801-292-0493 MoldWORX___________480-668-8400 OUTGASING Systems Integrators_______ 623-434-3136 PAINTING Arizona Finishing________602-438-4443 CAP ______________602-464-9629 Coating Technologies______623-581-2648 Frontier Techni-Kote_______ 928-636-0130 Hollow Metal Xpress_______ 866-936-7001 PAS Technologies________ 480-487-1906 Perfection Industrial Finishing_ 520-434-9090 Precision Industrial Painting__602-256-0260 STP Performance Coating LLC__ 602-276-1231 Painting& Blast Booths STP Performance Coating LLC__ 602-276-1231 Phosphate Coating Technologies______623-581-2648 Wet Paint/CARC Perfection Industrial Finishing_ 520-434-9090 Frontier Techni-Kote_______ 928-636-0130 Precision Industrial Painting__602-256-0260 Sandblast/Automated STP Performance Coating LLC__ 602-276-1231 Screenprinting & Pad Printing Perfection Industrial Finishing_ 520-434-9090 STP Performance Coating LLC__ 602-276-1231

Email: cmrmfg@aol.com

PLATING Arizona Hard Chrome______ 602-278-8671 ChemResearch__________ 602-253-4175 Coating Technologies______623-581-2648 Collins Metal Finishing_____ 602-275-3117 Dayton Lamina_________ 248-489-9122 E.P.S.I.______________ 714-256-8950 Gold Tech Industries_______480-968-1930 Louie’s Black Oxide_______602-257-0530 PAS Technologies________ 480-487-1906 Precision Metalworks______602-455-9575 Sav-On Plating__________ 602-252-4311 Anodizing CAP ______________602-464-9629 Chemetall____________ 714-739-2821 ChemResearch__________ 602-253-4175 Collins Metal Finishing_____ 602-275-3117 Frontier Techni-Kote_______ 928-636-0130 FutureWeld___________ 602-437-2426 Perfection Industrial Finishing_ 520-434-9090 Pilkington Metal Finishing___ 801-972-2146 Semiray, A Div of Mistras____ 602-275-1917 Bright Nickel Sav-On Plating__________ 602-252-4311 Bright Tin Foresight Finishing_______480-921-0000 Sav-On Plating__________ 602-252-4311 PHOTOCHEMICAL Copper Foresight Finishing_______480-921-0000 ETCHING / MACHINING CMR Manufacturing_______602-273-0943 Gold Tech Industries_______480-968-1930 Z MANUFACTURING A2ZAMANUFACTURING SW • 2

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BOB HUDZIK

E.D.M. Specialists Precision Machining

SUN TECH

& ENG.

Since 1980

1930 St, #13 1930 E. E 3rd3rd St., #13 Tempe, 85281 Tempe, AZ AZ 85281

(480) 921-1665 480-921-1665 (480) 215-7144 Cell:Cell: 480-215-7144 suntech@suntecheng.net RSHud1@gmail.com

Interstate Mechanical Corporation Interstate Mechanical Corporation Joey Floyd

Joey Floyd

Manufacturing Division Manager Mobile: 602-245-0148

Manufacturing Division Manager Office: 602-257-1319

Mobile: 602-245-0148 Joey.floyd@imcor-az.com

Office: 602-257-1319 1841 E. Washington Street

Phoenix, AZ. 85034 Joey.floyd@imcor-az.com www.imcormodular.com

1841 E. Washington Street Phoenix, AZ. 85034 www.imcormodular.com

Masic Industries_________ 503-232-9109 PAS Technologies________ 480-487-1906 Electroless Nickel Gold Tech Industries_______480-968-1930 Masic Industries_________ 503-232-9109 Embrittlement Relief E.P.S.I.______________714-256-8950 Sav-On Plating__________ 602-252-4311 Gold E.P.S.I.______________714-256-8950 Foresight Finishing_______480-921-0000 Gold Tech Industries_______480-968-1930 Nickel/ Chrome/Palladium Collins Metal Finishing_____ 602-275-3117 E.P.S.I.______________714-256-8950 Foresight Finishing_______480-921-0000 Gold Tech Industries_______480-968-1930 Perfection Industrial Finishing_ 520-434-9090 Silver Plating E.P.S.I.______________714-256-8950 Gold Tech Industries_______480-968-1930 Foresight Finishing_______480-921-0000 PAS Technologies________ 480-487-1906 Sav-On Plating__________ 602-252-4311 Tin: Matte Gold Tech Industries_______480-968-1930 Zinc Plate Collins Metal Finishing_____ 602-275-3117 E.P.S.I.______________714-256-8950 Masic Industries_________ 503-232-9109 PAS Technologies________ 480-487-1906 Perfection Industrial Finishing_ 520-434-9090 Sav-On Plating__________ 602-252-4311 POLISHING Gold Tech Industries_______480-968-1930 Masic Industries_________ 503-232-9109 PRODUCT DESIGN Design and Modeling Bar-S Machine__________ 928-636-2115 A2Z MANUFACTURING •

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PRODUCTION Challenger Aerospace______ 480-894-0802 Contract Manufacturing Service_ 602-253-4744 Louie’s Black Oxide_______ 602-257-0530 PUNCHING Desert Precision Mfg______520-887-4433 Fry Fabrications_________ 602-454-0701 Group Manufacturing Serv___ 480-966-3952 Hollow Metal Xpress_______ 866-936-7001 K-2 Manufacturing_______ 602-455-9575 McFarland Machine & Eng___ 480-966-1388 Nelson Engineering_______ 602-273-7114 Precision Metalworks______ 602-455-9575 WC Machine & Tool_______ 480-507-4620 Weiser Engineering_______ 303-280-2778 ROBOTICS CAID Industries_________ 520-294-3126

SAW CUTTING Industrial Precision Grinding__ 310-352-4700 Paragon Machining & Design__ 480-635-9163 SINTERING Western Sintering________ 509-375-3096 SPINNING: Metal Nelson Engineering_______ 602-273-7114 SPLINES Apache Gear, Inc________ 623-934-7144 SPRAY: METAL, PLASMA Empire Precision Mach._____480-633-4580

Dayton Lamina_________ 248-489-9122 SPRINGWORKS Utah______ 801-298-0113 STAMPING AERO Spring & Mfg Co_____ 602-243-4329 Auer Precision__________ 480-834-4637 Dayton Lamina_________ 248-489-9122 Gilbert Metal Stamping_____ 480-503-1283 Precision Die & Stamping____ 480-967-2038 Scriven Precision_________ 480-961-9775 Systems Integrators_______ 623-434-3136 Thompson Machine_______ 505-823-1453 Whitley Machine________ 602-323-5550 Wrico_____________480-892-7800 Precision Metal Forming Desert Precision Mfg______ 520-887-4433 K-2 Mfg_____________ 602-455-9575 SPRINGWORKS Utah______ 801-298-0113 Thompson Machine_______ 505-823-1453 Wrico______________ 480-892-7800 Stamping: Aerospace Dayton Lamina_________ 248-489-9122 Wrico______________ 480-892-7800 Stamping: Deep Draw Thompson Machine_______ 505-823-1453 Stamping Design SPRINGS WORKS Utah_____ 801-298-0113 Stamping Flat Forming SPRINGS WORKS Utah_____ 801-298-0113 Stamping: Precision SPRINGS WORKS Utah_____ 801-298-0113 Stamping: Progressive Die & Tooling Moore Tool & Die________ 480-622-1705

SPRINGS Custom Springs Compression/Extension/ TAPPING Assembly/Torsion Gilbert Metal Stamping_____ 480-503-1283 Ace Wire Spring & Form Co.___ 412-458-4831 TESTING Flat and Wire Springs Ace Wire Spring & Form Co.___ 412-458-4831 Testing: Non-Dest/ Pressure AERO Spring & Mfg Co_____ 602-243-4329 CAP ______________ 602-464-9629

Chemetall____________ 714-739-2821 FutureWeld___________ 602-437-2426 Pilkington Metal Finishing___801-972-2146 PAS Technologies________ 480-487-1906 Semiray, A Div of Mistras____ 602-275-1917 Testing: Turbine Engine Cleveland Electric Labs____ 480-967-2501 THERMAL SPRAY Bolts Metallizing - CWST_____602-244-2432 Controlled Thermal Tech’y____ 602-272-3714 Empire Precision Mach._____480-633-4580 THREADING Thread Grinding Blue Streak Grinding______602-353-8088 Grindworks___________ 623-582-5767 Osborn Products_________ 623-587-0335 TOOL & DIE 3D Machine LLC_________480-239-8254 Arizona Wire & Tool_______ 480-813-1002 Gilbert Metal Stamping_____ 480-503-1283 Milco EDM & Waterjet______ 714-373-0098 Moore Tool & Die________ 480-622-1705 Thompson Machine_______ 505-823-1453 Whitley Machine________602-323-5550 Wissota Tool & Die_______ 480-507-3484 Wrico______________480-892-7800 TOOLING EDM Tech____________ 602-278-6666 Moore Tool & Die________ 480-622-1705 Newport Tool__________ 801-295-7411 Paragon Machining & Design__ 480-635-9163 Western Sintering________509-375-3096

Wire Springs ● Flat Springs ● Wire Products www.springworksutah.com

Brandon Metzger

sales@springworksutah.com

O: 602-539-9591

(801) 298Ͳ0113

C: 602-618-2841

E: sales@metzfab.com W: metzfabindustries.com

2261 S. 1560 W. ● Woods Cross ● UT 84087

A: 23012 N 15th Ave, Phoenix, AZ 85027

Scriven Precision_________ 480-961-9775 Val-Tech Mfg___________ 480-966-7376 Weiser/Mile High Precision___303-280-2778 Wrico_____________ 480-892-7800

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3D Machine....................................82 Desert Machine Sales.. ..........................73 5th AxisFixtures.......................17,80 Desert Precision MFG.. .........................84 Abrams Airborne Mfg................................85 District 7 Powder Coat.. ........................85 Absolute Machining & Turning............89 DM Machine Repair.. .............................80 ACC Machinery................................................73 Dynamic Machine & Fab.......................43,86 Accutech..............................................................88 Dynamic Mfg & Eng..........................................90 Ace Wire Spring & Form Co....................93 E Solutions...................................................................93 Adams Mach.......................................49,73,96 East Valley Precision..............................90 Advanced Precision......................................80 Ebbco 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EMAG......................................................51,75 American Tools & Metals..................74-76 EMC Insurance.........................................23 Americhem Engineering.........................84 Empire Precision Mach.......................89 ANEWCO...............................................54-55,88 Enterprise Manufacturing..40-41,90 Apache Gear......................................................85 EPSI..................................................................91 Apache Steel......................................................77 Evans Precision Mach’g...................... 85 APMI.................................................................53,82 Exactitude.................................................. 92 Arizona Finishing............................................86 EZ-Access.....................................................81 Arizona Hard Chrome................................86 Faustson...................................................... 82 Arizona Machine Calibration.................78 Field Calibrations....................................79 Arizona Wire Spec..........................................82 Fine Line Fabricating Inc.................... 85 Arizona Wire & Tool.......................................93 Fine Line Laser Cutting........................91 ARTL.........................................................................82 Flex-Pro..................................................71,89 Auer Precision...................................................85 Flow Corp.............................................73,74 AutoDesk.............................................................84 FMD Fabrication.....................................84 Avtek........................................................................88 FourPac........................................................74 Axian Technology..........................................82 Foresight Finishing................................ 92 Ayers Gear & Machining....................63,71 Frontier Techni-Kote..............................91 AZ CNC.......................................9,73,76,78-79 Ganesh Machinery................................74 AZ Datum............................................................89 Gateway Community College...56,83 AZ Laser Engraving.......................................87 Geiger Electric Inc..................................74 AZMARK (Imaginetics)...............................91 GHT Services LLC.................................... 82 AZ Metals.............................................................76 Gibbs Precision Machine...................90 AZ Tool Steel......................................................78 Gilbert Metal Stamping...................... 82 B&B Tool................................................................79 Gladhill Assoc.....................................62,87 B & T Tool & Engr.............................................77 Global EDM Supply...............................76 Backerworks Mfg...........................................89 Glover Precision, Inc..............................87 Barry Metals...............................................36,78 GMA Garnet........................................48,75 Bar-S Machine Inc..........................................82 GMN USA..............................................68,76 Barton International ...................................76 Gold Tech Industries..............................87 BEL Machining.................................................84 GoSynergy..................................................27 BID Machine, Inc.............................................84 Graphel........................................................86 Blue Streak Grinding............................67,85 Grindworks................................................ 83 BMO Harris Bank............................................81 Group Manufacturing.........................84 BMSC...............................................................69,83 Hangsterfers..............................................77 Bolts Metallizing-CWST.............................83 Hi-Tech Machining & Welding........84 Bralco Metals.......................................16,76,77 HK Machining..........................................88 Broadway Metal Recycling..............14,81 Hollow Metal Xpress............................84 Bud’s Equipment Sales..............................76 Horizon Carbide..................................... 82 Byington Steel Treating.............................86 HPMP......................................................53,93 CAID.........................................................................83 Hunter Machine Moving...................80 Cassavant Machining.................................90 IMCO Products........................................89 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Metal Supply.............................62,78 Chemetall............................................................78 Ind.Tool Die.................................................87 ChemResearch................................................87 Industrial Precision Grinding...........86 CIS..............................................................................82 Infinisys..................................................83,87 Chicago White Metal...................................70 IPE Aerospace....................................44,90 Cleveland Electric Labs..............................89 IPG..................................................................86 CMR Manufacturing....................................91 IRH.................................................................. 82 CNC Pros.........................................28-29,73,75 ITDE.................................................................87 Coast Aluminum.............................................77 J&J Hand Finishing................................84 Coast Industrial Sales..................................81 Jacquet West.............................................78 Coastal Metals..............................................8,78 Jaguar Precision Machine..................90 Coating Tech............................................ 57,83 Jan’s Inc.........................................................88 Collins Metal Finishing................................83 J B’s Prec Ind...............................................87 Competitive Engineering............................85 JC Machine & Motorsports..............................89 Consolidated Resources...................24,80 JD Machine.................................................82 Continental Machining.............................88 Jemelco Inc.................................................80 Contract Manufacturing Service........82 K D Capital.................................................. 73 Controlled Thermal.......................................86 K-2 Manufacturing.................................91 Crating Technology...............................48,80 K-Zell Metals, Inc..................................... 92 Creedbilt Inc................................................47,89 Kennametal...............................................79 D & R Mchy............................15, 73,75,78,79 KLK Inc..........................................................88 Davis Salvage.. ....................................20,92 Kloeckner Metals....................................77 Desert EDM Sales.. ...........................63,76 Klontech Metrology.............................73 A Z MANUFACTURING SW • 94 • Sept / Oct 2018 2

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