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The world of manufacturing technology1988 INTERNATIONAL MACHINE TOOL S f # VSeptember 7-15,1988-Chicago, Illinois. USA
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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FOREWORD AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ii
TECHNICAL CONFERENCE STAFF iii
NMTBA BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND STAFF XV
TABLE OF CONTENTS/TECHNICAL CONFERENCE PROGRAM (For all Sessions) v
PAPERS (Note: Papers are listed in order of Session Number.Not all presenters submitted complete papersfor publication.)
SESSION 1A - Computer-Aided Manufacturing
COMPUTER-AIDED MANUFACTURING IN SMALL COMPANIESPaul Brauninger; MIS Manager, Cone Drive 1-1
• MACHINE CONTROL FOR COMPUTER-AIDED MANUFACTURINGJohn M. Griffin; CNC Product Planner, GE Fanuc Automation 1-7
IMPLEMENTING CIM ELEMENTSJoseph Parisian; Gen. Mgr., Mfg., New York Air Brake Co. 1-9
THE WAGES OF CIMDonald Ewaldz; Director, Ingersoll Engineers • 1-21
STANDARDIZATION FOR RAPID CAM IMPLEMENTATION
Jim Hawbaker; Control Engineer, CTS Corporation 1-43
SESSION IB - Precision Machining Operations
ABRASIVE FLOW MACHININGJohn Stackhouse; Executive Vice President, Dynetics Corp. 1-57NEW TECHNIQUES IN ORBITAL ABRASIONRandy Gilmore; Manager, GrafEx Div., Extrude Hone Corporation 1-71SHORT STROKE HONINGPeter Thielenhaus; Executive V.- p., Thielenhaus Microfinish 1-85
ULTRASONIC MACHININGHilary Clouser; Special Projects Mgr., Extrude Hone Corp. 1-101
PRECISION TURNING/THE LATEST TECHNOLOGYJohn F. Kane; Polymer Concrete Div. Mgr., Hardinge Brothers 1-113
SESSION 1C - Factory Management Issues
A MANAGEMENT PLAN FOR TECHNOLOGY TRANSFERJack Barckhoff; President, Barckhoff and Associates, Inc. 1-115
BEYOND MACHININGKeith McKee; Dir., Mfg. Product. Center, IIT Research Inst.
COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING MANAGEMENTJohn Wicker; President, Micross Manufacturing Systems, Inc.
INTEGRATING MODELING INTO A CAD/CAM SYSTEMJeff Beckmen; Product Manager, Roland DG Corporation
THE IMPACT OF CUSTOMER SERVICE
William J. Ransom; President, Ransom & Associates
SESSION ID - Machine Design Issues
BUILDING STABLE HIGH SPEED CUTTING MACHINESPeter J. Koblischek; President, Polymerbeton 1-187DESIGNING WITH PRECISION LINEAR BEARINGSGeorge Jaffe; Engineering Manager, Schneeberger, Inc. 1-207COMPUTER MODELLING OF SPINDLE GROWTH .Enayat Mahajerin; Professor, Saginaw Valley State Univ. 1—255
LUBRICATION OF HIGH SPEED SPINDLE BEARINGSFritz Wunsch; Sr. Tech. Consultant, Kluber Lubrication Corp. 1-275
NEW SAFETY SOLUTIONS FOR FMS AND ROBOTICS
Wolf Windau; Product Manager, Sick Optik Elektronik, Inc. 1-289
SESSION 2A - Software for Manufacturing
COMPUTER OPTIMIZED MANUFACTURINGWilson T. Lundy, Jr.; Executive Vice President, Optimation 2-1SOFTWARE FOR MANAGING CAPACITYDick Lilly; Chairman, ProfitKey International, Inc. 2-27SELECTING A MANUFACTURING SOFTWARE SYSTEMKishan Bagadia; General Manager, Spacesaver Software Systems 2-33
NC PROGRAM VERIFICATIONAnn E. Meister; President, Ann E. Meister Co. • 2-51
SOFTWARE FOR SURFACE MACHINING IN THE 1990'S
Gordon Sweet; Manager, Engineering, Schlumberger 2-63
SESSION 2B - Modern Finishing Operations
FLEXIBLE DEBURRING SYSTEMSKlaus Przyklenk; R&D Engineer, Surf/Tran/Robert Bosch 2-73ROTOLYTIC DEBURRINGVictor Vishnitsky; Manager of Engrg., Cation/Surf/Tran 2-105TRENDS IN FLEXIBLE ABRASIVE FINISHING TOOLSAlfred Scheider; Vice President, R&D, Osborn Manufacturing 2-113
AUTOMATING PNEUMATIC BLAST FINISHINGR. A. Woodfield; President, Empire Abrasive Equipment Corp. 2-125
USE OF ELECTROSTATIC POWDERED PAINT
Richard Kosloski; CVS, Morton Thiokol, Inc. 2-137
ESSION 2C - Industrial Laser Systems
LASERS ON THE PRODUCTION LINEJames Rutt; Marketing Director, Coherent General, Inc. 2-159FIBER OPTIC LASER BEAM DELIVERY SYSTEMSThomas Kugler; Applic. Engineer, Lumonics Material Processing 2-161AN EXPERT SYSTEM FOR LASER PROCESS DIAGNOSTICSPat Harris; Sr. Application Engineer, Laser Expert Inc.Richard Saunders; Sr. Application Engineer, Laser Expert Inc. 2-163
PROGRAMMING MULTI-AXIS LASER SYSTEMS FOR 3-D MACHINING
Mike Polad; Manager, Electrical Engineering, Laserdyne Group 2-169
SESSION 2D - Machine Control Technologies
TRENDS IN SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE CONTROL TECHNOLOGIESErnest Nemeth; Marketing Project Coordinator, Allen-Bradley 2-179USING BCL PART PROGRAMMING FORMATSGarland Smith; Chief, Metalworking Specifications, DIPEC 2-207DEFINING GENERAL PURPOSE AUTOMATION CONTROLSPaul Epner; Senior Product Engineer, Allen-Bradley Company 2-213
A CONFIGURABLE MACHINE CONTROL SYSTEMSue Dorscheid; PiC Application Engineer, Giddings & Lewis 2-225
COMPUTER CONTROLLED MILL FEEDSJerry Saveriano; V. P., Marketing/Sales, Servo Products 2-227
SESSION 3A - FMS For Sheet Metal Parts
A FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING CELL FOR SHEETS AND PLATESAl Julian; Systems Application Engineer, W. A. Whitney Corp. 3-1
PRECISION LEVELING FOR FMS—GETTING YOUR SHEETS IN SHAPEHenry Theis; V. P., Marketing & Sales, Herr-Voss Corporation 3-3
MATERIAL HANDLING IN A FLEXIBLE FABRICATING SYSTEMWilla Flick; Director of Sales & Marketing, c. Behrens AG 3-21
PRESSROOM MONITORING WITH A SMALL COMPUTERBill Hodges; Product Manager, Data Instruments Inc. 3-̂ 27
INCREASE YOUR PRESS PRODUCTIVITY WITH PSDIDennis R. Ebens; President, Rockford Systems, Inc. 3-39
SESSION 3B - Bar Coding for Manufacturing
BAR CODE BASICSHenry Johnson; Commercial Mrktg. Mgr., Training, Allen-Bradley 3-57
BAR CODE APPLICATIONS IN MANUFACTURINGDavid Czaplicki; Director, Corporate-Comm., Intermec Corp. 3-63
BAR CODE FACTORY DATA COLLECTION SYSTEMSRonald Donoghue; Sales Manager, Lowry Computer Products 3-73
SESSION 3C - MANUFACTURING RESOURCE PLANNING
THE IMPACT OF JUST-IN-TIME ON MANUFACTURING RESOURCE PLANNINGThomas Bihun; Director, Mgmnt. Info., International Jensen 3-79
MAKING MRP II A REALITYSri Nivas; Marketing Coordinator, Martek, Inc. 3-91
INVENTORY CONTROL—NOT BY ITSELFPaul Hemmen; President, The Oliver Wight Companies . 3-103
COMPUTERIZED MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT AND INVENTORY CONTROLKishan Bagadia; General Manager, Spacesaver Software Systems 3-111
DYNAMIC SCHEDULING
John Wicker; President, Micross Manufacturing Systems, Inc. 3-127
SESSION 3D - Human Factors in Manufacturing
PREPARATIONS FOR MANUFACTURING IN THE 1990SKwok-sang Chui; Mgr., Installation Engrg., Cummins Engine Co. 3-137TRAINING FOR THE NEW HIGH TECH FACTORIESJames Hatch; Managing Dir., Rochester Tool & Machining Inst. 3-153ASSESSING WORK ENVIRONMENT AND ORGANIZATION CHARACTERISTICSJim Carlopio; Research Associate, Industrial Technology Inst.David Roitman; Senior Researcher, Industrial Technology Inst. 3-163
HOW TOMORROW'S MANUFACTURING MANAGEMENT MUST CHANGEHelen Vassallo; Assoc. Professor, Worcester Polytechnic Inst.Howard Oden; Assistant Professor, Worcester Polytechnic Inst.
CHOOSING A SYSTEMS INTEGRATOR
Charles Haarlammert; Systems Analyst, Belcan Corporation
SESSION 4A -Modern Forming Technologies
COST EFFECTIVE PRECISION TUBE BENDINGRonald Stange; President, Tools for Bending, Inc. 4-1AUTOMATIC TUBE BRANCH FORMING SYSTEMSWilliam Holyoak; President, T-Drill 4-23
FORMING COST REDUCTIONS USING NITROGEN DIE CYLINDERSGeorge Stauch; General Sales Manager, Livernois/Forward Co. 4-51
ORBITAL COLD FORGING: A NET SHAPE COLD FORMING PROCESSR. Scott Dinger; Sales Engr., Schmid Corporation of America 4-71
SIMULATION OF THE BENDING PROCESSESMatthias Kleiner; Dr. Ing., University of DortmundE. Von Finckenstein; Dr. Ing., University of Dortmund 4-79
SSSION 4B - Metal Cutting Technologies
TURN BROACHING—TECHNOLOGY FOR MACHINING ROUND PARTSNorbert Reiter; Director, Heinlein Div., Krupp Widia Corp. 4-93
TURN BROACHINGGary Wilcox; Sales Manager, Crankshaft Machine Company 4-105
COMPUTERIZED MANUFACTURE OF BROACH CUTTING TOOLSEdward Kokmeyer; President, American Broach and Machine Co. 4-107
IMPROVEMENTS IN WHISKER-REINFORCED CERAMIC CUTTING TOOLSRonald Peters; Mgr., R&D, Hertel Cutting Technologies, Inc. 4-117
OPTIMIZING THE PERFORMANCE OF TiN COATED TAPSAl Barrows; Product Specialist, Greenfield Tap & Die 4-139
SSSION 4C - Cost Justification Techniques
SELLING MANAGEMENT ON EQUIPMENT ACQUISITIONSteve D. Bloom, Sr. Industrial Engineer/ The Marquardt Co. 4-159
JUSTIFICATION AND PLANNING FOR FLEXIBLE FABRICATING SYSTEMSMark Barszcz; Systems Product Manager, Strippit, Inc. 4-161
A COMPUTERIZED MODEL FOR FMS ECONOMICSKwok-sang Chui; Mgr., Installations Engrg., Cummins Enoine CoDavid Adams; Applications Engineer, Cummins Engine Co. 4-163
GOOD PLANNING PLUS GOOD INFORMATION EQUALS GOOD JUSTIFICATIONMachael Pans; President; Michael Paris Associates Ltd. 4-179
3SSION 4D - Modern Shop Operations
THE AUTOMATED FACTORY BEGINS ON THE SHOP FLOORRaimondo Zailo; President, Mandelli Incorporated 4-195
USING AUDITS TO UPGRADE YOUR WAREHOUSINGWilliam J. Ransom; President, Ransom & Associates 4-197
REDUCING SET-UP TIME ON CNC MACHINESYusuf Venjara; General Manager, Hitachi-Seiki, USA, Inc. 4-213
HIGH SPEED METAL SAWINGTed Slezak; Consultant, Armstrong-Blum Mfg. Co. 4- 2 4l
PARTS CLEANING—MEETING NEW REQUIREMENTSRonald Phillips; Vice President, Midbrook Products, Inc. 4-251
SESSION 5A - Lasers in Manufacturing
LASER MACHINE GEOMETRY MEASUREMENT AND CONTROLMartin Hamar; President, Hamar Laser Instruments, Inc. 5-1
DRILLING WITH HIGH POWERED LASERSJohn Ruselowski; Manager, Laser Products, Raycon 5-29
SURFACE MODIFICATION USING LASERSEdward Vesely, Jr.; Senior Engineer, IIT Research Institute 5-65
INDUSTRIAL LASER MACHININGSteve Medeiros; Sales Manager, Laser Fare 5-73
ADVANCED LASER CUTTINGLeonard Migliore; Applications Manager, Amada Laser SystemsDonald Hoffman; Marketing Manager, Amada Laser Systems 5-75
SESSION 5B - High Speed Grinding
A STRATEGIC APPROACH FOR PRECISION GRINDING MACHINESK. Subramanian; Director, Ceramic Market Dev., Norton Company 5-87
PICKING THE RIGHT GRINDING MACHINE CONTROL APPROACHSam Harris; Senior Application Engineer, Giddings & Lewis 5-105
IMPROVED PART QUALITY WITH FORCE-ADAPTIVE GRINDING
Robert Hahn; President, Hahn Engineering, Inc. 5-109
SESSION 5C - Statistical Quality Control
SQC IN INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING ENVIRONMENTSFred Alsup; Systems Engineer, Texas Instruments 5-125HOW SPC SMOOTHS THE WAY FOR CIMJerry Houston; Marketing Manager, DataMyte 5-137WHY APPLY SPC TO AUTOMATIC ASSEMBLY SYSTEMSRonald Brown; Engineering Mgr., Kingsbury Machine Tool Corp. 5-147
CAPACITANCE SURFACE TEXTURE MEASUREMENT
Donald Risko, Manager, SurfEx Div., Extrude Hone Corporation 5-155
SESSION 5D - Flexible Cells & Systems
AFFORDABLE MANUFACTURING CELLSSteve Passmore; Mgr., Production Engineering, Valtek,-Inc. 5-157CRITICAL FACTORS IN ASSEMBLY SYSTEMS PERFORMANCEPeter Austin; Proposal Manager,. Kingsbury Machine Tool Corp. 5-171SIMPLE AUTOMATION FOR MACHINE LOADINGWalt Hessler; Training Manager, PHD, Inc. 5-191
CNCS FOR THE FACTORIES OF THE FUTUREMichael Stanislawski; CIM Consultant, Digital Equipment Corp. 5-205
SESSION 6A - Machine Vision for the Factory
FUNDAMENTALS OF MACHINE VISION SELECTIONAmir Novini; Director, Engineering, Penn Video 6-1
VISION SENSORS FOR MACHINE TOOLSW. J. Pastorius; Dir., Strategic Accounts, Diffracto Limited 6-19
VISION BASED INTELLIGENT MACHINING CELLJerry Saveriano; V. P., Marketing/Sales, Servo Products 6-29
SESSION 6B - New Cutting Tool Techniques
STRESS RELIEVING FOR INCREASED TOOL LIFERandall Moroney; Applications Engineer, Innovex 6-37
TITANIUM NITRIDE TOOL COATINGSRoger Bollier, Jr.; V. P., Marketing, Balzers Tool Coating 6-47
HIGH PERFORMANCE DRILLINGFritz Fiesselmann; General Partner, Evergreen Engineering • 6-71
EXOTIC MATERIAL HOLE TAPPINGAl Barrows; Product Specialist, Greenfield Tap & Die 6-99
CERAMIC TOOLING FOR TURNING HIGH STRENGTH/HARDNESS STEELKim Matherne; Project Engineer, Morton Thiokol, Inc. 6-121
SESSION 6C - Coordinate Measuring Machines
COORDINATE MEASURING MACHINES IN TURBINE BLADE INSPECTIONRichard Johnson; Manager, Digital Electronic Automation 6-141
FLEXIBLE HIGH VOLUME PART INSPECTION CELLAnthony Hough; Project Engr., Digital Electronic Automation 6-151
FLEXIBLE INSPECTION SYSTEM APPLICATION EXPERIENCEJim Henry; Mgr., Systems Engineering, Sheffield MeasurementTom Sabxck; Applications Engineer, Sheffield Measurement 6-163
VIBRATION DAMPING FOR CMMSHarrison Williams; Mgr., Engineered Systems, Fabreeka Int'l. 6-171
QUALITY INTELLIGENCE: THE MISSING LINK IN CAD/CAMChris Garcia; Vice President, Engineering, Valisys Corp. 6-173
SESSION 6D - Transportation & Storage Systems
A FLEXIBLE AUTOMATION MATERIAL HANDLING CONCEPT! c r e n Shaum> President, Shaum Manufacturing, inc. ' 6_191
SOFT MATERIAL HANDLING FOR SOFT AUTOMATIONMark C. Garvey; vice President/General Manager, Garvey Corp. 6-203
AUTOMATED WORKPIECE TRANSPORTATIONRobert Pierson; General Mgr., Jervis B. Webb Company 6-205
PALLET SYSTEMS TO INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY
James Farrell; Application Engineer, S-P Manufacturing Corp. 6-213
SESSION 7A - Computer Simulations for Manufacturing
SIMULATION: DESIGNING IN AN IMPERFECT WORLDKenneth Musselman; Vice President, Pritsker & Associates, Inc. 7-1RELIABILITY SIMULATIONFred Shadko; Computer & Controls Director, Comau Systems 7-15SOLID MODELLER BASED MACHININGEugene Hartquist; Sr. Research Support Spec, Cornell Univ. 7-23
HIERARCHICAL SCHEDULING USING SIMULATION
Christopher Clapp; Sprvsr., Applications Consultants, FACTROL 7-39
SESSION 7B - Production Facilities Planning
CHOOSING THE RIGHT PRODUCTION MACHINE TOOLSAlbert Albrecht; V.P. Sales & Marketing, NATCO, Inc. 7-55MACHINERY INSTALLATION ALTERNATIVES-Richard Haase; Chief Engineer, Unisorb Machinery Installation 7-69OPPORTUNITIES AT AN INCUBATOR PARK COMPLEXDallas Garrett; Dean of Tech., Daytona Beach Community College 7-79
TECHNO-ECONOMICS—A MODERN ANALYTICAL TOOL
Hal Brownfield; Sr. Vice President, Comau Productivity Systems 7-85
SESSION 7C - Non-Conventional Machining
THE ELECTROCHEMICAL MACHINING PROCESSDonald Risko; Manager, ECM Div., Extrude Hone Corporation 7-93ELECTROCHEMICAL DEBURRING OF PUNCHED METAL STRIPSTerry L. Morris; Product Manager, SpeedFam Corporation 7-95ELECTROCHEMICAL ARC MACHINING—AN ALTERNATIVE TO EDM AND' ECMK. P. Rajurkar; Associate Professor, University of Nebraska 7-105
NEW STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE EDM OPERATIONSLawrence Rhoades; President, Extrude Hone Corporation 7-113
IMPROVEMENT IN EDM PROCESS PERFORMANCE BY R.F. CONTROL
K. P. Rajurkar; Associate Professor, University of Nebraska 7-115
SESSION 7D - Precision Metrology
IMPROVING MACHINE TOOL ACCURACYRobert Callaghan; President, Independent Quality Labs, Inc. 7-133
USING MATHEMATICAL MODELLING TO MEASURE GEOMETRIC RELATIONSHIPSL. Sanders Corbit; V. P., Sales/Marketing, Axiam Corp. 7-153
MACHINE TOOL THERMAL DISTORTION COMPENSATIONJohn Janeczko; Research Engineer, Giddings & Lewis 7-167
CAPACITANCE SURFACE TEXTURE MEASUREMENT
Don Risko; Manager, SurfEx Div., Extrude Hone Corporation 7-183
SESSION 8A - Factory Communications
INTERFACE GUIDELINES FOR BUILDING CIM SYSTEMSp. Michael Brady; Sr. Project Engr., Ralph M. Parsons Company 8-1USING THE MANUFACTURING AUTOMATION PROTOCOLGuy Nicoletti; Professor of Engineering, Univ. of Pittsburgh 8-21CNC APPLICATIONS USING MAP 3.0Jerry Johnson; Senior Development Engineer, Giddings & Lewis 8-53
SMART CARDS IN MANUFACTURING
Yusuf Venjara; General Manager, Hitachi-Seiki, USA, Inc. 8-67
SESSION 8B - Computer-Aided Process Planning
INTEGRATING CAD AND CAPP SYSTEMSGerald Graves; Assistant Professor, Louisiana State Univ. 8-83GENERATIVE PROCESS PLANNING SYSTEMSWilliam Zdeblick; Tech. Dir., Metcut Research Associates Inc. 8-85GT PARTS MODELLING FOR FMSGiles Lovelace; President, Industrial Cybernetics Co. 8-101
SESSION 8C - Waterjet Machining
MACHINING WITH WATERJETS AND HYDROBRASIVESDamon Schroter; Product Manager, Ingersoll-Rand 8-103
NON-TRADITIONAL MACHINING WITH WATER AND ABRASIVE JETSCharles Johnston; vice President, Engrg., Flow Systems, inc. 8-105
WATERJET MACHINING OF NON-METALLICSDamon Schroter; Product Manager, Ingersoll-Rand 8-125
SESSION 8D - Quality Control & Assurance
LASER CALIBRATION OF MACHINE TOOLSDuane Christy; Marketing Mgr.., Federal Products Corporation 8-127
FUNCTION: THE KEY TO SURFACE FINISH REQUIREMENTSAlexander Tabenkin; Product Mgr., Federal Products Corporation 8-147.
FLEXIBLE GAGING - A KEY IN FUTURE FACTORIESDavid Genest; Marketing Manager, Brown * sharpe Manufacturing 8-195
DYNAMIC CHECKING OF NC MACHINES
Robert Darrow; Sales Manager, Movomatic USA, Inc. 8-20'
SESSION 9A - Today's Industrial Robots
INTELLIGENT CONTROL & INTELLIGENT ROBOTSA. Hsie; Associate Professor, SUNY College of TechnologyX. Y. Tu; Professor, Beijing University of Iron & Steel 9-1END-EFFECTOR CONTROLLER FOR AUTOMATED MANUFACTURINGKang Lee; Project Manager, National Bureau of Standards 9-21ROBOT 3D QUASI-STATIC SPATIAL ACCURACY EVALUATIONAlbert Sturm, Jr.; Manager, R&D, CIMCORP, Inc.Ming-Yih Lee; Project Manager, Robot VAE, CIMCORP, Inc. 9-23
SESSION 9B - New Welding Technologies
NEW TRENDS IN AUTOMATED WELDING & SOLDERINGCharles Miller; President, Hanson Systems, Inc. 9-35
TACK WELD AUTOMATION DEVICESTzay-Chyan Wang; Mechanical Industry Research Laboratories 9-49
MECHANIZATION AND AUTOMATION FOR LARGE WELDMENTSBertil Pekkari; Technical Director, ESAB 9-59
EXPERT SYSTEMS FOR WELD PROCESS CONTROLRichard Reeves; Chairman, General Digital Industries, Inc. 9-71
ADVANCED FRICTION WELDING TECHNIQUES FOR HYDRAULIC CYLINDERS
J. R. Huber; President, A. R. D. Industries Ltd. 9-91
SESSION 9C - Tooling Today's Machines
NEW TOOLING FOR FLEXIBLE AUTOMATIONHans Pegels; Worldwide Sales Director, Krupp Widia Corp.REVOLUTIONARY TOOLING FOR THREADED HOLE MAKINGManuel Turchan; C.E.O., Turchan Enterprises, Inc.
INNOVATIVE HIGH PRECISION CUTTING TOOL SYSTEMSBert Erdel; Executive Vice President, Mapal, Inc.
ADVANCES IN FLEXIBLE TOOL HOLDING [E. Pfalzgraf; President, EPB
CHIP BREAKING FOR AUTOMATED TURNING SYSTEMSMarvin Burnham; Consultant, The BDM CorporationLeonard Abbatiello; Project Mgr., Martin Marietta Systems
SESSION 9D - Factory Cost Issues
VALUING ASSETS TO EXPAND MANUFACTURINGAlan C. Iannacito; President, ACI Associates, Inc.
THE INDUSTRIAL MODERNIZATION INCENTIVE PROGRAMR. Tim Dickinson; Tech. Mod. Office, Wright-Patterson AFB 9-233
THE TRUE COST OF FOREIGN SOURCINGperry Quick; Consultant, Quick, Finan & Associates 9-243
THE PULL OF JUST-IN-TIME COST ISSUES
Ken Meyer; Senior Manufacturing Engineer, Fenwal Division 9-269
SESSION 10A - Modern Gear Making Methods
UNIVERSAL BEVEL AND HYPOID GEAR GENERATORSKent Yunker; Controls Staff Engineer, The Gleason WorksTheodore Krenzer; Director of R & D, The Gleason Works 10-1HIGH PRODUCTION PLUNGE FORM GRINDING OF SPIRAL BEVEL GEARSKrishnaswamy Kumar; Research Project Engr., The Gleason WorksJames J. Knopp; Application Engineer, The Gleason Works 10-15ERROR COMPENSATION CONTROL FOR GEAR GENERATIONKuang-Pu Wen; Mechanical Industry Research Laboratories 10-31
PRECISION GEAR MACHINE RESEARCH NEEDS
Maurice Howes; Senior Engineer, IIT Research Institute 10-45
SESSION 10B - Laser Applications
LASERS IN MANUFACTURINGMassimo Mattucci; V. P., Engrg., Comau Productivity Systems 10-75LASER & ELECTRON BEAM JOB SHOP TECHNOLOGYRichard Trillwood; President, EBTEC West 10-77LASER MARKING TECHNOLOGIESBill Moran; Product Manager, Coherent General, Inc. 10^127
LASER TRAINING PAYS DIVIDENDS
Ron Smeltzer; Director, Customer Services, Coherent General 10-129
SESSION 10C - Shop Monitoring Systems
MACHINERY MONITORING SYSTEMSRonald Wharton; Electrical Engineer, Benet Laboratories 10-131TOOL AND MACHINE MONITORING SYSTEMSLarry Stockline; President, Promess, Inc. * 10-157TOOL MONITORING IN LATHES AND MACHINING CENTERSGerhard Lechler; President, Promess GmbH 10-167
TOOL MONITORING WITH INTELLIGENT INSERTSS. Ramalingam; Professor, University of Minnesota 10-181
SESSION 10D - Part Inspection Systems
FLEXIBLE INSPECTION FOR THE FACTORY ENVIRONMENTGerald Franck; Product Manager, Sheffield Measurement
AUTOMATED INSPECTION ON MACHINE TOOLSEdmund Bangs; Manufacturing Advisor, IIT Research Institute
NON-CONTACT SURFACE ROUGHNESS MEASUREMENTSKatherine Creath; Optical Engineer, WYKO Corporation
PHASE SHIFTING FOR INCREASED CONTOURING ACCURACYSteven Lange; Vice President, WYKO Corporation
ON-LINE MEASUREMENT OF INTERNAL THREADS
Wendell Whetstone; Project Engineer, Morton Thiokol, Inc.
SESSION 11A - Flexible Machining Systems
THE LOGICAL DEVELOPMENT OF FMSLeonard Kozlowski; Mgr., Mfg. Engrg., New York Air Brake Co. 11-1A NEW CONCEPT IN MANUFACTURING CENTERSKen Cope; Director of Product Development, Kaufman Mfg. Co. 11-3FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING FOR MEDIUM TO HIGH PRODUCTION FACTORIESNeil Coughlin; V. P., Sales/Marketing, Kingsbury Machine Tool 11-19
HIGH PRODUCTION TURNING
James Buckley; Exec. Vice President, Saginaw Machine Systems 11-37
SESSION 11B - The Automated Factory
A GUIDE TO UNATTENDED MACHININGSteven Beem; Program Manager, Cincinnati Milacron Inc. 11-4 9PITFALLS OF GT CELLS & FLOWLINESDavid Callahan; Chief, Adv'd. Tech. Design, Watervliet Arsenal 11-51AUTOMATED AUTOMOBILE ASSEMBLYHal Brownfield; Senior V. P., Comau Productivity Systems 11-77
SIMULATION FROM DESIGN THROUGH IMPLEMENTATION
Kevin Kandt; Sr. Systems Analyst, Pritsker & Associates, Inc. 11-87
SESSION 11C - Punching/Shearing/Bending
COMMON SENSE AUTOMATION FOR METAL STAMPERSCraig Schnelle; Mgr., Stamping Sys., Minster Machine Company 11-99THE OTHER CHOICE FOR FABRICATORSBurton Rolland; Division Manager, W. A. Whitney Corp.RIGHT ANGLE BLANKING SHEARS FOR IMPROVED PRODUCTIVITYHenry Theis; V. P., Marketing & Sales, Herr-Voss Corporation
FINEBLANKING: A NET SHAPE STAMPING PROCESSR. Scott Dinger; Sales Engr., Schmid Corporation of America 11-135
PROGRAMMABLE SYSTEM FOR PRESS AUTOMATIONAshok Bhide; Marketing Manager, Data Instruments Inc. 11-141
SESSION 11D - Advanced Finishing Processes
HUMAN RESOURCE: A MULTIDIMENSIONAL APPROACH TO DEBURRINGLinda Buzzes; Dr. Eng. Mfg., Westfield Precision Deburring 11-157
ABRASIVE SELECTION AND CONTROL IN LAPPING OPERATIONSGerald Simmons; Mgr., Distribution/Sales, Chemical-Ways Corp. 11-171
ABRASIVE FLOW MACHININGLawrence Rhoades; President, Extrude Hone Corporation 11-179
PRECISION FINISHING USING COATED ABRASIVE BELTSRobert Koes; Sales Engineer, Acme Manufacturing Company 11-201
BALLIZING AS A PRODUCTION TOOL
Geoff Linzell; Engineer, Ty Miles, Inc. • 11-213
SESSION 12A - Modern Workholding Techniques
MODERN WORKHOLDING TECHNOLOGYHelmut Steger; President, Forkardt, Incorporated 12-1AN ADVANCED WORKHOLDING/WORK TRANSFER SYSTEMLeo Monroe; V. P., Sales & Marketing, Taft-Peirce Mfg. 12-21VACUUM CHUCKS FOR PRECISION DIAMOND MACHININGDon Morrison; Product Manager, Moore Special Tool Co., Inc. 12-27
PALLET SYSTEMS TO INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY
James Farrell; Application Engineer, S-P Manufacturing Corp. 12-45
SESSION 12B - Sensors for Automation
CAPACITANCE SENSORS FOR AUTOMATED MANUFACTURINGDonald Risko; Manager, SurfEx Div., Extrude Hone Corporation 12-47PROFILING FOR AUTOMATED MACHINING USING NONCONTACTING SENSORSWilliam D. Boyle; Product Manager, Kaman InstrumentationRichard Dambman; Applications Engineer, Kaman Instrumentation 12-4 9'
SENSOR RESEARCH FOR UNATTENDED PRECISION GRINDINGT. Raj Aggarwal; Principal Engr., Metcut Research Associates 12-59
SAFETY INTERLOCKING IN THE AUTOMATED FACTORYAndrei Moldoveanu; Prod. Mgr., Data Acquisition, Telemecanique 12-79
SESSION 12C - High Performance Drive Systems
RECENT ADVANCES IN MACHINE TOOL DRIVE TECHNOLOGYRichard L. Quickel; CNC Area Sales Mgr., GE Fanuc Automation 12-93
ROBUST AXIS CONTROL FOR MANUFACTURING SYSTEMSYieth - Jang Liang; Mechanical Industry Research Labs. 12-95
PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATORS FOR HIGH-SPEED SPINDLE SYSTEMS
Tojiro Aoyama; Director of Engineering, Keio University 12-115
SESSION 12D - Manufacturing Fluids Management
METALWORKING FLUID MANAGEMENTR. M. Dick; Product Manager, Cincinnati Milacron Inc.G. J. Foltz; Technical Service Mgr., Cincinnati Milacron Inc. 12-139SUCCESSFUL COOLANT MANAGEMENT PROGRAMSWilliam Sluhan; Chief Int'l Officer, Master Chemical Corp. 12-163CFC CLEANING AGENTS WITH REDUCED OZONE DEPLETION POTENTIALDavid Lermond; Technical Service Consultant, E.I. Du Pont 12-165DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY HAZARDOUS WASTE MINIMIZATION PROGRAMDent Williams; Lead Mechanical Engineer, DIPEC 12-189
LPHABETICAL INDEX OF AUTHORS • xix