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Vol. 20, No.4 July/Aug 2014

Southwest Edition Manufacturing Magazine(AZ, NV, and NM)Southwest Edition Manufacturing Magazine(AZ, NV, and NM)

Vol. 20, No.4 July/Aug 2014Vol. 20, No.4 July/Aug 2014

Introducing Layke Tactical.Made in America, Proudly.

www.a2zmetalworker.com

maximize productivity and reduce costs with the power of castroL high performance products

IT’S WHAT’S ON THE INSIDE THAT COUNTS …

Inside every Castrol drum is cutting edge technology that is proven to impact process efficiency and operating costs. Offering a wide range of products to meet your application needs, we provide the maximum performance benefits you seek, accompanied by world-class service and technical expertise. Castrol’s line is broad enough to cross all applications, yet refined enough to fulfill the intricate needs of the specialty markets we serve.

THE RIGHT LINE OF PRODUCTS

• Cutting & Grinding

• High Performance Lubricants

• Greases

• Deformation

• Cleaners

• Corrosion Preventatives

• Chain Oils

Discover why only Castrol Industrial has THE TECHNOLOGY INSIDE.

Castrol Industrial North America Inc. l 150 West Warrenville Rd. 603-1E l Naperville, IL 60563 l [email protected] l castrol.com/industrial

the technoLogy inside

Maxum Petroleum l www.canyonstateoil.com l 1 800 894 7773

Serving Arizona, New Mexico & Nevada

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Welcome to Cascade Systems Technology

Proud American Electronics Manufacturer

ISO 9001:2008ITAR RegisteredISO 13485:2003UL Approved for PCB and Cable AssembliesRoHS Compliant

Cascade Systems Technology (CST) is a Hillsboro, Oregon based contract electronic manufacturing company. CST was founded in 1989 and we have been providing quality electronics manufacturing and engineering services to our customers for over 20 years. We specialize in the design and manufacture of electronic assemblies for a variety of applications.

+ Prototype and QTA Capabilities with Turnkey, Kitted and Consignment+ Seamless Transition to Production+ Fine Pitch, BGAs, MLF Packages+ Lead Free Processes+ Engineering Design Services+ High Density and Double-Sided Capabilities+ Flying Probe, and Functional Testing+ Supply Chain Management+ Electro-Mechanical and Sub-Assembly Builds+ High Speed SMT Lines+ Automated Conformal Coat+ OSP Process+ Microelectronics+ Flip Chip Technology+ Wire Bonding+ Die Placement+ Encapsulation

Industries Served

Demonstrated Technology Leadership Starts with CSTOur Goal is 100% defect free products and to exceed our customers requirements.

23176 NW Bennett StreetHillsboro, OR 97124

T. [email protected]

DefenseAerospace

MedicalIndustrial

CommercialRenewable Energy

maximize productivity and reduce costs with the power of castroL high performance products

It’s what’s on the InsIde that counts …

Inside every Castrol drum is cutting edge technology that is proven to impact process efficiency and operating costs. Offering a wide range of products to meet your application needs, we provide the maximum performance benefits you seek, accompanied by world-class service and technical expertise. Castrol’s line is broad enough to cross all applications, yet refined enough to fulfill the intricate needs of the specialty markets we serve.

the RIght LIne of PRoducts

• Cutting & Grinding

• High Performance Lubricants

• Greases

• Deformation

• Cleaners

• Corrosion Preventatives

• Chain Oils

discover why only castrol Industrial has the technoLogy InsIde.

Castrol Industrial North America Inc. l 150 West Warrenville Rd. 603-1E l Naperville, IL 60563 l [email protected] l castrol.com/industrial

the technoLogy inside

Maxum Petroleum l www.canyonstateoil.com l 1 800 894 7773


www.cascadesystems.net

Welcome to Cascade Systems Technology

Proud American Electronics Manufacturer

ISO 9001:2008ITAR RegisteredISO 13485:2003UL Approved for PCB and Cable AssembliesRoHS Compliant

Cascade Systems Technology (CST) is a Hillsboro, Oregon based contract electronic manufacturing company. CST was founded in 1989 and we have been providing quality electronics manufacturing and engineering services to our customers for over 20 years. We specialize in the design and manufacture of electronic assemblies for a variety of applications.

+ Prototype and QTA Capabilities with Turnkey, Kitted and Consignment+ Seamless Transition to Production+ Fine Pitch, BGAs, MLF Packages+ Lead Free Processes+ Engineering Design Services+ High Density and Double-Sided Capabilities+ Flying Probe, and Functional Testing+ Supply Chain Management+ Electro-Mechanical and Sub-Assembly Builds+ High Speed SMT Lines+ Automated Conformal Coat+ OSP Process+ Microelectronics+ Flip Chip Technology+ Wire Bonding+ Die Placement+ Encapsulation

Industries Served

Demonstrated Technology Leadership Starts with CSTOur Goal is 100% defect free products and to exceed our customers requirements.

23176 NW Bennett StreetHillsboro, OR 97124

T. [email protected]

DefenseAerospace

MedicalIndustrial

CommercialRenewable Energy

The Haas VF-5TR 5-Axis Vertical Machining Center

Standard Features Include:

• Removable 210 mm trunnion rotary table

• 24+1 side-mount tool changer

• 30 hp vector drive spindle

1 SETUP

5 SIDES

1/2 THE COST

WITH MORE STANDARD FEATURES . . .

The choice is simple.

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“Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and

refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower

CONTRIBUTORSKim Carpenter

Robbie BarrkmanGene WirthChris SeayHugh Taylor

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Layke Inc. Introduces Layke Tactical! Cover and Article Photography by Robbie Barrkman

Published by:A2Z MetalworkerPUBLISHER/EDITOR

Linda [email protected]

Mail Address: PO Box 33857Portland, OR 97292

Telephone: (602) 412-7696

Website: www.a2zmetalworker.com

Editors Corner

Linda DalyPublisher

Published bi-monthly to keep precision manu-facturers abreast of news and to supply a viable vendor source for the industry.Circulation: The A2Z Metalworker has compiled and maintains a master list of approximately 8500 people actively engaged in the precision manufacturing Industry. It has an estimated pass on readership of more than 19,300 people.Advertising Rates, deadlines and mechanical requirements furnished upon request or you can go to A2Zmetalworker.com.The Publisher assumes no responsibility for the contents of any advertisement, and all representations are those of the advertiser and not that of the publisher.The Publisher is not liable to any advertiser for any misprints or errors not the fault of the publisher, and in such event, the limit of the publisher's liability shall only be the amount of the publishers charge for such advertising.

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This month, we celebrate the 4th of July holiday. For many of us, it means a 3-day weekend, but it is truly one of our most important holidays in the United States.It is a federal holiday in the United States commemorating the adoption of

the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, declaring independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain (now officially known as the United Kingdom). We celebrate with fireworks, parades, barbecues, carnivals, fairs, picnics, concerts, baseball games, family reunions, in addition to various other public and private events celebrating the history, government, and traditions of the United States. Independence Day is a day we should all celebrate.

On another note, the Southwest issue of the Metalworker is in its 20th year, 9 years under my ownership. And while you think you know nearly every small manufacturing entity in the region, particularly those focused on defense and aerospace, each issue I learn of several new companies, even start-ups. In this issue, we feature a successful company that just this year moved to Arizona from Oklahoma and Texas. They moved here for the skilled employment base and for superior machine shop services. You will read about a family owned manufacturing company, celebrating 60 years, and just now starting up a new entity to manufacture firearms. Each issue you will read about established manufacturing businesses, also.This issue features a grinding shop with decades of years in business, family owned, and now ISO: 9001/AS9100 certified. Another article features a machine shop that has grown from 1 to 14 bays in just as many years in business (14), and has expanded with 5 axis capabilities.

In this issue, I published a letter I received from a previous machine shop owner in Phoenix, one who continues to read the Metalworker. I don’t often print letters in the magazine, but this one was so inspiring. It is a ‘bucket list’ story, and I hope you enjoy it.

In the manufacturing industry, we’re feeling pretty good. According to a recent survey by the National Association of Manufacturers, nearly 86 percent of manufacturers have a positive business outlook, and they plan to increase capital investment by 2.3 percent. More good news - the House of Representatives voted to pass a bill that will allow small businesses to get immediate tax write-offs on capital purchases of up to $500,000. And you can’t go a day of reading about manufacturing without reading about STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) initiatives throughout the United States. I am proud to participate on the board of the Arizona Precision Manufacturing Apprenticeship Program (AzPMAP), where today, the program has 17 apprentices placed in several shops around Arizona.

Other exciting news? IMTS is coming up! The International Manufacturing Technology Show is one of the largest industrial trade shows in the world, featuring 1,900 exhibitors and 100,000 visitors. The event is held every two years in September at McCormick Place, Chicago. This year it is held from September 8-13, 2014. Between FabTech and IMTS, you will see the most exciting machine tools, software and accessories all in one outing!

Go ahead and eat hot dogs this July 4th, but remember the tremendous significance to this day. Until next issue, I wish you a continued prosperous, healthy and happy 2014, and God Bless Our Troops!

The Haas VF-5TR 5-Axis Vertical Machining Center

Standard Features Include:

• Removable 210 mm trunnion rotary table

• 24+1 side-mount tool changer

• 30 hp vector drive spindle

1 SETUP

5 SIDES

1/2 THE COST

WITH MORE STANDARD FEATURES . . .

The choice is simple.



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Announcements. 6-7,10,12,14,16,18,20,22Feature Articles................... .26-28,42-43More Feature Articles .................... 67,74Buyers Guide Equipment............... 89-97Buyers Guide Processes ............. 98-109Card Gallery ................................ 89-109Index of Advertisers ...........................110Editorial.................................Throughout


Announcements & ReleasesStar Metal Fluids Adds Brulin cleaning solutions to Its Line of Products

Star Metal Fluids is now the exclusive industrial dealer for Brulin cleaning solutions for Arizona, Utah and Nevada. Brulin is widely known as the leader for industrial cleaning with aerospace and mil-spec

approvals with ISO 9001:2008 certification.

Star Metal Fluids has local Brulin inventory inventory in both Phoenix and Salt Lake and available for immediate delivery. Our “Cleaning Product Specialist” is only a phone call away to help you find a solution for your toughest cleaning applications. Phone 602-256-2092, 801-641-2214 or toll-free at 800-367-9966. [email protected]

Haas Foundation Awards $10,000 Scholarship to Ar izona Precis ion Manuf actur ing Apprenticeship Program (AzPMAP)

The Arizona Precision Manufacturing Program’s (AzPMAP) goal is to attract and prepare fully qualified apprentices while removing much of the administrative burden associated with startin up and maintaining an apprenticeship program.

By partnering with AzPMAP, manufacturing entities will have the opportunity to more easily access training dollars available thrtough the Arizona Job Training Program and other grants, like the one the Program just received from the

Haas Foundation.

Mark Lashinske Board president for AzPMAP, says, “We are so grateful for the Haas Foundation’s generous donation. We expect that these dollars will assist us in helping to offset the training costs for the 16 apprentices we have on board today.”

The machine shops participating in the AzPMAP with one or more apprentices include:

• Modern Industries • Auer Precision • Micro-Tronics • Aero Design • Excalibur Precision Manufacturing • Pivot Manufacturing • Aimco Precision, a Division of PPG

Mark Weathers, president of Excalibur Precision Manufacturing, says, “The AZPMAP apprenticeship has given us a competitive advantage by providing a pipeline of motivated, bright and high-performing young people. My three apprentices are some of my top employees already!”

To learn more about how you can capitalize on a readily available new labor source, contact Maxine Jones at [email protected] or visit www.azpmap.org

Desert EDM Joins Forces with Alternative Machine ToolAlternative Machine Tool acquires Desert EDM to expand its presence in the EDM Consumables Market. Alternative Machine Tool, LLC of Dousman, WI has acquired Desert EDM Sales with the goal of improving its customer support in providing quality, affordable edm parts and consumables in the western United States.

Desert EDM along with Alternative Machine Tool and its network of nationwide dealers strive to provide those manufacturers, who utilize Electrical Discharge Machining in their production process, with a high quality, affordable alternative source for their EDM needs.

As a result of the merger, Desert EDM’s physical, in stock inventory has increased by 400%. Supporting EDM Machines by Accutex, Agie, Charmilles, Fanuc, Makino, Mitsubishi, Sodick and more, Desert EDM is now poised to expand its reach outside of the Arizona market and reach manufacturers in California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico.

• Supplying:• EDM Wire (Hitachi, AMT, NEX-GEN)• Filters• Resin• Electrodes (Brass, Copper, Multi-Channel)• Power Feed Contacts• Flushing Nozzles, Flush Cups• Cables• Replacement Parts• EDM Oil

Since its inception in 2001, Alternative Machine Tool has built a quiet but strong reputation with its customers by providing them with the tools needed to be successful in their manufacturing businesses. For more information on Desert EDM or how they can help your business, they can be reached at:480-816-6300.

‘MUT’ Machine Utilization Tracker Offers An Affordable Way For Machine Shops To Increase Machine Tool Utilization and Profitability

Measure Capacity. Improve Utilization. Increase Revenue.

Founder s of the patent pending MUT are now introducing an inexpensive way for machine shop owners to increase their machine

Is your business in Arizona?

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¾ E�ective experience discussing and understanding applications.

¾ Local demonstrations available.

¾ On sta�, local service support for New and Used equipment.

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¾ If we can’t help you, we can refer you to who can.

¾ In business, in Phoenix, since 1969 with long term relationships.

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utilization. The small device, which is built on a mini-Linux computer, c an be i n s t a l l ed i n seconds, attaching it to the power on the machine. It connects via WiFi, and then sends data to the cloud. No need for costly servers to capture the data.

While many machines c a p t u r e t h e i r ow n individual data, this data is presented differently by each machine tool OEM. MUT captures all of the data in a consistent format, and sends the data via the

cloud to your smart phone -- allowing you to monitor your machines anywhere in the world instantaneously.

Machine Utilization Tracker (MUT) is a simple, effective solution to

provide machine shop management with straightforward reports. By providing non-intrusive monitoring of energy consumption, MUT is able to determine machine operational runtimes to provide detailed reports on machine utilization.

The company says that an extremely well run machine shop should consistently see 70-75% utilization on their machines to maximize profitability; but most only see 50%! They say that if MUT can increase machine tool utilization by just 5%, the business can see a revenue increase of $10,000 per year. In a company with 30 machines, that means a revenue increase of $300,000 per year!

If you or your shop foremen have said, “I want to know when my machines are running, and how I can improve their utilization”, contact MUT at 602-524-0192 or visit MUTCloud.com. They are conducting promotional trials with a select number of customers.

Creedbilt Announces New Machinery for Shearing and Green Technology

Creedbilt Inc. has been a manufacturer of custom truck bodies, flatbeds, hauler bodies, tool boxes, and resellers of Pacific utility bodies for over 50 years. Jeremy Creed, Owner of the company, says,

“We have just installed a new Accurshear, with front gauging, that ups

Is your business in Arizona?

ACC Machinery o�ers:

¾ E�ective experience discussing and understanding applications.

¾ Local demonstrations available.

¾ On sta�, local service support for New and Used equipment.

¾ Family owned & operated.

¾ Inventory of several types of common wear parts and tooling.

¾ If we can’t help you, we can refer you to who can.

¾ In business, in Phoenix, since 1969 with long term relationships.

Call: 602-258-7330 MACHINERY SALES4 SERVICE4 PARTS4 TOOLING4

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WHAT DO YOU LOOK FORIN YOUR MACHINE TOOL DISTRIBUTOR?

TOP QUALITY EQUIPMENT

ARIZONA CNC offers a wide range of top quality, new and used equipment, in all sizes, capabilities and prices. When it comes to machine tools or accessories to enhance your productivity, you can count on getting the right solution for the right price, without compromise.

RELIABLE SERVICE SUPPORT

Local, Responsive, Factory Certifi ed

Your emergency is our emergency. So donʼt panic. If anything goes wrong with your equipment, call Arizona CNC. You will get a quick response from an expert, factory certifi ed service engineer. On-site or over the phone, AZCNC's team of expert service personnel can solve problems fast-usually within hours. Your uptime is our goal.

Keep in mind time spent preventing problems can save you the unwanted costs of having to fi x them later. AZCNC offers preventive maintenance programs to help you avoid unexpected downtime through managed care of your equipment.

PROFESSIONAL SALES ENGINEERS

Knowledgeable, Experienced

Our goal is to provide you with the right solution and improve your profi tability. The cheapest machine on the market is seldom the best value or the most cost effective. Our sales engineers are trained professionals with the ability to recognize and apply the appropriate manufacturing process for your needs. Their understanding of processes as well as product enables them to fi nd the most effi cient machine tool for your application. Our sales staff also can present you with the financing options that make your machine tool purchases more affordable.

EXPERIENCED APPLICATIONS ENGINEERING

Time Studies, Programming Services, Training, Turnkey Projects, Automation

If you are looking for a partner to help solve your machining challenges and optimize your cycle times turn to our applications engineering department. You benefi t from the knowledge and experience that comes with people who work full time solving tough problems for various companies every day. Whether itʼs evaluating your parts to help you make your machine selection, training the people in your facility to maximize your productivity or providing you a full turnkey system we are committed to your success.

Arizona CNC Equipment, LLC1205 S. Park Lane, Suite 2

Tempe, AZ 85281www.arizonacnc.com

LOCAL FACILITY

We are proud to be a 100% locally owned and operated company and our mission has always been to be the supplier of choice to Arizonaʼs manufacturing companies – the ones determined to fi nd a better way to compete in this worldʼs economy. We offer everything from parts to production-ready systems. And we do so with a friendly, personal touch, too often missing in todayʼs click-and-order environment.

Call us with your manufacturing challenges. Youʼll be pleasantly surprised by what we can provide!

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World class manufacturer of high technology CNC turning centers, machining centers and cylindrical grinders.

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www.hardinge.com

For Immediate Release:

Hardinge Announces Alliance with a Premier Distribution Company in the US

ELMIRA, NY: Hardinge Inc. (www.hardinge.com) is pleased to

announce an alliance with Arizona CNC Equipment, LLC. They will have exclusive sales and support responsibilities for Hardinge products in Arizona and portions of Nevada. Over a transition period of the next few months they will replace the current Hardinge distributor and service support group.

“We are honored to be working with this caliber of distributor that will sell and support our products.” said Rick Simons, President and CEO of Hardinge Inc. “Arizona CNC has been serving job shops and manufacturers in the region since last century. They bring a team of well trained sales, service and applications people to assist in future sales and provide service support on existing Hardinge equipment in the field. Their reputation as capable, comprehensive and a professional organization make for a perfect fit with Hardinge.”

“Hardinge is a strong company with strong brand names of Hardinge, Bridgeport, Kellenberger, Hauser and Tschudin. We have a loyal customer base who appreciates the benefits of buying machines and accessories with our brand names. We are confident in entrusting our customer relationships to this group and are also pleased that Arizona CNC has confidence in Hardinge. We believe our products complement their existing strong machine lines,” continued Mr. Simons.

Hardinge announced earlier this year its intention to further strengthen its brand reputation for precision, continuous machining accuracy and longevity through ongoing and increased focus on the advancement of our precision, SUPER PRECISION and SP

2 technology and products. Hardinge will continue to develop and introduce the

world’s finest lathes, machining centers, grinding machines and workholding to support and enhance the businesses of manufacturers around the world.

About Hardinge Inc. Hardinge is a global designer, manufacturer and distributor of machine tools, specializing in SUPER PRECISION(TM) and precision CNC Lathes, high performance Machining Centers, high-end cylindrical and jig Grinding Machines, and technologically advanced Workholding & Rotary Products. The Company's products are distributed to most of the industrialized markets around the world with approximately 69% of the 2008 sales outside of North America. Hardinge has a very diverse international customer base and serves a wide variety of end-user markets. This customer base includes metalworking manufacturers which make parts for a variety of industries, as well as a wide range of end users in the aerospace, agricultural, transportation, basic consumer goods, communications and electronics, construction, defense, energy, pharmaceutical and medical equipment, and recreation industries, among others.. The Company has manufacturing operations in the United States, Switzerland, Taiwan, and China. Hardinge's common stock trades on NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol, "HDNG." For more information, please visit http://www.hardinge.com

HARDINGE

Hardinge is the leader in providing highly reliable turning, milling, grinding and workholding solutions unmatched in the industry for more than 100 years.Products include: • HARDINGE, manual lathes to high-performance, Super-

Precision multi-tasking CNC lathes, world’s largest manufacturer of precision collets and workholding systems.

• BRIDGEPORT, manual knee mills to high-performance vertical and horizontal multi-tasking CNC machining centers.

• KELLENBERGER, precision CNC universal grinding machines for OD, face and ID grinding.

• TSCHUDIN, compact, high precision CNC grinding machines for low or high-volume OD production CNC grinding.

• HAUSER, multi-axis precision jig grinding for complex profi les.


Announcements & Releases Continued

The optimal manufacturing

solution for you is more than just an advanced machine tool.

It’s also a skilled team of individuals dedicated to ensuring the technology is properly applied to your application

and then standing behind you for the life of the machine as your needs evolve. That’s the best strategy to win when your customer demands you to

perform under pressure. We at Doosan would like to be that team for you.

We understand the demands you are under and have built our reputation on providing optimal manufacturing solutions and outstanding support.

Contact us today, let our team perform for you, and win!

Optimal Solutions for the FutureDoosan Infracore America

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our shearing capacity from ¼” x 10’ to ¼” x 12’. We have always been able to bend 12’ sheets and now we can shear them too.” He continued, “Also, in an effort to become more environmentally friendly, we have installed a 43kw photovoltaic system on our building.This has taken about a year to complete (doing most of the work ourselves.) The system should produce as much, if not more, than the power we actually consume!”

For more information on how Creedbilt, Inc. can help you with your manufacturing needs, contact them at: [email protected] or call (623) 939-8119.

Blue Streak Grinding Announces ISO 9001 / AS9100 Certification!

Blue Streak Grinding, Inc. is pleased to announce the achievement of registration to ISO 9001/2008

and AS9100 Rev. C, Quality Management Systems for Aviat ion, Space, and Defense Organizations. This certification demonstrates Blue Streak Grinding’s commitment to customer satisfaction and product quality. Great Western Registrar, an ANAB accredited certification body, completed the AS9100 audit and the Certificate of Registration was issued on 9/19/2013. Blue Streak Grinding’s Oasis Identification Number is 6137140523.

To learn more about how Blue Streak Gr inding can help your business, contact them at 602-353-8088 or visit bluestreakgrinding.com.

ReSell CNC Announces ‘ReSell CNC West’

ReSell CNC opened it’s doors 8 years ago with plans to change the way used machinery is bought and sold. The company offers assistance with appraisals, auctions, and reselling used machine tools.

Mike Mills, president of the new entity, will run the West Coast Division for the company. Mike has 11 years of experience selling used machinery and 37 years in machinery sales. He has been a Certified Machine Tool Sales Engineer (CMTSE) over the course of his career. Mike says, “I’ve done business with ReSell CNC over the years. I always admired they way they conduct themselves and their business model. I am very excited to come on board.”

He continued, “ReSell CNC has grown exponentially since they opened for business. Their business model is ‘To consistently provide the easiest platform for manufacturers to buy and sell


Samuel Aerospace alloys are available in a complete range of shapes and sizes to meet the diverse requirements of the

commercial and defense aerospace markets. We stock one of the most extensive aluminum inventories in the industry.

Our available aerospace aluminum offering includes:

• Sheet&Coil • Plate • Rod&Bar • Tube&Pipe

A variety of AS, ISO and TS standards ensures conformance to customer’s requirements. Primary aerospace service

centers are ISO 9000 and AS9100/9120 certified.

Samuel Aerospace offers value-added quality processing services including:

• Water-JetCutting • BarandExtrusionSawing • AluminumPlateSawing • FirstStageProcessing

Our pre-production processing services are all performed to stringent quality standards to your specifications, saving you

time and money while ensuring the quality of your end product. We go to great heights to deliver the right product to the

correct quality standards, on time, every time. Plus, we offer Stock and Release and Vendor Managed Inventory programs.

These programs can help your company eliminate costly inventories and improve cash flow.

TolearnmorecontactyourSamuelAerospaceMetalsrepresentativeorcall(877)565-7050.

Everything you need in a metals supplier…quality, reliability and availability.

SamuelAerospace is one of North America’s top ten processors

and distributors of metals, operating more than 40 facilities which are

strategically located throughout Canada and the United States.

Additional facilities maintained in the United Kingdom, Australia,

Mexico and China extend our reach globally. Our strategically

placed processing and service centers allow us to offer on time

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40 station ATC with 1.8 sec. tool-to-tool time

Full contouring C axis Main & Sub

35 Hp high-torque, 4,000 rpm turning spindle

X1 axis glass scales

12 station turning-tool turret with tool monitoring system

Fanuc 31i-A controller

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West Caldwell, NJ 07006 Tel: 973-618-2500Eastern Technical Center: 2906 Business Park Drive Building C

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Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 Tel: 847-437-1010Southern Technical Center: 10010 Houston Oaks Drive

Houston, TX 77064 Tel: 832-912-2000Western Technical Center: 488 W. Meats Avenue

Orange, CA 92865 Tel: 714-974-1330Financing available through Doosan Global Finance

Doosan Infracore

Cutting edge technology brings power and performance to the multi-function Puma MX mill-turn. Featuring a tilt milling spindle and 40-station ATC, with twin spindles, a lower turret, and up to 9 axes of machining versatility,

Puma MX machines do in a single machine set-up what traditionally has required two or more machines. And using just one machine means fewer man-hours and lower costs with no sacrifice to precision and performance.

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Only the most advanced engineering features are used to build the machine-tools from Doosan. Whether turning or machining, look to Doosan as the leader in

Learn more about the Puma family of MX machines. Call your local Doosan distributor and ask for a demonstration.

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Mike and the ReSell CNC West team are looking for highly motivated team members to join the company in sales positions. Mike says both experienced machine tool sales individuals and those new to the industry are encouraged to apply for this new growth opportunity. ReSell CNC West will offer a venue to work hard and have fun!

To learn more about what ReSell CNC West can do for your business, contact them at 844-478-8181 (toll free). Interested applicants are encouraged to email their resume to Mike at [email protected].

Haas Factor y Outlet-Phoenix Invites Machinists to their Tempe, AZ Showroom for 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 help Monday through Wednesday from 3:30 to 7 pm.

One day classes are also offered on some of the most common topics raised to our service technicians and applications engineers.

Please join us for an upcoming session of the Haas CNC training. We

recommend registering as early as possible as class sizes are limited. July 14-16th: Mill TrainingJuly 31st : Renishaw Probe BasicsAugust 18-20th : Lathe TrainingAugust 28th: Haas Macro Programming

Training is held at Haas Factory Outlet- Phoenix, a Division of Ellison Machinery, located at 1610 A Priest Drive, Tempe, AZ. To register or for additional information, call 480-968-5335 or visit ellisonaz.com

Local Business Owner Norgaard for House of Representatives

Hello, I am Jill Norgaard and am working to earn the opportunity to represent the voters of District 18. As an engineer currently working in the Aerospace and Defense industry, I have seen first hand the number of jobs in my field leave Arizona. Our Precinct walks during the last six months have proven to me that the number one concern of my constituents is job opportunity. I will market and promote the technological infrastructure and talents that Arizona has to offer to potential employers so that we retain and attract high technology jobs. Employers are drawn to lower taxes, and reduced federal government influence. Additionally, companies




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ACC Machinery Co., Inc. is pleased To Announce That They Now Represent Marvel Horizontal And Vertical Band SawsACC Machinery Co., Inc. is pleased to announce they now represent Marvel horizontal and vertical band saws. Marvel Manufacturing Company Inc. has been designing and manufacturing the highest quality metal cutting saws available for the past 100 years. In fact, Marvel introduced the first vertical tilt-frame band saw in 1917 and remains the leader in the vertical tilt frame market. The Marvel line of vertical saws ranges from the single cut universal Series 8 to

our fully automatic programmable Touch Tech models with miter cutting up to 60 degrees. And their Spartan band saw line features both hinge and dual column band saw designs in capacities from 12 to 60 inches as well as a complete line of plate saws and contour saws. ACC Machinery continues to offer reliable machines at competitive prices with a healthy variety of selection. They remain steadfast to providing local, experienced application and service support. ACC believes in customers having choices, given the fact that often a unique combination of equipment, tooling, parts and services are necessary for covering all of the bases. Since 1969, the ACC Machinery family continues to value their customers and the opportunities to help support ongoing productivity needs. “I really think our customers will like the fact that Marvel saws are both user-friendly and innovative. For instance, their patent pending

‘Easy Load’ blade guide design makes blade changes easier than ever before.” – shared Kirk McDowell, of ACC Machinery Co., Inc.

Serving The West From The West

“You can’t sell what you don’t have.” This attitude continues to drive Coastal Metals’ committment to their customers in the Western States. To them it’s all about local stock.For that reason, Coastal Metals considers advertising partners like A2Z

Metalworker a vital component in spreading the news about their extensive inventory of large diameter carbon and alloy bars.

“A high profile is worthless unless it’s a good profile,” explains Jerry Brooks, Coastal Metals’ owner. “Our service builds our business, as well as our reputation for having the stock to cover an order. We work hard and invest a lot of capital to earn that image”.

Coastal Metals’ distribution hub and two sales offices in California offer 1-day delivery to most of its customers, including Arizona, where a new sales and distribution center is anticipated by 2015.

“Our sales staff has an average work experience of over 25 years,” Brooks says, “and we’re not afraid to use it. We all come from a service background and use it to keep Coastal Metals as the place to try first.”

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Gene Haas Given G r e e n F l a g f o r Formula One Team Gene Haas, owner of Haas Automation, Inc., and co-owner of Stewart-Haas Racing,

has been granted a license by Formula One Racing’s governing body, the FIA, to field a team in the Formula One world championship in 2016. Speaking at a recent press conference, Mr. Haas said, “The combination of Haas Automation building machine tools and promoting our brand through NASCAR fits perfectly into a marketing strategy of entering Formula One to enhance our brand name into a premium market. When it comes to our customer base, everybody wants to buy a premium brand, and I’ve always thought Formula One is the premium brand in racing.” The new Haas F1 Team will be based in Kannapolis, North Carolina, on the campus of Stewart-Haas Racing. Team principal will be F1 veteran Guenther Steiner, who has extensive F1 technical and organizational experience with several teams, including Red Bull, Jaguar, and Mercedes. Founded in 1983 and based in Oxnard, California, Haas Automation is the largest CNC machine tool builder in the western world. The company recently celebrated building and installing its 150,000th CNC machine, at a family owned precision engineering company in Sweden. Haas Automation has always set aggressive targets, and love a challenge. Gene Haas, like many of our customers around the world, is passionate about motor racing, so this move seems like the logical next step. Speaking from the Haas factory in California, Mr. Peter Zierhut, VP of





Announcements & Releases ContinuedSpecial Projects, elaborated on the company’s bid to enter Formula One.

“We’re very pleased to have this opportunity to join the Formula One community, and although the first few years will be extremely hard work, we expect it will yield tremendous benefits in the long term.” To learn more about Haas Factory Outlet, a Division of Ellison Machinery Co., LLC, call them at 480.968.5877 or visit their website at www.ellisonaz.com.

Brother Industries has released its new compact machining center product line, SPEEDIO. Since its release in 1985, the Tapping Center series has contributed to the productivity of machining parts in a broad range of industries, such as motorcycle parts, automobile parts and IT equipment parts.

Through collaboration with our customers about their requirements for productivity, we have continued to improve our Tapping Center while accumulating original high production technologies to increase machining speed by even 0.5 seconds and reduce machining time by even 1 second.

With the theme of “perpetual pursuit of high productivity” and utilizing the technologies cultivated through the development of the Tapping

Center series, we have developed a machine for the next stage, and released it in 2013 with a new brand name, ‘SPEEDIO.’

A highly rigid structure has been achieved using analysis technology data accumulated during the design phase. A high output spindle motor is used, which demonstrates excellent machining capabilities from the low speed range to the medium- and high-speed range, enabling high-efficiency machining and heavy-duty machining. The machine also demonstrates high capabilities over a broad range of machining, including circular machining and high-speed three dimensional machining, utilizing the smooth path offset function, look-ahead function etc. More information regarding these products is also available on our website at http://www.yamazen.com/products/brother-products.

FeatureCAM Version 2015 to be Previewed at IMTS

Delcam’s FeatureCAM feature-based CAM system includes a range of enhancements to make the software even easier to use, allowing customers to produce programs for all types of machine tools quickly, delivering high-quality parts in shorter lead times.

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appear in the window in an orientation that matches how the tool will be used on the machine, eliminating any mental disconnect when selecting the desired tools for particular operations.

Another change allows the picking of the bottom radius of solid faces through curvature analysis. This greatly improves interactive feature recognition by removing the need to take measurements of the part to identify the bottom radius.

The availability of a wide range of post-processors has always been a key benefit of FeatureCAM, together with the ability for users to customize their posts. In the latest release post variables can be assigned user-defined names. This change will be particularly valuable when programmers need to understand customizations in posts that have been made by other users.

Press Contact: Mary Shaw, [email protected], 1.877.335.2261 ext 232

Doosan to Introduce Puma SMX Series of Mill-Turn Multi-Tasking Machines at IMTS 2014

Doosan’s all-new Puma SMX 3100 S Mill-Turn Multi-tasking Machine will make its North American premier at IMTS 2014, in booth 8100, which is located at the entrance of the South Hall at McCormick Place.

The Puma SMX Series is Doosan’s third generation Mill-Turn Multi-tasking Machine, integrating the capabilities of a vertical machining center and horizontal turning center into one platform. The Puma SMX Series distinguishes itself with a more rigid 90o vertical axis and forward positioned automatic tool changer, for improved milling capabilities as well as enhanced operator ergonomics.

The Puma SMX Series will initially be made available in two sizes, the Puma SMX2600, with a 10” chuck and 3.1” bar capacity, and the Puma SMX3100, featuring a larger 12” chuck with 4” of bar capacity.

its latest version of FeatureCAM for advanced feature-based and knowledge-based programming at IMTS 2014 in Chicago, IL on booth E-3222. The first productivity-enhancing option in FeatureCAM is a new command that allows entire parts or projects to be mirrored more easily than before. The option supports parts to be milled with multiple set-ups, including 2.5D, 3D and 3+2-axis configurations. Both ‘Move’ and ‘Copy’ options are available to reflect all the features within the part or project relative to a choice of a particular plane, line or axis in which to mirror.

Continuous enhancements have been made to the FeatureCAM user interface to improve ease of use. One simple improvement in the new release makes tool windows respond to the machine choice. Tools now Announcements Continued Page 20

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See What AMBA Members That Use Cimatron Say:

“Our efficiency has been increasing incredibly. I know it has impacted our bottom line. We can take on more business, because we are not spending as much time in design. The flow from design to manufacturing is much smoother, shortening our delivery dates, making us more efficient and improving quality.”Kent Smith, President, Diamond Tool & Engineering

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

“We believe one of the things that sets LS Mold apart from other shops is our Cimatron CAD/CAM capabilities. Cimatron really listened to our needs and it shows in how they implement our requirements in the software. The modeling package is first rate. It particularly shines in electrode creation. Customer support from Cimatron is outstanding.”Jim Dent/David Koning, LS Mold

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Ya m a z e n O p e n H o u s e Exhibited Latest Machine Tool Technology Yamazen Inc. would like to extend a big “thank you” to all who attended our inaugural Texas Support and Technical Center Open House. We opened our doors for two days for visitors to tour the new facility and to see some of the latest machine tool demonstrations with the most advanced manufacturing technologies. The machinery demonstrated included the new Brother Speedio Compact Machining Centers along with products from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Mitutoyo, Takisawa. Visitors learned about new high speed milling techniques, 3+2 machining strategies, advanced tooling, Brother’s proprietary tool change canned cycle, principles behind Brother’s proprietary synchronous tapping cycle and many other features available only on the next generation Brother C00

control.

Also shown was the new, powerful Takisawa TS-4000YS mill turn lathe with its full 10 horsepower, 6000 RPM milling spindle.

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C h e v a l i e r M a c h i n e r y Engineers To Demonstrate 9 Machines At IMTS

Chevalier plans to exhibit nine machines September 8-13 in Chicago’s enormous McCormick Place. The machines, many of which have been designed to increase production and efficiency, will be running


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When you talk to people who make what matters, the bottom line on what matters most to them is just that—the bottom line.

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accuracy and versatility of OMAX’s range of abrasive waterjet solutions and have an opportunity to discuss their manufacturing challenges with applications experts.

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Visitors to the company’s booth will also experience the fast, precise cutting performance of the OMAX 60120 JetMachining Center with a Tilt-A-Jet® cutting head accessory that achieves virtually zero taper with no reduction in cutting speed for the precision cutting of parts with square, taper-free edges, including interlocking pieces and dovetail fittings. Ideal for a wide range of production runs across various industry segments, such as aerospace, energy and fabrication, the bridge-style machine can cut complex parts from a variety of materials, including advanced composites, exotic alloys, traditional metals and rubber.

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For more information on turning and milling machines, please contact Herbert Hou of Chevalier Machinery at (562) 903-1929, extension 128. For information on grinding machines, please contact Johnson Lan of Chevalier Machinery at (562) 903-1929, extension 126 or email: [email protected] or visit us at www.chevalierusa.com

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Microchip Buys Taiwan’s ISSC Tech

Microchip Technology Inc. made a move to make its first major overseas acquisition with a $328.5 million deal to acquire Taiwanese fabless chip company ISSC Technologies Corp., which sells Bluetooth chips aimed at the growing IoT sector.

Microchip’s motivation behind the purchase stems from its need to add proprietary low-power Bluetooth products to its product portfolio. Microchip already has an arsenal of chip products tailored for the embedded market, including microcontrollers, analog chips, Flash-IP, as well as WiFi and Bluetooth modules. However, Microchip’s Bluetooth modules employ chips made by other companies. By gaining ISSC’s wireless expertise in providing Bluetooth solutions, Microchip believes it has leverage to be a major chip player in the IoT market.

“This acquisition provides us with our own standalone Bluetooth chips as well as enables significant cost-reduction of our Bluetooth solutions,” said Ganesh Moorthy, chief operating officer of Microchip, following the announcement of the deal. “This enhances our value proposition to be a complete supplier for the Internet of Things market.”

ISSC makes Bluetooth chips designed into a variety of wireless audio applications, including headset and speakers. Although wireless audio has been its main focus, ISSC’s Bluetooth products are getting designed into a growing number of embedded applications, including healthcare, sports and fitness, mobile point-of-sale (POS), and home appliances. However, it doesn’t have a presence in automotive, which is a key market for Microchip. In addition, the majority of its customers are located in Taiwan, China, and Japan, Moorthy said.

“As Bluetooth becomes a ubiquitous standard in many applications, helped along by the growth of smartphones and tablets that are Bluetooth-enabled, the embedded market has become a fast-growing market for ISSC solutions,” Moorthy said.

Microchip will also add Bluetooth software stacks to its already extensive library, which the company says provides the seamless communications and security protocols that are required for Internet connectivity.

ISSC has 27 propr ietary products in portfolio, with 119 patents granted and 91 patents pending. It garnered revenue of approximately $69.2 million in 2013, and yielded gross and operating margins of 46.2% and 18.9%, respectively. It has $34.2 million in cash and investments on its balance sheet and no debt.

Microchip has been on a buying spree. Last month, it completed its $394 million cash deal to acquire high-voltage analog and mixed-signal vendor Supertex Inc. In November 2013, it acquired Belgium-based EqcoLogic, a provider of equalizer and coaxial transceiver products for an undisclosed sum. Also last year, it bought Novocell, a supplier of antifuse-based embedded memory IP, for an undisclosed amount. In 2012, it acquired fabless ASSP provider Standard Microsystems Corp. (SMSC) for the $939 million, giving it a presence in two key vertical markets: wireless audio and computing.



Layke Incorporated is by all measures a successful American aerospace precision machine shop, celebrating 60 years in business next year. But they are even more remarkable in their ability to reinvent themselves. And they have done just that for the past 4 years.

Ernie Apodaca was just 18 years old when he came to work for Layke. It was an obvious choice for the young machinist. From the time he was in grade school, Ernie attended the family and friends events Layke hosted for its employees and their families. Ernie says, “Our neighbor worked at Layke as a book keeper, and I was just always invited to the events.” He continued, “I loved being around a machine shop and seeing how it operated.”

In 3 short years, Ernie, at 21 years of age, was promoted to night foreman. He says, “I looked around the shop, and I was learning from guys who were 30 years older than me. I just knew that in time these guys would retire and they would need people like me to keep the business going.” Ernie believed then, and now conveys this to his team,

“Be more valuable than what you are being paid.”

In 1980, Ernie began buying shares in the company, and by 1992, he was the majority owner in the company. Today, Ernie serves as president of Layke Inc. and is the sole owner of the company.

Ernie is very proud of Layke. “Like other machine shops, we are good

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for the country and good for the industry.” He continued, “I don’t have to make a huge profit to feel successful. I feel we are adding jobs, enriching our employees’ lives, and helping to make a better United States. I am proud to be part of this great country.”

Four years ago, in 2010, Ernie got a call from one of his previous customers. He says, “Dan Schulze was a great customer for Layke when he worked for Honeywell. When Dan called me, he told me he was looking for a marketing position.” Ernie continued, “I didn’t believe I needed a marketing person, but when Dan sent me his resume, I knew we had a fit for him in the company.”

Dan says, “I wasn’t interested in coming to Layke for a pure marketing position. I was looking more to help Ernie and the Layke team with a strategic business plan to help grow the business.” It was a fit from the start.

Dan knew from his discussions years ago with Ernie that Layke’s business was very targeted to just one industry...the aerospace industry. Dan says, “Aerospace is cyclical, and I knew that a diversification strategy would help ensure Layke’s viability over the next 60 plus years. On top of this, I knew that my former employer, Honeywell, represented more than 70% of Layke’s revenues, and this, of course, left them very vulnerable. My job was to take a great company and make it more diversified.


Ernie says, “4 years ago, our customers often termed us a great Mom and Pop machine shop. While this is endearing, we wanted to take Layke to the next level, and to demonstrate to our customers that we were investing in technologies and systems that would make them comfortable to bring larger quantity orders to us.”

Two and half years ago, the company upgraded to a state of the art MRP system and transitioned to JobBOSS. Ernie says that while there was some initial resistance from the employees, the new MRP system allowed Layke to accurately track the cost of every job in their shop.

Next, they began the process of re-certifying to ISO: 9001 / AS9100, a certification that they had let lapse. Ernie says, “Dan was instrumental in this process, and just recently we recertified to the newest certification, ISO: 9001/ AS9100 Revision C.”

Dan and the company set out to reduce their dependence on one company for the majority of their business. Dan says, “We now have more than a dozen customers, and no one customer comprises more than 30% of our business.” The company, long recognized for its aerospace expertise, has now expanded the industries it serves to include commercial, defense, industrial and energy. Their strategic partnerships include an alliance with a local precision investment foundry, research and development projects that have resulted in a production awards for innovative new technologies for the freight industry, and contract manufacturing for aircraft controls and fuel nozzle components used in space programs, aircraft and ground mounted generators.

Perhaps the most radical diversification effort Layke has undertaken is the formation of a new company, called Layke Tactical. This new entity started with a call Ernie received from one of his previous employees. This individual had opened his own shop in Casa Grande, and the company manufactured lower and upper AR15s. The owner was ready to retire, and was seeking advice from Ernie on auctioning his equipment, which Ernie says included ‘monster’ horizontal machines.

Through discussion, Ernie decided to purchase all of the capital equipment from the shop, and his team packed it up and brought it back to Phoenix. With all of the new capacity afforded by the machinery, Dan and Ernie determined their next diversification move was to launch their own AR platform of hunting and tactical rifles and comm, under the new company Layke Tactical.

Dan says, “Layke Tactical offers aerospace precision AR style rifles and pistols. Our goal at Layke Tactical i s to o f fer very h igh quality rifles and pistols at a moderate price. Layke Tactical machines aluminum billet to aerospace precision tolerances, making a very r ig id upper and lower receiver with solid trigger guards and thicker sidewalls.” He continued, “Our upper and lower receivers are the core strength and the foundation of our product’s reliability and accuracy.”

The Arizona Elk Society was one of the first entities to evaluate the Layke Tactical firearms. Their reaction?

“Layke Tactical has built Arizona’s finest AR15 rifle.

Built with aerospace precision, this is one of the finest AR15 rifles you will find. These are specially made for the Arizona Elk Society with our logo on the receiver.”

Ernie says, “We support customizing our customers’ rifles from extreme tactical rifles or pistols to the most sophisticated multi caliber sportsman’s hunting rifles.”

The company offers ‘First Responder’ specials for all service personal, including the armed services, as well as to fire and police departments. They guarantee the lowest price to ‘First Responder’ entities, including free or at-cost upgrades. They are dedicated to giving back to the community, and have provided Layke Tactical ARs for fund raising. Dan says that the new Layke Tactical business has energized each and every employee at the company.

Today, Layke Inc. is the machine entity that manufactures aerospace, commercial, industrial, energy and ordnance products. Layke resides in a 20,000 square foot facility owned by the company, and has an additional 8,000 square foot facility adjacent to their headquarters, affording them room to again grow as business dictates. The management team at Layke has a combined 175 years of aerospace manufacturing experience, and across the company, with its 30 employees, there is a combined 450 years of experience.

Just this past month, Layke took shipment of their newest Haas machine, a Haas VF-4SS. Ernie says the new machine tool purchase was precipitated by a customer they were manufacturing small quantities of a part for. He says, “The customer told us we were doing a great job on the part, but how were we going to gear up to 20,000 units per year?”

Brent Hyduke, Manufacturing Manager says, “We needed a machine


“Layke machines a number of proprietary components for us, usually stainless steel and aluminum. While we have a number of suppliers, when we find a shop that does an outstanding job on specific parts, we keep going back to them.

The team at Layke is extremely technically astute, their pricing is cost effective, and they are very flexible on delivery. Usually, we go from a prototype lot size, and move to short run production, and they handle this very well. I absolutely recommend the team at Layke!” Kevin, Director, Aerospace Manufacturer

“We started using Layke more than 12 years ago. They build aerospace components for us, some of which we single source to them.

We value Layke as a partner for a number of reasons. Their quality is impeccable, their on-time performance is outstanding, and they are extremely flexible when we have schedule changes.

The team at Layke is just so easy to work with. We highly recommend them.”Tim, Sales, Aerospace Manufacturer

“We’ve been working with Layke for 15 years now, with Layke making critical aerospace parts for us. We single source a number of parts to them for a number of reasons; their quality is outstanding, they are extremely reliable; they demonstrate a sense of urgency; and finally, they are family-owned, so you talk right to the owner. There is something good going on behind those walls. They have no turnover, and they are somehow able to keep the same outstanding employees, which is rare in this industry.”Ray, Buyer, Aerospace Manufacturer

To learn more about Layke Inc. and Layke Tactical, contact them at 602-272-2654 or visit their website at layketactical.com. Better yet, if you are driving up to the Mogollon Rim for a hunting trip, look for their billboard in Rye, Arizona, on Highway 87.

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that offered probing capabilities, and the Haas VF-4SS fit our requirements. We fixtured and tooled it, and now we are running gangbusters.”

Brent added, “We really value the tool management capabilities. It enabled us to use historical data to determine how many parts we could run on 1 tool. Then, when the Haas VF-4SS hits the maximum parts for the one tool, it calls up a redundant tool. With its 41 tool capacity, we are currently running 4 redundant tools for this new production part.”

He added, “On our Haas VF-4SS, on one project, we increased our parts per run from 8 to 24 -- in essence a 300% increase in table size and continuous run capacity.”

Layke has added several new machine tools to their business. They purchased a new EDM machine that can run lights out for increased capabilities and to EDM their firearms magazine wells. Dan says, “We are open for business for customers requiring EDM machining, and we also offer the Hole Master HM400 High Speed drilling machine.”

Ernie feels pride in proliferating ‘Made in America’, and the Haas machine tools are 100% made in America. He says, “The Haas machines have worked so well for us for a number of decades, and they continue to be the best priced, high technology machine tools available.” He elaborates, “Good machines are important, but it is imperative that we buy from a company that offers exceptional service. Ellison Machinery Co., our local Haas dealer, has outstanding service capabilities. And Bryan Johnson, our Sales Engineer, doesn’t push products. He offers solutions and products that Layke needs. We value our relationship with Bryan and the Ellison Machinery team.”

Hear What Layke’s Customers Have to Say!

“We started working with Layke a couple of years ago after going through 3 different machine shops. They have been outstanding, the whole team, from Dan to Ernie, to the shop guys, are just all great to work with.

Since we started with Layke, we can now offer a complete machined investment casting solution to our customers. It’s really opened up our business, and I thank Ernie and the team at Layke!” Mike, Sales, Investment Casting Company



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Rolls-Royce eyed as A380neo engine maker

If Airbus re-engines its A380, Rolls-Royce is likely to be the provider of the new engines, says Emirates President Tim Clark, speaking at the International Air Transport Association’s annual general meeting in Doha, Qatar. Emirates, which has been pushing for a re-engined A380, says it won’t cancel current orders for the plane regardless, but says an A380neo would be more profitable. AviationWeek.com

Commerce Secretary urges manufacturers to promote factory careers

‘U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker urged manufacturers to work with students, parents, teachers, and guidance counselors to promote the idea that factory careers can be innovative and challenging instead of dull, dirty, and dangerous.

Pritzker delivered the keynote address at the Society of Manufacturing Engineers’Big M conference on the future of manufacturing. The conference and trade show featured the latest trends and products.

Pritzker urged manufacturers to open their doors to students, teachers, and parents on National Manufacturing Day Oct. 3 to make factory careers less remote for tomorrow’s workforce.

“We need your help to update the image of manufacturing,” she told her audience. “Today, too too many parents, teachers and guidance counselors still do not understand” the new face of industry.

“Too many young people still do not understand that a career in manufacturing can be a challenging,

rewarding way to earn a living.”

Touting such innovations as 3-D printing, self-driving cars, and green technology, Pritzker told the audience that “other countries are making game changing investments along these lines and America cannot afford to be left behind.”

A renaissance in American manufacturing is underway and business, government, universities, and investors “must do all we can to maximize and accelerate the trend,” Pritzker said. “We have a window of opportunity right now now to prove to the world that the 21st century will be another Made-in-America century.”

Pr itzker noted that the Commerce Department neither distributes government contracts to the extent that the Defense Department does nor regulates activities to the extent that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency does. But Commerce plays a key role in facilitating and coordinating government programs that touch the economy across a range of departments.

“Our objective is to break down the silos across the government,” Pritzker said.

The Big M conference is being held in Detroit because of the city’s rich history of American manufacturing and the auto industry’s robust turnaround since the Great Recession. Pritzker told the audience that the Detroit area accounts for about half the manufacturing jobs gained in America since the recession.

And she called for a new range of private-public partnerships so that companies and communities across the nation can benefit from the latest innovations. “To grow our manufacturing base, we must invest in activities like training, R&D, and helping small suppliers be best in class,” she said.

As recently as 2011, the Great Lakes region, Detroit is uniquely poised to lead the way in helping today’s manufacturers strategically work on their workforces to make sure they’ve got the required elbow grease to maintain this extraordinary time in American manufacturing. This is the city that gave birth to the temporary staffing industry when Kelly Services started its business here in 1946.



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A Letter from Semi-Retired Local Machine Shop Owner Bob Stratton; He Shares His Inspiring Story!

Linda….I have a human interest story that may or may not fit the profile for the MetalWorker but thought I’d pass it on for your consideration. I am a past owner of a local Phoenix manufacturing company called Spun Metals,Inc., a past board member of the ATMA and an avid reader of the A2Z Metalworker. I dealt with a lot of the shops that advertise in the Metalworker during my working years and thought my latest venture may be of interest to some of your readers. I’ve now been out of the business for over 10 years and have been semi retired and involved in other ventures. While a lot of the people you write about are still familiar to me it always amazes me the new names and faces that pop up every month. Things change!

In short, my story is as follows…..I had always wanted to ride a bike coast to coast. Not sure why other than it being one of those bucket list things. I wasn’t an avid biker but enjoyed biking and it was just something I wanted to do. I checked into how you do this and there are numerous ways to get across the country ranging from doing it by yourself to fully escorted to anywhere in between. I settled on a tour group called Bubba’s Pampered Pedalers out of Florida. This would be their 5th year for doing the southern tier route and I liked their combination of camping, hotels and other planned accommodations and rider assistance along the way. I was not disappointed.

Forty two other people signed up for the trek like I did and we all met

in San Diego on March 7th for a kick off meeting and to meet our leader, Bubba, and the 17 staff personnel that would take care of us for the next few weeks. We left from San Diego on March 8th under sunny skies after dipping our rear tires in the Pacific ocean. Our route took us on the southern tier of the United States and we crossed California, Ar izona, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida with many stories to tell and many friendships made. We arrived 52 days later, several pounds lighter on April 28th in St. Augustine, Fl and dipped our front tires in the Atlantic ocean. After a wonderful dinner and an emotional farewell party we all parted and went our separate ways.

I have a new appreciation for age and the will of an individual to undertake a trip such as this and complete it. The average age of all participants was 64. The oldest was 75…both a man and a woman! 12 of the individuals were 70 or older. The youngest on the trip was 54. There were 11 women and 31 men. At age 60 I was one of the young ones and I had a hard time keeping up with the older more experienced riders….especially the women!

Here are a couple of pictures of me dipping my tires in the Atlantic in St. Augustine beach.

Not sure if my story would spur some of those other shop guys to get out there and see the country in another way but thought I’d let you decide. Let me know if you have any questions. By the way, you are doing a great job since taking over the MetalWorker. It’s always an interesting read when it hits my mailbox…thanks much for keeping me on distribution.Bob Stratton

Proposed bill would boost STEM training

Legislation proposed by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand would create grants for schools to add science, technology, engineering and math programs in partnerships with nonprofits, a push she says is needed in order to get more students of all backgrounds into STEM fields. “Typically, in STEM fields, science, technology, engineering and math, it’s typically white men.

Very few women, very few minorities, very few from economically disadvantaged neighborhoods. So we want to change that,” she says.

“The point is all of our best and brightest should have opportunities to excel in the fastest growing industries.”



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Helical Solutions, LLC is an American owned and operated manufacturer of solid carbide cutting tools located in Gorham, Maine. Founded by David McCulloch in 2001, Helical Solutions has been providing the industry with high performance carbide end mills, specifically designed to reduce cycle time and increase productivity.

QUALITY & INNOVATION

Over the years, Helical Solutions has become a name that is synonymous with quality and dependability. When asked about the company’s success over the years, McCulloch relayed,

“It’s a team effort. We focus on the three main objectives in every facet of our work – quality, performance and reliability. Combine that with innovation and ingenuity, and we have found the right recipe for success.” Helical Solutions reports that their largest annual expenditures are reinvestments in technology, training and equipment. “Innovation never stops, and neither will we,” said McCulloch.

LOCAL, KNOWLEDGEABLE DISTRIBUTION

Helical Solutions has developed a network of local companies to distribute their product nationally. “These distributors are trained and knowledgeable, ready to service the companies in their area with our product,” stated Helical’s National Sales Manager, Scott Tiehen. “We feel that our consumers are best supported by people they know and can rely on for their precise needs. And we’re always here with local representatives and technical support to assist when needed.”

AMERICAN TOOLS & METALS – ARIZONA

Local distributor, American Tools & Metals based in Tucson, AZ is one of Helical’s largest southwest stocking distributors. When asked about their relationship with Helical over the years, Manny Lopez, President, stated, “Helical is a dependable manufacturer, consistent in their product, service, loyalty and commitment to their distributors and consumers.” American Tools & Metals has been in business for over 12 years, servicing the state of Arizona with two main branches: Tucson and Tempe, AZ. American Tools & Metals specializes in cutting tools, metalworking and machining supplies.

HELICAL – PROVEN SOLUTIONS

The Maine-based company has become popular nationwide due to its proven reliability in providing high performance solutions to any application. When an Arizona manufacturer of high performance gun components sought to improve their program and reduce cycle time, they turned to Helical Solutions for results. Local distributor, American Tools & Metals of Tucson worked with Helical’s knowledgeable technical team to create a revised plan, incorporating high feed

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rates and increased depths of cut. Using a high-performance tool path and Helical’s ½” diameter HEV 5 Flute, the manufacturer reduced their cycle time for the 6Al4V Titanium part from 80 minutes to just 30 minutes per part. “This is just one example of the many ways Helical can provide cost savings solutions to their customers,” said Lopez.

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Over the years, Helical Solutions has become a name that is synonymous with quality and dependability. When asked about the company’s success over the years, McCulloch relayed, “It’s a team effort. We focus on the three main objectives in every facet of our work – quality, performance and reliability. Combine that with innovation and ingenuity, and we have found the right recipe for success.” Helical Solutions reports that their largest annual expenditures are reinvestments in technology, training and equipment. “Innovation never stops, and neither will we,” said McCulloch.






The Maine-based company has become popular nationwide due to its proven reliability in

providing high performance solutions to any application. When an Arizona manufacturer of

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Factory Orders Increase 0.7 Percent In April

The AP reports factory orders increased 0.7 percent in April, according to a Commerce Department report released on Tuesday. The report shows that demand for durable goods increased 0.6 percent, and nondurable goods rose 0.7 percent. Excluding demand for defense products, orders fell 0.1 percent for the month of April. Economists still expect that GDP will advance this quarter at a 3.8 percent annualized rate.

Tesla sticking to two-location strategy for Gigafactory

Tesla Motors is maintaining its two-pronged approach in picking a site for its prized Gigafactory as the company narrows down its choices for the multibillion-dollar battery plant.

Earlier this month, the company announced its decision to further trim down the number of potential sites from the initial four — Nevada, Texas, Arizona and New Mexico — instead of announcing a winner.

At the time, some site selection experts called the move unusual, especially given the narrowing time frame for development. Tesla, however, is sticking to its plan, said spokeswoman Alexis Georgeson.

“We are approaching a down-select stage in the process, which will likely see two locations emerge,” Georgeson wrote in an e-mail.Georgeson declined to provide further information about the site selection process, only saying that work on land chosen by the company will start soon and reveal which states are picked. The dual-development strategy is one reason experts considered Tesla’s move unusual.

Georgeson referred to recent comments made by Tesla CEO Elon Musk as to why the company decided to kick off development in two states instead of waiting until a winner is selected.

“We will break ground on these locations in parallel to minimize risk of delays,” Georgeson wrote.

The $5-billion Tesla Gigafactory is considered a top prize in economic development circles. In addition to providing direct and indirect economic benefits as well as 6,500 jobs, the project also comes with plenty of prestige in the highly valued technology sector.

Raytheon, Thales sign deal to create new anti-tank TOW

Raytheon and Thales have signed a 27-month accord to produce a new variant of a long-standing anti-tank weapon system now in use around the globe. The companies will team up for a five-year production contract to create a new TOW, or tube-launched, optically-tracked, wireless-guided weapon system.

“This development activity will enable increased safety compliance and warfighter survivability while addressing obsolescence issues and incorporating cost saving technologies,” aid Michelle Lohmeier, vice president of Raytheon Missile Systems’ Land Warfare Systems product line. United Press International


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NFIB’s Small Business Optimism Index Continues To Rise

CBS News reports that the National Federation of Independent Business released the May edition of its Small Business Optimism Index, which continued to show confidence rising as the impact of the harsh winter fades. NFIB said that the index rose 1.4 points in May to 96.6, the third straight monthly gain. It is also the index’s highest reading since September 2007. NFIB said in its release, “This is one of the best readings since mid-2007, with the exception of a few months in early 2012 when the economy made an attempt to pick up the pace of economic growth.” Still, NFIB warned that the index remains well below where it should be this far into a recovery.

Silicon Valley Leading Development Of Solar Storage Technologies

The San Jose Mercury News reports that commercial and residential “battery-based energy storage” is becoming “a hot new industry in Silicon Valley,” spurred on by new technologies in battery chemistry along with state incentives. The article highlights efforts by Tesla in particular to develop new methods of solar energy storage, as Tesla Chief Technology Officer JB Straubel notes that “We have to get to a 100 percent renewable grid, and storage becomes an absolute imperative to get there.” Additionally, California mandated that state utilities “collectively buy 1.3 gigawatts of energy storage capacity by 2020.”

Feasibility Of Solar Roads Examined.Popular Mechanics (6/12, Belfiore) examines the popular effort to raise funds for “solar roadways,” in which conventional roads would be replaced by solar panels and heavy-duty glass, which has raised more than $2 million in crowdsourced funding. The article highlights both the possibilities of such a concept as well as its popularity, noting a California Energy Commission study this year which “recommends building a piezoelectric road demonstrator to gather more

data on the feasibility of harvesting the vibrational energy of traffic passing over the road’s surface.” Popular Mechanics also cites comments by University of Michigan urban planning professor Jonathan Levine, who pointed out the technical and bureaucratic obstacles which prevent widespread construction of solar roads.

Google to spend $1B to boost global connectivity Google plans to invest more than $1 billion in an effort aimed at getting unreached parts of the globe connected to the Internet, using a fleet of 180 low-altitude satellites. “Google and Facebook are trying to figure out ways of reaching populations that thus far have been unreachable,” said Susan Irwin, president of satellite communications firm Irwin Communications Inc. “Wired connectivity only goes so far and wireless cellular networks reach small areas. Satellites can gain much broader access.” Source: The Wall Street Journal


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Lockheed Martin building next Mars lander

Crews at Lockheed Martin in Jefferson County have gotten the go ahead to begin building the next Mars lander -- InSight.

InSight will land on Mars in 2016. The lander has a robotic arm that will deploy surface and burrowing instruments from France and Germany to investigate the planet’s interior.

The goal is study how Earth-like planets form.

“We move from doing the design and analysis to building and testing the hardware and software that will get us to Mars and collect the science that we need to achieve mission success,” said InSight Project Manager Tom Hoffman of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

InSight was designed by workers at the Waterton Canyon facility and the lander will be built there.

Construction has been started on the core structure.

“It will go into our cleanroom later this year,” said Gary Napier, spokesman for Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company.

InSight will use a Lockheed Martin spacecraft design from the NASA Phoenix Mars Lander. However, the Phoenix examined ice and soil on Mars in 2008, while InSight will investigate how Earth and other rocky planets developed their layered inner structure of core, mantle and crust, and will get information about those interior zones.

“We will incorporate many features from our Phoenix lander into InSight, but the differences between the missions require some modifications for the InSight spacecraft,” said Stu Spath, InSight program manager for Lockheed Martin Space Systems.

“For example, the InSight mission duration is 630 days longer than Phoenix, which means that the lander will have to endure a wider range of environmental conditions on the surface.” Learn more about InSight: http://insight.jpl.nasa.gov

US Automakers Remain Consistently Profitable

Bloomberg News reports that General Motors Co., Ford Motor Co. and the Chrysler Group LLC have reached a

“milestone” in that they have boosted sales while remaining consistently profitable.

The paper writes that this comes after the “near-death” of American automaking almost 50 years ago. The companies have been able to “shed brands, shut unneeded factories and gain greater flexibility in labor contracts” that have resulted in cars that are more favorable to foreign manufacturers. The article goes on to explain how restructuring and other strategic decisions have allowed the Detroit automakers to be successful.

S e n a t e C o m m i t t e e Approves Funds For New US Rocket

Reuters reports the Senate Armed Services Committee approved an additional $100 million for the US military budget to start work on a new US rocket engine in an effort to eliminate use of the Russian-made RD-180 engine.

The decision comes in response to threats from Russia to stop selling the engine to the United States as tensions over sanctions increase. Experts estimate it will cost $1 billion and 5 years for the US to develop its own rocket.


Manufacturing Technology Orders Up 3% Year-to-Date

April U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $391.53 million according to AMT - The Association For Manufacturing Technology. This total, as reported by companies participating in the USMTO program, was down 20.4% from March but up 9.8% when compared with the total of $356.52 million reported for April 2013. With a year-to-date total of $1,620.83 million, 2014 is up 3.0% compared with 2013.

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

“The manufacturing technology market is up 3% year-over-year thanks to March and April orders picking up the slack from the January and February weather-induced slowdown,” said Douglas K. Woods, AMT President. “Indicators such as the Purchasing Managers’ Index which surged forward in May and the optimism expressed by Oxford Economics in their spring update on our market suggest we are on track for a strong 2014.”

The United States Manufacturing Technology Orders (USMTO) report, compiled by the trade association representing the production and distribution of manufacturing technology, provides regional and national U.S. orders data of domestic and imported machine tools and related equipment.

Analysis of manufacturing technology orders provides a reliable leading economic indicator as manufacturing industries invest in capital metalworking equipment to increase capacity and improve productivity.

U.S. manufacturing technology orders are also reported on a regional basis for six geographic breakdowns of the United States.

Northeast RegionAt $62.72 million, manufacturing technology orders in the Northeast Region in April were down 6.9% when compared with the $67.39 million tally for March and down 10.6% from the total for April 2013.

Southeast RegionYear-to-date 2014 manufacturing technology orders in the Southeast Region through April totaled $150.47 million, 16.6% more than the comparable figure for 2013.

North Central-East RegionApril manufacturing technology orders in the North Central-East Region totaled $99.57 million, down 50.3% from March’s $200.41 million but up 47.4% when compared with last April. At $470.74 million, year-to-date 2014 was up 11.9% when compared with 2013 at the same time.

North Central-West RegionApril manufacturing technology orders in the North Central-West Region totaled $64.90 million, 3.2% less than the April 2013 total of $67.07 million.

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They’ve staffed up their 45, 000 square feet facility in Mesa, Arizona with 20 employees today, Randall says, “We are looking for good qualified machinists; certified welders; and mechanical and electrical engineers. The company is already planning for expansion. Randall says they will break ground on additional 13,000 square foot facility on their adjacent 4.2-acre plot of land. This is planned to begin in the next six months.

History of the Rentzel Companies

Randall grew up in the oil and gas business, where first his father was an executive at Hughes Tool, and subsequently Randall spent 17 years at Baker Hughes. Randall’s work facilitated overseas assignments, both in South America and in Italy.

Rentzel founded his first company, Pump Systems Management Inc., which was a pump distribution and consulting business, in 1997, when he was 37 years old. He says, “My father told me if I didn’t launch my own business by the time I was 40, it would never happen. I made it under the wire.” Pump Systems Management was launched in Norman, Oklahoma, where it resides today. Randall credits one of his first customers, IOCHEM, with helping to build a successful pump business. He says they are still a loyal customer today.

The company determined that it is difficult to build a business based upon a commodity, because you have no control over the price. Randall says, “In the 1990’s we expanded our customer base to include mining, water, and power plants.” Today, they have a worldwide distribution

network, and they service such companies as SRP, Freeport McMoran, and municipalities all over the U.S., to name a few.

Next, Randall and his wife, Rhonda, formed Rentzel Pump Manufacturing, LP (RPM), a company that manufactures a line of pumps. In 2003, the company acquired the turbine pump division of Dempster Industries, headquartered in Lubbock, Texas. Randall says,

“While Dempster had a history dating back to 1878, our product line has a history going back to the 1930’s and is comprised of the Tait Pump manufacturer and part of Berkley & Valley Turbine lines.” RPM manufactures a wide range of pumps from 4” to over 24” in diameter with flows over 14,000 GPM.

As if two companies weren’t enough, Randall and his team launched Rentzel Energy Equipment Company in 2003. It resides in their newest location, in Mesa, Arizona. They purchased an existing plant that once manufactured electronics, plus the adjacent property.

Just this year, they acquired the former GE Industrial submersible motor line. These operations are housed in their Mesa facility, where they share space with Rentzel Tool Company a precision machining and manufacturing company.

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All 4 Rentzel operations, across Texas, Oklahoma, and Arizona, have their own machine shops. Randall hired Arizona resident John Aleman to run the machine shop in Mesa. John brings 3 decades of experience in manufacturing in Arizona, with a focus on semiconductor and aerospace manufacturing.

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Randall says, “When the oil boom occurred in Texas and Oklahoma, we started having problems getting our machines serviced. The machine tool dealers were much more focused on supporting their larger customers in the oil and gas industry. Sometimes, we were down on a machine for 2 weeks or longer.”

When Randall and the team made the decision to expand into Arizona, they contacted the Arizona-based Haas dealer, Ellison Machinery Company. Randall says,

“ We heard that Ellison Machinery, based in Tempe, Arizona, has an outstanding reputation for superior service, and this is what we needed to effectively run our new entity.” He continued, “Fast forward 6 months later, and we can say with confidence that we have experienced in Ellison Machinery the best service in town. We have been delighted with their expert service and outstanding support staff.”

John was very familiar with the Haas machines from his tenure in the industry. “There are many good machines on the market, but when I came to Rentzel Tool Company, I knew we needed the machine tool dealer with the best service, and that is Ellison Machinery.”

Randall added, “Ellison Machinery has a service team that numbers 13. That is just outstanding.”

Since January, Rentzel shipped one of its existing Haas machines

to Arizona, and they have purchased several from Ellison Machinery. Their Haas machine tools include: the ST40, an ST30, a VF6, a VF4 SS, a VF2, a VF2, a tool room lathe (TL3) and a tool room mill (TM2).

One of their latest purchases was a DMG/Mori Seiki DMU 50, their first 5-axis machine tool. Randall says that the DMU 50 was purchased to machine new products that they are introducing. Jason McCurdy, Sales Engineer for Ellison Machinery says, “This CNC Universal Machine is characterized by innovative machine construction technology. Highlights such as digital drives in all axes, a rapid traverse up to 24 m/min and a motor spindle up to 18,000 rpm give the DMU 50 increased dynamics. The latest cross-slide design with a ribbed cast-iron column provides a basis that offers noticeably more precision and rigidity.” He continued, “The control technology with the DMG ERGOline® Control,

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Mesa, Arizona will be the primary machine shop for all of Rentzel’s business lines. With their 45,000 square foot existing facility, and the planned additional expansion, Randall says the company’s plan is to take on new clients, particularly in the aerospace industry. The company is in the process of certifying to ISO:9001/ AS9100

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Sandia National Laboratories has announced that it has created a cheaper way to synthesize titanium-dioxide nanoparticles and is seeking partners who can develop the process on the commercial level items such as solar cells and light-emitting diodes.

Titanium-dioxide nanoparticles show great promise in improving anti-reflective coatings on signs

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Current production methods for the nanoparticles often require high-temperature processing or costly surfactants — molecules that bind to something to make it soluble in another material, according to Sandia. As a result, they have been largely ignored for industrial and commercial use.

Sandia’s procedure uses low-cost materials and results in nanoparticles

that are easier to apply, the laboratories said in a news release.

The next step is to demonstrate synthesis at an industrial scale, which will require a commercial partner. Todd Monson, one of the researchers involved in the project, said Sandia has received inquiries from companies interested in commercializing the technology.

“Here at Sandia we’re not set up to produce the particles on a commercial scale,” Monson said. “We want them to pick it up and run with it and start producing these on a wide enough scale to sell to the end user.”

Spirit AeroSystems Delivers 5,000th Next-Generation 737

Sp i r i t AeroSy s t ems Inc . announced it has successfully c o m p l e t e d 5 , 0 0 0 N e x t -Generation 737 deliveries to Boeing. Spirit has been delivering Next-Generation 737s since 1998. The company builds the 737

“Spirit is extremely proud of our partnership with Boeing and the work we do together to build the world’s best-selling airplane, the 737,” said Larry Lawson, Spirit AeroSystems president & CEO. “This is a significant milestone for Spirit and we look forward to building on this partnership as we move to the next variant on the 737 the 737 MAX.”

The 737 is Spirit’s largest program. Spirit is currently delivering 42 737s per month to Boeing. It delivered the first Next-Generation 737 in 1998 and has delivered more than 8,000 737s in all, including the 737 Classic.

“Without the amazing efforts of our talented employees 5,000 deliveries would not have been possible,” said David Coleal, executive vice president, Boeing Programs. “Our employees are customer focused and take great pride in delivering a high quality product. We look forward to continuing to deliver this great product for many years to come. “

Spirit employs about 16,000 people worldwide designing and building complex aerostructures for the world’s most recognizable airplanes. Spirit builds the forward section of every Boeing Commercial airplane in production today as well as wing and propulsion components.

IAI Awarded $4M By The Air Force To Develop A Damage Registration Tool For High-Performance Aircraft

Intelligent Automation, Inc. (IAI) has been awarded a $4 million contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory, under the Critical R&D SBIR program, to develop an inlet and exhaust damage registration sensor for high-performance aircraft.

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To address this critical need, in this effort IAI will develop AUTO-SCAN, a simple, cost-effective automated inlet and exhaust coating damage registration system that electronically captures the defect/damage characteristics, location, and orientation relative to the aircraft coordinate system for transfer to existing aircraft maintenance health assessment systems. Designed to reduce inspection times and eliminate sources of human error, AUTO-SCAN will be a portable hand held device that is quick and easy to set up and tear down, and is suitable for flight-line environment. It can be used in legacy and emerging fighter aircraft as well as in private and commercial aerospace sectors.

In an earlier effort, the feasibility of the AUTO-SCAN concept has already been demonstrated through the design, development and testing of a prototype. The AUTO-SCAN system will now be developed to TRL 8/MRL 6 maturity and integrated with current aircraft health assessment systems.

IAI collaborators on this effort include Pratt & Whitney, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman.

Solar Industry Attracting Investors

USA Today reports the solar industry has been “gaining a lot of

attention both globally and domestically, attracting high-profile investment from Wall Street giants such as Apple, Google and Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway.” The US “is the world’s third-largest solar market, right behind China and Japan, and it’s growing rapidly not just because of private investment, but also because of the Obama Administration’s efforts to make progress against global climate change.”

The article notes that the Mojave Desert is “one of the most desirable locations for building domestic solar facilities.” The article notes that “there are some challenges within the industry, infrastructure is one.” Jason Hutt of Bracewell Guiliani said, “The great concern is that the generation that is being built can’t get to the markets where it is needed or demanded by the renewable portfolio standards, so there is a problem getting the transmission built associated with solar to get it to those marketplaces.”

MAPI Forecasts Growth Based On Investment Spending

IndustryWeek reports that a quarterly economic forecast from the Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation (MAPI) shows that manufacturing production is expected to grow 3.2 percent in 2014. The forecast says that growth will be driven by investment rather than consumer-driven advances.

The forecast also predicts that high-tech manufacturing will grow at a rate of 6.6 percent, compared to 2.9 percent in non-high-tech manufacturing. Finally, MAPI expects industrial equipment expenditures to increase 8.1 percent and that investment in equipment will grow 5.3 percent.


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The Air Force has ignited an effor t to replace its surveillance and targeting aircraft system with modern airframes outfitted with new radar, sensor s and communications equipment.

No requirements are on the books yet for a recapitalized version of the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System — more commonly known as JSTARS — but that hasn’t stopped industry from jumping into the competitive fray.

The current E-8C aircraft, based on a Boeing 707 airplane and developed by Northrop Grumman, allows the Air Force to conduct long-endurance surveillance on moving and stationary targets. Its radar can collect information on ground and maritime targets, as well as detecting slow-moving, rotary and fixed-wing aircraft.

The Air Force considers JSTARS a vital part of its fleet, but the E-8C airframes are aging — contributing to high operations and maintenance costs.

“With the completion of the 2011 JSTARS mission area analysis of alternatives study and the onset of Budget Control Act-directed budget levels, it became clear that the future of the JSTARS weapons system lay in a more cost-effective platform as compared to extending the lifecycle of the current 707 airframes,” said Lt. Col. Michael Harm, JSTARS recapitalization branch chief.

The combination of new airframes and sensors “will inherently bring improvements in areas such as radar and onboard data processing speed, fuel efficiency and maximum cruising altitude across the range of expected military operations,” he told National Defense in an email.

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The Air Force requested $100 million for the program in fiscal year 2015, with $2.4 billion in spending planned over the next five years.

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What can you tell us about the company’s emphasis in the west?

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You mentioned Steel Service centers prior to our interview today. Are Service centers a major focus for SigmaTEK?

The simple answer to that is “Yes”, but certainly not to the point of exclusivity. Our customers run the full range and include those who process steel, composites, wood, glass, fabrics, etc… We optimize the operations of laser, plasma, oxy-fuel, water jet, punch, router, knife, tube cutting, and press brakes. From the smallest job shop to the giants of the manufacturing industries -- all are searching for areas where cost can be saved and productivity improved. SigmaTEK offers a range of products and services for measurable improvements for all size companies.

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It’s all about improving workflow, which improves efficiency, which leads to cost savings. There are other companies that provide cutting technology for a specific machine, or a particular process, but SigmaTEK provides a full service solution for your entire manufacturing operation.

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Any place where there is redundancy or wasted steps, SigmaTEK has examined it, turned it upside down, and looked at it again. Our in-house development team is passionate about improving where companies can find savings, and consistently adds industry-first features to improve these areas.

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During the past recession manufacturers were forced to scrutinize all areas of their business – with the shop floor being front and center. Manufacturers who clung to ‘business as usual’ are for the most part gone. As a result today there is a premium placed on automation. We have seen a tremendous return on investment for manufacturers who invest in best in class software to drive fabrication machinery and related manufacturing processes.

SigmaTEK CEO, Ben TerreBlanche had a vision 10 years ago, and began to build what is today the SigmaTEK Services Group. Headed by Director, John Leuzinger, SigmaTEK’s Services Group creates custom, Built-to-Spec solutions for companies trying to fill the void left by downsizing. Today automation breakthroughs have led to a stronger manufacturing return to the United States, and we like to think we have done our small part to help.

You seem very passionate about manufacturing; where does that come from?

Like many Americans I am fortunate to have a hobby, in my case its woodworking. Every weekend, I am in my workshop designing, fabricating and building projects. It’s not too much of a stretch to say I face some of the same issues my customers face in the manufacturing process. All fabricators are problems solvers, and when you have the right tools, ideas and passion, the results can be extraordinary.

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We recently launched a new web site (www.sigmanest.com) that details our products and services. There is even an opportunity to try the latest version of SigmaNEST through the interactive Welcome Screen. In addition the site has information and links on upcoming webinars, videos, and social media. Of course we encourage anyone interested to contact any of our team members:

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Pratt & Whitney delivered its first PurePower PW1200G engine to Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation. The PW1200G engines will power the single-aisle MRJ90 Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ). Pratt & Whitney is a division of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX).

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US Steel Industry Urges Administration To Impose Duties On Foreign Steel

Bloomberg reports United Steelworkers President Leo Gerard and United States Steel Corp. Chief Executive Officer Mario Longhi were in Washington recently to “lobby the Obama Administration to impose duties on imports of Korean steel products” that are hurting the US industry. The two are alleging that steel from Korea is being sold below cost in the US markets. The Commerce Department will make a final determination on the case in early July. The US International Trade Commission has issued preliminary findings saying that the US steel industry is being hurt by practices overseas and will issue a final report in August.

House Of Representatives Passes Bill Giving Small Businesses Quicker Tax Write-Offs

Bloomberg News reports the House of Representatives voted to pass a bill that will allow small businesses to get immediate tax write-offs on capital purchases of up to $500,000. Under current law, the limit is $25,000. The bill also expands the amount that companies can make in capital purchases and still qualify, raising the limit from $200,000 to $2 million. The new levels are a return to provisions from a previous bill that expired at the end of 2013 and now indexes them to rise with inflation.

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The largest heat shield ever built for a spacecraft has just met its ride — NASA’s new Orion deep-space capsule — ahead of the craft’s debut test flight later this year.

Engineers with NASA and contractor Lockheed Martin worked together to install the 16.5-foot (5 meters) heat shield for the upcoming test launch in December. Called Exploration Flight

Test-1, the mission aims to launch an Orion capsule 3,600 miles (5,794 kilometers) into space, then have the craft return to Earth, re-enter the atmosphere and splash down in the Pacific Ocean.

The heat shield is designed to protect the spacecraft and future astronaut crews from the 4,000 degree Fahrenheit (2,200 degree Celsius) heat produced when the Orion space capsule is re-entering Earth’s atmosphere. The spacecraft’s heat shield is covered with a material called Avcoat. The coating burns away as it heats up, but it keeps the crew module cool.

“It is extremely exciting to see the heat shield in place, ready to do its job,” Mark Geyer, Orion Program manager at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, said in a statement. “The heat shield is such a critical piece, not just for this mission, but for our plans to send humans into deep space.”

NASA officials have discussed using Orion to bring astronauts to an asteroid towed into orbit around the moon sometime in the 2020s. The spacecraft could also propel humans to Mars in the future.

The EFT-1 mission is expected to last about four hours, and it will test many of Orion’s critical systems, NASA officials said. The spaceship will make two orbits of Earth and then return to the planet, splashing down in the ocean.

The space agency has been readying Orion for the EFT-1 flight throughout the year. The spacecraft’s completed service module was stress tested for the last time in February, showing engineers that it can withstand the riggers of its upcoming spaceflight, NASA officials have said.

In the next months, the crew and service modules will be transported to Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where they are expected to launch atop a Delta IV rocket for EFT-1 in December.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk: You want our patent info? Here it is

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that the company would not pursue lawsuits against anyone infringing on the company’s patents — past, present or future.

Musk said his decision was based on the disappointing lack of momentum in the electric car industry, the startling inertia of the effects of global climate change and frustration over the patent environment in the U.S, he wrote in a blog post.

“I don’t want to overstate the value of patents,” said Musk during a conference call about the news. He noted that his other company, SpaceX, is not competitively affected by the fact that it has virtually no patents. “If a company is relying on patents, it’s in a weak position. They’re not innovating fast enough. You want to be innovating so fast that you invalidate your prior patents.”

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“When I realized that receiving a patent really just meant that you bought a lottery ticket to a lawsuit, I avoided them whenever possible.”

Musk said electric car sales at major manufacturers account for less than 1 percent of vehicle sales. Even if every major manufacturer switched 100 percent of its sales to electric cars, it would take 20 years to replace the 2 billion cars on the road today, Musk said.

He said no other company comes close to Tesla in terms of battery technology. The Tesla Roadster, which came out in 2007, can go 250 miles on a single charge, a range no other car has come close to since, he said.

Meanwhile Tesla’s an underdog in terms production volume; last year it made only 25,000 vehicles. Musk said that if the company truly wants to address climate change, “it would be short-sighted of us to keep our patents close to our chest.”

If there’s one thing that puts this decision

into a business-sense perspective, it’s Tesla’s Gigafactory, a massive battery plant that will churn out 500,000 battery packs a year. Given the superiority of Tesla’s battery technology and the fact that it plans to become the world’s biggest supplier of batteries by far, an acceleration of the electric car industry would be great for Tesla.

If the Gigafactory cements Tesla as the No. 1 supplier for superior battery packs and companies are using its technology already, it would make sense to buy batteries from Tesla.

Arizona, along with California, New Mexico, Texas and Nevada, are in a heated battle to land Tesla’s $5 billion Gigafactory and the thousands of jobs that will come with it.

Musk, for his part, said he hopes other companies start building Gigafactories.

He also said the move might help encourage the best engineers who are most passionate about electric vehicles to come work for Tesla if it shows that the company is truly committed to accelerating the development and production of sustainable transportation.

Tesla has “hundreds” of patents, Musk said, and he expects that number to be thousands as it researches and develops new technology. He said Tesla would continue to apply for patents so that other companies don’t adapt them and unfairly enforce them, creating a roadblock for Tesla and other companies in electric-vehicle manufacturing.

He said that in the future there might be some level of “quid pro quo.” If a company used a bunch of Tesla’s patents, and Tesla used one or two of that company’s, he hoped that company wouldn’t sue them for it. The balance of patent values in that case would have to be very skewed toward Tesla’s patents, he said.

New Mexico GDP up 1.5 percent; oil and gas leads the way

New Mexico’s GDP increased by $1.25 billion, or 1.5 percent in 2013, with the mining and oil and gas sectors accounting for most of the growth, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis said recently.


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The next 12 months should be good ones for manufacturers — they expect their best year for sales, hiring and capital investment since 2011, according to a survey by the National Association of Manufacturers.

Manufacturers expect sales to increase by 4.1 percent and their work force to grow by 1.7 percent over the next 12 months, according to the survey. They plan to increase capital investment by 2.3 percent.

Nearly 86 percent of manufacturers have a positive business outlook.

Large manufacturers, however, are more bullish than small manufacturers.

That could be because the biggest challenges cited by manufacturers — rising health insurance costs and an unfavorable business climate due to taxes, regulations and political uncertainty — weigh down small businesses more than they do large corporations.

Attracting and retaining a quality work force was the third-biggest business challenge cited by manufacturers.

Their top priorities for governmental policy are slowing the growth of entitlement spending and reaching a long-term federal deficit reduction deal. Reducing the regulatory burden on businesses and controlling health care costs are next, followed by passing comprehensive tax reform.

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Boeing looks to commercial satellites to offset defense slide

Boeing is well-poised to boost its commercial satellite business from today’s 30% to as much as 40% within six years, helping offset a downturn in defense spending, says Craig Cooning, vice president and general manager of Boeing’s space and intelligence systems business.

The company’s satellite division is open to acquisitions and is courting Google and Facebook as possible customers. “A lot of companies are all scrambling for their piece of the pie, and that pie has gotten a lot smaller,” Cooning says. “At Boeing, we’re in a unique position because we have this strong balance between our commercial work and our military work.” Reuters

Triumph Group Selected To Provide Sharklet Wing Reinforcement Kit For Airbus A319, A320 In-Service Aircraft

Triumph Group, Inc. announced that its subsidiary, Triumph Aerostructures-Vought Aircraft Division, has been selected by Airbus to furnish the wing reinforcement kit that allows for the installation of Sharklets on the Airbus A319 and A320 in-service aircraft. The kit consists of multiple subassemblies and components that reinforce the wing for the Sharklet loads. The multi-year contract is worth over $160.0 million. Production will be done at the company’s Nashville, Tennessee facility, with first delivery expected early 2015.

Jeffry D. Frisby, Triumph’s President and Chief Executive Officer, said, “This is a significant win for Triumph, strengthening our long-term relationship with Airbus. With more than three thousand A319 and A320 in-service aircraft eligible for the retrofit and strong operator demand, the outlook for the program is solid. We look forward to working with Airbus and the operators in supporting this retrofit program.”

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The U.S. government is banking on commercial satellites to perform more of its military work in space as a way to cut costs, and that means defense contractors are having to adapt to the new landscape, one that entails reducing expenses and accelerating product development, experts say. “The space market is changing dramatically,” said Henry Obering, senior vice president with Booz Allen Hamilton and former Missile Defense Agency director. “The big companies will either adopt new ways of doing things or they will fail.” Reuters

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While it might look like a squishable mess of ropes and tent poles, NA-SA’s proposed “Super Ball Bot” could hold the key to making landing a rover on another planet easier and far less expensive, according to a new report published last week in IEEE Spectrum, the journal of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Under ideal circumstances, modern-day planetary rovers “can require careful choreography of multiple landing stages and involve parachutes, airbags, and retrorockets,” writer Rachel Courtland explained. Once landed, the vehicle would then have to traverse steep terrain that can make a journey slow and arduous.

However, researchers at NASA’s Ames Research Center told Courtland that they are working on a robotic exoskeleton that is flexible and capable of changing its shape – the aforementioned Super Ball Bot. The device will be able to land unassisted and is capable of absorbing impact, eliminating the need for landing gear.

The Super Ball Bot would have all of the scientific instruments required to complete its mission embedded directly into its exoskeleton, and as demonstrated by a prototype unit in recently-released video footage, the robot would be capable of changing the length of its cables in order to roll around a planet’s surface without requiring wheels.

“Made up of hollow cylindrical rods connected by flexible materials such as elastic cable, the clever design draws on the principles of ‘tensegrity’ (a combination of ‘tensional’ and ‘integrity’), allowing any impact to be safely absorbed along multiple paths,” Trevor Mogg of Digital Trends explained. NASA believes it could survive a 60-plus mile drop onto a planet’s surface.

Super Ball Bot is being co-developed by Vytas SunSpiral and Adrian Agogino at the Ames Intelligent Systems Division. Earlier this year, they were awarded a Phase II grant to continue the research, said Phys Org’s Nancy Owano.

According to RT.com, NASA is considering using it for an expedition on Neptune’s moon, Titan. Titan could be a good test for the rover, the web-site said, because the moon’s dense nitrogen atmosphere would cushion the vehicle’s fall, and it would likely have an easier time traveling on the surface than its traditional wheeled counterparts.

“Another advantage of NASA’s ball bot is its small size when packed, with the space agency envisioning sending hundreds of them on a single mission. Upon arrival their destination, the bots would be able to automatically spring into shape,” Mogg said.

While movement needs to be perfected before the new-type rovers could be deployed, “there’s an excellent chance that these remarkable collapsing robots will one day be rolling across faraway planets and moons, sending back information that could help us unlock the enduring mysteries of our solar system and beyond,” he added.

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First Solar Selected by Tenaska to Build 150MW Solar Facility in Southern California

First Solar announced that it has been selected by independent energy company Tenaska Solar Ventures to design and build the 150 megawatt (MW)AC Tenaska Imperial Solar Energy Center West project near El Centro, California.

First Solar will provide full Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) services on the project, employing its advanced thin film photovoltaic modules and single-axis tilt technology. The project sits on approximately 1,100 acres of previously disturbed land in Imperial County. Tenaska Imperial West is the second solar project in Southern California’s Imperial Valley developed, owned and managed by Tenaska. In November of 2013, First Solar completed construction on the 130MWAC Tenaska Imperial Solar Energy Center South power plant for Tenaska.

“We are pleased to continue our relationship with Tenaska,” said Roger Bredder, First Solar’s Managing Director for U.S. Business Development. “This project will provide up to 800 jobs in the Imperial Valley at construction peak, and make a significant economic contribution to the local community. It will also provide the residents of Southern California with a reliable source of clean, renewable energy.”

Bredder said that the highly qualified local workforce that built Tenaska Imperial South over the past two years will provide a strong pool of experienced workers familiar with First Solar’s technology and construction methods.

First Solar has already started engineering and expects to begin construction later in 2014, with full commercial operation anticipated in 2016. San Diego Gas & Electric Company holds a 25-year power purchase agreement (PPA) for all electricity generated by Tenaska Imperial West.

Study: Retirees, Boomers Continue To Work After Retirement

NPR discusses a new study that found half of retired people “are still working or have worked in the recent past,” and that “nearly three quarters of baby boomers who are not yet retired say they plan to stay on the job past retirement age.” Ken Dychtwald, CEO of a research firm called Age Wave and one of the co-authors of the study, said that those who envision continuing work in retirement say it is “not only good for their nest egg, but also for good for their mind, good for their heart. People are even saying that some continued work is sort of an antidote to aging.”

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Major U.S. defense firms ramped up internal research and development spending last year, pumping in $800 million more than a year earlier, but they still lag large technology firms in R&D investment.

Collectively, Boeing Defense, L-3 Communications, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon spent $4.1 billion on R&D last year, according to data compiled by Byron Callan, defense analyst with Capital Alpha Partners; at the same time, tech giants Apple, Google and Microsoft each spent between $4.5 billion and $10.4 billion. Defense News

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Walker Hi-Tech acquired by SemiTorr Group

Walker Hi-Tech of Albuquerque has been acquired by SemiTorr Group, an Oregon-based company.

Details of the acquisition were not released.

Michael Walker, Walker Hi-Tech’s president, said in a news release on Friday, “I think this acquisition makes sense on a number of levels. Together, SemiTorr and Walker will be positioned to grow this business in a way that has not been possible to date. The breadth, scalability and complementary nature of our respective businesses are significant.”

Walker will continue as vice president of sales supporting the Southwest region.

Walker is a high-purity gas and fluids distributor with distribution centers in Albuquerque, Denver and Chandler, Arizona. Source: Albuquerque Business First

Honeywell’s UOP Licensing TPC Group’s Advanced Process Technology To Produce Key Ingredient For Synthetic Rubber

TPC Group Inc. and Honeywell’s UOP have entered into an agreement for UOP to be the exclusive licensor of the proprietary TPC Group OXO-D™ technology used to produce on-purpose butadiene, a key ingredient for making synthetic rubber.

The two companies will immediately begin working together to license TPC Group’s proprietary OXO-D technology, which has been successfully operated for more than 40 years, commercially converting butene to butadiene for the production of synthetic rubber. The current OXO-D technology is the basis for TPC’s current on-purpose butadiene project in commercial development now. The two companies will jointly develop further enhancements to OXO-D, the most efficient and low-cost method to make on-purpose butadiene, leveraging UOP’s expertise in licensing and technology.

“Changes in refining and petrochemical production in recent years have caused butadiene production to not keep pace with rising demand. This ‘butadiene gap’ can be closed with new technologies to produce on-purpose butadiene,” said Pete Piotrowski, senior vice president and general manager of UOP’s Process Technology and Equipment business unit. “TPC helped found the modern on-purpose butadiene industry with its patented technology, and we look forward to commercializing new technology with them.”


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One hundred years ago, aviation pioneer L aw re n c e S p e r r y launched a megalith when he walked out onto the wing of an aircraft in flight to demonstrate his company’s gyroscopic airplane stabilizer.

The event was the first of hundreds of Honeywell innovations that contributed to military aircraft and spacecraft, and it made commercial planes a safe and efficient form of transportation. Now, virtually every aircraft from nose to tail includes technology from Phoenix- based Honeywell Aerospace.

The company, which is celebrating its centennial this month, bought Sperry Aerospace in 1986 and a host of other companies through the years, including AlliedSignal Inc. and EMS Technologies Inc.

Honeywell Aerospace now employs nearly 10,000 people with about a $1 billion total payroll at 12 facilities across Arizona. Its operations span manufacturing, design and engineering, customer service, research and development, test labs, sales, marketing and more.

“We make things that last, that go around t h e wo r l d , t h a t make you look up,” said Carl Esposito, t h e c o m p a n y ’s vice president of m a r k e t i n g a n d product management.

“Aerospace is a fun industry.”

Barry Broome, president and CEO of the Greater Phoenix Economic Council, said Honeywell is one of the most important companies in the Valley.

“It’s a significant producer of technology and a company that produces knowledge,” Broome said. “There’s a long list of things that make the company special.”

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Honeywell invests more than $750 million a year in Arizona-based suppliers. Its operations stretch throughout the state.

In north Phoenix, Honeywell handles avionics and flight management/cockpit electronics work. In Glendale, it develops high-tech satellite systems and does work for NASA. Near Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, at the largest turbine engine factory in the aerospace industry, Honeywell tests engines. The company makes engine accessories and electrical power systems in Tempe, and it works with electric power systems and engine electronic controls in Tucson.

Honeywell’s innovations range from reducing the number of tools needed to work on aircraft to developing better technology for air traffic, security systems, fuel-efficient engines and runway lighting.

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Bob Witwer, vice president of advanced technology for Honeywell Aerospace, has been part of the technological evolution. In 1980, he worked on the initial flight management system for Sperry. Before satellite systems were available, the Sperry system calculated where a plane was and sent commands to allow it to fly on autopilot. It was put into use in 1984 for Boeing’s 757 and 767 jets.

“It became the benchmark going forward on every air transport,” said Witwer, who has worked in aerospace for 36 years, starting with Sperry. “It was a fun time to be working in the industry.”

Witwer has worked on numerous other systems for Honeywell, and innovation at the company and within the aerospace industry has not plateaued, he said.

“We’re making more efficient engines and more intuitive and easier-to-use cockpits,” he said.

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Honeywell Aerospace began developing in 2000. The system, certified for Gulfstream Aerospace in 2009, is a 3-D terrain and digital map display that shows pilots what is ahead, including weather conditions.

“This provides a more compelling display with better situational awareness,” said Witwer, who also serves as chairman of the Arizona Technology Council. “It’s like flying on a sunny day 24/7.”

Honeywell also is working on a connected aircraft, allowing planes in the air to flow data back and forth with ground operations. Jack Jacobs, Honeywell Aerospace’s vice president of marketing and product management, said the connected aircraft enables better data flow, more bandwidth at a much lower cost, faster and more comprehensive analytics, and continued accessibility to networks.

Honeywell partners with Inmarsat, a British satellite telecommunications company; Dallas-based AT&T; and Iridium Communications Inc., the McLean, Virginia- based Motorola spinoff that operates a network of 66 satellites used for worldwide voice and data communication, all of which were built in the Valley.

“Connectivity means flight safety, improved uptime, fuel savings, maintenance operations and in-flight entertainment,” Jacobs said. “Honeywell views connectivity as key to bringing the aerospace industry into the next decade and beyond.” Source: Phoenix Business Journal

Navy taps Raytheon for work on Phalanx

Raytheon reports it has received a U.S. Navy contract to remanufacture, overhaul and provide upgrades to Phalanx Close-in Weapon Systems.

The contract is worth $115.5 million, the company said. Work on the 20mm system is expected to be completed in late 2017.

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Sources familiar with the FMS case tell Defense News the sale would involve new vehicles manufactured by South Bend, Indiana, Humvee maker AM General, as opposed to coming from excess stocks no longer used by the US Army or Marines.

Most foreign military sales (FMS) deals to long-term allies like Mexico are quickly approved by Congress, and the deal would be good news for AM General, which has publicly worried about its manufacturing facilities now that the Army and Marines have discontinued buying new Humvees.

Both services do plan to upgrade and service thousands of Humvees for years to come, however.

The company also is one of three in the running for the follow-on Joint Light Tactical Vehicle program, which would replace many of the Humvees in use by the Army and Marines.

Just last month, the Pentagon announced another potential sale of 200 Humvees to Iraq.

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The package would also include “personnel training and training equipment, U.S. Government and contractor engineering, technical and logistics support services, and other related elements of logistical and program support.”

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L-3 sees acquisitions as key to future growth

When L-3 Communications acquired Data Tactics Corp. in March, the move underscored a key strategy for L-3 as it shapes its portfolio to expand business in the aerospace, electronic systems, communications and security-technology markets.

“Acquisition is an important part of L-3’s strategy going forward,” said Les Rose, president of the New York-based company’s National Security Solutions division. “We’re always interested in the opportunity to acquire something that makes sense for our business. We don’t acquire it just for the sake of acquiring it. It has to fit into our strategy.”

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The acquisition of Data Tactics, renamed L-3 Data Tactics, added big data analytics and cloud computing services to L-3’s portfolio. It also brought a talented workforce of more than 150 data scientists, engineers, architects and developers, most of whom have U.S. government security clearances,

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Rose said the acquisitions and mergers market is more stable as a result of the two-year budget agreement signed by President Obama last December.

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Bloomberg News reports that the increase in ISM’s manufacturing index shows that the economy “is poised to lift off in the second quarter.” Bloomberg says that the data “bear out the view of Federal Reserve policy makers who yesterday looked beyond weak growth in the first quarter and projected the world’s largest economy would speed up.”

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ATK has been awarded a series of contracts for the development and supply of medium and large-calibre ammunition for the US military’s aviation platforms.

Awarded by the US Army project manager ammunition systems, the contracts have a combined value of more than $112m, and will provide ammunition to the AH-64 Apache attack helicopter, A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft and the AC-130 gunship.

In addition, the deal covers the supply of training ammunition for crews who are maintaining their gunnery expertise on the Apache and Abrams main battle tanks (MBT).

Specific ammunition types to be delivered include the 30mm PGU-13 high-explosive incendiary cartridge, LW30mm M788 target practice, M789 high-explosive dual-purpose tactical ammunition, 40mm L/60 high-explosive incendiary cartridge, as well as 120mm M1002 multi-purpose anti-tank cartridges and target practice with tracer.

ATK Defense Group president Mike Kahn said: “ATK strives to always provide our US military customers with the quality and accuracy they demand, no matter the product.”

Both the LW30mm M788 target practice and M789 high-explosive dual-purpose tactical ammunition are designed to be fired from the US Army’s Apache attack helicopter’s ATK M230 chain-gun automatic cannon.

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Intelsat Readies For ‘Epic’ Foray Into Military SatCom

For more than a decade, the US military has fumbled and groped and stumbled and, gradually, figured out ways to buy a mix of commercial satellite communications and dedicated military satellites so it could communicate and watch video from Predator, Global Hawk, and Reaper drones in theaters where military bandwidth was precious.

For much of the Iraq and Afghan wars, the US could easily buy commercial satellite time or transponders because of a fortuitous glut of satellites covering that region. That glut is fast vanishing. And places like the Pacific — marked by vast distances and relatively little commercial satellite coverage — have posed significant problems. Now the world’s largest commercial satellite operator, Intelsat, is buying Boeing-built satellites called Epic that it hopes — combined with changes in space acquisition and the development of secure radio waveforms — will supply the US military with enormous on-call bandwidth.

Boeing has built the Wideband Global SATCOM satellites (originally known as the Wideband Gapfiller, which was a much more honest name) to help plug those holes. But these satellites had to be built into the military’s acquisition budget and were subject to the Pentagon’s space acquisition system, known for its quality but not its speed. In part because of that slow-moving acquisition system, the technology on the WGS has been relatively quickly superseded.

The six Epic satellites, the first of which is due to launch in the third quarter of 2015, will provide five times the bandwidth equivalent of conventional commercial satellites and up to three times that of WGS satellites,

Among the keys to making the military a regular customer of the Epic satellites may be a program called COMSATCOM Pathfinder. On March 7, Air Force Space Command issued its first-ever request for commercial satellite communications to cover Africa. Gen. Willie Shelton, outgoing head of Air Force Space Command, has been pushing these changes, apparently as part of his general push for increasing the numbers and resilience of our military satellite architecture, a policy known as “disaggregation.”

Another key to the military using commercial communication satellites is a secure waveforms: algorithms that make the satellite hop to another frequency when jamming or other interference is detected. Boeing successfully tested the waveform in July last year. Last October, Raytheon successfully used a new modem and a highly secure waveform similar to that protecting communications on the most secure military communications satellites, the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) system used for presidential and nuclear transmissions. Raytheon builds the satellite terminals for AEHF, as well as the terminals used by the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO),

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Shelton referred to these capabilities at the National Space Symposium, saying the military could have secure communications at the flip of a switch. He didn’t mention Epic or Intelsat, but the connection seems likely.

A final advantage for Epic, Sears noted, is that it broadcasts on C-, Ka- and Ku-bands, meaning inexpensive commercial satellite terminals can be used, allowing the military to forgo purchase of custom-designed terminals that traditionally arrive late because the services are so bad at coordinating their acquisition. AEHF terminals cost an estimated $30 million a piece, compared to perhaps $30,000 or less for a commercial terminal, Sears said: “The biggest savings will come from the terminal side.”

The military’s new business model is not yet clear: Will they buy data, time on a satellite, access to a range of satellites for a period of time or some new combination? But Sears thinks this will all get settled over the next five years.

“There is still a need for strategic communications” using AEHF or its successors, Sears told me, but she and Intelsat are making a major bet on intelligence and military customers buying those six Epic


satellites at what some estimates peg at a cost of roughly $350 million a piece.

Sikorsky Deal Tops $15 Billion in May Contracts

Sikorsky’s $1.24 billion deal to begin developing a new fleet of presidential helicopters was the Pentagon’s biggest contract in May.

The unit of United Technologies Corp. will supply the Marine Corps with six S-92 aircraft and two training simulators — the first step in building a 21-chopper fleet over the next decade — under the sole-source Navy agreement announced early in May.

The contract topped a list of almost 250 awards announced in May, with a combined potential value of almost $15 billion, according to a Military .com analysis of the Pentagon’s daily contract announcements.

The total monthly value fell by more than a third from the same month a year ago and almost half of the average for the previous three months. The figures don’t reflect what was actually spent, or obligated, because many deals are only partially funded at first.

Overall, defense contracting is sliding less dramatically.

Since the Oct. 1 start of the government’s fiscal year through April, the Pentagon’s outlays in procurement and research and development accounts totaled $103 billion — just a 3-percent decrease from the same period a year earlier, according to last month’s financial assessment prepared by the Treasury Department’s Financial Management Service.

A group of seven defense contractors and service companies including Northrop Grumman Corp. and Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. landed seats on the Defense Department’s second-largest contract in May, a deal potentially worth $877 million for the Navy’s Joint Force Development program.

Specifically, the firms will provide “support for training and real-world operations by offering varying combinations of education (academics), training assessment, experimentation (war-fighting solutions), and infrastructure,” according to the 1 announcement.

A closely held company called Foster Fuels Inc. won the military’s third-largest agreement last month, an $853 million contract with the Defense Logistics Agency for fuel, according to the May 6 announcement. Source: Policy, Sequestration, The Defense Business

US To Implement Duties On Chinese Solar Panels

The New York Times reports the Commerce Department announced that it is implementing duties of somewhere between 18.56 percent and 35.21 percent on importers of Chinese solar panels. Solar panel manufacturers hailed the decision to implement and collect tariffs, as the market has been hurt by a flood of cheap Chinese panels.

The decision by the Commerce Department closes a loophole that allowed cheap panels made in Taiwan from government-subsidized Chinese components to avoid a similar tariff decision from 2012.

3D printing forms future of space parts, Lockheed says

Lockheed Martin expects 3D printing technology to play an increasingly bigger role in space programs, cutting the time it takes to develop and produce parts. Also key to the future of building space equipment will be nanotechnology, which may allow companies to build parts so small that weight is “irrelevant,” said Mark Valerio, vice president and general manager for military space, speaking at the National Space Symposium in Colorado Springs. Source: Defense News


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The goal is to get the most capable vehicle -- with the biggest payload, best perfor-mance and most protection available -- for $250,000 or less per vehicle, Cavedo said.

“Meticulous work was done on finding out the right capabilities that were achievable at $250,000,” he said. The services don’t want industry “coming in with a $180,000 truck when you’ve traded away all of this capability.”

The Marine Corps and Army also considered lifecycle costs, including fuel efficiency and reliability, as part of its source selection strategy, he said.

The Army plans to buy 49,000 vehicles, while the Marine Corps plans to order 5,500.

The service is currently doing an analysis of alternatives to see whether it can support a requirement for the new vessel, Fahley said. That study will wrap up as early as this spring.

“It is getting a lot of support from the Army

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Colorado to be one of 7 hubs of national digital manufacturing institute

Colorado will be one of seven hubs for a na-tional digital manufacturing institute — an opportunity to continue its efforts to grow its advanced-manufacturing sector, with some major financial help from the federal government.

President Barack Obama is expected to an-nounce the seven locations and further details about the project, but Ken Lund, executive director of the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade, con-firmed last month that this state will be one of them.

With the announcement will come a federal grant of about $10 million to match the $10 million pledged already to the project by OEDIT and several universities in Colorado, he said.

“For Colorado to be at the forefront and to be able to build our hubs to help local businesses compete is really at the heart of our effort to be home to this,” Lund said. “It will allow us to be able to retrain our workforce to be able to compete in the future.”

Digital manufacturing is a rapidly evolving subset of the industry. It involves using computer tools such as simulations and 3D visualization to drive production.

Several Colorado companies already employ the practice, including Woodward Inc. in Fort Collins and Bal Seal Engineering Inc. in Colorado Springs, but the placement of three training “nodes” in the state will let more companies learn how to employ the technol-ogy, Lund said.

UI Labs of Chicago will be awarded the main $70 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to fund the Digital Lab for Manu-facturing project. That will be matched with $250 million in contributions from industry, academia and private sources to sustain the full nationwide network.

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RFP For US Bomber Coming Soon, USAF’s Top Buyer Says

The request for proposal (RFP) on the US Air Force’s long range strike-bomber program will be issued soon, perhaps in a matter of days, according to the service’s top civil acquisitions official.

“That program is in a competitive phase,” William LaPlante, assistant Air Force secretary for acquisition, said during a speech at the Atlantic Council in Washington on Friday. “We’re probably days away from releasing the final RFP for that program.”

Asked to clarify the timetable for the contract award, LaPlante indicated the award date was set for the first half of 2015.

“There’s no magic, I’ll just tell you how the timeline works,” he told reporters. “If you do an RFP now, then you get proposals in in the fall and you evaluate them. You can imagine that being done sometime in the early part of 2015. Is that April? Is that January? I don’t know.”

Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James had previously indicated an RFP would likely be issued in the fall.

The Air Force seeks to procure 80 to 100 long-range bombers. The program, one of the big three recapitalization programs the Air Force has focused on protecting in the budget, has largely been shrouded in secrecy.

Only some basic information has been made public: The service has a mid-2020s operational date in mind; the plane will be based on existing technologies; there will be room for a large payload; and the service is at least exploring making the bomber optionally-manned. The bomber is also designed to fit into a “family of systems” that ties in ISR, electronic attack and communication systems.

“That program is designed around a fixed set of requirements [with] relatively mature technologies, [where we will] build the first version knowing it won’t have everything on it that we want or will want,” he said.

“We’re building an adaptable approach with an open architecture, [with] places on the wings that allow us to customize sensors and weapons with future capabilities.

“In other words, anticipate what we did, for example, with an F-16 where you look inside an F-16 today and it’s nothing like an F-16 when it first came out. Let’s build a truly block approach, make it adaptable. Let’s not fall into the trap that we fall into too often which is try to put so much into the first version.”

The big question on the bomber has always been cost. Former Defense Secretary Bob Gates set a target cost of $550 million per copy, but analysts have been quick to note that figure does not include a limit on how much can be spent in research and development.

Critics of the program also point out that the $550 million figure is now being discussed more as a guideline than a firm target, while under Gates it was discussed in the press as a cap. However, LaPlante pointed out that the figure was only ever a target to aim for with the current 80 to 100 plane procurement estimate.

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The goal is to get the most capable vehicle -- with the biggest payload, best perfor-mance and most protection available -- for $250,000 or less per vehicle, Cavedo said.

“Meticulous work was done on finding out the right capabilities that were achievable at $250,000,” he said. The services don’t want industry “coming in with a $180,000 truck when you’ve traded away all of this capability.”

The Marine Corps and Army also considered lifecycle costs, including fuel efficiency and reliability, as part of its source selection strategy, he said.

The Army plans to buy 49,000 vehicles, while the Marine Corps plans to order 5,500.

The service is currently doing an analysis of alternatives to see whether it can support a requirement for the new vessel, Fahley said. That study will wrap up as early as this spring.

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Colorado will be one of seven hubs for a na-tional digital manufacturing institute — an opportunity to continue its efforts to grow its advanced-manufacturing sector, with some major financial help from the federal government.

President Barack Obama is expected to an-nounce the seven locations and further details about the project, but Ken Lund, executive director of the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade, con-firmed last month that this state will be one of them.

With the announcement will come a federal grant of about $10 million to match the $10 million pledged already to the project by OEDIT and several universities in Colorado, he said.

“For Colorado to be at the forefront and to be able to build our hubs to help local businesses compete is really at the heart of our effort to be home to this,” Lund said. “It will allow us to be able to retrain our workforce to be able to compete in the future.”

Digital manufacturing is a rapidly evolving subset of the industry. It involves using computer tools such as simulations and 3D visualization to drive production.

Several Colorado companies already employ the practice, including Woodward Inc. in Fort Collins and Bal Seal Engineering Inc. in Colorado Springs, but the placement of three training “nodes” in the state will let more companies learn how to employ the technol-ogy, Lund said.

UI Labs of Chicago will be awarded the main $70 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to fund the Digital Lab for Manu-facturing project. That will be matched with $250 million in contributions from industry, academia and private sources to sustain the full nationwide network.

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“If later on we decide to buy 200 bombers, or we decide to buy 50, the [figure] will change,” LaPlante said. “But you have to give the designers something at the beginning to hold their feet to the fire.”

He did confirm there is a cost target for what is spent in research and development, but declined to say what it was.

Given the paucity of multibillion-dollar contracts, it is no surprise that some of the largest defense companies in the world are vying for a piece of the pie.

The team of Lockheed Martin and Boeing are hoping to defeat Northrop Grumman on the contract. Asked to respond to LaPlante’s comments, Boeing spokesman Todd Blecher wrote in an email: “We look forward to competing for this program, and having the opportunity to continue our decades-long partnership with the Air Force.”

“Northrop Grumman’s design and production of the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber, the bomber most recently produced by the US Air Force, positions it well for the [bomber] program,” company spokesman Randy Belote wrote. “We are very interested in working with the Air Force to provide this critical capability for the nation.”

While Lockheed can bring its experience with new technologies and Boeing has its construction capabilities, Northrop is betting on its experience with the B-2 stealth bomber to carry it over the line. The company was recently awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a ceiling of $9.9 billion for work on the B-2 over

the next decade. Source: defensenews.com.

IMF Report Says US Is Poised For Growth This Year

The Washington Post reports the International Monetary Fund issued a forecast for the US economy on Monday saying that the economy is prepared to accelerate after the slow start to the year. The IMF report notes that job gains, a falling unemployment rate, and increased factory activity suggest a rebound in the economy. The organization predicts that the US economy will grow at a rate of 2 percent this year, similar to last year’s 1.7 percent and lower than its previous estimate of 2.7 percent. The winter and sluggish home sales are reasons that the IMF revised its numbers down and why it doesn’t think the US economy will reach full employment for three more years.

Forbes Lists Companies With Most STEM Job Openings

Forbes reports that according to its analysis of data from job search website Indeed.com and from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, STEM jobs currently account for over 10% of all US job openings, noting that

“topping the list is Seattle-based Amazon,” which is “currently looking to fill 2,183 STEM jobs.” Meanwhile, such aerospace and defense technology firms as Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, and Northrop Grumman are “in the hunt for STEM talent,” each one seeking over 1,000 STEM workers.


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The Arizona Commerce Authority has named 10 finalists in its Spring Arizona Innovation Challenge.

Every spring and fall, the ACA awards $1.5 million to the most qualified, innovative startups and early-stage companies in its business plan competition. Winners receive up to $250,000 to build their business, with the goal of advancing innovation and technology commercialization opportunities in Arizona.

The finalists have been whittled down from 135 applications, with 25 semifinalists named in May.

The winning companies will be named later this month. The 10 finalists are:

Alert GPS Holdings Corp., a Scottsdale-based company that offers two-way cellular phone calling, continuous global positioning system tracking and customizable alerts via email, texts and an app to keep families safe and connected anywhere in the world.

EndoVantage LLC, a Paradise Valley-based company that provides computer simulations of medical device deployments into blood vessels and predictions of blood flow changes, enabling pre-surgery planning that improves treatment quality and decreases cost.

Infra-Tect LLC, a Chandler-based provider of water and waste water infrastructure piping systems that deliver a lower cost of installation, operations, maintenance and repair.

LawLytics, a Tucson-based proprietary software-as-a-service suite that empowers lawyers to maximize the efficacy of their online marketing dollars in a “safe, intuitive” and fully-supported environment.

NVI Algae Products LLC, a Phoenix-based company that offers algal biomass for the production of high value nutraceuticals.

PanAridus, a Casa Grande-based company that combines the science of genetics and bioagriculture to grow, harvest and extract natural rubber from a native Sonoran Desert plant called guayule.

Picmonic, a Tempe-based company that offers an interactive online audio-visual learning system that delivers scientific memory techniques through unforgettable art, audio instructions and textual overviews, brought together with cohesive stories.

Serious Integrated, a Chandler-based company that offers hardware and software complete graphic/touch panel embedded system solutions for almost any application.

Triton Microtechnologies, an Oro Valley-based manufacturer of the “only reliable” through glass via technology that enables customers to integrate electronic circuits into glass and allows them to scale from single quantities to millions of parts.



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Tim Maack and the MSL Precision team are celebrating 14 years in business this month. Prior to founding the company, Tim was an engineering manager at GE Medical. In his position, Tim dealt with machine shops on a regular basis, and he believed if he founded a company with superior employees, he could do it better than what he often experienced.

In the early years, MSL Precision purchased entry-level machines to grow the business. And the business grew. From 1 bay 14 years ago, to bursting at the seams in 8 bays in a 17,000 square foot facility today. Early on, the business certified to ISO: 9001 / AS9100, and in just the past year, they earned NADCAP accreditation for their welding capabilities.

Many companies in the medical, aerospace and defense industries recognize the value MSL Precision brings to their business. With a staffed engineering and quality department (engineers comprise nearly 10% of MSL’s staff), the company has earned the distinction of

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Over the past decade, MSL’s customers continued to increase the complexity of the parts they contracted out to MSL. Brian Ellis, Quality Manager for the company, says,“We were pushing the parts on our entry level machines – and we had to submit deviation requests on a regular basis. That opened our eyes to new machinery.”

Two years ago, Tim invited several machine tool suppliers into the company to propose their superior 5-axis machine tool solutions. Brian says, “We had two machinists who came from shops that owned Hermle machine tools, and the decision was relatively easy.” He continued,

“Our machinists knew the value of the Hermle machine tool line. In particular, we all recognized the value of its composite granite casting frame versus steel casting machines, which proliferate in the industry.”

MSL’s first Hermle purchase was the B 300 vertical machining center. Jeff Currie, Sales Engineer for Arizona CNC, distributors of the Hermle machine tool line, elaborated, “Hermle is a German machine tool manufacturer with North American headquarters in Franklin, Wisconsin, and they are extremely specialized in 3-5 axis machining centers. They have set the trend with a proven, compact design principle in modified gantry design as well as the swiveling rotary table location on both of the side walls.”

Peter C. Steimer, Vice President of Sales for the Western Region said, “The B 300 is targeted to the many shops that have expressed interest in Hermle machines for their high precision, hard machining capability and long experience in 5-axis machining applications. The Hermle 5-axis machines have a starting price of around $360,000 and that Hermle is the right machine for complex, very high accuracy jobs.” He continued, “The Hermle machines at MSL have an easy to learn Heidenhain iTNC 530 control, ideal for R&D and limited production runs.”

Jeff says, “ There are people that have crashed a 5-axis machine and then there are people that will crash a 5-axis machine. Crashes happen, but Hermle makes a crash (for the most part)

less painful for the pocket book. Instead of the spindle, the crush bushing takes the hit. Replacing the crush bushings is quicker and far less costly than replacing a spindle. Of course, a crash can be mostly avoided by using Hermle specific simulation software to begin with.”

MSL’s latest Hermle purchase was the C20. Jeff says customers appreciate that the C 20 is constructed in a modified gantry design, that it provides the required work piece-dependent dynamics by virtue of three axes in the tool, and it simplifies the automatic tool change by the pick-up method.

MSL’s customer workload dictated that they needed the Hermle C20 in January of this year. The machine wasn’t available for 4 months though. Brian says, “Arizona CNC and Hermle worked with us, providing us a much larger Hermle machine, until the C20 was available. When the C20 arrived, the Hermle team made the change out of machines in less than 2 days. You just don’t see this kind of customer service from machine tool dealers.”

Brian says, “Since we’ve purchased the Hermle machines, when customers come to tour our facility, they say “You are serious now. You can really do these complex parts for us”. Our next machine tool purchase will be a Hermle.”

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At a General Electric flight simulator here, the visibility has been set at near zero to mimic thick rain and clouds. But a video console near the pilot shows a vivid picture of nearby mountains precise enough to allow a plane to take off or land despite the conditions.

The system is one of several highly valuable next-generation technologies that GE has developed — and that the company has passed along to China as part of a joint venture with the state-owned Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC).

Access to the world’s second-largest economy is critical for nearly any global company. Yet this often comes at a cost: the transfer of the very technologies that leading business officials — including GE chief executive Jeffrey Immelt, who heads an Obama administration panel on U.S. jobs and competitiveness — cite as essential to the United States’ economic future. The “synthetic vision” system, for example, could be worth millions of dollars to airlines, which could significantly reduce costs from weather-related delays.

GE, like other companies, must weigh which technologies should be brought to joint ventures with China and how to protect them from being stolen or misused. These decisions face virtually any executive trying to develop a presence in the country — from the most sophisticated technology firms, which worry about software piracy, to old-line industrial equipment makers, which have seen knockoffs of their products pop up soon after making deals with Chinese partners. Under the agreement with AVIC, GE avionics will be on board a new Chinese commercial airliner that is likely to become a rival to aircraft produced by U.S.-based Boeing and Europe’s Airbus. The potential competition with Boeing, coming at a time when the United States is fighting to maintain its own manufacturing base, has stirred some American criticism.

But GE executives say they have had no second thoughts. China’s airplane market is booming, and the deal was too important to pass up, they said, even at the cost of sharing the avionics technology.

“We are all in and we don’t want it back,” said Lorraine Bolsinger, chief executive of GE Aviation Systems. She said new airplanes don’t come along that often, and that the chance to be part of developing a major new aircraft is not to be missed — even if most of the jobs will be in Shanghai or elsewhere in China.

“We don’t sell bananas,” she said in an interview here. “We can’t afford to take a decade off.”

But American business leaders wonder privately whether companies such as GE are at risk of giving up long-term strategic advantages when they agree to technology-transfer deals for shorter-term gain.GE executives maintain that is not the case. They say that they negotiated robust protections in their contract with AVIC. The 50-50 joint venture, for example, has strict limits on employing Chinese nationals who have a military or intelligence background. A board committee that monitors compliance with the joint venture agreement is effectively under GE’s control and can, in a dispute, overrule the full board, Bolsinger said.

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Doosan Announces Golf Sponsorship Doosan has announced it will onceagainbeanOfficialPatronoftheBritishOpen (known widely asThe OpenChampionship), the oldest of the fourmajorchampionshipsinprofessionalgolf.

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Army Beefs Up Humvee

DubbedtheModernizedExpandedCapacityVehicle (MECV), these revampedHumveeswillstilllooklikethevehiclesthatAmericanforceshavebeenusingsince1989.

TheArmywill keepboth the two-door andfour-door versions of theHumvee, and thetruckswill still haulbothmenandmaterialinthefield.ButtheMECVwillhavethickerarmor and a larger cargo carrying capacity,comparedtoitsolderbrothers.

Alongwiththeadditionalarmor,theservicealsoincludedarequirementthatsoldiersmusthaveaccesstoescapeexitsifthevehicleflipsorrollsover.Humveerolloversareoneofthemaincausesofnon-combatrelateddeathsinIraqandAfghanistan.

In the end, themodifications included intheMECV programwill “regain vehicleperformance and payload consumed bythe addition of armor to the legacy force,

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The improvised explosive devices plantedbyAfghan and Iraqi insurgents, alongwithweaponslikerocket-propelledgrenadesandmortars, exposed fatal flaws in the light-armoredHumvee.

Anup-armoredversionoftheHumveeandthenewMineResistantAmbushProtectedvehicle did help close those gaps, but thetacticalvehiclefleetisstilldominatedbythoseweakerHumvees.

Army Chief of Staff nominee Gen. RayOdierno told theHill that the servicewasintheprocessoftakingcareoftheproblem.DoDhasalreadybegunstrengtheningcertainversions of theMRAP that are vulnerableto a particular kind of IED, known as anexplosivelyformedpenetrator,builtbyIran.

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Factories ‘Reshore’ Some Work From Overseas

During the worst of the Great Recession, U.S. factory jobs were disappearing at a furious pace. As 2007 began, about 14 million Americans were working in manufacturing. Three years and one frightful recession later, only 11.5 million were. But since 2010, employment has been ticking back up, with companies adding about 400,000 jobs.

One reason for at least a small portion of that growth: the return of factory work from overseas. Experts say it’s difficult to accurately measure the number of jobs tied to work returning from other countries, but some employers say they know it is happening. Reversing A Herd Mentality Howard Hauser, a vice president with Hiawatha Rubber Co., says for a long time, manufacturers followed a herd mentality of sending work offshore. They all wanted components produced in low-wage, emerging markets like China. “They were looking at the piece price. And it looked like, ’We’re going to save a lot of money,’” he said. “But the bottom line was they didn’t save nearly as much as they thought. And with the quality issues, they’re just not getting product that’s acceptable for the customer.”

Now Hiawatha, based outside Minneapolis, is getting those contracts. And Hauser has himself decided to “reshore” production of a component that was being made in China. The move will result in three new hires at his plant. He says the part was not difficult to make, but the Chinese factory kept botching the job. He says Hiawatha, which makes rubber components for equipment such as printers and pumps, can do it better.

From Soup To Overtime As business picks up and hiring resumes, the employees at Hiawatha are feeling more confident now. But it’s still painful to recall the recent tough times when orders dropped off about 40 percent and production hours were slashed. One worker, Richard Beaulieu, says he had to make do while working just three or four days a week. That went on for nearly a year. His memory of that lean time: “Many, many months, and a lot of soup,” he says. “But you just buck it up and get through it.”

Beaulieu and the other 65 full-timers are back to normal hours now — and can even count on some overtime.

The U.S. Looks More Competitive Dan Meckstroth, an economist with the Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation, says labor in the United States is looking more competitive internationally for a number of reasons. For one, U.S. wages are still depressed because of the relatively slow overall recovery. At the same time, wages have been rising in emerging markets. In addition, the skill level of American workers is generally higher. And the supply chain disruptions after last year’s Japanese disasters made some companies skittish about outsourcing to Asia, he said.

But Meckstroth says it’s hard to quantify any job gains from “reshoring.” The number may not be great, but at least the trend line is good, he said. “I’m not saying there’s a tsunami of production coming back to the United States. It’s a trickle,” Meckstroth said. “But a trickle back is better than the tidal wave out.” But at Hiawatha Rubber, Hauser does not think the future of manufacturing lies in bringing work back, even if that’s benefiting his company now. He believes greater productivity for the sector will come through increased automation. At his factory, more

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T h e U. S . A r my Ta n k -Automot ive Researc h , D e v e l o p m e n t a n d E n g i n e e r i n g C e n t e r (TARDEC) and Lockheed Martin have completed new tests validating the ability of

driverless military-truck convoys to operate in a variety of environments.

The second series of demonstrations of the Autonomous Mobility Applique System (AMAS) Capabilities Advancement Demonstration (CAD-2) tests were conducted at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina.

In the CAD-2 demonstration, AMAS completed a series of fully autonomous convoy tests involving a completely unmanned leader vehicle followed by a convoy of up to six additional follower vehicles (also fully autonomous) operating at speeds as high as 40mph. The tests doubled the length and speed of convoys previously demonstrated under the program.

Vehicles used in the CAD-2 demonstration included one Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles (FMTV) truck, one Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement (MTVR) vehicle, two Palletized Load System trucks, two M915 Line-Haul Tractors and one Heavy Equipment Transport.

“I would describe these tests as a successful demonstration of the

maturing capabilities of AMAS technology,” says David Simon, AMAS program manager for Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control. “We will conduct further safety testing within the next month, and the program will execute a six-week operational demonstration in the July-August timeframe, during which time soldiers and marines will assess the system benefits in realistic convoy operations.”

Earlier this year, AMAS completed the first CAD series of tests, simulating driverless tactical vehicles navigating hazards and obstacles such as road intersections, oncoming traffic, stalled and passing vehicles, pedestrians and traffic circles in both urban and rural test areas.

The AMAS hardware and software are designed to automate the driving task on current tactical vehicles. The Unmanned Mission Module part of AMAS, which includes a high-performance LIDAR sensor, and additional algorithms, is installed as a kit and can be used on virtually any military vehicle.

GE Healthcare Showcases Commitment to Personalized Nuclear Medicine with Introduction of Discovery NM/CT 670 Pro and Q.Metrix

Nuclear medicine scanning will be enriched with the introduction of GE Healthcare’s Discovery*^ NM/CT 670 Pro, announced today at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Annual Meeting (SNMMI 2014). The vision of quantitative accuracy in nuclear medicine is enabled by Q.Metrix^ and Q.AC^, GE Healthcare’s newest software innovations in nuclear medicine.

“We are dedicated to pushing nuclear medicine to its full potential and developing equipment and software that helps customers address the challenges they are confronted with every day,” said Nathan Hermony, General Manager, Nuclear Medicine, GE Healthcare. “We are excited to be able to introduce the new Discovery NM/CT 670 Pro with Q.Metrix and Q.AC to our customers at SNMMI 2014 this year.”

Discovery NM/CT 670 ProThe Discovery NM/CT 670 Pro delivers outstanding imaging performance, ready not only for today’s most demanding workloads, but also for future challenges in medical imaging. The new Discovery NM/CT 670 Pro integrates the GE Optima* CT 540 to maintain its cutting edge CT performance. It combines a 50-slice equivalent CT speed for extended fast coverage of time-critical scans with advanced CT applications, dose management tools such as OptiDose, DoseWatch* and ASiR*, and a streamlined workflow for the most challenging standalone CT procedures.

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December U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $491.89 million according to AMT - The Association For Manufacturing Technology. This total, as reported by companies participating in the USMTO program, was up 9.9% from November and up 11.8% when compared with the total of $439.90 million reported for December 2012. With a year-end total of $4,939.58 million, 2013 was down 5.1% compared with 2012.

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

“With a strong finish to 2013 for manufacturing technology orders, plus strong reports for durable goods, capacity utilization, and PMI, there is plenty of favorable momentum for the industry going into 2014,” said Douglas K. Woods, AMT President. “The average age

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The United States Manufacturing Technology Orders (USMTO) report, compiled by the trade association representing the production and USMTOdistribution of manufacturing technology, provides regional and national U.S. orders data of domestic and imported machine tools and related equipment. Analysis of manufacturing technology orders provides a reliable leading economic indicator as manufacturing industries invest in capital metalworking equipment to increase capacity and improve productivity.

U.S. manufacturing technology orders are also reported on a regional basis for six geographic breakdowns of the United States.

Northeast RegionManufacturing technology orders in the Northeast Region in December totaled $65.47 million, down 13.5% when compared with

November’s $75.65 million and down 2.5% when compared with December 2012. With a year-end total of $808.79 million, 2013 was up 4.7% when compared with 2012.

Southeast RegionAt $45.46 million, December Southeast Region manufacturing technology orders were 20.7% less than the December 2012 total. Year-end orders stood at $452.20 million, down 16.7% when compared with 2012.

North Central-East RegionDecember manufacturing technology orders in the North Central-East Region totaled $138.82 million, 11.3% higher than November’s $124.72 million and up 37.8% when compared with December 2012. At $1,286.90 million, the 2013 year-end total was 3.0% less than the comparable figure for 2012.

North Central-West RegionWith a year-end total of $924.26 million, 2013 North Central-West Region manufacturing technology orders were off 10.1% when compared with 2012.


Score one for Boeing: Emirates’ cancellation of Airbus A350 order may keep airline in 777 camp

Emirates airl ine’s decision to cancel its purchase of 70 Airbus A350s could prove to be a further boost for Boeing’s 777.

By tur n ing away from the European c o m p a ny ’s t w i n -

engine, twin-aisle aircraft, Emirates may be opening the door to buying more 777s to fill its capacity needs.

The decision is also a $16 billion slap for Airbus’ A350 program, partly because the A350-1000, its largest model, will carry about 30 passengers fewer than the 400-plus capacity of the larger 777-9X.

Sterne Agee analyst Peter Arment called the move “an endorsement for 777” and an “A350 body blow.”

“The decision to cancel the A350 reflects Emirates’ future capacity requirements but also cements its endorsement behind the 777 platform,” he wrote. “The current-generation 777 aircraft is flying Emirates key routes, and will likely see further expansion at the end of the decade with the 777X.”

Although to be sure, Boeing Co. ), which has a presence in Mesa, also received its share of 787 cancellations during that program’s lengthy development.

Here’s a story we did last fall about the 777X, why it’s important to Boeing, and the competition against the A350-1000. While it’s in some ways dated, there might be some useful material there for you.

Dubai-based Emirates already holds the biggest order book of the upcoming Boeing 777X aircraft, after ordering 150 of them at the November Dubai Air Show for a list price of $76 billion. The 777X model will have new engines and new wings.

And while the airline’s twin-aisle fleet is a mixture of Boeing and Airbus models, it’s dominated by Boeing 777s, with 131 in operation and another 214 on order, according to the Emirates website.

Airbus downplayed the decision, pointing out in a news release that the A350 is progressing in its flight test program and still has 742 firm orders.

Since Emirates already has a large backlog of orders for the future 777X aircraft, which won’t be delivered until 2020 at least, the question is what the carrier will do now for new capacity, especially in the short term.

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ASU Foundation launching $1 mil l ion VC fund for manufacturing companies The Arizona State University Foundation will start a new venture capital fund for early-stage companies focused on manufacturing, thanks to a $1 million grant from the Maricopa County Industrial Development Authority.

The venture capital fund will benefit ASU’s accelerator programs based at ASU’s SkySong center in Scottsdale, including the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group and ASU’s technology transfer arm, Arizona Technology Enterprises.

“We feel this new venture fund will help to fill a gap not only in the early-stage venture sector in Arizona, but also in the ecosystem that is rapidly building in the greater Phoenix area for manufacturing-oriented companies,” Gordon McConnell, associate vice president with the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group, said in an email. “In ASU SkySong, we have noticed an increase in the past few years in startups that are aiming to build physical products, including those in our student startups programs, as well as with faculty and alumni.”

The evergreen fund will take small equity positions in each company that receives investment capital in transactions ranging from $50,000 to $250,000, according to a statement.

ASU’s goal is to build the fund to $10 million through private donations.

“We are able to advance entrepreneurship through our ASU accelerators — the Furnace Technology Transfer Accelerator, the ASU Startup Accelerator and the Edson Student Entrepreneur Initiative — then support the

results with venture capital that will allow them to expand and achieve,” Rick Shangraw Jr., CEO of the ASU Foundation, said in a statement.

Many companies have benefited from the Edson program, including Endless Entertainment, Duo Kitchenware and G3Box.

In 10 years, Arizona Technology Enterprises has supported the launch and development of 67 ASU spin-off companies. These companies, based on technologies developed by the university’s researchers, has raised $68 million in external funding.

“Maricopa County is excited to join with ASU to help emerging businesses develop into sustainable companies and promote job growth in the county,” Denny Barney, chairman of the Maricopa Board of Supervisors, said in a statement. “This partnership demonstrates our commitment to investing in the long-term, sustainable growth of Maricopa County.”

The ASU Foundation is a nonprofit that partners with ASU to ensure the success of a “New American University.”


With a 777 backlog of just 237 aircraft, right now Boeing doesn’t have enough orders to keep its 777 line at full throttle at the current production rate of 8.3 aircraft a month until the 777X starts rolling out.Here’s a story we did about the order gap.

In fact, the current backlog is good for fewer than three years.

So watch out for a possible Emirates 777-300 ER order, at a price heavily discounted below the $320 million list price. That will be a way for Boeing to keep its line running, and for Emirates to put new passengers in the sky. Source: Puget Sound Business Journal

Chandler’s Local Motors and Intel intern Joey Hudy share cool innovations at White House’s first Maker Faire

Local Motors Inc., a Chandler-based vehicle design collaboration company, was part of the White House’s first Maker Faire held last month in Washington along with innovators from around the country.

Anthem 16-year-old Joey Hudy, Intel’s youngest intern, presented his 3x3x3 LED Cube Arduino Shield’s colorful display of 1,000 LEDs. Hudy first presented his infamous “Extreme Marshmallow Cannon” to President

Obama in 2012.

The invite-only event featured more than 100 makers, innovators and entrepreneurs all ages from 25 states who are using cutting-edge tools to bring their ideas to life.

Local Motors was founded by U.S. Marine and Iraq veteran Jay Rogers. He said the company is helping to drive the “Third Industrial Revolution by accelerating the pace at which ideas move from mind, to market.”

The company reaches out to the global community of designers, engineers, enthusiasts and manufacturers to deliver innovation through crowd-sourced design and distributed micro-manufacturing.

“We have been driving a culture of making things since I founded Local Motors in 2007,” Rogers said in a statement. “With our global community of like-minded innovators, and with cutting-edge partners like DARPA, the U.S. Army Rapid Equipping Force, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and GE – just to name a few – we are cultivating a community of makers who are delivering next-generation design and manufacturing process improvements today that will lead to a reinvigoration of an industrial-based economy.”

On his White House blog, President Barack Obama said today’s event “celebrates every maker, from students learning STEM skills, to entrepreneurs launching new businesses, to innovators powering the renaissance in American manufacturing.” Source: Phoenix Business Journal


Numerous factors suggest that machine-tending robots will soon be much more commonplace in U.S. shops

Results from our 2014 Top Shops benchmarking survey indicate an increased use of machine-tending robots among successful U.S. shops. In the previous two surveys, the percentage of shops in our benchmarking group that had integrated such automated processes was in the 16- to 17-percent range. This year’s survey revealed a significantly higher number of shops in that group had robots: 22 percent.

This parallels statistics recently provided by the Robotic Industries Association (RIA), which reveal two consecutive years of record robot shipments in North America. In 2013, 22,591 robots valued at $1.39 billion were shipped to North American companies, beating the 2012 record of 20,328 robots valued at $1.29 billion.

FANUC is no stranger to the advantages of automated processes, as is evident at its expansive manufacturing campus in Oshino-mura, Yamanashi, Japan, which I recently re-visited. There, more than 2,500 robots help manufacture other robots, control and drive components, and related equipment. In fact, repeatable, reliable automated processes enable the company to manufacture a whopping 125,000 servomotors each month. Although Japan is a high-wage country, automation enables FANUC to be globally competitive with its CNC and automation products.

During my visit, I spent time with Rick Schneider, president of FANUC America, who has extolled the advantages of automation for years. A decade ago, he launched the “Save Your Factory” campaign, urging North American manufacturers to recognize that, compared to offshoring, improving manufacturing efficiency here through automation, robotics and lean manufacturing is a more cost-effective and profitable alternative. The company continues its efforts to get this message out today. In fact, Mr. Schneider points to the following few factors that, like the data mentioned above, indicate that robots will become more commonplace in U.S. manufacturing facilities.

• Reshoring is real. The 2014 Top Shops survey asked if shops had won work during the previous year as a result of customers’ reshoring efforts, and 15 percent of them said they had. This supports anecdotal evidence I’ve encountered that indicates reshoring is on the rise. Mr. Schneider concurs, saying North American manufacturers today are more closely considering the actual cost of production abroad as, for example, shipping costs and labor rates in China continue to rise. These and other offshoring drawbacks are spurring an increasing number of North American companies to bring production back from overseas and closer to their consumers here. The key to taking advantage of this trend is to optimize production efficiency. For machine shops, this means increasing spindle up-time, and robotic automation offers an effective, reliable means to do that.

• Robot technology is advancing. Today’s robots are faster and more intelligent than in years past, and are becoming increasingly viable for small-batch/high-mix production. Mr. Schneider points to advancements in vision technology as exemplified by high-speed, high-definition cameras that offer improved part recognition capability for

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Chevalier Machinery Engineers To Demonstrate 9 Machines At IMTS

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Chevalier’s exciting line-up of breakthrough machines include the new FSG-2440ADS automatic grinder, the new FBB-110L horizontal boring machine and the new FBL-520D heavy-duty horizontal turning lathe. IMTS attendees will also watch a FANUC intelligent robotic team with a Chevalier heavy-duty horizontal turning lathe, demonstrating increased production efficiency through automation.

“IMTS is a great show to meet with the brightest minds and see the newest technology. And there’s no better place to learn, connect and network,” says Johnson Lan, Chevalier’s vice president and top expert on grinding systems.

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• Automation creates a quality workforce. Automation can lead to modest pruning of personnel who lack the desire to grow their skills. Conversely, it presents opportunities for others who are motivated to advance, and can ultimately lead to additional hiring. Automated machine shops require robot cell attendants, programmers and maintenance technicians. These are quality positions that can be filled by retrained people who previously loaded and unloaded machines. Those who improve their skillsets become higher-value assets for a company. They also are more likely to be committed to the business, knowing they possess the level of skills that provide greater job security. And it doesn’t hurt that their paycheck is bigger, too. Of course, this requires an investment in training, but shops that are proactive enough to employ automation likely are also willing to develop effective internal training procedures.

Examples of automation being applied at successful shops are found in our Robots and Automation Zone. Automation will also have a large presence at IMTS with the return of the Industrial Automation North America show, which launched at IMTS 2012. Take advantage of these and other resources and closely consider how you might leverage automation to grow your business, develop a more talented and valuable workforce, and better position your shop to win work that is returning to our shores.Comments are reviewed by moderators before they appear to ensure they meet Modern Machine Shop’s submission guidelines. Source: Modern Machine Shop

Factory Output Up 0.6 Percent In May

The AP reports the Federal Reserve said Monday that factory output rose 0.6 percent in May. Industrial production also rose 0.6 percent and mining output rose 1.3 percent. Industrial production rose at the

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Northrop Grumman Corp. has received funding to produce preproduction units of the APR-39D(V)2 radar warning receiver (RWR)/electronic warfare management system (EWMS), the company announced.

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The acquisition of Aptina vastly expands ON Semiconductor’s image-sensor business and establishes the company as a leader in the fast growing segment of image sensors in automotive and industrial semiconductor market. According to TSR, an independent market research firm, the worldwide demand for image sensors for automotive and industrial applications is expected to grow at annual compound rate of 16 percent between 2013 and 2016.

Under the terms of the agreement, ON Semiconductor will pay approximately $400 million in cash to acquire Aptina Imaging, subject to customary adjustments at closing. The acquisition will be funded by available cash on ON Semiconductor’s balance sheet and its existing revolver credit facility.

ON Semiconductor expects the acquisition to be immediately accretive to earnings, excluding any non-recurring acquisition related charges, the fair value step-up inventory amortization, and amortization of acquired intangibles. Based on unaudited results, Aptina’s revenue for last twelve months ending on May 29, 2014, was approximately $532 million with gross and operating margins of approximately 29 percent and 3 percent, respectively. ON Semiconductor currently intends to report operational results for Aptina and other image and optical sensor businesses in a separate reporting segment as soon as practical after the close of Aptina acquisition.

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BAE Systems submits Army multi-purpose vehicle concept

BAE Systems has submitted a proposal for the U.S. Army’s Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle (AMPV) competition. The company’s offering addresses the critical need to replace the Vietnam-era M113 that the Army has identified as its top priority for the safety and survivability of soldiers.

“[The] submission is the culmination of more than 15 years of concept development and validation and two years of internal development and responses to the Army to fill a critical capability gap for our soldiers,” says Mark Signorelli, vice president and general manager of Combat Vehicles at BAE Systems. “Our AMPV proposal provides an affordable low risk solution that is ready now and meets the Army’s survivability, force protection, and mobility requirements.”

BAE Systems’ AMPV capitalizes on the proven Bradley and Paladin

Integrated Management designs, meeting the Army’s force protection and all-terrain mobility requirements, enabling the AMPV to maneuver with the rest of the Armored Brigade Combat Team (ABCT). The company maximized commonality within the AMPV family of vehicles and the ABCT to reduce risk and provide significant lifecycle cost savings to the Army.

“BAE Systems built and demonstrated prototypes for each of the five variants in order to provide the best solution for the Army,” says Greg Mole, AMPV capture director at BAE Systems. “Given the maturity of our design and the commonality both within the AMPV and ABCT fleets, we feel this offers significant opportunity to accelerate the program’s schedule.”

The BAE Systems AMPV team includes DRS Technologies, responsible for power management, distribution, and integration; Northrop Grumman Corp., responsible for Mission Command Mission Equipment Package design and integration; Air Methods Corp., responsible for the design and integration of medical evacuation and treatment subsystems; and Red River Army Depot, responsible for vehicle teardown and component remanufacture.

The company’s offering includes proven powertrain and drivetrain components from Cummins, L3 Communications, and LOC Performance that supports the ABCT industrial base.

The Army terminated the M113 program in 2007 and has been working with industry for more than two years to maximize competition for the vehicle’s replacement. The service plans to award an initial contract for the 52-month engineering manufacturing and development phase in January 2015 with prototype delivery 24 months after contract award.

Lockheed acquires California-based provider of thin film coatings Defense giant Lockheed Martin Corp. has acquired an 85-person firm in Santa Rosa, Calif. that provides thin film coatings, the Bethesda-based contractor announced.

The terms of the agreement between Lockheed and Deposition Sciences Inc. were not disclosed. DSI, which lists multiple defense firms as customers, is a subsidiary of Solon, Ohio-based Advanced Lighting Technologies Inc. Lockheed declined to comment on specifics of how the thin film coatings will be used, but has said the company will be integrated into the Aeronautics business area.

This comes after a couple other acquisitions by the contractor. In May, Lockheed announced its plan to acquire satellite launch preparation services company Astrotech Space Operations, from Austin, Texas-based Astrotech Corp., for $61 million. And in March, it bought EONTRA AG, based in Karlsruhe, Germany, which provides forecasting services for big commercial airports around the world.


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The Christian Science Monitor reports that after losses in the early 2000s, US manufacturing has “started to regain some footing” since 2010, added “more than 600,000 new jobs, according to a new report.” The Administration “celebrated that growth in a series of press events as evidence” that the economy is rebounding, but “manufacturing experts suggest that declaration of victory might be premature.” Still, the report, released by the US National Economic Council, suggests that the US could add between 3.5 million and 5 million manufacturing jobs by 2020.

Solar Taxis Offer a Clean Energy Solution for Environmentally Conscious Cities

Energy efficiency is a major concern for modern cities, and continually pumping our vehicles with finite fossil fuels is clearly not the answer. To offer a more environmentally conscious solution, designer Hakan Gürsu of Designnobis has proposed Solar Taxis, eco-vehicles powered by clean energy for urban

use. Topped by solar panels, the Solar Taxi is surrounded by a transparent outer shell that’s rugged enough for tough roads. The spacious design would also offer enough room to accommodate physically disabled passengers.

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Trends Suggest Solid Aftermarket Prospects For Pratt & Whitney

Rising fleet utilization, a soon-to-be growing installed base and a bigger share of engines under long-term maintenance agreements has Pratt & Whitney bullish on its aftermarket outlook, United Technologies Corp. CEO Louis Chenevert says.

“The good news is the airlines are flying. The cycles are there, the hours are there,” Chenevert said. “So we always said when we had the slump that they would come back, and it is coming back.”

Lower aircraft utilization and concerted efforts by operators to defer work suppressed engine overhaul revenues during the last several years. A notable uptick that began in the second half of 2013 seems to be taking hold, with many aftermarket providers, including UTC’s Pratt and UTC Aerospace Systems (UTAS), reporting strong year-over-year improvements.

The V2500 installed base, which cracked the 2,000-engine threshold in 2011, should break through 2,900 sometime next year. On its heels is the geared turbofan (GTF) series fleet, which—depending on the version—is 60% to 80% covered by Pratt long-term fleet management programs (FMP). That compares to about 20% for the PW2000 and 40% for the PW4000, Chenevert notes.

“This is [a] game changing process and creates a much better model,” he says of FMP.


Pentagon Looks to Lower Costs of F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Program

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The Pentagon said it is pushing builders of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter to invest more of their own funds to reduce the cost of the $399 billion weapons program. It is also eyeing financial incentives and penalties to get overseas buyers to stick to their order commitments for the jet.

The twin moves announced by senior Pentagon officials mark a major upgrade of its effort to shift more of the burden of the delayed and over-budget F-35 program to other stakeholders at a time when the department’s own procurement funds are shrinking.

Lockheed Martin Corp., Northrop Grumman Corp., BAE Systems and the Pratt & Whitney unit of United Technologies Corp. are the largest contractors for the F-35, which Pentagon officials said is on track to be declared combat ready by the U.S. Marine Corps in July 2015. The program also involves hundreds of other companies, and around 30% of the jet by value is built outside the U.S.

Pentagon officials in the past have expressed frustration that the Defense Department has been left to pay for upgrades and modifications to the F-35. Frank Kendall, the Pentagon’s acquisition chief, told reporters he was looking to contractors to invest “tens of millions” of dollars of their own funds to help lower the jet’s cost. While its purchase prices have fallen with successive batches acquired by the U.S., defense officials said in April the overall cost of the program had climbed for the first time in two years because of rising overhead expenses and exchange-rate effects.

Some 80% of targeted cost improvements have been tied to boosting F-35 annual production rates

from 40 to more than 100, but the latest push includes possible changes to manufacturing facilities and processes or even part of the jet’s design to improve affordability, said Sean Stackley, the Navy’s acquisition chief, following a two-day meeting with contractors at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida.

Such changes would be paid for by contractors, though Mr. Kendall said incentives for contractors to invest in lowering the F-35’s cost would aim to ensure a “win-win” for both sides. These could include accelerating or withholding progress payments, depending on performance and meeting cost goals.

A Pratt & Whitney spokesman said it had already self-funded more than $65 million of cost reduction initiatives, and continued to push for more cuts. A Lockheed spokesman said the company continued to work with the Pentagon on “affordability measures in an ongoing effort to further reduce costs.”

Mr. Kendall also said for the first time that the Pentagon is looking for ways to bind overseas governments to their commitments to buy the plane, though it has yet to introduce any penalties or incentives.


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The aircraft has this year secured fresh orders from South Korea, Australia and Turkey. But some countries such as Italy and the Netherlands have reduced the number they intend to acquire. Denmark has launched a competition for new fighters, having originally picked the F-35, while Canada has also yet to confirm whether it will stick to its original plan of buying the plane.

Mr. Kendall said there is increasing emphasis on reducing the operating costs of the radar-evading, single-seat jet, which official estimates have pegged at just over $1 trillion for the entire U.S. fleet through 2065.

Lt. Gen. Chris Bogdan, the military official in

charge of the program, said the life-cycle costs had already been cut by 9%, but the target was for a 30% reduction.

Critics of the program have disputed the underlying assumptions for these long-term forecasts, as well as official Pentagon data for the purchase price of the jet.

Gen. Bogdan said increased test flying of the jet was helping to refine cost estimates, and expressed optimism that Lockheed and Pratt & Whitney are fixing lingering reliability problems.

For example, mechanics no longer have to check the oil after every flight, and software problems that have dogged the jet’s development are no longer a barrier to its entry into service, he said, though work is behind schedule on more advanced versions.

Pentagon officials also said they were mindful of efforts by the main contractors to push cost-cutting efforts off on smaller suppliers that account for 80% of the F-35’s value. The wider aerospace and defense industry is engaged in multiple programs

to squeeze more from suppliers.

“We have to keep an eye on that,” said Mr. Kendall, though he said there was still room for smaller players to contribute more to the affordability push.

Mesa Makers Get In On 3-D CarvingHeatSync Labs, a “maker space” in Mesa, is making the latest in digital manufacturing technology available to area makers for the first time.

The maker space has won a contest from Chicago-based Inventables to receive a free 3D carving machine, a new technology like 3D printing that is revolutionizing the way physical objects are designed and manufactured.

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Metrology InstrumentsDatum Inspection _____ 602-997-1340Klontech Industrial Sales _ 480-948-1871Phoenix Small Tool ____ 602-256-7011Total Quality Systems ___ 480-377-6422Washington Calibration __ 480-820-0506

Optical ComparatorsDatum Inspection _____ 602-997-1340Klontech Industrial Sales _ 480-948-1871OGP ____________ 480-889-9056Magnum Precision Mach _ 602-431-8300Magnum Precision Mach 505-345-8389Phoenix Small Tool ____ 602-256-7011Total Quality Systems ___ 480-377-6422

Punch PressesAdams Machinery _____ 480-968-3711

SPC Data Acquis.Equip.D & R Machinery _____480-775-6462Datum Inspection _____ 602-997-1340

Rapid Optical InspectionMesa Mach Sales ____ 480-545-0275Moore Tool & Equipment 602-455-8904S&S Machinery Sales __ 602-368-8542

Repair & CertificationOGP ____________480-889-9056Total Quality Systems ___ 480-377-6422Washington Calibration __480-820-0506

Shearing MachinesACC Machinery ______602-258-7330Adams Machinery _____ 480-968-3711Desert Machine Tool Repair _ 480-226-3128Jorgenson Machine Co. __ 800-952-0151Moore Tool & Equipment _602-455-8904S&S Machinery Sales ___602-368-8542Magnum Precision Mach _ 602-431-8300Video Measuring systems

Klontech Industrial Sales _ 480-948-1871Washington Calibration __480-820-0506

WaterJet: Filtration/ChillersEbbco Inc _________ 800-809-3901WaterJet Cutting Systems

Flow International ____ 800-446-3569Global EDM Supply ____480-836-8330Flow Waterjet _______ 714-393-3783Flow Waterjet _______ 415-828-3569Jorgenson Machine Co. __ 800-952-0151North-South Machinery _ 602-391-4696Omax Corp. ________800-838-0343

Waterjet AccessoriesBarton International ___ 800-741-7756KMT Waterjet Systems __ 800-826-9274Lone Arrow_________480-507-8074

Welding EquipmentACC Machinery ______ 602-258-7330Rocky Mountain Saw Blades 303-761-3000

ROBOTIC EQUIPMENTIntegrated Systems Inc __ 928-649-9600

USED MACHINERYACC Machinery ______ 602-258-7330Automatics & Machinery _ 303-651-6545CNC Machinery Sales ___ 602-244-1507EDM Network _______ 480-836-1782Ganesh Machinery ____888-542-6374Innovative Cutting Systems _ 480-557-7999K D Capital ________ 480-922-1674Methods West _______ 602-437-2220Moore Tool & Equipment _ 602-455-8904R. Jorgenson Company __ 800-952-0151S&S Machinery Sales ___ 602-368-8542Savage Machine Tools __ 480-773-4080TSM Machinery ______ 602-233-3757

ACCESSORIES Abrasives

Barton International ___ 800-741-7756Fives ____________ 909-263-9282GMA Garnet Group ____832-243-9300R.S. Hughes ________602-275-5565S. L. Fusco, Inc. ______ 480-753-5000

Aerosol ProductsR.S. Hughes ________602-275-5565

10530 E. 59th Street • Indianapolis, IN 46236T: 317/826.4414 • TF: 877/240.2462 • F: 317/823.6822

[email protected] • C: 317/946.1235trustycook.com

Jeffrey F. Nawrot Vice President, Business Development

BRALCO METALS929 E. Jackson StreetPhoenix. Arizona 85034

(602) 252-1918(800) 544-8052Fax: (602) 252-7813Cell: (602) [email protected]

QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMCERTIFIED BY DNV

_ 1509001:2008_- AS9120:2002 -

.BRALCO,...".,Kevin RandallOutside Sales Representative


Automatic Barfeeds Of All Types

Abrasive SystemsKMT Waterjet Systems __ 800-826-9274

AdhesivesR.S. Hughes ________ 602-275-5565S. L. Fusco, Inc. ______ 480-753-5000

Air Blast Cabinets, Blast RoomsLone Arrow________480-507-8074

Air CompressorsAirtek ___________ 480-966-5267

Air Drying SystemsAirtek ___________ 480-966-5267

Air Filtration EquipmentInnovative Cutting Systems _ 480-557-7999Magnum Precision Mach _ 602-431-8300

Band Saw/ Bladesbandsawparts.com ____ 800-240-2932Echols Saw & Supply ___ 602-278-3918Marshall Tool & Supply __ 602-269-6295Rocky Mountain Saw Blades 303-761-3000Roentgen USA _______ 847-787-0135S. L. Fusco, Inc. ______ 480-753-5000sawblade.com _______ 877-501-7297Wayco Sales Inc ______562-927-3469

Bar FeedersArizona CNC Equip ____ 480-615-6353Edge Technologies ____ 562-597-7824Ellison Machinery _____ 480-968-5335Magnum Precision Mach _ 602-431-8300

Bar Feeder AccessoriesEdge Technologies ____ 562-597-7824Trusty-Cook ________ 877-240-2462

Blast AbrasivesBarton International ___ 800-741-7756GMA Garnet Group ____ 832-243-9300

Cabinets, CustomLone Arrow ________ 480-507-8074

Chip ManagementArizona CNC Equip ____ 480-615-6353Ellison Machinery ____ 480-968-5335

Chip RemovalArizona CNC Equip ____ 480-615-6353Ellison Machinery ____ 480-968-5335

Chuck JawsArizona CNC Equip ____ 480-615-6353Ellison Machinery ____ 480-968-5335

ChucksAdams Machinery _____ 480-968-3711Arizona CNC Equip ____ 480-615-6353Ellison Machinery ____ 480-968-5335InnovativeTool Sales ___ 714-780-0730Marshall Tool & Supply __ 602-269-6295

CNC Lathe AccessoriesTrusty-Cook ________ 877-240-2462Von Ruden Manufacturing 763-682-0322

CNC Collet ChucksRoyal Products ______ 800-645-4174

CNC Spindle LinersTrusty-Cook ________ 877-240-2462

Collet FixturesRoyal Products ______ 800-645-4174Compressed Air Piping Systems

Airtek ___________ 480-966-5267Coolant Systems

Blaser ___________ 801-722-4095DCM Tech _________ 800-533-5339Ebbco Inc _________ 800-809-3901Hangsterfers _______ 316-640-2462Star Metal Fluids _____ 800-367-9966

Cutting ToolsAlmar Tools, Inc. ____ 503-255-2763Cutting Tools Consultants 602-277-1342 Fives ____________ 909-263-9282Micro 100 _________ 480-495-1454Rocky Mountain Saw Blades 303-761-3000S. L. Fusco, Inc. ______ 480-753-5000Sandvik Coromant ____ 480-233-0997Sandvik Coromant ____ 602-628-4242

Von Ruden Manufacturing 763-682-0322Deburring Equipment

S. L. Fusco, Inc. ______ 480-753-5000Digital Readout Units

Adams Machinery _____ 480-968-3711D & R Machinery _____ 480-775-6462Lone Arrow ________ 480-507-8074Magnum Precision Mach _ 602-431-8300

Door OpeningSystems: Automatic

Midaco Corporation _____ 847-593-8420Dust Collectors

Lone Arrow________480-507-8074 Electronic Hardware

Southwest Electronic H/W _ 480-905-3600Fasteners

Southwest Electronic H/W _ 480-905-3600Southwest Fastener ___ 800-350-8265

Fasteners: SpecialtySouthwest Electronic H/W _ 480-905-3600

Filtration Equip.Blaser_____________801-722-4095Canyon State Oil _____ 800-894-7773Ebbco Inc _________ 800-809-3901Maxum Petroleum ____ 602-278-8877Qualichem, Inc. ______ 480-320-0308Star Metal Fluids _____ 800-367-9966

EDM Tooling SystemsDesert EDM Sales _____ 480-816-6300EDM Network _______ 480-836-1782EDM Performance ____ 800-336-2946Global EDM Supply ____ 480-836-8330

Filtermist Mist CollectorsRoyal Products _____ 800-645-4174

Filtration -Grind Wheels & Belts

S. L. Fusco, Inc. _____ 480-753-5000Guard & Vacuum Pedestals

For Grinders

Midaco Corporation ____ 847-593-8420Impression Material for In

Process/First Article Inspection

Roydent ___________480-607-1876Industrial Automation

IEC Supply LLC _______ 480-455-1446Industrial Controls

IEC Supply LLC _______ 480-455-1446Industrial Electronics

IEC Supply LLC _______ 480-455-1446

Headquarters - Phoenix242 E. University Drive

Tucson3855 S. Evans Blvd. Albuquerque

3300 Princeton NE 1- 800-350-8265

[email protected]

Abrasive Systems

Division of Curran Manufacturing Corporation

200 Oser AvenueHauppauge, NY 11788U.S.A.

www.royalprod.com

Tel: 1-631-273-10101-800-645-4174

Fax: 1-631-273-10661-800-424-2082

[email protected]

An ISO 9001 Company

Jeff Klimowicz

Senior Sales Engineer

Mobile: 480‐320‐0308

[email protected]

www.qualichem.com

Southwest Region: AZ, UT, NV, CO, ID

All Products Proudly Made in the USA


Live CentersRoyal Products ______ 800-645-4174

Live Tool HoldersVon Ruden Manufacturing 763-682-0322

Lubricants / SystemsCanyon State Oil _____800-894-7773Hangsterfers _______ 316-640-2462Houghton _________ 602-625-1407Maxum Petroleum ____602-278-8877Pioneer Distributing Co. _602-278-2693Star Metal Fluids _____800-367-9966

Machine Tool AccessoriesVon Ruden Manufacturing 763-682-0322

Magnetic Particle Ins Equip.DCM Tech ___________800-533-5339Milling and Turning ProductsVon Ruden Manufacturing 763-682-0322

Pallet SystemsAdams Machinery _______ 480-968-3711D & R Machinery ________ 480-775-6462Ellison Machinery _______ 480-968-5335

Parts Washing EquipmentBlaser______________801-722-4095Chemical Logic _________ 512-426-5728Qualichem, Inc _________ 480-320-0308Star Metal Fluids ________ 800-367-9966

Power ToolsR.S. Hughes _______ 602-275-5565R8 Quick-Change Tool SystemRoyal Products ______ 800-645-4174

Rota-Rack Parts Accumulator

Royal Products ______ 800-645-4174Safety

R.S. Hughes _______ 602-275-5565

SensorsIEC Supply LLC ________480-455-1446

SpindlesGMN USA _________ 800-686-1679Setco Spindles & Slides _____ 866-362-0699

Static Tool HoldersVon Ruden Manufacturing 763-682-0322

Steel Service CenterApache Steel Company __ 602-323-2200

Surface PreparationChemical Logic _________ 512-426-5728

TapesR.S. Hughes _______ 602-275-5565Vacuum Pumps & Workholding

Airtek _____________ 480-966-5267Vibratory Equipment

Adams Machinery _______ 480-968-3711Vises and Vise Jaws

Arizona CNC Equip _______ 480-615-6353Desert EDM Sales _______ 480-816-6300

Waterjet AbrasivesBarton International ___800-741-7756GMA Garnet Group ___ 832-243-9300KMT Waterjet Systems __ 800-826-9274Lone Arrow ________ 480-507-8074

Waterjet Replacement PartsBarton International __ 800-741-7756KMT Waterjet Systems __800-826-9274

Work HoldingEllison Machinery ____ 480-968-5335Kurt Manufacturing ____ 763-574-8320

CONSUMMABLESCleaners: Ultrasonic

Pro- Ultrasonics ______602-938-0603Cutting Fluids & Oils (Coolants)Blaser ___________801-722-4095Canyon State Oil _____800-894-7773Echols Saw & Supply ___ 602-278-3918Hangsterfers _______ 316-640-2462Houghton _________602-625-1407Marshall Tool & Supply __602-269-6295Maxum Petroleum ____602-278-8877Pioneer Distributing Co. _602-278-2693Rocky Mountain Saw Blades 303-761-3000

Pallet Systems

IEC Supply LLC

GMN USASetco Spindles & Slides

Von Ruden Manufacturing

Panasil Impression Material used in inspection for consistent, accurate measurements

Marilyn KahlerIndustrial Sales

[email protected]: 480-607-1876fax: 480-607-7695


S. L. Fusco, Inc. ______480-753-5000Star Metal Fluids _____ 800-367-9966EDM Materials & Supplies

Blaser______________801-722-4095Canyon State Oil _____ 800-894-7773D & R Machinery _____480-775-6462Desert EDM Sales _____ 480-816-6300EDM Network _______ 480-836-1782EDM Performance accʼs __ 800-336-2946Global EDM Supply ____480-836-8330Qualichem Inc _______480-320-0308Star Metal Fluids _____ 800-367-9966

EDM FluidsHangsterfers _______ 316-640-2462Pioneer Distributing Co. _602-278-2693

Impression MaterialsRoydent ____________480-607-1876Machine Tool Cool. Filtration

Blaser______________801-722-4095Canyon State Oil ________800-894-7773D & R Machinery ________480-775-6462Houghton _________ 602-625-1407Maxum Petroleum ____ 602-278-8877Qualichem, Inc _________480-320-0308Star Metal Fluids ________800-367-9966

Measurement Products for In Process/First Article

InspectionRoydent ____________480-607-1876Solvents & Degreasing AgentsBlaser______________801-722-4095Canyon State Oil ________ 800-894-7773Chemical Logic _________ 512-426-5728Houghton _________ 602-625-1407Maxum Petroleum ____ 602-278-8877Pioneer Distributing Co. _ 602-278-2693Qualichem, Inc _________ 480-320-0308Star Metal Fluids ________ 800-367-9966

Solvents: Vapor degreasing Chemical Logic _________ 512-426-5728

Solvents:Hand WipeChemical Logic _________ 512-426-5728

Solvents: Mil PRF 680 Chemical Logic _________ 512-426-5728

HARDWARE MATERIALAlloys: High Temperature

Aerodyne Alloys_____ 860-289-3820Haynes Intl ________ 619-449-1584 Western States Metals __801-978-0562

Alloys: SpecialtyAerodyne Alloys_____ 860-289-3820Apache Steel Company __ 602-323-2200 Haynes Intl ________ 619-449-1584

AluminumApache Steel Company __ 602-323-2200AZ Metals ________ 602-688-8003Bralco Metals _______ 602-252-1918Ind. Metal Supply _____602-454-1500Coast Aluminum _____877-977-6061

Fry Steel Company ___ 800-423-6651MarZee Inc. _______ 602-269-5801Samuel, Son & Co. ___ 800-631-9765TCI Precision Metals ____ 800-234-5613Tube Service Company _ 602-267-9865

Aluminum ExtrusionsBralco Metals _______ 602-252-1918Ind. Metal Supply _____ 602-454-1500Coast Aluminum ____ 877-977-6061Samuel, Son & Co. ___ 800-631-9765

Armor:CommercialTemtco Steel ________ 480-389-2883

Armor:Military GradeTemtco Steel ________ 480-389-2883

Bar: Large DiameterBralco Metals _______ 602-252-1918Coastal Metals ______ 800-811-7466TW Metals _________ 800-203-8000

BrassApache Steel Company __ 602-323-2200AZ Metals ________ 602-688-8003Bralco Metals _______ 602-252-1918Coast Aluminum _____ 877-977-6061Coastal Metals ______ 800-811-7466Fry Steel Company ____ 800-423-6651

Ind. Metal Supply _____ 602-454-1500State Industrial Prod ___ 602-275-0990Western States Metals __801-978-0562

BronzeApache Steel Company __ 602-323-2200AZ Metals ________ 602-688-8003Coastal Metals ______ 800-811-7466Ind. Metal Supply _____ 602-454-1500State Industrial Prod ___ 602-275-0990Western States Metals __801-978-0562

CarbonApache Steel Company __ 602-323-2200AZ Metals ________ 602-688-8003Coastal Metals ______ 800-811-7466Ind. Metal Supply _____ 602-454-1500Fry Steel Company ____ 800-423-6651

Cast IronWestern States Metals __801-978-0562

CastingsInd. Metal Supply _____ 602-454-1500

CeramicsMarZee Inc. ________ 602-269-5801

Chrome RodWestern States Metals __801-978-0562

CobaltUnited Performance Metals _ 888-282-3292

For!AZ,!NM,!and!NV!publication!Southwest!Edition!!

Delivering!Alloy!Solutions!Worldwide!

Patty Negoro (800)337-3766 ext. 148 [email protected]

www.aerodynealloys.com

O’Neal High-Performance Metals

Delivering!Alloy!Solutions!Worldwide!

O’Neal High-Performance Metals

For!No.!CA,!OR,!and!WA!publication!Northwest!Edition!!

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Stainless!

Nickel!!!

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763.682.0322763.682.3122763.682.3954

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Brandon AndersonPresident

DIRECT:PHONE:

FAX:MOBILE:E-MAIL:

Von Ruden Manufacturing, Inc.Fluid Power / Mechanical / Tool Products

1008 First Street NE - PO Box 699 - Buffalo, MN 55313 USA www.vonruden.com

ISO 9001:2008 Certified

Made in USA

Since 1946

Made in USADriven Tooling for the Machine Tool Industry

480-607-1876Solvents & Degreasing AgentsBlaser______________801-722-4095

800-894-7773512-426-5728 Fry Steel Company 800-423-6651

Solvents & Degreasing Agents


CopperApache Steel Company __602-323-2200AZ Metals ________ 602-688-8003Bralco Metals _______ 602-252-1918Ind. Metal Supply _____ 602-454-1500Coast Aluminum _____ 877-977-6061State Industrial Prod ___602-275-0990Western States Metals _ 801-978-0562

Drill RodApache Steel Company __602-323-2200

ExtrusionsTW Metals _________800-203-8000

LeadInd. Metal Supply _____ 602-454-1500

Material SalesSamuel, Son & Co. ___ 800-631-9765TW Metals _________800-203-8000Ulbrich of California __ 800-237-2888

MetalsAdvanced Metal Sales___623-434-8343Apache Steel Company __602-323-2200AZ Metals ________ 602-688-8003AZ Tool & Steel ______ 480-784-1600Bralco Metals _______ 602-252-1918Coast Aluminum _____ 877-977-6061Ind. Metal Supply _____ 602-454-1500Samuel, Son & Co. ___ 800-631-9765State Industrial Prod ___602-275-0990TCI Precision Metals ____ 800-234-5613Temtco Steel ________480-389-2883Tube Service Company __602-267-9865TW Metals _________800-203-8000Ulbrich of California __ 800-237-2888United Performance Metals _888-282-3292Western States Metals _ 801-978-0562

Metals-Bar & PlateAerodyne Ulbrich Alloys _ 800-337-3766Apache Steel Company __602-323-2200AZ Metals ________ 602-688-8003

AZ Tool & Steel ______ 480-784-1600Coast Aluminum _____ 877-977-6061Ind. Metal Supply _____ 602-454-1500Samuel, Son & Co. ___ 800-631-9765Temtco Steel ________ 480-389-2883

Tool SteelApache Steel Company __ 602-323-2200

Tubing & PipeApache Steel Company __ 602-323-2200AZ Metals ________ 602-688-8003Haynes Intl ________619-449-1584Ind. Metal Supply _____ 602-454-1500Samuel, Son & Co. ___ 800-631-9765Tube Service Company __ 602-267-9865Tubing: Titanium & Hastelloy

Apache Steel Company __ 602-323-2200 Haynes Intl ________619-449-1584

GASESCylinder Storage/MicrobulkPraxair Distribution ____ 602-269-2151

Purifi cation Units (CO2 and Hydrogen)

Praxair Distribution ____ 602-269-2151Welding and Cutting

Praxair Distribution ____ 602-269-2151TOOLING

Phoenix Small Tool ____ 602-256-7011Boring Bars

Almar Tools, Inc. ____ 503-255-2763B & T Tool & Engineering _ 602-267-1481Marshall Tool & Supply __ 602-269-6295Micro 100 _________ 480-495-1454

CarbideAlmar Tools, Inc. ____ 503-255-2763B & T Tool & Engineering _ 602-267-1481Cutting Tools Consultants 602-277-1342 Helical Solutions _____ 866-543-5422Horizon Carbide ______ 480-968-0957Magnum Precision Mach _ 602-431-8300Marshall Tool & Supply __ 602-269-6295Micro 100 _________ 480-495-1454S. L. Fusco, Inc. ______ 480-753-5000The Tool Crib _______ 602-978-3130

Cutting ToolsAlmar Tools, Inc. ____ 503-255-2763Cutting Tools Consultants 602-277-1342

Fives ____________ 909-263-9282Helical Solutions _____866-543-5422Horizon Carbide ______ 480-968-0957Micro 100 _________ 480-495-1454Sandvik Coromant ____ 480-233-0997Sandvik Coromant ____ 602-628-4242

Cutting Tools: CustomAlmar Tools, Inc. ____ 503-255-2763B & T Tool & Engineering _ 602-267-1481Horizon Carbide ______ 480-968-0957

DrillsCutting Tools Consultants 602-277-1342 Marshall Tool & Supply __602-269-6295Moore Tool & Equipment _602-455-8904Sandvik Coromant ____ 480-233-0997Sandvik Coromant ____ 602-628-4242

End MillsAlmar Tools, Inc. ____ 503-255-2763Coast Aluminum Sales __ 480-797-5162Cutting Tools Consultants 602-277-1342 Helical Solutions _____866-543-5422Marshall Tool & Supply __602-269-6295Micro 100 _________ 480-495-1454S. L. Fusco, Inc. ______480-753-5000Sandvik Coromant ____ 480-233-0997Sandvik Coromant ____ 602-628-4242

Form Tools B & T Tool & Engineering 602-267-1481Coast Aluminum Sales __ 480-797-5162Cutting Tools Consultants 602-277-1342Horizon Carbide ______ 480-968-0957

Inserts, IndexableCoast Aluminum Sales __ 480-797-5162Horizon Carbide ______ 480-968-0957Marshall Tool & Supply __602-269-6295Sandvik Coromant ____ 480-233-0997Sandvik Coromant ____ 602-628-4242

Inserts, PCD/CBNCoast Aluminum Sales __ 480-797-5162Horizon Carbide ______ 480-968-0957Marshall Tool & Supply __602-269-6295

Loose Abrasive GrainsS. L. Fusco, Inc. _____ 480-753-5000

Reamers & Drills, PCDCoast Aluminum Sales __ 480-797-5162Marshall Tool & Supply __602-269-6295Precision Toolholding ProductsVon Ruden Manufacturing __ 763-682-0322

Thread MillsAlmar Tools, Inc. ____ 503-255-2763Coast Aluminum Sales __ 480-797-5162

Horizon Carbide ______480-968-0957Micro 100 _________ 480-495-1454Sandvik Coromant ____ 480-233-0997Sandvik Coromant ____ 602-628-4242

Tooling ColumnsEllison Machinery ____ 480-968-5335

Tooling: Cutting Tools Custom

B & T Tool & Engineering ___ 602-267-1481 Tooling Systems

Ellison Machinery _____480-968-5335Global EDM Supply ____480-836-8330Micro 100 _________ 480-495-1454Sandvik Coromant ____ 480-233-0997Sandvik Coromant ____ 602-628-4242Von Ruden Manufacturing __ 763-682-0322

METAL DISTRIBUTORSWestern States Metals _ 801-978-0562

PALLET SYSTEMSManual & Automatic Pallet

SystemsMidaco Corporation ____ 847-593-8420

Manual Lift Off Pallet Systems

Midaco Corporation ____ 847-593-8420Manual Rotory Pallet

SystemsMidaco Corporation ____ 847-593-8420

ROBOTICSRobotic Part Loading Systems

Midaco Corporation ____ 847-593-8420PROG. SYSTEMSBusiness Software

Infor ____________ 520-431-4349CAD/CAM

Adams Machinery _____ 480-968-3711Arizona CNC Equip ____ 480-615-6353Cimatron _________ 248-596-9700Delcam __________ 877 335 2261Feature Cam _______602-502-9654

Horizon Carbide 480-968-0957

Rob SchwisterRelationship Manager

[email protected]

alerusfi nancial.com

30 Years Experience

MIKE SMITH

602-397-4008

[email protected]

Arizona Machine Tool Service, AMTS

Opening a new chapter in my life, after 30 years, 22 in Arizona as Machinery Sales

Co. Senior Service Engineer, servicing Bridgeport, Cincinnati, Hardinge, Okamoto,

and many others, CNC and Manual Machine Tools, I will continue to provide service

and repair to Arizona,

Thank you

Mike Smith


MLC CAD Systems _ 480-696-6056 x1080SolidCAM _________ 602-369-0630TMI (GibbsCAM) ______ 602-618-6553

ERP SoftwareInfor ____________ 520-431-4349

Software, Inv. ControlDelcam __________ 877 335 2261Feature Cam _______ 602-502-9654SolidCAM _________ 602-369-0630

Software, NC ProgrammingAdams Machinery _____ 480-968-3711Delcam __________ 877 335 2261Ellison Machinery _____ 480-968-5335Feature Cam _______ 602-502-9654MLC CAD Systems _ 480-696-6056 x1080TMI (GibbsCAM) ______ 602-618-6553

Software, ServicingDelcam __________ 877 335 2261Feature Cam _______ 602-502-9654MLC CAD Systems _ 480-696-6056 x1080SolidCAM _________ 602-369-0630TMI (GibbsCAM) ______ 602-618-6553

Tooling SystemsGlobal EDM Supply ____ 480-836-8330

REPAIR/DESIGNBar Feeder Repair

Edge Technologies ____ 562-597-7824Machine Tool Design/

Engineering Ellison Machinery _____ 480-968-5335

Machine Tool RebuildingAPI Services _________757-223-4157Adams Machinery _____ 480-968-3711Advanced Precision ____ 602-525-0156AMTS____________ 602-397-4008CNC Machinery Sales ___ 602-244-1507DM Machine Repair ____ 480-709-1450EDM Network _______ 480-836-1782Jemelco, Inc. _______ 480-804-9541Setco-Pope Spindles ____ 866-362-0699Southwest Spindle Service 480-837-0368The Werks C&C, Inc ____ 602-569-1809

Machine Retrofitting/CNCAdams Machinery _____ 480-968-3711AMTS____________ 602-397-4008API Services _________757-223-4157Arizona CNC Equip ____ 480-615-6353CNC Machinery Sales ___ 602-244-1507Desert Machine Tool Repair _ 480-226-3128

Machinery MovingAdvanced Precision ____ 602-525-0156API Services _________757-223-4157

Maint/Repair ServicesAdams Machinery _____ 480-968-3711Advanced Precision ____ 602-525-0156AMTS____________ 602-397-4008Arizona CNC Equip ____ 480-615-6353Desert Machine Tool Repair _ 480-226-3128

DM Machine Repair ____480-709-1450D & R Machinery _____480-775-6462Ellison Machinery _____480-968-5335Jemelco, Inc. _______480-804-9541Southwest Spindle Service 480-837-0368State Industrial Prod ___602-275-0990The Werks C&C, Inc ____602-569-1809

Mold RepairsB&B Tool ________ 520-397-0436

Stamping RepairsB&B Tool. ________ 520-397-0436

Prev. Maint ProgramsAdams Machinery _____ 480-968-3711Advanced Precision ____ 602-525-0156API Services ________ 757-223-4157Arizona CNC Equip ____ 480-615-6353Desert Machine Tool Repair _480-226-3128DM Machine Repair ____480-709-1450D & R Machinery _____480-775-6462Ellison Machinery _____480-968-5335Jemelco, Inc. _______480-804-9541The Werks C&C, Inc ____602-569-1809

Repair -HydraulicAdvanced Precision ____ 602-525-0156Road Machinery _______520-623-8681The Werks C&C, Inc ____602-569-1809

Repair - PortableAdvanced Precision ____ 602-525-0156The Werks C&C, Inc ____ 602-569-1809

Spindle RebuildingAPI Services ________ 757-223-4157Setco-Pope Spindles ____ 866-362-0699

GMN USA _________ 800-686-1679Southwest Spindle Service 480-837-0368

Tool Repair, Coating, Treatment

Cutting Tools Consultants 602-277-1342PRODUCTS

GunsLayke Tactical _______602-272-2654

SERVICES Aerospace Advocate

Jill Norgaard _______ 602-753-9155AZ House of

RepresentativesJill Norgaard _______ 602-753-9155

BanksAlerus Bank & Trust ____ 480-905-2407National Bank of Arizona _ 460-756-7124US Bank __________ 480-303-5422

Business ConsultingBMSC ___________ 480-445-9400Quick Turn Financial ___ 480-385-1220Calibration: On Site Linear

Precise Measurements LLC 602-309-0963Calibration Services

Klontech Industrial Sales _ 480-948-1871Phoenix Small Tool ____ 602-256-7011

[email protected]

GMN USA 800-686-1679

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Jimmy WahbehCertified Sales Professional

Celebrating three decades of “Unbeatable Service”

800-364-1652 Ext 1080Email [email protected]

Phone 480-696-6056 Ext 1080Fax 866-465-0652


Precise Measurements LLC 602-309-0963Washington Calibration __ 480-820-0506Calibration: Repair & Certify

Phoenix Small Tool ____ 602-256-7011Precise Measurements LLC 602-309-0963Washington Calibration __ 480-820-0506

Cash Flow ManagementAlerus Bank & Trust _____480-905-2407National Bank of Arizona __ 460-756-7124US Bank ___________480-303-5422Commercial Real Estate Services

Daum Commercial _____ 602-376-2545Computer/Web Services

Gartman Technical Services _ 602-788-8121Consulting

ABS Quality Evaluations _ 702-644-2770American Global Standards _ 617-838-4648BMSC ____________480-445-9400Advanced Custom Screens _800-992-7936Quality Training Consultants __928-284-0856Sustaining Edge Solutions __ 888-572-9642

Contract InspectionKlontech Measure Sol ___ 480-626-8131

Contract ProgrammingAdams Machinery _____ 480-968-3711Ellison Machinery _____ 480-968-5335Klontech Measure Sol ___ 480-626-8131

CNC TrainingAdams Machinery ______ 480-968-3711Ellison Machinery ______480-968-5335

DegreasingChemical Logic _________ 512-426-5728

Design ServicesMetalcraft Inc.________480-967-4889

Electrical Installation/ Maintenance

Lights Out Electric ____ 623-703-2950Engineering Services

Advanced Coord. Tech __ 623-780-4137Metals Eng & Testing Lab. 602-272-4571

HeavyhaulIRH ___________ 800-334-2409

Insurance ServicesLeavitt Group ______ 602-264-0566

ISO/AS9100 ConsultingABS Quality Evaluations 702-644-2770American Global Standards 617-838-4648BMSC ___________ 480-445-9400Quality Training Consultants_ 928-284-0856Sustaining Edge Solutions _ _888-572-9642

IT/ Network SupportGartman Technical Services _ 602-788-8121

Leasing and FinancingAlerus Bank & Trust ____ 480-905-2407National Bank of Arizona _ 460-756-7124Quick Turn Financial ___ 480-385-1220

Lean ManufacturingABS Quality Evaluations 702-644-2770BMSC ___________ 480-445-9400Sustaining Edge Solutions___888-572-9642

Machine Tool Utilization Tracking

E Solutions ___________602-524-0192

Management SystemsCertification/Training

ABS Quality Evaluations _702-644-2770Manufacturers Rep

Trepanning Specialties __ 562-633-8110Quality Training Consultants _ 928-284-0856

Marketing/ ConsultingLeap Innovation ______ 480-235-6188Rigging/Machinery MovingIRH ____________ 800-334-2409

Political ConsultantJill Norgaard _______ 602-753-9155

RecyclingBarry Metals _________602-484-7186Consolidated Resources Inc. 623-931-5009MMR,LLC __________ 623-937-0385SA Recycling _________602-463-8791

Reverse EngineeringBMSC ___________ 480-445-9400Datum Inspection ___ 602-997-1340Klontech Measure Sol ___ 480-626-8131Metalcraft Inc. ________ 480-967-4889Metals Eng & Testing Lab. 602-272-4571

RiggingIRH ____________ 800-334-2409

Schools, Custom TrainingAZPMAP __________ 602-723-8191Ellison Machinery _____480-968-5335TechShop _________ 480-327-0820

Schools, Membership Based Machining &Training

TechShop _________ 480-327-0820

Schools, Your Own Machine Shop for Hobbiests

TechShop _________ 480-327-0820Surface Preparation

Chemical Logic _________ 512-426-5728

Systems IntegrationEllison Machinery ______ 480-968-5877

Testing, MetallurgicalMetals Eng & Testing Lab. __ 602-272-4571ARTL _____________ 602-374-3770

Trade Show Booth DesignFry Fabricators _______ 602-454-0701

TransportationIRH ____________ 800-334-2409Lynden Intl. ________ 602-252-2911

Transportation:Air/Freight/Ground

IRH ____________ 800-334-2409Lynden Intl. ________ 602-252-2911

Vision Certifi cation Exams, Onsite

Hollie Perlow, Nurse ____602-910-0956

Working Capital, Credit LinesAlerus Bank & Trust _____480-905-2407National Bank of Arizona __460-756-7124Quick Turn Financial ____480-385-1220SBG Capital ________ 480-897-4988US Bank __________ 480-303-5422

A t t r a c t . E n g a g e . R e t a i n .

w w w . l e a p i n o v a t i o n . c o m / 7 - s t e p s /

Donovan Ray HardenbrookMarketing Consultant

[email protected]

Strategic Marketing & Sales Digital Marketing Lead Generation & Conversion Website Development Email Marketing

DAVID MORENODAVID MORENO



12025 ROJAS DR. SUITE A

EL PASO, TX. 79936

BUSINESS: 915-856-7900

FAX: 915-857-4700


p: 602-753-9155e: [email protected]: www.jillnorgaard2014.com

A2Z METALWORKER • 90 Sept/Oct 2011

Infor VISUAL ERP:http://go.infor.com/visual/abouterpvisual/

Sheila BerruAccount Executive

Direct: 310 753 7104Email:[email protected]: infor.com

March 2014 SW.indd 90 1/24/14 4:25 PM

Management SystemsDesign Services

Buyer’s Guide & Card Gallery Processes

WESTERN CAST PARTS LLC

Steve Whisel Field Sales & Engineering 9630 N Rock Ridge Trail

Fountain Hills, AZ 85268

(480) 2846618 Office

(480) 2509764 Mobile

[email protected], email


ASSEMBLYAbrams Airborne Mfg ___ 520-887-1727Acme Metal Works ____ 480-926-4171East Valley Precision_____ 480-288-6601Fry Fabrications _______ 602-454-0701GHT Services _________ 480-396-1800JD Machine _________ 801-782-4403Hi-Tech Machining & Eng __ 520-889-8325KLK Ind. ___________ 602-267-1331Lindel Engineering _____ 520-792-3160Morsch Machine _______ 480-961-7673Precise Metal Products ___ 602-272-2625Pure-Logic Industries ____ 480-892-9395Wrico ____________ 480-892-7800Cable/Harness Assembly

Bar-S Machine ______928-636-2115X5 Manufacturing ______ 602-454-7385

Clean Room AssemblyJanʼs Inc.___________ 480-833-7305L&W Fluid ________ 602-323-2560

BALANCING/DYNAMICAnmark ____________480-968-3126

BAR CODINGWestern Sintering _____ 509-375-3096

BENDINGAdvanced Metal Sales __ 623-434-8343B&B Fabrication & Machine _ 623-271-6855Fry Fabrications ________602-454-0701Innovia ___________ 480-966-6090Tri-Matrix ___________480-844-0165

Bending: CNCB&B Fabrication & Machine _ 623-271-6855Innovia ___________ 480-966-6090

BONDINGPrecise Metal Products ___ 602-272-2625

BRAZINGBoltʼs Metallizing _______602-244-2432

Brazing: Aluminum DipAbrams Airborne Mfg ____520-887-1727

Brazing: VacuumBoltʼs Metallizing ______ 602-244-2432

BROACHINGApache Gear, Inc ______ 623-934-7144Ayers Gear & Mach _____ 623-934-6913

CASTINGSAATC______________602-268-1467Dolphin ___________ 602-272-6747May Foundry & Machine __801-531-8931Western Cast Parts ____ 480-250-9764

Castings: PrototypeAATC______________602-268-1467Dolphin ___________ 602-272-6747

May Foundry & Machine __ 801-531-8931Western Cast Parts _____480-250-9764

Castings: ProductionAATC_____________602-268-1467

Dolphin ___________ 602-272-6747May Foundry & Machine __ 801-531-8931Western Cast Parts _____480-250-9764

Western Cast Parts _____480-250-9764COATING

Arizona Finishing ______ 602-438-4443Boltʼs Metallizing _______602-244-2432Coating Technologies ____ 623-581-2648Collins Metal Finishing ____ 602-275-3117LA Specialties _________ 602-269-7612

A2Z METALWORKER • 55 •July/Aug 2011

Buyer’s Guide & Card Gallery Processes

ASSEMBLIESBar-S Machine ________ 928-636-2115Dayton Rogers _______ 763-717-6303Progway ___________435-656-9585RPM CNC Precision Machine 208-442-1999Steen & Sons Machine Shop 208-522-7341Superior Metal Products __ 303-791-7550Wasatch Laser Processing__ 801-972-3500Wrico ___________ 480-892-7800

Welded AssembliesWeiser/Mile High Precision 303-280-2778

BAR CODINGWestern Sintering _____509-375-3096

BENDINGJQ Enterprises _________801-975-0777

BRAZINGPrecision Casting Repair __ 801-972-2345

Coating: Nickel/ Teflon/ChromeCoating Technologies ___623-581-2648Collins Metal Finishing __ 602-275-3117LA Specialties _______ 602-269-7612

Coating:Zinc & Mag.Phos.Coating Technologies ___623-581-2648Collins Metal Finishing __ 602-275-3117Powder Extreme Coatings _ 801-450-2819

Coating: PowderPowder Extreme Coatings _ 801-450-2819

COLD SPRAYAccuwright Industries ___480-892-9595

COMPOSITESS.A. Composites _______970-776-3877

CUTTINGMetal

Bandsaw LLC ________ 303-744-7181

Plasma CuttingBandsaw LLC _______ 303-744-7181

PlasticBandsaw LLC _______ 303-744-7181ImageTek _________ 303-806-8111

Saw CuttingBandsaw LLC _______ 303-744-7181

DESIGN/ CAD/CAM Bar-S Machine _______ 928-636-2115H& S Machine _______ 801-755-7627

DIESAble Machining & Eng. _ 801-268-6766

EDMEDM: Drilling Small Hole

Critical Cut _________ 480-785-1316Micropulse West ______ 480-966-2300

BROACHINGPonderosa Ind ________303-298-1801Precision Mach’d Products 970-482-7676Specialty Steel Services __ 801-539-8252

Turning: AutomaticMatrix Machine ______ 480-966-4451

CASTINGSDie Casting

Watkins Tool & Supply __ 303-295-9603TVT Die Casting ______ 800-280-2278Die Casting: Aluminum/Zinc

TVT Die Casting ______ 800-280-2278Precision Investment CastingDolphin Inc. ________ 602-272-6747

COATINGDry Film Lubrication

Jet Processing _____ 623-869-6749 x117Precision Industrial Painting 602-256-0260

Ceramic High-TechPowder Extreme Coatings _ 801-450-2819

Coating: LiquidCollins Metal Finishing __ 602-275-3117Pilkington Metal Finishing 801-972-2146


www.daytonrogers.com 800-677-8881

● Complex Stampings ● Difficult Assemblies ● On Time Delivery ●Contract Mfg.

● Quality Assurance ●Design Assistance

Mark Erickson ● General Manager [email protected] 763-717-6303

Ph: [email protected]

2820 Brandt AveNampa, ID

83687

MICHAEL BUTLER

Sales Manager

[email protected]

Phone: 602-272-6747 Ext. 3335

ISO 9001, PED Directive 97/23/EC

Our company logo

Font Verdana size 9 (I dropped in this cell

because the “Precision Investment Castings”

on the logo is not very clear.

Font Verdana Size 9

MICHAEL BUTLER

Sales Manager

[email protected]

Phone: 602-272-6747 Ext. 3335


Precision Investment Castings Since 1972

www.dolphincasting.com

Precision Investment Castings Since 1972

www.dolphincasting.com

[email protected]: 602-272-6747 Ext. 3335


BALANCING/DYNAMIC


Louieʼs Black Oxide _____ 602-257-0530Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090Precision Industrial Painting 602-256-0260Southwest Powder Coating _ 602-272-0878

Coating: Black OxideCoating Technologies ____ 623-581-2648Collins Metal Finishing ____602-275-3117Louieʼs Black Oxide _____ 602-257-0530

Coating: CerakoteMasic Industries _______ 503-232-9109

Coating: Chem FilmAP Industrial ________ 480-968-1947Collins Metal Finishing ____602-275-3117FutureWeld _________ 602-437-2426Gold Tech Industries ____ _480-968-1930LA Specialties ________ 602-269-7612Lynch Brothers Mfg _____ 602-267-7575Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090

Precision Industrial Painting 602-256-0260Treffers Precision ______ 602-744-2636The Metal Man _______ 800-448-9448Sav-On Plating ________ 602-252-4311

Coating: Dry Film LubeCoating Technologies ____ 623-581-2648Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090Precision Industrial Painting 602-256-0260

Coating: LiquidCollins Metal Finishing __ 602-275-3117Pilkington Metal Finishing 801-972-2146

Coating: Nickel/TeflonCoating Technologies ____ 623-581-2648Collins Metal Finishing ____602-275-3117

Coating: NP3Coating Technologies ____ 623-581-2648

Coating:Zinc & Mag.Phos.Coating Technologies ____ 623-581-2648Collins Metal Finishing ____602-275-3117Louieʼs Black Oxide _____ 602-257-0530

Powder CoatingCollins Metal Finishing __ 602-275-3117Masic Industries _______ 503-232-9109Pilkington Metal Finishing 801-972-2146

CUTTINGAdvanced Metal Sales __ 623-434-8343bandsawparts.com ___ 800-240-2932Echols Saw & Supply ____ 602-278-3918Harschco LLC _______602-617-7514Southwest Waterjet-Laser 480-306-7748The Metal Man _______ 800-448-9448

Bandsaw Cuttingbandsawparts.com ___ 800-240-2932Echols Saw & Supply ___ 602-278-3918

CNC RouterMicropulse West _______ 480-966-2300

LaserAPMI ____________ 480-668-0024Fine Line Laser Cutting __ 602-863-3196

Tube Laser CuttingTube Service Company __ 602-267-9865

DIE CASTINGTVT Die Casting _______ 800-280-2278

Die Casting/Aluminum & Zinc

TVT Die Casting _______ 800-280-2278DIES

Arizona Wire & Tool _____ 480-813-1002Micro-Tronics, Inc ______ 602-437-8995

Precision Die & Stampʼg __ 480-967-2038Southwest Tool & Die Services 480-317-9366Wrico ____________ 480-892-7800Notching, Punching, Cutting

DiesSouthwest Tool & Die Services 480-317-9366

EDMEDM: Drilling Small Hole

Arizona Wire Specialists ___ 480-829-6530EDM Express __________800-780-7075EDM Tech ___________602-278-6666LAYKE, Inc.__________ 602-272-2654Micro-Tronics, Inc _______602-437-8995Micropulse West _______ 480-966-2300Milco Wire EDM/Waterjet ___714-373-0098Sun Tech__________ 480-921-1665

EDM: Ram-Type (Sinking)EDM Express __________800-780-7075EDM Tech ___________602-278-6666

METALWORKER • 99 • July/Aug 2014

TONY MANOCCHIOPRESIDENT

3518 E. WOOD STREET • PHOENIX, ARIZONA 85040OFFICE: (602) 437-2426 • FAX: (602) 437-2088 • CELL: (602) 810-8332

[email protected]

Aerospace Weldingand Chemical Processing


Geno FormanPresidentTel: 602.454.7385Fax: 602.454.7389Cell: 480.710.8420Email: [email protected]

Precision CNC Machining

3342 E. Wier Ave.Phoenix, AZ 85040

NADCAP Approved Facility

www.x5mfg.com

Your Manufacturing Solutions Partner

SPRINGS- STAMPINGS- MACHINEDPARTS- WASHERS-WIRE FORMS-FORMED TUBING-ASSEMBLIES

Spring & Manufacturing Co.,Inc.

Phone: (602)243-4329Cell: (602)370-5777

[email protected]

3325 East Wier AvenuePhoenix, Arizona 85040

A Complete Manufacturing Facility forFabrication, Machining and Assembly

President/C.O.O.Craig Roth

AEROSPRINGS- STAMPINGS- MACHINED

PARTS- WASHERS-WIRE FORMS-FORMED TUBING-ASSEMBLIES


Phone: (602)243-4329Cell: (602)370-5777

[email protected]




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Micro-Tronics, Inc _______602-437-8995Micropulse West ________480-966-2300Milco Wire EDM/Waterjet ___ 714-373-0098Quality Mold _________480-892-5480Sun Tech__________ 480-921-1665Wright Prototype _______ 541-619-2760

EDM: Dialectric Systems/Filtration

Ebbco Inc __________ 800-809-3901EDM: Wire

3D Machine LLC ______ 480-239-8254

Arizona Wire & Tool ______480-813-1002Arizona Wire Specialists ___ 480-829-6530Auer Precision _________480-834-4637Continental Machining __800-777-2483EDM Express __________800-780-7075EDM Tech __________ 602-278-6666Hogan Manufacturing _____623-463-1939Micro-Tronics, Inc _______602-437-8995Micropulse West _______ 480-966-2300Milco Wire EDM/Waterjet __ 714-373-0098 PGI_______________505-884-5782

Powill Manufactuing_____623-780-4100Quality Mold __________480-892-5480Sun Tech__________480-921-1665Thompson Machine ____505-823-1453Toolcraft of Phoenix __ 623-435-5405WC Machine & Tool _____ 480-507-4620Whitley Machine ______ 602-323-5550Wrico ____________ 480-892-7800Wright Prototype _______ 541-619-2760

Graphite ServicesMicro-Tronics, Inc ______ 602-437-8995

ENGINEERING/PROGRAMMING

Exactitude Precision ______602-316-6957Pure-Logic Industries ____ 480-892-9395

FABRICATIONAbrams Airborne Mfg ____520-887-1727Acme Metal Works _____480-926-4171

Advanced Metal Fab & Machine 928-778-4800Advanced Metal Sales __ 623-434-8343AERO Spring & Mfg Co ____602-243-4329Aero Tech __________ 801-292-0493Allfab Engineering ______602-437-0497Anewco ___________ 520-751-1222APMI ______________480-668-0024Arrow Sheet Metal _______ 303-427-6419AzMark ____________480-926-8969B&B Fabrication & Machine __623-271-6855Bell Steel __________ 480-833-5538BID Machine, Inc ______ 480-892-7304CAID Industries ________520-294-3126Continental Machining ___ 800-777-2483CygnetStamping & Fab ____ 818-240-7574Creedbilt Inc __________ 623-939-8119DT Products Metal Fabrication 928-776-4129Fry Fabrications ________602-454-0701

Email: [email protected] Advanced Metal Fab & Machine 928-778-4800Advanced Metal Fab & MachineAdvanced Metal SalesAERO Spring & Mfg CoAero TechAllfab EngineeringAnewcoAPMI ______________480-668-0024

Advanced Metal Fab & MachineAdvanced Metal Fab & Machine

Ilene Price: [email protected] Bangerter: [email protected]

4534 N. 44th Ave, Phoenix AZ 85031602-272-2625

Exactitude PrecisionPure-Logic Industries

Abrams Airborne MfgAcme Metal Works

21631 N. 3rd AvenuePhoenix, AZ 85027p (623) 492 9400 x215f (623) 492 [email protected] www.stewartmfg.com

Patrick H. Stewart IIPresident

Arizona Wire & Tool Powill Manufactuing_____623-780-4100Arizona Wire & Tool


Fine Line Fabricating ____ 602-863-3506Gilbert Metal Stamping ____480-503-1283Group Manufacturing Serv _ 480-966-3952Howell Precision ________623-582-4776Innovia ___________ 480-966-6090JD Machine __________801-782-4403Nelson Engineering ______ 602-273-7114Phoenix Metalcraft ______602-279-4810Plastic Eng. __________480-491-8100Precise Metal Products ____602-272-2625Precision Metal Products _ 408-699-5037Pure-Logic Industries _____480-892-9395PVB Fabrications _____520-623-3529Scriven Precision _______480-961-9775Stewart Precision Mfg _____623-492-9400TMM Precision _______ 800-448-9448Weiser/Mile High Precision __303-280-2778Whitley Machine ______ 602-323-5550

Wrico ____________ 480-892-7800Fabrication: Certified MobilePVB Fabrications ____ 520-623-3529

Aluminum (Medium & Large)Aero Tech __________ 801-292-0493

Fabrication: Custom Metal

Advanced Metal Fab & Machine 928-778-4800Allfab Engineering _____ 602-437-0497Arrow Sheet Metal ______ 303-427-6419CygnetStamping & Fab ____818-240-7574Fine Line Fabricating ____ 602-863-3506Howell Precision _______ 623-582-4776Precise Metal Products ___ 602-272-2625Precision Metal Products 408-699-5037

Fabrication: Medium & Large

Abrams Airborne Mfg ___ 520-887-1727

Advanced Metal Fab & Machine 928-778-4800APMI_____________480-668-0024

Arrow Sheet Metal ______ 303-427-6419Bell Steel __________ 480-833-5538Continental Machining _ 800-777-2483DT Products Metal Fabrication 928-776-4129Fine Line Fabricating ____ 602-863-3506Fry Fabrications _______ 602-454-0701Howell Precision _______ 623-582-4776Innovia ___________ 480-966-6090JD Machine _________ 801-782-4403Precision Metalworks _ 602-455-9575PVB Fabrications ____ 520-623-3529Trepanning Specialties __ 562-633-8110Wrico ____________ 480-892-7800

Fabrication: MiningPVB Fabrications ____ 520-623-3529

Fabrication: Rebuild/ LargeBell Steel __________ 480-833-5538Empire Precision Mach. __ 480-633-4580

Fabrication: Sheet MetalAbrams Airborne Mfg ___ 520-887-1727Acme Metal Works _____480-926-4171Advanced Metal Fab & Machine 928-778-4800Allfab Engineering _____ 602-437-0497APMI_____________480-668-0024

Arrow Sheet Metal _______303-427-6419Bell Steel __________ 480-833-5538Capital Stainless _____480-967-0016CygnetStamping & Fab ____818-240-7574DT Products Metal Fabrication 928-776-4129Fine Line Fabricating ____ 602-863-3506Fry Fabrications ________602-454-0701Howell Precision _______ 623-582-4776Innovia ___________ 480-966-6090

[email protected]

Advanced Metal Fab & Machine928-778-4800A

David TurbyyllPresident


Shawn Carlin [email protected]

11042 N. 24th Ave. Suite 101 Phoenix, AZ 85029


Janʼs Inc.____________480-833-7305JD Machine __________801-782-4403Phoenix Metalcraft ____ 602-279-4810Precise Metal Products ____602-272-2625Precision Metalworks __ 602-455-9575Precision Metal Products _ 408-699-5037Pure-Logic Industries _____480-892-9395Stewart Precision Mfg _____623-492-9400TMM Precision ________800-448-9448Weiser/Mile High Precision __303-280-2778

FINISHINGAP Industrial _________ 480-968-1947Arizona Finishing _______602-438-4443Arizona Hard Chrome _____ 602-278-8671Coating Technologies _____623-581-2648EPSI______________714-256-8950

Gold Tech Industries ______480-968-1930LA Specialties _________ 602-269-7612Louieʼs Black Oxide ______602-257-0530Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090Phoenix Heat Treating ____ 602-258-7751Southwest Powder Coating __602-272-0878TVT Die Casting ________800-280-2278

Abrasive BlastingAP Industrial _________ 480-968-1947

STP Performance Coating LLC 602-276-1231Dry Film Lubrication

Precision Industrial Painting 602-256-0260Electro-Polishing

Collins Metal Finishing ____602-275-3117Finishing: One Stop

Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090Finishing: Ops Cleaning

Semiray Aerospace Testing _ 623-842-3030Glass Bead Clean

Arizona Hard Chrome ____ 602-278-8671Byington Steel Treating ___ 408-727-6630Coating Technologies ____ 623-581-2648Gold Tech Industries _____ 480-968-1930L A Specialties ________ 602-269-7612Southwest Powder Coating _ 602-272-0878

Glass Bead CleanA2Z Sandblasting ______ 602-716-5566Desert Fire __________ 602-268-1511Lone Arrow _________ 480-507-8074

Gun FinishingLouieʼs Gun Finishing ____ 602-257-0530

PassivationCoating Technologies ___ _623-581-2648FutureWeld _________ 602-437-2426Gold Tech Industries _____ 480-968-1930

L A Specialties _________ 602-269-7612Semiray ____________ 602-275-1917

PolishingArizona Hard Chrome _____ 602-278-8671EPSI______________714-256-8950

Gold Tech Industries ______480-968-1930L A Specialties _________ 602-269-7612

Powder CoatingAP Industrial _________ 480-968-1947

Sand BlastingA2Z Sandblasting _______602-716-5566Byington Steel Treating ____408-727-6630Coating Technologies _____623-581-2648Masic Industries ________503-232-9109Southwest Powder Coating __602-272-0878STP Performance Coating LLC _ 602-276-1231

Shot BlastingDesert Fire ___________ 602-268-1511

StrippingCoating Technologies _____623-581-2648Semiray ____________ 602-275-1917Southwest Powder Coating __602-272-0878

FIXTURESCJ Mfg _____________480-517-0233RB Machine Co, Inc ______602-272-6869

Exactitude Precision _____ 602-316-6957Hogan Manufacturing ____ 623-463-1939Siro Machining ________480-512-1467Southwest Tool & Die Services 480-317-9366

FORGINGS

R&D Specialty Manco ____ 602-278-7700

Forgings: TitaniumR&D Specialty Manco ____ 602-278-7700

FOUNDRYAATC _____________ 602-268-1467

GAGESDesign & Build

Sonic Tool & Gage ______ 480-777-1789Tooling

Sonic Tool & Gage ______ 480-777-1789

May Foundry & Machine __801-531-8931GEAR CUTTING

Apache Gear, Inc ______ 623-934-7144Ayers Gear & Machine ___ 623-934-6913

GRINDINGAnmark ___________ 480-968-3126Arizona Hard Chrome ____ 602-278-8671Arizona Wire & Tool _____ 480-813-1002

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Auer Precision _________ 480-834-4637AzMark ____________ 480-926-8969Blue Streak Grinding _____602-353-8088ChemResearch _________ 602-253-4175CJ Mfg _____________ 480-517-0233East Valley Precision______ 480-288-6601EDM Express __________ 800-780-7075Fives _____________ 909-263-9282GMN USA __________800-686-1679Grindworks __________ 623-582-5767Hogan Manufacturing _____ 623-463-1939JWB Manufacturing ______ 480-967-4600Lindel Engineering ______ 520-792-3160McFarland Machine & Eng __ 480-966-1388Osborn Products ________ 623-587-0335Phoenix Grinding _______ 602-437-8401Powill Manufacturing _____ 623-780-4100RMG Machining ________ 623-582-6544

Ron Grob Co. ________ 970-667-5320Steel Services Grinding ___ 800-662-0126Sun Grinding ________ 602-238-9595Superior Grinding ______ 888-487-9701TCI Precision Metals ____ 800-234-5613

Grinding, BlanchardMcFarland Machine & Eng _ 480-966-1388Steel Services Grinding ____800-662-0126Sun Grinding ________ 602-238-9595Superior Grinding ______ 888-487-9701TCI Precision Metals ____ 800-234-5613

Grinding: CenterlessBlue Streak Grinding ____ 602-353-8088Grindworks _________ 623-582-5767National Grinding & Mfg __ 602-588-2869Osborn Products _______ 623-587-0335Phoenix Grinding ______ 602-437-8401Ron Grob Co. ________ 970-667-5320Shaw Precision _______ 480-785-4925Sun Grinding ________ 602-238-9595Superior Grinding ______ 888-487-9701

Grinding, CNC/ContourBlue Streak Grinding ____ 602-353-8088National Grinding & Mfg __ 602-588-2869Powill Manufacturing_ ___623-780-4100Superior Grinding ______ 888-487-9701

Grinding… CurvicAnmark ___________ 480-968-3126

Grinding… CylindricalGrindworks _________ 623-582-5767

Grinding… Double DiscPhoenix Grinding ______ 602-437-8401TCI Precision Metals _____ 800-234-5613

Grinding: ID/OD Anmark ___________ 480-968-3126Arizona Hard Chrome ____ 602-278-8671AzMark ___________ 480-926-8969Blue Streak Grinding ____ 602-353-8088Grindworks _________ 623-582-5767National Grinding & Mfg __ 602-588-2869Osborn Products _______ 623-587-0335Ron Grob Co. _________970-667-5320Superior Grinding ______ 888-487-9701

Grinding:MattisonSun Grinding ________ 602-238-9595

Grinding: ODAnmark ____________480-968-3126Arizona Hard Chrome _____ 602-278-8671Grindworks __________ 623-582-5767Micro-Tronics, Inc _______602-437-8995National Grinding & Mfg ___602-588-2869Road Machinery ________520-623-8681

Grinding: SurfaceAnmark ____________480-968-3126Arizona Wire & Tool ______ 480-813-1002Blue Streak Grinding ____ 602-353-8088Grindworks __________ 623-582-5767National Grinding & Mfg ___602-588-2869Osborn Products ________623-587-0335Phoenix Grinding _______602-437-8401Quality Mold ________ 480-892-5480Sun Grinding _________602-238-9595Superior Grinding _______ 888-487-9701WC Machine & Tool _____ 480-507-4620

RRon Grob Co. 970-667-5320

Certiied Cerakote Applicator

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edgibson@continentalmachiningco.comwww.continentalmachiningco.com

Your Precision Partner

Your Precision Partner

Mark Musgrove

1317 W. 21st Street, Tempe, AZ 85282

p: 480.517.0233 c: 602.763.7811 f: 480.517.0253

[email protected]

CJMfgSolutions.com


Grinding: Tool & CutterB & T Tool & Engineering ___ 602-267-1481CTE _____________800-783-2400Gilbert Metal Stamping ___ 480-503-1283Superior Grinding ______ 888-487-9701

GUNDRILLINGTrepanning Specialties __ 562-633-8110Acme Metal Works ____ 480-926-4171

HEAT TREATINGBoltʼs Metallizing ______ 602-244-2432Byington Steel Treating ___ 408-727-6630Controlled Thermal Techʼy _ 602-272-3714Desert Fire ___________602-268-1511Hogan Manufacturing ____ 623-463-1939L A Specialties ________ 602-269-7612Phoenix Heat Treating ___ 602-258-7751

Heat Treating/ AerospaceBoltʼs Metallizing ______ 602-244-2432Byington Steel Treating ___ 408-727-6630Phoenix Heat Treating ___ 602-258-7751

Heat Treating/ISO9001/AS9100

Byington Steel Treating ___ 408-727-6630Large Capacity Drop Bottom Oven/

Aluminum Heat TreatingBoltʼs Metallizing ______ 602-244-2432Byington Steel Treating ___ 408-727-6630Phoenix Heat Treating ___ 602-258-7751

HONING/LAPPINGGrindworks _________ 623-582-5767LAYKE, Inc.__________ 602-272-2654Road Machinery _______ 520-623-8681

National Grinding & Mfg __ 602-588-2869Osborn Products _______ 623-587-0335Phoenix Grinding ______ 602-437-8401Powill Manufacturing_____623-780-4100

IDENTIFICATIONLabels & Bar Code

EPSI______________714-256-8950Tool / PartMarking (Laser)

Ace Laser ___________ 480-924-3232B & T Tool & Engineering ___ 602-267-1481TechMark __________ 480-820--9444

Silk ScreenArizona Finishing ______ 602-438-4443Precision Industrial Painting 602-256-0260

INSPECTIONCalibration

Washington Calibration ___ 480-820-0506Inspection, First Article

Datum Inspection ______ 602-997-1340Klontech Measure Sol _____480-626-8131Total Quality Systems ____ 480-377-6422

Inspection ServicesAcme Metal Works _____480-926-4171Arizona Wire & Tool ______480-813-1002Challenger Aerospace ____ 480-894-0802Datum Inspection ______ 602-997-1340Klontech Measure Sol _____480-626-8131Metals Eng & Testing Lab. 602-272-4571Micropulse West _______ 480-966-2300Sustaining Edge Solutions __ 888-572-9642Total Quality Systems ____ 480-377-6422

Inspection Services (NDT)Semiray Aero. Testing _____ 602-275-1917Inspection Services, Welding

Metals Eng & Testing Lab. 602-272-4571ISO9000 / AS9100 Cert.

American Global Standards _ 617-838-4648BMSC_____________480-445-9400Gladhill Assoc _________623-939-4412Orion Registrar ________303-645-4017Sustaining Edge Solutions __ 888-572-9642Quality Training Consultants _ 928-284-0856 ISO RegistrarAmerican Global Standards _ 617-838-4648Orion Registrar ________303-645-4017

Liquid PenetrantSemiray ____________ 602-275-1917Process Improvement/ AuditBMSC_____________480-445-9400Quality Training Consultants _ 928-284-0856Sustaining Edge Solutions __ 888-572-9642

X-RaySemiray ____________ 602-275-1917

JIGSRB Machine Co, Inc _____ 602-272-6869

MACHININGMachining: 3D

3D Machine LLC ______480-239-8254Arcas Machine Inc ____ 480-632-9414Cassavant Machining ___602-437-4005Challenger Aerospace _____ 480-894-0802JD Ellen LLC _______ 623-587--0253L&W Machine Co ____ 602-323-2560

Micropulse West _______ 480-966-2300Pro Precision ________ 602-353-0022RMG Machining _______ 623-582-6544

Machining: 5 AxisAccutech ____________ 801-975-1117Cassavant Machining __ 602-437-4005Hi-Tech Machining & Eng __ 520-889-8325Industrial Tool Die & Eng 520-745-8771Lindel Engineering _____ 520-792-3160Metalcraft Inc. ________ 480-967-4889Morsch Machine _______ 480-961-7673Rentzel Tool Company ___ 480-832-0700St. Vrain Manufacturing ___ 303-702-1529Uni-Tek ___________ 602-272-2601

Machining: AerospaceAATC ____________ 602-268-1467Abrams Airborne Mfg ___ 520-887-1727Absolute Turning & Machine 520-624-5628Anewco ___________ 520-751-1222Arcas Machine Inc ___ 480-632-9414AzMark ___________ 480-926-8969B&B Fabrication & Machine _ 623-271-6855Backerworks Mfg ____ 505-342-2943Cassavant Machining __ 602-437-4005Challenger Aerospace ____ 480-894-0802CJ Mfg ____________ 480-517-0233Continental Machining _ 800-777-2483Evans Precision Machining _ 623-581-6200Excaliber ___________ 623-878-6800Gilbert Precision Machine __ 480-892-4730Hi-Tech Machining & Eng __ 520-889-8325

3422 West Wilshire DrivePhoenix, AZ 85009

602 278 6704602 278 6717 Fax

National Grinding & Mfg

3422 West Wilshire Drive3422 West Wilshire DrivePhoenix, AZ 85009Phoenix, AZ 85009


HK Machining ________602-278-6704Infi nisys ___________ 602-276-2276JBʼs Precision ________ 623-581-9088JD Ellen LLC _______ 623-587--0253JD Machine _________ 801-782-4403KLK Ind. ____________ 602-267-1331L&W Machine Co ____ 602-323-2560Las Cruces Machine ___ 575-526-1411LAYKE, Inc.__________ 602-272-2654Lindel Engineering ______520-792-3160Matrix Machine ________480-966-4451Metalcraft Inc. _________480-967-4889Micro-Tronics, Inc _______602-437-8995Morsch Machine ________480-961-7673Nelson Engineering ______ 602-273-7114Nichols Precision ____ 480-804-0593Osborn Products ________623-587-0335PGI ____________ 505-884-5782Powill Manufacturing ___ 623-780-4100Precise Metal Products ___ 602-272-2625Pro Precision ________ 602-353-0022Pure-Logic Industries ____ 480-892-9395R&D Specialty Manco ____ 602-278-7700RMG Machining _______ 623-582-6544Service & Sales _______ 480-968-9084Satowfi ____________480-374-5706Southwest Swiss Precision _ 602-438-4670St. Vrain Manufacturing ____303-702-1529Trepanning Specialties ___562-633-8110Uni-Tek ____________602-272-2601

Machining: ContractAbsolute Turning & Machine 520-624-5628Acme Metal Works _____ 480-926-4171Advanced Metal Fab & Machine 928-778-4800Aero Design & Mfg _____ 602-437-8080AERO Spring & Mfg Co ____602-243-4329Anewco ___________ 520-751-1222

Arizona Wire & Tool ______ 480-813-1002Banner Machine, Inc ______ 602-437-4984East Valley Precision______ 480-288-6601Evans Precision Machining __623-581-6200Flex-Pro ___________ 623-581-0551GHT Services __________480-396-1800Gilbert Metal Stamping ___ 480-503-1283Gilbert Precision Machine ___480-892-4730Group Mfg Serv. ________480-966-3952HK Machining _______ 602-278-6704 Infi nisys ___________ 602-276-2276Innovia ___________ 480-966-6090Janʼs Inc.____________480-833-7305JD Machine __________801-782-4403Keller Precision _______ 928-279-8919KLK Ind. ____________ 602-267-1331McFarland Machine & Eng __480-966-1388Micropulse West ________480-966-2300RMG Machining ________623-582-6544RPM Industries ________623-780-4993Stellar Machining & Fab _ 480-961-3075TVT Die Casting ________800-280-2278Wrico ____________ 480-892-7800

Machining: CNC3D Machine LLC ______ 480-239-8254Accutech ____________ 801-975-1117Abrams Airborne Mfg ____ 520-887-1727Advanced Metal Fab & Machine 928-778-4800Absolute Turning and Machine 520-624-5628Acme Metal Works _____ 480-926-4171Alpha Machine ________602-437-0322Arcas Machine Inc ____ 480-632-9414Nichols Precision _____480-804-0593Anewco ___________ 520-751-1222Arizona Wire & Tool ______ 480-813-1002AzMark ____________480-926-8969B&B Fabrication & Machine __623-271-6855BID Machine, Inc ______ 480-892-7304

Challenger Aerospace___ _ 480-894-0802Continental Machining __ 800-777-2483East Valley Precision______ 480-288-6601Evans Precision Machining __ 623-581-6200Fives _____________909-263-9282Flex-Pro ___________ 623-581-0551GHT Services __________480-396-1800Gilbert Precision Machine ___480-892-4730Glover Precision, Inc. ____480-464-0150HK Machining ________602-278-6704Hi-Tech Machining & Eng ___520-889-8325Hogan Manufacturing _____ 623-463-1939HPMP _____________ 801-619-9850Infi nisys ___________ 602-276-2276Innovia ___________ 480-966-6090Janʼs Inc.____________480-833-7305JBʼs Precision ________ 623-581-9088JD Ellen LLC _______ 623-587--0253JD Machine __________801-782-4403Keller Precision _______ 928-279-8919KLK Ind. ____________ 602-267-1331L&W Machine Co _____602-323-2560Las Cruces Machine ___ 575-526-1411LAYKE, Inc.___________602-272-2654Lindel Engineering ______ 520-792-3160Metalcraft Inc. _________480-967-4889Matrix Machine _______ 480-966-4451McFarland Machine & Eng __480-966-1388 Micropulse West ________480-966-2300Micro-Tronics, Inc ______ 602-437-8995Milco Wire EDM/Waterjet ___ 714-373-0098Morsch Machine ________ 480-961-7673Nichols Precision _____ 480-804-0593Osborn Products ________623-587-0335PGI ______________505-884-5782 PMBC ___________ _602-431-8131Powill Manufacturing ____623-780-4100Precise Metal Products ____602-272-2625

Pro Precision _________602-353-0022Pure-Logic Industries _____480-892-9395Quality Mold _______ 480-892-5480R&D Specialty Manco _____602-278-7700Rentzel Tool Company ____480-832-0700RMG Machining ________623-582-6544RMSS ____________ 623-780-5904RPM Industries ________623-780-4993Satowfi ____________ 480-374-5706Siro Machining ________ 480-512-1467St. Vrain Manufacturing ____ 303-702-1529Stellar Machining & Fab _ 480-961-3075Toolcraft of Phoenix ____623-435-5405Uni-Tek ____________ 602-272-2601Val-Tech Mfg __________ 480-966-7376WC Machine & Tool ______480-507-4620Wire-Tech___________480-966-1591 Wrico _____________480-892-7800X5 Manufacturing____ ___602-454-7385

Machining CompositesAbsolute Turning & Machine _520-624-5628Innovative Cutting Solutions 623-842-1255

Machining: LargeAlpha Machine ________602-437-0322Backerworks Mfg _____ 505-342-2943Continental Machining __ 800-777-2483Empire Precision Mach. ___480-633-4580HK Machining ________ 602-278-6704Innovia ____________480-966-6090KLK Ind. ____________ 602-267-1331RMG Machining ________623-582-6544

Arizona Wire & Tool 480-813-1002 Challenger Aerospace___ 480-894-0802Challenger Aerospace___Arizona Wire & Tool

AB UTESOLABABABB UUSBSBSSBSBBSBSSBSBBSBSSOSOSOOSOSOOSOSOOLULUULULLULUULUOLOL

Swami Subramanian860 East 46th Street, Tucson AZ 85713520-624-5628 • Cell 602-418-2171• Fax 520-624-5636www.atmswiss.com • [email protected]

TURNING & MACHINE

NATHAN CONSULTING, LLC dba

Pro Precision 602-353-0022


Mach: Turning CNC3D Machine LLC _______480-239-8254Absolute Turning & Machine _520-624-5628Acme Metal Works _____ 480-926-4171Advanced Metal Fab & Machine 928-778-4800Alpha Machine ________602-437-0322Anmark ____________ 480-968-3126Arcas Machine Inc ____ 480-632-9414Anewco ___________ 520-751-1222AzMark ____________480-926-8969Bar-S Machine ______ 928-636-2115Cassavant Machining ___ 602-437-4005Continental Machining __ 800-777-2483East Valley Precision______ 480-288-6601EDM Express __________ 800-780-7075Exactitude Precision ______ 602-316-6957Flex-Pro ___________ 623-581-0551GHT Services __________480-396-1800Gilbert Precision Machine ___480-892-4730Glover Precision, Inc. ____ 480-464-0150Hi-Tech Machining & Eng ___520-889-8325Hogan Manufacturing _____ 623-463-1939HPMP _____________ 801-619-9850Innovia ____________480-966-6090JD Ellen LLC _______ 623-587--0253JD Machine __________801-782-4403Keller Precision _______ 928-279-8919Las Cruces Machine ___ 575-526-1411McFarland Machine & Eng __ 480-966-1388Morsch Machine _______ 480-961-7673Nichols Precision _____ 480-804-0593Osborn Products _______ 623-587-0335PGI ______________505-884-5782Precision Metalworks __ 602-455-9575RMG Machining ________623-582-6544RMSS _____________623-780-5904Ron Grob Co. _________970-667-5320RPM Industries ________623-780-4993

Siro Machining ________ 480-512-1467St. Vrain Manufacturing ____ 303-702-1529Stellar Machining & Fab _ 480-961-3075Stewart Precision Mfg _____623-492-9400Uni-Tek ___________ 602-272-2601Val-Tech Mfg _________ 480-966-7376Wright Prototype _______ 541-619-2760Metalcraft Inc. _________ 480-967-4889Morsch Machine ________ 480-961-7673St. Vrain Manufacturing ____ 303-702-1529Uni-Tek ____________ 602-272-2601

Machining PlasticAbsolute Turning & Machine _ 520-624-5628Innovative Cutting Solutions 623-842-1255Keller Precision _______ 928-279-8919RMG Machining ________623-582-6544

Machining Precision3D Machine LLC ______ 480-239-8254AATC ____________ 602-268-1467Accutech ____________ 801-975-1117Abrams Airborne Mfg ____ 520-887-1727Absolute Turning & Machine _ 520-624-5628Advanced Metal Fab & Machine 928-778-4800Alpha Machine ________ 602-437-0322Arcas Machine Inc ____ 480-632-9414Arizona Wire & Tool ______ 480-813-1002Auer Precision _________ 480-834-4637AzMark __________ 480-926-8969Backerworks Mfg _____ 505-342-2943BID Machine, Inc _______480-892-7304Cassavant Machining ___ 602-437-4005CJ Mfg _____________ 480-517-0233Challenger Aerospace _____ 480-894-0802Continental Machining __ 800-777-2483East Valley Precision______ 480-288-6601Evans Precision Machʼg _ 623-581-6200Fives _____________909-263-9282Flex-Pro ___________ 623-581-0551Gilbert Precision Machine ___480-892-4730Glover Precision , Inc. _____ 480-464-0150Hi-Tech Machining & Eng ___ 520-889-8325HK Machining ________ 602-278-6704HPMP _____________ 801-619-9850JBʼs Precision _______ 623-581-9088

JD Ellen LLC _______ 623-587--0253JD Machine _________ 801-782-4403Jemelco, Inc. _______ 480-804-9541JWB Manufacturing _____ 480-967-4600Las Cruces Machine ___ 575-526-1411LAYKE, Inc. _______ 602-272-2654Lindel Engineering _____ 520-792-3160Lynch Brothers Mfg _____ 602-267-7575Matrix Machine _____ 480-966-4451Micropulse West _______ 480-966-2300Micro-Tronics, Inc ____ 602-437-8995Metalcraft Inc. ________ 480-967-4889Morsch Machine _______ 480-961-7673Nelson Engineering ___602-273-7114Nichols Precision ____ 480-804-0593Osborn Products _______ 623-587-0335PGI _____________505-884-5782Powill Mfg __________ 623-780-4100Pro Precision ________ 602-353-0022Quality Mold ______ 480-892-5480R&D Specialty Manco ____ 602-278-7700Rentzel Tool Company ___ 480-832-0700RMSS_____________623-780-5904RMG Machining _______ 623-582-6544RPM Industries _______ 623-780-4993Satowfi ___________ 480-374-5706Service & Sales _____ 480-968-9084Southwest Swiss Precision _ 602-438-4670St. Vrain Manufacturing ___ 303-702-1529Stewart Precision Mfg ____ 623-492-9400Sun Tech_________ 480-921-1665Toolcraft of Phoenix __ 623-435-5405Uni-Tek ___________ 602-272-2601Val-Tech Mfg _________ 480-966-7376WC Machine & Tool _____ 480-507-4620Weiser/Mile High Precision _ 303-280-2778Wire-Tech _________480-966-1591

Machining: ProductionGHT Services _________ 480-396-1800HPMP ____________ 801-619-9850Innovia ___________ 480-966-6090Rentzel Tool Company ___ 480-832-0700Tri-Matrix __________ 480-844-0165

Machining: PrototypeA A T C ____________602-268-1467

Absolute Turning & Machine 520-624-5628Accutech ____________801-975-1117Acme Metal Works ____ 480-926-4171Advanced Metal Fab & Machine 928-778-4800Alpha Machine _______ 602-437-0322Anewco ___________520-751-1222Arcas Machine Inc ___ 480-632-9414Backerworks Mfg ____ 505-342-2943Bar-S Machine _____ 928-636-2115BID Machine, Inc ______480-892-7304CJ Mfg ____________ 480-517-0233Continental Machining _ 800-777-2483East Valley Precision_____ 480-288-6601Evans Precision _____ 623-581-6200Exactitude Precision _____ 602-316-6957Flex-Pro __________ 623-581-0551GHT Services _________ 480-396-1800Gilbert Precision Machine __ 480-892-4730Glover Precision, Inc. ___ 480-464-0150Hogan Manufacturing ____ 623-463-1939HPMP ____________ 801-619-9850HPMP ____________ 801-619-9850Infi nisys ___________ 602-276-2276Janʼs Inc.___________ 480-833-7305Jemelco, Inc. _______ 480-804-9541JD Ellen LLC _______ 623-587--0253JD Machine _________ 801-782-4403JWB Manufacturing _____ 480-967-4600Keller Precision _______ 928-279-8919KLK Ind. ___________ 602-267-1331L&W Machine Co ____ 602-323-2560McFarland Machine & Eng _ 480-966-1388Metalcraft Inc. ________ 480-967-4889Micropulse West _______ 480-966-2300Nichols Precision ____ 480-804-0593Osborn Products _______ 623-587-0335PGI_______________505-884-5782RMG Machining _______ 623-582-6544Pro Precision _______ 602-353-00220R&D Specialty Manco ____ 602-278-7700RB Machine Co, Inc _____ 602-272-6869Rentzel Tool Company ___ 480-832-0700RMG Machining _______ 623-582-6544RMSS ___________ 623-780-5904RPM Industries _______ 623-780-4993

Siro Machining 480-512-1467

[email protected]

SiroSt. Vrain ManufacturingStellar Machining & FabStewart Precision MfgUni-TekVal-Tech MfgWright Prototype

SiroSiro


www.swwj-laser.com

4221 E. Raymond Str.Suite #103

Phoenix, AZ 85040

Office: 480.306.7748Fax: [email protected]

Dennis ReynoldsPH 602-863-3196

17464 N. 25th Ave. Ste B1 Phoenix, AZ 85023

DR@fi nelinefabricating.com


Siro Machining ________480-512-1467St. Vrain Manufacturing ___ 303-702-1529Stellar Machining & Fab _480-961-3075Stewart Precision Mfg ____ 623-492-9400Tri-Matrix __________ 480-844-0165Uni-Tek ___________ 602-272-2601Val-Tech Mfg _________ 480-966-7376Wire-Tech __________ 480-966-1591

Machining: Quick TurnFlex-Pro ___________623-581-0551HK Machining _______ 602-278-6704Jemelco, Inc. _______ 480-804-9541Keller Precision _______ 928-279-8919RB Machine Co, Inc _____ 602-272-6869Rentzel Tool Company ___ 480-832-0700RMG Machining _______ 623-582-6544RMSS_____________ 623-780-5904RPM Industries _______ 623-780-4993Wright Prototype _______541-619-2760

Machining: Milling3D Machine LLC _____ 480-239-8254Acme Metal Works _____480-926-4171Advanced Metal Fab & Machine 928-778-4800Anewco ___________ 520-751-1222Anmark ___________ 480-968-3126Bar-S Machine ______ 928-636-2115Challenger Aerospace _____ 480-894-0802EDM Express _________ 800-780-7075Exactitude Precision ______602-316-6957Fives ____________ 909-263-9282Flex-Pro ___________623-581-0551GHT Services _________ 480-396-1800Gilbert Precision Machine __ 480-892-4730Glover Precision, Inc. ___ 480-464-0150Hi-Tech Machining & Eng __ 520-889-8325Hogan Manufacturing ____ 623-463-1939Infi nisys ___________ 602-276-2276

Innovia ___________ 480-966-6090JD Machine _________ 801-782-4403L&W Machine Co ____ 602-323-2560Metalcraft Inc. ________ 480-967-4889Micro-Tronics, Inc ______602-437-8995Morsch Machine _______ 480-961-7673RMG Machining _______ 623-582-6544RMSS ____________ 623-780-5904Siro Machining _______ 480-512-1467Stewart Precision Mfg ____ 623-492-9400Tri-Matrix __________ 480-844-0165Uni-Tek ___________ 602-272-2601Wire-Tech __________ 480-966-1591Wright Prototype ______ 541-619-2760

Machining: ScrewRMG Machining _______ 623-582-6544Machining: Semiconductor

Gilbert Precision Machine __ 480-892-4730KLK Ind. ___________ 602-267-1331L&W Machine Co ____ 602-323-2560Satowfi ___________ 480-374-5706Siro Machining _______ 480-512-1467

Machining: SwissAbsolute Turning & Machine 520-624-5628Bar-S Machine _____ 928-636-2115Cassavant Machining __ 602-437-4005HPMP ____________ 801-619-9850RMG Machining _______ 623-582-6544Ron Grob Co.________970-667-5320Southwest Swiss Precision _ 602-438-4670Machining: Ultra-Precision

Auer Precision ________ 480-834-4637Southwest Swiss Precision _ 602-438-4670Nichols Precision ____ 480-804-0593

Machining: Turning: Automatic

Absolute Turning and Machine 520-624-5628American Prec. Machine___ 602-269-6298

Ayers Gear & Mach _____ 623-934-6913AzMark ___________ 480-926-8969Challenger Aerospace ___ 480-894-0802EDM Express __________ 800-780-7075Evans Precision Machʼg ___ 623-581-6200HPMP _____________ 801-619-9850JBʼs Precision Ind ______ 623-581-9088LAYKE, Inc. _________ 602-272-2654Matrix Machine _______ 480-966-4451Micro-Tronics, Inc ______ 602-437-8995PGI _____________ 505-884-5782Rentzel Tool Company ____ 480-832-0700

RMG Machining ________ 623-582-6544RMSS _____________ 623-780-5904Stewart Precision Mfg _____ 623-492-9400

MACHINING: LASERLaser Cutting

Ace Laser ____________480-924-3232Advanced Metal Fab & Machine 928-778-4800Allfab Engineering ______ 602-437-0497Fine Line Laser Cutting _ 602-863-3196Howell Precision ________ 623-582-4776KLK Ind. ____________ 602-267-1331McFarland Machine & Eng __ 480-966-1388Precise Metal Products ____ 602-272-2625Precision Metal Products _ 408-699-5037Southwest Waterjet-Laser 480-306-7748The Metal Man ________ 800-448-9448TMM Precision ________ 800-448-9448Tube Service Company __ 602-267-9865Wrico _____________ 480-892-7800

Laser Cutting:Rotary AxisK-zell Metals, Inc. ____ 602-232-5882

Laser Engraving & EtchingAce Laser ____________480-924-3232TechMark ___________480-820--9444

Laser MarkingAce Laser ____________480-924-3232TechMark ___________480-820--9444

MANUFACTURINGAbrams Airborne Mfg ____ 520-887-1727Advanced Metal Fab & Machine 928-778-4800Aero Tech ___________ 801-292-0493

APMI __ __________ 480-668-0024B&B Fabrication & Machine _ 623-271-6855CJ Mfg _____________480-517-0233Creedbilt Inc _______ 623-939-8119Exactitude Precision ______602-316-6957Harschco LLC _______ 602-617-7514Hi-Tech Machining & Eng __ 520-889-8325Howell Precision ________623-582-4776Innovia ___________ 480-966-6090Glover Precision, Inc. ___ 480-464-0150Group Manufacturing Serv _ 480-966-3952KLK Ind. ____________ 602-267-1331PMBC ____________ 602-431-8131PVB Fabrications ____ 520-623-3529Precision Metal Products _408-699-5037RMG Machining _______ 623-582-6544RMSS ____________ 623-780-5904Scriven Precision ______ 480-961-9775

Manufacturing: ElectrodeWire-Tech __________ 480-966-1591

Mfg: PhotoChemicalAero Tech __________ 801-292-0493

Etching FabricationTurnkey Product Services

Aero Tech __________ 801-292-0493METAL FORMING

Allfab Engineering _____ 602-437-0497B&B Fabrication & Machine _ 623-271-6855Creedbilt Inc _______ 623-939-8119Fry Fabrications ________602-454-0701TMM Precision _______ 800-448-9448Tri-Matrix ___________480-844-0165

METAL STAMPINGHigh Production Precision

StampingPrecision Die & Stamping __ 480-967-2038Thompson Machine ____505-823-1453


BOB HUDZIK E.D.M. Specialists Precision Machining

Since 1980

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

(480) 921-1665 Cell: (480) 215-7144

[email protected]

SUN TECH & ENG.

Total Customer SatisfactionQuality ProductsOn- Time Delivery

Matthew CarlsonSales Manager

(602) 455-9575. Fax (602) 455-0166. Cell (623) 203-96191700 N. 22nd Ave .• Phoenix, AZ. 85009

[email protected]

6532 W Flint St. Ste. 1 Chandler, AZ 85226


METALIZINGBoltʼs Metallizing ______ 602-244-2432

MOLDING: RUBBERMicro-Tronics, Inc ______ 602-437-8995

MOLDSPMBC ____________ 602-431-8131JWB Manufacturing _____ 480-967-4600Quality Mold ________ 480-892-5480Toolcraft of Phoenix __ 623-435-5405

Molds: ConstructionJWB Manufacturing _____ 480-967-4600

Molds: Plastic InjectionMicro-Tronics, Inc ______ 602-437-8995Wire-Tech __________ 480-966-1591

Molds: RubberToolcraft of Phoenix __ 623-435-5405

Molds: SteelAero Tech __________ 801-292-0493

PAINTINGAP Industrial _________480-968-1947Arizona Finishing ______ 602-438-4443Coating Technologies ____ 623-581-2648Precise Metal Products ___ 602-272-2625Precision Industrial Painting 602-256-0260STP Performance Coating LLC _ 602-276-1231

Painting& Blast BoothsAP Industrial _________ 480-968-1947STP Performance Coating LLC _ 602-276-1231

PhosphateCoating Technologies _____623-581-2648

Powder CoatingAP Industrial _________ 480-968-1947Arizona Finishing _______602-438-4443East Valley Powdercoat ____ 480-215-2461LA Specialties _________ 602-269-7612Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090Southwest Powder Coating __602-272-0878

Wet Paint/CARCAP Industrial _________ 480-968-1947Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090Precision Industrial Painting _602-256-0260

Sandblast/AutomatedSTP Performance Coating LLC _ 602-276-1231

Screenprinting & Pad Printing

AP Industrial _________ 480-968-1947STP Performance Coating LLC _ 602-276-1231

PLATINGArizona Hard Chrome _____ 602-278-8671ChemResearch _________ 602-253-4175Coating Technologies _____623-581-2648Collins Metal Finishing ____ 602-275-3117E.P.S.I. _____________714-256-8950Gold Tech Industries ______480-968-1930L A Specialties _________ 602-269-7612Louieʼs Black Oxide ______602-257-0530Precious Metal Plating ____ 800-481-6271Precision Metalworks __ 602-455-9575Road Machinery ________ 520-623-8681Sav-On Plating _________ 602-252-4311

AnodizingChemResearch _________ 602-253-4175Collins Metal Finishing ____ 602-275-3117FutureWeld __________602-437-2426

Gold Tech Industries ______ 480-968-1930Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090Pilkington Metal Finishing__ 801-972-2146

Brass PlatingSav-On Plating _________ 602-252-4311

Bronze PlatingSav-On Plating _________ 602-252-4311

CopperGold Tech Industries ______ 480-968-1930Masic Industries ________ 503-232-9109

Electroless NickelGold Tech Industries ______ 480-968-1930Masic Industries ________ 503-232-9109

Embrittlement ReliefE.P.S.I. _____________ 714-256-8950

Gold PlatingE.P.S.I. _____________ 714-256-8950Gold Tech Industries ______ 480-968-1930

Hard ChromeRoad Machinery ________ 520-623-8681

Nickel/ Chrome/PalladiumCollins Metal Finishing ____ 602-275-3117E.P.S.I. _____________ 714-256-8950Gold Tech Industries ______ 480-968-1930 LA Specialties _________ 602-269-7612Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090Sav-On Plating _________ 602-252-4311

Silver PlatingE.P.S.I. _____________ 714-256-8950Gold Tech Industries ______ 480-968-1930

Tin: MatteGold Tech Industries ______ 480-968-1930

Tin / Zinc PlateCollins Metal Finishing ____ 602-275-3117E.P.S.I. _____________ 714-256-8950Masic Industries ________ 503-232-9109Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090

Sav-On Plating _________ 602-252-4311POLISHING

Gold Tech Industries ____ 480-968-1930L A Specialties ________ 602-269-7612Masic Industries ________503-232-9109Road Machinery ________520-623-8681

PRODUCT DESIGN Design and Modeling

Bar-S Machine ______ 928-636-2115PROCESSING: CHEMICAL

LA Specialties _________ 602-269-7612PRODUCTION

Challenger Aerospace _____480-894-0802Louieʼs Black Oxide _____ 602-257-0530Siro Machining ________ 480-512-1467

PUNCHINGAdvanced Metal Fab & Machine 928-778-4800Group Manufacturing Serv _ 480-966-3952 Fry Fabrications ________602-454-0701McFarland Machine & Eng __480-966-1388Phoenix Metalcraft ____ 602-279-4810Precision Metalworks __602-455-9575Precision Metal Products _ 408-699-5037Stellar Machining & Fab _ 480-961-3075WC Machine & Tool_ ____ 480-507-4620X5 Manufacturing _______602-454-7385Nelson Engineering ______ 602-273-7114Tri-Matrix ___________480-844-0165

SINTERINGWestern Sintering ______509-375-3096

SPINNING: MetalNelson Engineering ______ 602-273-7114

SPLINESApache Gear, Inc ______ 623-934-7144RMG Machining _______ 623-582-6544

SPRAY: METAL, PLASMA

Boltʼs Metallizing _______602-244-2432Empire Precision Mach. __ 480-633-4580

AP Industrial

AP Industrial AP Industrial Arizona Finishing

Southwest Powder Coating

AP Industrial

AP Industrial Arizona Finishing

SPRINGSFlat and Wire Springs

AERO Spring & Mfg Co ___ 602-243-4329SPRINGWORKS Utah ____ 801-298-0113Tri-Matrix __________ 480-844-0165

STAMPINGAERO Spring & Mfg Co ___ 602-243-4329Auer Precision ________ 480-834-4637CygnetStamping & Fab ____818-240-7574Gilbert Metal Stamping ___ 480-503-1283Pacifi c Metal Stampings __ 661-257-7656Precise Metal Products ___ 602-272-2625Precision Die & Stamping __ 480-967-2038Scriven Precision ______ 480-961-9775Thompson Machine ___ 505-823-1453Weiser/Mile High Precision _ 303-280-2778Whitley Machine ______ 602-323-5550Wrico_____________480-892-7800

Precision Metal FormingSPRINGWORKS Utah _____801-298-0113Thompson Machine ___ 505-823-1453Wrico ____________ 480-892-7800

Stamping: AerospacePacifi c Metal Stampings __ 661-257-7656Wrico ____________ 480-892-7800

Stamping: BendingPacifi c Metal Stampings __ 661-257-7656

Stamping: Deep DrawThompson Machine ___ 505-823-1453

Stamping DesignPacifi c Metal Stampings __ 661-257-7656SPRINGS WORKS Utah ___ 801-298-0113Weiser/Mile High Precision _ 303-280-2778

Stamping Flat FormingPacifi c Metal Stampings __ 661-257-7656SPRINGS WORKS Utah ___ 801-298-0113

Stamping: LightPacifi c Metal Stampings __ 661-257-7656

Stamping: PrecisionPacifi c Metal Stampings __ 661-257-7656SPRINGS WORKS Utah ___ 801-298-0113

TAPPINGGilbert Metal Stamping ___ 480-503-1283Harschco LLC _______ 602-617-7514RMG Machining _______ 623-582-6544

TESTINGTesting: Flow / Target

Semiray Aero. Testing ____ 623-842-3030Testing: Non-Dest/ Pressure

FutureWeld _________ 602-437-2426Pilkington Metal Finishing___801-972-2146

Semiray Aero. Testing _____ 623-842-3030

THERMAL SPRAYBoltʼs Metallizing _______ 602-244-2432Controlled Thermal Techʼy __ 602-272-3714Empire Precision Mach. ___ 480-633-4580

THREADINGThread Grinding

Blue Streak Grinding ____ 602-353-8088Grindworks __________ 623-582-5767Osborn Products ________ 623-587-0335Shaw Precision _______ 480-785-4925

Thread RollingRon Grob Co. _________ 970-667-5320

TOOL & DIE3D Machine LLC ______ 480-239-8254Arizona Wire & Tool ______ 480-813-1002Gilbert Metal Stamping ____480-503-1283Sonic Tool & Gage _______ 480-777-1789Southwest Tool & Die Services 480-317-9366Thompson Machine ____ 505-823-1453Tri-Matrix ___________ 480-844-0165Whitley Machine ______ 602-323-5550Wrico _____________ 480-892-7800

TOOL REPAIR/REBUILDSouthwest Tool & Die Services 480-317-9366

TOOLINGCJ Mfg _____________ 480-517-0233Hogan Manufacturing _____ 623-463-1939RB Machine Co, Inc ______ 602-272-6869Siro Machining ________ 480-512-1467Sonic Tool & Gage _______ 480-777-1789Southwest Tool & Die Services 480-317-9366Western Sintering ______ 509-375-3096

TREPANNINGTrepanning Specialties ___ 562-633-8110

TUBE BENDINGAdvanced Metal Fab & Machine 928-778-4800

TUBINGAssembly Formed Tubing

B&B Fabrication & Machine __ 623-271-6855Howell Precision ________ 623-582-4776Service & Sales _______ 480-968-9084

Formed TubingAERO Spring & Mfg Co ____602-243-4329B&B Fabrication & Machine __ 623-271-6855Howell Precision ________ 623-582-4776

Large Diam. Pipe & TubingTrepanning Specialties ___ 562-633-8110

Tube Bending /FabricationHowell Precision ________ 623-582-4776K-zell Metals, Inc. ____ 602-232-5882Service & Sales ______ 480-968-9084

WATER PURIF/ RECYC.USFilter __________ 760-525-9930

WATERJET CUTTINGAerodyne Ulbrich Alloys _ 800-237-2888

Alpha Machine ________602-437-0322Creedbilt Inc _______ 623-939-8119Flow International ____ 800-446-3569Harschco LLC _______ 602-617-7514Innovative Cutting Solutions 623-842-1255Innovia ___________ 480-966-6090Janʼs Inc.____________480-833-7305MarZee Inc. ________ 602-269-5801McFarland Machine & Eng __480-966-1388Milco Wire EDM/Waterjet ___714-373-0098Southwest Waterjet-Laser 480-306-7748Stellar Machining & Fab _ 480-961-3075Toolcraft of Phoenix ___623-435-5405WC Machine & Tool _____ 480-507-4620Whitley Machine _____602-323-5550

Waterjet,3D 3 - 5 AXISInnovative Cutting Solutions 623-842-1255

Waterjet, Multi headWhitley Machine _____602-323-5550Waterjet, High Press. Cutting Alpha Machine ________602-437-0322Harschco LLC _______ 602-617-7514Innovative Cutting Solutions 623-842-1255

WASHERSAERO Spring & Mfg Co __ 602-243-4329

WIRE FORMSAERO Spring & Mfg Co __ 602-243-4329SPRINGWORKS Utah _____ 801-298-0113

WELDINGAcme Metal Works _____ 480-926-4171Allfab Engineering ______602-437-0497Alpha Machine ________602-437-0322APMI ____________ 480-668-0024Arrow Sheet Metal _______303-427-6419AzMark __________ 480-926-8969B&B Fabrication & Machine __623-271-6855Bell Steel __________ 480-833-5538BID Machine, Inc _____ 480-892-7304Continental Machining __800-777-2483Creedbilt Inc _______ 623-939-8119DT Products Metal Fabrication 928-776-4129Empire Precision Mach. __ 480-633-4580Group Mfg. Serv _____ 480-966-3952Howell Precision ________623-582-4776Janʼs Inc.____________480-833-7305K-zell Metals, Inc. ____602-232-5882Lynch Brothers Mfg ______602-267-7575 McFarland Machine & Eng __480-966-1388Precision Metalworks __602-455-9575Precision Metal Products _ 408-699-5037Pure-Logic Industries _____480-892-9395PVB Fabrications _____520-623-3529Quality Mold ________ 480-892-5480Scriven Precision _____ 480-961-9775State Industrial Prod ___ 602-275-0990Stellar Machining & Fab _ 480-961-3075

Val-Tech Mfg _________ 480-966-7376Weiser/Mile High Precision _ 303-280-2778X5 Manufacturing ______ 602-454-7385Wrico ____________ 480-892-7800

Welding: AerospaceAnewco ___________ 520-751-1222Arrow Sheet Metal _______303-427-6419Backerworks Mfg ____ 505-342-2943X5 Manufacturing ______ 602-454-7385Welding: Alum. Med & Lg

Alpha Machine _______ 602-437-0322Arrow Sheet Metal _______303-427-6419Continental Machining _ 800-777-2483Empire Precision Mach. __ 480-633-4580Precise Metal Products ___ 602-272-2625PVB Fabrications ____ 520-623-3529Stellar Machining & Fab _480-961-3075Weiser/Mile High Precision _ 303-280-2778

Welding: EnclosuresAllfab Engineering _____ 602-437-0497Fry Fabrications ________602-454-0701

Welding: DesignFry Fabrications ________602-454-0701

Welding: OrbitalL&W Fluid ________ 602-323-2560

Welding: RoboticB&B Fabrication & Machine _ 623-271-6855

Welding: SpotNelson Engineering _____ 602-273-7114

Welding: TigAllfab Engineering _____ 602-437-0497Backerworks Mfg ____ 505-342-2943Continental Machining _ 800-777-2483Cutting Edge Mfg ______ 480-609-7233FutureWeld _________ 602-437-2426Janʼs Inc.___________ 480-833-7305Stellar Machining & Fab _480-961-3075


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D & R Mchy .........................17,65,89,95DCM Tech ....................................46,90Datum Inspection ..........................102Daum Commercial.....................40,97Delcam. ..........................................100Desert Fire .....................................103Desert EDM Sales .......................... .92Desert Machine Tool Repair ....38,90Dolphin ............................................98DM Machine Repair ....................... 96DT Products Metal Fabrication ....... 101E Solutions (MUT) ........................... 96East Valley Powdercoat................ 107East Valley Precision ..................... 107Ebbco Inc. .......................................90Echols Saw & Supply ......................89 Edge Technologies .........................92EDM Express ......................68-69,100EDM Network ............................56,93EDM Perform Access. .....................94EDM Tech......................................100Ellison Machinery ........5,77-79,89,91Empire Precision Mach. ...............105EPSI. ............................................... 107Evans Precision Mach’g ................ 101Exactitude .....................................103Excaliber Precision .........................99Fine Line Fabricating Inc. ............. 101Fine Line Laser Cutting ................ 107Fives .................................................90Flex-Pro..........................................105Flow Corp ........................................89Fry Fabrications ..............................98Fry Steel Co .....................................93FutureWeld .........................20,99,101Ganesh Machinery .....................25,91Gartman Tech Services ...........86,108Geiger Electric Inc ..........................90GoSynergy Petroleum .................... 36GHT Services LLC ............................98Gilbert Metal Stamping ..................98Gilbert Precision Machine............105Gladhill Assoc ...........................56,103Global EDM Supply ........................ 45Glover Precision, Inc. ....................103GMA Garnet ....................................94GMN USA....................................70,92Gold Tech Industries ...............50,103Grindworks .....................................99Group Manufacturing ..................100Hangsterfers ..............................93,94Harschco ......................................102Haynes Intl ......................................93Helical Solutions ........................35,96Helm Precision ................................52Hi-Tech Machining & Welding ....100HK Machining ...............................104Hogan Manufacturing ..................106Hollie Perlow ...................................97Horizon Carbide .............................98Houghton ........................................92Howell Precision .......................72,99HPMP .............................................108Hurco ................................................17HydMech ......................................... 15IEC Supply LLC ................................92Ind. Metal Supply ......................81,94Ind.Tool Die ..................................103Infinisys ....................................99,103Infor ..................................................97Innovia ......................................63,100Innovation Industrial Products....100Innovative Cutting Tools ...............92Innovative Cutting Solutions ....... 107Integrated Systems Inc ................108IPE Aerospace .................................40IRH ...................................................98ISMG ................................................89ITDE ...............................................103Jan’s Inc ..........................................104J B’s Prec Ind...................................103JD Ellen ..................................... ..... 103JD Machine .......................................98Jemelco Inc .......................................96Jill Norgaard .....................................97Jorgenson ... ........ ............................91JWB Manufacturing ......................102

K D Capital .......................................89Keller Precision ..............................105KLK ..................................................104Klontech Indus. Sales ......................89KMT Waterjet ..................................90K-Zell Metals, Inc. ......................... 100Kurt Manufacturing Co. ..................94Kwik Mark Inc ..................................90L&W Machine Co. .........................103LA Specialties ...........................72,103Las Cruces Machine .......................105Layke Inc ..........................................99Layke Tactical ....................1,26-28,97Leap Innovation ...............................97Leavitt Group ...................................96Lights Out Electric ...........................96Lindel Engineering ........................104Lone Arrow ......................................92Louie’s Black Oxide ...............100,102Louie’s Gun Finishing ....................102Lynch Brothers ...............................102Lynden Intl. ......................................98Machinery Sales ........................... ... 91Magnum Prec......... ....19,83,89-91,97Makino ....................................... 23,89Marshall Tool & Supply ..................95MarZee ................................32,93,101Masic Industries ............................103Matrix Machine ......................... 98,99May Foundry ..................................101McFarland Machine .......................105MC Machinery ........................... 49,92Mesa Machinery .........................54,91Metalcraft Inc. ................................103Metal Finishing Systems .................29Metal Processing Intl.....................105Metals Eng & Testing Labs .............96Methods West .................................91Micro-Tronics ..................................99Micro 100 ................................... 60,94Micropulse West .............................98Midaco Corp ....................................99Milco Wire EDM/Waterjet ..............99Milne .................................................96MLC CAD Systems ..................... 41,96Moore Tool & Equip .......................91Morsch Machine ..............................98MSL Precision ..................................74National Bank of Arizona ................97National Grinding & Mfg. .............101Nelson Engineering .................46,100Nichols Precision ...........................105North-South ...............................49,92OGP ...................................................90Omax Corp. ......................................89Orion Registrar ..............................103Osborn Products ......................99,101Pacific Metal Stampings................105Perfection Industrial Finishing .....106PGI ...................................................103Phoenix Grinding.............................99Phoenix Heat Treat .......................102Phoenix Metal Fin. & Polishing ..... 102Phoenix Metalcraft ........................107Phoenix Small Tool .........................95Pilkington Metal Finishing ............109Pioneer Distributing Co. .................99Powill Mfg ......................................102Praxair Distribution .......................101Precious Metal Plating. .................103Precise Metal Products .........100,108Precise Measurements LLC....... 77,96Precision Casting Repair .................99Precision Die & Stamping ...............98Precision Industrial Painting ...........99Precision Metalworks ...................108Precision Metal Products ..............108 Pro Precision ..................................101Pure-Logic Industries .....................108PVB Fabrications ..............................99QS Machinery ...................................90Qualichem, Inc .................................93Quality Improvement Consulting... 97Quality Mold...................................101Quick Turn Financial... .....................97R&D Specialty Manco....................104RB Machine .....................................109

Rentzel Tool ........................42,43,106RMG Machining ........................53,106RMSS ...............................................106Road Machinery .............................107Rocky Mountain Saw Blades........ .. 90Roentgen USA.................................. 90Ron Grob ........................................104Royal Products .............................62,92Roydent........................................52,93RPM Industries ................................104R.S. Hughes ..................................33,92S&S Machinery Sales ........................91SA Recycling ......................................95S L Fusco ............................................93Samuel, Son & Co. .................10,93,94Sandvik Coromant .......................91,97Satowfi ........................................... 104Sav-On Plating .................................106Savage Machine .........................85,90Sawblade.com ........................ 102,111SBG Capital ........................................95Scriven Precision Fab. ......................98Semiray .....................................82,104Service & Sales ................................108Setco Spindles & Slides ...................94Shaw Precision Grind’g ................. 100SigmaTEK ..........................................48Southwest Powder .........................102Siro Machining ................................107SolidCAM ......................................22,97Sonic Tool & Gage ..........................102Southwest Electronic Hardware .........92Southwest Fastener .........................92Southwest Powder .........................102Southwest Spindle Service ..............95Southwest Swiss Precision ........... 104Southwest Tool & Die Services .... 100Southwest Waterjet-Laser .............107SPRINGWORKS Utah ......................108St Vrain ............................................105Star Metal Fluids ...............13,90,95,96State Technology ..............................93Steel Services Grind’g................. 85,99Stellar Machining & Fab Inc. ..........103Stewart Precision Manufacturing ......100Sun Grinding ..............................14,101Sun Tech ..........................................108Superior Grinding ...........................102Sustaining Edge Solutions ...............95TCI Precision Metals ................... 55,93TMM Precision ...........................98,101T.S.M. Mach. ..............................25,89TechMark ........................................101TechShop ..........................................97Temtco Steel .....................................93The Metal Man...........................98,101The Werks C&C ................................94Thompson Machine ...................... 100TMI (GibbsCAM) ...............................96Toolcraft of Phoenix ...................... 104Tornquist Machinery ........................90Total Quality Sys ...............................93Tornos .........................................21,90Trepanning Specialties ...................106Triad ...................................................71Tri-Matrix.........................................106Trusty-Cook .................................47,91Tube Service .....................................93TVT Die Casting .........................84,101TW Metals .........................................94US Bank ........................................62,97U S Shop Tools ........................... 29,92Ulbrich of CA ............................... 59,93United Performance Metals ..........58,93Universal Laser Systems Inc ................90Uni-Tek ............................................103Val-Tech Mfg .................................. 100VonRuden ................................... 94,96Washington Cal. ......................102Wayco Sales Inc ............................. 100WC Machine & Tool ...................... 100Weiser/Mile High Precision ...........101Western Cast Parts ...........................98Western Sintering Co.....................108Western States Metal ................. 64,96Whitley Machine ......................101Wire-Tech ....................................... 100Wrico .........................................70,100Wright Prototype .............................99X5 .................................................... 100Yamazen USA .........................31,73,89

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215 South Rockford Drive Tempe, AZ

480-968-3711

Your Hometown Machine Tool Dealer Serving Arizona and New Mexico Since 1967.


www.doosaninfracore.com/machinetools

Corporate Office & Engineering Center: 19A Chapin Road Pine Brook, NJ 07058 Tel: 973-618-2500

Midwestern Technical Center: 1701 F Howard Street Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 Tel: 847-437-1010

Western Technical Center: 488 W. Meats Avenue Orange, CA 92865 Tel: 714-974-1330

WE HAVE WHAT IT TAKESVERTICAL MACHINING CENTERS

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Mynx – models 5400, 6500 or 7500

• For parts up to 60 x 30 x 24.6 inches

• Spindle motors from 20 to 40 HP and speeds to 12,000 rpm

• CAT 40 and 50 with Big Plus Dual Contact Spindle

• Rapid Traverse Rate 1,181 ipm

DNM – models 400, 500, 650 or 750

• For parts up to 85 x 30 x 25.6 inches

• Spindle motors from 15 to 30 HP and speeds to 15,000 rpm

• CAT 40 taper with Big Plus Dual Contact Spindle

• Rapid Traverse Rate 1,889 ipm

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