A2Z Metalworker SW Sept Oct 2014

Vol. 20, No.5 Sept/Oct 2014

Southwest Edition (AZ, NV, and NM)

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Makino, A New Production Standard VMC

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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.

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• Cutting & Grinding

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Discover why only Castrol Industrial has THE TECHNOLOGY INSIDE.

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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.

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Welcome to Cascade Systems Technology

Proud American Electronics Manufacturer

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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

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

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The young do not know enough to be prudent and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and

achieve it, generation after generation.”-- Pearl S. Buck, American writer

You may have seen the ‘esurance’ commercial with an older lady (Beatrice) sitting with her friends. It is named a ‘Top 25 Most Creative” Commercial. Beatrice has posted pictures of her friends on the walls in her house. She proudly remarks how she is saving money by posting these pictures on her wall, rather than mailing them. When she says how much she also saved when she switched to a new insurance carrier called

‘esurance’, and a friend contradicts her, she ‘unfriends’ her friend, taking the picture off the wall. Her friend responds, “That’s not how this works. It’s not how any of this works.” You can see this commercial on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TviuVnUXwjA.

I hope I am savvier Internet user than Beatrice. I spent a few decades working for communications giants who have had a hand in the Internet, from AT&T to Motorola to Intel Corporation. Yet, I continue to be astounded by the new and exciting apps that are changing the way we experience things.

Just last month, I helped my daughter look for a new ‘gently used’ car. What was surprising to me in Alyssa’s car purchase process was how different the experience was from what I have experienced in years past. While we are familiar with such well-established sites as autotrader.com and kbb.com, Alyssa and I learned about a newer site, called cargurus.com. What is really cool about this site is that it tells you if the used car is a good value, how long the dealer has had it, and if there have been recent price drops. With most of the dealerships we went to, we brought in the online price, and asked what discount they would offer off this price. 9 times out of 10, there was no negotiating. The price was the price, particularly if on cargurus.com, it was listed as a very good price already. Wow, car buying isn’t what it used to be.

While at a condominium that we rented recently through AirBNB, we met a retired couple that traveled throughout the year using their timeshare membership. I asked how this worked for them, and they said you had to invest more money to achieve Gold or Platinum status, and then negotiating the times you wanted to travel and where you wanted to travel was a little less of a hassle. But, they noted, it still was often trialing. For those of us who don’t have timeshares, AirBNB is one hassle free answer. You can book your travel online, after seeing reviews of the property, pricing, pictures, and you can even take advantage of last minute discounts that allow you to travel very soon. Then, you even have a good idea of what the weather will be like!

Then there is Uber and Lyft, two competing companies whose mission is toconnect riders to drivers through their apps. Both companies compete with traditional cab companies.

What these new companies, these new apps have in common is the age of the founders. Generally, these are not smart middle age professionals. 6 years ago, 3 young men, all under 30 years old, founded AirBNB. In March, Forbes announced that the Airbnb cofounders were to become the first ‘sharing economy’ billionaires CarGurus young CEO Langley Steinert founded the company in 2006, and years before was a co-founder of TripAdvisor. Uber founder Travis Kalanick founded his company at the age of 33.

Let’s appreciate our youth and the genius that comes with them. We hope to see many of you at IMTS, and as always, God Bless our Troops!

CONTRIBUTORSKim Carpenter

Robbie BarrkmanGene WirthChris SeayHugh Taylor

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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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Announcements & ReleasesArizona CNC Receives Okuma’s Prestigious Diamond Award Again!For the 4th time in the past 5 years, locally owned and operated Arizona CNC was awarded the Okuma Diamond Award. The company was one of only a select few in North America to receive this award for sales above quota.

“I am really proud of everyone at Arizona CNC,” President Greg Whelan said. “Our sales, service and administrative team went above and beyond to support our customers, and this was particularly notable in what is still a challenging economic climate.”

To learn more about how Arizona CNC can help your business, call them at 480-615-6353.

AEI Fabrication Acquires AMADA LC-3015F1 NT Precision Laser Cutting System

AEI’s nearly 20 years of working closely with and l i s tening carefully to its customers has resulted in an acquisition of a high-speed AMADA LC3015 F1 NT Laser Cutting System to fulfill all precision metal cutting processes. The AMADA LC3015 F1 NT enables AEI Fabrication to cut metal up to 1.5-inch thickness with tremendous, error-free laser precision. Even the most complex designs are simplified and executed in 3X less time by AEI Fabrication’s AMADA laser, one of a handful in the United States.

To learn more about how AEI Fabrication can help you, please contact them at: 480-733-6594.

CNC PROS Announces Distribution of Miyano Machine Tool LineNine and a half years ago, in 2005,two talented machine tool service engineers left the machine tool dealer they were both working at to start up an independent machine service business, which they called R&C Service Solutions. The 2 owners of this new business entity were Ray Beauregard Jr. and Cornel Loghin.

R&C Services was so successful that it was purchased by a national company in 2012, when it was just 7 years old.

Things just changed for the two partners when they bought their business back, and renamed it CNC PROS. Ray says, “The acquisition by a national company was good for our business, but it didn’t allow

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Lambie Engineering recently moved into a new location in the Spokane Industrial Park

Lambie Engineering recently moved into a new location in the Spokane Industrial P a r k . T h e n e w facility includes both office and assembly space enabling the company to assemble its custom designed machinery on site.

Lambie Engineering d e s i g n s a n d builds specialized m a n u f a c t u r i n g machinery including automated robotic cells, automated assembly machines, tooling, fixtures, and other specialized manufacturing equipment.

The company has substantial expertise in Lean Manufacturing and in equipment and tooling design. Recent projects include an automated machine for installing components into a pneumatic valve assembly, a robotic cell for palletizing cases of soda pop, design of an automated machine to cut and punch non-slip floor tape used in aircraft, and an automated vacuum decay leak test system for detecting leaks in heat exchangers.

Other projects include specialty lifting devices, custom racks, carts, and fixtures which are used by manufacturing companies.

Lambie Engineering applies its expertise in lean manufacturing to its equipment design offering its customers high quality cost effective solutions that eliminate waste in the production process. The company is 4 years old and is experiencing continued growth.

Two new employees were recently hired, Scott Brown, a Mechanical Engineer and graduate of Colorado State University, and Peter Aleksandrov, who is a graduate of Spokane Community College’s Automation and Electrical Maintenance program.

Lambie Engineering invests in training and in cutting edge design software to continuously improve its ability to provide innovative solutions for its customers.

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Cornel says, “We have been asked over the years by some builders to represent their lines. We view our service business as a specialized repair business, and we didn’t want to represent a commodity style line of machine tools.” He continued, “When Miyano approached us to take on their line in Arizona and Southern California, we were delighted to accept.”

The Miyano philosophy is explained by Keiichi Nakajima, president of Citizen Machinery Miyano. He says, “In the manufacturing field of the 21st century, there are two extreme trends; one is ‘mass production and mass sales’ caused by commoditization and standardization. Another is ‘production of many models in small quantities and/or production of various kinds and various volumes’, caused by diversification and individualization of customers’ needs. Thus manufacturing that pursues efficiency for ‘volume’ and diversity for ‘individualism’is required. We consider that ‘innovative manufacturing’ which achieves and fuses both of these directly opposed ‘mass’ and ‘individualized’ productions as a new value of manufacturing in the 21st century, and it expresses the value as ‘Ko No Ryosan’. To provide new added value and contribute to society through realizing ‘Ko No Ryosan’ is our business vision ...” This is the vision of Miyano.To learn more about how CNC PROS can help your business, contact them at 1-844-MIYANOS or visit www.cnc-pros.com

D&R Adds Toyoda To Line Of Machine ToolsD&R Machinery, celebrating 15 years in business, is pleased to announce that it has added Toyoda to its line of machine tools. Randy Flores, president of the company, says, “We are excited that Toyoda awarded us exclusive distribution of Toyoda in Arizona. Toyoda expands our list of machine tools, which also includes Hurco, Tornos, Handtmann, Hyundai Wia, Bumotec, Helmel, EDM DrillMate, and Clausing.”

As an applications and full-service company, D&R has built a reputation as a respected, reliable, and responsive supplier of high-quality machine tools. No shop is too small or too large for this Gilbert, Arizona-based company. Since its founding in 1999, D&R has served various SW markets, including aerospace, defense, medical, mold, job shop, and electronics. To learn more about D&R Machinery, call them at 480-353-9715 or visit dandrmachinery.com.

Haas Factory Outlet- Phoenix Invites Machinists to Their Tempe, AZ Showroom for CNC TrainingMill and lathe classes are scheduled every other month. Each course consists of instruction led by a certified Haas Instructor. Students will

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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

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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.

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Methods to Improve Your Business Performance

learn the basics of the Haas control, operation of machines, and Haas programming using G&M codes. Classes are held Monday through Wednesday from 3:30 to 7 pm.

Please join us for an upcoming session of the Haas training. We recommend registering as early as possible as class sizes are limited.

September 22nd – 24th : Mill classOctober 20th – 22nd : Lathe classes

Training is held at the Haas Factory Outlet - Phoenix, a Division of Ellison Machinerym located at 1610 S. Priest Drive, #101, Tempe, AZ. To register or for additional information, call 480-968-5335 or visit ellisonaz.com

Okuma and Boeing to present discussion and demonstration of STEP-NC ISO standard during IMTS 2014

During the upcoming IMTS 2014 show and the Trends in Advanced Machining, Manufacturing and Materials (TRAM) Conference, Boeing and Okuma will share their experiences in technology leadership with a new implementation of the STEP-NC ISO standard.

• At 11 a.m. each day of IMTS, in the Okuma booth, David Odendahl, Associate Technical Fellow at The Boeing Company, will do a short presentation, complete with titanium cutting demonstration, to briefly discuss the optimization of programming with STEP-NC.

• At 3 p.m. each day in the South building conference room #S-103e, attendees can meet with representatives of the companies involved in making this presentation possible.

• Jim Kosmala, VP of Technology at Okuma America Corporation and David Odendahl, Associate Technical Fellow at The Boeing Company, will present on Wednesday, Sept. 10 at 2:20 p.m. during the TRAM Conference.

Commercially available implementations act as a universal CAM translator, similar in some ways to what MTConnect does for data transfer. This allows end users to leverage multiple tooling suppliers using a variety of CAM packages that provide optimized cutting paths resulting in reduced cycle times and increased tool life by taking advantage of the latest in tooling technology.

Any CNC program can be optimized by modernizing its tooling, but the optimizer must meet all the design and manufacturing requirements. G-code alone does not have this information, so in 2012 the Organization for Machine Automation and Control (OMAC) issued a call to develop standardized CAM files. In response, new ISO standard interfaces have been added to CATIA, NX and Mastercam, and in May of 2013 Sandvik Coromant and Iscar started cloud services to optimize programs using the new files.

Research from the OMAC led team has shown that optimizing machining processes using the STEP-NC ISO standard can achieve

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We are a full service leading provider: • ISO 9001 Quality System • AS9100 Aviation, Space and Defense • ISO 13485 Medical Devices • ISO 14001 Environmental • Six Sigma Improvement • Quality Systems Training • ITAR Services • Web-Based ELearning • NADCAP Services • Performance Measurement Systems • Lean Manufacturing • Conduct Your Internal Audits


“Sustaining Edge Solutions provides excellent customer service. Our management system has resulted in financial gains for the entire organization.” Richard Gomez, V.P. Quality MedAire International

Sustaining Edge Solutions gave us the direction and assistance we needed to implement our new AS9100 Aviation, Space and Defense Business Management System. They were professional, affordable and always on call when we needed them. I would personally recommend them to anyone looking to step up to the next level in their business." Rocky Hettinger, President Hawkeye Precision, Inc. Visit our blog with searchable tool to view over eight years of valuable

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Visit us at www.sustainingedge.com Contact us toll free 888-572-9642 • [email protected]

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improvements of 15 to 30 percent realized as time savings, tool wear savings, or some combination of both.

The part being machined during the demonstration is a test part developed by Boeing Commercial Airplane. This titanium part will be machined using the original Boeing process, and then two optimized processes. A new CAM file simulator on the PC-based, open-architecture OSP control will direct the machining and validate the design and manufacturing requirements.

EDM Performance Accessories® Hires New Regional Sales Manager

EDM Performance Accessor ies® (or EPA) (http://www.edmperformance.com) announces that Dan DeJohn has joined the company to further develop their growing profile of regional and national accounts. Dan DeJohn comes with a wealth of experience having spent over the last 15 years in the EDM industry. He has been instrumental in acquiring many key accounts and will continue his success with us representing the Southwest states.

Dan joins EPA as the new regional sales manager covering Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma. Dan comments “I am excited to start a new challenge with EPA and provide for my customers with a quality product line for all EDM and waterjet manufacturers. I feel rejuvenated to join a vibrant sales team that is committed to best service our customers.”Tom Adams, President of EPA said, “Dan’s wealth of industry experience

and knowledge has already made him a key addition to our EPA family. We view this hire as a testament to our commitment in providing our customers with the best in our industry. We are very fortunate to have someone of Dan’s caliber fulfill this position.

For more information about the company and its products, please visit our website at http://www.edmperformance.com or email us at [email protected].

Starrett Expands Measurement Expertise

The L.S. Starrett Company has introduced a series of new turn-key systems for material testing, force analysis, force measurement and spring testing. Marketed as Lx systems, these software-based solutions make use of the Starrett® MMS and MMD material test frames and Starrett FMS and FMD force test frames combined with Lx software, load cell sensors, extensometers and testing fixtures. Testing capacities range from less than 500N (112lbf) to 50kN (11,250lbf).

The Starrett L3 systems are material testing solutions for material characterization, verification and validation. These systems are used to measure stress, strain, load, displacement and more. Designed for the research scientist, design engineer and quality engineer, L3 systems differ significantly from traditional material testing systems since measurements and test method creation is performed graphically,

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The Starrett L2 Plus system is designed for advanced force analysis. Its ability to perform sophisticated measurements makes it ideal for the design and quality engineer. Because you measure from the graph created by your test method, you are able to measure any point on the graph based on load, displacement and time. Measurements are not restricted and they can be performed extremely fast and accurately using a set of graphical analysis tools. Users can see the measurement on their graph and know what the result is, and why and where the result is occurring.

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Nelson Engineering Is An Approved Supplier to United Technologies Corp (UTC) For TIG welding (PN05.15 and AWS D17.1)

Nelson Engineering is pleased to announce that it was recently certified to perform TIG welding for UTC Aerospace Systems, a division of United Technologies Corporation(UTC), per PN05.15 and AWS D17.1.

John Anglin, president of the company, says, “In addition to our current welding capabilities including TIG welding of stainless steel, titanium, aluminum, high-temp alloys, and resistance welding–spot and seam of many aerospace materials, we are now certified to PN05.15.”

For the past 50 years, Nelson Engineering has been manufacturing high precision sheet metal and machined products for the aerospace, defense, semiconductor, medical and commercial industries. Through experience they have become a major supplier of sheet metal and cast valves, heat shields, flow sensors, brackets, and other hardware to many Fortune 500 OEMs.

To learn more about how Nelson Engineering can help your business, visit their website at www.nelsonengineering.com or contact them at 602-273-7114.

ONA EDM USA Moves To New Location

Mark Emerson, President, ONA EDM USA, Inc., announces, effective immediately, the relocation of its US Headquarters to Macomb, MI from Addison IL. From this location ONA EDM USA, Inc., will service the needs of customers and prospects in the US, Canada and Mexico.

The new 7000 square foot location houses management, sales, administration and technical staff. The multi-functional location will be used for product demonstrations,

test cuts, training, sales, marketing, and distribution of ONA products. ONA’s latest sinker and wire, high-speed machines, including the NX Series will be installed in this new facility.

The new headquarters location is:ONA EDM USA, Inc.; 15943 Angelo Drive ; Macomb MI 48042; Contact information: Phone: 586-697-5880; Email: [email protected] ; Website: www.onaedmusa.com

ONA EDM USA, Inc. is a subsidiary of ONA ELECTROEROSION, headquartered in Durango, Spain. It is the oldest EDM machine manufacturer in the world and a leader in large and customized machines. ONA EDM USA, Inc., is responsible for sales, service and technical support for all of North America.

Doosan Introduces All-New FM 200/5AX Linear at IMTS 2014 — a True 5-axis Machining Center

Utilizing state-of-the art linear motor and direct drive technology, Doosan introduces the FM 200/5AX Linear full 5-axis machining center. Developed for simultaneous 5-axis contouring, the FM 200/5AX Linear offers manufacturers the ultimate platform for

machining a wide range of complex parts, including medical devices, automotive turbo chargers and other precision parts.

The Optimal Platform - Doosan’s FM200/5AX Linear machining center is built upon a rigid bridge-type base, composed of a highly stable mineral composite material. Because mineral castings absorb vibration at ten times the rate of iron castings and are much more thermally stable, finished parts are delivered with superior surface finishes, while tool life is increased dramatically.

The X, Y and Z axes on the FM200/5AX Linear are driven by high-precision linear motors, providing industry leading accel/decel feed rates with little to no backlash. The 4th and 5th axes rotary tables are equipped with direct drive motors to deliver matching levels of performance. The platten size is 7.9” in diameter with a capacity load of 33.1 lbs. Travels on the FM 200/5AX Linear are X-axis, 7.9”, Y-axis, 13.4” and Z-axis, 11.8.” Rapid traverse rates on all axes are 1968.5 ipm, with a cutting federate of 787 ipm.

Super-high Speed Spindle - Spindle speeds of 45,000 RPM are achieved with the FM200/5AX Linear’s best-in-class 19 HP spindle featuring an HSK E40 taper. The result, vibration has been minimized and stability has been maximized. With 24-tool stations as standard, productivity is further increase with the reliability of a direct drive, servo-driven Automatic Tool Changer.





Announcements & Releases ContinuedHeidenhain TNC Control - Experienced machinists appreciate the benefits provided by Heidenhain CNC control, especially when approaching a complex part with full 5-axis contouring. The FM200/5AX Linear’s features a state-of-the-art Heidenhain TNC control with an ergonomic swivel pendant and user friendly 19” screen.

Wire-Tech Announces Successful NADCAP Accreditation, Again!

Wire-Tech is pleased to announce that it again received NADCAP accredidation for the next 24

months for ‘Non-Conventional Machining’, including Sinker/Wire/Fast Hole (Hole Pop) EDM.

Rick Showalter handles quality assurance for the company. He says, “We first received our NADCAP accreditation in 2007. When you receive it, for the first years, you have to be audited first every year, and then as you progress, every 18 months. This is the second consecutive time that our audit was so favorable that we will not have to be audited again for 24 months. We are happy to share our excellent NADCAP audit results with our customers, new and old.”

Joe Pinto, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at the Performance Review Institute, says “Achieving Nadcap accreditation is not easy: it is one of the ways in which the aerospace industry identifies those who excel at manufacturing quality product through superior

special processes. Companies such as Wire-Tech, Inc., work hard to obtain this status and they should be justifiably proud of it. PRI is proud to support continual improvement in the aerospace industry by helping companies such as Wire-Tech be successful and we look forward to continuing to assist the industry moving forward.”

To learn more about how Wire-Tech can support your EDM needs, please visit their webstie at www.wire-tech.com or call them at 480-966-1591.

S i g m a T E K Announces Release of SigmaNEST® Version 10.1 SigmaTEK Systems, LLC, the world’s authority on CAD/CAM nesting, material optimization and manufacturing process automation, announces the latest release of its industry-leading SigmaNEST software program. Powered by the industry’s most advanced CAD/CAM nesting engine, SigmaNEST Version 10.1 contains a number of new features and enhancements making cutting machine programming even more effective and easy. SigmaNEST Version 10.1 includes:


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More IMTS News » NEW Control Technology

• 3D Printing Capability • AdaptiPath – conversational high-speed pocketing with rest machining. • Job List – lets you quickly specify a list of programs to run sequentially and unassisted. • Thread Repair – Never waste stock again due to damaged threads.

» NEW Console Design » Mike Cope, Hurco Senior Technical Product Specialist, will be a featured speaker at the IMTS Conference Series.

Chipmaker Challenge info Application Deadline: August 8th

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More IMTS News » NEW Control Technology

• 3D Printing Capability • AdaptiPath – conversational high-speed pocketing with rest machining. • Job List – lets you quickly specify a list of programs to run sequentially and unassisted. • Thread Repair – Never waste stock again due to damaged threads.

» NEW Console Design » Mike Cope, Hurco Senior Technical Product Specialist, will be a featured speaker at the IMTS Conference Series.

Chipmaker Challenge info Application Deadline: August 8th

Online Voting Begins: August 30thLive Show September 9th

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Mazak’s new Preview 3 control greatly improves the machine’s operation efficiency by automatically determining the ideal processing conditions for each material type and thickness. It offers smooth, high-speed responsiveness and optimum acceleration and deceleration to reduce cutting times. It also features a user-friendly 15” touch screen with ahigh-quality display to view 3D cutting path graphics.

The SUPER TURBO-X’s new Opti-Pod offers automated setup features that help minimize preparation time and improve extended unattended operation. These are intelligent functions designed to both automate and help maintain optimized machining conditions for increased productivity.

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Yamazen Inc. to Showcase Machine Tools that are Revolutionizing the Manufacturing World at IMTS 2014

Yamazen Inc will be exhibiting at the 2014 International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS), Booth S-8640.

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Mazak Introduces New SUPER TURBO-X Laser-Cutting Machine

Mazak Optonics Corporation is introducing a new SUPER TURBO-X laser-cutting system featuring Mazak’s new Preview 3 control. It is the ideal solution for plate applications, especially where material automation is a consideration.

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Visit Booth S-8640 and see these industry-leading builders and exhibited machines:

Brother International Corporation -- The all NEW Compact Machining Center SPEEDIO product line; M140X1, R450X1 HT/BBT/CTSI, S700X1 27K, S700X1 HT/BBT/CTSI, S500X1 featuring the improved, powerful and fast Brother CNC C-00 control. With high speed spindles up to 27K, high torque spindles up to 10K and having top-level environmental performance, this product line is the Every Shop Machine.

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In addition, the digital magazine will be linked to the new TechConnect blog. The technology sector is always move forward, so the upcoming blog will be your ongoing resource for news about innovation and the leaders in AZ that are making it happen.

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Tornos Swiss ST 26 for turned parts up to 25.4 mm.

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Tornos Swiss ST 26 for turned parts up to 25.4 mm.

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“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

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Robots on the line: Boeing’s 777 will use more robots than ever

Boeing is turning to robots to assemble 777 fuselages to drill about 60,000 holes per fuselage and install the necessary fasteners.

The step, which Boeing has been suggesting for some time, is designed to increase the efficiency and quality of building aircraft. It also reduces the number of people needed to build the planes, which could be very good for Boeing’s bottom line and potentially bad

for the local workforce.

The robots could help Boeing save money and build the aircraft to more effectively compete against Airbus, which is what is driving the innovation.

“This is the first time such technology will be used by Boeing to manufacture wide body commercial airplanes and the 777 program is leading the way,” said Elizabeth Lund, vice president and general manager of the 777 program, in an announcement.

Boeing will start using the technology on the current 777 line, in preparation for assembling the re-engined 777X, which starts in 2017.

In the longer run, robotization will help Boeing compete against future aircraft that could be built by the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, or Comac. This is because, as the Chinese also turn to robotization, the country’s historic labor cost advantages are to some degree being neutralized.

Gov. Jay Inslee referred to this in response to a question during a press conference.

“Obviously it causes some immediate concerns about employment,” he said about the move to robotics. “But if also they can sell more airplanes by making them more efficiently and keeping costs down, it means more employment over the long terms throughout the supply chain in Washington.”

Inslee added that Boeing has said it won’t directly reduce employment as a result of the robots.

Boeing’s machinists are watching closely, though the move to robot assembly isn’t prohibited in the contract.

“It does give cause for concern.” said Machinists spokeswoman Connie Kelliher.

“Our concern is to make sure our members do as much work as possible on the 777 aircraft.”

Boeing has been developing the new approach for over a year at a facility in Anacortes. The process is to be based on use of robots from KUKA Systems, a leading German builder of robotic systems that are often used for assembling automobiles.

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Apple Suppliers Reportedly Start Production Of New iPads

Bloomberg News reports that Apple suppliers “have started manufacturing new iPads, according to people with knowledge of the matter.” Bloomberg says that according to two individuals, “mass production” of the 9.7-inch screen iPad “is already under way, with an unveiling projected for the end of this quarter or early next,” while a new version of the iPad Mini is “also entering production and will probably be available by the end of the year.”

Solar Panels In Space Could Collect Clean Power For Earth

Business Insider reports that “some scientists think humans could be getting clean power collected from solar panels in space and beamed back down to Earth in our lifetime, and some industry startups like California-based Solaren are predicting it will be a reality by the end of the decade.” Not only would the “energy source be continuous, but it would also be clean and unlimited.” The Office of Naval Research has funded research “to improve the technology that would convert the solar energy collected in space into a different form of energy that could be transferred to

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Economist Says Number Of Manufacturing Plants At An Inflection Point

The Wall Street Journal reports that Daniel Meckstroth, chief economist at the Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity, believes that the number of US factories has hit a stable level of population. Meckstroth notes that the number of US factories has remained stable for the last two years, indicating to him that the US is at an inflection point.

This leads him to predict that there will be an increasing number of manufacturing plants in the US in the future.

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Flight Global reported that both Bell Helicopter, with its V-280 Valor tiltrotor, and Boeing-Sikorsky, with its compound coaxial rotor called the SB-1, will build

“flying prototypes” for the Joint Multi-Role – Technology Demonstrator (JMR-TD) program; both aircraft are expected to fly in fiscal 2017 for three years.

Moving forward, Bell and Boeing-Sikorsky will each receive “tens of millions of dollars” from the Army for the continued development of their aircraft, while AVX and Karem must find other ways to further finance their respective concepts. In addition, Flight Global noted that both selected competitors have also pledged to “at least match” the government’s investment with

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Economy Adds 209,000 Jobs In July

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Don’t smoke it: Boeing works on fuel made from tobacco plant Solaris is a type of tobacco crop that doesn’t contain nicotine, and Boeing Co. thinks it can help power its airplanes.

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Bob buys the Haas machine tools because they are a superior value, dependable line of tools. He says, “They are American made, they are easy to run, my guys love them, they are user friendly, and easy to set up.”

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He continued, “With a long list of standard features and high-productivity options, the Haas VF-7 is one of the best values available today.”

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“TCI Machine-Ready Blanks help shops make parts faster, increasing throughput up to 25%. This effectively increases shop capacity without adding overhead,” said John Belzer, President. With a single purchase order customers receive custom precision blanks ready to load directly into their CNC machining centers. Precision blanks eliminate the need for in-house sawing, grinding, flattening, squaring operations and outside processing. Each blank arrives deburred, clean and to customer specifications – guaranteed as close as +/- .0005” dimensionally and as close as .0002” flatness, squareness, and parallelism.

“Customers can use the time they previously spent in setup and prep for more productive use of CNC machining centers, adding to their bottom line profitability.

TCI Precision Metals will be distributing Blank Checks at IMTS for customers to use towards their next production machining job. The Blank Check entitles the bearer to receive a FREE Machine-Ready Blank to their exact specifications, +/-.0005” dimensionally and

.0002” flatness, squareness and parallelism, along with a quotation for matching blanks in specified quantities. “This offer allows the customer to see exactly what they will be receiving before ever placing an order with us,” said Belzer.

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Robot ‘Army’ Can Swarm into 3D Formations

Researcher s a t H a r va r d U n i v e r s i t y h a v e success fu l ly built a huge horde of tiny bots that use

infrared lights and vibration motors to swarm together like insects.

Nicknamed Kilobots, these small machines measure about an inch (2.5 centimeters) across (about the same as a quarter), and stand just three-quarters of an inch (2 cm) off the ground (about as high as a penny standing on its edge). But despite their dimensions, the Kilobots can accomplish big things. By coordinating their movements, hundreds of these machines come together to form three-dimensional shapes.

This coordinated effort mimics the behavior of ants, bees and other insects that work together in huge numbers to build complex structures, such as colonies, bridges and rafts. But unlike bugs, these bots aren’t born team players. Researchers program each robot with advanced algorithms that enable it to move around on its own while simultaneously communicating with the other bots around it.

The robots are simple, free of many of the sensors and state-of-the-art hardware typically found on other bots. While that means that the Kilobots are somewhat limited in function — they have trouble moving in a straight line, for example — it also means that each bot is inexpensive and easy to build, said Michael Rubenstein, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and lead researcher for the Kilobot project.

In the past, building a giant robot swarm was out of the question for researchers because of the time and money it would cost to develop each bot, Rubenstein said. But at $14 apiece, the Kilobots are a bargain. And each bot takes only 5 minutes to assemble, according to the researchers.

At present, the Kilobots are just working together to form 3D shapes — the letter “K” being their favorite. They can also transform themselves into common tools, such as wrenches and keys.

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“If an astronaut goes to Mars, they’re going to bring all their tools with them,” Rubenstein said. “Traditionally, they’d bring a huge toolbox with all the tools they need. But imagine if instead they can just bring a little box of robots and make any tool that they want out of these robots.”

Of course, this out-of-this-world idea is just that — an idea. The researchers are still developing the algorithms that could make a Kilobot space journey possible. Source:The Wall Street Journal


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NASA Ready To Put Robotic Refueling to the Test

The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center team that engineered five successful in-space servicing missions to the flagship Hubble Space Telescope is preparing for a ground-based satellite refueling demonstration next April that will include nearly every constraint the team would face if it tried to robotically service an operational satellite.

The demo, part of a project known as Restore, will be a “full-up, bring-it-all-together” test staged in a converted clean room at Goddard’s Building 29, according to Benjamin Reed, deputy project manager for the 40-person Satellite Servicing Capabilities Office at the Greenbelt, Maryland-based NASA field center. The team, led by veteran robotics wizard Frank Cepollina, was formed after the final Hubble servicing mission in 2009 in order to preserve the expertise and capabilities Goddard developed during nearly two decades of supporting astronaut repair calls to the orbiting telescope.

In the Restore demo scheduled for April, the Satellite Servicing Capabilities Office will take over the same room that once housed the Global Precipitation Measurement satellite, the largest spacecraft ever assembled at Goddard. Reed and his team will stack a dummy satellite above a space-capable robotic satellite servicing craft and, using time-delayed remote control to simulate communications lag from orbit, attempt an end-to-end refueling mission.

The servicing craft will have to cut through the dummy satellite’s thermal blanket, remove a fuel cap that was designed never to be removed, and pipe fake satellite fuel through lines pressurized to roughly 17 kilograms per square centimeter

— about the same pressure the servicing robot would encounter refueling an operational satellite.

Unlike February’s Remote Robotic Oxidizer Transfer experiment, in which Goddard operators remotely commanded a robot at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to pump corrosive, explosive oxidizer into a pressurized fuel tank, the Restore demo on the slate for April will not involve toxic fluids. However, it will use a space-capable robot designed to function in microgravity, and not the heavy, industrial robotic arm used in the remote control experiment this year.

The Satellite Servicing Capabilities Office is trying to figure out how to prolong the life of operational satellites that have working instruments but empty fuel tanks. It is an old idea that has yet to catch on either in the public or private sector, but it has the full support of Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee and Goddard’s guardian angel.

Mikulski steered $100 million to the office for 2014, which was reduced to $74 million in NASA’s operating plan, agency spokeswoman Adrienne Alessandro said in a July 17 email. This year, the senior senator from Maryland prescribed $130 million for the office as part of a 2015 spending bill that stalled after clearing the Senate Appropriations Committee in June.

ARDEC Engineers Using 3-D Printing To Revolutionize Shaped Charge Explosives

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The MTI customer list is impressive, including aerospace, commercial, and defense giants: Lockheed Martin, Honeywell, Raytheon, Sargent Aerospace, ATK, Barnes Aerospace, Aerojet, BE Aerospace, General Dynamics, Intel, Arizona State University, SubZero, and Wolf.

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Mark Travis, President of the company, is son-in-law to the founders John and Angie Marusiak. Mark started his career in Aerospace at Bell Helicopter; his last position being Senior Flight Test Engineer; he had been with Bell 11 years. In 1990 Mark was invited to work for MTI by

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the founder John Marusiak. After the loss of CEO Bob Marusiak in 2012, Mark was appointed President and successfully headed the transition of the company’s shareholders. The company remains family owned and operated and plans are underway to expand the 3rd generation employee base in the near future.

Another successful transition that Mark implemented upon his new role was to align the business along Divisional P&L Centers. The divisions include EDM, Rubber Molding and Assembly, and Conventional/CNC Machining. Each division has a Director to oversee and run each respective division.

Carey Sanders, a 30+ year tenured employee at Micro-Tronics and Director for the Conventional Machining Division, has been aggressively expanding the company’s machining capabilities. Carey says, “More and more of our customers have been asking about our 5 axis machining capabilities. In the past we could machine parts that were optimally machined via 5 axis (3+2 / 4+1) by tooling up and then machining the parts via 3 axis. He continued, “This worked, but set-ups were costly and the opportunity for error increased with each additional set-up.” So after an extensive review, MTI purchased its first full 5 axis machine; the Mazak VCU 500A 5X.

However, they did not stop there, nor do they plan to slow down in expanding their machining capability. In addition to milling, the company also purchased two CNC lathes. Although MTI has been using multi-axis turning centers for years, the company recognized the need of sub-spindle and Y axis capability. That need was met by adding the Mazak QTN 250 MSY turning center to their machine tool line up. The company also purchased a Fryer CNC Tool Room Lathe w/teach mode to augment their compression molding business and facilitate their R&D, and short order runs.

M a ny f a c t o r s we n t i n t o making these three purchases; notwithstanding the fact that all three are manufactured in the USA. Carey pointed out that he and Tony Barreras, the machine shop supervisor, attended the Mazak US Open House in 2013 and were quite impressed with Mazak. They were equally impressed with the Magnum Service Tech Stan Asher

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George Fry, a 25+ year tenured employee directs the activity for the EDM Division. And although MTI boasts 27 Sinker EDM’s, 23 Wire EDM’s, and 6 small hole machines; here again MTI saw the need to add to their extensive EDM capabilities. To that end the company recently purchased a Mitsubishi EA12V plunge EDM.

As George explained, this EDM will allow for superiorsurface finishes, faster cutting speeds, better orbiting capability, closer tolerances, and faster burns under poor flushing conditions. Noteworthy is the fact that the EDM division has over 505 years of combined experience among the 23 employees assigned to that division.

George also directs the waterjet and laser manufacturing areas. The company maintains 3 Omax waterjet machines and 1 Mitsubishi laser. These machines are housed in a separate building along with a 110 ton press brake and other support equipment to make it a stand-alone fabrication shop. This additional capability lends itself to MTI’s moto of truly being your “one-stop-shop”. George also took this opportunity to thank Glen Zachman and the team at North South Machinery for their assistance and support.

The Non-Metal ic and Rubber Products Division is directed

by Kevin Ellis, who has been with the company for 9 years. Prior to MTI, Kevin worked in the fabrication industry in Seattle, Washington for some 20 years. As mentioned previously, MTI is well known within the compression molding and fabric re-enforced diaphragm community. With over 600 LTA parts at Honeywell and clients ranging from BE Aerospace to Robertson Fuel Systems, Kapco and others, MTI is well represented. Recently a concerted effort has been made to expand their assembly and testing capabilities.

The company also maintains a rubber compound lab for in-house validation to customer specifications; and MTI is currently pursuing Nadcap Certification for Elastomers.

Micro-Tronics, Inc. hopes this article provides some insight into their decades of service to the aerospace industry.

MTI also takes this opportunity to invite you to tour their facility. With superior EDM and Rubber Molding capabilities, coupled with Machining (Manual/ CNC/Multi-Axis) and Assembly, MTI is ready to help you with any challenge.

Not only will you be impressed with their manufacturing capabilities, you will be assured your parts are made in a state of the art, immaculately kept, campus environment.

So the invitation is extended; come visit – you will value the time spent touring this great company. Call them today at (602) 437-8995 or visit them on the web at www.micro-tronics.com.

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Alcoa Continues Aerospace Push With $1.1 Billion Pratt & Whitney Deal

Alcoa recently signed a 10-year agreement worth $1.1 billion to supply jet engine components to jet engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney, a division of United Technologies Corporation. As per the terms of the agreement, Alcoa will supply several key engine components, including the forging for the first ever aluminum fan blade for jet engines.

The deal is the latest in a series of developments for Alcoa in the aerospace sector. Aerospace remains at the center of Alcoa’s shift towards value-added products, as it looks to reduce its dependence on its commodity businesses.

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According to the terms of the deal, Alcoa will supply components for Pratt & Whitney’s PurePower PW1000G, V2500, GP7000 and several other regional jet and military engines. The PurePower engines will be used in some of the world’s highest volume aircraft, including the next-generation Airbus A320 neo. The transaction includes UTC’s ‘One Company’ terms and conditions, which provide a common contracting approach between UTC and Alcoa divisions and thus facilitate future collaboration.

Alcoa is betting big on its aerospace customers to drive sales of its value-added products. The company maintained its outlook of 8-9% global sales growth in 2014 for the aerospace segment, during its second

quarter earnings conference call. The large commercial jet segment is expected to grow at 12.1%, driven by a strong commercial jet order book, which represents nine years of production. The strong order book is also reflected on the jet engines side with 23,000 engines on firm order. Demand for regional jets is expected to grow at 13.2%. For Alcoa, this represents sustained demand for its aerospace products for the medium term. Hence, it has increased its exposure to the aerospace segment.

In 2014 alone, several major developments in the aerospace segment have taken place for Alcoa. In June, the company announced the $2.85 billion acquisition of jet engine components maker Firth Rixson. Prior to that, it had announced a $25 million expansion of the Alcoa Power and Propulsion facility in Hampton, Virginia. The company had also announced the setting up of a $100 million facility in La Porte, Indiana for the production of nickel-based superalloy jet engine parts. It also signed a long-term agreement worth $290 million to supply aluminum sheet to Spirit AeroSystems over five years. Spirit is one of the largest designers and manufacturers of aerostructures for commercial, military, business and regional jets in the world.

Alcoa’s aerospace revenue of $4 billion in 2013 accounted for around 17% of its total revenue for the year. With several recent developments in the aerospace segment, its share of the company’s revenue is set to grow.

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On the supply side, production capacity, particularly in China has not been reduced corresponding to the fall in demand. This resulted in an oversupply situation, which kept prices subdued. High London Metal Exchange aluminum inventory levels relative to demand also kept a lid on prices. This inventory has been built up partially as a result of aluminum being tied up in financing deals, which were made possible due to low interest rates.

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The percentage contribution of the Global Rolled Products and the Engineered Products and Solutions segments, which represent Alcoa’s value-added businesses, to the company’s total revenues has steadily increased.

This figure stood at 52.1%, 54.4%, 55.7% and 58% at the end of 2011, 2012, 2013 and first half of 2014, respectively. In calculating these figures, we have only considered third-party sales. The company’s value-added products accounted for 72% of its total segment after-tax operating income in the first half of 2014.

Thus, Alcoa’s business strategy seems to be quite clear- a shift towards value-added products, driven by the aerospace segment.

Northrop Grumman Awarded E-2D Advanced Hawkeye Contract

The U.S. Navy has awarded Northrop Grumman a $3.64 billion contract to build 25 E-2D Advanced Hawkeye airborne early warning aircraft. The five-year contract, which was awarded last month, will save the U.S. government about $369 million, according to the Navy.

“The multi-year contract award increases the affordability of the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye, achieving the best price with taxpayer dollars,” said Capt. John Lemmon, Naval Air Systems E-2 program manager.

The contract covers production lots two through six of full-rate production (FRP) for the E-2D aircraft. The contract runs from fiscal year 2014 through fiscal year 2018.

The first E-2D squadron has been fully equipped and manned and the Navy is set to declare the Advanced Hawkeye operational this October at the beginning of the new fiscal year.

The Navy describes the E-2D as a “digital quarterback” that will form the central node of the Naval Integrated Fire Control – Counter Air construct.


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General Dynamics (GD) C4 Systems’ AN/PRC-155 two-channel Manpack radios have demonstrated their ability to successfully close a communications gap between two talk groups located 2,000m apart.

The successful PRC-155 radio-channels transmission bridged the line-of-sight rifleman radio and single-channel ground and airborne radio system (SINCGARS) to the orbiting mobile-user objective system (MUOS) satellites.

General Dynamics C4 System president Chris Marzilli said: “With the success of this demonstration, General Dynamics successfully demonstrated the promise of the MUOS satellite communications system using PRC-155 manpack radios.

“General Dynamics successfully demonstrated the promise of the MUOS satellite communications system using PRC-155 manpack radios.”

“The demonstration also successfully showed how dismounted soldiers, separated by thousands of miles, can use the PRC-154A Rifleman handheld radios and connect through PRC-155 manpack radios at the platoon level and below.

“The soldiers can talk to another and share data with the ease of civilians who enjoy using their cell phones to call friends and family anywhere in the world.”

During the demonstration, operators in Massachusetts, US, equipped with PRC-154A Rifleman radios, formed a talk group using the soldier

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The PRC-155 radio seamlessly bridged the SRW communications on one channel to the MUOS frequency that was required to connect with the on-orbit MUOS satellites.

The resulting voice and data communications hopped from the manpack radio on the ground in Taunton, UK, to the satellite and back to the ground in Phoenix, Arizona, US, before connecting to a second PRC-155 radio.

The second radio then bridged the MUOS communications on one channel to the SINCGARS frequency. This formed a connection with the second dismounted talk group using SINGCARS radios, creating a real-time satellite communications ‘radio check’ voice conversation that was loud and clear among the radio operators at both locations.

In December 2013, the PRC-155 became the first radio to successfully complete secure voice and data calls from Alaska and the Arctic Circle using the MUOS waveform to connect with the MUOS satellite and ground communications network.

GE Considering Selling Appliances Division To Electrolux

The Free Press reports GE has confirmed it is “considering the sale” of its appliance division to Electrolux. A spokesman for the company has said that GE is evaluating offers from “Electrolux and other interested parties.”


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Experimental Space Plane Designs Wanted by US Military

The U.S. military is moving ahead in its plan to develop a robotic space plane capable of launching payloads to orbit cheaply and efficiently.

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“We chose performers who could prudently integrate existing and up-and-coming technologies and operations, while making XS-1 as reliable, easy-to-use and cost-effective as possible,” DARPA program manager Jess Sponable said in a statement. “We’re eager to see how their initial designs envision making spaceflight commonplace — with all the potential military, civilian and commercial benefits that capability would provide.”

A rocket upper stage carrying a satellite payload launches into orbit in this artist’s concept of the U.S. military’s XS-1 Experimental Spaceplane, a project overseen by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

All three awardees are partnering with other aerospace firms during

this stage of the XS-1 space plane project, which is known as Phase 1. Boeing is teaming up with Blue Origin, Masten is working with XCOR Aerospace and Northrop Grumman is working with the company Virgin Galactic, which is building its own private suborbital spaceliner for space tourist trips, DARPA officials said.

Boeing already provides one robotic space plane to the U.S. military; the company builds a vehicle called the X-37B for the Air Force. One X-37B spacecraft has been circling Earth on a secret military mission since December 2012.

Boeing representatives said that the company’s preliminary XS-1 contract is worth $4 million.

DARPA hopes the XS-1 program, which was first announced last September, can help make spaceflight much more affordable and routine. Officials want the unmanned vehicle to launch 3,000- to 5,000-lb. (1,361 to 2,268 kilograms) payloads to orbit for less than $5 million per flight, and to be able to blast off at least 10 times in a 10-day span.

The vehicle will likely employ a reusable first stage and one or more expendable upper stages, DARPA officials said. The first stage will fly to suborbital space at hypersonic speeds, and then return to Earth to be used again; the upper stage will separate and deploy the payload into low-Earth orbit.

During Phase 1, each of the awardees will develop a demonstration vehicle and come up with a plan to build and flight-test XS-1 spacecraft systems, DARPA officials said. The agency is expected to hold a Phase 2 competition next year, to assess the Phase 1 work and see who makes it to the flight-test stage.

DARPA only has enough money for one contractor in the end, but officials are holding out some hope that more than one vehicle could perform flight tests.

“I would love for somebody from NASA or the Air Force out there to step forward and say, ‘Hey, there’s obviously more than one of these things that we want to go flight-test; let’s fly more than one,” Sponable said in February during a presentation with NASA’s Future In-Space Operations (FISO) working group.

Current plans call for flight tests to begin in 2017 and the first orbital mission to take place in 2018, Sponable said during the FISO talk.

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To create industrial quantities of man-made sapphire, the material already used to cover the fingerprint-sensing home button and camera lens on its phones, Apple has a $578m deal with manufacturer GT Advanced Technologies, which has built a plant powered by renewable energy in Mesa, Arizona.

The iPhone 6 will make its first public appearance on 9 September, when Apple has scheduled a big media event. “You should be good without a screen protector on your next iPhone,” predicted technology blogger Marques Brownlee, who has subjected what he claimed was a leaked prototype of the new screen to his own durability tests on video: stabbing it with a hunting knife and trying to snap it while standing on it.

Until now Apple has relied on toughened glass, which can however easily be shattered and marked. But screens already demonstrated by GT can withstand scratches from concrete. Its thin sapphire layers, which could also find their way onto Apple’s rumoured smart watch, are flexible, potentially improving resistance to knocks and falls. In March 2012,

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Apple is said to be preparing two new iPhone models, both of which will have larger screens than their predecessors. The biggest will measure 5.5 inches corner to corner, while the smaller iPhone will have a 4.7-inch screen, according to reports.

The Wall Street Journal claims Apple has ordered an initial batch of between 70m and 80m handsets, its biggest first run production ever, to be sent out from factory gates in time for Christmas and New Year.

Last year’s initial order for the iPhone 5S, which introduced Apple’s first fingerprint sensor and had a 4-inch screen like its predecessor, the iPhone 5, was for between 50m and 60m devices. But Apple is preparing for a ramp in sales from China, where its recent distribution partnership with China Mobile should boost demand.

GT chief executive Thomas Gutierrez told investors on a call this month: “The build-out of our Arizona facility, which has involved taking a 1.4 million square foot facility from a shell to a functional structure and the installation of over 1 million square feet of sapphire growth and fabrication equipment, is nearly complete and we are commencing the transition to volume production.”

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Arizona’s economic future is entwined with its ability to export, especially to Mexico, and shutting down the Export-Import Bank is the fastest way to doom those prospects, writes Sally Harrison, president and CEO of the Mesa Chamber of Commerce. “Congress shouldn’t listen to the noise created by a few vocal critics who seem to care more about their dubious economic theories than real economic growth,” she writes. “Leaders in Washington should vote to fully reauthorize the Ex-Im Bank and help businesses in Arizona create jobs and fuel economic investment.” Source: AzCentral.com

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.

“The [military] drawdown, sequestration and the budget reductions in general made the M&A market less predictable,” Rose said.

“Now that we have a clear budget for this year and next year and even beyond next year if you look at sequestration impacting the budget, it will still remain fairly stable. I think you’re going to an increase in activity across the market in M&A because of the stability in the budget.”

The Data Tactics deal was L-3’s second major acquisition in six months. In December, the company acquired the Mustang Technology Group, which expanded L-3’s Defense Department and classified business base. Now named L-3 Mustang Technology, the Texas-based company manufactures radar-based sensors and systems used in precision guided weapons, electronic warfare, unmanned systems and other military applications.

Record-Breaking Solar Car Can Travel 98 Miles on 15 Cents Worth of Electricity

The annual Shell-Eco Marathon challenges student teams around the world to design the best ultra energy-efficient vehicle, which is then put to the test during racing events in Asia, America and Europe. At this year’s event in Rotterdam, the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) set a new fuel efficiency record in the urban concept

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The winning KTH team competed in the race with its “Elba” electric car, which used thin solar cells to power the electric motor. KTH modified last year’s Elba car with custom-made solar cell modules placed on the vehicle to optimize the exposure of the sun. Their end goal is to send as much solar-generated power to the electric drive system as possible.

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After two attempts, KTH’s Elba electric car set a new Swedish record at 181.5 km/kWh, which is the equivalent of traveling 98 miles for a total cost of 15 cents.

Consumer Confidence At 90.9 In July

USA Today reports the Conference Board said that its Consumer Confidence Index reached 90.9 for July, up from 86.4 in June. The index is at its highest level since October of 2007 and

“solidly beat” predictions from economists in the mid-80s.

Greiner: Manufacturing Will Continue To Grow

In a column for Forbes Bill Greiner writes that he believes that the factors that have lead to rapid growth in the manufacturing sector are sustainable and that “growth will probably continue to outpace overall GDP” for some time.

Greiner breaks down how changes in the cost of raw materials, capital, labor, transportation, inventory, and regulatory costs have changed in the last 5 years to help US manufacturers grow. In the end Greiner says that the changes will continue to allow manufacturing to grow in the US and that factories are indeed “huffin’ and puffin’.”



Singapore taps Honeywell for CH-47SD health monitoring

The Singapore air force has tapped Honeywell’s health and usage monitoring system (HUMS) for its Boeing CH-47SD Chinook helicopter fleet.

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“The operational efficiencies of this technology will increase aircraft safety and availability, while reducing maintenance man-hours and parts cost for the military branch.”

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Boeing wins $296 million initial deal for 12 more P-8 spy planes

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Boeing won a $2.1 billion contract in February to build the first batch of 16 P-8A Poseidon long-range maritime spy planes for the Navy, which came on top of $300 million in funds awarded earlier for certain materials that take longer to procure, such as titanium.

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Winners, bio and life sciences: Arbsource, Tempe; Arizona Medical Systems, Hildeez Enterprises, Medicoventures, Kulira Technologies Inc. and Verve Medical Inc., Peoria; Movement Interactive LLC, Laveen; Saccadous, Scottsdale; and Vicinity Health, Chandler

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Apple is betting its next generation of iPhone will outsell its most recent version, the iPhone 5S and 5C, and has ordered up to 80 million of them from manufacturing suppliers.

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Much of this appears to be a reaction to Samsung’s trend-setting. That company found success offering larger screens on its phones, leaving Apple to produce advertisements with the weak counter that its phones fit customers’ thumb sizes. But the Journal also noted that Samsung’s sales have slowed recently, and Apple may be able to use this release to get ahead of its rivals in overseas markets, particularly China, where its new deal with China Mobile cleared the way to put iPhones in even more pockets there.

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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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Microchip Technology about to acquire Taiwanese tech company for $328.5M

Microchip Technology Inc. announced the company is close to completing the acquisition of ISSC Technologies Corporation, a Taiwanese low-power Bluetooth and advanced wireless solutions provider, for $328.5 million.

This step will have the Chandler-based Microchip acquiring about 83 percent of the outstanding shares of ISSC. This majority controlling interest represents a total of 57,228,225 shares at $4.74 a share.

Microchip is expected to own 100 percent of ISSC to complete the full merger in late December, said J. Eric Bjornholt, Microchip’s chief financial officer.

“As expected, Microchip successfully completed the tender offer for majority control of ISSC,” Microchip’s Chief Operating Officer Ganesh Moorthy said in a statement. “We look forward to combining ISSC’s strengths in wireless products and technology with Microchip’s brand, channel and operational scale to drive growth and profitability.”

The company announced in May it was acquiring ISSC to expand its solutions for Bluetooth, wireless and the “Internet of things” market.

“This transaction represents the first major overseas acquisition by Microchip, and was funded with a portion of Microchip’s foreign cash,” Microchip President and CEO Steve Sanghi said in a statement.

“We are pleased to effectively use our foreign cash to drive returns for our stockholders.”

Microchip is a provider of microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP solutions.

ISSC has a significant presence in audio applications, and a growing presence in health care, sports and fitness, home appliances and mobile point-of-sale applications.

The company has 27 proprietary products in its portfolio, 119 patents granted and 91 patents pending. It had net sales of $69.2 million in 2013.Source: Phoenix Business Journal

Specialty Grants Can Help Ease The Costs Of Manufacturing

The New York Times reports that the government offers grants to businesses, including manufacturers, in order to help them ease the costs of conducting business. The article profiles a garment manufacturer in New York who was able to take advantage of a public-private grant program that allowed it to purchase upgraded and specialty equipment in order to supply the US Olympic Team with uniforms.

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Project Mobii is a joint research project between Intel and Ford based on interior, front-facing cameras that identify the driver and then set an individual’s preferences. The system allows for more privacy control and enables voice-controlled actions, such as closing the sunroof while driving down Highway 101.

The technology also allows for remote access from a smartphone, letting users run a quick check of belongings left inside or authorize or bar other drivers from operating it. For example, if the driver is the car owner’s teenage son, restrictions can be set in place that require seat belt use and the ability to limit music volume or mobile device use while driving.

“If Project Mobii does not recognize the driver, a photo is sent to the primary vehicle owner’s smartphone. That owner can then set permissions and specify features that should be enabled or disabled,” according to a press release.

It isn’t clear when Intel and Ford plan to incorporate the technology in cars, or if Project Mobii will run in all upcoming vehicles or specific models.

So far this year, Google unveiled plans to team with Audi, Honda and General Motors for in-car Android operating system, and Apple debuted its “iOS in the car” system known as CarPlay in Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz and Volvo vehicles. Source: Silicon Valley Business Journal

Public opinion of big business improves, but small business still rules As the economy improves, more Americans have a positive view of big business, but they’re still more likely to trust small business.

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Overall, the public gives good marks to big businesses for providing useful products and services, and serving their customers well. But they say corporations aren’t doing enough to create jobs, and they think big businesses pay their top executives too much and their rank-and-file employees too little.

Personal experience has a much bigger impact on Americans’ opinions about corporations than social media, the survey found.

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Most Americans also think businesses should speak out on public issues, ranging from racial and gender discrimination to climate change. One exception is gay marriage — although most Americans believe same-sex couples should have the same rights as heterosexual married couples, 65 percent think corporations should stay out of the debate over gay marriage.

Americans also are uncomfortable with corporate lobbying — 50 percent said they’d feel less favorable about a company that hires lobbyists. But most support lobbying for to protect jobs, open new markets, create a level playing field., reduce business costs or even to secure government funding or grants.

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Suppliers to help Boeing reduce $6B in annual costs

Suppliers to Boeing’s Defense, Space & Security unit will shoulder about two-thirds of the $6 billion in costs the business is reducing, according to Chris Chadwick, the unit’s CEO.

“There continues to be tremendous opportunity in the supply chain for efficiency, cost reduction,” he told Reuters. Chadwick added, “What we’ve found is those suppliers who lean forward from a cost perspective, we do partner with them for the long term.” Source: Reuters


US Carbide Tool LLC Is Implementing Everything Required To Become The Largest Precision Custom Tool Making Company in the West

Four years ago, entrepreneur/machinist Sal Kielbus opened US Carbide Tool LLC with partner Randy Hansrote. Sal knew Randy through Randy’s previous employers, where Randy was a journeyman quality toolmaker.

The new company’s mission was to make the highest quality tools with fast turnaround, and enable their customers to get the most out of their tools to produce high quality parts. US Carbide offers custom design of the most complex tools.

Sal has ownership in two other shops in the valley, including Aerospace Contacts and Foresight Finishing. Sal established US Carbide Tool with Randy because he couldn’t get quality micro-tools in the timeframe that Aerospace Contacts needed them.

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Within 2 years, the company had tripled their machine tools to 6, and now 2 years later, with their new machines on order, the company will have 15 high precision machines. The company expanded into their facility, which previously housed a tenant, and now will offer 10,000 square feet of space (temperature controlled) for the growing US Carbide business. Randy says, “Our customers were asking us to machine tools with the same accuracy and precision they were getting from us today, but also for larger tools. The Walter CNC grinder as well as Walter’s high resolution Helicheck inspection machines enables us to manufacture precise tools up to 2 inches.”

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Randy says, “Every machine in our shop is extremely high precision. The EWAGs are Swiss made, and they built their reputation on machining for the Swiss watch industry.” He continued, “The latest 3 machine tools we are in the process of installing are the Walter Helitronic Power machines. These are German manufactured universal tool grinding machines with 5 CNC controlled axes for production and regrinding of tools.” Sal elaborated, “We can now make very accurate tools from .006” to 2” for our customers.”

The company additionally added an Edge Technology System, manufactured in the United States by Mutschler Edge Technologies (MET), based in Cleveland, Ohio. Randy says, “Edge Prep is typically done manually and has been for a long time from the toolmaker stoning an end mill to the operator hand brushing end mills and drills on a rotating abrasive brush.” Sal added, “The MET edge prep machine is just another way in which US Carbide Tool LLC is investing in the most advanced technology to offer our customers the best precision custom tool making. We expect to be the largest company of our kind in the Southwest within the next year or two.”

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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

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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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Narrow body boom - The biggest growth in new airplanes is expected to come in the narrow body market.

Boeing believes the industry will need 25,680 single-aisle planes over the next 20 years.

“The single-aisle market is the backbone of the airline system,” said Tinseth. Boeing’s narrow body 737 has long been the most popular plane sold by the company. By late 2017 Boeing will start delivering the 737 MAX, a newer, more fuel-efficient version of the 737 which has already has a backlog of more than two thousand orders.

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China Eastern Airlines this month announced plans to start a low-cost carrier. The airline, which is run by the government, gave no indication when it will start its budget airline but, like other discount carriers, it will likely rely almost exclusively on single-aisle planes.

“Based on the overwhelming amount of orders and deliveries, we see the heart of the single-aisle market in the 160-seat range,” said Tinseth. “There’s no question the market is converging to this size, where network flexibility and cost efficiency meet.”

Through the first half of this year, Boeing has delivered 342 new planes while the total for Airbus was 303.


Gigafactory gamble: Tesla picks Nevada for first site

Tesla Motors has broken ground in Reno, Nevada, for the Gigafactory. That doesn’t mean Albuquerque is out of the running, the company said in its quarterly earning release.

“In June, we broke ground just outside Reno, Nevada, on a site that could potentially be the location for the Gigafactory. Consistent with our strategy to identify and break ground on multiple sites, we continue to evaluate other locations in Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas,” the company said.

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“We see these concurrent efforts as prudent,” the company sa id. “Any potent ia l ly duplicative investments are minor compared to the revenue that could be lost if the launch of Model 3 were affected by any delays at our primary Gigafactory site.”

The company also said it will increase its manufacturing capacity at its Fremont, Calif., facility.

Tesla, which makes electric cars, said in early March that New Mexico was one of four states that it was looking at for the new factory. The company needs to develop its battery making capacity to bring down the price of the most expensive part of its all-electric cars as it looks to make a less expensive, mass-market, version.

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The Gigafactory will make lithium ion batteries, which are similar to the batteries in laptop computers. The factory will, though, create enough batteries to double the current world supply by 2020. Source: Albuquerque Business First

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The Equipment Leasing and Finance Association’s (ELFA) Monthly Leasing and Finance Index (MLFI-25), which reports economic activity from 25 companies representing a cross section of the $827 billion equipment finance sector, showed their overall new business volume for June was $9 billion, up 5 percent from new business volume in June 2013. Month over month, new business volume was up 30 percent from May. Year to date, cumulative new business volume increased 3 percent compared to 2013.

Receivables over 30 days decreased from the previous month at 1.6 percent, and were up from 1.4 percent in the same period in 2013. Charge-offs were unchanged for the third consecutive month at an all-time low of 0.2 percent. Credit approvals totaled 80.1 percent in June, an increase from 76.1 percent the previous month. Total headcount for equipment finance companies was up 1.0 percent year over year. Separately, the Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation’s Monthly Confidence Index (MCI-EFI) for July is 61.4, unchanged from the previous month.

ELFA President and CEO William G. Sutton, CAE, said: “New business volume shows steady year-

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Edward Dahlka, President, Cole Taylor Equipment Finance, said, “Although May’s MLFI showed a modest decline in new business volume, most industry experts would have expected the stronger results reported in June. In reviewing the MLFI year-over-year comparison, all of the quarter results are strongest in the last month of each quarter. Two things need to happen to help our industry grow and prosper. The Fed needs to let interest rates rise and lenders need to remain firm on credit quality. The equipment finance industry has a strong marketing culture and most of us believe that if we continue to see even a modest increase in capital expenditures our industry could enjoy a stronger increase in new business volume over the last two quarters.”

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Ten New Mexico companies have been awarded funds from the Los Alamos Venture Acceleration Fund.

This year’s fund was propped up by the sale this spring of Titan Aerospace to Google. Titan was partially funded by the VAF last year, and it paid back the fund’s contribution when it was purchased by Google earlier this year.

Los Alamos National Security, which manages Los Alamos National Laboratory, has invested approximately $3 million via the Venture Acceleration Fund in 49 companies in New Mexico, and it has grown to include several more partners. The fund, which began in 2006, helps provide seed capital for growing firms.

“Now it’s a community effort with Los Alamos County, the city of Santa Fe, and MEP [the Manufacturing Extension Partnership] stepping forward to partner with us,” said Dave Pesiri, director of the Richard P. Feynman Center for Innovation at LANL. “It’s encouraging to see that the payback triggers we implemented in 2013 are already creating sustainability for the fund.”

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Keystone Restoration Ecology, Santa Fe: remote assessment of watersheds using geographic information systems mapping.

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Boeing and Sikorsky have been chosen to develop the Joint Common Architecture (JCA) standard for the U.S. Army’s Joint Multi-Role (JMR) Science and Technology program. JMR is part of the Future Vertical Lift (FVL) initiative to develop

next-generation utility and attack helicopters.

The companies were selected by the Army’s Aviation Applied Technology Directorate, said a Boeing news release. “The Army considers the JCA to be the ‘digital backbone’ through which mission systems will be seamlessly integrated into the FVL system’s design,” said Samir Mehta, president of Sikorsky Defense Systems & Services.

Boeing and Sikorsky have also teamed up to propose a next-generation helicopter, the SB1 Defiant, which uses counter-rotating coaxial main rotors, a pusher propeller and advanced fly-by-wire system. Four teams are competing to provide a development aircraft, with the Army expected to pick the winning design in 2017.

Opinion: 3-D Printing Will Be a Manufacturing Engine for the Economy

For a sci-fi addict like me, 3-D printing reminds me of my favorite TV show, “Star Trek: The Next Generation.” It is not yet, and probably never will be, a replicator; and I expect that the price of small 3-D printers that are widely useable will keep them out of most people’s

homes for the foreseeable future. But having large-scale 3-D printing revolutionize manufacturing may be soon upon us; and this prospect may well have important economic effects.

How will the rise of 3-D printing in manufacturing affect the American economy and how will we fare as consumers and workers? Productivity in manufacturing has grown more rapidly than in other sectors of the economy for many years, 117 percent since 1990 compared to 64 percent for business as a whole.

Three-dimensional printing will spur further productivity growth, especially in those industries that turn out many replications of the same part for assembly into complete products (automobiles, airplanes, electrical equipment, etc.). As has been true in the past, the increased productivity will lower the cost of production, which will be passed on to buyers in the form of lower prices. In the end, we as consumers will benefit from 3-D printing, not because we’ll have little printers at home, but because companies will have large printers that help lower the price of the goods we buy. We’ll be able to buy more for less.

Increased productivity often means reduced demand for workers, especially low-skilled workers. Three-dimensional printing will likely result in the continued relative shrinking of manufacturing employment (from about one-sixth of employment in 1990 to about one-tenth today based on my calculations of data) but these need not be job losses as the change will occur mostly through workers retiring. Don’t worry: The increased purchasing power generated by the greater abundance of inexpensive goods will lead to expansions in employment in other industries, just like technology has improved our lives. Source: The New York Times, By Daniel S. Hamermesh


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Raytheon Targeting Tomahawk of the Future

W i t h f u n d s f o r n e w -production Tomahawk cruise missiles shrinking, Raytheon is looking to cash in on the next best thing — upgrades and

“recertifications” of existing missiles, an effort that could last a decade or more.

The recertification program — which could begin as early as 2018 — would coincide with major upgrades to make the weapon semi-autonomous, faster and smart enough to track moving targets.

Factory production is very much on the mind of the company these days. Roy Donelson, Raytheon’s Tomahawk program director, said the company requires production of 196 missiles per year as a minimum to keep the line going.While they got that in the presidential budget request for fiscal 2014, the number was dropped to 100 for 2015.

Congress has bumped that figure back up to 196 for fiscal ’15, but future quantities remain in question.

The company may have something of a backup plan if missile orders are cut in the future. Donelson spent a significant part of a briefing for reporters here discussing the plan for “recertification” of the Tomahawk arsenal.

The thinking is this: The Tomahawk Block IV was introduced in 2004 with a 15-year warranty and 30-year life span. Some of that first wave of Tomahawks are still being carried around, unused, and will reach that 15-year mark at the end of this decade.

Raytheon will take them in and certify that they are still operational at a rate fairly close to the production rate. And while the weapons are in the factories, why not put a whole suite of upgrades in there?

“The value proposition is incredible, because now you can get a brand new missile in terms of capability at a fraction of the cost,” Donelson said.

What advancements make the next-generation Tomahawk? The first is an advanced communications and navigations suite, which Donelson said will be ready to start an engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) program next year with an eye on readiness by 2018. That, in conjunction with a new seeker design, would allow the weapon to track targets with greater accuracy.

The second is a new joint multiple-effect weapons system warhead, which would give the Tomahawk more flexibility. Operators could prefer to go with a weapon that provides better penetration or one that provides an expanded blast effect. That could be ready to start EMD next year, with a target date of 2019.

At the end of this, as a Raytheon promotional video showed, the Tomahawk should be able to strike moving targets on land and at sea, regardless of jamming, with increased precision and effectiveness.


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U.S. Export-Import Bank Chairman Fred Hochberg says the bank has been key to supporting jobs at small companies such as Arizona’s APS BioGroup, which he visited recently.

“One could argue that half the (100) employees here are due to the exports,” Hochberg said of the dairy-supply firm. He touted the bank’s role in supporting exports from that company and others in the region and said he is “hopeful” lawmakers will endorse the bank. “We need to move this out of an ideological argument into a practical argument about supporting jobs and meeting foreign competition,” he said. Source: The Arizona Republic

Optomec of Albuquerque wins Air Force contract

Optomec of Albuquerque has been awarded a $4 million contract to help repair metal components for the U.S. Air Force.

Optomec, which makes 3-D printers, has a unique technology

that can print metal parts or add metal to existing parts.

The award is part of the new “Re-Born in the USA” project, which is an effort by the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute

to advance 3-D printing, the group said in a news release last month.

Optomec will lead a team that includes GE Aviation, Lockheed Martin, Rolls-Royce and others. The goals is to use Optomec’s LENS technology, which can use metal, to repair damaged parts, similar to putting chewing gum onto a crack in the wall.

“This award is significant because it highlights that repair is indeed a leading application area in the additive manufacturing landscape. Additionally, it helps to demonstrate that printing onto existing structures in 3-D space is a unique and enabling aspect of Optomec 3-D printing technologies,” said Dr. Richard Grylls, Optomec LENS General Manager and “Re-Born in the USA” project leader.

“We are looking forward to working with our partners to deliver a repair methodology that addresses the current challenges faced by the Air Force and provides a framework for the potential adoption of additive manufacturing repair processes throughout the aircraft industry,” he said. Source: Albuquerque Business First

Feds Shelve “Factoryless” Manufacturing Category

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that due to the “outcry by labor groups and lawmakers” the Obama Administration has shelved the idea of reclassifying “factoryless” goods makers and US manufacturers. A public comment period from the Office of Management and Budget

“triggered an emotional outpouring this summer” arguing against the reclassification decision, as it would “distort US basic economic data.”


KLK Inc. just certified to ISO9001: 2008. The company specializes in precision sheet metal, CNC machined parts, and electro/mechanical assemblies. The company is a family-owned business, and the first family member in the business (Bob Wilkinson) opened a machine shop here in the valley in 1967. The shop saw explosive growth in the 1990s when it was manufacturing exercise bikes (The HealthRider®), and prior to selling this entity of the business, it was manufacturing ~12,000 bikes per week.

The family founded KLK in 1995. James Wilkinson, manufacturing manager and grandson to Bob Wilkinson, says, “We are a manufacturing family through and through. Larry DuVall, my uncle, is president of KLK, and my father, Kim, my brother Chad, and I work here. Larry’s son Lee, works at the company, and will take over when his father retires.” “Outside of KLK”, he continued, “We have 2 uncles who have their own machine shops in Arizona.” While James admits there is healthy competition across the family members’ respective shops, he says that it is advantageous that they can all help each other out.

KLK has about a dozen customers, and many are Fortune 500 companies, including US Airways (American Airlines), Frontier Air, Siemens, Honeywell, ON Semiconductor, Motorola, Intel, Novellus Systems (now Lam Research), to name a few.

James says, “We regularly receive surveys from companies, both our customers and prospective customers. One of the questions invariably asks if we are certified to ISO9001: 2008. I got tired of not being able to check this box with a ‘yes’. I knew that the fact that we weren’t certified limited the work we could get from some of our customers, and it meant we couldn’t get business from others.”

At a KLK management meeting at the end of last year, the team decided that they would make certification a priority. James says that they had met several consultants at the Westec show in California in October of 2013, and had received quotes from some of the companies. While the KLK team found some qualified companies at the show, they felt that much of their interaction with these consultants would be online/via email. James says, “We wanted a consulting group that would come to our facility and get to know how we actually worked.”

He continued, “I always read about Bretta Kelly, owner of BMSC, in the Metalworker magazine. I saw that she was preparing many shops I knew in the valley for ISO and AS9100 certification.” James invited Bretta to meet with the KLK management team, and the team unanimously selected Bretta /BMSC for their consultant. James says, “We all valued the fact that BMSC was local and would come to our facility, and we also appreciated that, unlike some of the other consultants, she wasn’t going to use a boiler plate to create our manuals.”

This proved true, James explained. Bretta and her colleague, Debbie Hart, first toured KLK, and took the time to learn the KLK processes. They were going to help KLK build a quality manual around how the business was run, not by a generic template. “Next”, James says, “They gave us a choice, did we want to complete certification in 3 months or in 6 months.” The KLK team agreed that since they had made ISO certification a priority for 2014, they would take the aggressive schedule

-- completing the certification process in 3 months. “We made the decision to be ‘all in’, and we

didn’t want any opportunities to procrastinate”, James elaborated. While the entire KLK team was involved in the ISO certification process, both James and key employee Phil Donimari were chartered with heading it up. Phil is the official Management Representative for ISO9001: 2008. Bretta says that KLK had such good processes in place prior to the certification that they were a good candidate for the 3 month program.

KLK officially certified to ISO9001: 2008 in May of this year. James says, “We had zero ‘0’ findings in our audit.” James says that he appreciates the

fact that BMSC’s process includes an outside audit by a 3rd party prior to the official certification audit. “Bretta and Debbie were outstanding ISO consultants; they were so knowledgeable, they worked with in our business model, and they were here throughout the process”, he said. James and the KLK team plan to certify to AS9100

through BMSC in the next year or so.

James says that the certification process has been beneficial to KLK. Not only have they won 2 new customers since announcing certification, James says that it has helped every employee to get a better understanding of how the business is run and what their individual responsibility is. He says, “It is crystal clear because we have a manual we can reference.”

To learn more about how BMSC can help your business certify to ISO9001/AS9100, call (602) 445-9400 or visit businessMSC.com.

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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.”

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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.

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“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.”

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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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BAE ‘Bullish’ Army Will Buy Missile Guidance Kits

The U.S. subsidiary of British defense giant BAE Systems Plc is confident the Army will begin buying its kits to convert unguided rockets on helicopters into “smart” heat-seeking missiles, a company official said.

The so-called Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System, or APKWS, converts a 2.75-inch Hydra rocket into a “smart” munition by adding a semi-active laser guidance and control mid-section.

It’s a low-cost option for precision strike, costing some $30,000 apiece — roughly a third of the price tag of an AGM-114 Hellfire missile made by Lockheed Martin

Corp., according to David Harrold, director at BAE Systems Inc. While not as powerful as the Hellfire, the system is effective at soft, light targets such as wheeled vehicles and small boats.

The system is one of several competing products targeting the global market for upgrades to the 70mm rocket. There are hundreds of thousands of the munitions in military inventories around the world.

Other products include the Direct Attack Guided Rocket, or DAGR, made by Lockheed; the Cirit made by the Turkish missile-maker Roketsan and the Talon developed jointly by Raytheon and United Arab Emirates.

BAE a few months ago announced its first international sale of the product, a $5.5 million deal with the kingdom of Jordan to arm a pair of Casa CN-235 gunships with the guided munitions.

The company has already delivered more than 3,000 of the kits to the U.S. military. In 2012, the Marine Corps deployed the weapon to Afghanistan on AH-1 Cobra and UH-1 Huey helicopters. The company has already

certified the technology on the Army’s AH-64 Apache chopper and expects the service to begin buying the system fiscal 2015.

The Army’s lead office for missiles and space has already expressed a need for the technology and the service’s budget request for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1 references it, he said. The request includes a $27 million line item for 741 Hydra rockets and other components, including about $4 million for 66 guidance sections, according to budget documents.

The Navy this year began testing the system in new 19-tube digital rocket launches aboard MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopters. The launcher is almost triple the capacity of seven-tube launches on Cobras and Hueys.

U.S. Central Command last year test-fired the system on fixed-wing aircraft, including the A-10 Warthog gunship, the F-16 fighter jet and the AV-8B Harrier jump-jet, he said. While the system’s performance varies depending on the type of platform, it has a range of between 1.5 kilometers and 5 kilometers, with an optimal range of 3 kilometers, he said.


China looks to the US for low-end manufacturing

Chinese investment in the United States manufacturing sector is speeding up as the mainland’s cost advantage has been eroded, given increasingly abundant energy resources from the shale oil boom in the US.

Sharp wage increases, lagging productivity growth, unfavourable currency swings and a dramatic rise in energy costs had shrunk China’s cost edge over the US to 4 per cent, said the Boston Consulting Group.

“In the 1980s and 1990s, China welcomed foreign investment and positioned itself as a cheaper source of labor,” said James Hsu, a partner at US law firm Squire and Sanders.

“However, profit margins in contract manufacturing are slim. Chinese companies are no longer content just being contract manufacturers.Due to the narrowing gap of cost of labor between the US and China, there is a quiet trend bringing back some manufacturing to the US.We have seen US companies requiring Chinese suppliers to set up manufacturing facilities in the US to better meet their needs.”

The low cost of North American natural gas and oil from the shale boom had helped revive US manufacturing across a wide range of sectors, said Robert Dye, the chief economist of financial services firm Comerica.

“You look at total business costs, the cost of labor, capital, securing a loan, energy and everything else,” Dye said. “Texas is approaching parity with China in many different ways, which is another way of saying businesses no longer have an incentive to offshore their production. They’re coming back.”

From 2011 to last year, annual Chinese investment in US manufacturing was less than $400 million, but it jumped to $2 billion so far this year, said the Rhodium Group consultancy.

The number of manufacturing jobs in the US provided by Chinese companies nearly quadrupled from 20,000 in 2010 to nearly 80,000 last year.

“The overall manufacturing cost structures of Mexico and the US have significantly improved,” Boston Consulting said, adding it still ranked China as the most competitive exporter, with the US second.

Hsu said the shift had been partly led by US states offering incentives for foreign investors in their jurisdictions.

“While there have been some strong exchanges between the US and China at the national level, local governments have been more embracing of economic ties with China,” he said.

For example, Virginia governor announced that Shandong Tranlin Paper, a Chinese pulp and paper company, would invest $2 billion over five years to establish its first US manufacturing operation in the state.

It is the largest Chinese investment in Virginia’s history and is the largest Chinese greenfield project in the US.

As labor and other business costs increase, the era of low-end manufacturing is coming to an end in China, wrote Thilo Hanemann in a Rhodium report.

“As Chinese investment in the US continues to grow... Chinese companies will someday become significant employers in the US,” Hsu said.

Hanemann was more cautious.“The US will not see a China-driven manufacturing boom,” he said. “The gap between cost in China and America is still too dramatic for a large-scale migration of productive capacity to the US.

“However, the combination of a changing economic structure and the liberalisation of outbound investment policies [by Beijing] has triggered a second generation of Chinese manufacturing investments in the US.” Source: South China Morning Post

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Many small manufacturing companies say that they support their customers with engineering and design. And while they may offer a suggestion from their years of experience in machining, when they list their approved competencies, they can’t include engineering and design.

That is not the case with Profiles Tool & Engineering. In fact, the company is in the throes of ISO: 9001/AS9100 Revision C certification, and they expect to be fully certified this fall. When they started the certification, they were urged to take out the 7.3 requirement. Clause 7.3 in the certification process refers to ‘Design and Development’. Most job shops, companies that make a variety of components for their customer, are not involved in design and development, so this arduous clause is excluded from their certification. Profiles Tool & Engineering will be certified for design and development.

Zach Wilsterman earned his degree in mechanical engineering from Arizona State University in 1996. His company, Profiles Tool & Engineering, specializes in design and engineering. It is their differentiator.

The company opened for business in 1999, just 3 years after Zach graduated from college. But with marriage and a family on the way, Zach had to work full time for other machine shops while he grew own business on evenings and weekends. He says Tim Sullivan, owner of Challenger Aerospace, was

instrumental in helping Profiles Tool & Engineering to grow to where it is today. “Tim leased me space in his shop for a number of years, at a very favorable rate. Without Tim’s kindness and mentoring, I wouldn’t be where I am today. Tim really wanted me to succeed.”

Just this past January, Zach and the Profiles Tool & Engineering team made the move to their current facility, which is nearly double the space they had prior to the move. Zach says he looked long and hard for the facility; it needed air conditioning (not a swamp cooler) and it needed sufficient power to enable the company to grow with new machines as business dictated.

Business is exploding today, and 90% of Profiles Tool & Engineering business comes from referrals.

The company makes parts (and complete assemblies) for a number of industries, including medical, aerospace, and communications, but Zach says a significant percentage comes from the medical device industry.

In addition to a full service machine shop, Profiles Tool & Engineering uses Solidworks and their 15+ years manufacturing and design experience to assist their customers with design projects. Zach says, “While our primary expertise is fixturing parts for metrology and End of Arm Tooling, we have taken on several other projects ranging from pool-side air conditioners to rotary table automation projects.”

Zac h s ays , “My bac kg round and experience in design means that I know how a part is made, and through my machining experience, I know how to help my customers design the product for manufacturability.” He continued, “This means that when customers work with us, they are invariably going to get their parts/finished product made at a better cost point and with a quicker turn-around.”

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“The Haas won because for Profiles Tool & Engineering, it was the best value. It met our requirements for ‘speeds and feeds’, and since this purchase was made prior to our move to this larger facility, footprint of the new machine was key in our purchase decision.”

Zach knew of the Haas machine tool (it is the largest CNC machine tool manufacturer in the world by volume, installed over 1,400 VF-2s in 2013 alone), but he didn’t personally have experience machining on a Haas machine tool.

After significant research coupled with input from his team (many experienced and favorable to the Haas machine tool line), the decision was made for the Haas VF-2SS. The Haas VF-2 is a CNC mill that travels 30x20x20 in the XYZ axis, while it was first introduced in the early 90’s; it is still one of the most popular models sold on the CNC market.

Zach says, “I have been very pleased with the team at Ellison Machinery Co, located in Tempe, AZ. Bryan Johnson is our Business Manager from Ellison Machinery. Both he and the team, including the service guys, are so professional and responsive.” He continued, “Bryan often has to supply us with a number of different configurations and options when he is helping us to make a decision about a new machine, and he always does this quickly. I really like working with the team at Ellison Machinery.”

Today, Zach says the company is adding a second shift to their operations,

and he can’t hire fast enough. Because finding the right talent is difficult, Zach is proactively helping the industry with interns. He has hired 2 engineering interns from ASU, and the latest (Pictured to the left) has been with him part-time during the school year and full time this

summer. Zach also promotes manufacturing in Arizona, and he today is a board member of the Arizona Tooling and Machining Association (ATMA). Zach believes we are beginning to improve our internship/apprenticeship programs for machinists in Arizona, and that we have work to do in preparing our future engineers with the skills necessary to build superior parts. “These engineering students need more hands-on experience than the universities are offering”, he says.

Profiles Tool & Engineering is more than a job shop. “What makes our company exciting for the team that works here”, Zach says, “Is that all of our projects are different, and our team members all get to see how they contribute to the finished product.

What’s next for Profiles Tool & Engineering? Zach says the ISO/AS9100 completion (without the 7.3 exclusion) is the next big milestone. The company also plans to add hand finishing to their list of in-house competencies. They are in the process of retrofitting their Haas VF 2-SS with new features, including 4th axis capabilities, ‘Touch Probe’, to reduce set-up times, as well as a tool arm.

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Blurred Lines: Commercial, Defense Sectors Begin To Blend

As companies continue to turn their eyes toward the Middle East and Asia for new business, a trend has emerged: The lines between commercial and defense businesses are increasingly blurring.

All but one company in the top 10 of this year’s Defense News Top 100 — our annual ranking of the largest global defense firms — saw the percentage of their defense business decline or remain flat in 2013. Thales, at No. 9, was the only company in the top 10 that saw growth in the percentage of its business generated by defense.

Defense-heavy companies, such as US giant Lockheed Martin, which is once again at the top of the list, are diversifying their businesses. Lockheed is entering the commercial marketplace in areas such as air traffic management, aviation training and simulation, energy, and advanced manufacturing.

The Maryland-based company saw defense revenue fall more than $4.3 billion between 2012 and 2013, however the company’s overall revenue fell only $1.8 billion.

Those who watch the industry agree: Change is coming, and companies that don’t react appropriately could get left behind.

“As a generalization, the defense industry and the defense industrial base would be well served by an industry whose structure had more exposure to commercial markets and commercial technologies than our mostly pure-play [defense] companies that comprise the top tier of the industrial structure today have,” said Steven Grundman, a former Pentagon industrial policy chief now with the Atlantic Council.

He warns that the days of pure defense firms are endangered.

“Being a pure-play defense company works great when the defense budget is growing at 6 to 8 percent a year, but the other side of that coin is that when growth stops, you’re fully exposed to a flat market,” Grundman said. “I don’t think there is as much room in the healthy defense industrial structure for pure-play defense companies as we have today.

The clearest example of the growing link between the defense and commercial sides comes, perhaps unsurprisingly, from the largest US aerospace company.

Boeing, No. 2 on the list, has increasingly exploited its commercial division,

a keystone of its business plan, and a look at its catalog makes it clear that will continue. Boeing saw its total company revenue climb nearly $5 billion from 2012 to 2013. But its defense business has fallen from 38.4 percent of total company revenue in 2012 to 36.9 percent in 2013.

“The commercial derivatives market is a real competitive differentiator for us,” Chris Chadwick, president and chief executive officer of Boeing Defense, Space & Security, told reporters.

The company has two major Pentagon programs — the P-8 maritime patrol aircraft and KC-46A tanker — which are based on commercial versions of the Boeing 737 and 767 jetliners, respectively.

“[W]e’re trying to create this track record of success in this area where we bring to bear an improved ‘One Boeing’ approach to servicing our customers’ needs worldwide,” Chadwick said.

“It’s going to be very interesting to see how market dynamics play out over the next 10 years,” Chadwick said. “I can’t predict the future, but I think market pressures will dictate that the company who can provide more capability at less cost, adapt from an innovative perspective and bring capability onto current platforms in a very seamless way at the right price, will end up on top at the end of the day.”

Commercial companies are investing “tremendous amounts of money and starting to encroach the defense world” in areas including cyber, data analytics and drones, he said.

As Lockheed looks to move more into a commercial market, it will center “around core competencies that we have today,” Hewson said.

The recent purchase of a company in the cyber infrastructure business serves as an example. “It lines right up with the cybersecurity work we are doing,” Hewson said. “It just broadens our portfolio capabilities that we can provide. It opens up new markets for us.”

Companies have also been taking a commercial approach when developing new defense products in anticipation of less government funding for these types of efforts.

For example, Textron’s Bell Helicopter has been developing V-280 Valor, a tiltrotor it has pitched for the Army’s Black Hawk replacement program.


“If you are going to take a decade to develop something, you are going to spend a lot more money to develop,” Scott Donnelly chairman, president and CEO of Textron, said in an interview. “I think we can show that we can do things and get aircraft in the air in two years. We can take it to production at a fraction of the cost.”

Textron, which saw its defense revenue fall slightly from $4.29 billion to $4.24 billion in 2013 and is No. 17 on this year’s list, is looking at projects “in a more commercial sense and not go through long” engineering and development program, he said.

“Time is money,” Donnelly said. “I cannot afford those budgets. I do not think any of our customers are going to have the budgets to go through that process anyway.”

Preparing for the Future

In recent years, companies have been preparing for the decline in government defense spending, restructuring themselves though downsizing, facility consolidation and other overhead-cutting measures. This has softened the blow of the defense spending cuts, but “there’s probably not a whole lot more they could really do to significantly boost margins from here,” said Byron Callan, an analyst with Capital Alpha Partners.

Boeing’s Chadwick said the company has cut $4 billion over the past three years with another $2 billion planned in the coming years.“It’s difficult. It’s painful, but it’s a necessity, so that we can have that agile cost structure that we have to have to compete over the next decade,” he said.

While the split between defense and commercial business seems to be trending toward the latter, it does not mean commercial business has picked up, Callan noted.

“It may not necessarily be indicative of really successful commercial diversification strategies, it’s just that defense — because of the Budget Control Act and the war-related declines — has been shrinking at a faster pace than some of these commercial businesses,” Callan said.

While many company executives speak of diversifying, some might look to shrink to become more focused in core business areas.

“Some of the changes to individual companies may also be thinking ahead,” Callan said. “They may be shrinking in size, but they’re shrinking to get more focused on particular markets.”

On the military side, companies have looked to offset US cuts with international business, particularly in the Middle East and Asia.

L-3 Communications, No. 11 on the list, which saw its defense business revenue decline $502 million between 2012 and 2013, is in the midst of a commercial diversification itself.

L-3 has posted double-digit growth in its commercial and international business, Michael Strianese, the New York-based company’s chairman, president and CEO, said in an interview.

Strianese touted the company’s first sale of night-vision equipment to the United Arab Emirates last year. He also applauded the Defense and State departments’ progress with export control reform and reducing bureaucracy.

Speaking about the international market, Chadwick said: “What you’re seeing is that we’ve got to move from [being] an exporter to [being] a global presence more than we have in the past. So, you’re seeing where we’re investing. We’re partnering.”

Decline in defense spending has created interesting bedfellows for the few major US defense programs on the horizon. Helicopter maker Sikorsky has teamed with Boeing for the Army’s Black Hawk helicopter replacement program and Boeing has teamed with Sweden-based Saab, No. 29 on the list, for the Air Force’s new jet trainer.

Increasing the number of military aircraft based on commercial ones could have a trickle down effect into the global maintenance and sustainment market as well, Chrisman said.

“You can look at commercial opportunities, you can look at vertical operations, or you can look at sustainment. The international sustainment opportunity for US companies, particularly US [original equipment manufacturers], is something they are considering and ought to be considering more.”

A plane based on commonly flown aircraft, like a 767, could make sustainment easier and cheaper, he said.


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Excalibur Ib enters full rate production and receives $52 million award

Raytheon Company’s Excalibur Ib precision guided projectile has entered full rate production (FRP). Additionally, the U.S. Army has awarded Raytheon $52 million for continued Excalibur Ib production.

“The full rate production decision is the culmination of superb teamwork between the U.S. Army and Raytheon,” said Lieutenant Colonel Josh Walsh, U.S. Army Excalibur product manager.

Earlier this year, the Army approved Excalibur Ib for Full Materiel Release (FMR) and awarded the projectile a Type Classification-Standard. That means Excalibur is safe for soldiers; it has been fully tested; it meets operational performance requirements, and it can be supported within its intended operational environment.

“International interest in Excalibur has risen sharply during the last year,” said Michelle Lohmeier, Raytheon vice president.“Excalibur has revolutionized cannon artillery, making it possible to engage targets precisely at long ranges while avoiding collateral damage, a capability that appeals to military leaders around the world,” Lohmeier added.

In recent tests, all projectiles scored direct hits on their intended targets. The projectile’s reliability, lethality and range are in excess of Army requirements and at all-time highs, while the unit cost has dropped significantly during the program’s lifetime.

Raytheon is also developing Excalibur S, which incorporates a laser spot tracker in Excalibur’s guidance section. Excalibur S was tested successfully on May 7th at Yuma Proving Grounds.

With Excalibur N5, a 5 inch/127mm variant of the projectile, Raytheon is bringing this proven technology to the maritime domain. A live fire demonstration of the Excalibur N5 is planned for later this year.

About ExcaliburExcalibur is a revolutionary precision guided projectile that provides warfighters a first round effects capability in any environment. Excalibur is cannon artillery’s only long range true precision weapon.

Combat proven: Nearly 750 Excalibur rounds have been fired in combatPrecise: Excalibur consistently strikes less than two meters from a precisely-located targetResponsive: Excalibur dramatically reduces mission response timeSafe: Excalibur’s precision practically eliminates collateral damage and has been employed within 75 meters of supported troopsAffordable: With its first round effects, Excalibur reduces total mission cost and the user’s logistics burdenGrowing: Raytheon is adding a Laser Spot Tracker to mitigate target location error and enable engagement of moving targetsEntering New Markets: With Excalibur-N5, a five-inch naval variant, Navies will be able to deliver extended range, precision naval surface firesExcalibur is a cooperative program between Raytheon and BAE Systems Bofors.


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Manufacturing Technology Orders End 2013 on Strong Note

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

of corporate fixed assets is at almost 22 years, and interest rates are historically low. This one-two punch is creating a ripe atmosphere for investment in capital equipment, which we anticipate will translate into more great news for manufacturing growth.”

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.

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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.

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Report Shows Hiring Gains In Higher-Wage Sectors, Including Manufacturing

According to a Washington Post article, “The recovery in America’s job market is finally spreading to industries with good pay after years of being concentrated in fields with low wages.” The Post notes that

“hiring has picked up steam in areas such as construction, manufacturing and professional services...sectors with a median hourly wage of at least $20,” and “nearly 40 percent of the jobs created over the past six months have been in high-wage industries, compared with just a quarter during the last half of 2013.” Labor Secretary Thomas Perez is quoted as saying, “I often hear that the recovery is only in low-wage jobs. That is categorically inaccurate. ... This recovery is creating a lot of good jobs.”

Raytheon GPS passes Air Force jamming test

The Air Force has successfully tested its next-generation GPS system in a jamming environment.

Raytheon’s Miniaturized Airborne GPS Receiver 2000 (MAGR2K) maintained GPS satellite tracking and provided accurate navigation

despite the jamming. The MAGR2K was integrated with the Raytheon Advanced Digital Antenna Production system and equipped with a specialized M-code receiver card.

“This is the first time an M-code receiver card has been successfully tested in an avionics GPS receiver,” said Sharon Black, director of Raytheon’s GPS & navigation systems unit, in a company statement. “These results provide the Air Force with a clear path forward for fielding M-code capable GPS receivers.”

M-code receivers are required to provide significantly improved position, navigation, and timing performance based on the advanced GPS satellite signal. “The innovative MAGR2K design is backward and forward compatible,” Black said. “This compatibility enables easy and cost-effective upgrades to M-code technology for existing military aircraft without having to replace the entire GPS receiver.”

Intel Unveils Chip Aimed at Tablets

Intel Corp. provided details of its latest advance in manufacturing technology, a milestone that arrived after a delay of more than six months due to technical problems.

The first chip based on the new production process—which is called the Intel Core M and based on a design called Broadwell—will be targeted at tablets and other devices that operate without a cooling fan and are as thin as nine millimeters or less.

Rani Borkar, a vice president in Intel’s platform engineering group, said the new product will offer seven times the performance of earlier chips on graphics tasks and twice the speed in conventional computing tasks. She added that hardware designers could offer twice the battery life while using batteries that are half the size of today’s versions.


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South Central RegionThe South Central Region manufacturing technology orders 2013 year-end total of $749.06 million was down 13.2% from the year-end total for 2012.

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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.”

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Intel said the first devices based on the new chip will be in stores for the holiday selling season, with more devices from a range of manufacturers available in the first half of 2015.

The announcement comes as Intel, which has long dominated sales of chips for personal computers, continues a lengthy struggle to place its technology into tablets and smartphones. Most makers of those products use chips from companies that license technology from ARM Holdings.

Brian Krzanich, Intel’s chief executive, has set a target of 40 million tablets using the company’s chips this year and has said it is on target to meet that goal.

Technology that helps extend battery life should help, said Bob O’Donnell, an analyst at Technalysis Research, though the tablet market may remain tough for Intel. The biggest lesson from the latest technology announcement, he said, is that Intel is incorporating more advances based on the market’s demands rather than its engineers’ goals. “It’s a more pragmatic approach than I think we’ve seen in a while,” Mr. O’Donnell said.

The new manufacturing process creates chips with circuitry measured at just 14 nanometers, or billionths of a meter. Smaller transistors and other features tend to pack more computing capability into a smaller space, prompting a race by semiconductor makers to keep shrinking their technology.

Intel’s latest production process also is its second to include what the industry calls FinFETs, a kind of three-dimensional structure that differs from the conventional design of earlier transistors. It first appeared in Intel

chips using a 22-nanometer processor that went into volume production in late 2011.

The pace of miniaturization, which has doubled the number of transistors on a typical chip every two years or so, is named after Intel’s co-founder. But Moore’s Law, as it is called, has shown signs of slowing in recent years.

Intel had initially expected to begin churning out the 14-nanometer chips in high volume at the end of 2013, but last fall said it wouldn’t make that schedule because of technical issues it didn’t explain in detail.

Mark Bohr, a senior Intel fellow who helps direct development of its production process, noted that the initial yield of working chips on each silicon wafer was worse than Intel achieved in the early days of producing 22-nanometer chips. But he stressed that the 14-nanometer process yield is improving rapidly, and has brought greater benefits than earlier technology shifts.

“Everybody in our industry will acknowledge it is getting tougher with every new generation,” Mr. Bohr said at a briefing for reporters at Intel’s headquarters. But he added: “We are going to carry the Moore’s Law banner as far as we can.”

While the initial chips based on the new process will be targeted at portable devices, Intel executives stressed that the technology will gradually be introduced in all kinds of products, including large server systems and desktop personal computers.

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Last month, the U.S. Air Force opened a contest to launch one satellite in 2016, though the Pentagon hadn’t planned to challenge the incumbent United Launch Alliance LLC with rival bids until next year. ULA has been launching the Pentagon’s sensitive satellites into orbit since 2006.

The Pentagon is also seeking funding to open bidding on a second satellite deal to competition in September.

Mr. Musk’s SpaceX, frustrated by being shut out of the military market, is expected to secure regulatory approval this year or in early 2015 to launch smaller Pentagon payloads, and is developing a rocket for larger launches that would allow it to pursue all available U.S. government contracts. While the firm has pressed for its accreditation to be sped up, Pentagon officials have indicated it can submit bids before formal certification.

“Opening up more National Security space missions to competition is a step in the right direction and SpaceX welcomes this news,” said the firm in a statement.

The fierce lobbying battle between SpaceX and ULA intensified in April when the Air Force reduced to seven or eight the number of satellite launches it had planned to open to competition, from an initial 14 launches, citing planning changes and the better-than-expected durability of some existing satellites.

The Pentagon paved the way for competitive military launches in 2012 in the wake of sustained criticism from lawmakers over the cost of the ULA contract, which was extended last year.

Lawmakers and SpaceX have pushed for more competition despite recent efforts by ULA to curb costs.

ULA has defended its record in reducing launch costs and said, in a statement, “it looks forward to demonstrating its commitment to be the safest, most reliable, and most cost-effective provider.”

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UTC Aerospace Systems selected by Boeing to design and build nacelle systems for the Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner

UTC Aerospace Systems’ Aerostructures business has been selected by The Boeing Company to extend its provision of complete nacelle systems for the 787 Dreamliner to include the 787-10 variant. The Aerostructures business was awarded the contract to provide inlets, thrust reversers, fan cowls and exhaust systems for both the GE and Rolls-Royce engine options on the 787-8 and 787-9 in 2004. As with the previous contract, the 787-10 agreement covers design and manufacture of nacelle systems for those engine variants for the higher capacity version of the Dreamliner.

The Aerostructures business will also supply aftermarket support of the 787-10 nacelle systems through its global network of maintenance, repair and overhaul facilities and spares distribution centers. UTC Aerospace Systems is a unit of United Technologies Corp.

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Raytheon To Develop Directed Energy Technology For Light Vehicle Deployment

Laser weapon systems moved a step closer to reality with the award of an $11 million contract to Raytheon Company. Under an Office of Naval Research program, Raytheon will develop a vehicle-based laser device capable of defeating low-flying threats such as enemy drones.

The Ground Based Air Defense (GBAD) Directed Energy On-the-Move Future Naval Capabilities program calls for a field demonstration of a Humvee-mounted short-range laser weapon system with a minimum power output of 25kW. The Raytheon-built laser will be packaged to meet the U.S. Marine Corps’ demanding size, weight and power requirements.

“Raytheon’s laser solution generates high power output in a small, light-weight rugged package ideally suited for mobile platforms,” said Bill Hart, vice president of Raytheon Space Systems.

Raytheon’s planar waveguide (PWG) technology is the key to its unique approach to high energy lasers. Using a single PWG, the size and shape of a 12 inch ruler, Raytheon high energy lasers generate sufficient power to effectively engage small aircraft.

“Our PWG laser architecture is scalable: We can achieve increasingly higher power levels with the same compact design we’re using for GBAD,” Hart said. “Raytheon is paving the way for fielded directed energy weapon systems in the very near future with the demonstration of a Marine Humvee-based high energy laser.”

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Honda Aircraft Company announced that the first p roduc t ion HondaJe t achieved its initial flight, marking another milestone toward aircraft certification and entry into service in 2015.

“With this first flight, the HondaJet program has entered the next exciting phase as we prepare for delivery,” said Honda Aircraft Company President and CEO Michimasa Fujino. “Today’s celebration is the culmination of extensive engineering and production efforts, and this is an important achievement in bringing the world’s most advanced light jet to market.”

The first production aircraft lifted off from the Piedmont Triad International Airport (KGSO) at 10:18 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time. During the 84-minute flight, the aircraft climbed to 15,500 feet and reached a speed of 348 Knots True Airspeed (KTAS). Following a smooth landing, the aircraft and its crew were greeted by more than 1,000 Honda Aircraft team members to commemorate the milestone.

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Aircraft production continues its steady pace in advance of entry into service. This steady build-up supports the company’s objective to have aircraft ready for delivery immediately after Federal Aviation Administration type certification is achieved. The HondaJet will be single-pilot certified and is currently offered for sale in North America and Europe through the HondaJet dealer network.

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The U.S. Defense Department is accelerating plans to seek rival bids for up to two satellite launches, potentially ending the near-monopoly enjoyed by a joint venture between Boeing Co. and Lockheed Martin Corp. and prompting a face-off with Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp.

Last month, the U.S. Air Force opened a contest to launch one satellite in 2016, though the Pentagon hadn’t planned to challenge the incumbent United Launch Alliance LLC with rival bids until next year. ULA has been launching the Pentagon’s sensitive satellites into orbit since 2006.

The Pentagon is also seeking funding to open bidding on a second satellite deal to competition in September.

Mr. Musk’s SpaceX, frustrated by being shut out of the military market, is expected to secure regulatory approval this year or in early 2015 to launch smaller Pentagon

payloads, and is developing a rocket for larger launches that would allow it to pursue all available U.S. government contracts. While the firm has pressed for its accreditation to be sped up, Pentagon officials have indicated it can submit bids before formal certification.

“Opening up more National Security space missions to competition is a step in the right direction and SpaceX welcomes this news,” said the firm in a statement.

The fierce lobbying battle between SpaceX and ULA intensified in April when the Air Force reduced to seven or eight the number of satellite launches it had planned to open to competition, from an initial 14 launches, citing planning changes and the better-than-expected durability of some existing satellites.

The Pentagon paved the way for competitive military launches in 2012 in the wake of sustained criticism from lawmakers over the cost of the ULA contract, which was extended last year.

Lawmakers and SpaceX have pushed for more competition despite recent efforts by ULA to curb costs.

ULA has defended its record in reducing launch costs and said, in a statement, “it looks forward to demonstrating its commitment to be the safest, most reliable, and most cost-effective provider.”

The Boeing-Lockheed venture has generated more than $1 billion—split between both companies—since it was formed in 2006, including $171 million in profit for Boeing last year, according to regulatory filings.

SpaceX has made a series of successful orbital launches for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and has an international backlog of 4 dozen civilian and commercial launch contracts valued at $5 billion.

The prospect of competition in space launches has also been energized by concerns that rising tensions with Russia could leave some U.S. military and spy satellites grounded if ULA can’t get spare or new rocket engines, though the joint venture has said it has enough engines to last 2 1/2 years and expects to receive a new shipment in August. The Pentagon is also exploring the development of a new, totally U.S.-made rocket engine.


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UTC Aerospace Systems selected by Boeing to design and build nacelle systems for the Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner

UTC Aerospace Systems’ Aerostructures business has been selected by The Boeing Company to extend its provision of complete nacelle systems for the 787 Dreamliner to include the 787-10 variant. The Aerostructures business was awarded the contract to provide inlets, thrust reversers, fan cowls and exhaust systems for both the GE and Rolls-Royce engine options on the 787-8 and 787-9 in 2004. As with the previous contract, the 787-10 agreement covers design and manufacture of nacelle systems for those engine variants for the higher capacity version of the Dreamliner.

The Aerostructures business will also supply aftermarket support of the 787-10 nacelle systems through its global network of maintenance, repair and overhaul facilities and spares distribution centers. UTC Aerospace Systems is a unit of United Technologies Corp.

The Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner is the third and longest member of the super-efficient 787 family. Launched in June 2013, the 787-10 can carry 323 passengers up to 7,000 nautical miles, which covers more than 90 percent of the world’s passenger routes.

In addition to the nacelle system, UTC Aerospace Systems also provides more than 20 proprietary components and systems for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner commercial jet.

Raytheon To Develop Directed Energy Technology For Light Vehicle Deployment

Laser weapon systems moved a step closer to reality with the award of an $11 million contract to Raytheon Company. Under an Office of Naval Research program, Raytheon will develop a vehicle-based laser device capable of defeating low-flying threats such as enemy drones.

The Ground Based Air Defense (GBAD) Directed Energy On-the-Move Future Naval Capabilities program calls for a field demonstration of a Humvee-mounted short-range laser weapon system with a minimum power output of 25kW. The Raytheon-built laser will be packaged to meet the U.S. Marine Corps’ demanding size, weight and power requirements.

“Raytheon’s laser solution generates high power output in a small, light-weight rugged package ideally suited for mobile platforms,” said Bill Hart, vice president of Raytheon Space Systems.

Raytheon’s planar waveguide (PWG) technology is the key to its unique approach to high energy lasers. Using a single PWG, the size and shape of a 12 inch ruler, Raytheon high energy lasers generate sufficient power to effectively engage small aircraft.

“Our PWG laser architecture is scalable: We can achieve increasingly higher power levels with the same compact design we’re using for GBAD,” Hart said. “Raytheon is paving the way for fielded directed energy weapon systems in the very near future with the demonstration of a Marine Humvee-based high energy laser.”


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The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is preparing to review designs for the new X-Plane, a vertical take-off and landing aircraft capable of high-speed flight and hovering.

DARPA plans to review the submissions by Aurora Flight Sciences, Sikorsky, Boeing and Karem in coming weeks.

Why Are Space Companies Flocking To Colorado?

The launch of the WorldView-3 satel-lite-imaging space mission marked a big milestone for a triad of Colorado giants: DigitalGlobe, United Launch Alliance and Ball Aerospace.

In a state that bills itself as a “mile closer to space,” Colorado will celebrate the mid-August takeoff as further proof that it’s a major U.S. aerospace industry player—a position that dates back seven lucrative decades.

Today some 400 companies count 70,000 employees in the mili-tary, civil and private sectors of the Colorado aerospace industry. Space-related enterprises accounted for almost a $9 billion contri-bution to the state economy in 2011, according to the Brookings Institution. That’s 4 percent of Colorado’s private-sector gross domestic product.

Indeed, the state generally identified more with buckaroos than rocket scientists is home to many of the industry’s bigger names, including Sierra Nevada, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, the U.S. Air Force Space Command and the University of Colorado’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics.

To say that Colorado has a lot going for it in the aerospace sector is an understatement when one considers the state’s wide range of com-panies; its well-respected university research programs; the military installations directly tied to NASA and U.S. Defense Department space efforts; and local, state and federal officials who have long lobbied to promote the business the state has, while pushing hard to attract more.

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It’s war: Arizona’s strengths against other contenders for Tesla’s $5B Gigafactory

Ar i zona, New Mexico, California, Nevada and Texas are vying for the massive Tesla Motors Inc. battery factory that could create 6,500 jobs.

Several sites across metro Phoenix have been mentioned as possible landing spots for the project. The city of Tucson also has been aggressive in its pursuit, even sending a building permit to Tesla CEO Elon Musk.

Wall Street Daily says Musk has several factors to consider in his decision: tax breaks and incentives, regulatory landscape, land, natural resources, cost and a state’s existing relationship with Tesla.

Here’s how Wall Street Daily characterizes Arizona’s strengths and weaknesses:

Pros:The Surprise Railpark has “foreign trade zone” status, which offers businesses a 5 percent property tax rate instead of the regular 18.5 percent.

The state has already helped establish another huge tech hub: the Apple-GT Advanced sapphire manufacturing plant. Apple received $10 million in building improvement grants from the Arizona government, which also assisted with job recruitment. Intel Corp. also has major semiconductor operations in Arizona.

Arizona is the leading solar power producer of the five states.

Musk is on the board of Solar City — whose CEO, Lyndon Rive, is Musk’s cousin.

Cons:It’s not a “direct sales” state. However, House Bill 2123 is in the works, with legislators working on language that specifically caters to Tesla. Source: Phoenix Business Journal

Fromme To Lead ASU’s Center For Applied Structural Discovery

The Arizona Republic reports that Arizona State University professor Petra Fromme will lead the university’s new Center for Applied Structural Discovery. ASU President Michael Crow “said Fromme’s research promises to crack nature’s code and replicate fundamental biological processes, such as photosynthesis, for ‘profound societal benefits.’”

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Tom CampCell (602) 363-6733

Phone (602) 233-3757Fax (602) 233-3793

Toll Free (866) 700-3757

3125 N. 33rd AvenuePhoenix, AZ [email protected]


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Single Source TechnologiesPO Box 93610Phoenix, AZ 85070-3610Cell: 602-228-0347 [email protected]

Single Source TechnologiesPPhoenix, Cell: [email protected]

Leston TruebloodRegional Sales Manager

P: 877-276-SAWS (7297)C: 714-620-5560F: 714-963-0630

[email protected]

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Office (623) 773-1787Fax (623) 773-9882

www.geigerelectric.com

Tornos US840 Parkview BoulevardLombard, IL 60148Phone 630 812 2040Fax 630 812 2039 Phone

FaxMobileE-Mail

ROBERT SERRANORegional Sales Manager West

951 695 0342951 695 0346951 240 [email protected]

California Office

8622 N. 78th AvenuePeoria, Arizona 85345

MIKE HAHNV.P. CMTSE

MIKE HAHN



8448 WASHINGTON PLACE NE.

ALBUQUERQUE, NM. 87113

BUSINESS: 505-345-8389

FAX: 505-344-7167


Tornos US840 Parkview BoulevardLombard, IL 60148Phone 630 812 2040Fax 630 812 2039

RICHARD SALASSALES

RICHARD SALAS



3614 E. SOUTHERN AVE. #1PHOENIX, AZ 85040

BUSINESS: 602-431-8300FAX: 602-431-8301


Kwik Mark Inc

www.kwikmark.com

Dot Peen Marking Systems

Phone 815 363 8268Fax 815 363 [email protected]

Kwik Mark Inc4071 Albany Street

McHenry IL 60050


DCM Tech ________ 800-533-5339Magnum Precision Mach 602-431-8300Magnum Precision Mach 505-345-8389Moore Tool & Equipment 602-455-8904North-South Machinery _ 602-391-4696QS Machinery ______ 602-370-4733Savage Machine Tools _ 480-773-4080Tornquist Machinery __ 602-470-0334Grinding Machines, OD/IDAdams Machinery ____ 480-968-3711Haas Factory Outlet __ 480-968-5877Magnum Precision Mach 602-431-8300Magnum Precision Mach 505-345-8389Moore Tool & Equipment 602-455-8904QS Machinery ______ 602-370-4733Savage Machine Tools _ 480-773-4080Grinding Machines, Rotary

Silicon & QuartzDCM Tech ________ 800-533-5339QS Machinery ______ 602-370-4733Grinding Machines, Rotary

Aircraft BrakeDCM Tech ________ 800-533-5339Grinding Machines, OD/IDAdams Machinery ____ 480-968-3711Haas Factory Outlet __ 480-968-5877

Magnum Precision Mach 602-431-8300Magnum Precision Mach 505-345-8389Moore Tool & Equipment 602-455-8904QS Machinery ______ 602-370-4733Savage Machine Tools _ 480-773-4080Grinding Machines, Rotary

Silicon & QuartzDCM Tech ________ 800-533-5339QS Machinery ______ 602-370-4733Grinding Machines, Rotary

Aircraft BrakeDCM Tech ________ 800-533-5339QS Machinery ______ 602-370-4733

Grinding Machines, ToolAdams Machinery _____480-968-3711D & R Machinery ____ 480-775-6462Tornquist Machinery __ 602-470-0334

Grinding Machines, ToolPunch & Die

DCM Tech ________ 800-533-5339Grinding Wheels

Fives ____________ 909-263-9282Honing Machines

Adams Machinery _____480-968-3711Magnum Precision Mach 602-431-8300Magnum Precision Mach 505-345-8389

Magnetic Drills/CuttersACC Machinery _____ 602-258-7330Adams Machinery _____480-968-3711

Manual Lathes & MillsACC Machinery _____ 602-258-7330Adams Machinery _____480-968-3711CNC Machinery Sales ___602-244-1507D & R Machinery ____ 480-775-6462Ganesh Machinery ____888-542-6374Haas Factory Outlet __ 480-968-5877Magnum Precision Mach 602-431-8300Magnum Precision Mach 505-345-8389Moore Tool & Equipment 602-455-8904S. L. Fusco, Inc. _____ 480-753-5000TSM Machinery _____ 602-233-3757

Sawing MachinesACC Machinery _____ 602-258-7330Adams Machinery _____480-968-3711bandsawparts.com ___ 800-240-2932D & R Machinery ____ 480-775-6462Desert Machine Tool Repair 480-226-3128Echols Saw & Supply ___ 602-278-3918Jorgenson Machine Co. ___800-952-0151Mesa Mach Sales ____ 480-545-0275Moore Tool & Equipment 602-455-8904

Rocky Mountain Saw Blades303-761-3000Savage Machine Tools _ 480-773-4080

Saw Replacement Partsbandsawparts.com ___ 800-240-2932Desert Machine Tool Repair 480-226-3128Echols Saw & Supply ___ 602-278-3918Rocky Mountain Saw Blades 303-761-3000Starrett Co _________ 978-249-3551

Tapping MachinesACC Machinery _____ 602-258-7330Adams Machinery _____480-968-3711

NEW MACH FABRICATION

CO2/Fiber LasersInnovative Cutting Systems 480-557-7999

CNC Punching CentersACC Machinery _____ 602-258-7330Magnum Precision Mach 602-431-8300S&S Machinery Sales __ 602-368-8542

Gantry Systems, CNCACC Machinery _____ 602-258-7330

Iron WorkersACC Machinery _____ 602-258-7330Adams Machinery _____480-968-3711Desert Machine Tool Repair 480-226-3128

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Kevin Savage (480) 773-4080

AMADA / SODICK / YCM / USED


Rocky Mountain Saw Blades303-761-3000

David BELLHOUSERegional Sales Manager – Cutting Tools | Abrasives

[email protected] +1 909 263 9282 - F +1 909 494 7989

Cinetic Landis Corp. Manufacturer of CITCO tools & Gardner abrasives7605 Disovery LaneConcord Twp., Ohio 44077 - USAwww.fivesgroup.com

Magnetic Drills/Cutters

D. RANDY SMITHAPPLICATIONS ENGINEER

D. RANDY SMITH




PHOENIX, AZ 85040

BUSINESS: 602-431-8300

FAX: 602-431-8301


PATRICK ELLISONPresident

Telephone:Cell:Fax:

Email:

[email protected]

Haas Factory OutletA Division of Ellison Machinery Company

www.haascnc.com

1610 S. Priest Dr., Suite 101Tempe, Arizona 85281

JEFF TRIMBLESALES ENGINEER

JEFF TRIMBLE




PHOENIX, AZ 85040

BUSINESS: 602-431-8300

FAX: 602-431-8301


www.moore-tool.com


Magnum Precision Mach _ 602-431-8300Mesa Mach Sales _____ 480-545-0275Moore Tool & Equipment _ 602-455-8904Jorgenson Machine Co. ___ 800-952-0151S&S Machinery Sales ___ 602-368-8542Laser Cutting/Proc. Center

ACC Machinery ______ 602-258-7330 Mesa Mach Sales _____ 480-545-0275S&S Machinery Sales ___ 602-368-8542Universal Laser Systems _ 480-330-9851

Laser Marking MachinesInnovative Cutting Systems _ 480-557-7999Kwik Mark Inc ________ 815-363-8268Universal Laser Systems _ 480-330-9851Plasma/Gas Cutting Systems

ACC Machinery ______ 602-258-7330Mesa Mach Sales _____ 480-545-0275Pipe & Tube Benders/Notchers

ACC Machinery ______ 602-258-7330Moore Tool & Equipment _ 602-455-8904S&S Machinery Sales ___ 602-368-8542Sterling Fabrication____ 855-898-7860

Plate RollJorgenson Machine Co. ___ 800-952-0151

Press Brakes ACC Machinery ______ 602-258-7330Adams Machinery _____ 480-968-3711Desert Machine Tool Repair 480-226-3128Jorgenson Machine Co. ___ 800-952-0151Magnum Precision Mach _ 602-431-8300Magnum Precision Mach 505-345-8389Mesa Mach Sales _____ 480-545-0275

Moore Tool & Equipment 602-455-8904S&S Machinery Sales __ 602-368-8542

Punch PressesAdams Machinery _____ 480-968-3711Sterling Fabrication___ 855-898-7860

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 ___ 602-368-8542Sterling Fabrication___ 855-898-7860Magnum Precision Mach _ 602-431-8300

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. ________ 800-838-0343Sterling Fabrication___ 855-898-7860

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

INSPECTION EQUIPCoordinate Measuring Mach.Advanced Coordinate Tech 480-921-3370D & R Machinery _____480-775-6462Datum Inspection _____ 602-997-1340Klontech Industrial Sales _ 480-948-1871OGP ____________480-889-9056Total Quality Systems ___ 480-377-6422

Gauging EquipmentAdvanced Coordinate Tech 480-921-3370Klontech Industrial Sales _ 480-948-1871OGP ____________480-889-9056Phoenix Small Tool ____ 602-256-7011S. L. Fusco, Inc. ______480-753-5000Starrett Co _________ 978-249-3551Total Quality Systems ___ 480-377-6422

Impression MaterialRoydent ____________480-607-1876

Metrology InstrumentsAdvanced Coordinate Tech 480-921-3370Datum Inspection _____ 602-997-1340Klontech Industrial Sales _ 480-948-1871Phoenix Small Tool ____ 602-256-7011Starrett Co _________ 978-249-3551Total Quality Systems ___ 480-377-6422Washington Calibration __480-820-0506

Optical ComparatorsAdvanced Coordinate Tech 480-921-3370Datum Inspection _____ 602-997-1340Klontech Industrial Sales _ 480-948-1871OGP ____________480-889-9056Magnum Precision Mach _ 602-431-8300

Magnum Precision Mach 505-345-8389Phoenix Small Tool ____ 602-256-7011Starrett Co _________ 978-249-3551Total Quality Systems ___ 480-377-6422

Punch PressesAdams Machinery _____ 480-968-3711Sterling Fabrication___ 855-898-7860

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 & CertificationAdvanced Coordinate Tech 480-921-3370OGP ____________ 480-889-9056Total Quality Systems ___ 480-377-6422Washington Calibration __ 480-820-0506

Video Measuring systemsKlontech Industrial Sales _ 480-948-1871Washington Calibration __ 480-820-0506

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

WaterJet Cutting SystemsFlow 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

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

Jeffrey F. Nawrot Vice President, Business Development

Telephone:

1610 T

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

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

Welding EquipmentACC Machinery ______ 602-258-7330Rocky Mountain Saw Blades 303-761-3000Sterling Fabrication____855-898-7860

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 __ 800-952-0151ReSell CNC West ______ 844-478-8181S&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

Abrasive SystemsKMT Waterjet Systems __ 800-826-9274

AdhesivesR.S. Hughes _______ 602-275-5565S. L. Fusco, Inc. ______ 480-753-5000Air 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 _______ 877-501-7297Starrett Co _________ 978-249-3551

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

CleanersChemetall _________ 714-739-2821

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

Chemetall _________ 714-739-2821

DCM Tech ________ 800-533-5339Ebbco Inc _________800-809-3901Hangsterfers _______ 316-640-2462Star Metal Fluids _____800-367-9966

Cutting ToolsCutting 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 ____602-628-4242Scientifi c Cutting Tools __805-584-9495Von Ruden Manufacturing 763-682-0322

Deburring EquipmentS. L. Fusco, Inc. _____ 480-753-5000

Digital Readout UnitsAdams Machinery _____ 480-968-3711D & R Machinery _____480-775-6462Lone Arrow ________480-507-8074Magnum Precision Mach _602-431-8300

Door OpeningSystems: Automatic

Midaco Corporation ____ 847-593-8420

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


Dust CollectorsLone Arrow________480-507-8074

Electronic HardwareSouthwest Electronic H/W _ 480-905-3600

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

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

Filtration Equip.Canyon State Oil _____800-894-7773Chemetall _________ 714-739-2821Ebbco 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 ______ 800-645-4174Filtration -Grind Wheels & BeltsS. L. Fusco, Inc. ______480-753-5000

Guard & Vacuum Pedestals For Grinders

Midaco Corporation _____847-593-8420Industrial Automation

IEC Supply LLC ________480-455-1446Industrial Controls

IEC Supply LLC ________480-455-1446Industrial Electronics

IEC Supply LLC ________480-455-1446Live Centers

Royal Products ______ 800-645-4174Live Tool Holders

Von Ruden Manufacturing 763-682-0322Lubricants / Systems

Canyon State Oil _____ 800-894-7773Hangsterfers _______ 316-640-2462Maxum 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 Products

Von Ruden Manufacturing 763-682-0322

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

Parts Washing EquipmentChemical 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 _______ 602-275-5565Sensors

IEC Supply LLC ________480-455-1446Spindles

GMN 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 & WorkholdingAirtek _____________480-966-5267

Vibratory EquipmentAdams Machinery _______480-968-3711

Vises 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 ________ 480-507-8074Waterjet 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)

Canyon State Oil _____ 800-894-7773Echols Saw & Supply ___ 602-278-3918Hangsterfers _______ 316-640-2462Marshall Tool & Supply __602-269-6295Maxum Petroleum ____ 602-278-8877Pioneer Distributing Co. _602-278-2693Rocky Mountain Saw Blades 303-761-3000S. L. Fusco, Inc. ______480-753-5000Star Metal Fluids _____ 800-367-9966EDM Materials & Supplies

Canyon 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 ____________ 480-607-1876

Machine Tool Cool. FiltrationCanyon State Oil ________ 800-894-7773D & R Machinery ________ 480-775-6462Maxum 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 AgentsCanyon State Oil ________ 800-894-7773Chemical Logic _________ 512-426-5728Maxum 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_____ 860-289-3820Western States Metals _ 801-978-0562

Alloys: SpecialtyAerodyne Alloys_____ 860-289-3820Apache Steel Company __ 602-323-2200

AluminumApache Steel Company __ 602-323-2200AZ Metals ________ 602-688-8003Bralco Metals _______ 602-252-1918Ind. Metal Supply ____ 602-454-1500Coast Aluminum ____ 877-977-6061Fry 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 __ 602-323-2200

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

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Brandon AndersonPresident

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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

HARDWARE MATERIALHARDWARE MATERIAL AZ MetalsAZ Metals 602-688-8003AZ Metals

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Chemetall US, Inc. 16961 Knott Avenue • La Mirada, CA 90638 Tel: 714-739-2821 • Toll Free: 800-331-1197 ext. 2672 • Fax: 714-670-6480 [email protected] • www.chemetallUS.com Cell: 619-208-8968


CeramicsMarZee Inc. ________ 602-269-5801

Chrome RodWestern States Metals _ 801-978-0562

CobaltUnited Performance Metals _888-282-3292

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 _____ 877-977-6061Davis Salvage Co _____ 602-267-7208Ind. 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 _________800-203-8000

Ulbrich 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 ________ 602-688-8003AZ Tool & Steel ______ 480-784-1600Coast Aluminum _____ 877-977-6061Davis Salvage Co _____ 602-267-7208Ind. Metal Supply _____ 602-454-1500Samuel, Son & Co. ___ 800-631-9765Temtco Steel ________ 480-389-2883

Tool SteelApache Steel Company __ 602-323-2200Davis Salvage Co _____ 602-267-7208

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

Apache Steel Company __ 602-323-2200 GASES

Cylinder 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

B & T Tool & Engineering _ 602-267-1481Marshall Tool & Supply __ 602-269-6295Micro 100 _________ 480-495-1454Scientifi c Cutting Tools __ 805-584-9495

CarbideB & 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. ______ 480-753-5000Scientifi c Cutting Tools __ 805-584-9495The Tool Crib _______ 602-978-3130

Cutting ToolsCutting Tools Consultants 602-277-1342 Fives ____________ 909-263-9282

Helical Solutions _____866-543-5422Horizon Carbide ______ 480-968-0957Micro 100 _________ 480-495-1454Sandvik Coromant ____ 480-233-0997Sandvik Coromant ____ 602-628-4242Scientifi c Cutting Tools __ 805-584-9495

Cutting Tools: CustomB & T Tool & Engineering _ 602-267-1481Horizon Carbide ______ 480-968-0957Scientifi c Cutting Tools __ 805-584-9495

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 MillsCoast 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 ____ 602-628-4242Scientifi c Cutting Tools __ 805-584-9495

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 MillsCoast Aluminum Sales __ 480-797-5162Horizon Carbide ______ 480-968-0957

Micro 100 _________ 480-495-1454Sandvik Coromant ____ 480-233-0997Sandvik Coromant ____ 602-628-4242Scientifi c Cutting Tools __805-584-9495

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 ____ 602-628-4242Scientifi c Cutting Tools __805-584-9495Von Ruden Manufacturing __ 763-682-0322

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 _______602-502-9654MLC CAD (MasterCAM) __480-696-6056

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 (SolidWorks) __ 480-696-6056SolidCAM _________ 602-369-0630SolidProducts _______ 480-206-0330TMI (GibbsCAM) ______ 602-618-6553

ERP SoftwareInfor ____________ 520-431-4349

Software, Inv. ControlDelcam __________ 877 335 2261Feature Cam _______ 602-502-9654MLC CAD (MasterCAM) __ 480-696-6056MLC CAD (SolidWorks) __ 480-696-6056SolidCAM _________ 602-369-0630SolidProducts _______ 480-206-0330

Software, NC ProgrammingAdams Machinery _____ 480-968-3711Delcam __________ 877 335 2261Ellison Machinery _____ 480-968-5335Feature Cam _______ 602-502-9654MLC CAD (MasterCAM) __ 480-696-6056MLC CAD (SolidWorks) __ 480-696-6056SolidProducts _______ 480-206-0330TMI (GibbsCAM) ______ 602-618-6553

Software, ServicingDelcam __________ 877 335 2261Feature Cam _______ 602-502-9654

MLC CAD (MasterCAM) __ 480-696-6056MLC CAD (SolidWorks) __ 480-696-6056SolidCAM __________ 602-369-0630SolidProducts ________ 480-206-0330TMI (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 ____ 866-362-0699The Werks C&C, Inc ____ 602-569-1809

Machine Retrofitting/CNCAdams Machinery _____ 480-968-3711AMTS____________ 602-397-4008

API Services ________ 757-223-4157Arizona CNC Equip ____ 480-615-6353CNC Machinery Sales ___ 602-244-1507

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 ____ 480-615-6353CNC-PROS _________602-344-9753Desert Machine Tool Repair 480-226-3128DM Machine Repair ____480-709-1450D & R Machinery _____480-775-6462Ellison Machinery _____480-968-5335Jemelco, Inc. _______480-804-9541State 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 ____ 480-615-6353CNC-PROS _________602-344-9753Desert Machine Tool Repair 480-226-3128DM Machine Repair ____480-709-1450D & R Machinery _____480-775-6462Ellison Machinery _____480-968-5335Jemelco, Inc. _______480-804-9541

The Werks C&C, Inc ____602-569-1809 Repair -Hydraulic

Advanced Precision ____ 602-525-0156The 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 ____ 866-362-0699GMN USA _________ 800-686-1679

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 _ 460-756-7124

[email protected]

757-223-4157

A2Z METALWORKER SW • METALWORKER SW • METALWORKER SW 100 • Sept/Oct 2014

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

480-696-6056480-696-6056 API Services 757-223-4157757-223-4157

• Sept/Oct 2014

Arizona CNC EquipCNC-PROSDesert Machine Tool RepairDM Machine RepairD & R MachineryEllison MachineryJemelco, Inc.

• Sept/Oct 2014


Business ConsultingBMSC ____________480-445-9400Quick Turn Financial ____480-385-1220

Calibration: On Site LinearPrecise Measurements LLC 602-309-0963

Calibration ServicesAdvanced Coordinate Tech 480-921-3370Klontech Industrial Sales _ 480-948-1871Phoenix Small Tool ____ 602-256-7011Precise Measurements LLC 602-309-0963Washington Calibration __ 480-820-0506Calibration: Repair & Certify

Advanced Coordinate Tech 480-921-3370Phoenix Small Tool ____ 602-256-7011Precise Measurements LLC 602-309-0963Washington Calibration __ 480-820-0506

Computer/Web ServicesGartman Technical Services _ 602-788-8121

Consulting 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 _____ 480-968-5335

Klontech Measure Sol ___ 480-626-8131CNC Training

Adams 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

Financial ServicesAlerus Bank & Trust ____ 480-905-2407National Bank of Arizona _ 460-756-7124Quick Turn Financial __ 480-385-1738SBG Capital _______ 480-897-4988US Bank __________ 480-303-5422

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 ___ 480-385-1220US Bank __________ 480-303-5422

Lean ManufacturingABS Quality Evaluations _702-644-2770BMSC ___________ 480-445-9400Sustaining Edge Solutions___888-572-9642

Management SystemsCertification/Training

ABS Quality Evaluations _702-644-2770Machine Tool Utilization

TrackingE Solutions ________ 602-524-0192

Manufacturers RepTrepanning 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. 623-931-5009Davis Salvage Co _____ 602-267-7208

Reverse EngineeringBMSC ___________ 480-445-9400Datum Inspection ___ 602-997-1340Klontech Measure Sol ___ 480-626-8131Metalcraft Inc. ________ 480-967-4889

Metals Eng & Testing Lab. 602-272-4571Rigging

IRH ____________ 800-334-2409Schools, Custom Training

AZPMAP __________ 602-723-8191Ellison Machinery _____ 480-968-5335TechShop _________ 480-327-0820

Schools, Membership Based Machining &Training

TechShop _________ 480-327-0820Schools, Your Own Machine

Shop for HobbiestsTechShop _________ 480-327-0820

Surface PreparationChemical Logic _________ 512-426-5728

Systems IntegrationEllison Machinery ______ 480-968-5877

Testing, MetallurgicalARTL _____________ 602-374-3770Metals Eng & Testing Lab. __ 602-272-4571Starrett Co __________ 978-249-3551

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 LinesQuick Turn Financial ____480-385-1220SBG Capital ________ 480-897-4988US Bank __________ 480-303-5422

WATER TREATMENT SYSTEMS

Chemetall _________ 714-739-2821

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

Metals Eng & Testing Lab. 602-272-4571Metals Eng & Testing Lab.

IRH

AZPMAPEllison MachineryTechShop

Metals Eng & Testing Lab.Metals Eng & Testing Lab.Metals Eng & Testing Lab.

Klontech Measure Sol

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 Metalworks ______ 480-926-4171AEI Fabrication _______ 480-733-6594Cascade Systems Tech ____ 503-640-5733East Valley Precision_____ 480-288-6601Fry Fabrications _______ 602-454-0701GHT Services _________ 480-396-1800JD Machine _________ 801-782-4403Hi-Tech Machining & Eng __ 520-889-8325KLK Ind. ___________ 602-267-1331Morsch Machine _______ 480-961-7673Precise Metal Products ___ 602-272-2625

Profi les Tool & Engineering _ 480-894-1008Pure-Logic Industries ____ 480-892-9395Wrico ____________ 480-892-7800

Cable/Harness AssemblyBar-S Machine ______ 928-636-2115Cascade Systems Tech ____ 503-640-5733

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 __ 623-434-8343AEI Fabrication _______ 480-733-6594B&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 ___________ 602-272-6747

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


Profi les Tool & Engineering 480-894-1008ASSEMBLY Profi les Tool & EngineeringProfi les Tool & Engineering

Panasil Impression Material used in inspection for consistent, accurate measurements

Marilyn KahlerIndustrial Sales

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

A2Z METALWORKER • 103 • Sept/Oct 2014A2Z METALWORKER SW • 103 • Sept/Oct 2014

May Foundry & Machine _ 801-531-8931Western Cast Parts ____ 480-250-9764

Castings: PrototypeAATC_____________602-268-1467Dolphin ___________ 602-272-6747May Foundry & Machine _ 801-531-8931Western Cast Parts ____ 480-250-9764

Castings: ProductionAATC_____________602-268-1467Dolphin ___________ 602-272-6747May Foundry & Machine _ 801-531-8931Western Cast Parts ____ 480-250-9764

COATINGArizona Finishing ______ 602-438-4443Boltʼs Metallizing ______ 602-244-2432Coating Technologies ____ 623-581-2648Collins Metal Finishing ____602-275-3117

LA Specialties ________ 602-269-7612Louieʼs 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 520-434-9090Precision Industrial Painting 602-256-0260Treffers Precision ______ 602-744-2636The Metal Man _______ 800-448-9448Sav-On Plating ________ 602-252-4311

Coating: Dry Film LubeCoating Technologies ____ 623-581-2648

Perfection 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.Chemetall _________ 714-739-2821Coating 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 480-306-7748

The Metal Man _______ 800-448-9448Bandsaw Cutting

bandsawparts.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 ______ 480-813-1002

METALWORKER SW •METALWORKER SW •METALWORKER SW 103 • Sept/Oct 2014

The Metal Man

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

PerfePerfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090


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

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AERO


Micro-Tronics, Inc _______602-437-8995Precision 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 ___________602-278-6666

LAYKE, 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 ___________602-278-6666Micro-Tronics, Inc _______602-437-8995Micropulse West ________480-966-2300Milco Wire EDM/Waterjet ___714-373-0098Quality Mold _________480-892-5480Sun Tech__________ 480-921-1665

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_______________505-884-5782Powill 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 ______ 602-323-5550

Wrico ____________ 480-892-7800Graphite Services

Micro-Tronics, Inc _______602-437-8995ENGINEERING/

PROGRAMMINGExactitude Precision ______ 602-316-6957Profi les Tool & Engineering _ 480-894-1008Pure-Logic Industries _____480-892-9395

FAA REPAIR STATION Air Gear Industries ______602-275-7996

FABRICATIONAbrams Airborne Mfg ____520-887-1727

Micro-Tronics, Inc 602-437-8995

Email: [email protected]

480-892-7800Arizona Wire & Tool 480-813-1002

21631 N. 3rd AvenuePhoenix, AZ 85027p (623) 492 9400 x215f (623) 492 [email protected] www.stewartmfg.com

Patrick H. Stewart IIPresident

AYKE, Inc. 602-272-2654 Arizona Wire & ToolLAYKE, Inc. Arizona Wire & Tool

___________Quality MoldSun Tech

Ebbco Inc

3D Machine LLCIlene Price: [email protected]

Steve Bangerter: [email protected] N. 44th Ave, Phoenix AZ 85031

602-272-2625


Acme Metalworks _______ 480-926-4171Advanced Metal Fab & Machine 928-778-4800Advanced Metal Sales __ 623-434-8343AEI Fabrication _______ 480-733-6594AERO 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 __________ 623-939-8119

DT Products Metal Fabrication 928-776-4129Fry Fabrications _______ 602-454-0701Fine 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 ____ 480-892-9395Scriven Precision ______ 480-961-9775Stewart Precision Mfg ____ 623-492-9400TMM Precision _______ 800-448-9448Weiser/Mile High Precision _ 303-280-2778

Whitley Machine ______ 602-323-5550Wrico ____________ 480-892-7800Aluminum (Medium & Large)

Aero Tech __________ 801-292-0493Fabrication:

Custom MetalAdvanced 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 ___ 520-887-1727Advanced Metal Fab & Machine 928-778-4800

APMI_____________480-668-0024Arrow 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 _ 602-455-9575Trepanning Specialties __ 562-633-8110Wrico ____________ 480-892-7800Fabrication: Rebuild/ Large

Bell Steel __________ 480-833-5538Empire Precision Mach. __ 480-633-4580

Fabrication: Sheet MetalAbrams Airborne Mfg ___ 520-887-1727

[email protected]

DT Products Metal Fabrication Whitley Machine 602-323-5550 APMI_____________480-668-0024APMI_____________480-668-0024Whitley Machine

David TurbyyllPresident


Shawn Carlin [email protected]

11042 N. 24th Ave. Suite 101 Phoenix, AZ 85029


Advanced Metal Fab & Machine 928-778-4800AEI Fabrication ________480-733-6594Allfab Engineering ______602-437-0497

APMI_____________480-668-0024Arrow 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 ____________480-966-6090Janʼs Inc.____________480-833-7305JD Machine __________801-782-4403Phoenix Metalcraft ____ 602-279-4810Precise Metal Products ____602-272-2625Precision Metalworks __ 602-455-9575

Precision 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______________714-256-8950Gold 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 ________ 480-968-1947STP Performance Coating LLC 602-276-1231

Dry Film LubricationPrecision Industrial Painting 602-256-0260

Electro-PolishingCollins Metal Finishing ____602-275-3117

Finishing: One StopPerfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090

Finishing: Ops CleaningSemiray Aerospace Testing _ 623-842-3030

Glass Bead Clean Arizona Hard Chrome _____ 602-278-8671Byington Steel Treating ____408-727-6630Coating Technologies _____623-581-2648Gold Tech Industries ______480-968-1930LA 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 ______480-968-1930L A Specialties _________ 602-269-7612Semiray ____________ 602-275-1917

PolishingArizona Hard Chrome _____ 602-278-8671

EPSI______________714-256-8950Gold 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

FIXTURESRB Machine Co, Inc _____ 602-272-6869Exactitude Precision _____ 602-316-6957Hogan Manufacturing ____ 623-463-1939Southwest Tool & Die Services 480-317-9366

FORGINGS

R&D Specialty Manco ____ 602-278-7700

EE

Advanced Metal Fab & Machine 928-778-4800

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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

Air Gear Industries ______ 602-275-7996Apache Gear, Inc _______ 623-934-7144Ayers Gear & Machine ____ 623-934-6913

GRINDING

Air Gear Industries ______ 602-275-7996

Anmark ___________ 480-968-3126Arizona Hard Chrome ____ 602-278-8671Arizona Wire & Tool _____ 480-813-1002Auer Precision ________ 480-834-4637AzMark ___________ 480-926-8969Blue Streak Grinding ____ 602-353-8088ChemResearch ________ 602-253-4175East Valley Precision_____ 480-288-6601EDM Express _________ 800-780-7075Fives ____________ 909-263-9282GMN USA _________ 800-686-1679Grindworks _________ 623-582-5767Hogan Manufacturing ____ 623-463-1939JWB Manufacturing _____ 480-967-4600McFarland Machine & Eng _ 480-966-1388Osborn Products _______ 623-587-0335Phoenix Grinding ______ 602-437-8401Powill Manufacturing ____ 623-780-4100RMG Machining _______ 623-582-6544Ron Grob Co. ________ 970-667-5320Steel Services Grinding ___ 800-662-0126Sun Grinding ________ 602-238-9595Superior Grinding ______ 888-487-9701TCI Precision Metals ____ 800-234-5613

Grinding, Blanchard

Air Gear Industries _____ 602-275-7996McFarland 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 ____ 602-353-8088

National 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. _________970-667-5320

Certiied Cerakote Applicator

Headquarters - Phoenix242 E. University Drive

Tucson3855 S. Evans Blvd. Albuquerque

3300 Princeton NE 1- 800-350-8265

[email protected]

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edgibson@continentalmachiningco.comwww.continentalmachiningco.com


Superior Grinding ______ 888-487-9701Grinding:Mattison

Sun Grinding ________ 602-238-9595Grinding: OD

Anmark ___________ 480-968-3126Arizona Hard Chrome ____ 602-278-8671Grindworks _________ 623-582-5767Micro-Tronics, Inc ______ 602-437-8995National Grinding & Mfg __ 602-588-2869

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

Grinding: Tool & CutterB & T Tool & Engineering ___ 602-267-1481CTE _____________800-783-2400Gilbert Metal Stamping ___ 480-503-1283Superior Grinding ______ 888-487-9701

GUNDRILLINGAcme Metal Works ______480-926-4171Trepanning Specialties __ 562-633-8110

HEAT TREATINGBoltʼs Metallizing ______ 602-244-2432

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 ____ 602-323-2560Micropulse West _______ 480-966-2300Profi les Tool & Engineering _ 480-894-1008Pro 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 520-745-8771Metalcraft Inc. ________ 480-967-4889Morsch Machine _______ 480-961-7673St. 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 __ 602-437-4005

3422 West Wilshire DrivePhoenix, AZ 85009

602 278 6704602 278 6717 Fax

3422 West Wilshire Drive3422 West Wilshire DrivePhoenix, AZ 85009Phoenix, AZ 85009

Inspection, First ArticleDatum Inspection _______602-997-1340Klontech Measure Sol _____480-626-8131Total Quality Systems ____ 480-377-6422

Inspection ServicesArizona 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

Byington 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.__________ 602-272-2654National 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 ___ 480-820-0506


Challenger Aerospace ____ 480-894-0802Continental Machining __800-777-2483Evans Precision Machining _ 623-581-6200Excaliber ___________ 623-878-6800Gilbert Precision Machine __ 480-892-4730Hi-Tech Machining & Eng __ 520-889-8325HK 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.__________ 602-272-2654Matrix 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 520-624-5628

Advanced Metal Fab & Machine 928-778-4800Aero Design & Mfg ______602-437-8080AERO Spring & Mfg Co ____602-243-4329Anewco ___________ 520-751-1222Arizona 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 ___________ 602-276-2276Janʼs Inc.____________480-833-7305JD Machine __________801-782-4403Keller Precision _______ 928-279-8919KLK Ind. ____________ 602-267-1331McFarland Machine & Eng __480-966-1388Micropulse West ________480-966-2300Profi les Tool & Engineering __480-894-1008RMG Machining ________623-582-6544RPM Industries ________623-780-4993TVT 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 520-624-5628Alpha Machine ________602-437-0322Arcas Machine Inc ____ 480-632-9414Nichols Precision _____480-804-0593Anewco ___________ 520-751-1222

Arizona Wire & Tool ______ 480-813-1002AzMark ____________480-926-8969B&B Fabrication & Machine __623-271-6855BID Machine, Inc ______ 480-892-7304Challenger 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 ___________ 602-276-2276Janʼs 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.___________602-272-2654Metalcraft 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 ________623-587-0335

PGI ______________505-884-5782 PMBC ___________ _602-431-8131Powill Manufacturing ____ 623-780-4100Precise Metal Products ____602-272-2625Profi les Tool & Engineering __480-894-1008Pro Precision _________602-353-0022Pure-Logic Industries _____480-892-9395Quality Mold _______ 480-892-5480R&D Specialty Manco _____602-278-7700RMG Machining ________623-582-6544RMSS ____________ 623-780-5904RPM Industries ________623-780-4993Satowfi ____________ 480-374-5706St. Vrain Manufacturing ____ 303-702-1529Toolcraft 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. ___480-633-4580

Advanced Metal Fab & Machine 928-778-4800 Arizona Wire & Tool 480-813-1002Arizona Wire & ToolChallenger Aerospace 480-894-0802 Adv

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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

PGI ______________505-884-5782


HK Machining ________ 602-278-6704KLK Ind. ____________ 602-267-1331RMG Machining ________623-582-6544

Mach: Turning CNC3D Machine LLC _______480-239-8254Absolute Turning & Machine _520-624-5628Advanced 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 _____________ 801-619-9850JD 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 __ 602-455-9575Profi les Tool & Engineering __480-894-1008Rentzel Tool Compnay ____480-832-0700RMG Machining ________623-582-6544RMSS _____________623-780-5904Ron Grob Co. _________970-667-5320RPM Industries ________623-780-4993St. Vrain Manufacturing ____ 303-702-1529

Stewart Precision Mfg _____623-492-9400Uni-Tek ___________ 602-272-2601Val-Tech Mfg _________ 480-966-7376Metalcraft 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 ______ 480-239-8254

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Absolute Turning & Machine 520-624-5628Accutech ____________ 801-975-1117Advanced Metal Fab & Machine 928-778-4800Alpha Machine _______ 602-437-0322

Anewco ___________520-751-1222Arcas Machine Inc ___ 480-632-9414Backerworks Mfg ____ 505-342-2943Bar-S Machine _____ 928-636-2115BID Machine, Inc ______480-892-7304Continental 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_______________505-884-5782Rentzel Tool Compnay ___ 480-832-0700RMG Machining _______ 623-582-6544Pro Precision _______ 602-353-00220R&D Specialty Manco ____ 602-278-7700RB Machine Co, Inc _____ 602-272-6869RMG Machining _______ 623-582-6544RMSS ___________ 623-780-5904RPM Industries _______ 623-780-4993St. Vrain Manufacturing ___ 303-702-1529Stewart Precision Mfg ____ 623-492-9400Uni-Tek ___________ 602-272-2601Val-Tech Mfg _________ 480-966-7376Wire-Tech __________ 480-966-1591


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Machining: Milling3D Machine LLC _____ 480-239-8254Advanced 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 ___________ 602-276-2276JD 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 ____________ 623-780-5904Stewart Precision Mfg ____ 623-492-9400Tri-Matrix __________ 480-844-0165Uni-Tek ___________ 602-272-2601

Wire-Tech __________ 480-966-1591Machining: Screw

RMG Machining _______ 623-582-6544Machining: Semiconductor

Gilbert Precision Machine __ 480-892-4730KLK Ind. ___________ 602-267-1331L&W Machine Co ____ 602-323-2560Satowfi ___________ 480-374-5706

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___ 602-269-6298Ayers 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 Compnay ___ 480-832-0700RMG Machining _______ 623-582-6544

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SINTERINGWestern Sintering ______509-375-3096

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TAPPINGGilbert Metal Stamping ___ 480-503-1283Harschco LLC _______ 602-617-7514RMG Machining _______ 623-582-6544

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THERMAL SPRAYBoltʼs Metallizing ______ 602-244-2432Controlled Thermal Techʼy __602-272-3714Empire Precision Mach. __ 480-633-4580

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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

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Formed TubingAERO Spring & Mfg Co ____602-243-4329B&B Fabrication & Machine __ 623-271-6855Howell Precision ________ 623-582-4776

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D & R Mchy ............................17,65,93,99DCM Tech ......................................6,94Datum Inspection ...........................106Daum Commercial.........................103Davis Salvage............................. 24,112Delcam. ...........................................104Desert Fire .......................................107Desert EDM Sales . ...........................96Desert Machine Tool Repair .....64,94Dolphin ...........................................102DM Machine Repair .....................100DT Products Metal Fab ................105Durma USA ..................................... 25E Solutions ....................................100East Valley Precision ..................... 111Ebbco Inc. .......................................94Echols Saw & Supply ......................93 Edge Technologies ......................... 96EDM Express ......................78-79,104EDM Network ..................................97EDM Perform Access. ................63,98EDM Tech......................................104Ellison Machinery ...5,82-83,87,93,95Empire Precision Mach. ...............109EPSI. ............................................... 111Evans Precision Mach’g ................105Exactitude ..................................... 107Excaliber Precision .......................103Fine Line Fabricating Inc. .............105Fine Line Laser Cutting ................ 111Fives .................................................94Flex-Pro..........................................109Flow Corp ........................................93Fry Fabrications ............................102Fry Steel Co ......................................97FutureWeld ......................20,103,105Ganesh Machinery .....................49,95Gartman Tech Services ...........88,112Geiger Electric Inc ..........................94GoSynergy Petroleum .................... 56GHT Services LLC ..........................102Gilbert Metal Stamping ................102Gilbert Precision Machine............109Gladhill Assoc ...........................58,107Global EDM Supply ...................69,96Glover Precision, Inc. .................... 107GMA Garnet ....................................98GMN USA....................................70,96Gold Tech Industries ...............52,107Grindworks ...................................103Group Manufacturing ..................104Hangsterfers ..............................97,98Harschco ......................................106Helical Solutions ...........................100Hi-Tech Machining & Welding ....104HK Machining ...............................108Hogan Manufacturing ..................110Hollie Perlow ................................ 101Horizon Carbide ...........................102Howell Precision .....................80,103HPMP .............................................112Hurco ................................................17HydMech ....................................15,93IEC Supply LLC ................................ 96Ind. Metal Supply ......................84,98Ind.Tool Die .................................. 107Infinisys ..................................103,107Infor ............................................... 101Innovative Cutting Tools ............... 96Innovative Cutting Solutions ....... 111Innovia ......................................48,104Integrated Systems Inc ................112IPE Aerospace .................................32IRH .................................................102ISMG ................................................93ITDE ............................................... 107Jan’s Inc ..........................................108J B’s Prec Ind.............................. ....107JD Ellen .......................................... 107JD Machine .....................................102Jemelco Inc .....................................100Jill Norgaard ....................................101Jorgenson ... ........ ............................95JWB Manufacturing ......................106K D Capital ......................................93Keller Precision .............................109KLK Inc ......................................72,108Klontech Indus. Sales .....................93

KMT Waterjet ..................................94K-Zell Metals, Inc. ..........................104Kurt Manufacturing Co. ..................98Kwik Mark Inc ..................................94L&W Machine Co. .........................107LA Specialties ........................... 68,107Las Cruces Machine .......................109Layke Inc ........................................103Layke Tactical ................................101Leap Innovation .............................101Leavitt Group ................................ 100Lights Out Electric ........................ 100Lone Arrow ......................................96Louie’s Black Oxide ...............104,106Louie’s Gun Finishing ....................106Lynch Brothers ...............................106Lynden Intl. ....................................102Machinery Sales .............................. 95Magnum Prec....... ....19,91,94,95,101Makino ....................................1,23,93Marshall Tool & Supply ..................99Marvel ......................................... 71,85MarZee ................................60,97,105Masic Industries ............................107Mario Pinto ................................... 100Matrix Machine .....................102,103Maxum .............................................98May Foundry ..................................105McFarland Machine .......................109Medford Knife & Tool ...............38-39Mesa Machinery ........................ 60,95Metalcraft Inc. ................................107Metal Finishing Systems .................29Metal Processing Intl.....................109Metals Eng & Testing Labs .......... 100Methods West .................................95Micro-Tronics .....................40-41,103Micro 100 ................................... 30,98Micropulse West ...........................102Midaco Corp ..................................103Milco Wire EDM/Waterjet ............103Milne .............................................. 100MLC CAD Systems ...................26,100Moore Tool & Equip .......................95Morsch Machine ............................102National Bank of Arizona ..............101National Grinding & Mfg. .............105Nelson Engineering .................46,104New Hope Machine .................. 34-35Nichols Precision ...........................109North-South ....................................96OGP ...................................................94Omax Corp. ................................ 81,95ONA EDM USA .................................94Orion Registrar ..............................107Osborn Products ...................103,105Pacific Metal Stampings................109Perfection Industrial Finishing .... 110PGI ...................................................107Phoenix Grinding...........................103Phoenix Heat Treat .......................106Phoenix Metal Fin. & Polishing ......106Phoenix Metalcraft ........................111Phoenix Small Tool .........................99Pilkington Metal Finishing ............113Pioneer Distributing Co. ...............103Powill Mfg ......................................106Precious Metal Plating. .................107Precise Metal Products .................104Precise Measurements LLC.......... 100Precision Casting Repair ...............103Precision Die & Stamping .............102Precision Industrial Painting .........103Precision Metalworks ...................112Precision Metal Products ..............112 Pro Precision .................................105Profiles Tool & Eng .............76-77,104Pure-Logic Industries .....................112QS Machinery ...................................94Qualichem, Inc ..................................97Quality Improvement Consulting. 101Quality Mold...................................105Quick Turn Financial... ....................101R&D Specialty Manco.....................108RB Machine .....................................113Rentzel Tool Co.............................. 110Resell CNC West...........................37,96RMG Machining .........................47,110

RMSS ................................................110Rocky Mountain Saw Blades............ 94Roentgen USA................................... 94Ron Grob .........................................108Royal Products .............................28,96Roydent...........................................104RPM Industries ................................108R.S. Hughes ..................................45,96S&S Machinery Sales ........................95S L Fusco ............................................97Samuel, Son & Co. .................57,97,98Sandvik Coromant .....................95,101Satowfi ............................................108Sav-On Plating ................................ 110Savage Machine ......................... 89,94Sawblade.com ........................106,115SBG Capital ........................................99Scientific Cutting Tools .............. 50,99Scriven Precision Fab. ....................102Semiray .....................................86,108Service & Sales ................................112Setco Spindles & Slides ...................98Shaw Precision Grind’g ................. 104Southwest Powder .........................106SolidCAM ....................................66,101SolidProducts ............................54,100Sonic Tool & Gage ..........................106Southwest Electronic Hardware .........96Southwest Fastener .......................107Southwest Powder .........................106Southwest Swiss Precision ............108Southwest Tool & Die Services .... 104Southwest Waterjet-Laser .............111SPRINGWORKS Utah ......................112St Vrain ........................................... 109Star Metal Fluids .......13,94,97,99,100Starrett ..............................................94State Technology ..............................97Steel Services Grind’g...............84,103Sterling Fabrication Technology ........106Stewart Precision Manufacturing ......104Sun Grinding .............................42,105Sun Tech ..........................................112Superior Grinding ...........................106Sustaining Edge Solutions ......... 10,99TCI Precision Metals ....................75,97TMM Precision ........................102,105T.S.M. Mach. .........................43,49,93Tech Leader Tooling ........................38TechMark ........................................105TechShop ........................................101Temtco Steel .....................................97The Metal Man........................102,105The Werks C&C ................................98Thompson Machine ...................... 104TMI (GibbsCAM) ............................ 100Toolcraft of Phoenix .......................108Tornquist Machinery ........................94Total Quality Sys ...............................97Tornos ......................................... 21,94Trepanning Specialties .................. 110Triad ...................................................73Tri-Matrix.........................................111Trusty-Cook ................................ 55,95Tube Service .....................................97TVT Die Casting ........................68,105TW Metals .........................................98U S Shop Tools ........................... 33,96Ulbrich of CA ................................61,97United Performance Metals ..........52,96Universal Laser Systems Inc ................94Uni-Tek ............................................107US Bank ......................................54,101US Carbide Tool ...............................62Val-Tech Mfg .................................. 104VonRuden .................................98,100Washington Cal. ......................106WC Machine & Tool ...................... 104Weiser/Mile High Precision ...........105Western Cast Parts .........................102Western Sintering Co.....................112Western States Metal ...............90,100Whitley Machine ......................105Wire-Tech ....................................... 104Wrico .........................................70,104X5 .................................................... 104Yamazen USA .........................29,67,93

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