Rocky Mountain Edition Oct 2014

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Vol. 7, No. 5 Sept / Oct 2014Vol. 7, No. 5 Sept / Oct 2014

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

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Welcome to Cascade Systems Technology

Proud American Electronics Manufacturer

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

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

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www.cascadesystems.net

Welcome to Cascade Systems Technology

Proud American Electronics Manufacturer

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

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

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

Industries Served

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

23176 NW Bennett StreetHillsboro, OR 97124

T. [email protected]

DefenseAerospace

MedicalIndustrial

CommercialRenewable Energy

October is an exciting month in manufacturing, as it is the month where we celebrate manufacturing in the United States. The celebration is a growing grassroots movement of manufac-turers dedicated to overcoming the challenges facing manufac-

turers today. The celebration is sandwiched between IMTS, which was held in September, and Fabtech, which will occur in November.

IMTS was a great success. According to the sponsors, it was the fourth largest IMTS in history and the largest six-day show ever with registration of 114,147. The Chicago event covered more than 1.283 million net square feet of exhibit space and hosted 2,035 ex-hibiting companies.

Fabtech, North America’s largest metal forming, fabricating, welding and finishing event will be held in Atlanta from November 11th through the 13th. The upcoming event is ex-pected to cover more than 500,000 net square feet and anticipates over 27,000 attendees and 1,400 exhibiting companies.

“The manufacturing sector is just on fire right now,” said Brian Jones, a senior U.S. econ-omist. “You’ve got increased demand for workers, and the more people working, and the more money they are making, the more money they’ll spend.”

And while manufacturing is ‘on fire’, apprenticeship training is in need of revitalization in the US. Relative to our economy, the apprenticeship system is significantly smaller than that of other industrialized countries. England started 510,000 new apprentices in 2012 while the United States started 147,000, despite the U.S. population being roughly six times that of England. Meanwhile, in Switzerland, 70 percent of young people enter the workforce through an apprenticeship.

According to the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, by 2020, the United States is expected to face a shortage of 5 million workers who are equipped with technical certificates and credentials. At the same time, about half of U.S. executives at large companies say they are likely to have fewer skilled workers than they need in the short term of the next one to two years. What are we doing to address this? According to the National Skills Coalition, at least 15 states have enacted legislation this year to close the skills gap. States increased access to career pathways, invested in job-driven training and sector partnerships, and set policies to coordinate activities and collect outcome data across education, workforce, and other programs.

Apprenticeship is a time-tested approach to training and developing skilled labor. Research has shown that apprenticeship offers myriad benefits to employers. By investing in talent development through apprenticeship, employers gain a pipeline of loyal skilled workers, increase productivity, and improve the bottom line.

Until next issue, I wish you well, and I encourage you to help support manufacturing with apprentice programs. And as always, God Bless Our Troops!

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Gene WirthChris Seay

Hugh TaylorKathy Carpenter

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“I, for one, struggle a little bit with a $250,000 education for a philosophy degree. They are a wonderful people, but we can’t employ philosophers in manufacturing in the United States. We need a one- or two-year technical add-on for a high school.”

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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,


Announcements & Releases


EPOCS Manufacturing Expands With Capital Equipment Purchases

EPOCS Manufac-turing is pleased to announce that it is expanding wi th new ma-chine tool pur-chases. Mike Sny-der, Sales Man-ager for the com-pany, says, “We

have a well established reputation for quality in fabrication, which we’ve been providing to our customers since 1977.” He continued,

“More than 10 years ago, we began adding CNC machining to our business.”

The company purchases Amada machines for their sheet metal/fab-rication operations, and they purchase Haas machine tools for their CNC Machining. Their latest purchases include the Haas VM2-CNC milling center and the Haas ST-10 CNC lathe.

For more information on how EPOCS Manufacturing can help your business, contact them at 970-535-4540 or visit their website at www.epocs.com

J.M. Grisley Welcomes New Member Dave Johnson to Their Sales Team!

Dave Johnson joined the J.M. Grisley team on September 1st. Dave brings a wealth of experience, including 20 years working for and supervising machines shops, entirely in Utah. Dave’s machine shop experience spans a variety of industries, including: aerospace, oil and gas, medical and commerical, working on a variety of machines.

Dave says, “I have always been fascinated with the machine tool side of the industry, and it is well known that Doosan is a well respected machine tool in the industry. Also, I have heard that J.M. Grisley has an outstanding reputation, especially with their service team. I am delighted to have been selected to join their team.” Lars Grisley, President of J.M. Grisley, a 4th generation machine tool dealer, says,

“Our customers value a sophisticated, knowledgeable sales team to help them purchase the best products for their specific needs. Dave is exactly what both we and our customers appreciate.”

For more information, call the office at 801-486-7519 or visit jmgrisley.com

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Smith Machinery Welcomes the 5th Genera-tion Into The Machine Tool Industry

Clark Smith, president/owner of Smith Machinery, is pleased to announce that Spencer Smith has joined the company as a Sales Engi-neer. Clark says, “Like all of us in our family, Spencer grew up with our company being a major influence at family gatherings. We all worked here through school and helped clean and organize the showroom on weekends

and in the summer, so he is familiar with what this business is about.”

Two years ago, when Spencer made plans to pursue a career in the machine tool industry, he started by attending Machining Technology classes at the DATC and then worked as a machinist in a Salt Lake Valley job shop. Clark wanted Spencer to have some outside experi-ence before joining the family business.

Spencer says, “I am incredibly excited to join Smith Machinery and look forward to many years working in the industry.” Spencer is going through an extensive training program and is also just beginning to sup-port customers. You should expect to see more of him in the near future.

To learn more about Smith Machinery and welcome Spencer, pleasecall the shop at 801-263-6403 or visit smithmachinetools.com

Acu-Tech CNC Owner Invents Watercraft Anchor Out of Necessity David Martindale, owner of Acu-Tec CNC, specializes in production and prototype precision machining, and the company’s customers span the commer-cial, aerospace and medical industries. Recently, David added ‘inventor’ to his list of accomplishments.

David and his family are avid boaters, and on their vacations, they spend the days boating, jet skiing and swim-ming on lakes. David says, “One time we were on a lake in Nebraska,

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He continued, “Two people, including my son, jumped into the lake and were swim-ming out to catch the boats and jet skis. They never would have been able to rescue the boats and jet ski, and some very kind people jumped into their boats to save them.”

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about how his jet skis could be anchored safely. David says, “You don’t want to drag them onto the shore, as the sand will damage the bottom.”

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Scott Trumble Joins the Intech Funding Team!

Intech Funding is pleased to welcome Scott Trumble to their team. Scott has been a CMTSE (Certified Machine Tool Sales Engineer) and he brings 30 plus years of machine tool experience in California, Ar-izona, and Utah. Additionally, he managed a machine shop in Arizona

previous to his sales career.

Scott says, “I have had profes-sional and personal relation-ships with Jeff Glikman, Ric Rivett and Tammy Sherrill for nearly 3 decades, and worked closely with them in helping my machine tool customers obtain competitive and expedient financing. However, I never had the opportunity to become part of their team until now.” He continued,

“Intech Funding helped me to be more successful in my machine tool sales career, so it is very exciting to now be able to represent the Intech product.”

Intech Funding Corp. is an industry leader providing financing and leasing to manufacturing companies nationwide. Unlike banks whose clients span all industries, Intech Funding Corp. specializes in one industry - manufacturing.

Tammy says, “All we finance is machinery. Because we specialize, we can provide better rates and terms than most banks and ‘generalist’ finance companies.”

Call Scott Trumble to see how he and Intech Funding can help you finance you new machine. Scott can be reached at 385-553-9208 or email him at [email protected]




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AEI Fabrication Ac-quires AMADA LC-3015F1 NT Precision Laser Cutting Sys-tem

AEI’s nearly 20 years of working closely with and listening 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 cut-ting 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.

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QualiChem White Paper Documents How Next Generation High-Pressure Coolants Eliminate Foaming QualiChem, the fastest-growing metalworking fluids manufacturer in North America, has published a White Paper on new-technology no-foam coolants for high-pressure applications.

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

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• 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.

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While last month’s surprise jump in the Chicago Business Barometer was almost too good to be true—the production component jumped the most in nearly a decade—it raised the odds that an even more closely watched indicator wasn’t a fluke.

When investors return from the long weekend, the first data point they will have to digest is the Institute for Supply Management’s Manufacturing Index for August. July’s figure came in at 57.1, the strongest since April 2011. Soon after that earlier date, the intensification of the debt crisis in some European countries put an end to several strong monthly readings.

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Manpower: Denver and Colorado employers have strong Q4 hiring plans

Employers in Denver and Colorado expect to hire at a brisk pace during the fourth quarter of 2014, according to the latest Manpower Employment Outlook Survey released last month.

From October to December, 21 percent of the metro Denver com-panies interviewed plan to hire more employees, while 28 percent of employers statewide plan to make more hires.

Only 8 percent of metro Denver employers plan to reduce staff in the fourth quarter; 7 percent of employers statewide plan to cut staff, Manpower found.

Taking the percentage of employers planning to hire and subtracting those who plan to make staff cuts yields a net employment outlook of 17 percent for the state and 13 percent for metro Denver.

“According to employers, job prospects [in Denver] are expected to decline compared to quarter three when the Net Employment Out-look was 18 percent,” said Sunny Ackerman, Manpower spokeswoman.

“Compared to one year ago when the net employment outlook was 8 percent, local employers expect a brighter hiring forecast.”

For the coming quarter, job prospects in metro Denver appear best in:

Construction; durable goods manufacturing;Transportation and utilities;Wholesale and retail trade;Information;Financial activities;Education and health; andServices and leisure/hospitality

Nationwide, 19 percent of the more than 18,000 employers surveyed expect to hire more employees in the fourth quarter, while 7 percent expect a decline in their payrolls.

The Manpower Employment Outlook Survey is conducted quarterly to measure employers’ intentions to increase or decrease the number of employees in their workforces during the next quarter. Source: Denver Business Journal

2 companies apparently chosen by U.S. Army for Joint Multi-Role program

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The Sikorsky-Boeing JMR demonstrator is expected to feature count-er-rotating rigid rotor blades, while Bell’s design is expected to use cost-saving elastomeric rotor structures. Source: Defense News

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“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.”

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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.

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

Boeing Co has won an initial contract worth $296 million to buy parts needed for production of 12 more P-8A spy planes, including eight for the U.S. Navy and four for the government of Australia, the Pentagon announced recently.

The contract, which kicks off funding for a second batch of full-rate production jets, runs through April 2018, the Defense Department said in its daily digest of major weapons contracts.

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.

The aircraft, based on Boeing’s 737-800 commercial aircraft, will replace the U.S. Navy’s P-3 spy planes, which have been in service for more than 40 years.

FAA to partner with universities to study drone usage

The Federal Aviation Administration wants to partner with colleges and universities to open an unmanned aircraft systems center of excellence in fiscal 2015. “Like university think-tank partnerships, the agency’s Centers of Excellence bring the best minds in the nation together to conduct research, to educate and to train, and work with the FAA toward solutions for aviation-related challenges,” the FAA said in a release. Source: FedScoop

FABTECH Expo to Raise Funds for Workshops for Warriors

FABTECH launched a charitable fundraising campaign in connection with the FABTECH 2014 Expo in Atlanta to benefit U.S. military veterans and assist them in obtaining jobs in the manufacturing sector. The 2014 FABTECH Expo Cares campaign seeks to raise funds in support of Workshops for Warriors, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to training, certifying, and placing veterans in manufacturing careers.

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“The record attendance we expect at FABTECH 2014 in Atlanta in-dicates that the manufacturing sector in the U.S. today is strong and growing,” said John Catalano, show co-manager at SME. “With more jobs to fill, manufacturing employers are looking for new sources of talent while, at the same time, many former members of our armed forces are looking for work. We are pleased to support Workshops for Warriors at FABTECH this year, an organization that combines these


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“Veterans need and deserve our support as they transition back to civilian life,” said Ana Cláudia Guedes, Executive Vice President at Workshops for Warriors. “What we’ve found is that veterans are an excellent fit for careers in advanced manufacturing because they are self-starters by nature who are driven to suc-ceed and trained to problem-solve. For many, the ability to work with their hands is also a selling point. By providing these veterans with industry-leading training and credentials, we are able to help them into life-sustaining ca-reers that can rebuild American manufacturing. It’s a win-win.”

Guedes continued, “Workshops for Warriors does not receive any government funding so the support of FABTECH and the advanced manufacturing industry is absolutely instru-mental to our continued success. We are honored to be the beneficiary of this year’s FABTECH Expo.”

“One of the great features of FABTECH is the sense of community that exists among attend-ees who have a common interest in promoting the future of American manufacturing,” said Mark Hoper, show co-manager at Fabricators & Manufacturers Association International. “This year’s FABTECH Expo Cares campaign is an extension of that community, offering a unique opportunity to support American veterans and our manufacturing sector here at home. Workshops for Warriors has a waiting list of hundreds of veterans who are hoping to enroll in classes. Together, our donations will expand their ability to meet the demand.”

The FABTECH Expo Cares charity campaign was first launched in Chicago during the 2013 show after a series of deadly storms devastated the city of Washington, IL and other areas of the state. The campaign exceeded its goal, raising more than $21,000 from the manufacturing community for the storm victims.

FABTECH has set up an online donation page

through the secure online fundraising site CrowdRise. The link to the donation page is www.fabtechexpo.com/fabtechexpocares. The FABTECH show partners have set a minimum $20,000 fundraising goal and encourage all exhibitors and attendees to contribute. Donations to Workshops for Warriors through CrowdRise are 100% tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. Donors will automatically receive an email receipt that meets IRS requirements.

The five FABTECH co-sponsors represent a wide variety of expertise and include: SME, the American Welding Society (AWS), the Fabricators & Manufacturers Association, Inter-national (FMA), the Precision Metalforming Association (PMA), and the Chemical Coaters Association International (CCAI).


Announcing some exciting news!

If your products have round components, range in diameter from 1/16” to 5”, length from 1/16” to 30”, and require very tight tolerances, you will absolutely want to contact the Ron Grob Company.

The company, based in the suburbs of Denver, Colorado, is proud to announce its newest machine tool purchase. This exciting new addition is a custom built thread rolling machine, manufactured to specification by the US manufacturer Tesker, headquartered in Wisconsin. Harold Huffaker, VP and General Manager of the Ron Grob Company, says, “Our Tesker machine took 9 months to manufacture, and it incorporated some new features that can only be found on our machine, so we have the most advanced machine in the world.”

The Tesker 645 thread roller is impressive to see. At 22,000 pounds, with 235,000 psi (pounds/square inch) of power, it’s Siemens control is custom modified by Tesker. Harold says the machine took only 2 days to install, and Kyle Ranous, who attended the one-week training session at Tesker’s headquarters, says, “It was easy to learn how to use this new state of the art machine, it was just so intuitive.”

Though the machine has only been on Rob Grob’s shop floor for just over a month, production has greatly improved. Harold says that the Tesker uses cold forming to make the threads (versus cut threads, which is the traditional methodology), and in essence

uses positive material displacement. Cold (thread) forming results in threads that are 30% stronger than cut threads, which is ideal for industries that require lead screws and worm screws, Harold says. He adds that it is the machine of choice for larger parts.

Ron Grob’s customers are already seeing the benefits of the Tesker thread rolling machine. Prior to receiving parts threaded on the new Tesker, one customer was prematurely wearing out the punches they used to stamp aluminum cans. When Ron Grob manufactured the punches using the new technology, it doubled the life of the customer’s punches.

Ron Grob is quite an extraordinary company, both in its history and in its future. Knowledge of both is essential to understanding the company.

Ron Grob’s History

The man behind the name, Ron Grob, is a degreed mechanical engineer whose hands on experience came from years working for his Father, Ted Grob and at Hewlett Packard. He founded the company 49 years ago and has paved the way for the success of the company today. One of Ron Grob’s earliest machines was a Grob RM-28x thread roller. The Grob machine name isn’t a coincidence, as Ron’s ancestors hold numerous patents for their Grob thread rolling machines.

Since it’s inception, Ron Grob built its reputation as a job shop that excelled in thread rolling and centerless grinding.

In the early 1990s the company expanded its capabilities to include CNC Swiss screw machining and CNC vertical machining. As the shop continued to expand, it quickly earned a positive reputation in the Front Range as a one-stop shop. The Ron Grob Company became the premier manufacturer of complex parts that other shops have trouble producing consistently well.

Even after diversifying into machining in the 1990s, Harold says the com-pany retains its reputation for its early core competencies, yet there are still people who don’t know how much Ron Grob can do for them across all areas of machining.

Nearly a decade ago, in 2005, Ron welcomed Harold Huffaker to the team. Harold had left Woodward Governor, where he had spent 20 years as a machinist and subsequently machine shop supervisor. Harold’s time at Woodward made a substantial impact on him both personally and pro-fessionally. He continues to express his gratitude for the mentorship and financial support he received which allowed him to earn his business degree. Although, in the end, Harold realized that he really wanted to be part of a small company for the next chapter of his life.

Harold started with Ron Grob as a centerless grinder operator and Ron

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quickly realized that Harold had the talent, attitude, and education to contribute much more to the Ron Grob Com-pany. Harold soon moved into the quality department, and was instrumental in the company’s certification to ISO 9001 in 2006. The com-pany has since certified to ISO 9001:2008.

After several promotions, from Quality Manager to General Manager to Vice Pres-ident/Stockholder, in 2010 Ron and Harold put together a formal succession plan for the Ron Grob Company.

Today Ron is 75 years of age, and he is anxious to pursue his hobbies, especially skiing and flying his plane. After several years of preparation, this transaction will soon be complete and Harold will be sole owner of the Ron Grob Company.

Welcome To The New Ron Grob

Harold is a gifted machinist. He says he got ‘the bug’ when he was 15, when he was given the opportunity to work at Schaal Brothers Machine, a shop owned by friends he met through church. But he isn’t just great at machining; he also understands the complexity of managing a business. He values the business degree he earned years ago and how it has enabled him to understand business fundamentals.

Four years ago Harold hired a business coach, one who would develop an individualized leadership training program specific to Ron Grob and Har-old’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT), much like many hire a personal trainer when they want to get into shape athletically.

Harold says, “I continue to utilize Laurie Taylor at igniteyourbiz.com, as my business coach, and I have extended her reach to coaching the entire management team at Ron Grob.”

Part of the Ron Grob strategy was to diversify the customer base, both in industries served and in number of customers. “Today, we have jobs from 50 different customers on the shop floor on any given day and this includes customers large and small.” He continued, “We build parts for companies in the medical, water management, firearms, military, as well as the gas and oil industries.” The Ron Grob Company has found that these particular industries benefit greatly from the services they provide.

The new Ron Grob Company required a management team that was in sync with the upward direction the business was heading in. Key team management members Dave Maxwell, who oversees quality and quoting, and Tara Martin, Controller and Production Coordinator, act as Harold’s right and left hands. Amanda Smith, newest member of the management team,

joined the company in March as Human Resources Manager and also oversees accounting functions. Harold admits that it is not unusual for the management team to be found in the conference room (“war room”) at 8 pm on any given work evening, where detailed company objectives and tasks are displayed and discussed. It is readily apparent that passion is a necessary ingredient to be-come a management team member at the new Ron Grob Company. Harold admits the Ron Grob team is phenomenal. They are col-lectively juggling daily operations and fostering a profit, all while simultaneously driving the Ron Grob Company to the next level of precision machining.

The management team recognizes that success would not be possible without the expertise of their skilled machinists. Even with the addition of new technology, the company’s greatest asset is its people. One of the company’s core values is to not be just a good place to work, but a great place to work.

To learn more about how the Ron Grob Company can help your business, contact them at 970-667-5320 or visit their website at rongrob.com.

Hear From A Couple of Ron Grob’s Customers

“Ron Grob has been a supplier of ours for more than 5 years now. They do a lot of rolled and turned components for us, and I have to say they are one of the very best in the Denver area.

They are very competitive in their pricing for our centerless grinding and rolled products, their lead times are good (what you would expect), and they are outstanding at communicating when there are any issues. I wish more shops were as good in their communication. I highly recommend Ron Grob.”

Joel, Industrial Equipment Manufacturer

“We have been working with the team at Ron Grob for more than 5 years, and they are indeed a premier grinding shop.

What I value most is their versatility, their ability and willingness to go the extra mile. They are truly an organizaiton with the highest standards and integrity!”

Katherine, Precision Manufacturing Company

The Ron Grob Management Team L to R: Ron Grob, Amanda Smith, Dave Maxwell, Tara Martin & Harold

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SME Forms Board To Bring 3D Printing to Classroom

The Metal Powder Report reports SME and 3D Systems have formed an advisory board along with America Makes, Intel, GE, Johnson Controls, Lockheed Martin, Deloitte, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology for their M.Lab21 Initiative. The board will provide subject matter expertise and best practices for the initiative.

“We welcome the opportunity to collaborate with these industry ad-visors to drive awareness and education of additive manufacturing in US high schools, and ultimately strengthen the next generation of the manufacturing workforce,” said SME Managing Director of Workforce and Education Jeannine Kunz.

Job Openings, Hires At Highest Levels In Years

The AP reports that in “signs the job market is slowly healing,” the num-ber of job openings has “remained near the highest level in 13 years in July,” according to the Labor Department. The department also noted that companies hired workers at “the fastest pace in nearly seven years” during the same month. The number of jobs available in July “ticked down 2,000 to 4.673 million” due to a decline in government job openings, while businesses advertised more jobs in July than in June. Total hiring “jumped 81,000 to 4.87 million, the highest level” since the recession began in 2007, meaning “companies are more likely to fill their open jobs.” The numbers indicate “the job market is making progress” despite last week’s report.

Niobium Based Alloy, C-103, Commonly Used for Aerospace Applications, is Successfully 3D Printed With, by MTI

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As both public and private research expands into the uses of additive manufacturing in space, one of the main objectives will be to find and produce new metal-alloy materials which are capable of withstanding the harsh environments outside the Earth’s friendly atmosphere, while also remaining cost effective and light-weight. Both NASA and SpaceX

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Metal Technology (MTI), a company with a long history of manufacturing metal components and parts for space applications, has recently announced that they have successfully 3D printed test coupons out of a metal alloy known as C-103. C-103 is a Niobium based alloy which is widely used is aerospace applications because of its incredible heat resistance, as well as its light-weight, cost, reliability, and ability to stand up to intense vibrations and cryogenic temperatures. It was actually first used in space decades ago by NASA, within the Apollo command module.

“This project began in January, 2014 when we decided to pursue additive manufactur-ing as an additional capability to our operations. It’s a natural evolution of our work with C-103, to provide customers quicker delivery and more complex geometries,” said Steve Smith, MTI’s Director of Sales & Marketing.

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Hafnium: 10.0%Titanium: 0.7%-1.3%Zirconium: 0.7%Tantalum: 0.5%Tungsten: 0.5%The alloy has a melting point of 4260 ± 90ºF, and a density of 0.320 lbs./cubic inch, making it ideal for use in space, as well as for components used within super-heated

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A prototype Boeing surveillance aircraft has received FAA approval.

The Enhanced Medium Altitude Reconnaissance and Surveillance System Risk Reduction Prototype was awarded a Supplemental Type Certification.

The aircraft, a modified Beechcraft King Air, is now cleared for global sales.

“ERRP’s FAA certification gives us another approved modification in Boeing’s growing family of ISR airplanes,” said John Rader, a Boeing vice president of electronic and sensor solutions. “ERRP is a high-end signals intelligence aircraft that delivers near-real-time SIGINT to the warfighter, a capability in high demand from militaries around the globe.”

Another Strong Gain for Plastics Machinery Shipments in Q2 The accelerating momentum in plastics machinery demand that emerged in the second half of 2013 was sustained through the first half of this year, according to statistics compiled and reported by the Committee on Equipment Statistics (CES) of SPI: The Plastics Industry Trade Association. Shipments of primary plastics equipment (injection molding, extru-sion, blow molding and thermoforming equipment) for reporting companies totaled an estimated $299.3 million in Q2. This was slightly below the strong total of $300.3 million in Q1 of this year, but it represented a gain of 10 percent when compared with the total from Q2 of 2013. For the year to date, the total value of primary equipment shipments is 10 percent ahead of last year.

A closer look at the CES data show that the shipments value of in-jection molding machinery increased 9 percent in Q2 of 2014 when compared with the total from Q2 of last year. The shipments value of single-screw extruders slipped 2 percent, but the value of ship-ments of twin-screw extruders (which includes both co-rotating and counter-rotating machines) jumped 63 percent. The shipments value for blow molding machines edged down 2 percent in Q2. The CES also compiles data on the auxiliary equipment segment (robotics, temperature control, materials handling, etc.) of the plas-tics machinery industry. New bookings of auxiliary equipment for reporting companies totaled a record-breaking $108.0 million in Q2. This represented a spike upward of 21 percent when compared with the total from Q2 of 2013. This solid gain in the CES data on plastics machinery shipments cor-responds with the gains in the two major data series compiled by the


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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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• Longevity of employees - Brian Foremaster, 2nd generation owner of the company, says that approximately 25% of the employees have been with the company for more than 15 years. He says, “They care about the products we make, and it shows.” What is not published in the company’s marketing brochure is some of the reasons employees remain at Foremaster Tool. One company employee applauded the company’s flexibility. He said, “We have people who start work at 5 am, and we have people who come to work each day at 9 am. Brian and the team recognize that employees’ family schedules are key to their lives, and our business can accommodate these different schedules. Not only is it good for employee retention, it means that we are open more hours for our customers.”

• Communication - As anyone in the industry can attest, shipping com-plex parts on the dates requested by dozens of customers inevitably means that some dates will slip, particularly when you factor in the number of outside processes that go into completing many parts. Couple this with the fact that, by nature, we avoid conflict, and this means that many shops do not communicate schedule delays to their customers in a timely manner. Lynn Hadley, Process Planner for the company (and 18 years tenure), says, “About

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a year ago, we began providing our customers with daily reports on the status of their products. We are continuing to evolve these communication ‘Job Status’ reports, and we are now providing them to 3 of our largest customers.” He continued, “The feedback we are getting from our customers is that this is a very valuable tool. Not all parts are needed on the date specified on the PO, and we are able to reallocate priorities when customers know what our scheduling looks like.”

• Investment in technology - Brian says that his father, Peter Foremaster, who founded the company, be-lieved in buying new machine tools and believed in buying high quality machine tools. He says, “Peter bought his first machines from Tracy Smith of Smith Machinery.” He continued, “Since I have taken over the business, I continue to purchase from Smith Machinery, now from Tracy’s son Clark Smith.” Brian values the fact that Mazak is manufac-turing a many of their machine tools here in the United States, in Florence, Kentucky.


a high-value solution for those consider-ing simultaneous 5-axis technology for the first time. The machine also handles machining processes on all 5 sides of a part in one set-up to eliminate multiple set-ups, it lowers lead-times and dra-matically improves work piece accuracy.

Brian says, “With Smith Machinery, we were able to purchase two Mazak 5 axis machine tools at a price point that worked for our business.” He continued,

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This past year, they began sending us a daily spreadsheet with all of our projects and the status on the each project. We can then review the schedule of all of our projects real time and move proj-ects around for their schedule, based upon our priorities at the time. This is working so well for us, and they are the only machine shop that has offered this kind of direct/daily communication via a formal system.”

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Foremaster Tool Precision Machining’s Entree Into 5 Axis Machining

Brian and the team at Foremaster Tool Precision Machining have long wanted to move to the next level in precision machining -- which naturally meant purchasing a 5 axis machining center. Though they could machine the parts their customers sent to them, they were doing it with 3 and 4 axis machining, using fixturing, and necessarily the part took more set-ups than it would take with 5 axis machining.

Brian says, “A few years ago, the price to procure a high quality 5 axis ma-chining center just wasn’t in our bud-get.” He continued, “But that changed when Mazak introduced a more bud-get friendly 5 axis machine. It is the space-saving Vertical Center Universal (VCU) 400 5X vertical machining cen-ter with a 5-axis rotary/tilt table that is made in Mazak’s U.S. factory .”

Though Foremaster Tool is a Mazak shop (they do admit they have pur-chased a few machine tools other than Mazak -- when the Mazak isn’t available in the timeframe or in the features they need), Brian was just a little apprehensive about purchasing such a new product that Mazak offered. He says, “The VCU-400 5X is an entry level 5-axis machine, and it was new on the market.” He continued, “It hit my price point, but I wanted to be sure it would meet my expectations.” Brian contacted some machine shops on the east coast that were using the machine, and when he heard how satisfied they were, Brian and the team at Foremaster Tool made the decision to buy their first 5 axis machine, the Mazak VCU-400 5X. Lynn says that this machine is a space saving machine with a 5-axis rotary/tilt table.

Lynn says that the Mazak VCU-400 5X VMC resulted in such significant set-up reductions and quality improvements that the company made the decision to purchase their second 5-axis machine just 6 months later.

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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.


Boeing hints at boost in 737 production

Boeing Chief Financial Officer Greg Smith hinted this week that the manufacturer may accelerate production of the 737. Boeing makes 42 of the narrowbody jetliner per month now, and earlier said it could raise that to 52 per month.

“We continue to see very strong demand,” Smith said at an investors’ conference. “In particular on the 737, there is more pressure on the upside, and we will address that in the months to come.” Source: Reuters

U.S. Manufacturing Grows at Fastest Pace in Three Years

Gains in manufacturing boosted the U.S. expansion in August, led by a surge in orders for plastics and metals that powered the world’s largest economy past a global slowdown.

The Institute for Supply Management’s index unexpectedly climbed to 59, the highest level since March 2011, from July’s 57.1, beating all forecasts in a Bloomberg survey of economists. The orders gauge was the strongest in a decade, the Tempe, Arizona-based group reported recently.

American factories are benefiting from a rebound in auto sales and stronger business spending on new plants and equipment that are helping industries rise above the political tensions weighing on Eu-rope. Faster wage growth is now needed to sustain the advance and broaden household purchases beyond automobiles.

“The manufacturing sector is just on fire right now,” said Brian Jones, a senior U.S. economist at Societe Generale in New York, whose ISM forecast at 58.5 was the highest in the Bloomberg survey. “You’ve got increased demand for workers, and the more people working, and the more money they are making, the more money they’ll spend.”

Stocks fell, after the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index had its best month since February, as energy producers sank with the price of crude. The

S&P 500 dropped 0.1 percent to 2,002.28 at the close in New York.

Manufacturing Overseas

The news on manufacturing was less positive overseas. U.K. factory growth slowed more than forecast last month and Italian manufac-turing shrank as Europe suffered the fallout from weakening demand and mounting geopolitical risks in Ukraine and the Middle East, other reports showed this week.

“We’ve been dealing with the fragile European recovery for years now, and we seem to be moving right through it,” Bradley Holcomb, the ISM survey chairman, said in an interview. There’s a chance the U.S. won’t see a “discernible impact,” though if things escalate, that could change, he said.

The median forecast in a Bloomberg survey of 78 economists was 57 for the U.S. ISM index. Estimates ranged from 55 to 58.5. Readings greater than 50 indicate growth.

Seventeen of 18 industries surveyed by the purchasing managers’ group grew last month, led by plastics, furniture and metals.

‘Broad-Based’ Gain

The gain in manufacturing was “so broad-based,” ISM’s Holcomb said on a conference call with reporters. There is not one particular driver,

“it’s just sort of a continuation of the trend that we’ve had since January.”

Another report today signaled some of the boost is probably coming from the building industry. Spending on construction projects in-creased 1.8 percent in July, the most since May 2012, led in part by increased work on factories and power facilities. The value of privately funded spending on non-residential projects reached a five-year high.

The increase in the ISM index came as the group’s new orders gauge climbed to 66.7, the highest since April 2004, and its measure of orders waiting to be filled also advanced. The group’s production gauge rose to the strongest since May 2010.

The figures follow data last week that showed the economy expanded


“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.


at a 4.2 percent annualized pace in the second quarter after shrinking 2.1 percent in the first three months of the year.

Consumer Spending

Consumer spending, which accounts for almost 70 percent of the economy, started the third quarter on soft footing. Purchases retreated in July for the first time in six months as wages failed to accelerate, a recent report showed. At the same time, a healing job market could provide momentum going forward: The economy has added more than 200,000 jobs for each of the six months through July.

People who are confident in their employment prospects may be more willing to take on big purchases such as automobiles. Cars and light trucks sold at a 16.4 million pace in July, a slowdown from 16.9 million in June that was the fastest rate since mid-2006, figures from Ward’s Automotive Group show.

Gains in business investment may help make up for some of the shortfall among households. New orders for durable goods soared 22.6 percent in July after a revised 2.7 percent gain in June that was bigger than previously estimated, according to Commerce Depart-ment data issued last week.

Though the surge was driven by demand for aircraft, bookings for motor vehicles and parts also climbed. Revised data for June reflected improving demand for a broad array of items, including computers, electrical equipment and machinery.

Computer Sales

Hewlett-Packard Co. last month reported fiscal third-quarter sales that topped analysts’ estimates, fueled by improving personal-com-puter sales.

Corporate spending on PCs has also helped lift the results of other technology companies recently. Intel Corp. in July forecast revenue that exceeded analysts’ estimates for the current quarter, while Mic-rosoft Corp. said it’s seeing signs of improvement in the PC market.

“We continue to see customers looking to refresh their aging” com-

puters, Meg Whitman, chief executive officer of Palo Alto, Califor-nia-based Hewlett-Packard, said on an Aug. 20 earnings call. “We believe we can continue to gain share in PCs, despite the challenges in this market as it consolidates.” Source: Bloomberg Business News

Lockheed platform simulates at-sea condi-tions for C4ISR systems

Lockheed Martin has a test platform that can simulate at-sea conditions for C4ISR systems before they are deployed.

In a recent demonstration of the Maritime Test Bed, Lockheed Martin showed “how the Navy could fuse simulated Aegis radar data with other integrated intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) sensor data to provide a comprehensive picture of the battlespace,” said a company news release. “Throughout the scenario, the test bed collected, analyzed and processed the data, then distributed to simulated platforms at sea and on shore. This collaborative atmosphere allowed users to operate more efficiently, since all units had access to integrated ISR-related activities, which in turn improved situational awareness and battle management planning.”

The test bed can be linked to the Secret Defense Research and Engineering Network (SDREN) and the Defense Research and En-gineering Network (DREN).

College Factual Ranks Colorado School Of Mines Best Engineering School

The Denver Post reports that the group College Factual recently released a ranking of top engineering schools in the US, noting that the Colorado School of Mines took top honors, eclipsing such noted schools as MIT and the Georgia Institute of Technology.

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Chuck Hull, the inventor of the 3-D printer, learned determination grow-ing up on a Colorado farm; strenuous chores and building model planes led to a passion for engineering.

Chuck Hull took six months in 1982 to create a machine that turns com-puter-generated images into hard objects, like the stools he is pictured with.

Chuck Hull, 75, is co-founder and chief technology officer of 3D Systems. He is the inventor of the 3-D printer, which recently cel-ebrated its 31st anniversary. He spoke with Marc Myers.

I didn’t know it at the time, but growing up in a remote area of Colorado was perfect training for an inventor.

I was born in Clifton, Colo., in a small, one-story, two-bedroom farmhouse that was down a dirt road from the main highway. As a teen, my days were spent at school or doing farm chores. I was responsible for things like cleaning and digging irrigation ditches, helping with the fall harvest and chopping firewood. When the chores were done, there were lots of things to do, like hunting, fishing and hiking.

My fondest memories were working on airplane models. I loved the process of laying out all the parts and working meticulously to finish something that would turn out perfectly.

During the early years of World War II, my family had to move to Gateway, about 50 miles away. In Gateway, my father worked in a mill that ground down uranium ore for the government. The first place we lived was in an Army tent that the company provided to new employees. Then we shared a small house with another family. But in 1944, when the mill closed down, all the men who had worked there were drafted into the Army, including my dad, so the rest of the family returned to our Clifton farmhouse. My father suffered a great deal of trauma in the war, and when he returned home in 1945, he had trouble sleeping. But he was vocal about his experiences, which helped him let go of them.

Eventually, my father developed breathing problems from his time at the uranium mill and had difficulty working. Around 1950 he leased the farmland to another farmer, but we continued to live in the house.

By the time I graduated from high school in 1957, I no longer saw myself as a farmer. My teachers encouraged my passion for science and math, and urged me to think about a career in engineering. When I left for the University of Colorado, I knew that’s what I wanted to do.

In college, I was trained to see problems and find ways to solve them. By the late 1970s, I developed several technical industrial


inventions while working for the DuPont Co. in California. But in 1980, I decided it was time for a change. I took a job at a smaller company that specialized in using ultraviolet light to process tough coatings for tables.

Sometime in 1982, I realized that ul-traviolet technology might help speed up the process of turning plastic-part designs into working prototypes. The company was intrigued and gave me a lab where I could work during my off hours. In those days, transforming prototype designs into plastic parts was time consuming. It could take months to go from blueprints to injection moldings. So I started developing a way to harden acrylic photopolymers faster by exposing them to ultraviolet light.

Within six months I developed an idea for a machine that could turn a design generated on a computer into a hard-plastic prototype in minutes. When a test I ran worked, I immediately called my wife, Anntionette, at home and in-sisted she come over right away.When Anntionette arrived, I showed her the prototype my machine had created in just 30 minutes—a small blue eyecup used by optometrists. She was amazed and still has that cup. It was the birth of the 3-D printer.

I guess my drive as an inventor came from that farmhouse. Farm life taught me the importance of sticking to something and seeing it through. All of the farmers I knew were self-reliant and never doubted that what they believed was possible if they put their shoulders into it and kept at it. Source: The Wall Street Journal

Nevada Lures Tesla With $1.3 Billion in Tax Breaks

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Cascade Systems Technology (CST) is a cutting edge design and contract manufacturing leader and an employee owned company that holds true perfection as their goal with 100% inspection of every assembly they make, every day, all the time.

The company started in Steve Batti’s (President, CEO of CST) house with humble beginnings; Steve’s business started with a dream to build his own product with $5000.00 startup money from Grandma, and 2 rooms in his house con-verted to cable harness tester work stations, with Steve’s children helping and learning to solder components.

Steve Batti is an electrical engineer and graduated from Purdue University in 1973. He started writing software as a consultant and designed some products that he was going to sell. Steve said, “ I didn’t know how to do marketing, but I designed the products and engineered what I felt was a solution. I really didn’t know how to sell the products but I knew they were needed and that they worked well. I had quit my job at Miles Laboratories to develop the business, but was unable to make it work, and within seven months, I had to find a job. After taking a job at Phillips, I wound up on the team that developed what is now the CD (Compact Disk).”

He continued, “After a few years, Phillips decided to move our development team to Knoxville so, I decided to move on and got a job at Arrow Electronics first as outside sales, and then later, in a few months as an applications engineer. There, I learned how to sell. That was kind of a trial by fire; I was thrown in the field and told to sell. Previously, as a bench engineer, I had no experience at selling or, how to network so I was really out of my comfort zone. I learned to sell by asking questions and asking potential customers what they needed help with. I then worked hard to come up with solutions.”

While working for Arrow, Steve spent evenings and weekends designing products that went into pizza ovens and other food products. Steve de-signed great ideas and then the customer asked who was going to make it for them. That’s how Steve got into business. Steve said, “I moved from my house business setting in Indianapolis into

a real building where I had to buy real equipment to build production. In 1989 our Indiana based company branched out to build an Oregon facility with the profits from the Indianapolis facility.” Both companies eventually were sold in 1994 and Steve stayed on as division president and ran the Oregon branch from Indianapolis. In 1996 he bought back the Hillsboro, OR operation and moved to Oregon full time. He says, “It was a great move and I always wanted to live in Oregon.”

Mary Lou, (CST General Manager) had been running production at the Oregon facility since 1991. While running pro-duction, getting new accounts and keep-ing accounts from the inside, quoting, and supporting the customers, she took care of purchasing, and wore most of the company hats. Mary Lou says, “In those days we all just did what ever we had to and made it work. We have really grown and we continue to grow and growth means hiring quality employees to handle jobs we all used to do when we were a smaller company. We are very proud of what our team has built.”

Steve said, “Most times an entrepreneur is a great visionary but he or she is often terrible at things that are happening right now, multitasking, and being in the trenches. Most entrepreneurs cannot be both of those people. Mary Lou was instrumental in growing this company from that side because I could not do it and I still can’t do it.”

Mary Lou, agreed and said, “Steve’s the future, and I’m the ship it now person.” Steve goes out to the customer and works with the engineering teams and Mary Lou runs the day-to-day operation from inside the business. Today Mary Lou has recruited help for various functions like purchasing, and production so that she can focus on the growing business.

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on board to become an integral team member of CST 8 years ago. Julie says, “When I came to Cascade Systems I was given such a great opportunity to get hands on manufacturing training. I came from distribution sales and I did not have the manufacturing knowledge Steve and Mary Lou have, so it was wonderful to get my hands dirty so to speak and learn. I was taught by the best and I truly mean that. Steve is a genius with many patents under his belt and Mary Lou is amazing, she has literally run this company single handedly in time past doing many of the jobs we have recently filled with talented people Mary Lou has hired. I am proud to be a member of this great team.”

Steve continued, “CST is a leading edge tech-nology company. We invest heavily into cutting edge technology and we really welcome proj-ects that are very difficult. We listen to what the customer needs and where they are going and we will design a solution, prove the solution, and even design a testing system and procedure to propel them into a successful production mode. This adds new vertical markets for us and still allows us to maintain all of our core competencies. We are very diverse and we work with our customers to pioneer new directions and we rise to the occasion by developing new, high tech alternatives, like nanotechnology for example.”

With electronics packages getting smaller and smaller, CST’s machinery is very versatile and flexible and they can handle all size technol-ogies from micro to large, from hard to near impossible. CST loves to rise to the challenge. Steve says, “As long as you stay in your comfort zone you don’t learn anything new and you don’t grow or hone your skills.”

Another example of CST’s company model of pushing themselves to the next level is evidenced in their early history where the company was making through-hole technology PC boards (a standard type of printed circuit board at the time) for one of their customers.

In the mid 80’s Steve and his team saw the next wave of technology on the horizon, (SMT) surface mount technology. SMT assembly was easier to automate, faster, a much smaller pack-age, and a very cost effective way to produce printed circuit board assemblies. They invested time and money into re-designing their cus-tomer’s through-hole PCB’s to SMT boards and

started production very soon after their re-design as a state of the art surface mount device manufacturer.

Part of the message is value; the CST Team takes the customers’ de-sign, R&D, fixturing, testing, and shipping over as the customer’s partner. They take products from conception to the delivered, tested, boxed and shipped assembly direct to the customer’s customer.

People like working at CST and are proud to help their customers be successful. CST is an employee owned company (an ESOP com-pany) and this team owned company has one goal with their concerted effort, to make their customers successful, period.

To meet this goal of helping their customers the CST Team is highly trained, both internally with a des-ignated company mentor and edu-cation through classroom time. All employees live and breathe quality manufacturing electronics training through IPC-A-610, a world class training specification. IPC (orig-inally known as the Institute for Printed Circuits) is accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) as a standards developing organization and is known globally for its standards. It publishes the most widely used acceptability standards in the elec-tronics industry.

Quality is generally maintained with a degree of control. CST turns up the heat of quality by maintaining document control throughout the company with read only monitors at every workstation. Practical process improvement is lived and is a CST motto. There is no substitute for quality. A company can be the best at delivery, and a fair market price is always sought after. But, if you lack quality everything else is for naught. CST lives in quality.

CST runs a very tight ship; But CST


is not ridged. If a customer doesn’t fit the company mold CST doesn’t say, sorry we don’t do that or our business model doesn’t support this. Instead, CST asks, “what can we do to help make your company be suc-cessful?” From customer managed inventory to packaging solutions, CST is there to help.

Ultimately CST is their customers’ partner, their business extension, and an integral part of the customer’s team! Mary Lou, said, “If it’s easier for our customers to do business by us taking over their purchasing, inventory, shipping, or any facet of their business we step up to the challenge and take it on. Ultimately we make it easy for our customers to do business.”

Steve says that at CST every customer is issued a program manager to take care of every detail that the customer might need from start to finish, complete customer care.

He continued, “We are very flexible and we follow through! We are innovative and we are looking at that next market trend for our customers. Stay on the cutting edge of technology and know what your customers are going to want in the near future so you can be there first for them and by so doing we create great jobs for our employees.”

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“CST provides our company with high quality product and great customer service. Their quoted lead times are consistently reliable. They can be depended on for providing prod-uct inside of lead time when we experience spikes in demand.”

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“Mary Lou and her team have consistently exceeded expectations. Over the years, I have taken them some complex, innovative technologies along with unrealistic timelines and they always came through.

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“The integrity and quality of people that make Cascade what it is are exceptional in my experience. Steve Batti and Mary Lou Parker are an asset to the entire industry.

I can not say enough good about the people that make Cascade Systems what it is. From the top management to the technicians involved there they all have a sense of ownership and pride in what they do.

I love working with them.”

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Cascade Systems Technology enjoys what they do, the pure satisfaction of a job very well done, for every customer. The bright horizon for the future brings a new larger site to support their grow-ing number of customers, new techno-logically advanced machines, and higher certification to support aerospace cus-tomers. CST is in process of becoming ISO certified for their engineering department and AS9100 Rev C certified for the entire manufacturing facility.

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

Silicon Valley Leading Development Of Solar Storage Technologies

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

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

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

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

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SpaceX Dragon will deliver 5,000 pounds of cargo to the International Space Station

Astronauts on board the International Space Station will get an infusion of cool new high-tech toys and experiments to play with.

The tools and experiments include the first 3D printer for space operations, NASA’s ISS-RapidScat environment package, a group of Earth science experiments from the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) and fruit flies. CASIS manages the research onboard the ISS.

The Made In Space 3D printer called Portal, is the size of a small microwave and will act as a test bed for evaluating 3D printing in the microgravity of space.

A 3D printer works by extruding heated plastic, and then builds successive layers to make a three-dimensional object. In essence, this test on the ISS might well lead to establishing a “machine shop” in space. The 3D printer can churn out plastic objects in 15 minutes to an hour.

According to Made In Space, manufacturing goods in space, as opposed to launching them from Earth, will accelerate and broaden space development while providing unprecedented access for people on Earth to use in-space capabilities. Made In Space chalked up over 30,000 hours of 3D printing technology testing, and 400-plus parabolas of airborne microgravity test flights to prep for the space mission, Made In Space said. Meanwhile NASA’s ISS-RapidScat mission will observe global ocean wind speed and direction with an eye toward developing greater knowledge

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• Microwaves in space. The ISS-RapidScat scatterometer is a type of radar that uses the same low-energy microwaves you use to warm up food. It bounces the microwaves off the ocean surface and analyzes the strength of the return signal to calculate wind speed and direction over the ocean.

• Great sightlines, tight deadlines. The entire mission was built in a mere 18 months. Most free-flying satellite missions require many years in development before launch.

• Reduce, reuse, recycle. The ISS-RapidScat team adapted and reused hardware from the 1990s that was built to test the preceding NASA scatterometer instrument, QuikScat. Despite their advanced age, the components offer all the capacity the mission needs and passed every test.

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The Los Angeles Times reported that GM “plans to start selling cars that can drive partially in an auto-pilot mode and that can exchange speed and safety data with similarly equipped vehicles.” The first of these features are accepted to appear on Cadillacs in the next few years, “but over time will move down market into GM’s other brands.” The system

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3 space station astronauts return to Earth

A NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts have successfully returned to Earth after spending 169 days on the International Space Station. Their Soyuz ferry craft made a rocket-assisted “soft landing” in Kazakhstan. Three new crew members, including the first female Russian cosmonaut making a long-duration stay on the station, arrived at the space station Sept. 25. CBS News

Robotics Sales Driving Engineer Demand

The Dayton (OH) Daily News reports $788 million in robotics sales for the first half of 2014, with a 16% revenue increase since the same period 2013, driving demand for engineers and challenging the notion that automation kills jobs. A Pew Research Center survey evidences this shifting perception, with 48% believing advances displace blue and white collar jobs and 52% expecting innovation to create industries; on the other hand, McKinsey Global Institute reports robotics and 3-D printing will effect 24% of the global workforce, saving $1.2 trillion in manufacturing and $3 trillion medicine, retail, logistics, and personal service by 2025.

NAM Study Shows Costs Of Regulations Are Upward Of $2 Trillion A Year

US News & World Report reports that “manufacturers in the U.S. spend almost twice as much per employee as the average business does,” according to a NAM report released recently. The report says that the high costs are “largely due to issues of scale,” with companies that have fewer than 50 employees paying almost $35,000 per employee per year.

“Manufacturing leaders continue to tell us they are frustrated with the complex maze of regulations they must comply with at the federal, state and local levels. It is the drip, drip, drip of new rules that forces them to devote an ever-increasing amount of resources to comply with these regulations – dollars that could have been better spent investing in their businesses and in their people,” says NAM Chief Economist Chad Moutray during a teleconference with reporters. “One thing I want to make sure we all understand here is that manufacturers believe that regulation is critical to protect worker safety, public health and our environment,” Moutray said. “At the same time, our regulatory


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Google To Invest $145 Million In Regulus Solar Project

The Times reports Google Inc. has announced that it is making an in-vestment of is $145 million into “a solar power plant on a former oil and gas field near Bakersfield.” According to Google, “the 82-megawatt project will feed enough power to the grid for 10,000 homes.” On the company’s blog, principal for renewable energy at Google Nick Coons wrote, “Our investment in the Regulus solar project will give new life to a long-valued piece of land. ... There’s something a little poetic about creating a renewable resource on land that once creaked with oil wells.” The facility, which is being built by SunEdison, “will begin operation later this year...and will sell power to Southern California Edison through a 20-year purchase agreement.”

DOD deal imminent on $4B F-35 order

The Pentagon and Lockheed Martin are nearing agreement on an order for F-35s that analysts say could be worth more than $4 billion. Talks on the order for the eighth batch of the joint strike fighter jets are in the final stages. “We are in the endgame of the negotiation,” said Orlando Carvalho, executive vice president of Lockheed’s aeronautics division.

“Our hope is that we’ll close shortly. I’ll say weeks ... maybe if we’re a little bit lucky, days.” Reuters

Utah celebrates its aerospace heritage

Utah Gov. Gary Herbert addressed executives in the state’s aerospace and defense industries in upcoming ceremonies intended to celebrate the state’s long heritage in the world of aerospace. “We benefit from a collaborative relationship between our aerospace and composite companies, local communities, defense contractors, academia and state government leaders,” says Herbert, who addressed an Air Force Association Industrial Associates luncheon as part of National Aerospace Week, held Sept. 14-20. Standard-Examiner

Alcoa inks deal with Boeing worth more than $1 billion

Alcoa has signed the largest-ever contract with Boeing to supply alu-minum sheet and plate products. The multiyear, more than $1 billion contract, makes Alcoa sole supplier to Boeing for wing skins on its me-tallic structure aircraft.

Aerospace supplier Alcoa an-nounced it has signed a new, multi-year contract with the Boeing Co. worth more than $1 billion, the largest contract ever signed between the two companies.

Alcoa said in a press release that the agreement makes it the sole supplier for wing skins on all of Boeing’s metallic structure planes, while other products, such as wing ribs and structural parts, give Alcoa a hand in all Boeing commercial products.

Alcoa also says the new agreement helps continue collaboration between the two companies on new aerospace alloys.

August PMI Rises To 59 Percent

The IndustryWeek reports that the August PMI survey from the Institute for Supply Management rose to 59 percent in August from a level of 57.1 in July. The overall reading is the highest of the index since March 2011. New orders rose to 66.7 percent, marking the 15th consecutive month of rising new orders. The article quotes a Shopfloor blog post by NAM Chief Economist Chad Moutray saying that “this report shows that manufacturers are seeing strong growth more recently in demand and output, which is definitely positive given the disappointing start to the year.

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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.

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7. How will a working capital facility be impacted?Many businesses have an aggregate line of credit through a bank that they can use for inventory purchases, improvements and other capital expenditures. Depending on the lending covenants, it is often possible, as well as preferable, to preserve your bank working capital by leasing equipment through an equipment finance provider.

8. How flexible does your business want the financing terms to be?A lease can provide greater flexibility, since it can be structured for a variety of contingencies, whereas with a loan, flexibility is subject to

the lender’s rules. If your business has continuing use for the equipment at lease termination, extended rentals, purchase options, trade-ups and return options are available. The lease term allows your business to match all expenses to the term of the equipment’s use, including income tax expense, book expense and cash expense. Most importantly, as mentioned previously, the expense stops when the equipment is no longer required.

9. Do you anticipate the need for additional equipment under your financing agreement? If your business is planning for growth, you can enter into a master lease that will allow you to acquire multiple pieces of equipment under multiple schedules with the same basic terms and conditions. This pro-vides greater convenience and flexibility than a conditional loan contract, which must be renegotiated for additional equipment acquisitions.

10. Who can help me evaluate what’s best for my business? Whether you finance equipment through a lease or loan, each has its advantages. When making the decision between a lease and a loan, it is highly recommended that you consult with your accounting profes-sional, as well as draw on the resources of your equipment financing provider to enable you to secure the best possible terms for your lease and/or loan. These are some of the key considerations that should go into the lease versus loan decision-making process. For a lease/loan comparison and online tools, visit www.equipmentfinanceadvantage.org/ef101/llc.cfm.


Lockheed nears a deal for reduced-cost F-35s

Lockheed Martin is close to finalizing a deal for an eighth batch of F-35 fighter jets, an order that would come with cost reductions sought by the company and the Pentagon. The $4 billion contract would cut costs by 2% to 4%, sources say, and comes as a F-35 engine supplier Pratt & Whitney is near a deal with the Defense Department that would cut engine prices by as much as 8%. Source: Reuters

Analyst: Army’s armored vehicle contract may be split

Congress may require the Army to award the contract for its multi-purpose armored vehicles to more than one bidder, one analyst says, after a protest by bidder General Dynamics about the bid process. BAE Systems, currently the only bidder, could get part of the job, while General Dynamics provides its version of the vehicles, says Dean Lockwood, weapons systems analyst for Forecast International. Source: National Defense

21 win $7.2 billion INSCOM contract for intel

The U.S. Army has awarded 21 com-panies a total of $7.2 billion in two global intelligence support contracts.

The indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contracts will support “the Army’s need for fully integrated intelligence, security, information operations and related support,” according to the DoD contract announcement.

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The Army awarded $5.04 billion to 11 companies, including BAE Systems Information Solutions, Booz Allen Hamilton, CACI, DynCorp, Invertix, Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems, ManTech, Northrop Grumman, Six3 Intelligence Solutions, Sotera and SRA.

The Army also awarded $2.16 billion in 10 small business contracts to Absolute Business Corp., Archimedes Global, Calhoun International, Circinus, Charles F. Day & Associates, E&M Technologies, Integral Consulting Services, K-3 Enterprises, Pluribus International, and The Buffalo Group. These contracts are under a partial small business set-aside acquisition, with a Restricted Competition Pool of contractors that cannot exceed more than 30 percent of the total $7.2 billion of both contracts.

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The U.S. Army awarded a contract to General Dynamics C4 Systems for 10 vehicle-mounted Tactical Ground Station (TGS) Lot D systems with an option for 11 additional systems. The TGS system is part of the Distributed Common Ground System-Army (DCGS-A), the Army’s primary deployed system for posting, processing and distributing intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance information in real time to intelligence analysts and commanders. The order is valued at $31.5 million with all options exercised. The first of the new TGS systems is scheduled for delivery during the third quarter of 2013.

DCGS-A provides Army analysts with access to more than 600 data sources and allows rapid collaboration through shared data access. The General Dynamics-built TGS-Lot D systems allow analysts to comb through millions of classified and unclassified records within minutes, providing commanders with status updates on persons of interest and imminent threats such as improvised explosive devices.

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Boeing Raises Twenty-Year Commercial Jet Forecast

Bloomberg News reports Boeing “raised its 20-year forecast for commercial jet demand by 3.8 percent as air traffic outstrips global economic growth and airlines refresh their fleets with $4.8 trillion in new planes.” Randy Tinseth, marketing vice president for commercial airplanes at Boeing, said he did not see a “bubble” in the market even as the company considers raising production rates. However, Richard Aboulafia, an analyst with the Teal Group, warned inexpensive financing and oil prices could change these numbers. Meanwhile, Howard Rubel, an analyst with Jefferies LLC, predicted that Boeing and Airbus would continue to dominate the market as new entrants are just starting to come to the market.

The AP reports that speaking ahead of the Bourget international air show in Paris, Tinseth, “said rising oil prices are forcing carriers to think harder about efficiency, and that means smaller planes that burn less fuel.” That “also means design changes, streamlined air traffic control and improved navigation to shave miles (kilometers) off each flight.” The AP notes, “The demand for fuel efficiency has eaten away at orders for the wide-body long haul carriers that are major profit-drivers for Boeing and Airbus, the world’s two biggest aircraft manufacturers.”

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The unmanned aircraft will use a ground-based sense-and-avoid system for the early flight tests scheduled for the airspace locations. Sense and avoid technology allows unmanned aircraft to detect other planes in the area and change its course to avoid midair collisions.

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As tests progress, DoD officials plan to move to a partially automated sense-and-avoid system on board the aircraft, Pennington said.

Creation of these airspace bubbles was part of the FAA reauthorization bill proposed earlier this year. Lawmakers tabled passage of the FAA bill until September, when Congress is set to return from its summer recess.

Once passed, Pennington predicted that there would be a lot of “political jockeying” by lawmakers to land one of the test sites, given the money and resources DoD plans to pump into the effort.

Boeing Dreamliner Finishes Test Program

Bloomberg News reports the Boeing 787 Dreamliner “finished its 20- month flight-test program in the final hurdle toward approval for passenger service that could start next month.” The last flight was made on August 13 and now the FAA “must verify the paperwork in a review Boeing has said it expects this week and then certify the jet before its first delivery.

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United Technologies Corp.’s Pratt & Whitney unit and Rolls-Royce PLC are ending one aircraft-engine joint venture to start another.Pratt will pay $1.5 billion for Rolls-Royce’s share in their existing International Aero Engines consortium, which produces the engines that power the Airbus A320 jetliner family.

The two companies plan to work together in a new venture that will develop engines for future narrow-body aircraft using Pratt’s geared turbofan technology.

The new venture will go head to head with General Electric Co. to develop more-efficient engines for the single-aisle-aircraft segment, in which the companies expect demand to be around 20,000 new aircraft over the next 20 years.

It also comes after London-based Rolls-Royce declined to develop new engines for the latest upgrades to the A320 neo, produced by Airbus, a unit of European Aeronautic Defence & Space Co.

Pratt had all but abandoned the single-aisle market in the early 1990s but began muscling its way back in over the past few years in the face of dismissals from its rivals including Rolls and GE.

Last year, Pratt scored a coup when Airbus selected its geared turbofan engine as one of two engine options for the revamped A320.

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The new 737 plane exclusively uses an engine from CFM, a joint venture between GE and France’s Safran SA.

The new venture will focus on the high-bypass ratio, geared-turbofan technology. The other partners in the previous partnership—Japanese Aero Engine Corp. and MTU Aero Engines GmbH—intend to join.

Roche l icenses technology from Biodesign Institute

Roche and Arizona Technology Enterprises (AzTE) announced an agreement to license several technologies developed by Stuart Lindsay at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University and Colin Nuckolls of the Columbia University Nanoscience Center for the development of a revolutionary DNA sequencing system.

The licensed technologies include specialized approaches for DNA base sensing and reading and build on an ongoing collaboration between Roche’s sequencing center of excellence, 454 Life Sciences, and IBM to develop and commercialize a single-molecule, nanopore DNA sequencer with the capacity to rapidly decode an individual’s complete genome for well below $1000.

The licensed technologies offer novel approaches for reading the sequence of bases, or letters, in a single DNA molecule as it is passed through a nanopore. The team has demonstrated proof-of-concept, and is in the midst of making a third generation reader molecule that provides better discrimination between the DNA bases. The licensing agreement with Roche will help translate these discoveries into a commercial instrument.

The DNA Transistor technology, developed by IBM Research, slows and controls the movement of the DNA molecule as it threads through a microscopic nanopore in a silicon chip, while the newly licensed DNA reading technology can decode the bases of the DNA molecule as it passes through.

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The deal was brokered by Arizona Technology Enterprises (AzTE), the exclusive intellectual property management and technology transfer organization of Arizona State University, and includes sponsored research funding that will help Lindsay’s team move the technology towards commercialization.

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The Salt Lake (UT) Tribune reports Materials & Systems Research, Inc. “has received $2.8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy for fuel-cell technological research.”

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Makers of factory-floor equip-ment predict an upswing in U.S. demand next year on an improving U.S. economy and rising sales of cars, appli-ances and jets, all requiring metal cutting and shaping machinery.

Machine shop operators crowded the floor this week at the Inter-national Manufacturing Technology Show, which drew an estimated 110,000 visitors through the 4th day of the show. Many were collecting price sheets and quotes in a sign a recent downturn may be grinding to an end.

“I’d like to get something going by the end of the year,” said James Martin, owner of Martin Sheet Metal Inc. in Cleveland, who was looking for robotic painting and welding equipment to make cabs for forklift trucks.

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“There’s a need [for equipment] out there,” he said while taking a break from customer meetings at the show. DMG Mori Seiki supplies metal cutting machines for auto makers and others. A shortage of capacity at some larger machining companies has them shipping work to smaller shops, boosting the need for machinery, he said.

Brian Papke, president of Mazak Corp., the U.S. arm of Japan’s Yamazaki Mazak Corp., another machinery maker, is preparing for a rebound. Mazak is expanding its factory in Florence, Ky., to about 800,000 square feet from 600,000, a $40 million project. “We’re great believers in manufacturing in North America,” Mr. Papke said.

Equipment makers entered the year ex-pecting a rebound after a 5.4% order drop in 2013 in the about $5 billion a year U.S.

business. The severe cold early in the year helped extend the slump. Through July 31, U.S. orders for machine tools and related equipment used to cut and transform metals and other raw materials were down 2.3% from a year earlier, according to the Association for Manufacturing Technology, a trade group.

In part, industry executives cite jitters over the sustainability of the economic upturn for some of the past reluctance to invest. Some U.S. manufacturers remain nervous about prospects for the economy, and others are shopping for used machinery to hold down costs, they said.

Gretchen Zierick, president of Zierick Man-ufacturing Corp., a family-owned maker of electronic connectors in Mount Kisco, N.Y., with annual sales of more than $10 million, said she is hesitant to invest heavily in equip-ment because she thinks a sluggish economy won’t lead to much demand growth. She also finds turmoil in Ukraine and the Middle East unsettling. “Every day there is something new,” she said. “None of it is good.”

Ms. Zierick may buy a used metal-cutting machine instead of a new model, which would cost around $250,000.

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Herb Miller, owner of Miller Machine Inc., is expecting to purchase computer-con-trolled metalworking equipment for his shop in Scales Mound, Ill. “We’re looking to buy this year,” he said. “We’ve already selected one or two models and we’re comparing features and prices.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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OFFICE: 248-528-5990 FAX: 503-404-2440

E-MAIL: [email protected] www.secotools.com

FREDERICK C. HUTHserving Northern MT and ID

7885

Seco Tools Inc.

Castrol DCM Tech

Tap or WorkAny Metal - Any Alloy - Any Angle

3595 E Fountain Blvd,Suite M-2Colorado Springs, CO 80910

719.200.9141 • [email protected]


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


Setco Spindles & Slides __ 866-362-0699Tapping Paste

TAPIT All Lubricants ____ 719-200-9141Thread Mills

Micro 100 _________ 208-888-7310 Tooling Systems

AIT _____________ 800-321-3195Micro 100 _________ 208-888-7310Seco Tools Inc. _______ 248-528-5960

Vices and Vice JawsDesert EDM Sales _____ 480-816-6300

Work HoldingAIT _____________ 800-321-3195

CALIBRATION SERVICESAdvanced Coord. Tech ___ 303-469-6161Klontech Industrial Sales _ 480-948-1871Total Qual. Syst. ______ 480-377-6422

GRINDINGGrinding Machines

DCM Tech ________ 800-533-5339Moncktons Mach Tools _ 303-571-4933Triad Machine ______ 303-424-0268

Aircraft brake rotor DCM Tech ________ 800-533-5339

Grinders, RotarySilicon & Quartz

DCM Tech ________ 800-533-5339Manual Lathes & Mills

AME, Inc. ________ 303-922-9266

Pedestals for GrindersMidaco __________ 847-593-8420

Sawing MachinesAIT _____________ 800-321-3195Jorgensen Machine Tools 800-952-0151Moncktons Mach Tools _ 303-571-4933Rocky Mountain Saw Blades _303-761-3000

Saw Replacement PartsRocky Mountain Saw Blades _303-761-3000

Tool Grinders Punch & DieDCM Tech ________ 800-533-5339

INSPECTION EQUIPAdvanced Coord. Tech ___ 303-469-6161Gage Lab Products _____ 801-716-2972Klontech Indust. Sales ___ 480-948-1871OGP ___________ 480-889-9056Total Qual. Syst. ______ 480-377-6422

CMM ProbesDatum Inspection _____ 602-997-1340Gage Lab Products _____ 801-716-2972Klontech Industrial Sales _ 480-948-1871OGP ___________ 480-889-9056

Coordinate Measuring Mach.Datum Inspection _____ 602-997-1340Klontech Industrial Sales _ 480-948-1871Moncktons Mach Tools _ 303-571-4933OGP ___________ 480-889-9056

Gauging EquipmentGage Lab Products _____ 801-716-2972

Klontech Industrial Sales 480-948-1871OGP ___________ 480-889-9056

Low Temp InstrumentationHigh Precision Devices _ 303-447-2558

Metrology InstrumentsDatum Inspection ____ 602-997-1340Gage Lab Products _____ 801-716-2972Klontech Industrial Sales 480-948-1871

OGP __________ 480-889-9056Optical Comparators

Datum Inspection ____ 602-997-1340Gage Lab Products _____ 801-716-2972Klontech Industrial Sales 480-948-1871OGP ___________ 480-889-9056

Particle Inspection MachDCM Tech ________ 800-533-5339Video Measuring SystemsGage Lab Products _____ 801-716-2972Klontech Industrial Sales 480-948-1871

HARDWAREHorizon Carbide Tool __480-968-0957Metal Supermarkets __ 801-972-2441Metal Supermarkets __ 303-424-1030Utah Metal Works, Inc. _ 801-364-5679

METALS & MATERIALSAZ Tool Steel LLC ____ 480-784-1600Coastal Metals ______ 800-811-7466Erickson Metals _____877-543-6061

Kloeckner Metals Corp 480-389-2883Metal Supermarkets __ 801-972-2441Metal Supermarkets __303-424-1030Olympic Metals _____303-286-9700O’Neal Flat Rolled Metals _ 303-654-0300O’Neal Flat Rolled Metals _ 801-399-5700Ryerson _________303-227-6310Samuel, Son & Co. __ 303-422-8282TCI Precision Metals __ 800-234-5613United Performance Metals 888-282-3292Western States Metals _801-978-0562

Alloys: Corrosion ResistantUnited Performance Metals 888-282-3292

Alloys: High TemperatureUnited Performance Metals 888-282-3292

Alloys: Nichel & CobaltUnited Performance Metals 888-282-3292

AluminumMetal Supermarkets __ 801-972-2441Metal Supermarkets __ 303-424-1030Olympic Metals _____303-286-9700O’Neal Flat Rolled Metals _ 303-654-0300O’Neal Flat Rolled Metals _ 801-399-5700TCI Precision Metals __ 800-234-5613

Armor: Military & Commercial

Kloeckner Metals Corp 480-389-2883TW Metals ________ 800-203-8000

BrassCoastal Metals _____ 800-811-7466

922-1674

www.kdcapital.com

TECHNOLOGY THAT WORKS


Setco Spindles & Slides 866-362-0699

Get to the Next Level

People, Product, Process,

Planet & Profit

801.863.8637

[email protected]

www.mep.org

7918 E.McClain Dr.Scottsdale, AZ 85260

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

Metal Supermarkets __ 801-972-2441Metal Supermarkets __ 303-424-1030Olympic Metals _____ 303-286-9700Ryerson __________303-227-6310United Performance Metals 888-282-3292

BronzeCoastal Metals ______800-811-7466Metal Supermarkets __ 801-972-2441Metal Supermarkets __ 303-424-1030Olympic Metals _____ 303-286-9700

CarbonCoastal Metals ______800-811-7466Ryerson __________303-227-6310

CopperOlympic Metals _____ 303-286-9700

Flat Rolled MetalsO’Neal Flat Rolled Metals _ 303-654-0300O’Neal Flat Rolled Metals _ 801-399-5700

Garnet AbrasivesGMA Garnet Group ___ 832-243-9300

Metals: Bar & PlateAZ Tool Steel LLC ____ 480-784-1600Coastal Metals ______800-811-7466

Metal Supermarkets __ 801-972-2441Metal Supermarkets __ 303-424-1030Ryerson _________ 303-227-6310TW Metals ________ 800-203-8000

Mold SteelAZ Tool Steel LLC ____ 480-784-1600

Nickel AlloysAZ Tool Steel LLC ____ 480-784-1600Marzee Inc. ______ 602-269-5801Ryerson _________303-227-6310TW Metals ________ 800-203-8000United Perf. Metals ___ 888-282-3292

Plate-Precision Saw CutErickson Metals _____877-543-6061

Pre-Honed TubeWestern States Metals _801-978-0562

RubberMarzee Inc.________602-269-5801

Stainless SteelAZ Tool Steel LLC ____ 480-784-1600Coastal Metals ______800-811-7466Kloeckner Metals Corp _ 480-389-2883Metal Supermarkets __ 801-972-2441Metal Supermarkets __ 303-424-1030

Olympic Metals ______303-286-9700O’Neal Flat Rolled Metals _ 303-654-0300O’Neal Flat Rolled Metals _ 801-399-5700Ryerson __________ 303-227-6310Samuel, Son & CO. ___ 303-422-8282TCI Precision Metals ___ 800-234-5613United Perf. Metals ___ 888-282-3292

SteelAZ Tool Steel LLC _______ 480-784-1600Coastal Metals ______ 800-811-7466Kloeckner Metals Corp __ 480-389-2883Marzee ___________ 602-269-5801Metal Supermarkets ___ 801-972-2441Metal Supermarkets ___303-424-1030Olympic Metals ______303-286-9700Ryerson __________ 303-227-6310Samuel, Son & CO. ___ 303-422-8282Ryerson __________ 303-227-6310TCI Precision Metals ___ 800-234-5613

WashersLeeSpring ________480-539-5704

METAL DISTRIBUTORS Erickson Metals ______877-543-6061Coastal Metals ______ 800-811-7466

Kloeckner Metals Corp _ 480-389-2883Metal Supermarkets __ 801-972-2441Metal Supermarkets __ 303-424-1030Olympic Metals _____ 303-286-9700Ryerson __________303-227-6310Samuel, Son & CO. ___ 303-422-8282TW Metals ________ 800-203-8000United Perf. Metals ___ 888-282-3292Western States Metals _ 801-978-0562

NEW MACHINERYCHIP CUTTING

CNC Drilling/TappingMethods West ______ 602-437-2220

CNC MillsAction Machine _____ 303-532-2900AME, Inc. ________ 303-922-9266Automatics & Machinery 800-543-7666Hartwig Inc. _______ 303-373-9450Hurco __________ 800-634-2416J.M. Grisley _______ 801-486-7519J.M. Grisley _______ 208-861-8991King Machine ______ 208-345-9600Methods West ______ 602-437-2220Moncktons Mach Tools _ 303-571-4933

Automatic Barfeeds of all Types

Metal Supermarkets 801-972-2441 Metal Supermarkets

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


An ISO 9001 Company

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

All Products Proudly Made in the USA

Olympic Metals 303-286-9700 Kloeckner Metals CorpKloeckner Metals Corp

Quality New & Used CNC Machine(303) 651-6545

[email protected]

Metal Supermarkets 801-972-2441Metal Supermarkets

Ogden, UTDenver, CO303.654.0300 801.399.5700

Smith Machinery Co __ 801-263-6403Todd Machinery ______801-294-6390Tornos USA ________951-695-0342Triad Machine _______303-424-0268

CNC LathesAction Machine _____ 303-532-2900AME, Inc. ________ 303-922-9266Automatics & Machinery 800-543-7666J.M. Grisley ________ 801-486-7519J.M. Grisley _______ 208-861-8991Hartwig Inc. ________303-373-9450Hurco __________ 800-634-2416King Machine ______ 208-345-9600Methods West ______ 602-437-2220Moncktons Mach Tools __303-571-4933Smith Machinery Co ___801-263-6403Todd Machinery ______801-294-6390Triad Machine _______303-424-0268

CNC Swiss Turn MachinesAME, Inc. ________ 303-922-9266Automatics & Machinery 800-543-7666Methods West ______ 602-437-2220Moncktons Mach Tools _ 303-571-4933Tornos USA ______ 951-695-0342Triad Machine ______ 303-424-0268

EDM Drilling MachinesCurrent EDM Inc ____650-966-9676

EDM MachinesAction Machine _____ 303-532-2900AME, Inc. ________ 303-922-9266Desert EDM Sales ____ 480-816-6300EDM Network ______ 480-836-1782Methods West ______ 602-437-2220Moncktons Mach Tools _ 303-571-4933Smith Machinery Co __ 801-263-6403

Todd Machinery _____ 801-294-6390Triad Machine ______ 303-424-0268

EDM Tooling SystemsDesert EDM Sales ____ 480-816-6300EDM Network ______ 480-836-1782EDM Perform. Access. ___ 800-336-2946Global EDM Supply ___ 480-836-8330

End MillsHelical Solutions ____ 866-543-5422

Micro Hole Drilling Machines

Current EDM Inc ____650-966-9676NEW MACHINERY

FABRICATIONPrecisionFab Inc. ____303-779-9180

Band SawsAIT _____________ 800-321-3195Fabricating Equip Sales _ 303-466-7342King Machine ______ 208-345-9600

Bar FeedersEdge Technologies _____ 562-597-7824Trusty-Cook ________ 877-240-2462

Cold SawsFabricating Equip Sales __ 303-466-7342

CNC Plasma CuttersDesert Machine Tool Repair _480-226-3128

CNC Punching CentersPrecisionFab Inc. ____303-779-9180S&S Machinery Sales __ 602-368-8542

Iron WorkersAIT _____________ 800-321-3195Fabricating Equip Sales _ 303-466-7342Jorgensen Machine Tools 800-952-0151S&S Machinery Sales __ 602-368-8542

Laser CuttersAction Machine _____ 303-532-2900Moncktons Mach Tools _ 303-571-4933PrecisionFab Inc. ____303-779-9180S&S Machinery Sales __ 602-368-8542Sidley Diamond Tool __ 800-544-9070Triad Machine ______ 303-424-0268

Pipe & Tube Benders/NotchersFabricating Equip Sales _ 303-466-7342S&S Machinery Sales __ 602-368-8542

Plate RollsFabricating Equip Sales _ 303-466-7342Jorgensen Machine Tools 800-952-0151

Press Brakes Fabricating Equip Sales _ 303-466-7342Jorgensen Machine Tools 800-952-0151King Machine ______ 208-345-9600PrecisionFab Inc. ____303-779-9180S&S Machinery Sales __ 602-368-8542

Shearing MachinesAction Machine _____ 303-532-2900Fabricating Equip Sales _ 303-466-7342Jorgensen Machine Tools 800-952-0151King Machine ______ 208-345-9600S&S Machinery Sales __ 602-368-8542

Welding EquipmentRocky Mountain Saw Blades 303-761-3000

OTHER ACCESSORIESTooling Systems

Desert EDM Sales _____ 480-816-6300USA EDM Supply _____ 480-836-8330

PALLET SYSTEMS

Automatic Pallet SystemsMidaco __________ 847-593-8420

Automatic Door Opener SystemsMidaco __________ 847-593-8420

Manual Rotary Pallet SystemsMidaco __________ 847-593-8420

Robotic Part Loading SystemsMidaco __________ 847-593-8420

PRODUCTSGuns

Layke Tactical ______ 602-272-2654

PROG. SYSTEMSCAD/CAMSoftware, CAD

AME, Inc. ________ 303-922-9266Cimatron ________ 248-596-9700

Delcam __________ 877-35-2261Feature Cam ______ 602-502-9654SolidCAM ________ 530-863-0461

PROTOTYPE MACHINERY3D Parts To Go _______801-380-7935

RECYCLINGRecyclable Metals

Iron & Metals, Inc ____ 303-292-5555Utah Metal Works ____ 801-364-5679

Scrap Metal RecyclingIron & Metals, Inc ____ 303-292-5555Utah Metal Works ____ 801-364-5679

ROBOTIC EQUIPMENTIntegrated Systems Inc _ 928-649-9600

SERVICES AS9100 Certi�cation

ABS Quality Evaluations 702-371-7591BMSC __________ 602-445-9400MEP ___________ 801-863-7001Sustaining Edge Solutions _ 888-572-9642

Calibration ServicesAdvanced Coord. Tech __303-469-6161Klontech Industrial ____480-948-1871

Consultants,

Health & SafetyCKC Services LLC ____ 303-905-2371

Consultant, ISOABS Quality Evaluations 702-371-7591BMSC __________ 602-445-9400MEP ___________ 801-863-7001Sustaining Edge Solutions _ 888-572-9642

Calibration ServicesAdvanced Coord. Tech __303-469-6161Klontech Industrial ____480-948-1871

Contract InspectionAdvanced Coord. Tech __303-469-6161Klontech Measure Sol __ 480-626-8131

EducationOgden-Weber Tech College 801-395-3795


Smith Machinery Co

Todd MachineryTriad Machine

Desert EDM SalesEDM NetworkEDM Perform. Access.


Engineering ServicesAdvanced Coord. Tech __303-469-6161

FinancingIEC __________ 303-593-0403Intech Funding _____ 385-553-9208Quick Turn Financial____415-608-5692

First Article InspectionAdvanced Coord. Tech ____303-469-6161Datum Inspection _____ 602-997-1340

HeavyhaulIRH ___________801-972-5581

Injection Molding3D Parts To Go _____ 801-380-7935

ISO900/AS9100 AuditsAmerican Global Standards 617-838-4648ISO900/AS9100 RegistrationAmerican Global Standards 617-838-4648

Inspection ServicesAdvanced Coord. Tech ____303-469-6161Datum Inspection _____ 602-997-1340

Insurance ServicesSentry Insurance ____ 303-619-4476

Lean ConsultingABS Quality Evaluations 702-371-7591

Machine InstallationDesert Machine Tool Repair _480-226-3128

Machine Repair/ServicingDesert Machine Tool Repair _480-226-3128Jorgensen Machine Tools_ 800-952-0151

Process Improvement/ AuditABS Quality Evaluations 702-371-7591

BMSC _____________ 602-445-9400Sustaining Edge Solutions _ 888-572-9642

X-RayCertified Inspection Service _602-267-0661Semiray____________602-275-1917

ISO9000 / AS9100 Cert.American Global Standards 617-838-4648BMSC _____________ 602-445-9400Gladhill Associates ______719-495-8045MEP ____________801-863-7001Orion Registrar _______303-645-4017Sustaining Edge Solutions _ 888-572-9642

ISO RegistrarAmerican Global Standards 617-838-4648Orion Registrar _______303-645-4017

Lean ManufacturingMEP ____________ 801-863-7001Sustaining Edge Solutions _ 888-572-9642

Machine Tool RebuildingEDM Network ______ 480-836-1782

Process ImprovementBMSC _____________ 602-445-9400Sustaining Edge Solutions __ 888-572-9642

Reverse EngineeringAdvanced Coord. Tech __ _303-469-6161Diversified Metal Services __ 801-972-6093Klontech Measure Sol ___ 480-626-8131

Rigging & TransferAtlas Rigging & Transfer 801-539-3885 IRH ___________ _801-972-5581

Spindle RebuildingGMN USA _________ 800-686-1679Setco-Pope Spindles _____866-362-0699

Sta�ngResource Mfg ________801-265-1999

SHOP FLOOR AUTOMATIONHardware: USB

Bytebox ___________ 888-Bytebox

Serial PortBytebox ___________ 888-Bytebox

Software:CNC NetworkingBytebox ___________ 888-Bytebox

TransportationIRH ____________801-972-5581

SOFTWARECAD/CAM/CAE

Daystrom Technologies _ 303-534-8345SolidCAM ________ 530-863-0461

Consulting/EngineeringDaystrom Technologies _ 303-534-8345Von Ruden Mfg _____ 763-682-0322

TOOLINGArc Cutting Tools

Helical Solutions ______866-543-5422Precision Toolholding

ProductsVon Ruden Mfg _____ 763-682-0322 Tooling SystemsVon Ruden Mfg _____ 763-682-0322

Live Tool HoldersVon Ruden Mfg _____ 763-682-0322

Static Tool HoldersVon Ruden Mfg _____ 763-682-0322

TRAININGCAD/CAM Training

Davis Applied Tech College__ 801-593-2483Daystrom Technologies ___303-534-8345

CNC/Conventional Machining

Davis Applied Tech College__ 801-593-2483Machining Software

Davis Applied Tech College__ 801-593-2483USED MACHINERY

Automatics & Machinery __ 800-543-7666EDM Network ________ 480-836-1782

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

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

Jeffrey F. Nawrot Vice President, Business Development


Jorgensen Machine Tools__ 800-952-0151King Machine ________208-345-9600K.D. Capital Equipment___ 480-922-1674Methods West ________602-437-2220PrecisionFab Inc. ______303-779-9180ReSell CNC West _______480-694-9919S&S Machinery Sales____ 602-368-8542

WATERJET CUTTINGMACHINERY

Action Machine _______303-532-2900Fabricating Equip Sales __303-466-7342Flow International_______800-446-3569Global EDM Supply____ 480-836-8330Jorgensen Machine Tools __800-952-0151King Machine ________208-345-9600OMAX Corp________ _800-838-0343Triad Machine ______ _ 303-424-0268

Abrasives/Blast MediaGMA Garnet Group ____ 832-243-9300Fives ____________909-263-9282

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Engineering Services

BSustaining Edge Solutions

Certified Inspection ServiceSemiray____________602-275-1917

American Global Standards


Buyer’s Guide & Card Gallery Processes

ASSEMBLIESAEI Fabrication _______480-733-6594Acu-Tec CNC _________ 303-365-9245Bar-S Machine ________ 928-636-2115Dayton Rogers _______ 763-717-6303JD Machine _________801-782-4403RPM CNC Precision Machine 208-442-1999Stacy Machine & Tooling __303-465-3922Steen & Sons Machine Shop 208-522-7341Superior Metal Products __ 303-791-7550Wasatch Laser Processing__ 801-972-3500Wrico ___________ 480-892-7800

Electronics AssembliesCascade Systems Tech ___ 503-640-5733

Welded AssembliesWeiser/Mile High Precision 303-280-2778

BAR CODINGWestern Sintering _____509-375-3096

Pilkington Metal Finishing 801-972-2146Coating: Nickel/ Teflon/Chrome

Coating Technologies ___623-581-2648Collins Metal Finishing __ 602-275-3117LA Specialties _______ 602-269-7612

Coating:Zinc & Mag.Phos.Coating Technologies ___623-581-2648Collins Metal Finishing __ 602-275-3117

COMPOSITESS.A. Composites _______970-776-3877

CUTTINGMetal

Bandsaw LLC ________ 303-744-7181Plasma Cutting

Bandsaw LLC ________ 303-744-7181Plastic

Bandsaw 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

EDM Express _______800-780-7075LAYKE, Inc.__________ 602-272-2654Micropulse West ______ 480-966-2300

EDM: Ram-Type (Sinking)EDM Express ______ 800-780-7075Innovative Precision____ 801-334-6317Maverick Mold & Machine 970-535-4604Micropulse West ______ 480-966-2300Prec. Mach’d Products ___ 970-482-7676

BENDINGAEI Fabrication ______ 480-733-6594JQ Enterprises _________801-975-0777

BROACHINGPonderosa Ind ________303-298-1801Precision Mach’d Products 970-482-7676Specialty Steel Services __ 801-539-8252

CASTINGSDie Casting

TVT Die Casting ______ 800-280-2278Die Casting: Aluminum/Zinc

TVT Die Casting ______ 800-280-2278Precision Investment Casting

Dolphin Inc. ________ 602-272-6747COATING

Dry Film LubricationPrecision Industrial Painting 602-256-0260

Coating: LiquidCollins Metal Finishing __ 602-275-3117


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


www.dolphincasting.com

[email protected]: 602-272-6747 Ext. 3335


ASSEMBLIES


EDM: WireCustom Design & Mfg ___ 435-257-0668EDM Express ______ 800-780-7075Foremaster Tool ______801-737--0265Innovative Precision _____801-334-6317Micropulse West ______ 480-966-2300Paramount Machine ___ 801-886-2755H&R Precision ________801-975-7400Jet Processing _______ 623-869-6749LA Specialties _______ 602-269-7612The Toolroom Inc. _____ 801-773-6331Thompson Machine ____ 505-823-1453Wrico ___________ 480-892-7800

ELECTRONICSContract

Cascade Systems Tech ___ 503-640-5733Design

Cascade Systems Tech ___ 503-640-5733Kitting

Cascade Systems Tech ___ 503-640-5733Prototype

Cascade Systems Tech ___ 503-640-5733ELECTROPOLISHING

Collins Metal Finishing __ 602-275-3117

ENGINEERING/DESIGNAzMark __________480-926-8969Custom Design & Mfg ___435-257-0668Hexatron _________ 801-363-8010Stacy Machine & Tooling _ 303-465-3922

FABRICATIONAEI Fabrication _______480-733-6594Aero Tech _______ 801-292-0493Arrow Sheet Metal Prod 303-427-6419Cygnet ___________ 818-240-7574Dayton Rogers ______ 763-717-6303EMJD Corporation _____ 303-761-5236EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540Focused on Machining __ 303-922-3076GBC ____________303-988-6450Hexatron _________ 801-363-8010Howell Precision ______ 623-582-4776Kustom Koncepts _____ 307-472-0818Mountain View Machine _435-755-0500Star Precision _______303-926-0559Wrico ___________480-892-7800

Custom Auto/Truck/BikeH& S Machine ______ 801-755-7627

Fabrication: Filament WindingS.A. Composites ______ 970-776-3877

Fabrication: CompositesS.A. Composites ______ 970-776-3877

Fabrication: EnclosuresFalcon Sheet Metal __ 801-298-5064Kustom Koncepts _____ 307-472-0818 Star Precision _______303-926-0559

Fabrication: Medium & Large

Arrow Sheet Metal Prod __ 303-427-6419Bandsaw LLC ________303-744-7181EMJD Corp _________ 303-761-5236EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540Falcon Sheet Metal ____801-298-5064GBC ____________303-988-6450Group Mfg Serv ______480-966-3952Howell Precision ______ 623-582-4776Kustom Koncepts _____ 307-472-0818Weiser/Mile High Prec __303-280-2778

Fabrication: PlasticImageTek _________ 303-806-8111

Fabrication: SheetMetalAEI Fabrication _______480-733-6594Arrow Sheet Metal Prod __ 303-427-6419AzMark __________480-926-8969Cygnet ___________ 818-240-7574

Denver Machine Shop ___303-295-6000EMJD Corporation _____ 303-761-5236EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540Falcon Sheet Metal __ 801-298-5064GBC ____________303-988-6450Group Mfg Serv ______480-966-3952Hexatron _________ 801-363-8010Howell Precision ______ 623-582-4776JD Machine ________801-782-4403Kustom Koncepts _____ 307-472-0818Laser Concepts Inc. ____ 801-280-7723Metalcraft _________888-280-7080Precision Tech _______801-285-7288Richards Fab _____ 801-409-0392Star Precision _______303-926-0559Weiser/Mile High Prec __303-280-2778Wrico ___________480-892-7800

Fabrication: SteelBandsaw LLC ________303-744-7181EMJD Corp _______303-761-5236Falcon Sheet Metal __ 801-298-5064

FINISHINGArizona Finishing _____602-438-4443Coating Technologies ___623-581-2648Collins Metal Finishing __ 602-275-3117Gold Tech Industries ____ 480-968-1930Phoenix Heat Treating __ 602-258-7751Precision Mach’d Prod ___ 970-482-7676Star Precision _______303-926-0559Superior Grinding _____801-487-9700TVT Die Casting ______800-280-2278

Paramount Machinewww.paramount-machine.com

[email protected]: 801.886.2755Fax: 801.886.2759



Finishing: One StopPrecision Industrial Painting--602-256-0260

Glass Bead Clean Coating Technologies ___623-581-2648

Gold Tech Industries ____ 480-968-1930Hand Deburring: Precision

H&R Precision _______ 801-975-7400Liquid Painting

Industrialex ______ 303-456-6847Passivation

Certified Inspection Service___602-267-0661Coating Technologies ___623-581-2648Gold Tech Industries ____ 480-968-1930Jet Processing ____ 623-869-6749x117

Powder CoatingArizona Finishing _____602-438-4443Industrialex ______ 303-456-6847LA Specialties _______ 602-269-7612Pilkington Metal Finishing 801-972-2146Star Precision _______303-926-0559

Silk ScreeningArizona Finishing _____602-438-4443Industrialex ______ 303-456-6847

Potting/EncapsulationIndustrialex ______ 303-456-6847

Wet Paint/CARCPrecision Industrial Painting_602-256-0260

Aluminum (Medium & Large)Aero Tech _______ 801-292-0493

FOUNDRYMay Foundry & Machine 801-531-8931

GALVANIZINGJordan River Galvanizing _801-282-9375

Galvanizing: Hot DipJordan River Galvanizing _801-282-9375

Galvanizing: ZincJordan River Galvanizing _801-282-9375

GAS NITRIDINGBlanchard Metals Proc. __801-972-5590

GEAR CUTTINGPonderosa Ind _______ 303-298-1801

Specialty Steel Svcs ___ 801-539-8252Gear Hobbing

Ponderosa Ind _______ 303-298-1801GRINDING

AzMark __________480-926-8969ChemResearch _______ 602-253-4175Diversified Metal Services _801-972-6093Fives ____________ 909-263-9282Focused on Machining __ 303-922-3076GMN USA ________ 800-686-1679Prec. Mach’d Products _ 970-482-7676Precision Tech _______801-285-7288Ron Grob Co. _______970-667-5320Steel Services Grinding __ 800-662-0126Superior Grinding _____801-487-9700Superior Metal Products __303-791-7550TCI Precision Metals __800-234-5613The Toolroom Inc. _____ 801-773-6331

Grinding, BlanchardDiversified Metal Services _801-972-6093Steel Services Grinding __ 800-662-0126Superior Grinding _____ 801487-9700 TCI Precision Metals __800-234-5613

Grinding, CenterlessRon Grob Co. _______970-667-5320

Grinding, Double DiscTCI Precision Metals __800-234-5613

Grinding: ODAzMark __________480-926-8969Focused on Machining __ 303-922-3076Precision Tech _______801-285-7288Ron Grob Co. _______970-667-5320Superior Grinding _____ 801487-9700Superior Metal Products __303-791-7550

Grinding: SurfaceChemResearch _______ 602-253-4175Superior Grinding _____ 801487-9700

Passivation

Gold Tech Industries ____ 480-968-1930Polishing

Gold Tech Industries ____ 480-968-1930Selective Coatings

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Kelly MartinezMachine Shop

Lifetime Products, Inc.P.O. Box 160010, Freeport Center, Bldg D-11

Clearfield, UT 84016T: 801.726.5312 F: 801.728.1979email: [email protected]

Potting/Encapsulation

303‐744‐7181 METEORITE•PLASTIC•CLAD ALLOYS•CASTINGS•FIBER-TITE

TITANIUM•ALUMINUM•BRONZE•STEEL•STAINLESS•BRASS

PRECISION CUTTING LARGE CAPACITY

FREE QUOTES

www.Ba ndSawLL C . com

Shawn Carlin [email protected]

FORMINGAEI Fabrication ______ 480-733-6594EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540JD Machine ________801-782-4403Star Precision _______303-926-0559Wasatch Laser Processing _801-972-3500

HEAT TREATINGBlanchard Metals Proc. __801-972-5590Phoenix Heat Treating __ 602-258-7751Pilkington Metal Finishing__801-972-2146The Toolroom Inc. _____ 801-773-6331

Heat Treating/AerospacePhoenix Heat Treating __ 602-258-7751

Large Capacity Drop Bottom Oven/Aluminum

Phoenix Heat Treating __ 602-258-7751HONING/LAPPING

LAYKE, Inc.__________ 602-272-2654IDENTIFICATION

Silk ScreenArizona Finishing ______ 602-438-4443Precision Industrial Painting 602-256-0260

INJECTION MOLDINGLMI Machining_______303-776-6629

INSPECTIONInspection, First Article

Klontech Measure Sol ___ 480-626-8131Inspection Services

Klontech Measure Sol ___ 480-626-8131Micropulse West ______480-966-2300Sustaining Edge Solutions _888-572-9642

LASER CUTTINGLaser Cutting

AEI Fabrication ________ 480-733-6594Arrow Sheet Metal Prod 303-427-6419EMJD Corporation_____303-761-5236EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540GBC ____________303-988-6450Howell Precision ______ 623-582-4776Kustom Koncepts _____ 307-472-0818Laser Concepts Inc. ____ 801-280-7723Richards Fab _____ 801-409-0392Star Precision _______303-926-0559Wasatch Laser Processing _801-972-3500Wrico ___________480-892-7800

Laser Cutting: Pipe&TubeWasatch Laser Processing _801-972-3500

EMI/RFI ShieldingIndustrialex ______ 303-456-6847

Laser Engraving4 Axis Machining Inc. ___ 303-295-1544

Laser Marking4 Axis Machining Inc. ___ 303-295-1544LMI Machining_______303-776-6629

LINE TOOLINGRPM CNC Precision Machine _ 208-442-199

MACHININGA&L Machining ______303-373-1540Acu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245American Machine & Eng. _ 801-973-0494Apex Engineering ____ 435-713-0072CM Manufacturing ___ 406-543-4450Custom Design & Mfg ___435-257-0668

Datum Machining _____208-376-6099EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540Fives ____________ 909-263-9282Focused on Machining __ 303-922-3076GBC ____________303-988-6450H&R Precision _______ 801-975-7400Hirsh Precision Products__ 303-530-3131LMI Machining_______303-776-6629Loveridge Machine Co. __ 801-262-1414Mountain View Machine _435-755-0500Precision Plus Machining _ 970-484-9511R&H Machine _______801-621-7922RD Machine & MFg ___ 801-977-0447Radtech _________ 303-789-4247RPM CNC Precision Machine 208-442-1999Skydandee Mfg _____ 801-774-8031St. Vrain _________ 303-702-1529Superior Metal Products 303-791-7550TVT Die Casting _____ 800-280-2278

Machining: 3DMicropulse West ______480-966-2300

Machining: 5 Axis4 Axis Machining Inc. ___303-295-1544Accutech Machine _____ 801-975-1117AzMark __________480-926-8969Faustson __________303-420-7422JD Machine ________801-782-4403Paramount Machine __ 801-886-2755Premier Technology Inc __208-785-2274S.A. Composites ______ 970-776-3877St. Vrain _________ 303-702-1529Superior Metal Products 303-791-7550

Machining: AerospaceAzMark __________480-926-8969H&R Precision _______ 801-975-7400CM Manufacturing ___ 406-543-4450Datum Machining _____208-376-6099LAYKE, INC _________602-272-2654Micropulse West ______480-966-2300Mountain View Machine _435-755-0500Paramount Machine ___ 801-886-2755Pinnacle Precision ___435-563-2722Ponderosa Ind _______ 303-298-1801Precision Mach’d Products 970-482-7676Precision Tech _______801-285-7288Quick Turn Precision ____801-334-6800Radtech _________ 303-789-4247RD Machine & MFg ___ 801-977-0447Skydandee Mfg _____ 801-774-8031St. Vrain _________ 303-702-1529Stacy Machine & Tooling _ 303-465-3922Superior Metal Products 303-791-7550

Machining: CNC4 Axis Machining Inc. ___303-295-1544A&L Machining ______303-373-1540Able Machining & Eng. _ 801-268-6766Acu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245Apex Engineering ____ 435-713-0072Accutech Machine _____ 801-975-1117American Machine & Eng. _ 801-973-0494Apex Engineering ____ 435-713-0072Bar-S Machine ______ 928-636-2115CM Manufacturing ___ 406-543-4450Custom Design & Mfg ___435-257-0668Datum Machining _____208-376-6099

A Veteran-Owned Small Business


Henry Parker

EMAIL: [email protected]

HIRSH PRECISION PRODUCTS, INC.

Specializing in Production CNC Turning & Milling

Quality Work Delivered On Time

Mike Hirsh

Tel: 303.530.3131 6420 Odell Place Fax: 303.530.5242 Boulder, CO 80301 Email: [email protected] www.HirshPrecision.com

Denver Precision Products _ 303-469-1771DMSI___________801-972-6093EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540Faustson _________ 303-420-7422Focused on Machining __ 303-922-3076Foremaster Tool ____ 801-737--0265GBC ____________303-988-6450H&R Precision ______ 801-975-7400H& S Machine ______ 801-755-7627Hirsh Precision Products__ 303-530-3131HPMP ___________ 801-619-9850Hexatron _________ 801-363-8010Innovative Precision __ 801-334-6317JD Machine ________801-782-4403L.A.R. Manufacturing __ 801-280-3505LAYKE, INC _________602-272-2654Leading Edge Machine _ 435-563-9425LMI Machining_______303-776-6629Loveridge Machine Co. __ 801-262-1414Maverick Mold & Machine 970-535-4604Pinnacle Precision ___435-563-2722Precision Plus Machining _ 970-484-9511Premier Technology Inc __208-785-2274R&H Machine _______801-621-7922RD Machine & Mfg ___ 801-977-0447RPM CNC Precision Machine 208-442-1999St. Vrain _________ 303-702-1529Star Precision _______303-926-0559Steen & Sons Machine Shop 208-522-7341Superior Metal Products 303-791-7550The Toolroom Inc. _____ 801-773-6331Wrico __________ 480-892-7800

Machining: CompositesMetalcraft _________888-280-7080

Machining: ContractAcu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245American Machine & Eng. _ 801-973-0494JD Machine ________801-782-4403Paramount Machine ___801-886-2755Precision Plus Machining _ 970-484-9511Radtech _________ 303-789-4247Skydandee Mfg _____ 801-774-8031

Machining: DoDCM Manufacturing ___ 406-543-4450

Machining: LaserAzMark __________480-926-8969Faustson _________ 303-420-7422Foremaster Tool _____ 801-737--0265Gerome Mfg _______520-622-8402Innovative Precision __ 801-334-6317L.A.R. Manufacturing __ 801-280-3505RD Machine & Mfg ___ 801-977-0447

Machining:MedicalA&L Machining ______303-373-1540Datum Machining _____208-376-6099Pinnacle Precision ___435-563-2722Stacy Machine & Tooling 303-465-3922

Machining: MillingA&L Machining ______303-373-1540Acu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245American Machine & Eng. _ 801-973-0494Datum Machining _____208-376-6099EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540Focused on Machining __ 303-922-3076

Hirsh Precision Products__ 303-530-3131JD Machine ________801-782-4403Metalcraft _________888-280-7080Mountain View Machine__435-755-0500Ponderosa Ind _______ 303-298-1801Prec. Mach’d Products__970-482-7676Precision Plus Machining _ 970-484-9511Precision Tech _______801-285-7288Ron Grob Co. _______970-667-5320Steen & Sons Machine Shop 208-522-7341

Machining: Mold BaseMaverick Mold & Machine __970-535-4604

Machining: Mold MakingR&H Machine _______801-621-7922

Machining: PlasticImageTek _________ 303-806-8111

Machining: ProductionA&L Machining ______303-373-1540Able Machining & Eng. _ 801-268-6766Acu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245Apex Engineering ____ 435-713-0072CM Manufacturing ___ 406-543-4450Custom Design & Mfg ___435-257-0668Datum Machining _____208-376-6099Faustson _________ 303-420-7422Focused on Machining __ 303-922-3076H&R Precision _______ 801-975-7400Hirsh Precision Products__ 303-530-3131HPMP ___________ 801-619-9850Innovative Precision __ 801-334-6317L.A.R. Manufacturing __ 801-280-3505Loveridge Machine Co. __ 801-262-1414Newport Tool _______801-295-7411Paramount Machine __ 801-886-2755Ponderosa Ind _______ 303-298-1801R&H Machine _______801-621-7922Radtech _________ 303-789-4247RD Machine & Mfg ___ 801-977-0447

RPM CNC Precision Machine 208-442-1999Star Precision _______303-926-0559

Machining: Prototype4 Axis Machining Inc. ___303-295-1544A&L Machining ______303-373-1540Able Machining & Eng. _ 801-268-6766Accutech Machine _____ 801-975-1117Acu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245American Machine & Eng. _ 801-973-0494Apex Engineering ____ 435-713-0072Bar-S Machine ______ 928-636-2115Custom Design & Mfg ___435-257-0668Denver Precision Products _ 303-469-1771Faustson __________303-420-7422Focused on Machining __ 303-922-3076Foremaster Tool _____ 801-737--0265H&R Precision _______ 801-975-7400Innovative Precision __ 801-334-6317JD Machine ________801-782-4403L.A.R. Manufacturing __ 801-280-3505LAYKE, INC _________602-272-2654Leading Edge Machine _ 435-563-9425Micropulse West _____ 480-966-2300Mountain View Machine 435-755-0500Newport Tool _______801-295-7411Precision Plus Machining _ 970-484-9511Quick Turn Precision __ 801-334-6800R&H Machine _______801-621-7922Radtech _________ 303-789-4247RD Machine & Mfg ___ 801-977-0447RPM CNC Precision Machine 208-442-1999Skydandee Mfg _____ 801-774-8031


Robert Bergstrom President

SSt. t. VVrain rain MManufacturing, anufacturing, IIncnc..

819 So. Lincoln Street P. O. Box 1066 Longmont, CO 80502 Website: stvrainmfg.com

Phone: (303) 702-1529 x 103 Fax: (303) 702-1534 Email: [email protected] RFQ Email: [email protected]

“Precision Machining Solutions for Industry”

888-280-7080 | [email protected]

Darrin J. CaschettePresident

ISO 9001:2008

[email protected]

Hirsh Precision ProductsHirsh Precision ProductsJD MachineMetalcraftMountain View Machine__435-755-0500Ponderosa IndPrec. Mach’d Products__970-482-7676Precision Plus Machining


S.A.Composites _____ 970-776-3877St. Vrain _________ 303-702-1529Stacy Machine & Tooling __ 303-465-3922Superior Metal Products 303-791-7550The Toolroom Inc. ______801-773-6331

Machining: PrecisionA&L Machining ______303-373-15404 Axis Machining Inc. __ 303-295-1544Able Machining & Eng. _ 801-268-6766American Machine & Eng. _ 801-973-0494CM Manufacturing ___ 406-543-4450Focused on Machining __ 303-922-3076Loveridge Machine Co. __ 801-262-1414H&R Precision _______ 801-975-7400Newport Tool _______801-295-7411Pinnacle Precision ___435-563-2722Ponderosa Ind _______ 303-298-1801Precision Machined Prod. _ 970-482-7676Precision Plus Machining _ 970-484-9511Precision Tech _______801-285-7288RPM CNC Precision Machine 208-442-1999Stacy Machine & Tooling __ 303-465-3922 Superior Metal Products ___ 303-791-7550TVT Die Casting ______800-280-2278

Machining: R & D Acu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245

American Machine & Eng. _ 801-973-0494Custom Design & Mfg ___435-257-0668JD Machine ________801-782-4403Precision Plus Machining _ 970-484-9511Steen & Sons Machine Shop 208-522-7341Superior Metal Products __ 303-791-7550Wasatch Laser Processing _801-972-3500

Machining: SwissBar-S Machine ______ 928-636-2115Denver Precision Products _ 303-469-1771HPMP ___________ 801-619-9850Pinnacle Precision ___435-563-2722Ron Grob Co. _______970-667-5320White Rock Inc _______ 435-750-6414

Machining: TurningAcu-Tec CNC ________303-365-9245American Machine & Eng. _ 801-973-0494Apex Engineering ____ 435-713-0072AzMark __________480-926-8969Bar-S Machine ______ 928-636-2115Custom Design & Mfg ___435-257-0668Datum Machining _____208-376-6099Denver Precision Products _ 303-469-1771EPOCS Mfg ________970-535-4540Faustson _________ 303-420-7422H&R Precision _______ 801-975-7400

Hirsh Precision Products__ 303-530-3131HPMP ___________ 801-619-9850JD Machine ________801-782-4403LAYKE, INC _________602-272-2654Leading Edge Machine __ 435-563-9425Metalcraft _________888-280-7080Mountain View Machine __ 435-755-0500Prec Mach’d Products ___ 970-482-7676Premier Technology Inc __208-785-2274Quick Turn Precision __801-334-6800RD Machine & Mfg ___ 801-977-0447Steen & Sons Machine Shop 208-522-7341

Machining: Ultra-PrecisionPinnacle Precision ___435-563-2722

Machining: WaterjetColorado Waterjet ___970-532-5404Quick Turn Precision __801-334-6800

MANUFACTURINGA&L Machining ______303-373-1540Group Mfg Serv _____480-966-3952RD Machine & Mfg ___ 801-977-0447

CompositesS.A. Composites _______970-776-3877

ContractApex Engineering ____ 435-713-0072

Manufacturing: ElectrodeWire-Tech ________ 480-966-1591

ProductionAero Tech ________801-292-0493EMJD Corporation_____303-761-5236L.A.R. Manufacturing __ 801-280-3505Laser Concepts Inc. ___801-280-7723Steen & Sons Machine Shop 208-522-7341White Rock Inc _______ 435-750-6414

Rapid PrototypingWhite Rock Inc _______ 435-750-6414

Robotic CNCDMSI ___________ 801-972-6093

Routering CNCDMSI ___________ 801-972-6093

Small PartPinnacle Precision ___435-563-2722White Rock Inc _______ 435-750-6414

Turnkey Product ServicesAero Tech ________801-292-0493L.A.R. Manufacturing __ 801-280-3505

METAL STAMPINGAEI Fabrication _______480-733-6594

Hi-Production Precision Stamping

Metalcraft _________888-280-7080Precision Die & Stamping _ 480-967-2038Thompson Machine ____ 505-823-1453

MOLDSColorado Tool Design Inc 720-218-5246Lifetime Products ____ 801-728-1260Loveridge Machine Co. __ 801-262-1414Maverick Mold & Machine 970-535-4604

Molds: BlowLifetime Products ____ 801-728-1260

Molds: Plastic InjectionLifetime Products _____801-728-1260Maverick Mold & Machine 970-535-4604

Molds: DieCast DesignColorado Tool Design Inc _ 720-218-5246

Molds: Injection DesignColorado Tool Design Inc _ 720-218-5246

Molds: Trim Die DesignColorado Tool Design Inc _ 720-218-5246

Molds SteelDMSI ___________ 801-972-6093Aero Tech ________801-292-0493Arizona Finishing ____602-438-4443ChemResearch ______ 602-253-417Loveridge Machine Co. __ 801-262-1414

PAINTINGCoating Technologies ____ 623-581-2648Jet Processing _____ 623-869-6749 x117Precision Industrial Painting 602-256-0260Richards Fab_________ 801-409-0392

Mil Spec PaintingIndustrialEX _________ 303-456-6847

Wet Paint/CARCPrecision Industrial Painting 602-256-0260

PARTS: MISC.Lifetime Products _____801-728-1260

PLATINGBlanchard Metals Proc. _ 801-972-5590ChemResearch _____ 602-253-4175Collins Metal Finishing __ 602-275-3117Gold Tech Industries __ 480-968-1930LA Specialties ______ 602-269-7612

AnodizingBlanchard Metals Proc. __801-972-5590ChemResearch _______ 602-253-4175Collins Metal Finishing __ 602-275-3117Jet Processing ____ 623-869-6749x117Pilkington Metal Finishing 801-972-2146

Gold/Silver PlateGold Tech Industries __ 480-968-1930

Nickel/ChromeGold Tech Industries __ 480-968-1930

Tin PlateGold Tech Industries __ 480-968-1930

POLISHINGGold Tech Industries __ 480-968-1930LA Specialties ______ 602-269-7612

PRECISION FORMINGAEI Fabrication ______480-733-6594Richards Fab________801-409-0392Thompson Machine ____505-823-1453Wrico ___________480-892-7800

PRINTINGCustom Screen

ImageTek _________303-806-8111PROCESSING: METAL

Chemical LA Specialties _______ 602-269-7612

Wire-Tech

Aero TechEMJD Corporation_____303-761-5236L.A.R. ManufacturingLaser Concepts Inc.Steen & Sons Machine ShopWhite Rock Inc

A&L MachiningA&L MachiningGroup Mfg ServRD Machine & Mfg

S.A. Composites

Apex Engineering

FOUNDER & CEONATE WOODS

nate@quickturn mach.com3340 South 1500 W, Ogden, UT 84401

801-334-6800www.QUICKTURNMACH.com


KOTLOFFRON

[email protected] W. Birchwood AvenueMesa, Arizona 85210

TELFAX

EMAILWEBMAIL

Founder / CEO

AEIFABRICATION

A2Z METALWORKER • 69 • July/Aug 2009

PUNCHINGJD Machine ________801-782-4403Group Manufacturing Serv 480-966-3952Star Precision _______303-926-0559

REPAIRBearing Surface

Denver Machine Shop ___303-295-6000Hydraulic Cylinder

Denver Machine Shop ___303-295-6000Manufacturing Equipment

Stacy Machine & Tooling _303-465-3922ROLL FORMING

Lifetime Products _____801-728-1260Rolling: thread

Ron Grob Co. _______970-667-5320ROUTERING, CNC

Micropulse West ______480-966-2300SAW CUTTING

Diversified Metal Services _ 801-972-6093SHOT PEENING

Blanchard Metals Proc. __801-972-5590SINTERING

Western Sintering _____509-375-3096SPINNING: METAL

Metal Spinning Solutions _ 480-899-0939SPLINES

Hexatron _________ 801-363-8010Specialty Steel Services _ 801-539-8252

SPRINGSFlat & Wire

SPRING WORKS Utah ___ 801-298-0113STAMPING

AEI Fabrication ______480-733-6594Cygnet ___________ 818-240-7574Dayton Rogers ______ 763-717-6303Lifetime Products _____801-728-1260Metalcraft _________888-280-7080

Pacific Metal Stampings __ 661-257-7656Precision Die & Stamping _480-967-2038Richards Fab _____ 801-409-0392The Toolroom Inc. _____ 801-773-6331Thompson Machine __ 505-823-1453Weiser/Mile High Prec. 303280-2778Wrico _________ 480-892-7800

Stamping:AerospacePacific Metal Stampings __ 661-257-7656Precision Die & Stamping _480-967-2038

Stamping:BendingPacific Metal Stampings __ 661-257-7656

Stamping:Deep DrawThompson Machine __ 505-823-1453Wrico _________ 480-892-7800

Stamping:DesignPacific Metal Stampings __ 661-257-7656The Toolroom Inc. _____ 801-773-6331Weiser/Mile High Prec. 303280-2778

Stamping:Flat FormingSPRING WORKS Utah ___ 801-298-0113

Stamping: LightCygnet ___________ 818-240-7574Pacific Metal Stampings __ 661-257-7656SPRING WORKS Utah ___ 801-298-0113

Stamping:PrecisionCygnet ___________ 818-240-7574Metalcraft _________888-280-7080Pacific Metal Stampings __ 661-257-7656Precision Die & Stamping _480-967-2038Wrico ___________480-892-7800

Stamping:PrototypeWrico ___________480-892-7800

Stamping:Short RunCygnet ___________ 818-240-7574Wrico ___________ 480-892-7800

SWISS SCREW MCHG.Denver Precision Products _ 303-469-1771White Rock Inc _______ 435-750-6414

Screwing: Lead

Ron Grob Co. _______970-667-5320TAPPING

Laser Concepts Inc. ____ 801-280-7723

TEST FIXTURESRPM CNC Precision Machine 208-442-1999

TESTINGTesting: Corrosive

CascadeTEK ________888-835-9250Testing: Non-Destructive

Blanchard Metals Proc. __801-972-5590CascadeTEK ________888-835-9250Jet Processing ____ 623-869-6749x117Pilkington Metal Finishing __ 801-972-2146

THERMFORMINGLMI Machining_______303-776-6629

TOOL & DIEForemaster Tool _____ 801-737--0265Newport Tool _______801-295-7411The Toolroom Inc. _____ 801-773-6331Thompson Machine ____ 505-823-1453Wrico ___________480-892-7800

TOOLINGMountain View Machine _435-755-0500Precision Tech _______801-285-7288Stacy Machine & Tooling _ 303-465-3922Western Sintering _____509-375-3096

TUBE FORMINGHowell Precision ______ 623-582-4776

Formed TubingHowell Precision ______ 623-582-4776

Tube Bending /FabricationHowell Precision ______ 623-582-4776

WATERJET CUTTINGColorado Waterjet __ 970-532-5404Diversified Metal Services _801-972-6093JQ Enterprises _______ 801-975-0777Leading Edge Machine __435-563-9425Marzee Inc. ______ 602-269-5801Mountain View Machine _435-755-0500Quick Turn Precision ____801-334-6800

WELDINGAble Machining & Eng. _ 801-268-6766AEI Fabrication ______480-733-6594Arrow Sheet Metal Prod __ 303-427-6419Dayton Rogers ______ 763-717-6303Denver Machine Shop ___303-295-6000GBC ____________303-988-6450

H& S Machine ______ 801-755-7627JD Machine ________801-782-4403JQ Enterprises _______ 801-975-0777Kustom Koncepts _____ 307-472-0818Laser Concepts Inc. ____ 801-280-7723Mountain View Machine _435-755-0500Precision Plus Machining _ 970-484-9511Precision Tech _______801-285-7288Premier Technology Inc __208-785-2274Quick Turn Precision ____801-334-6800Richards Fab _____ 801-409-0392Star Precision _______303-926-0559Wasatch Laser Processing _801-972-3500Weiser/Mile High Prec. 303280-2778Wrico _________ 480-892-7800

Welding: Aluminum Medium & Large

Premier Technology Inc __208-785-2274Skyline Products _______719-392-9046Richards Fab _____ 801-409-0392

Welding: OrbitalRichards Fab _____ 801-409-0392

Welding: PrecisionArrow Sheet Metal Prod __ 303-427-6419Premier Technology Inc __208-785-2274Richards Fab _____ 801-409-0392Weiser/Mile High Prec. 303280-2778

Welding: RoboticMetalcraft _________888-280-7080

Welding: TIGArrow Sheet Metal Prod __ 303-427-6419GBC ____________303-988-6450Mountain View Machine __ 435-755-0500

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