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Vol. 26, No. 2, March / Apr 2020

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You’re in manufacturing.You know all about innovation.…whether it is a new machine, a new tool, a new material, or a new process – it is about making either your product or part better, faster, and more competitively.

When asked what we struggle with in manufacturing, the number 1 issue is finding workers. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the US has 12.85 million manufacturing jobs, and pays 12% more than other jobs.

Yet, 89% of manufacturers are leaving jobs unfilled because they can’t find qualified applicants, according to a recent Deloitte Institute report.

That being said, are you focused on innovation in the hiring and retention of your team members?

Research group Zorro surveyed 1,003 currently employed people and asked them to rank benefits most important to them. Paid time off was the number 1 perk employees want. A 401 retirement plan and medical insurance were high on the list, as was a flexible schedule. Since a 401 and medical plan are either offered at your company today, or aren’t because the business can’t support it, let’s focus on something you clearly have the ability to affect – time off and flexibility.

I will use a real world scenario to discuss flexibility.Worker A is 33 years old, recently had her 2nd child, and went out on a leave of absence.While worker A was on leave, worker B filled in for worker A.Worker B is in her early 60s.Worker A and B decided they would like a job sharing assignment, each working ~ 20 hours per week. While the large company they work for endorses flexibility (including P/T) in the workforce, their particular manager does not believe in this. Months later, worker B made the decision to retire and worker A is now interviewing with outside companies.

In this example, both workers were ‘outstanding’ on their performance reviews. Likely, this large company does not know that they have managers in place who are adding to turnover; who are literally costing their employer money. According to the Center for American Progress, the cost of replacing an employee ranges from 10-30% of their annual salary, depending on the industry and length of time on the job — making employee retention strategy a top priority.

“HelpWanted – Part Time or Full Time, Flexible Hours Available”.

Can you imagine this as your recruiting strategy? If you are like many I talk to in manufacturing, you will tell me this doesn’t work in your shop, or in our industry. Why not? Doesn’t this open the list of available candidates substantially over your competition? In fact, this can not only bring you a better pool of candidates, often you can save money on benefits that part timers don’t need.

I interviewed several manufacturing companies for this issue, and I found a number of innovative hiring and retention programs; One, a small manufacturing family owned business, relies upon colleagues the owner worked with at his previous employer to help with business surges; 2 superior machinists who still work for their employer help this company by working part time evenings or weekends.

With Over 40 Years In The Manufacturing Industry….Copper State Bolt & Nut Company Is Much More Than Just A Bolt Company!

Announcements..................................... 6-27 Feature Articles..........34-35,42-43,46-47 More Feature Articles...... 56-57,62-63,78 Buyers Guide Equipment............... 81-89 Buyers Guide Processes.............. 90-101 Card Gallery................................. 81-101 Index of Advertisers........................... 102 Editorial.................................Throughout

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CONTRIBUTORS Kim Carpenter Takashi Sato Gene Wirth Hugh Taylor

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Circulation: The A2Z MANUFACTURING has compiled and maintains a master list of approximately Our cover article, a 2nd generation family owned business with many locations, allows its 8500 people actively engaged in the precision management team members to work on a regular basis at a company site closest to their house. manufacturing Industry. It has an estimated pass on Says one management member, “I’ve gotten back 1.5 hours of my day every business day since I readership of more than 19,300 people. am not commuting in rush hour to the office.” Company owners say that having an executive in Advertising Rates, deadlines and mechanical one of their satellite ‘will call’ offices is beneficial to the staff learning more about local operations. requirements furnished upon request or you can go Another company is implementing ‘A Great Game of Business” so that there employees become to A2ZMANUFACTURING.com. more financially savvy about their company’s performance. This is a process that will enable the The Publisher assumes no responsibility for the contents of any advertisement, and all representations company to become Employee owned in the future through an (ESOP). are those of the advertiser and not that of the An innovative company designing and manufacturing electric vehicles has included a fitness center publisher. in its headquarters. Not only does this encourage fitness in its employees, it likely alleviates that The Publisher is not liable to any advertiser for any afternoon sluggishness that plagues many in the workforce. misprints or errors not the fault of the publisher, and in such event, the limit of the publisher's liability shall Interestingly, benefits you offer to retain your employees often have an added only be the amount of the publishers charge for such bonus of increasing productivity. Go ahead and try it. advertising.

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a range of custom metal & steel fabrication services to customers in Phoenix and beyond. The ISO 9001 : 2015 registered company offers expert services in robotic welding, laser cutting, CNC tube bending and CNC press brake forming.

The company is owned and operated by Don Kammerzell, P.E., a Metallurgical Engineer, with over 40 years’ experience in steel fabrication. Don says, “We add value to your products by performing one or more processes that you either lack the time, equipment, or expertise to perform.”

K-zell’s latest purchase was a FlexCNC® TRD 25-02. The FlexCNC has a 300” long bed x 24” wide. It drills, mills, taps, and bevels large parts in one setup, with an18 Hp 6000rpm spindle. It also has a 10 tool automatic tool changer.

Don says, “The reason we were first looking into the FlexCNC was for a customer that needs long tubes (~ 8’ long) drilled and tapped, with tolerances of +/-0.010” between holes.This is very difficult to accomplish while using the commonly available smaller CNC mills as repositioning of the part is required.

On another project, we had a customer that wanted a very large tool made, this tool required the use of an 8” x 12” x 1/2” wall x 131” long rectangular tube weighing about 640 lbs.” The unlimited table capacity of the FlexCNC made the job much easier.

He continued, “Our FlexCNC is unique; there aren’t more than 25-50 similar machines in the USA, and it is an excellent machine for making architectural products, fixtures, and, long parts particularly those that are quite heavy. The FlexCNC table doesn’t move, so it is a superior machine for long/heavy parts.”

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• Industrial laminates and tapes Association (NTMA) has new president. ernment, or aphilanthropic categories, along Although our older machines were still • Flexible and rigid tubing with a “Leading Lady” Award and an “Outholding tolerances of +/-.001, our new • Transparent sheet products The organization announced that its board of directors standing Mentor” Award. Hostetter will be BNA machines cansheet hold tighter tolerances with a CPK of 3.30 for +/-.0005. These two machines •Corrosion-resistant materials Announcements Continued Page 10 have also increased our productivity for many of our existing parts and have created more Announcements Continued Page 10 A2Z MANUFACTURING SW •

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Announcements & Releases Continued has appointed Roger Atkins to the position. Atkins, who is from Texas and built a career in contract manufacturing and consulting for manufacturing companies, has been a member of the association since 1979. He previously held “every officer position for NTMA at the national level, including serving as NTMA chairman in 2012,” and has served in every officer position in the Houston NTMA chapter, the organization said in the release.

NTMA’s board chairman, Mark Lashinske, said that Atkins “brings to this new role a dedication to NTMA and its members, a deep understanding of the value of our association, a lifetime of insight into our industry and a true generosity of spirit demonstrated through his commitment to serving the companies that make our association and the entire manufacturing community great.”

Atkins, a graduate of Texas A&M University, began his career at his family’s contract manufacturing business. Over the years, “he spearheaded significant growth in multiple contract manufacturing companies,” NTMA said in the release.

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MCCCD To Launch A Workforce And Economic Development Office To Better Meet Workforce And Industry Needs Equipping job-seekers with skills needed to succeed in today’s workforce is at the core of the mission of the Maricopa Community Colleges.There is an ever-increasing focus on the ability to respond quickly to the needs of the community and business partners to develop solutions for the workforce and to ensure students have opportunities in the most indemand fields.

The Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) Workforce and Economic Development Office assists students with obtaining optimal training and preparation for careers. As part of a new structure, the District has decided to consolidate its various workforcedevelopment efforts under a single centralized office, led by Darcy Renfro as Chief Workforce and Economic Development Officer. This new approach is adapting to how the Colleges train students so that they are well prepared for today’s and tomorrow’s jobs.

Ms. Renfro most recently served as Chief of Staff to MCCCD Chancellor Maria Harper-Marinick. She has served as Governor Janet Napolitano’s policy advisor for workforce, economic development, and higher education and worked at various education non-profits, helping to shape Announcements Continued Page 12

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Announcements & Releases Continued statewide efforts such as the Arizona Education Progress Meter and Achieve60AZ. Ms. Renfro serves on multiple business and community boards, including Achieve60AZ, Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce, and Phoenix IDA. The new Workforce and Economic Development Office will consolidate the functions of the Maricopa Corporate College (MCOR), Maricopa Small Business Development Centers (SBDC) and Arizona SBDC Network, and the District’s Workforce Development Office, as well as the coordination of system-wide initiatives such as Maricopa Industry Institutes.

MCCCD’s training and certifications account for 95 percent of the most in-demand jobs in Arizona. With over 30 programs, 100 plus degrees and certificates, and hundreds of courses to choose from, available both on-campus and online, students can find their best path forward. Providing business and industry partners a central point of entry into MCCCD resources will maximize the effectiveness and responsiveness and better meet the needs of Arizona’s workforce. This approach will ultimately strengthen these divisions, and therefore MCCCD’s role within the District and community. For more information, contact: Dasi Danzig, 480-2686766, dasi.danzig@domail.maricopa.edu

Cleveland Electric Laboratories (CEL), An AS9100 Rev D Certified Company, Now Offers Laser Welding Cleveland Electric Labs Machining Services Center located in Tempe, Arizona houses a full range of manual machines and CNC Mills and Lathes. Their highly skilled machinists are dedicated to precision machining of critical instrumentation A2Z MANUFACTURING SW •

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This 100-year-old family owned AS9100 Revision D certified business, is pleased to announce that it recently expanded its capabilities with the acquisition of a Miyachi Amada (500-Watt 4 axis CNC) laser welder. Rich Schwab, Sales Representative for the company, says, “Laser welding machines are often the preferred choice for many precision welding applications, particularly when superior quality, tight dimensional tolerances and/or high volume production is required as in the medical, automotive, electronics, aerospace, and solar industries.”

CEL specializes in thermocouple manufacturing, mechanical instrumentation, and offers a full-service machine shop including 5-axis machining. Rodger Shepherd,Vice President of the Tempe Facility, says, “Customers come to us for their complex R&D and prototype projects. We are highly skilled at machining and instrumenting exotic alloys. Our newest capability, high precision laser welding, demonstrates our continuous investment into the services our customers require.”

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Methods Invites You To TechDay2020 In Tempe On March 24th and 25th The team at Methods says, “Join us for TechDay2020 at Methods - Phoenix. Come see live demos on the industry leaders of 5-Axis machining and see how your shop can benefit from this technology.”

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NTMA: Prepare Students for High-Skill Futures in Manufacturing

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As part of his third State of the Union address on February 4, 2020, President Trump asked Congress to support funding proposed in the Administration’s budget that would expand vocational and technical education in high school. The President followed up this commitment with proposing a $900 million increase in funding for Career Technical Education (CTE). Authorized by the NTMAbacked Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act (Perkins CTE), the increased funding is aimed at achieving Announcements Continued Page 16

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Announcements & Releases Continued the Administration’s goal of “ensuring every high school student in America has access to CTE programs that provide multiple, high-quality pathways to success after graduation,” according to a White House announcement.

“NTMA and its members thank President Trump for his focus on manufacturing in his State of the Union Address and for increasing funding for CTE programs in his budget,” said NTMA President Roger Atkins. “The American manufacturing sector is strong, but one important factor is stifling 02/16/10 growth – the skills gap. Companies cannot findA2Z workers to fill the more than a half million job Metalworker openings in manufacturing across the country. The President’s proposal -would students 1/3 page square 5 3/8empower x 5 3/8" to obtain the skills they need for success in high-skill, highly paid manufacturing careers.”

A recent industry survey by NTMA through found that more than 90% of manufacturers are struggling to fill open positions. Other data show that the number of job openings in manufacturer is expected to grow even more in the next decade if there is not a significant investment in skills training.

“The President’s proposal reflects the reality of the job market in this country,” Atkins continued.

“Vital sectors like manufacturing, infrastructure, and transportation are growing – and many of the new jobs that will build America’s future require specialized skills, separate from traditional fouryear degree programs.”

NTMA has long been a leader in innovation solutions to close the manufacturing skills gap and boost employment. This year, NTMA launched AMPED (Advanced Manufacturing Practice & Education Development), a 501(c)3 organization, with a mission to engage, inspire and prepare America’s precision manufacturing workforce. With programs from the hands-on learning National A2Z MANUFACTURING SW •

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Robotics League to the online skills training NTMA-U, AMPED is focused on promoting the opportunities in manufacturing careers and preparing students for success.

“NTMA members are pillars of their communities and champions of skills training,” Atkins added. “For many years, NTMA members have worked through partnerships, investments and community outreach to establish pipelines to foster the next generation of manufacturing workers and leaders. We welcome the opportunity to join with the Trump Administration in supporting a renewed focus on skills training. We are ready to help schools set up badly needed machine technology programs – and in hire the students who graduate from them.”

NTMA is the national representative of the custom precision manufacturing industry in the United States. NTMA’s has 29 chapters throughout the U.S. and nearly 1,200 member companies that design and manufacture special tools, dies, jigs, fixtures, gages, special machines, and precision machined parts, representing more than $30 billion in sales annually. NTMA members’ products and services are vital to the nation’s economy, serving industries from aerospace to electronics to nuclear power. More information: www.ntma.org.

RM Garrison M a c h i n i n g & Va l l e y Machine Works Continue To Expand!

It’s been almost a year since RM Garrison Machining purchased Valley Machine Works and they are at it again. This time RMG has purchased the assets of Headwinds, a California company who is known as the leader in custom lighting for motorcycles, street rods and big rig trucks. Headwinds manufacturing will be moving to RMG’s Phoenix location and will add more capability to its operations.

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New AgieCharmilles CUT AM 500 EDM Speeds Up Additive Part Separation While Preserving Part Integrity GF Mac hining Solutions recently announced the AgieCharmilles CUT AM 500, a new horizontal wire EDM designed to complement metal Additive Manufacturing (AM). The AgieCharmilles CUT AM 500 makes it easier than ever to quickly separate additively manufactured metal parts from the build plate while maintaining geometrical accuracy and ensuring assembly readiness.

The machine made its debut at EMO 2019 in Hannover, Germany at Hall 27, Stand B26.

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A complementary technology, the CUT AM 500 works seamlessly alongside other GF Machining Solutions’ and 3D Systems’ scalable, workflow-optimized solutions such as the DMP Factory 500, DMP Flex 350 and DMP Factory 350.

A robust process Accommodating parts up to 510 x 510 x 510 mm (including the base plate) and up to 500 kg in weight, the CUT AM 500 uses 0.2 mm diameter wire to separate additively manufactured parts from the build platform at a maximum cutting speed of 300 mm2/m. It delivers ±0.1 mm accuracy and surface roughness of less than 6 µm.

The CUT AM 500 blends a horizontal wire orientation, a rotary axis and an integrated basket to catch separated parts. This combination creates a robust process, which supports the part, allows for easy part handling, prevents part damage and offers full automation readiness.

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Automation ready The layout of the CUT AM 500 is designed to accommodate the integration of a clamping system for easier clamping and referencing.

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New Methods 5-Axis Bridge -Type Machining Center Offers High Performance, Value Methods Machine Tools, Inc., North America’s foremost supplier of leading-edge precision machine tools and automation, has introduced the all-new Methods MB 450U Simultaneous 5-Axis Bridge-Type Machining Center, loaded with features and capabilities for efficiently manufacturing complex parts with a high degree of quality, reliability and accuracy, as well as offered in an excellent value package. Due to the FANUC 31i-MB5 control, this machine is able to perform full five-axis precision machining of challenging parts, significantly reducing the need for multiple setups. Thanks to the control that is available exclusively to Methods, due to its partnership with FANUC, Announcements Continued Page21

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“In addition to having a unique, powerful FANUC control, the MB 450U machining center is packaged with comprehensive, high end functionality for exceptional performance,” said Mr. Nicholas St Cyr, Methods Machining Centers Product Manager. “We are pleased to offer customers a 5-Axis machining solution that is fully loaded with robust features, and provides high value for the cost. Also, we offer our customers tremendous depth of support through Methods industry leading application engineers, technical service and parts support.”

The FANUC 31i-MB5 Simultaneous 5-Axis control has a 15” color display and includes a range of powerful standard features including a 2 GB data server, Manual Guide I, AICC II 600 Block Look Ahead, 1 MB of NC memory and 0.4 ms Block Processing Time. The FANUC control offers collision detection with a 3D interference check and a Fast Package III with tool center point control.

Methods MB 450U features a 15,000 RPM Big Plus, 40-Taper Spindle with air-oil lubrication and a spindle chiller for longevity. A 15 HP hollow shaft spindle motor with 1,000 psi (70 bar) coolant-thru spindle prep and couple is also standard. The new MB 450U 5-Axis Bridge-Type Machining Center includes a large capacity, dual swing arm-type 48-tool automatic tool changer. Travel is 15.7” (400 mm) on the X-axis and 13.8” (350 mm) on the Y and Z-axes. The B-axis has -50°~ +110° tilting capability and the rotary C-axis has a 360° rotation angle.

Offering high machining stability, the MB 450U has a robust bridge-type construction with thermal compensation including 1.771” (45 mm) linear roller guide ways in the X/Y-axes and 1.377” (35 mm) in the Z-Axis, and weighs 13,250 lbs. (6,000 kg). Heidenhain linear scales in the X/Y/Z axes and Heidenhain rotary scales in the B & C axes offer high precision part production. Kinematic calibration features a spindle probe with a table center point calibration ball and kinematic software. A Laser Tool Measurement System detects tool wear, damage and breakage, reducing non-productive time and enabling automated operation.

Methods Machining Centers were developed by Methods by combining years of engineering and service, long term partnerships with machine tool builders, and the capabilities of Litz Hitech Corp to provide customers with another solution to their machining needs. Each machine is made to Methods’ design and engineering standards, and is fully backed by Methods industry-leading service and support. All Methods Machining Centers are fully inspected to meet strict quality and design specifications, and also be in compliance with ISO/ ASME standards. Laser and ball bar testing ensures performance and accuracy of each machine. “By taking the lessons we have learned over the years, we are able to develop a machining platform that we are proud to put our name on the line for,” said St Cyr. Announcements Continued Page22 A2Z MANUFACTURING SW •

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Crating Technology Celebrates Its 20th Year In Business With Gala Open House For Its Customers

Crating Technololgy is celebrating its 20th year in business, and it thanked its loyal customers with an Open House event. Their Open House was held on Wednesday, February 19th, and it featured door prizes, a series of raffles, plus a great lunch from the taco food truck.

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Managing Partner Tom Williams, says, “Our mission at Crating Technology is to create a presence in the packing industry by constantly improving standards of quality, resulting in a collaborative environment for our customer s, employees, and alliances.” He adds, “Each crew member holds more skills than crating alone. Every individual here possesses the skills of a carpenter, mill man, packer, and designer. And it is with pride that we design and create each and every one of the protective containers for our customers.

To learn more about how Crating Technology can help you with your crating needs, contact them at: 602-528-3628 or visit cratingtechnology.com Announcements Continued Page23

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Northrop Grumman To Boost Hiring With Gilbert Satellite Campus Expansion Northrop Grumman Corp. will continue its recent hiring surge in theValley as it builds out a new site headquarters and expansion of its Gilbert satellite manufacturing facility.

The expansion, first reported by the Business Journal earlier this week, will bring 200 new jobs to the Gilbert campus during the next three years, said Chris Keeler, Gilbert site lead for Northrop GrummanTactical Space Systems.

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The Gilbert expansion is part of Northrop Grumman’s overall Valley growth plans, including in Mesa and Chandler. Falls Church, Virginia-based Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has 3,169 employees in Arizona, with more than $30 million in annual payroll and benefits, according to the company.

The company’s Chandler operation has the most employees with 1,907. Gilbert has 500 employees and Mesa has 235 employees.

Northrop Grumman also has facilities in Sierra Vista and Fort Huachuca.

Northrop Grumman chose to expand in Gilbert because of the partnership with the town of Gilbert, the available site and the local expertise for satellite manufacturing, Keeler said.

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Honeywell’s West Valley Facility To Make Parts For NASA’s Artemis Missions Lockheed Martin has awarded a contract to Honeywell International Inc. to support production of NASA’s Orion spacecraft fleet.

The fleet will be part of the upcoming Artemis missions, which will bring humans back to the moon for the first time since the Apollo program ended in 1972.

As part of the contract, Honeywell will provide 14 product types for Artemis missions III through V, including both hardware and software through 2030.

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Department of Defense (DoD) Awards The Boeing Co., Mesa, Arizona, was awarded a $10,702,978 firm-fixed-price Foreign Military Sales (Saudi Arabia) contract for the integration and retrofit of 23 AH-6i aircraft with DVR, equipment stowage, and APKWS II capabilities. One bid was solicited with one bid received. Work will be performed in Mesa, Arizona, with an estimated completion date of March 30, 2022. Fiscal 2010 Foreign Military Sales funds in the amount of $10,702,978 were obligated at the time of the award. U.S. Army Contracting Command, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, is the contracting activity (W58RGZ-20-C-0001).

Honeywell International Inc.,Tucson, Arizona, has been awarded a $22,417,763 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for generators.This was a sole-source acquisition using justification 10 U.S. Code 2304 (c)(1), as stated in Federal Acquisition Regulation 6.302-1.

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is fiscal 2020 through 2025 Army working capital funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime, Warren, Michigan (SPRDL120-D-0043).

Raytheon Missile Systems, Tucson, Arizona, is awarded a $9,075,931 firm-fixed-price delivery order (N00019-20-F-0499) against a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract (N0001915-D-0034). This delivery order provides for repair and sustainment services for 155 high-speed anti-radiation missiles in support of the Air Force, the government of Morocco and the government of Turkey. Work will be performed in Tucson, Arizona, and is expected to be completed in December 2020.

Fiscal 2020 operations and maintenance (Air Force) funds in the amount of $8,824,266; and Foreign Military Sales (FMS) funds in the amount of $251,665 will be obligated at time of award, $8,824,266 of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This order combines purchases for the Air Force ($8,824,266; 97.2%); and FMS customers ($251,665; 2.8%). The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.

Pacific Scientific Energetic Materials Comp., Chandler, Arizona, is awarded a $9,175,370 firm-fixed price modification to a previously awarded, indefinite-delivery/indefinitequantity contract N00174-17-D-0016 to exercise option ordering period for development, product improvement and prototyping support. Pacific Scientific Energetic Materials Comp., will provide engineering, technical, administrative and programmatic management support for total Life Cycle Management of the various aircrew escape systems managed under the Joint Program Office for Cartridge Actuated Device/Propellant Actuated Device TriService Charter. Work will be performed in Chandler, Arizona, and is expected to be completed by January 2021. No contract funds are being obligated at the time of this action. The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology Division, Indian Head, Maryland, is the contracting activity.

The Boeing Co., Mesa, Arizona, was awarded a $54,446,000 modification (P00047) to contract W58RGZ-16-C-0023 for retrofit kits and software development for the

Apache attack helicopter. Work will be performed in Mesa, Arizona, with an estimated completion date of Nov. 30, 2021. Fiscal 2018 aircraft procurement, Army funds in the amount of $26,678,540 were obligated at the time of the award. U.S. Army Contracting Command, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, is the contracting activity.

Honeywell International, doing business as Honeywell AerospaceTucson,Tucson, Arizona, has been awarded a $25,664,750 firm-fixedprice, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for helicopter generators. This was a sole-source acquisition using justification 10 U.S. Code 2304 (c)(1), as stated in Federal Acquisition Regulation 6.302-1. This is a one-year base contract with four one-year options periods. Location of performance is Arizona with a Jan 17, 2026, performance completion date. Using military service is the Army.

Type of appropriation is fiscal 2020 Army working capital funds. The contracting activity is Defense Logistics Agency Aviation, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama (SPRRA1-20-D-0016).

Raytheon Missile Systems Co., Tucson, Arizona, has been awarded a $10,593,360 modification P00001 to previously awarded contract FA8675-20-C-0033 for Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile Production Lot 33 spares. This contract modification provides for the production Air Force and Navy spares. Work will be performed at Tucson, Arizona, with an expected completion date of March 31, 2022. Fiscal 2018 Air Force procurement funds in the amount of $1,730,203; and fiscal 2020 Navy procurement funds in the amount of $8,863,157 are being obligated at the time of award.Total cumulative face value of the contract is $778,877,267.

BIG KAISER Presents Fourth Annual Donation to NRL Customers and partners of BIG KAISER Precision Tooling teamed up to generate a $7,283 donation to benefit the National Robotics League (NRL). The amount is nearly 10 percent more than last year and the fourth year-over-year increase in NRL funding from BIG KAISER. The donation is a 2% match of all qualified orders from NTMA and AMT member companies during the final two months of each calendar year. Manufacturers placed orders for cutting tools, tool holders, workholding and tool measurement systems, earning funds for the NRL at the same time.

“We need to get involved at every level to grow the next-generation workforce. Our company does that by partnering with local schools, our community colleges and the trade associations,” says Chris Kaiser, CEO of BIG KAISER. “NRL is just one more way for us to engage kids and promote careers in manufacturing.”

The National Robotics League (NRL) is a manufacturing workforce development program of the National Tooling & Machining Association (NTMA) where students design and build remote controlled robots (Bots) to face-off in a gladiator-style competition. Through the manufacturing process of Bot building, students’ imaginations are captured as they design, build and compete with their own robotic creations. Learn more at www.GoNRL.org.

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Introducing Copper State Bolt & Nut Co. Manufacturer And Distributor With humble roots established in Phoenix, Arizona in 1972, Copper State, today, has 32 retail locations: Arizona (14), California (1), Colorado (3), Iowa (1), Montana (4), Nevada (2), New Mexico (2), Texas (1), Utah (1), and Washington (3). In addition to Copper State’s retail and distribution footprint, they are also a world-class manufacturer of large diameter hot-forged fasteners that support power generation, steel fabrication, heavy equipment, mining, industrial, and construction industries across the United States and the world.

For nearly five decades, Copper State Bolt & Nut Co. has realized tremendous growth. The company has more than 20,000 customers across 10 states. It is a second generation and family-owned business with more than 500 employees.

Copper State Distribution Mark Wulff, Reg ional Vice President of the company, says, “ Traditional fasteners still represent nearly half of our business, and today we offer so much more, including: industrial supplies, safety products, power tools and accessories, cutting tools and abrasives, kits and assortments, fluid sealing products, and specially manufactured products.”

He further added, “We support customers in so Will call employee, Vince many industries, including Smith, at the will call counter manufacturing, mining, in Chandler, AZ construction, fabrication, energy, transpor tation, heavy equipment, municipality, OEM/MRO, fluid sealing, and wholesale/retail industry sectors.”

Mark says, “We are so many things to our customers. We’re a stocking distributor with a lot of inventory, we’re a storefront where customers can physically walk in, and we’re an online portal.”

Copper State has evolved as a supplier through a keen attention to their customers’ needs. Understanding how customers use their products and understanding the challenges that Copper State’s services can solve are core to the company’s success. Despite this inherent interest in their customers, the distribution side did not immediately recognize the huge user that is literally right next door, Manufacturing.

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First and second generation owners of Copper State Bolt & Nut Co., (L to R) Sarah Calfee Shannon, Martin Calfee, and Gigi Calfee Linsalata

Copper State’s Manufacturing Side Paul Tiffany, VP of Manufacturing, o v e r s e e s t h e c o m p a n y ’s manufactur ing facilities that e n c o m p a s s c u t t i n g, h e a d i n g, threading, tool-making, machining, and heat treatment.

Copper State’s Manufacturing Division can hot-forge bolts up to 4 inches in diameter and thread up to 6 inches in diameter on parts with lengths in excess of 30 feet.

Their in-house heat treating facility processes on average 18,000 pounds of material per day and is capable of accommodating parts up to 56 inches in length and 24 inches in height, heat treating both their own products and customer specific items.The company adheres to high quality control standards for each part it manufactures.

Copper State’s Heat Treating team in front of 1,550° furnace (photo credit: Christopher Kretz)

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Regional Vice President, Mark Wulff, and Warehouse Supervisor, John Rumann, in the Chandler, AZ warehouse “Distribution had a significant cutting tools customer in our own backyard and we were not getting the business.

Manufacturing had a knowledgeable resource and wasn’t utilizing it.” He adds, “Our Manufacturing facility is the best “case study” for so many needs in the market.”

Copper State has product specialists for every group of products that it inventories. Across their business, they employ in excess of 25 product managers and specialists.

In recent years, the company has increased their focus and investment with cutting tools lines; Champion, HTC, Monster, and YG-1. Copper State stocks products such as drill bits, taps, end mills, indexable inserts, reamers, dies, annular cutters, and many other cutting tools. Zach Falk is the resident cutting tool specialist at Copper State.

Paul says, “When Zach evaluated our own consumption of cutting tools, it was very enlightening. He made recommendations and worked to dramatically improve manufacturing output with better tools for our specific needs, while at the same time, reducing our cutting tool expense.” Paul adds, “Working with a product expert was invaluable, and today we have reduced cutting tool costs by more than one third annually.”

One of Copper State’s 29 will call stores and showrooms located in Chandler, AZ Copper State’s VMI utilizes various inventory replenishment methodologies, including: simple min/max, visual identification, Kanban, to name a few. Their real time scanning systems, which can be accessed directly from a smartphone or tablet, ensure order accuracy.

Inventory And Online Capabilities Over the past several years, the company has undergone a major upgrade to their web presence and online ordering capabilities. Their website is extremely popular with customers who increasingly rely on it. Sarah claims, “We only offer items on our website that we physically stock in multiple locations, and it means that we can ship same day.” She added, “When customers increase their online purchase of items they buy on a regular basis, they will be delighted that they will have nearly real time access to our products, much as they do when they come to one of our locations and work with one of our 75+ Will Call experts.”

Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) Copper State has a full-time, dedicated and noncommission team focused on Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) for their customers ensuring daily, weekly, and monthly replenishments are fulfilled for all orders.

Customers appreciate this service as it eliminates the worry of experiencing overstock or stock-outs.

Sarah Calfee Shannon, President and CEO, shared that, “We offer ‘Just in Time’ (JIT) hardware shipment to accommodate customers’ operational demands and provide emergency and after-hours support when a customer requires this.”

Cutting Tools expert, Zach Falk, explaining end mills to will call employee, Robert Rodriguez

Mark says, “Our company mission is to offer quality, price competitive products that are immediately available, coupled with deep expertise and a customercentric focus. This is a level of service you just cannot get from ordering via catalog.”

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A Warehouse Robot Learns To Sort Out The Tricky Stuff Inside a warehouse on the outskirts of Berlin, a long line of blue crates moved down a conveyor belt, carrying light switches, sockets and other electrical parts. As they came to a stop, five workers picked through the small items, placing each one in a cardboard box.

At Obeta, an electrical parts company that opened in 1901, it is the kind of monotonous task workers have performed for years.

But several months ago, a new worker joined the team. Stationed behind protective glass, a robot using three suction cups at the end of its long arm does the same job, sifting through parts with surprising speed and accuracy.

While it may not seem like much, this component-sorting robot is a major advance in artificial intelligence and the ability of machines to perform human labor.

As millions of products move through warehouses run by Amazon,Walmart and other retailers, low-wage workers must comb through bin after bin of random stuff — from clothes and shoes to electronic equipment — so that each item can be packaged and sent on its way. Machines had not really been up to the task, until now.

“I’ve worked in the logistics industry for more than 16 years and I’ve never seen anything like this,” said Peter Puchwein, vice president of Knapp, a company that provides automation technology for warehouses.

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Their technology is an indication that, in the coming years, few warehouse tasks will be too small or complex for a robot. And as the machines master tasks traditionally handled by humans, their development raises new concerns about warehouse workers losing their jobs to automation.

Because the online retail business is growing so quickly — and most companies will be slow to adopt the latest robotic technologies — economists believe the advances will not cut into the overall number of logistics jobs anytime soon. But the engineers building these technologies admit that at some point most warehouse tasks will be done by machines. Human workers will need to find other things to do.

The engineers at Covariant specialize in a branch of artificial intelligence called reinforcement learning.

The machines are wired to learn new tasks on their own through extreme trial and error. And the best place to learn is in the real world.

“If you want to advance artificial intelligence, you don’t just do it in a lab,” said Peter Chen, Covariant’s chief executive and co-founder. “There is a huge gap in bringing it to the real world.”

Warehouses are already highly automated. At the

facility outside Berlin, inside a fencedoff room larger than a football field, other robots have long been used to fetch large boxes from shelves several stories high.

But that is a relatively easy task for a machine. Engineers can program a robot to perform the same motion over and over again. The boxes are uniform. A robot can pick them up with the same motion every time.

Picking through a bin of random items is different. Shapes vary, as do surfaces. One light switch might be upside down, the other right-side up.

The next electrical gadget might be in a plastic bag that reflects light in ways a robot has never seen.A human touch has been needed.

Programming a robotic arm to deal with every situation, one rule at a time, is impossible. At Knapp, Puchwein and his partners had tried and failed for years to create a robot with the dexterity and flexibility needed for the job.

Late last year, international robot maker ABB ran a contest. It invited 20 companies to design software for its robot arms that could sort through bins of random items, from cubes to plastic bags filled with other objects.

Ten of the companies were based in Europe, and the other half were in the United States. Most came nowhere close to passing the test. A few could handle most tasks but failed on the trickier cases. Covariant was the only company that could handle every task as swiftly and efficiently as a human.

“We were trying to find weaknesses,” said Marc Segura, managing director of service robotics at ABB. “It is easy to reach a certain level on these tests, but it is super difficult not to show any weaknesses.”

Knapp, which helped deploy the system outside Berlin, and ABB believe this technology can be used in similar warehouses.

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Covariant engineers believe their robots will improve with practice. As a robot in one warehouse learns better ways for picking up certain items, the information feeds back to what is essentially a central brain run by Covariant that will help operate machines.

Dirk Jandura, the managing director of Obeta, said companies like his were under extreme pressure to be more efficient. Automation is a key way to keep costs low.

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Intel Says It’sMAX SoldProduction $1BWorth Increases Of Ai Chips To Data SoNot Far Boeing 737 Could be aCenters Whisper, a Roar Intel Corp. says it sold $1 billion worth of chips last

year that powered artificial intelligence applications Boeing’s Jan. 29 teleconference will be in the data center — a fast-growing segment of remembered as one of the most humbling the market that the company is desperate to show earnings reports in the 103-year-old investors it can eventually dominate, Reuters reports. company’s history, but for 737 MAX suppliers also setartificial the tone intelligence for the next Naveen Rao, headit will of Intel’s two or three years. products group, told Reuters the $1 billion estimate was calculated from customers who told the company “Slowly” was the buzzword repeated that they were buying the chips for AI purposes. “Honestly, it’s probably a lot higher.

We leftoften a lot by on Boeing leadership, especially when it came to the table because we wanted to be conservative,” Rao said. the narrowbody’s monthly production rate Onstage, Intel executive the company believed demand for data centerafter chipshalting would ramp-up—assuming theNavin MAXShenoy is set tosaid become “ungrounded” and production resumes grow from $160 billion last year to $220 billion by the year 2020.“After 50 years, this is the biggest this month. Boeing CEO David Calhoun and Chief Financial Officer Greg Smith said during the call opportunity for flow the company,” said,step according to ZDNet. that production will returnhe“one at a time,” even “one airplane at a time.”

Intel built its business on PC chips, but was caught flat-footed with the rapid rise of artificial intelligence, Boeing still has not forecast production plans beyond stating it can restart manufacturing months which requires chips capable of handling more data. A self-driving car can generate 4 terabytes of data before the MAX is returned to service. But already major suppliers, analysts and consultants are every hour and a half, and requires an onboard computer to crunch that data in real-time. piecing together a road map that foresees MAX monthly unit production rates hitting the mid-20s this year, therivals 30s most of nextCorp. year and back to 52—where it stood the in MAX crisis—by Smaller like Nvidia andpossibly Advanced Micro Devices have foundbefore footholds AI chips, while the end of 2022.

Intel scrambles to keep up. Shenoy said the company’s latest Cascade Lake Xeon chip will be 11 times better at AI image recognition tasks than last year’s Xeon chip, VentureBeat reports.

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We areMAX in the return golden public a midyear of data.” toage service that seemingly is backed by the FAA, the supply chain is expecting Boeing’s In April, Inteltobrought former Tesla own production restart inonMarch or April. executive Jim Keller to help the company’s “We’ve assumed roughly a 90-day production AI chip effort.

He had with been direction in chargethat of delay, which is consistent Tesla’sreceived self-driving AI chip, and was previously we’ve from Boeing,” says United involved in the development of the A5 Technologies Corp. (UTC) ChairmanA4 andand CEO chips at Apple.

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More evidence cameIncrease Jan. 30 from IFSanecdotal Study: 26% aerostructures leader Spirit AeroSystems, when In Digital Transformation managers there announced a new agreement R eBoeing a d iover n eMAX s s production.

I n S e“Under r v i cthe e, with agreement, Spirit will restartAnd production slowly, Manufacturing Energy ramping up deliveries throughout the year to Sectors Since 2015 reach a total of 216 MAX shipsets delivered to Boeing in 2020,” the Wichita supplier said.

Companies are budgeting digital “Spirit does not expect to achieve afor production transformation with funded projects in rate of 52 shipsets per month until late 2022.” analytics, mobile, IoT and other technologies InIFS, turn, would imply anapplications average production thethat global enterprise company, rate of 24 per month in 2020, to has released a primary researchaccording study of 200 financial analysts Sheila Kahyaogluexecutives and Greg North American manufacturing Konrad at Jefferies, who note that Spirit already which reveals more than half of respondents counts about 95 737 units parked in or near expect their budgets for digital transformation itstofactory. increase in the next two years.

Other suppliers are reveals making that similar noises.

The IFS study also substantial Hayes of UTC, home to Collins Aerospace investments have already been made in and Pratttransformation & Whitney, says managers assume digital initatives, leading to ana average production rate of 21 per month in 26 percent increase since a 2015 study in the second half of thetheir year enterprise for Collins.software General companies saying Electric executives say their Leap engine did a very good or good job preparing them production has not stopped, but the rate for digital transformation. Based on this the year will fall to roughly halfIFS whatbelieves it was indigital 2019, results from the study, also indicating a rate 21. transformation willofcontinue to accelerate

in coming years since only 5 percent of This is all a world apart their from budgets the five-arespondents expected to month jumps Boeing and suppliers originally decrease. envisioned shortly after MAX production was cut to 42 a month last April. Basedbyonanalyst what IFS’s results are corroborated they heard at Aviation Week’s MRO Americas research indicating a groundswell of investment 2019 conference, LeehamAccording News andtoAnalysis in digital transformation. a study reported at the time that MAX-makers had

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puts it. Among the consequences, the first year of “normal” MAX production will be 2023, also when Boeing might get up to rate 57.

In turn, Boeing and its suppliers have to adjust their earnings expectations to account for both the lack of previously planned deliveries as well as new costs, since they were positioned for rate 57 by last summer.

For its part, Boeing added $9.2 billion to its summary of MAX-related financial charges as part of its latest earnings report, bringing the total to $18.6 billion so far.

Cost estimates from the supply chain are trickling in, and they range from mild to eye-popping. Hayes says the production pause is projected to cost UTC just $100 million per month in sales. “We do not anticipate any layoffs,” he adds. “I think that would be the easiest thing to do, but quite frankly, given the scarcity of talented aerospace workers out there, we’re not going to be laying anybody off for a 90-day delay here. I think we’re going to work on the backlog.”

But Spirit has already announced layoffs of at least 2,800 workers in Wichita. Increasingly, smaller suppliers are warning Wall Street of bad news, too. British aerostructures provider Senior said Jan. 31 its aerospace revenue this year could drop 20% compared with last year, due to the MAX production halt.

Senior’s operating margins will slip as well, and according to media reports the company is saying the recently announced sale of its aerostructures business might have to be shelved until more MAX certainty emerges.

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Nonfarm payroll employment rose by 225,000 in January 2020. That’s better than the average gain of 175,000 jobs per month in 2019. In the same period, though, manufacturing payroll employment lost about 12,000 jobs. Notably, 11,000 of the jobs lost in manufacturing were in motor vehicles and parts.The overall unemployment rate was stable at 3.6%.

In productivity, overall nonfarm productivity rose 1.4% in the final quarter of 2019 and 1.7% over the whole year. The annual rate of productivity growth last year was the highest it’s been since 2010, when it grew 3.4%.The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ index for manufacturing productivity, which it cautions is “not directly comparable” to their measure of nonfarm productivity, fell 1.2% as output fell 1% and hours worked rose 0.2%.

Durable manufacturing labor productivity fell 0.8% as hours worked and output fell 0.8% and 1.6%, respectively. Non-durable manufacturing labor productivity fell 2.2% as output fell 0.4% despite hours worked increasing 1.9%. The unit labor cost, or the amount a business pays per unit of output, rose 5.9% for the manufacturing sector in the last quarter of 2019. Unit labor costs in manufacturing have risen for six quarters in a row now.

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Phoenix now has more than 85,000 high-tech workers, surpassing Chicago and Los Angeles for tech employment, while also providing a better operational affordability than most major tech markets, according to a new report.

“Phoenix is behind in a lot of ways,” said Edwards, who came from the Bay Area to the Valley five years ago, and spoke on a panel at the event. “Phoenix startups often have quick exits.

We need to do a better job of showcasing our [successful] companies. We’re not doing enough to get students to stay here. Phoenix has all the opportunity in the world, but it’s still at the entry level.”

However, the Valley needs more highly-skilled labor staying in the city and more higher-paid positions, such as engineering jobs over back-office workers, need to be created by employers, some business experts say.

CBRE and the Greater Phoenix Economic Council on Tuesday released the second edition of “The Greater Phoenix Tech Story,” a 25-page report that looks at the Valley’s talent and education, business culture, collaboration and quality of life.

Greater Phoenix is an emerging tech market, with a region sought after for its talent, collaborative environment, business-friendly culture and quality of life, said Vanessa Vogel, a CBRE senior research analyst and one of the report authors.

“Phoenix is among the top three for most affordable rents,” Vogel said.

“While salaries may be lower, that money can go further since Phoenix has a more affordable way of living.”

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Phoenix still has the perception that it is mainly a back-office, call-center market, said Mark Seeley, executive vice president of the CBRE labor analytics group. The Business Journal explored why the Valley is a popular landing spot for call center operations in this March 2018 cover story.

“Phoenix is competing effectively and has a lot to show, but Phoenix sometimes plays in that second or third tier,” said Seeley, a panel member. “Phoenix is well-positioned to compete, but it’s not quite at the level of an Austin or a Denver. Phoenix can start to shine brighter since some of these other markets are becoming over-saturated.”

Stiff competition in major tech markets and higher office and apartment rents put Phoenix at an advantage, according to report authors.

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Maricopa County is the fastest-growing county in the nation, and metro employment has grown 12% during the past five years. More than 60% of these 85,000 jobs pay over the median household income, and Arizona universities have graduated 70,000 STEM grads since 2010, said Drew Callow, a GPEC research analyst and one of the report authors.

“A healthy ecosystem ensures we’re prepared” for an increase of high-tech workers, Callow said. “We’ve cultivated a healthy and growing coworking market that is the sixth-fastest growing in the U.S.” More well-known companies are expanding in the Valley, and many have announced hiring plans, including Infosys in Tempe, Deloitte in Gilbert and Opendoor in Tempe.

Arizona’s tech industry may be booming, but many companies see challenges in hiring amid growing competition for skilled workers.The Business Journal explored this topic in its Jan. 31 weekly edition cover story.

Diana Vowels, vice president of community for coworking business Galvanize, said when she opened and ran the Groupon office at SkySong in 2015, Groupon didn’t even consider Phoenix a tech market.

Now, she’s helping fill the tech gap skills at Galvanize in Phoenix, which has full-time and part-time software engineering classes where almost 100% of graduates are hired right away by local companies.

“Since I joined Galvanize (in 2016), I’ve seen more companies come here who understand we’re more than just a location for back-office sales and

operations, and are betting on Phoenix growing,” said Vowels, who sat on the panel. “The opportunity is out there and the market is ready for it.”

Edwards said entrepreneurs and local companies need to do a better job of building up the base talent here.

“We have to grow from the start here, which takes education and capital,” Edwards said.

Seeley said Phoenix needs to start promoting the city to make sure it is known as a “young, hip place to be.”

“Over the last five years, I’ve seen these companies with call centers increase jobs and functions in Arizona,” he said. “As we grow in finance and tech jobs, Phoenix will be known more as a tech market. We need to make sure we’re keeping up with the skills so when companies bring in new skill sets it will continue to work here.”

CBRE and GPEC released its first report in March 2018, which then reported that the region had 83,000 tech employees.

The hottest Phoenix tech submarkets remain the same as the first report: downtown Tempe, the Chandler Price corridor, downtown Phoenix and south Scottsdale. Hayley Ringle | Phoenix Business Journal A2Z MANUFACTURING SW •

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Introducing Our Newest Silicon Valley Style Company Right Here In Phoenix, Arizona. Visit Nikola Motor Company, And Prepare To Be Amazed.

Located in a traditionally industrial area within Phoenix, minutes from Sky Harbor Airport, sits an expansive 150,000 square foot brand new campus, housing Nikola Motor Company’s corporate headquarters and their Research and Development center.

component concepts enabling rapid design transformations.

The company is a pioneer in the design and manufacturing of both electric and hydrogen-electric semi-trucks, defined as class 8 in transportation. Today, they are this, plus so much more.

As Nikola continues to focus on real-life solutions that move towards a zero-emission future, Nikola’s portfolio of products and services include electric battery and fuel-cell class 8 semi-trucks (three models), the recently announced Badger FCEV/BEV pickup truck, hydrogen stations and a line of powersports that include an electric off-highway vehicle, personal watercraft and a commercial military vehicle.

Nikola was founded in 2015 in Salt Lake City, Utah by Trevor Milton, who remains CEO today. In an interview in early 2018, Milton said for a year and a half he searched for a new city to move his company before choosing the Phoenix metro area.

Riley Gillman, head machinist, is the man behind the machine shop operations.

Although his entire career has been within the manufacturing industry from both the front and back of house responsibilities, Gillman has been part of the Nikola team for over a year.

“Arizona beat out 30 other sites across nine states because of its quality workforce, pro-business atmosphere and inexpensive housing,” Milton said. He continued, “There were a lot of variables involved and Phoenix was just the right fit. Phoenix has an incredibly good workforce with plenty of people to hire, good housing, very good training programs, good colleges and good weather, with the ability to manufacture yearround. It definitely stood out over other states.”

Gilman says of founder and CEO, “Trevor is amazing to work for; he is a visionary who knows just what he wants. He is passionate and sees the possibility in the impossible.”

Today, Nikola has nearly 300 employees and is projecting that number will increase to the likes of 350 to 400 by year-end. To make this a reality, Nikola seeks forward-thinking talent with an entrepreneurial spirit and a relentless passion for its mission — to transform the transportation industry while improving employees’ lives and leaving the world a better place.

“When I put together a proposal for our Haas ST-25Y lathe,Trevor needed to be sold on it,” Gillman says. He adds, “This was necessary as I was the only machinist who knew how the Haas machine specifically would allow me to immediately cut chips. It helped that the machine would be available for installation sooner than any other lathe machine on the market (it is made in the USA, in California), and I knew Ellison Machinery (the local distributor for the Haas line) and its service capabilities. I was confident that if we had any machine service issues, Ellison Machinery would have our machine up and running immediately.” Needless to say, Milton approved the purchase, and once the machine was installed, work began within hours.This is a critical factor for a start-up striving to meet aggressive deadlines.

And, Nikola is well on its way to accomplish just that.

“We’re sold out for eight years of production,” said Milton, who was previously CEO and founder of dHybrid Systems LLC, a natural gas storage technology company, which was acquired by America’s largest steel provider, Worthington Industries.

A full-fledged fitness room and a planned cafeteria that will employ a chef are just some of the amenities at the sprawling, state-of-the-art headquarters. While touring the facility you’ll notice rather large glass enclosed rooms that house teams in a ‘bullpen’ style, designed to spur on-going collaboration. As a fully designed “smart” building, Nikola will soon be entirely powered by solar which reinforces Nikola’s commitment to creating a future dominated by clean energy.

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Gillman says that when identifying a new equipment need, Milton is always open and wants to hear all sides of the rationale as to why it is needed and why it is the best recommendation.

“We are doing R&D work in the machine shop, making modifications to our designs real-time, and we can’t have machine down time,” Gillman explains.

“Purchasing the Haas through Ellison Machinery was the best choice for our lathe,” he adds.

This is not automotive country, so if you are from theWestern USA, prepare to be astounded with the machinery Nikola owns.Their shop does both machining and fabrication.The Haas ST-25Y is a small, compact machine when compared to their other machines.Their Cincinnati Big Area Additive Manufacturing 3D Printer, pictured to the right with the yellow stairs and termed ‘BAAM’, is more than 25’ long and 12’ wide; it weighs ~32,000 lbs. Ellison Machinery

Sales Engineer, Josh Hansen, is pictured sitting on a chair manufactured by BAAM; it took ~30 minutes to 3D print the chair. Hansen and Gillman first met last fall, just after Hansen joined the Ellison Machinery team.

Though Hansen is relatively new to Ellison Machinery, he has years of experience in the machine tool industry, largely in Colorado. Gillman says that he and Hansen immediately connected, and values what Hansen and the Ellison Machinery team continues to do for Nikola.

“We value the partners who help us to make the best parts possible.”

Nikola’s Zimmermann FZ37 portal milling machine is specially developed for the machining of large parts with fine details. Gillman is standing inside the Zimmermann portal milling machine, literally on the table, so you can get a feel for just how massive it is.

If you aren’t in the trucking industry, or you don’t live in Phoenix, you may have yet to learn of Nikola, the startup that got the naming rights toTesla’s first name.

However, over the past five years, Nikola has quickly emerged as a leader in this space.

The company has created the Nikola One and Nikola Two for North American roadways, and the Nikola TRE for the European market. Each semi-truck will be available with either electric or hydrogen fuel-cell electric capabilities, with anticipated ranges for the latter of an estimated 750 miles.

To refuel the tens of thousands of hydrogen-powered big rigs projected to be on future America roads, Nikola plans to build a coast-to-coast network of 700 hydrogen stations across the United States by 2028. (To put that into perspective, according to the International Energy Agency, there are currently about 400 hydrogen fueling stations worldwide.) The company says each refueling station will use electricity from renewable energy sources such as wind and solar to extract hydrogen fuel from water. It will take between 10 and 15 minutes to refill one of its semi-trucks. More so, the stations will support carmakers such as Daimler, General Motors andToyota by creating a standardized

infrastructure to use as their fueling stations, which would allow for the expansion of hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle sales outside of California.

Nikola plans to begin production of its semis in 2021 on its 14,000+ preorders to date. The company plans to launch the battery-electric version of its TRE truck first.

You can learn all about Nikola Motor Company by visiting their website: NikolaMotor.com Haas Automation is the largest machine tool manufacturer in North America, building a full line of CNC vertical and horizontal machining centers, CNC lathes, rotary tables and 5c indexers. To learn more about the Haas machines, as well as Ellison Machinery’s other fine machine lines, contact Haas Factory Outlet / HFO130, a Division of Ellison Machinery Company, at 480-968-5877 or visit their website at EllisonAZ.com A2Z MANUFACTURING SW •

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Manufacturers Welcome USMCA as Trade Milestone President Trump signed the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement into law January 29th. “The USMCA is the largest, most significant, modern, and balanced trade agreement in history. All of our countries will benefit greatly,” said the President at the signing ceremony.

The new deal, which includes new labor rules, rules of origin, and digital trade regulations among other NAFTA updates, is being hailed by manufacturing companies and groups in the United States as a victory. Jay Timmons, President of the National Association of Manufacturers, thanked the President and leaders in Congress “for their herculean efforts to deliver this win for manufacturers of all sizes—from small family businesses to iconic global brands.”

Metalworkers CEO of the American Iron and Steel Institute Thomas Gibson attended the signing, and said that the deal “promotes increased cooperation and information sharing among the North American government to address circumvention and evasion of trade remedy orders.” Significantly for metalworkers, the USMCA requires that 70 percent of the steel and aluminum in vehicles must be made by member states.

“This will enhance the ability of our three countries to continue to work together to address the surges of dumped and subsidized steel imports that have plagued the North American steel market,” said Gibson, who also mentioned that 90% of exports coming out of American steel mills go to either Canada or Mexico.

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the economy.”

Equipment Manufacturers In a statement, the Association for Equipment Manufacturers called the deal a “victory for equipment manufacturers.” President of AEM Dennis Slater said “The agreement restores certainty to the North American market and secures duty-free access to our industry’s two largest export markets. It will help equipment manufacturers grow in the United States, compete globally, and support millions of familysustaining jobs across the country.”

Executives represented by the AEM praised the deal as well, including those from Caterpillar Inc., Komatsu America, Blount International, Volvo Construction Equipment, AGCO, and theVermeer Corporation. Rod Schrader, CEO of Komatsu America, said “USMCA will allow American manufacturers to establish more predictable trade relations and helps ensure fair trade for our products with our important trading partners, Canada and Mexico.”

Bill Long, the CEO of the Motor & Equipment Manufacturers Association, also attended the signing ceremony. In a statement, he said the deal “begins to establish economic certainty, which is essential to preserving and enhancing vital North American supply chains for the U.S. motor vehicle sector.”

Automotive Workers The UAW’s statement on the USMCA was more guarded than most: “UAW members know far too well that trade agreements have not delivered the job security protections promised.” The auto union noted that the new trade agreement “will not bring back the hundreds of thousands of good U.S. manufacturing jobs that have already been shipped to Mexico.” They pledged to be “vigilant” in ensuring that the USMCA’s labor regulations would be enforced: “We will be watching.”

The USMCA does contain a number of regulations designed to level the playing field between workers in the United States and Mexico: the agreement requires that 40 to 45% of car parts must come from factories paying their workers at least $16 an hour.

Broadly speaking, that means automakers must make their cars in America, raise wages for their Mexican workers so that they’re closer to American wages, or face heavy tariffs. And in May of last year, while the USMCA was still being negotiated, Mexico passed a labor-reform measure intended to increase the transparency of local labor unions.

Additionally, under NAFTA, vehicles with 62.5% of its parts made in a North American country could avoid all tariffs: Under the USMCA, that bar will rise to 75%, encouraging North American companies to source their parts from nearby instead of from Germany or China.The alternative is a heavy tariff. Source: Industry Week; By: Ryan Secard

Manufacturers Willing to Spend to Shut the Skills Gap A new survey conducted by the Manufacturing Institute, a partner of the National Association of Manufacturers, shows that almost 80% of manufacturers are ramping up their workforce training efforts with an eye on the skills gap.

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Chad Moutray, NAM Chief Economist, said “Manufacturers consistently cite the inability to attract and retain talent as their top concern, and as this survey underlines, they are taking strong proactive steps to overcome it.” The Institute’s survey estimates the sector spent more than $26.2 billion on training programs, both for new and existing employees.

69.9% of firms reported they were either creating or expanding internal training programs, and 84.6% reported job-related technical training.

The most popular means of encouraging workers to participate in training programs was supervisor encouragement and outreach, at 65.4%, while 63.1% of firms also reported offering tuition assistance.

The largest reported obstacle to implementing workforce training was concern over interrupting work hours, at 74.1%.

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‘Great Game Of Business’ Executed at ANEWCO Results in $100K 1st Year Employee Bonuses to All

$2 million a year, and he was given 6 months to either turn it around or close it down.

SRC made national headlines when CEO Jack Stack used unconventional measures to make the division profitable. Under his leadership, employees started playing The Great Game of Business®. (GGOB). The game was a way to teach employees how business worked in a way that was unintimidating and would make sense to everyone: using the analogy of a game. Through implementation of GGOB, SRC became one of the biggest turn-around stories of its time.

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More than 3 decades later, SRC Holdings Corporation operates 31 business units including joint ventures with John Deere, Case New Holland and Navistar, and maintains two venture capital incubator funds.

Jerry Goff founded Anewco 26 years ago, in 1994.The company has all the credentials for success: VeteranOwned, ISO 9001: 2015/ AS9100 Revision certified, and ITAR registered. The Tucson-based company is unique in its broad platform of services offered, from machining (5-axis) to fabrication (7 axis) to special processes and in its ability to make rather large and highly complex parts. Over the years, Anewco has received countless accolades and awards for superior performance. Its customers are almost exclusively Fortune 100 companies, and in recent years, Anewco has added new industry leaders, including SpaceX and Blue Origin.

Like many companies focused on aerospace and defense, Anewco has seen its business go up and down.

Jerry wasn’t confident that if the company ‘continued to do business as usual’, there would be an opportunity for his great grandchildren to carry on the business as 3rd generation family members. He knew that he had to do something different, unique, to ensure long-term viability of the company. Further, it has always been his goal to make the company employee owned through an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP); a plan by which a company’s capital stock is bought by its employees.

Jerry had read about a great turnaround company in a book titled The Great Game of Business, authored by Jack Stack, the man who spearheaded one of the most successful turnarounds in manufacturing. Jack was brought into manage SRC, a fledgling (no, truly a failing) division of International Harvester, at the young age of 30. When Jack took over the division, it was losing A2Z MANUFACTURING SW •

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Once Jerry made the decision to implement the Great Game of Business at Anewco, in November of 2018 he sent 3 team members to Springfield, Missouri, where they received training.

2019 was the year Anewco formally embarked upon The Great Game of Business. Jerry says, “We launched it with the entire team, all 60+ of us. At our kick off meeting, we had 100 coins and several boxes. We asked the team how many coins did they think we spent on materials, on their salaries, on lighting, on mortgage, etc.”

He continued, “When we were done with all expenses we were incurring to run the business, the team saw that there were very few coins left.”

“It is very common for employees to think the owner needs a pick-up truck just to carry all the profits home each month. When they see through our financial exercise that there isn’t an abundance of coins remaining after business expenses, they begin to see what it takes to run a business”, Jerry elaborated.

Of course, one of the end goals of the Great Game of Business is to make a positive impact on the profitability of the company, retain more coins, and to share the rewards with the team.

Over the course of 2019, a few more team members experienced The Great Game of

so I was willing to participate in GGOB. I didn’t have any experience with finances, and I didn’t even begin to know how to put a budget together. Once I was trained in finances, and could read a P&L, I was able to take my knowledge home, where I have a family. I created a budget for our family and purchased a house. None of this would have happened if I hadn’t learned about finances through Anewco’s GGOB.” Today, Skye is the Logistics Manager for the company, with employees who report to him. Skye is in charge of the Business Planning of SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats), and the team he heads up looks into competitive advantages, disadvantages, and how the outside market can help or hinder the company. The SWOT analysis is pictured to the right.

Business first hand when they attended the annual GGOB meeting in Texas. They came home as excited as the original 3 team members who had been to training in Springfield. By mi-2019, 9 team members had been formally trained, and their job was to share their knowledge throughout the company.

Victoria King, Finance Manager and team member trained in GGOB, says, “We set some pretty aggressive goals for the company, and payout percentage was measured in categories of 1 through 10 (1 being lowest, 10 being the very best).”

She added, “Throughout the year, we saw some very positive behaviors and changes, including: • Reduced tardiness and absenteeism • Much greater willingness to work weekends and holidays to meet target shipments • Much more involvement and camaraderie amongst team members • A number of GGOB Superstars emerged, and we are seeing potential new leaders” The entire company has a brief huddle every week. In this huddle, the team reviews performance to date and then most importantly forecasts for the month. Jerry says, “It doesn’t make sense to focus on what has happened already, because we can’t change it.

Rather, we look at what we still can get done to make or exceed our numbers.”

Skye Osavsky is an enthusiastic proponent of GGOB at Anewco.

Skye came to the company 9 years ago, just recently graduating from High School. Skye’s first assignment was in part marking, an entry-level assignment. Skye says, “I am an optimistic person,

Skye admits that in his early years at the company, he wasn’t always on time coming to work. Today, he makes an extra effort to get to work on time, and says he is embarrassed and ashamed when he does come late – he knows that he is letting his team down when this happens. He says, “This is an amazing company to work for.”

Fernando Tapia has been a machinist for 34 years, 10 with Anewco. Fernando is embracing GGOB as a team lead. “I have worked at other shops before Anewco – you will not see another shop as outstanding as this. We not only welcome experienced machinists, but we are willing to bring on people with a good aptitude and attitude, and allow them to grow here. Anewco is like a family to me, and GGOB has helped change our mentality. “We want to put in the extra mile, we’re in it together to win.” He adds, “So many of us have been through good times and hard times at Anewco; we want to make sure we’re a success today.”

Skye, Victoria and Fernando all agree that they don’t have 100% excitement for GGOB yet. “We have about 50% of the employees who buy in today”, Fernando estimates.

‘Open Book’ is a term used to describe the company’s willingness to share their financials with their employees. It is a requirement for GGOB, Jerry says, and when the company does implement their ESOP, forecasted for 3-5 years from now, it is essential that all employees, as owners of the company, have access to the company’s P&L. December was ‘all hands on deck’, Victoria says, “and everyone worked extra hard to make our numbers. In the end, we did even better than we expected, and there was $100,000 to be distributed to the team, each receiving a percentage of their pay. Even new employees received a prorated bonus.”

Jerry says, “Our plan is to offer very competitive benefits to all employees, and then make a really superior package available when we exceed our expectations.

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Every Manufacturer’s New Year’s Resolution Should Be ‘Don’t Forget To Grow’ Toward the end of last year, the UN’s UNCTAD report forecast showed continuing disruption and uncertainty in the global economy over the course of the next 12 months.

For a manufacturing sector that has experienced a decade of largely uninhibited growth since the 2008 financial crash, such news no doubt makes for worrisome reading. Indeed, amid a trading climate filled with change and unpredictability, many firms could be forgiven for already writing off 2020 as a year of consolidation — a time to protect and optimize what they have rather than break new ground in innovation or trade.

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— can do. If there is one mantra by which manufacturing companies should live over the course of the next year, it’s this: don’t forget to grow!

Adopting this growth mindset isn’t easy. The scars of the 2008 economic meltdown run deep, with manufacturing businesses of all shapes and sizes still wary of overreaching and leaving themselves vulnerable to a sudden crash. Meanwhile, an imminent US presidential election and ongoing issues in the global economic and geopolitical landscape are serving to only heighten the sense of uncertainty and apprehension.

One needs to only consider several recent examples of companies that have managed to grow during periods of economic upheaval to understand the risks facing those who stand still — and, crucially, the opportunities that can open up for those who do not.

During the 2008 financial crisis, a technology organization made the decision not to scale back its innovation program, but instead to double down on R&D in cloud computing. Or take the example of a heavy equipment organization, which chose the same period to revamp its machinery portfolio to meet customers’ changing needs around crop-spraying precision and herbicide reduction.

Fast forward to today and this bold, growth-focused decision-making has seen both organizations experience significant revenue and reputational gains when compared to their more circumspect competitors. This, in turn, has placed them at the forefront of their respective industries and provided a powerful platform for long-term success.

To be clear, this is not an ode to be gung ho.These examples are, along with others like them, rooted in strategic thinking and calculated risk-taking, not in the pursuit of pipe dreams or a commitment to growth at any cost. Likewise, taking steps to streamline existing operations and build contingency plans for when times are tough is a key part of running a successful business.

But to do it at the expense of, rather than alongside, a proactive growth strategy is

a recipe for being left behind.

Answering the question of how manufacturers can balance the need to protect and optimize their businesses, while accelerating their growth agenda is at the heart of a recent report by my own firm, Ernst & Young LLP (EY), which considers the various factors — financial, technological, political and social — that are influencing an organization’s ability to grow in challenging economic circumstances.

In particular, the report makes the case for agility, citing the need for firms to develop cultures and skill sets that enable them to constantly look at the world in different ways and capitalize upon the opportunities thrown up by shifting market conditions.

That might mean following the technology organization’s method and ramping up investment in R&D to carve out a new market segment or cement a leadership position. It might mean replicating the heavy equipment organization’s approach: working as part of a networked ecosystem of customers, suppliers and partners to collaboratively drive product innovation to satisfy an unmet need. Or it could mean investing in new technologies, like blockchain and AI, that help augment the human workforce, address skill shortages and improve data flow throughout the value chain.

There is no getting around the fact that growth must always come from a solid base, a base that requires fundamental business practices, like regularly reviewing supply chain costs and flexibility or taking a systematic approach to capital allocation and inventory control.

Yet, what is clear is that the bravest companies, the ones that proactively plan to progress in an uncertain trading environment rather than play safe, tend to be the winning ones.

January has always been a time for fresh starts.Whatever 2020 holds for the global economy, the best NewYear’s resolution that manufacturers can make is to forget the fears of the past and focus on growing for the future BY: Lisa Caldwell.

Woodward, Hexcel Attempt To Become A Force In Aerospace Woodward and Hexcel are merging in an allstock deal that would create one of the largest suppliers in the aerospace and defense industry.

The companies say the tie-up will allow them to create more efficient aircraft that will reduce emissions, a big hurdle for the aerospace industry.

The new company, called Woodward Hexcel, will generate more than $5 billion in annual sales with a market capitalization nearing $14 billion and more than 16,000 employees.

Woodward Hexcel will have manufacturing operations in 14 countries on five continents.

Both companies supply Airbus and Boeing, including parts for the 737 Max. With Boeing ensnared in one if its biggest crisis following the crash of two of its marquee aircraft, industry analysts speculate the deal may have been pushed forward to better position the combined company with Airbus. Hexcel shareholders will receive a fixed The deal is expected to close in the third quarter.

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Five Emerging Trends As Millennials Run Manufacturing’s Next Act Millennials are projected to overtake baby boomers as America’s largest generation after they became the largest generation in the U.S. workforce in 2016. At a time when a significant percentage of the industrial world’s current workforce is at or nearing retirement, millennials — the oldest of which will turn 38 this year — are starting to transition at a rapid rate into management positions.

What should the industrial market in general, and specifically the manufacturing industry, anticipate as millennials take charge?

1. Ubiquitous, instant connectivity and real-time collaboration We are all very aware that millennials’ use of technology clearly sets them apart from previous generations. According to the Pew Research Center, more than 9 in 10 own a mobile device. Nearly 100% say they use the internet, and 19% of them are smartphone-only internet users, meaning they own a smartphone but don’t have broadband internet service at home. As the first generation to have truly grown up with apps, social media and immediate access to any and all information at their fingertips, they value and expect the type of connectivity that only modern digital tools can provide.

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have in their personal lives in the workplace and will expect the ability to be digitally connected with their teams quickly via different formats.

In simple terms, the six-inch binder, walkie talkies and clunky legacy enterprise software assets won’t do the job as the industrial market’s execution suite of tools.

2. Enhanced productivity and efficiency without compromising safety or quality As they move into managerial positions, millennials will learn the nature of shift work, where employees, for the most part, don’t take work home with them, and an efficient handoff from one shift to the next is critical. Since most front-line workers aren’t typically connected to their jobs unless they are on-site, millennial managers will want to leverage technology that ensures their teams are working as efficiently as possible while clocked in.

In the longer term, as advancements in automation and artificial intelligence reimagine the role of industrial work and upskilling/ reskilling efforts become mainstream, semi-skilled workers will become knowledge workers and less physically tied to the factory floor. Instead, they’ll be able to oversee and manage digitally connected machines and equipment from a distance, enabling more flexible, less time-bound work.

3. Mobile devices everywhere on the front lines With the costs for smartphones, tablets and other similar mobile

devices for the enterprise continuing to decrease, access for deskless workers will become more affordable — which, in turn, will lead to an increasing need for mobile-based worker apps.With millennials starting to increasingly run the show, mobilefirst technologies will be championed at an accelerated rate that will become more of the norm over the next decade, replacing legacy consolebased systems.

Mobile devices on the factory floor not only make it easier to collaborate, but they can also improve worker and customer safety. This is especially important for remote or distributed workers who may not have easy, timely access to assistance or expertise nearby. For example, a worker who logs an equipment reading that indicates a dangerous situation can quickly initiate an instant video conference call with team members or off-site experts, provide visual context for the situation and receive immediate guidance.

Bottom line: There are no more excuses since these mobile devices are robust, cost-effective and secure.

4. Sustainability and purpose as work motivation According to a survey from clean energy platform Swytch (via HR Dive), 70% of millennials said a company’s sustainability record would impact their decision to stay with a company for the long haul. Many millennials want to work for an organization with a mission and purpose they believe in, and they likely prefer to work at a company that is transparent about its ecological impact.

As millennials gain g round in manufacturing management positions, the production efficiencies enabled through tec hnology — and its ability to document gains made or waste averted — will be key to that transparency, as well as a reason for them to stay loyal to a company and a motivating factor for the Gen Z

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Referred to as the “batch size of one” in the industry, it is a reality and a soon-to-be norm.

The same applies to career choices. No longer will employees stay at a company for 10 or 20 (let alone 30) years. According to a 2019 Deloitte study, 49% of millennials would, if they had a choice, quit their current jobs in the next two years, up from 38% in 2017. Industrial companies need to rethink how they hire, retain and train both junior and midlevel millennials at a far greater velocity than ever before.

Modern digital tools will be a recruiting competitive weapon in the near term and a “must have” in the medium term.

Just as baby boomers effected change in the workplace as they began to fill management and executive roles, so, too, will millennials have an impact on the technology systems and solutions deployed in factories and on shop floors everywhere. Source: Forbes; By: Lawrence Whittle A2Z MANUFACTURING SW •

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Tucson Aerospace Company Seeks Bidders For Tech, Launch Vehicle Assets After Bankruptcy Restructuring Tucson-basedVector Launch Inc., which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in December, is seeking bids to buy its satellite technology and launch vehicles.

The technology, known as GalacticSky, has received a $4.25 million purchase price commitment from Lockheed Martin Corp. to acquire the GalacticSky assets.

As part of the ongoing restructuring, Vector has entered into an asset purchase agreement with Lockheed and will serve as the “stalking-horse bidder” in the court-supervised sale of Vector’s assets, Coleman said.

Vector is “currently soliciting higher or better bids” for the GalacticSky assets, he said.

Although GalacticSky was still under development before the Chapter 11 filing, it was “designed to transform the aerospace and satellite industry” by moving from hardware-centric solutions, to one based on a “much more flexible and cost-efficient” software-defined system, said Coleman.

“Vector’s ultimate vision for GalacticSky was to provide a platform and service that would have allowed developers to build satellite applications and then upload their applications to an already orbiting satellite or constellation,” Coleman said. “GalacticSky was designed to eliminate the need for space entrepreneurs to have to design, build, and launch their own satellites, thus significantly reducing the expense required and yielding nearly instant data and revenue.” By Hayley Ringle – Phoenix Business Journal

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Christina Koch Returns To Earth After Record 11-Month Stay Aboard Space Station Christina Koch, veteran of six spacewalks outside the International Space Station -- including the first all-female excursion -- joined a Russian commander and an Italian flight engineer for a fiery plunge to a landing in frigid Kazakhstan last month, setting a record for the longest single flight by a female.

After moving a safe distance away, Skvortsov monitored an automated rocket firing starting at 3:18 a.m., a four-minute 38-second braking “burn” that slowed the ship by about 286 mph. That was just enough to drop the far side of the spacecraft’s orbit deep into the atmosphere, setting up a landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan.

About a half-hour later, after discarding the ship’s no-longer-needed lower propulsion module and upper orbital compartment, the central crew compartment, the only one with a protective heat shield, slammed back into the discernible atmosphere at an altitude of 62 miles.The ship quickly decelerated, enduring re-entry temperatures of some 3,000 degrees as it descended.

Russian recovery crews, along with NASA and European Space Agency flight surgeons and support personnel, were stationed nearby and were quickly on the scene to help the returning station fliers out of the Soyuz as they began re-adjusting to the unfamiliar effects of gravity.

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13 years after launching Gibbs Precision Machine, owners Terry and Shelley Gibbs are poised to expand their business to support customers needing production precision machined parts. To date, they have excelled at producing customers’ very complex machined parts, most often low quantities associated with R&D work. Terry credits the teams’ collective years of experience, more than 130 in total, for the company’s ability to machine some of the most complex R&D parts.

“In order to begin supporting production work, we purchased our own facility, and it is more than double the square footage we had in our previous rented facility”, Terry says. Shelley adds, “We are proud to bring customers to our new facility – its layout, its cleanliness and everything about it represents what we want our customers to see in our shop; it is much more of a professional environment.” Shelley says that every Friday, the entire team stops machining parts in the afternoon, with the task of cleaning the shop. She adds, “Everyone feels good coming in to the shop Monday morning, and it is immaculate.” And though the pristine A2Z MANUFACTURING SW •

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facility is large enough for the Gibbs’ business today, Terry says the building only occupies 17% of the land purchased; there is opportunity to expand the facility as business dictates.

Prior to opening his own business,Terry worked for more than a quarter of a century for a large machine shop in the Valley. “It was there that I learned how important it was to set up processes to run the company, and so early on in our business, we achieved ISO/AS9100 certification.” Today the company is AS9100 certified to the latest revision, Revision D. Since its inception, and to this day, Gibbs Precision Machine is a family owned and operated business.

Son Kyle and daughter Kristie work full time at the business, and while son Patrick chose his calling of teaching special education children, he too supported the family business working there in the early years.

“Every Gibbs family member can run a machine”, Terry says, and Kristie can do anything needed in the front office, including quoting and internal audits for AS9100. Kyle has been working with Terry since he was 14 years old; last May he graduated college with a Business management and marketing degree from Arkansas Tech University and is now working towards becoming the operations manager for Gibbs Precision.

Shelley says, “We are also blessed to have 2 of Terry’s prior colleagues work at our company after hours and on weekends. We cannot thank Debby Arneson and Brian McInnis enough for their years supporting us.We would also like to thank Scott Hillery for all his support with our computer needs.”

About 7 years ago, one ofTerry’s employees suggested he contact a young man, one who had no experience in manufacturing, as a potential hire.

“Seven years, later, Richie Ramos is my right hand man, and is a dedicated and outstanding employee. Our newest employee Abe Hernandez is a great young man who came straight from high school and learned his skills at EVIT (East Valley Institute of Technology) while attending high school.” Shelley and Terry are spiritual, and believe they receive signs to help them make key decisions in both their life and in their business.

From the company’s beginnings, Terry purchased Haas machines from Ellison Machinery, the local distributor for Haas and other machine tool lines. “I appreciate specific traits in the sales people I purchase from”, Terry says. “I value people’s time, and I expect this from the sales people contacting me. I want them to schedule appointments, so that I can meet them at a convenient time, and I can also give them my full attention.

Respecting people’s time is key to me, and I always get this through Ellison Machinery’s team.”

He adds, “I am not a pushy person, and I appreciate this from the sales people I work with. At Ellison Machinery, I have always enjoyed a good relationship with my sales engineer. For the last couple of years, it’s been Alex Anderson. Alex is knowledgeable (he has a mechanical engineering background), and he is very respectful. I really enjoy working with him”, he added.

Terry continues, “Another key factor that enters into my ‘must have’ criteria for the suppliers I work with is customer service. We’ve had machine dealers come to see us in the past, and when I ask if they have service presence in Arizona, and they say ‘we can fly someone in from California if you have a service issue’, this is a deal breaker for me.We’re running a small business, and to keep our customers satisfied, we must deliver quality product when we say we would. Machine uptime is critical to our ability to keep our word with our customers.”

Terry finds Ellison Machinery’s customer service to be “the best in the Valley”, and today the company owns 6 Haas machines. “We have called Ellison Machinery 3 times for service in the past 10 years”,Terry says, “and when we need them, they are prompt and prepared to get our machine back up and running. Typically, their van has the part needed, so our downtime is substantially reduced.”

Gibbs’ latest Haas machine tool purchase was the VF-3SSYT. Alex says the Haas high-performance Super-Speed vertical machining centers provide the high spindle speeds, fast rapids, and quick tool changes necessary for high-volume production and reduced cycle times. Each SS machine features a 12,000-rpm, inline direct-drive spindle, an ultra-fast side-mount tool changer, and high-speed rapids on all axes.

The YT model has an extended 6” extended Y travel allowing Gibb’s to work on parts that may not fit in the original 20” of Y. “This machine tool purchase is another step Terry took to prepare the business for production machining”, Alex says.

Business is very good, Shelley says; in fact, last year was record breaking for the company, and though you often hear of new owners working tirelessly, often 7 days a week, when they start up, Shelley says Terry still works 7 days a week. Terry’s dedication is certainly one of the reasons the company receives superior scores for not just quality, but also the difficult ‘On Time’ metric. Shelley says that the company had 2 rejections in 3049 parts shipped, and this means that their Quality rating exceeds an astounding 99.9%. Their On Time metric from the customer who provides this feedback was 99.93% last year.

Terry is comfortable with adopting new technologies, and to support customers’ R&D efforts, recently purchased a Mark Forged 3 D printer.

“We can turn prototypes around to customers with our 3D printer many times in a day or two”, Terry says. He adds that the 3D printer is valuable for the company’s tooling requirements.

What’s next for Gibbs Precision Machine? Terry says continuing to invest into technology to increase productivity – he says they are evaluating technologies that afford flexible work cells, horizontal machining centers, to name a couple.

Alex gives recognition to Terry’s work ethic, his experience, and his business ethics - these are all characteristics that you want in your supplier. To learn more about this precision machine shop that excels in prototypes, one that is poised for production work, contact them at 480-753-1166 or visit their website at GibbsPrecision.com Better yet, come see their new facility.You can schedule a visit with Terry directly.

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Raytheon outlined plans to combine the former missile systems and integrated defense systems in Tucson after the merger with UnitedTechnologies Corp. is completed, according to a leaked internal memo obtained by the Tucson Sentinel.

Raytheon is in the middle of an all-stock merger of equals with Farmington, Connecticut-based United Technologies, with the unified entity to be known as Raytheon Technologies Corp.

The merger still needs approved by the federal government and company shareholders and is expected to be completed early this year. Once approved, the new Raytheon Technologies entity will be the world’s second-largest aerospace and defense company behind Boeing Co. There are no plans to relocate programs, business areas, product line leadership or personnel, saidWes Kremer, Raytheon’s vice president, who now heads the missile systems division and was announced late last year as the pending chief of the new corporate division, according to the Tucson Sentinel.

Raytheon now has four main business divisions: missile systems, integrated defense systems, space and airborne systems, and intelligence, information and services. After the merger, the space and intelligence divisions will be combined as Raytheon’s intelligence and space division.That will be based in Arlington, Virginia, the memo reportedly said.After hiring 2,000 Arizona employees during the past two years,Waltham, Massachusetts-based Raytheon expects to hire another 1,000 people for its expanded Tucson facilities to meet growing customer demand, company executives said in October.

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Raytheon is among Arizona’s busiest defense contractors with about 675 Department of Defense contracts worth about $41.4 billion for 2019, according to Business Journal research. By Hayley Ringle – Reporter, Phoenix Business Journal

Scottsdale Company Rolls Out New Marijuana Packaging Equipment A Scottsdale company is seeing some early success with a machine designed to help the marijuana and hemp industries package their products.

Since unveiling its product in December 2019, EZJ AutoRoller Inc. projects $5 million in revenue in 2020 from the machine designed to automatically roll cones for marijuana dispensaries.

When marijuana dispensaries roll cones for consumer use, they often hire multiple employees to make between 700 and 900

cones in a day. The EZJ AutoRoller can roll 500 cones in one hour. The cones are pre-rolled marijuana joints sold to customers.

With one person manning the machine and working an eight-hour shift, the autoroller can put out 20,000 rolls in one week. One tray holds 50 cones and one cycle takes roughly 5 to 7 minutes.

voters this fall, the volume of cones that need to be produced could skyrocket, and “machines like this can help fill that gap,” said James O’Connor, the company’s chief operating officer.

Investors financed approximately $500,000 to develop the processing system.The company is debtfree, according to Leadbeater.

“We’re the first and only automated pre-roll processing system,” said Jack Leadbeater, EZJ AutoRoller’s chairman and CEO. With this product, farms and dispensaries can make more than four times the cones with fewer employees, he said.

Leadbeater incorporated the company and began prototype development in 2016. He unveiled the product at the MMJ Business Show in Las Vegas in December 2019.

There are a lot of issues that can arise when marijuana farms and dispensaries are manually rolling cones. Employees have to grind cannabis, sift through the dirt and waste, fill the cones, tamp down the product, and then twist the ends to tighten the cone.

The company first became profitable this year. It estimates selling 200 to 300 machines in 2020 with each machine priced at $89,500.

“Our initial discussions with target customers indicates great interest and acceptance for the EZJ AutoRoller cost saving technology in a very competitive, cost-sensitive market place,” he said.

The products come with a 90-day warranty, and extended service agreements are available.

Leadbeater had been working in the industry for about six years when he realized there was a need for an automated rolling process.Through the EZJ AutoRoller, clients can lower rolling costs and consumers might see a shift in price for pre-rolled cannabis as well, Leadbeater said.

If voters were to approve legalized marijuana, a measure expected to be before Arizona

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The European aerospace giant, which last year took the title from Boeing as the world’s biggest plane-maker, has such a large backlog of orders to fill that it cannot immediately produce more of its popular narrow-body jets that airlines view as an alternative to the Max.

in commercial aviation, Airbus is riding high.

In the year since Boeing’s most important plane was grounded after two deadly crashes killed 346 people, orders for the Max have dried up, and Boeing has been unable to deliver the roughly 400 Max planes it built since the grounding began in March.

Last month, Boeing said the costs associated with the Max grounding were likely to exceed $18 billion. Those costs may rise further, with airlines that were counting on the Max continuing to lose money and the 737 factory in Renton, Washington, still shut down.

“It might look like a paradox, but in the short term, we don’t benefit from the situation with our competitor,” Airbus’ chief executive, Guillaume Faury, saidThursday at a news conference inToulouse, France, announcing the company’s 2019 annual results.

Boeing said that it did not record any new orders for commercial airplanes in January and that it delivered just 13 planes in the month.

Although the start of the year is usually a slow time for orders, and the deliveries were dented by the Max grounding, the dismal numbers were a reminder of the depths of Boeing’s problems.

Airbus has been unable to take advantage of the shortfall at Boeing partly because it can’t build planes fast enough. Production of Airbus’ A320 jets — the main competitor to the 737 Max and the bulk of Airbus’ commercial business — is months behind schedule because of slowdowns at some of its European factories.

Airbus has won several competitive orders in recent months. In December, Qantas picked Airbus over Boeing to supply jets for what will be the world’s longest nonstop commercial routes, from Australia to the New York area. Also last year, United Airlines ordered 50 Airbus jets.

As it is, the company’s A320 jets are sold out through 2025, Faury said, making it “difficult if not impossible” to make new planes quickly for airlines that have been left scrambling to find an alternative since Boeing stopped producing the Max.

Still, Airbus reported an overall loss of 1.36 billion euros ($1.48 billion) for 2019. The main reason for the shortfall was an agreement to pay $4 billion in fines to France, Britain and the United States to settle a lengthy global corruption investigation, removing a legal cloud as it sought to keep ahead of Boeing.

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Cullen says, “I feel strongly that when a business invests in equipment, they should get high quality, thoroughly tested, top of the line machinery. First and foremost, the machine needs to work perfectly, and secondly, equipment costs should not jeopardize a company’s success.”

Cullen speaks these words because his parents learned a very difficult lesson.

When Cullen was younger, his parents owned a print shop, and to grow the business and remain competitive, they purchased a very expensive new piece of equipment. Unfortunately, the machine never worked properly, and this led to the demise of their business.

Cullen would learn an important lesson that he carried forward into his new business.

History of GreenBroz Cullen calls himself very fortunate. AVeteran who served in the United States Navy and then spent years with Fortune 500 Military and Communications corporations, Cullen made the decision to launch his own business. He had learned over the years that he had a passion for creating innovative productions, and with his military background, he sought to launch a company that would proudly manufacture products in the USA, and would make an effort to hire Veterans.

Prior to opening GreenBroz, Cullen did some extensive analysis of various industries, seeking out one that had tremendous growth potential. “I looked at the evolving cannabis industry and saw that there were bottlenecks. After visiting a number of cultivation facilities, I recognized that the equipment wasn’t the most technologically advanced. I knew I could improve the harvesting machines.”

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As start-ups often do, Cullen‘s first ‘corporate headquarters’ was his garage. He calls himself fortunate because, very early in the company’s existence, and with just the 2nd piece of equipment he invented, a dry trimmer, the company was an overnight success. So much so that today Green Broz isn’t operating out of Cullen’s garage, rather is occupies a 50,000 square foot building in Las Vegas, Nevada. GreenBroz manufactures a number of products, many which have patents or are patent pending, including sorters, trimmers, extractors, batchers, destemmers, rosin presses, and fan slides. They even have a line of GreenBroz apparel.

“Our machines are designed for harvesting and work very well for harvesting cannabis”, Cullen says. He continues, “Our trimmer machines are our flagship product. GreenBroz’ latest trimmer, introduced earlier this year, the GreenBroz Model M Dry Trimmer, is designed to closely mimic the act of hand trimming your harvest while at the same time increasing the consistency and efficiency of your harvest process. It is GreenBroz, Inc.’s largest and most high-efficiency automated harvesting machine to date, with 8-12 pounds per hour.

The lesson Cullen learned from his parent’s purchase of a machine that didn’t work properly drives GreenBroz’ business model. GreenBroz must make machines that work well and help their customers to increase profitability. “The machines we purchase to make our machines too had to be reliable and so technologically advanced that we would be able to manufacture best in class harvesting machines on time and at the right price.”

In addition to being an entrepreneur, Cullen is a manufacturing engineer with a very high comfort level, even a passion, for new technology. Cullen evaluated different press brakes while attending Fabtech in Las Vegas a few years ago, and in the end, decided on builder SafanDarley. SafanDarley is the leading global specialist in developing and constructing press brakes and shears for both thin and thick sheet metal.

The dealer for SafanDarley in Arizona, California and Nevada is North South Machinery (NSM). Cullen says it was NSM

that introduced him to the SafanDarley line. CEO Jim Swartzbaugh founded NSM in 1985, and it quickly gained notoriety by building a prestigious reputation in the non-traditional machining industry in the process. NSM was awarded the prestigious SafanDarley line of press brake machines more than 5 years ago, and they provide all sales, installation, training and maintenance support for their customers.

Chris Claxton, Territory Sales Manager for NSM supporting Cullen and the team at GreenBroz, says, “GreenBroz’ first SafanDarley was the 100% electrical E-Brake 110T.” The O-Frame construction, paired with the servo driven belt & pully system, means incredibly accurate bends across the full length bed of the machine. It offers so many features vies-a-vies competitive machines, including; a full electric drive, more than 30% higher productivity, up to 50% energy saving, low CO2 emissions, noiseless operation, a full working length back gauge, a user friendly touch screen control, and most importantly a fully integrated Safety System designed seamlessly into the machine operation.

Cullen and the GreenBroz team were so pleased with their first SafanDarley purchase that when it was time to add another press brake to their business, they sought advice from the NSM and SafanDarley team.Their second machine was the SafanDarley H-Brake Hybrid 190T, which is a hydraulic press brake with innovative hybrid control. SafanDarley reports that GreenBroz purchased the first of this machine in the United States. Cullen says the H-Brake Hybrid offers an open frame construction, which works well when you are bending off the machine. He says it is similar to their electric press brake with ‘On Demand’ hydraulics.

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Safety is a key element to all SafanDarley products. Chris says that SafranDarley machines have a safety system built into the controls, and it works with a safety light screen that is automatically directed from the SafanDarley E-Controls. Cullen says, “We love the safety controls – it provides an opportunity not to get yourself into trouble, and we can even bend parts without ever touching the foot pedal.”

The SafanDarley E-Control is fully touch screen, whereby the only buttons visible on the 21” screen are those that are needed during operation. The controls simply run on a PC under Microsoft Windows®, the software was developed based on Microsoft.net Framework.

Cullen says the consistency across the SafanDarley product line is a key advantage to their products. “All their machines use the same safety, the same control and the same software, so there was almost no learning curve when we added our H-Brake Hybrid 190T”, he elaborated.

“SafanDarley makes some of the most intuitive, easy to run press brakes out there.We brought in a new employee who had no press brake experience, and he was able to begin running the machines very quickly”, Cullen says, “And 8 months later he is phenomenal on the machines.” He added, “Another thing about the SafanDarley machines that we like is that there is almost 0 maintenance required.

“We bring customers to our facility, and we have other shops who are looking at SafanDarley press brakes come to see a demo. Nobody can believe the kinds of bends and the quality of the products we can make”, Cullen said.

“Another outstanding feature you can get from SafanDarley (as an option) is their AutoPOL sheet metal software. It is a modern 3D system for off-line press brake programming and unfolding of 3D CAD models. Your ability to use simulation off-line will save valuable production time, minimize part scrap and validate the process before you have even started the machine. Cullen says, “We waited 2 years to purchase the AutoPOL, it was a long 2 years, and we should have ordered it sooner.”

While quality product lines and an expert sales team have long been cornerstones of the North South business model, it’s the un-ending desire to create raving fans of each one of its partners that has fueled its longevity. NSM prides itself on investing in the success of each one of our partners across a wide range of industries. To find out more about NSM’s machine tool lines, call them at (562) 6907616 or visit northsouthmachinery.com SafanDarley is headquartered in Lochem, Netherlands and has a second production plant in Eijsden. SafanDarley employs approximately 200 members of staff. Their SafanDarley NorthAmerica Service office recently moved from Baltimore, Maryland to Waukesha, Wisconsin. SafanDarley is the inventor of the servo-electronic press brake and brought about a veritable e-volution in sheet metal working. Not only because of superior electronic technology compared to traditional hydraulics, but also through innovative machine concepts, unique control systems and optimal production automation.To learn more about their products, visit safandarley.com You can learn more about GreenBroz by visiting their website at greenbroz.com 27

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“One of the reasons we chose the market is because of the access to different levels of talent,” Gandhi told the Business Journal. “We expect this to be more of a second headquarters for us.”

For customers with storage needs, MakeSpace comes to the customer to pick up items using professional movers. Company representatives take photos of the items so the customer can manage them online, before it stores the items in a warehouse and delivers the items back when needed.

MakeSpace expanded from four to 24 markets last year after raising a $30 million Series D round in March 2019, led by Iron Mountain Inc. The company currently has 100 employees across its three-office footprint.

The strategic partnership with Iron Mountain means the Boston-based data and records management company now runs the operations and logistics and uses its warehouses, trucks and labor for MakeSpace. Iron Mountain has 1,500-plus warehouses, Gandhi said.

That allows MakeSpace to focus on the technology that powers those operations, demand generation, sales and customer support.

“With MakeSpace, we take all of the friction points and built a platform around it,” Gandhi said.

MakeSpace’s professional movers pick up items customers want to store, and take the items to a local warehouse. Customers manage their items through an app, and can get them delivered back when they need it.

The Phoenix metro area was added in March 2019 using a local Iron Mountain warehouse, Gandhi said.

Since many of the new markets are in the West, MakeSpace wanted to find a closer office to serve those locations. The Phoenix office opens the company to more opportunities, and MakeSpace plans to add engineering and other higher-paid positions to the local office in the future, he said.

The 10-employee Phoenix office plans to hire up to 30 people by the end of the year, with plans to double that by the end of 2021 with a goal of reaching 100 employees in year three.

The startup, which launched in 2013, has raised more than $100 million, with early investors including 8VC, Founders Fund and Upfront Ventures.

MakeSpace has thousands of customers in the U.S. and Toronto, but Gandhi said he couldn’t disclose exact customer numbers.

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Last year saw staggering growth in the enterprise 3D printing market, which is shaking up manufacturing sectors around the globe. Highvolume, low-value production manufacturing is shifting to a nimbler model, although the change isn’t without some growing pangs, as recent on-demand manufacturing stumbles suggest.

Still, the growth is undeniable. According to a new report by 3D Hubs, an online manufacturing platform that provides engineers with on-demand access to a global network of manufacturing partners, the total value of 3D printed parts increased by a stunning 300 percent in 2019. Over 550,000 parts were 3D printed in 3D Hubs’ ecosystem alone, and the total value of 3D printed parts tripled.

Every indication is that we’re still at the shallow end of the adoption curve, with 2020 set to accelerate enterprise adoption. According to HP, who’s been out front in the space, 2020 will see additive manufacturing replacing traditional manufacturing methods in many use cases.

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Where will impact be the greatest? Almost without question, the biggest areas of immediate growth for 3D printing will be new product development, which is already seeing strong adoption, as well as aftermarket supply chains. The surprising thing may be the sheer volume of industries moving to additive manufacturing architectures on either end of the production ecosystem.We’ve seen applications across multiple industries, including Automotive, Aerospace, Maritime, Medical, Space, Sports, Motorsports, Railway, and Defense, to name just a few.

Investors are flocking to 3D printing, but this is the hottest area For at least the last half-decade 3D printing has a space for entrepreneurs. What was first a wild west in hardware has, like many technology categories, become a race to develop novel software and applications. Given that the hardware landscape is becoming more defined, with big players emerging and elbowing out startups, it’s no surprised that the venture market is looking at apps. According to 3D Hubs, a record $1.1B+ was raised by 3D printing startups in 3D printing in 2019 alone. Expect more money to flow in 2020.

Moore’s law? No one who frequents ZDNet needs Moore’s law explained, but for those who stumbled into the movie in the middle, the famous prediction, made in the 1970s

by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, is, in simple form, that the total processing power of computers will double every couple years. Turns out 3D printing follows a similar trend of exponential growth in terms of overall market size. In this case, top analysts agree that, as adoption steadily increases, the total 3D printing market will continue to double in size approximately every three years.

Another sunny year for the cloudThis one might as well be a general technology trend, but it applies to 3D printing in particular. The cloud is the future as professional users

turn to online manufacturing platforms. One reason is the incredible diversity of 3D printing materials and capabilities out there.With so much choice, it’s getting difficult to conceive of a company maintaining in-house capabilities for all use cases. Online manufacturing platforms connect users to 3D printing capacity, adding an element of scale to the flexibility and agility of rapid manufacturing.

A piece of a larger puzzle You might notice that technology reporters (like, um, this one) are quick to write about 3D printing, which has a certain technological cache, but much slower to tout related rapid manufacturing technologies. That error of omission has largely set 3D printing up to fail in the public consciousness.

That’s because additive manufacturing is just one piece of a much larger puzzle. In 2020 expect more companies to integrate a full digital manufacturing stack that seamlessly incorporates 3D printing with technologies like CNC machine and low-run injection molding. Smart factories and digital supply chains will further lower barriers to entry that have long kept small companies out of manufacturing and large companies out of the innovation economy. By Greg Nichols for Robotics | 3D Printing A2Z MANUFACTURING SW •

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The intention of an internal audit has always been to identify areas where a company can improve, and in no way intends to be a detriment to any employee, whatsoever.

There are numerous methods for conducting internal audits.

An example would be auditing a process against a procedure or referencing a checklist of requirements from the standard. A management team’s intention when conducting an internal audit is to acquire information regarding how the company as a whole can improve its processes, thereby improving the company itself.

External Audits, on the other hand, simply intend to verify compliance. An External Audit validates the compliancy to Standard and Documents, however, Internal Audits do this as well. There is a requirement in the ISO 9001 Standard mandating the production of a company’s processes against the requirements of the ISO 9001 Standard, as well as the company’s defined, or documented Quality Management System. The point of conducting an Internal Audit prior to an external one is to outline the various opportunities a company has for improvement, so a company can resolve the issues and prepare itself for External Audits.

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Once the management system reaches maturity, areas and processes are identified, and audited using analysis of the data previously acquired.

An Internal Audit is the ultimate defense against External Audits, by a customer or an auditing registrar. Internal Audits are preventive programs designed to ensure continuous compliance to an organization’s quality policy, objectives, and system requirements.

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Nickel-cobalt-aluminum or nickel-manganese-cobalt (NCM) batteries are the go-to batteries of electric vehicle manufacturers because of their higher density, which allows EVs to have ample range on a single charge.

Tesla focuses on NCA with lower cobalt content than NCM batteries but the possible deal with CATL can help Tesla and Elon Musk to meet the CEO’s statement in 2018 that the carmaker will completely cut the use of cobalt for its vehicle batteries. Cobalt costs around $33,500 a ton, the most expensive component of EV batteries, and is often linked to controversial mining practices. Such practices form the Achilles heel of battery production as mining cobalt is associated with human rights issues such as child labor, among other ethical issues.

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The “seismic” shift from fixed automation to mobile robots will transfor m material handling within the industrial supply chain, as well as other areas of manufacturing – a c c o r d i n g t o n ew research by a global tech market advisory firm.

By 2022, the rapidly growing autonomous mobile robots (AMR) space will start to overtake the traditional industrial robotics market, and of the 8 million robots forecast to be shipped in 2030, nearly 6 million will be mobile, according to ABI Research.

Currently, mobile autonomy is concentrated in material handling within the supply chain, but mobile robots are set to touch every sector of the global economy for a wide range of use-cases.

The “enormous” projected growth is expected to permeate all subsectors of industry and generate an estimated total market valuation of approximately US$277bn, as mobile robots grow to “touch every sector of the global economy for a wide range of use-cases”.

Mobile autonomy is currently concentrated in internal logistics within the manufacturing supply chain where further developments are predicted to happen before mobile robots become commonplace in other areas of industry, according to the ABI Research Commercial and Industrial Robotics market data report.

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Automated guided vehicles, or AGVs, have been the traditional (and largely only) option for internal logistics and are generally a fixed, heavy installation used in repetitive delivery processes.

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Last month, the White House released President Trump’s $4.8 trillion budget proposal for fiscal year (FY) 2021.While marginally larger than last year’s budget proposal of $4.75 trillion, this year’s proposal similarly calls for increases in defense spending and major cuts to many domestic programs and federal agencies. If the administration’s economic policies are enacted and Congress extends the 2017 tax cuts for 10 more years, the proposal predicts economic growth above 3 percent annually with the federal budget being balanced by 2035.

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Of importance to One Voice members, the president’s proposal calls for major increases in several areas of workforce training. In the area of Career Technical Education (CTE), the White House has proposed an increase of $900 million. Of this $900 million increase, $680 million would go to Perkins Basic State Grants and $83 million for Perkins National Programs.The rest of the increase, over $100 million in funds, could be reached through changes to the H-1B visa program.

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Northrop Grumman Licenses New WetMateable Connector Technology for Manufacturing Northrop Grumman Corporation) has signed its first non-exclusive agreement t o m a n u f a c t u re n i o b i u m - b a s e d connectors (NiobiCon™) specifically designed for harsh environments.

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Tips for Reducing Payment Delays and Bad Debts A successful transaction begins well before a signed contract. During the proposal stage there are several considerations that ultimately help reduce payment delays and bad debts. During this stage, consider the following: • Qualifying a customer’s ability to pay • Establishing upfront payments and clear payment terms • Offering early payment discounts and charging late payment fees • Addressing price increases and passthrough charges • Requiring signed contracts After a signed agreement has been obtained, there are still several considerations that can impact timely payment. To ensure timely customer payment after the proposal stage, make sure you are: • Delivering goods or services according

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Scott Higginbotham purchased the company in 2007, right in the midst of our major economic downturn. He used the next few years to learn the business and hone its processes, with the goal of retaining customers with superior quality and customer service.

“In the last decade, we’ve taken many steps to facilitate our growth”, Scott says. “We’ve invested heavily into new equipment that today affords our customers nearly every type of grinding, including OD, ID, Centerless, Blanchard, Double-Disc, and Surface (CNC Jig Grinding planned for early this year). We also just introduced Pinch/Peel grinding capabilities with our Rollomatic ShapeSmart ® NP50. It is a 5-axis Precision Cylindrical Pinch/Peel grinding machine with integrated 3-axis robot loader and grinding diameter range from 0.025 – 25 mm (.001”– 1”). It is ideal for cutting tool blank preparation as well as punch and mold applications requiring complex geometry and high length-to-diameter ratios.” To support their growth and new equipment, the company also expanded from its 7,500 square foot facility to a 12,000 square foot facility.

Though Sun Grinding’s 800+ customers weren’t specifically requiring the company to be ISO certified, Scott viewed this as a necessary next step as the company is growing their customer base with companies that value the ISO certification, most notably Tier 1 aerospace and medical companies.

3 years ago, Scott interviewed a few ISO consultants, and in his words, “Bretta Kelly, owner of BMSC, stood out.” The company didn’t make the decision to get started immediately.When Scott attended a seminar presented by Bretta for Emerging Leaders of the ATMA (Arizona Tooling and Machining Association) last year, he determined it was time to certify the company utilizing BMSC’s services. Scott sits on the board of the ATMA today, and he says he asked around at the association about members’ experience with BMSC. “She came so highly regarded we made the decision to contract with her last year.”

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“Our employees have a better understanding of how their work impacts the final customer products; of how a standard is applied to everything we do.” He adds, “It will also make for an easier learning curve as we bring on new employees.” An added bonus to the entire certification process and the strong commitment to the success of the company from all employees has meant that Scott has been able to remove himself from the day to day production process; enabling him to spend more time on building the business through networking, sales initiatives and strategic / business planning.

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The largest driver of that growth was a more than 50% jump in orders from automakers, which Shikany said were making robots part of their investment in automotive technology.

No. 1 U.S. automaker General Motors Co (GM.N), for example, recently announced it was investing $2.2 billion to build electric trucks and autonomous electric vehicles at its Detroit-area plant in Hamtramck, Michigan.

U.S. companies installed fewer robots in 2019 than they did the year before, the first cut back since 2015, as a downturn in manufacturing fueled by trade wars and weaker demand dampened appetite for the machines.

Shipments fell to 23,758, a more than 16% drop, according to data by the Association for Advancing Automation.Robot shipments also fell in Mexico last year, declining 25% to 3,263, while shipments in Canada roughly held steady at just over 3,000 units.

A major goal of President Donald Trump has been to drive manufacturers to bring work back to the United States, presumably aided by new automation and robotics that would allow domestic plants to compete with cheaper labor in China and other lower-cost countries. But that trend appears to have been overwhelmed by a larger slowdown in manufacturing.

Alexander Shikany, vice president of the Association for Advancing Automation, said the slowdown is likely to be short lived. Orders for new robots in North America, a separate measure that gives a sense of how many machines will be installed in future months, increased last year by 1.6% to 29,988 units, Shikany noted.

Hytrol Conveyor Co Inc, a privately held company in Jonesboro, Arkansas, that produces conveyor belts and had sales last year of over $200 million, did not cut back on robot installations in 2019. With demand from e-commerce businesses and other warehouse operations booming, the company spent $1.9 million last year to help automate its assembly line.David Peacock, the company’s president, said the company realized three years ago it would have trouble keeping up with demand growth without more robots.

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Certified SolidWorks Professionals OnDemand HP and Markforged 3D Printer Sales Additive Manufacturing Experts

Savage Machine Tools ____ 480-773-4080 TSM Machinery _______ 602-233-3757 Whiteʼs Niche Products ___ 602-290-9402 CNC Drill/ Tapping Machines Adams Machinery ______ 480-968-3711 D & R Machinery ______ 480-775-6462 Haas Factory Outlet _____ 480-968-5811 Magnum Precision Mach __ 602-431-8300 Magnum Precision Mach ___505-345-8389 Methods West ________ 602-437-2220 Savage Machine Tools ____ 480-773-4080 CNC Punching Centers Magnum Precision Mach __ 602-431-8300 Magnum Precision Mach __ 505-345-8389 Mesa Mach Sales ______ 480-545-0275 CNC Swiss Turn Machines Adams Machinery ______ 480-968-3711 Arizona CNC Equip______ 480-615-6353 D & R Machinery ______ 480-775-6462 Ganesh Machinery _____ 888-542-6374 Magnum Precision Mach __ 602-431-8300 Magnum Precision Mach __ 505-345-8389 Methods West ________ 602-437-2220 MMT, A Div of Productivity _ 505-415-2004

North-South Machinery ___ 602-391-4696 EDM EDM Machines Adams Machinery _______480-968-3711 D & R Machinery ______ 480-775-6462 Desert Machine Sales ____ 623-826-1025 EDM Network _________480-836-1782 Makino ___________ 602-228-0347 Methods West ________ 602-437-2220 North-South Machinery ___ 602-391-4696 Savage Machine Tools ____ 480-773-4080 TSM Machinery _______ 602-233-3757 EDM Filtration Desert Machine Sales ____ 623-826-1025 Ebbco Inc __________ 800-809-3901 EDM: Dielectric Systems/Filtration Ebbco Inc __________ 800-809-3901 A Z MANUFACTURING SW • 81 • March / Apr 2020 2

8622 N. 78th Avenue Peoria, Arizona 85345

FourPAC

Office (623) 773-1787 Fax (623) 773-9882 www.geigerelectric.com

Christopher C. Choffat Managing Partner

Your AutomatIon Partner 2153 E. Cedar Street Suite 5 Tempe, Arizona 85251 Tel: Fax: Cell: Email:

+1.480.420.9361 +1.267.653.2280 +1.602.751.2070 sales @ fourpac.com

w w w . f o u r p a c . c o m F o u r P e a k s A u t o m a t i o n & C o n t r o l s F o u r P e a k s A u t o m a t i o n & C o n t r o l s

AMERICAN TOOLS & METALS INC. Cutting Tools, Lubricants & Abrasives MANNY LOPEZ O: 520-622-3082 • C: 520-975-3078 manny@atmtucson.com PO Box 26508 • Tucson, AZ 85726 947 S. 48th St, #125 • Tempe, AZ 85281 AmericanToolsandMetals.com

SAVAGE MACHINE TOOLS, LLC

S.L. Fusco, Inc.

  Kevin Savage

Jeff Overby

(480) 773-4080

Regional Manager 4857 S. 36 St. Phoenix, AZ 85040 Cell: (715) 379-8399 Office: (602) 276-0077 jeff.overby@slfusco.com www.slfusco.com th

AMADA / SODICK / YCM / USED www.savagemachinetools.com

ELECTRICAL Equip Hookup & Disconnect Geiger Electric Co ______ 623-773-1787 Industrial Electric Inc ____ 623-582-5204 Lighting Geiger Electric Co ______ 623-773-1787 Industrial Electric Inc ____ 623-582-5204 Relocation: Electrical Geiger Electric Co ______ 623-773-1787 Industrial Electric Inc ____ 623-582-5204 Service Upgrades Geiger Electric Co ______ 623-773-1787 Industrial Electric Inc ____ 623-582-5204 GRINDING Grinding Filtration Ebbco Inc __________ 800-809-3901 Grinding Machines ACC Machinery _______ 602-258-7330 Adams Machinery ______ 480-968-3711 Arizona CNC Equip______ 480-615-6353 D & R Machinery ______ 480-775-6462 DMG Mori __________ 480-276-7019 Magnum Precision Mach __ 602-431-8300 Magnum Precision Mach __ 505-345-8389 MMT, A Div of Productivity _ 505-415-2004 Moore Tool & Equipment __ 602-455-8904 North-South Machinery ___ 602-391-4696 Savage Machine Tools ____ 480-773-4080 Grinding Machines, OD/ID Adams Machinery ______ 480-968-3711 A2Z MANUFACTURING •

D & R Machinery ______ 480-775-6462 Haas Factory Outlet ______480-968-5877 Magnum Precision Mach ___602-431-8300 Magnum Precision Mach __ 505-345-8389 Moore Tool & Equipment ___602-455-8904 Savage Machine Tools _____480-773-4080 Grinding Machines, Tool Adams Machinery _______ 480-968-3711 D & R Machinery _______480-775-6462 Honing Machines Adams Machinery _______ 480-968-3711 Magnum Precision Mach ___602-431-8300 Magnum Precision Mach __ 505-345-8389 Magnetic Drills/Cutters ACC Machinery ________602-258-7330 Adams Machinery _______ 480-968-3711 Manual Lathes & Mills ACC Machinery ________602-258-7330 Adams Machinery _______ 480-968-3711 Arizona CNC Equip______ 480-615-6353 D & R Machinery _______480-775-6462 Ganesh Machinery _____ 888-542-6374 Haas Factory Outlet ______480-968-5877 Magnum Precision Mach ___602-431-8300 Magnum Precision Mach __ 505-345-8389 Moore Tool & Equipment ___602-455-8904 TSM Machinery ________602-233-3757 Sawing Machines ACC Machinery ________602-258-7330 Adams Machinery _______ 480-968-3711 D & R Machinery _______480-775-6462

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Echols Saw & Supply _____602-278-3918 Mesa Mach Sales ______ 480-545-0275 Moore Tool & Equipment __ 602-455-8904 Savage Machine Tools ____ 480-773-4080 Saw Replacement Parts Echols Saw & Supply _____602-278-3918 Swiss Screw Machines D & R Machinery ______ 480-775-6462 Schenk Intertech________949-360-1512 Tapping Machines ACC Machinery _______ 602-258-7330 Adams Machinery _______480-968-3711 D & R Machinery ______ 480-775-6462 MANUFACTURING EQUIPMENT FourPac ___________ 602-751-2070 Automation & Controls Datron ____________ 480-826-3689 DMG Mori __________ 480-276-7019 FourPac ___________ 602-751-2070 Electronics FourPac ___________ 602-751-2070 FABRICATION CNC Punching Centers ACC Machinery _______ 602-258-7330 Magnum Precision Mach __ 602-431-8300 S&S Machinery Sales ____ 602-368-8542 Fiber Lasers Bystronic Inc __________ 213-309-1694 Gantry Systems, CNC ACC Machinery _______ 602-258-7330

Corporate Headquarters Location

Iron Workers ACC Machinery _______ 602-258-7330 Adams Machinery _______480-968-3711 Magnum Precision Mach __ 602-431-8300 Mesa Mach Sales ______ 480-545-0275 Moore Tool & Equipment __ 602-455-8904 Revolution Machine Tools ___385-355-0316 S&S Machinery Sales ____ 602-368-8542 Laser Cutting/Proc. Center ACC Machinery _______ 602-258-7330 Bystronic Inc __________213-309-1694 Mesa Mach Sales ______ 480-545-0275 S&S Machinery Sales ____ 602-368-8542 Plasma/Gas Cutting Systems ACC Machinery _______ 602-258-7330 Bystronic Inc __________213-309-1694 Mesa Mach Sales ______ 480-545-0275 Pipe & Tube Benders/Notchers ACC Machinery _______ 602-258-7330 Bystronic Inc __________213-309-1694 Moore Tool & Equipment __ 602-455-8904 S&S Machinery Sales ____ 602-368-8542 Power Tools Copper State Bolt & Nut ___ 800-603-6887 Press Brakes ACC Machinery _______ 602-258-7330 Adams Machinery _______480-968-3711 Bystronic Inc __________213-309-1694 Magnum Precision Mach __ 602-431-8300 Magnum Precision Mach __ 505-345-8389

Haas Factory Outlet A Division of Ellison Machinery Company

patrick ellison

Sales Director

president 1610 s. priest Dr., suite 101 tempe, arizona 85281 Telephone: Cell: Fax: Email:

Bryan Crawford

1847 Elmfield Ave. Long Beach, CA, 90815 562-597-7824 cell: 562-243-4659 becrawford@mindspring.com

SALES SERVICE CONSULATION

AMERICAN TOOLS & METALS INC. Cutting Tools, Lubricants & Abrasives WALTER PENA O: 480-689-5493 • C: 480-622-9348 walter@atmphoenix.com PO Box 26508 • Tucson, AZ 85726 947 S. 48th St, #125 • Tempe, AZ 85281 AmericanToolsandMetals.com

Mesa Mach Sales _______ 480-545-0275 Moore Tool & Equipment ___ 602-455-8904 Revolution Machine Tools ___ 385-355-0316 S&S Machinery Sales _____ 602-368-8542 Punch Presses Adams Machinery _______ 480-968-3711 Bystronic Inc __________ 213-309-1694 Shearing Machines ACC Machinery ________ 602-258-7330 Adams Machinery _______ 480-968-3711 Bystronic Inc __________ 213-309-1694 Moore Tool & Equipment ___ 602-455-8904 S&S Machinery Sales _____ 602-368-8542 Magnum Precision Mach ___ 602-431-8300 Revolution Machine Tools ___ 385-355-0316 WaterJet: Filtration/Chillers Ebbco Inc ___________ 800-809-3901 WaterJet Cutting Systems D & R Machinery ______ 480-775-6462 Desert Machine Sales _____ 623-826-1025 Flow Waterjet _________ 714-393-3783 Flow Waterjet _________ 415-828-3569 North-South Machinery ____ 602-391-4696

Omax Corp. _________800-838-0343 Welding Equipment ACC Machinery________602-258-7330 INSPECTION EQUIP 3D Measurement Systems Ellison Machinery ______480-968-5335 Mitutoyo America ______ 480-294-7631 Starrett ____________ 949-348-1213 Zeiss Ind. Metrology _____ 800-327-9735 Coordinate Measuring Mach.

Advanced Coordinate Tech __ 480-921-3370 D & R Machinery_______480-775-6462 Ellison Machinery ______480-968-5335 Klontech Industrial Sales __ 480-948-1871 Mitutoyo America _______ 480-294-7631 Renishaw ___________ 847-286-9953 Starrett_____________ 949-348-1213 Total Quality Systems _____480-377-6422 Zeiss Ind. Metrology ______ 800-327-9735 Gauging Equipment Advanced Coordinate Tech __ 480-921-3370 Ellison Machinery _______480-968-5335 Klontech Industrial Sales ___ 480-948-1871 Mitutoyo America _______ 480-294-7631 Total Quality Systems _____480-377-6422 Metrology Instruments Advanced Coordinate Tech __ 480-921-3370 Ellison Machinery _______480-968-5335 Klontech Industrial Sales ___ 480-948-1871 Mitutoyo America _______ 480-294-7631 Renishaw ___________ 847-286-9953 Starrett_____________ 949-348-1213 Total Quality Systems _____480-377-6422 Washington Calibration ____480-820-0506 Zeiss Ind. Metrology ______ 800-327-9735 Optical Comparators Advanced Coordinate Tech __ 480-921-3370

D & R Machinery ______ 480-775-6462 Ellison Machinery _______480-968-5335 Mitutoyo America _______ 480-294-7631 Klontech Industrial Sales ___ 480-948-1871 Magnum Precision Mach ___602-431-8300 Renishaw ___________847-286-9953 Starrett_____________ 949-348-1213 Total Quality Systems _____480-377-6422 Zeiss Ind. Metrology ______800-327-9735 Rapid Optical Inspection Mesa Mach Sales _______480-545-0275 Moore Tool & Equipment ___602-455-8904 Starrett_____________ 949-348-1213 Repair & Certification Advanced Coordinate Tech __480-921-3370 Total Quality Systems _____480-377-6422 Washington Calibration ____480-820-0506 Scales Accurate Scale _________480-926-3550 Video Measuring Systems Ellison Machinery _______480-968-5335 Klontech Industrial Sales ___ 480-948-1871 Mitutoyo America _______ 480-294-7631 Starrett_____________ 949-348-1213 Washington Calibration ____480-820-0506 WaterJet: Filtration/Chillers Ebbco Inc ___________800-809-3901 USED MACHINERY ACC Machinery ________602-258-7330 EDM Network _________480-836-1782 Ganesh Machinery ______888-542-6374 K D Capital___________ 480-922-1674 Methods West _________602-437-2220 Moore Tool & Equipment ___602-455-8904 S&S Machinery Sales _____602-368-8542 Savage Machine Tools _____480-773-4080 TSM Machinery ________602-233-3757

480-968-5877 480-298-9782 480-968-0522 pellison@ellisonaz.com

www.haascnc.com

Email/Skype jd.wogoman@datron.com

ACCESSORIES Abrasives Barton International _____ 800-741-7756 Copper State Bolt & Nut ____ 800-603-6887 GMA Garnet __________ 882-243-9300 MSC Direct ___________ 480-755-0415 S.L. Fusco ___________ 602-276-0077 Stellar Industrial________ 800-562-8258 Adhesives S.L. Fusco ___________ 602-276-0077 Stellar Industrial________ 800-562-8258 Air Blast Cabinets, Blast Rooms Lone Arrow __________ 480-507-8074 Air Distribution Systems Magnum Precision Mach ___ 602-431-8300 Stellar Industrial________ 800-562-8258 Band Saw/ Blades D & R Machinery ______ 480-775-6462 Echols Saw & Supply _____ 602-278-3918 Marshall Tool & Supply ____ 602-269-6295 Starrett_____________ 949-348-1213 S.L. Fusco ___________ 602-276-0077 Bar Feeders Arizona CNC Equip_______ 480-615-6353 83

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Division of Curran Manufacturing Corporation

200 Oser Avenue Hauppauge, NY 11788 U.S.A.

Tel:

1-631-273-1010 1-800-645-4174 Fax: 1-631-273-1066 1-800-424-2082

www.royalprod.com

orders@royalprod.com

BC Barfeeds __________ 562-243-4659 D & R Machinery ______ 480-775-6462 Edge Technologies _______ 951-440-1574 Ellison Machinery _______ 480-968-5335 Magnum Precision Mach ___ 602-431-8300 Bar Feeder Accessories BC Barfeeds __________ 562-243-4659 Edge Technologies _______ 951-440-1574 Blast Abrasives Barton International _____ 800-741-7756 GMA Garnet __________ 882-243-9300 Cabinets, Custom Lone Arrow __________ 480-507-8074 Chip Management Arizona CNC Equip_______ 480-615-6353 Ellison Machinery ______ 480-968-5335 Chip Removal Arizona CNC Equip_______ 480-615-6353 Ellison Machinery ______ 480-968-5335 Chuck Jaws Arizona CNC Equip_______ 480-615-6353 Ellison Machinery ______ 480-968-5335 Lucyʼs Machine Company ___323-587-6162

Don Loveless Tel: 800-686-1679 181 Business Park Dr. Fax: 860-409-2552 Bristol, CT. 06010 Email: dloveless@gmnusa.com www.gmnusa.com

Chucks Adams Machinery ______ 480-968-3711 Arizona CNC Equip ______ 480-615-6353 Ellison Machinery______ 480-968-5335 Marshall Tool & Supply____602-269-6295 Clamping Kyocera Cutting Tools _____ 480-244-4758 SCHUNK ____________ 919-452-4535 CNC Lathe Accessories Von Ruden Manufacturing _ 763-682-0322 CNC Collet Chucks Royal Products_________ 800-645-4174 Collet Fixtures Royal Products_________ 800-645-4174 Coolant Shields Lucyʼs Machine Company ___323-587-6162 Coolant Systems Ebbco Inc ___________ 800-809-3901 MP Systems __________ 909-282-7463 MSC Direct ___________ 480-755-0415 Star Metal Fluids _______ 800-367-9966 Coolant Systems: Chillers MP Systems __________ 909-282-7463 Cutting Tools Copper State Bolt & Nut ____800-603-6887 Cutting Tools Consultants ___ 602-277-1342 Datron ____________ 480-826-3689 Kyocera Cutting Tools _____ 480-244-4758 MSC Direct ___________ 480-755-0415 S.L. Fusco ___________ 602-276-0077 Richard Amy Regional Sales Manager

BARTON INTERNATIONAL cell 951.551.2685 sales 800.741.7756 ramy@barton.com www.barton.com A2Z MANUFACTURING SW •

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Von Ruden Manufacturing __ 763-682-0322 Digital Readout Units Adams Machinery _______ 480-968-3711 D & R Machinery _______ 480-775-6462 Lone Arrow __________ 480-507-8074 Magnum Precision Mach ___ 602-431-8300 Draw Tubes & Bars Lucyʼs Machine Company ___323-587-6162 Dust Collectors Lone Arrow__________480-507-8074 Fasteners Copper State Bolt & Nut ____ 800-603-6887 MSC Direct ___________ 480-755-0415 Filtration Equip.

Ebbco Inc ___________ 800-809-3901 Qualichem, Inc. ________ 480-320-0308 Star Metal Fluids _______ 800-367-9966 EDM Tooling Systems EDM Network _________ 480-836-1782 EDM Performance ______ 800-336-2946 Filtermist Mist Collectors Royal Products_________ 800-645-4174 Gaskets Copper State Bolt & Nut ____ 800-603-6887 Grippers SCHUNK ____________ 919-452-4535 Guard & Vacuum Pedestals For Grinders Midaco Corporation ______847-593-8420 Live Centers Royal Products_________ 800-645-4174 Live Tool Holders SCHUNK ____________ 919-452-4535 Von Ruden Manufacturing __ 763-682-0322 Lubricants / Systems Pioneer Distributing Co. ____ 602-278-2693

S.L. Fusco ___________602-276-0077 Star Metal Fluids ______ 800-367-9966 Machine Tool Accessories Von Ruden Manufacturing _ 763-682-0322 Milling and Turning Products Kyocera Cutting Tools _____480-244-4758 Von Ruden Manufacturing_ 763-682-0322 Pallet Systems Adams Machinery _______480-968-3711 Arizona CNC Equip_______480-615-6353 D & R Machinery ______ 480-775-6462 Ellison Machinery ______ 480-968-5335 Parts Washing Equipment D & R Machinery ______ 480-775-6462 Qualichem, Inc _______ 480-320-0308 S.L. Fusco ___________602-276-0077 Star Metal Fluids ______ 800-367-9966 R8 Quick-Change Tool System Royal Products________ 800-645-4174 Robot Accessories SCHUNK ____________919-452-4535 Rota-Rack Parts Accumulator Royal Products________ 800-645-4174

Jeff Klimowicz Regional Sales Manager 480.320.0308 mobile jklimowicz@qualichem.com qualichem.com ISO 9001:2015 | All products proudly made in the USA.

Scales Accurate Scale _________480-926-3550 Sealants S.L. Fusco ___________602-276-0077 Stellar Industrial________800-562-8258 Spindles GMN USA ___________800-686-1679 Static Tool Holders SCHUNK ____________919-452-4535 Von Ruden Manufacturing __763-682-0322 Tooling Columns Stevens Engineering ______602-272-6766 Vibratory Equipment Adams Machinery _______ 480-968-3711 D & R Machinery ______ 480-775-6462 Vises and Vise Jaws Arizona CNC Equip_______ 480-615-6353 Stevens Engineering ______602-272-6766 Waterjet Abrasives Barton International _____800-741-7756 GMA Garnet __________882-243-9300 Lone Arrow __________480-507-8074 Waterjet Accessories Barton International _____800-741-7756 GMA Garnet __________882-243-9300 Lone Arrow __________480-507-8074 Waterjet Bricks/Hoppers Barton International _____800-741-7756 Waterjet Replacement Parts Arizona CNC Equip_______480-615-6353

Barton International ____ 800-741-7756 GMA Garnet _________ 882-243-9300 Work Holding Ellison Machinery ______ 480-968-5335 Kurt Manufacturing _____ 763-574-8320 MSC Direct__________ 480-755-0415 Stevens Engineering ____ 602-272-6766 CONSUMMABLES Cutting Fluids & Oils (Coolants) Echols Saw & Supply _____ 602-278-3918 Marshall Tool & Supply ____ 602-269-6295 Pioneer Distributing Co. ____ 602-278-2693 S.L. Fusco ___________ 602-276-0077 Star Metal Fluids _______ 800-367-9966

Star Metal Fluids _______ 800-367-9966 Spindle Liners Lucyʼs Machine Company ___323-587-6162 HARDWARE MATERIAL Alloys: High Temperature Aerodyne Alloys ________ 860-289-3820 Western States Metals _____ 801-978-0562 Alloys: Specialty Aerodyne Alloys ________ 860-289-3820 Apache Steel Company ____ 602-323-2200 Sierra Alloys TSI ________ 800-423-1897 Aluminum Apache Steel Company ____ 602-323-2200 AZ Metals ___________ 602-688-8003 Bralco Metals Phoenix_____ 602-252-1918 Bralco Metals Albuquerque __ 505-345-0959 EDM Materials & Supplies Ind. Metal Supply _______ 602-454-1500 Adams Machinery _______480-968-3711 Coast Aluminum ________ 877-977-6061 D & R Machinery _______ 480-775-6462 Samuel, Son & Co _______ 602-721-0176 EDM Network _________ 480-836-1782 Tube Service Company ____ 602-267-9865 EDM Performance accʼs ____ 800-336-2946 Aluminum Extrusions Qualichem Inc _________ 480-320-0308 Bralco Metals Phoenix_____ 602-252-1918 Single Source Technologies __ 602-686-0895 Bralco Metals Albuquerque __ 505-345-0959 Star Metal Fluids _______ 800-367-9966 Ind. Metal Supply _______ 602-454-1500 Garnet Coast Aluminum ________ 877-977-6061 Barton International _____ 800-741-7756 Armor:Commercial GMA Garnet __________ 882-243-9300 Kloeckner Metals _______ 480-389-2883 Impression Materials Armor:Military Grade Roydent ____________ 480-607-1876 Kloeckner Metals _______ 480-389-2883 Machine Tool Cool. Filtration Bar: Large Diameter D & R Machinery _______ 480-775-6462 Bralco Metals Phoenix_____ 602-252-1918 Qualichem, Inc ________ 480-320-0308 Bralco Metals Albuquerque __ 505-345-0959 MSC Direct ___________ 480-755-0415 Coastal Metals _________ 800-811-7466 Star Metal Fluids _______ 800-367-9966 Samuel, Son & Co _______ 602-721-0176 TW Metals ___________ 800-203-8000 Mounting Brackets Brass Lucyʼs Machine Company ___323-587-6162 Apache Steel Company ____ 602-323-2200 Solvents & Degreasing Agents Qualichem, Inc ________ 480-320-0308 AZ Metals ___________ 602-688-8003

Bralco Metals Phoenix_____602-252-1918 Bralco Metals Albuquerque _ 505-345-0959 Coast Aluminum ________877-977-6061 Coastal Metals _________ 800-811-7466 Ind. Metal Supply _______602-454-1500 Samuel, Son & Co _______ 602-721-0176 Western States Metals _____801-978-0562 Bronze Apache Steel Company ___ 602-323-2200 AZ Metals __________ 602-688-8003 Coastal Metals _________ 800-811-7466 Ind. Metal Supply _______602-454-1500 Western States Metals _____801-978-0562 Carbon Apache Steel Company ___ 602-323-2200 AZ Metals __________ 602-688-8003 Coastal Metals _________ 800-811-7466 Ind. Metal Supply _______602-454-1500 Cast Iron Western States Metals _____801-978-0562 Castings Ind. Metal Supply _______602-454-1500 Chrome Rod Western States Metals _____801-978-0562 Copper Apache Steel Company ___ 602-323-2200 AZ Metals __________ 602-688-8003 Ind. Metal Supply _______602-454-1500 Coast Aluminum ________877-977-6061 Samuel, Son & Co _______ 602-721-0176

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BarryMetalsCo@aol.com

Von Ruden Manufacturing, Inc. Since 1946

Sales@CoastalMetals.com

Fluid Power / Mechanical / Tool Products ISO 9001:2008 Certified

Brandon Anderson President

MOBILE: 612.251.0868 E-MAIL: brandon@vonruden.com

DIRECT: 763.682.0322 PHONE: 763.682.3122 FAX: 763.682.3954

1008 First Street NE - PO Box 699 - Buffalo, MN 55313 USA Made in USA

www.vonruden.com

Driven Tooling for the Machine Tool Industry

Made in USA

Michael Morace Sales Engineer – Arizona Cell: 602-513-6754 Toll Free: 888-554-8394 Fax: 888-554-8392 mmorace@tungaloyamerica.com

Ron Muenchow rmuenchow@upmet.com Mobile 619.871.0002 | Toll Free 888.282.3292

Tungaloy America, Inc.

14941 East Northam Street, La Mirada, CA 90638 www.upmet.com

Western States Metals _____801-978-0562 AZ Metals ___________ 602-688-8003 AZ Tool & Steel ________ 480-784-1600 Drill Rod Apache Steel Company ____602-323-2200 Bralco Metals Phoenix_____ 602-252-1918 Bralco Metals Albuquerque __ 505-345-0959 Extrusions TW Metals ___________800-203-8000 Coast Aluminum ________ 877-977-6061 Davis Salvage Co _______ 602-267-7208 Lead Ind. Metal Supply _______602-454-1500 Ind. Metal Supply _______ 602-454-1500 Jacquet West _________ 310-684-4370 Material Sales Jacquet West _________ 310-684-4370 Kloeckner Metals _______ 480-389-2883 Plastics- Acrylic/PVC, Tubing, NyTitanium lon, Many Others Laube Titanium___805-388-1050x124 Port Plastics __________ 480-813-6118 Samuel, Son & Co _______ 602-721-0176 Titanium TW Metals___________800-203-8000 Laube Titanium___805-388-1050x124 Metals Apache Steel Company ____602-323-2200 Samuel, Son & Co _______ 602-721-0176 Nickel Alloys AZ Metals ___________602-688-8003 Jacquet West _________ 310-684-4370 AZ Tool & Steel ________480-784-1600 Stainless Steel Bralco Metals Phoenix_____ 602-252-1918 Jacquet West__________ 310-684-4370 Coast Aluminum ________ 877-977-6061 Samuel, Son & Co _______ 602-721-0176 Davis Salvage Co _______602-267-7208 Sierra Alloys TSI ________ 800-423-1897 Ind. Metal Supply _______602-454-1500 Tool Steel Jacquet West__________ 310-684-4370 Apache Steel Company ____ 602-323-2200 Kloeckner Metals _______480-389-2883 Davis Salvage Co _______ 602-267-7208 Laube Titanium___805-388-1050x124 Titanium & Hastelloy Samuel, Son & Co _______ 602-721-0176 Sierra Alloys TSI ________800-423-1897 Apache Steel Company ____ 602-323-2200 Tube Service Company ____602-267-9865 Laube Titanium___805-388-1050x124 TW Metals ___________800-203-8000 Sierra Alloys TSI ________ 800-423-1897

3726 N. Ventura Drive, Arlington Heights, IL 60004 www.tungaloy.com/us

Cutting Tools: Custom B&T Tool & Engineering ___ 602-267-1481 Horizon Carbide ________ 480-968-0957 LRW Cutting Tools _______ 602-269-1775 Tungaloy America _______ 310-415-4810 Drills Cutting Tools Consultants ___ 602-277-1342 Ind. Metal Supply _______ 602-454-1500 LRW Cutting Tools ______ 602-269-1775 Tube Service Company ____602-267-9865 Marshall Tool & Supply ____ 602-269-6295 INDUSTRIAL HARDWARE Moore Tool & Equipment ___ 602-455-8904 Boring Bars The Tool Crib Inc. _______ 602-978-3130 Marshall Tool & Supply ____602-269-6295 Tungaloy America _______ 310-415-4810 The Tool Crib Inc. _______ 602-978-3130 End Mills Carbide Coast Aluminum Sales ____ 480-797-5162 Cutting Tools Consultants __ 602-277-1342 Cutting Tools Consultants ___ 602-277-1342 Horizon Carbide ________480-968-0957 LRW Cutting Tools _______ 602-269-1775 LRW Cutting Tools _______ 602-269-1775 Marshall Tool & Supply ____ 602-269-6295 Magnum Precision Mach ___602-431-8300 The Tool Crib Inc. _______ 602-978-3130 Marshall Tool & Supply ____ 602-269-629 Tungaloy America _______ 310-415-4810 Clamping & Gripping Fixtures Kyocera Cutting Tools _____ 480-244-4758 SCHUNK ____________ 919-452-4535 SCHUNK ____________ 919-452-4535 Form Tools Cutting Tools B&T Tool & Engineering ___ 602-267-1481 Coast Aluminum Sales ____ 480-797-5162 Cutting Tools Consultants ___ 602-277-1342 Cutting Tools Consultants ___ 602-277-1342

Horizon Carbide ________480-968-0957 Kyocera Cutting Tools _____ 480-244-4758 LRW Cutting Tools _______ 602-269-1775 MSC Direct ___________ 480-755-0415 Tubing & Pipe Western States Metals _____ 801-978-0562 The Tool Crib Inc. _______ 602-978-3130 Apache Steel Company ____ 602-323-2200 Metals-Bar & Plate Tungaloy America _______ 310-415-4810 AZ Metals ___________ 602-688-8003 Apache Steel Company ____602-323-2200

Patti Robison General Manager

120 E. Corporate Place Ste #12 Chandler, AZ 85225 www,portplastics.com probison@portplastics.com

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p. 480.813.6118 w. 800.395.7378 f. 480.813.6183 c. 602.228.5598

Sean Arsenault

Account Manager Vero Software Part of Hexagon

The World’s #1 Manufacturing Solutions Provider • Production Milling • 4/5 Axis Milling

sean.arsenault@verosoftware.com www.verosoftware.com

Edward Merkle

General Manager

• Production Turning • Multi-Axis Mill/Turn

T: +1 866-675-6551 x5432 M: +1 602-359-2530 F: +1 866-200-7791

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

THE TOOL CRIB INC. The MACHINE SHOP PIT STOP

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

Horizon Carbide ________480-968-0957 480-968-0957 LRW Cutting Tools _______602-269-1775 Inserts, Indexable Coast Aluminum Sales ____ 480-797-5162 Horizon Carbide ________480-968-0957 Kyocera Cutting Tools _____480-244-4758 Marshall Tool & Supply ____602-269-6295 MSC Direct ___________ 480-755-0415 Tungaloy America _______ 310-415-4810 Inserts, PCD/CBN Coast Aluminum Sales ____ 480-797-5162 Horizon Carbide ________480-968-0957 Marshall Tool & Supply ____602-269-6295 Tungaloy America _______ 310-415-4810 Key Cutters The Tool Crib Inc. _______ 602-978-3130 Reamers & Drills, PCD Coast Aluminum Sales ____ 480-797-5162 Marshall Tool & Supply ____602-269-6295 Tungaloy America _______ 310-415-4810 Precision Toolholding Products SCHUNK ____________ 919-452-4535 Tungaloy America _______ 310-415-4810 Von Ruden Manufacturing __ 763-682-0322 Thread Mills Coast Aluminum Sales ____ 480-797-5162 Horizon Carbide ________480-968-0957 Tungaloy America _______ 310-415-4810

Tooling Columns/ Tombstones Ellison Machinery _______ 480-968-5335 Stevens Engineering ______ 602-272-6766 Tooling Systems Ellison Machinery _______ 480-968-5335 Tungaloy America _______ 310-415-4810 Von Ruden Manufacturing __ 763-682-0322 PALLET SYSTEMS Manual & Automatic Pallet Systems Midaco Corporation ______ 847-593-8420 ROBOTICS Part Loading Systems Midaco Corporation ______847-593-8420 CAD/CAM Adams Machinery _______ 480-968-3711 Arizona CNC Equip_______ 480-615-6353 Autodesk____________ 877 335 2261 Feature Cam __________ 602-502-9654 Interlink Engineering ____ 480-699-0600 MLC CAD (MasterCAM) ____ 480-696-6056 MLC CAD (SolidWorks) ____ 480-696-6056 Turul Engineering _______ 480-420-7117 Vero Software _________ 602-359-2530 Software, Inv. Control Autodesk____________ 877 335 2261 Feature Cam __________ 602-502-9654 MLC CAD (MasterCAM) ____ 480-696-6056 MLC CAD (SolidWorks) ____ 480-696-6056 Turul Engineering _______ 480-420-7117 Software, NC Programming Adams Machinery _______ 480-968-3711 Autodesk____________ 877 335 2261 Datron ____________ 480-826-3689 Ellison Machinery _______ 480-968-5335 Feature Cam __________ 602-502-9654 Interlink Engineering ____ 480-699-0600

MLC CAD (MasterCAM) ____480-696-6056 MLC CAD (SolidWorks) ____480-696-6056 Turul Engineering _______ 480-420-7117 Software, Servicing Autodesk____________877 335 2261 Feature Cam __________602-502-9654 Interlink Engineering______480-699-0600 MLC CAD (MasterCAM) ____480-696-6056 MLC CAD (SolidWorks) ____480-696-6056 Turul Engineering _______ 480-420-7117 SERVICES Automation & Controls FourPac ____________602-751-2070 Metals Eng & Testing Lab. ___602-272-4571 Banks Alerus Bank & Trust ______ 480-905-2414 Western Banks_________ 480-917-4243 Business Consulting Arizona MEP __________602-845-1200 BMSC _____________480-445-9400 Quick Turn Financial______480-385-1220 Scarla Consulting Group ____480-242-5412 Calibration Services Advanced Coordinate Tech __480-921-3370 Arizona CNC Equip _____ 480-615-6353 Field Calibrations ______ 480-756-8828 Klontech Industrial Sales ___ 480-948-1871 Washington Calibration ____480-820-0506

YOUR PARTNER IN CUSTOM TOOLING SOLUTIONS

CHRIS WINDSOR

Director of Business Operations

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p. 602.269.1775 f. 602.269.0542 1735 N. 28th Ave #1 Phoenix, AZ 85009

chris@lrwtool.com www.lrwtool.com toll free 877.845.7940

Consulting Arizona MEP __________602-845-1200 BMSC _____________480-445-9400 Elevate Consulting _______ 480-577-2113 GoYellowbird.com _______480-229-2272 Interlink Engineering______480-699-0600 Mueller Prost___________314-862-2070 Quality Training Consultants _928-284-0856 Scarla Consulting Group ____480-242-5412 Sustaining Edge Solutions___888-572-9642 Consulting:Business Improvement Elevate Consulting _______ 480-577-2113 GoYellowbird.com _______480-229-2272 Mueller Prost___________314-862-2070 Contract Inspection Klontech Measure Sol _____ 480-626-8131 Contract Programming Adams Machinery _______ 480-968-3711 Ellison Machinery _______480-968-5335 Klontech Measure Sol _____ 480-626-8131 CNC Training Adams Machinery _______ 480-968-3711 Ellison Machinery _______480-968-5335 Gateway Community College _602-286-8050 CPA/ Business Advisor

Calibration: Repair & Certify Advanced Coordinate Tech __480-921-3370 Field Calibrations ______ 480-756-8828 Washington Calibration ____480-820-0506 Mueller Prost___________314-862-2070 Calibration: Scales Crates/Pallets Accurate Scale _________480-926-3550 Commercial General Contractor Beauʼs Crates _________480-966-3630 KLM Realty __________602-723-3508 Crating Technology ______602-528-3628

Cutting Tools made in the U.S.A. since 1964

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Crating Onsite Beauʼs Crates _________480-966-3630 Design Services Metalcraft Inc.________480-967-4889 Engineering Services Advanced Coord. Tech ____ 623-780-4137 Interlink Engineering ____ 480-699-0600 Financial Services Alerus Bank & Trust ______ 480-905-2414 Banterra Bank _________ 480-770-0007 Western Banks_________ 480-917-4243 Heavyhaul Hunter Machine Moving ____ 602-246-8783 IRH _____________ 800-334-2409 Insurance Services NFP Property & Casualty ___480-458-6052 ISO9001 Certification KALOS Certifications ______480-486-8007 ISO/AS9100 Consulting Arizona MEP __________ 602-845-1200 BMSC _____________480-445-9400 Quality Training Consultants _928-284-0856 Scarla Consulting Group ____ 480-242-5412 Sustaining Edge Solutions__ _888-572-9642 A2Z MANUFACTURING SW •

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ISO9001 Lead Auditor Training KALOS Certifications ______ 480-486-8007 IT/ Network Specialists Onsite Technical Services ___ 602-595-2227 IT/ Software Support Services Onsite Technical Services ___ 602-595-2227 Leasing and Financing Alerus Bank & Trust ______ 480-905-2414 Banterra Bank _________ 480-770-0007 KLM Realty __________ 602-723-3508 Western Banks_________ 480-917-4243

IRH

____________800-334-2409 Machinery Storage C&M Rigging _________ 602-253-8200 Hunter Machine Moving ____ 602-246-8783 SERVICES/MARKETING/DESIGN Photography Takashi Sato ___________602-790-3160 Procurement Fast DMS_____________424-FAST-DMS Public Relations New Angle Media ________602-295-1813 Marketing/ Web Desing New Angle Media ________602-295-1813 Real Estate, Commercial Marcus & Millichap ______ 602-687-6700 KLM Realty __________ 602-723-3508 Recycling Barry Metals ___________602-484-7186 Consolidated Resources Inc. ___623-931-5009 Davis Salvage Co _______ 602-267-7208 Phoenix Metal Trading ____ 602-257-4660

Lean Consulting Arizona MEP __________ 602-845-1200 BMSC _____________ 480-445-9400 Elevate Consulting ________480-577-2113 Industrial Solutions ______ 480-327-8949 Sustaining Edge Solutions__ _888-572-9642 Machinery Installation C&M Rigging _________ 602-253-8200 Hunter Machine Moving ____ 602-246-8783 IRH _____________800-334-2409 Reverse Engineering Machinery Moving BMSC _____________ 480-445-9400 C&M Rigging _________ 602-253-8200 Klontech Measure Sol ______480-626-8131 Hunter Machine Moving ____ 602-246-8783

Metalcraft Inc. _________480-967-4889 Metals Eng & Testing Lab. ___602-272-4571 Rigging C&M Rigging ________ 602-253-8200 Hunter Machine Moving ____602-246-8783 IRH _____________ 800-334-2409 Safety Training GoYellowbird.com ______ 480-229-2272 Schools, Custom Training Arizona MEP __________602-845-1200 AZPMAP ____________602-723-8191 Ellison Machinery ______ 480-968-5335 Gateway Community College 602-286-8050 Schools, Machining & Training Gateway Community College 602-286-8050 Transportation C&M Rigging ________ 602-253-8200 IRH _____________ 800-334-2409 Transportation: Air/Freight/Ground C&M Rigging ________ 602-253-8200

Michael McSWEENEY

Sales Manager

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

ROTAREX NORTH AMERICA

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

Spindle Rebuilding Ellison Machinery ______ 480-968-5335 GMN USA __________800-686-1679 The Werks C&C, Inc _____ 602-569-1809 Tool Repair, Coating, Treatment Repair -Hydraulic Advanced Precision _____ 602-525-0156 Cutting Tools Consultants 602-277-1342 The Werks C&C, Inc _____ 602-569-1809

SAFETY Fire Protection Systems Repair - Portable Rotarex __________ 480-689-8756 CNC Training Testing, Metallurgical Adams Machinery _______ 480-968-3711 Advanced Precision _____ 602-525-0156 Metals Eng & Testing Lab. __ 602-272-4571 The Werks C&C, Inc ______ 602-569-1809 Ellison Machinery _______480-968-5335

IRH _____________ 800-334-2409 Working Capital, Credit Lines Banterra Bank _________ 480-770-0007 Western Banks_________ 480-917-4243 REPAIR/DESIGN Bar Feeder Repair Edge Technologies _______ 951-440-1574 Machine Tool Rebuilding Advanced Precision ______ 602-525-0156 API Services __________ 757-223-4157 Adams Machinery _______ 480-968-3711 DM Machine Repair ______ 480-709-1450 EDM Network _________ 480-836-1782 FourPac ____________602-751-2070 The Werks C&C, Inc ______ 602-569-1809 Machine Retrofitting/CNC Adams Machinery _______ 480-968-3711 API Services __________ 757-223-4157 Arizona CNC Equip_______ 480-615-6353 Contract Programming Adams Machinery _______ 480-968-3711 Ellison Machinery _______480-968-5335 Klontech Measure Sol _____ 480-626-8131

Gateway Community College _602-286-8050 Design Services Fast DMS____________ 424-FAST-DMS Metalcraft Inc. _________480-967-4889 Engineering Services Advanced Coord. Tech ____ 623-780-4137 Fast DMS____________ 424-FAST-DMS Metals Eng & Testing Lab. ___602-272-4571 Financial Services Alerus Bank & Trust ______ 480-905-2414 Banterra Bank _________480-770-0007 Droeg Financial Services ___480-345-6575 Maint/Repair Services Adams Machinery _______ 480-968-3711 Advanced Precision ______ 602-525-0156 Arizona CNC Equip_______ 480-615-6353 DM Machine Repair ______480-709-1450 D & R Machinery _______480-775-6462 Ellison Machinery _______480-968-5335 The Werks C&C, Inc ______602-569-1809 Whiteʼs Niche Products ____602-290-9402 Prev. Maint Programs Adams Machinery ______ 480-968-3711 Advanced Precision _____ 602-525-0156 API Services _________ 757-223-4157 Arizona CNC Equip _____ 480-615-6353 DM Machine Repair _____ 480-709-1450 D & R Machinery ______480-775-6462 A2Z MANUFACTURING SW •

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Buyer’s Guide & Card Gallery Processes 21622 North 14th Avenue Phoenix, AZ 85027-2806 www.axiantech.com 623-580-0800

Danyelle Vigari Customer Service

Direct: 623-889-0725 Cell: 623-418- 1831 sales@axiantech.com

ADDITIVE MFG / 3 D PRINTING Athena 3D Manufacturing___480-206-4128

Faustson ____________303-420-7422 Jaguar Precision Machine ___505-242-6545 ASSEMBLY

AAE ______________928-772-9887 Abrams Airborne Mfg _____ 520-887-1727 ANEWCO ____________ 520-751-1222 CAP _____________602-464-9629 Cleveland Electric Labs ___ 480-967-2501 GHT Services__________480-396-1800 Hi-Tech Machining & Eng ___520-889-8325 JD Machine __________801-782-4403 JDB Ltd. ____________ 602-992-9627 KLK Ind. ____________ 602-267-1331 MAKstride ___________928-460-6054

Morsch Machine ________ 480-961-7673 Apache Gear, Inc _______ 623-934-7144 CASTINGS Precise Metal Products ____602-272-2625 AATC _____________ 602-268-1467 Systems Integrators ______623-434-3136 Wrico ____________ 480-892-7800 Western Cast Parts ______ 480-250-9764 Castings: Prototype Clean Room Assembly AATC _____________ 602-268-1467 Janʼs Inc.____________480-833-7305 Western Cast Parts ______ 480-250-9764 L&W Fluid ___________602-323-2560 Castings: Production Fixtures: Assembly AATC _____________ 602-268-1467 Newport Tool _________ 801-295-7411 Western Cast Parts ______ 480-250-9764 BAR CODING COATING Arizona Finishing _______602-438-4443 Sensing Solutions Cleveland Electric Labs ___ 480-967-2501 Bolts Metallizing - CWST ____602-244-2432 CAP _____________602-464-9629 Thermo Couples Cleveland Electric Labs ____480-967-2501 Coating Technologies _____ 623-242-9575 Collins Metal Finishing ____ 602-275-3117 Bending: CNC Frontier Group_________ 928-636-0130 Precise Metal Products ___ 602-272-2625 Louieʼs Black Oxide ______602-257-0530 Brazing: Aluminum Dip Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090 Abrams Airborne Mfg _____520-887-1727 Semiray, A Div of Mistras ___ 602-275-1917 Bolts Metallizing - CWST ___ 602-244-2432 Southwest Powder Coating __602-272-0878 Chromatic Over Zinc Diecast BROACHING Air Gear ____________602-275-7996 Sav-On Plating_________ 602-252-4311 WESTERN CAST PARTS LLC Steve Whisel

Field Sales & Engineering

4024 E. Casitas Del Rio Dr. Phoenix, AZ 85050 Phone: (480) 284-6618 Cell: (480) 250-9764 Email: swcastings@cox.net A2Z MANUFACTURING SW •

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Coating: Black Oxide Coating Technologies _____623-242-9575 Collins Metal Finishing ____ 602-275-3117 Louieʼs Black Oxide _____ 602-257-0530 PAS Technologies ______ 602-744-2600 Coating: Cerakote Masic Industries ________503-232-9109 Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090 Coating: Chem Film CAP______________602-464-9629 Collins Metal Finishing ____ 602-275-3117 Frontier Group_________928-636-0130 Gold Tech Industries ____ _480-968-1930 PAS Technologies ______ 602-744-2600 Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090 Semiray, A Div of Mistras ___ 602-275-1917

PAS Technologies _______602-744-2600 602-744-2600 The Metal Man ________800-448-9448 Sav-On Plating_________ 602-252-4311 Coating: Dry Film Lube Coating Technologies _____ 623-242-9575 Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090 Semiray, A Div of Mistras ___ 602-275-1917 Coating: Liquid Collins Metal Finishing ___ 602-275-3117 Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090 Pilkington Metal Finishing _ 801-972-2146 Coating: Nickel/Teflon Coating Technologies _____ 623-242-9575 Collins Metal Finishing ____ 602-275-3117 Coating: NP3 Coating Technologies _____ 623-242-9575 Coating:Zinc & Mag.Phos.

Chemetall ___________ 714-739-2821 Coating Technologies _____ 623-242-9575 Collins Metal Finishing ____ 602-275-3117 Frontier Group_________ 928-636-0130

Laser Louieʼs Black Oxide ______ 602-257-0530 PAS Technologies _______ 602-744-2600 APMI ______________ 480-668-0024 Techn Desert Precision Mfg _____ 520-887-4433 Coating:Passivation CAP _____________ 602-464-9629 Systems Integrators ______ 623-434-3136 Frontier Group_________ 928-636-0130 Fine Line Laser Cutting ____ 602-863-3196 Tube Laser Cutting PAS Technologies _______ 602-744-2600 Tube Service Company ____ 602-267-9865 Semiray, A Div of Mistras ___ 602-275-1917 DIE CASTING Powder Coating Arizona Finishing _______ 602-438-4443 TVT Die Casting ________ 800-280-2278 Die Casting/Aluminum & Zinc Collins Metal Finishing ____ 602-275-3117 Frontier Group_________ 928-636-0130 TVT Die Casting ________ 800-280-2278 Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090 DIES Pilkington Metal Finishing_____801-972-2146 Arizona Wire & Tool ______ 480-813-1002 Perfection Industrial Finishing_520-434-9090 Precision Die & Stampʼg ___ 480-967-2038 Southwest Powder Coating __ 602-272-0878 Wissota Tool & Die ______ 480-507-3484 CUTTING Wrico _____________ 480-892-7800 Echols Saw & Supply _____ 602-278-3918 EDM Southwest Waterjet-Laser ___ 480-306-7748 EDM: Drilling Small Hole Systems Integrators ______ 623-434-3136 AAE ______________ 928-772-9887 The Metal Man ________ 800-448-9448 EDM Tech ___________ 602-278-6666 Bandsaw Cutting LAYKE, Inc.___________ 602-272-2654 Echols Saw & Supply _____602-278-3918 Micropulse West ________ 480-966-2300 CNC Router Quality Mold__________ 480-892-5480 Micropulse West ________ 480-966-2300 Sun Tech ____________ 480-921-1665 Die Cutting EDM: Ram-Type (Sinking) Systems Integrators ______ 623-434-3136 AAE ______________ 928-772-9887

ANEWCO _____________520-751-1222 Blaze Precision ________ 480-584-5227 EDM Tech ___________ 602-278-6666 Faustson ____________ 303-420-7422 Micropulse West ________ 480-966-2300 Milco EDM & Waterjet ______714-373-0098 Quality Mold__________ 480-892-5480 Sun Tech _____________480-921-1665 EDM: Dialectric Systems /Filtration Ebbco Inc ____________800-809-3901 EDM: Electrodes/Reworking Graphel Corp __________800-255-1104 EDM: Wire 3D Machine LLC ________ 480-239-8254 AAE ______________ 928-772-9887 ANEWCO _____________520-751-1222 Arizona Wire & Tool _______480-813-1002 Auer Precision __________480-834-4637 Blaze Precision ________ 480-584-5227

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Caleb T. Kratz

Simulation Product Specialist Southwest Territory Manager

MOBILE: 713-252-2784

caleb.kratz@autodesk.com

valtechmfg@qwestoffice.net

Autodesk, Inc. Houston, TX 77459 www.autodesk.com

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Craig Roth President/C.O.O.

Spring & Manufacturing Co.,Inc.

Patrick H. Stewart II President

A Complete Manufacturing Facility for Fabrication, Machining and Assembly

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

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

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Aero Tech ___________ 801-292-0493

A Complete Manufacturing Facility for Fabrication, Machining and Assembly

Americhem Engineering____ 602-437-1188

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

ANEWCO ____________ 520-751-1222

AzMark ____________ 480-926-8969

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

BID Machine, Inc _______ 480-892-7304

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Craig Roth President/C.O.O.

Spring & Manufacturing Co.,Inc.

BEL Machining_________ 480-445-9881

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ATEC Engineering _______ 480-569-3337

K-2 Manufacturing ______602-455-9575 RM Garrison Machining ____ 623-582-6544 FABRICATION: SHEET METAL Scriven Precision________ 480-961-9775 Abrams Airborne Mfg _____ 520-887-1727 Stewart Precision Mfg _____ 623-492-9400

3325 East Wier Avenue Phoenix, Arizona 85040

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APMI _____________ 480-668-0024

Graphel Corp _________ 800-255-1104 Fry Fabrications ________ 602-454-0701 Fine Line Fabricating _____ 602-863-3506 Micropulse West ________480-966-2300 Milco EDM & Waterjet _____714-373-0098 Gilbert Metal Stamping ____ 480-503-1283 Moore Tool & Die _______480-622-1705 Group Manufacturing Serv __ 480-966-3952 Powill Manufacturing _____623-780-4100 JD Machine __________ 801-782-4403 Quality Mold__________480-892-5480 K-2 Manufacturing ______ 602-455-9575 Sun Tech ____________ 480-921-1665 Lynch Brothers Mfg ______ 602-267-7575 Thompson Machine ______505-823-1453 Magnum Companies _____ 602.272.3600 Whitley Machine________602-323-5550 Metzfab ____________ 602- 539-9591 Wrico ____________ 480-892-7800 Nelson Engineering _______602-273-7114 Part Partners __________603-831-2771 ENGINEERING/ Powerhaus Precision _____ 480-225-8854 PROGRAMMING Athena 3D Manufacturing___480-206-4128 Precise Metal Products ____ 602-272-2625

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Craig Roth President/C.O.O.

Spring & Manufacturing Co.,Inc.

Allfab Engineering_______ 602-437-0497 Engineering

Continental Machining ____800-777-2483 Creedbilt Inc ___________623-939-8119 EDM Tech ___________602-278-6666 Dayton Lamina _________248-489-9122 Faustson ____________303-420-7422 Desert Precision Mfg _____ 520-887-4433 Gilbert Metal Stamping ____480-503-1283 Dynamic Machine & Fabrication_ 602-437-0339

Phone: (602)243-4329 Cell: (602)370-5777

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Continental Machining ____ 800-777-2483

3325 East Wier Avenue Phoenix, Arizona 85040

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

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TMM Precision _______ 800-448-9448 Weiser Engineering _____ 303-280-2778 Whitley Machine_______ 602-323-5550 Wrico ____________ 480-892-7800 Fabrication: Chemical Processing Systems Americhem Engineering____602-437-1188 Aluminum (Medium & Large) Aero Tech __________ 801-292-0493 Fabrication: Custom Metal Allfab Engineering______ 602-437-0497 Fine Line Fabricating ____ 602-863-3506 K-2 Mfg ___________ 602-455-9575 Precise Metal Products ___ 602-272-2625 Fabrication: Medium & Large Abrams Airborne Mfg _____520-887-1727 ANEWCO ___________ 520-751-1222 APMI _____________ 480-668-0024 BEL Machining_________480-445-9881

Continental Machining ____ 800-777-2483 Craig Roth

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President/C.O.O.

Dynamic Machine & Fabrication_ 602-437-0339 Spring & Manufacturing Co.,Inc. Fine Line Fabricating _____ 602-863-3506 A Complete Manufacturing Facility for Fabrication, Machining and Assembly

Fry Fabrications _________602-454-0701 SPRINGS- STAMPINGS- MACH INED PARTS- WASHER S -WIR E FORMSFORMED TUB ING-ASSEMBLIES

3325 East Wier Avenue Phoenix, Arizona 85040

Phone: (602)243-4329 Fine Line Fabricating _____ Cell:602-863-3506 (602)370-5777

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Craig Roth

Janʼs Inc.____________ 480-833-7305 President/C.O.O. JDSpring Machine&__________ 801-782-4403 Manufacturing Co.,Inc. A Complete Manufacturing Facility for Fabrication, Companies Machining and Assembly Magnum _____ 602.272.3600 3325 East Wier Avenue Phoenix, Arizona 85040

Metzfab ____________ 602- 539-9591 Phone: (602)243-4329 SPRINGS- STAMPINGS- MACH INED PARTS- WASHER S -WIR E FORMSFORMED TUB ING-ASSEMBLIES

Cell: (602)370-5777

Precise Metal Products ____ 602-272-2625 Aerospring1@aerospringmfg.com

Precision Metalworks _____ 602-455-9575

RM Garrison Machiing___623-582-6544 Stewart Precision Mfg _____ 623-492-9400 TMM Precision ________ 800-448-9448 Weiser Engineering ______ 303-280-2778 Fabrication: Steel Magnum Companies _____ 602.272.3600 FINISHING Arizona Finishing _______ 602-438-4443

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

Phoenix, AZ 85009

Mike@BlueStreakGrinding.com

www.bluestreakgrinding.com

Glass Bead Clean A2Z Sandblasting _____ 602-716-5566 Coating Technologies____ 623-242-9575 Gold Tech Industries ____ 480-968-1930 Lone Arrow _________ 480-507-8074 PAS Technologies ______ 602-744-2600 Southwest Powder Coating _ 602-272-0878 Gun Finishing Louieʼs Gun Finishing ____ 602-257-0530 Passivation CAP ____________ 602-464-9629 Coating Technologies _____ 623-242-9575 EPSI______________714-256-8950 Gold Tech Industries ______ 480-968-1930 Louieʼs Black Oxide ______ 602-257-0530 PAS Technologies _______ 602-744-2600 Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090 Phoenix Heat Treating_____ 602-258-7751 Southwest Powder Coating __ 602-272-0878 TVT Die Casting ________ 800-280-2278 Abrasive Blasting Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090 Semiray, A Div of Mistras ___ 602-275-1917 STP Performance Coating LLC _ 602-276-1231 Dry Film Lubrication Bolts Metallizing - CWST ____602-244-2432 CAP _____________ 602-464-9629 PAS Technologies _______ 602-744-2600 Semiray, A Div of Mistras ___ 602-275-1917 Electro-Polishing Collins Metal Finishing ____ 602-275-3117

Coating Technologies ___ _623-242-9575 Frontier Group________ 928-636-0130 Gold Tech Industries _____ 480-968-1930 PAS Technologies ______ 602-744-2600 Semiray, A Div of Mistras ___602-275-1917 Polishing EPSI______________714-256-8950 Gold Tech Industries _____ 480-968-1930 RM Garrison Machining ___ 623-582-6544 Sand Blasting A2Z Sandblasting ______ 602-716-5566 Coating Technologies ____ 623-242-9575 Masic Industries _______ 503-232-9109 Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090

Info@sungrindingUSA.com

STP Performance Coating LLC _602-276-1231 Shot Peen PAS Technologies ______ 602-744-2600 Stripping Coating Technologies ____ 623-242-9575 Southwest Powder Coating _ 602-272-0878 FIXTURES Blaze Precision _______ 480-584-5227 Exactitude Precision ______602-316-6957 Paragon Machining & Design 480-635-9163 Powerhaus Precision ____ 480-225-8854 FOUNDRY AATC _____________ 602-268-1467 GASKETS Systems Integrators _____ 623-434-3136 GEAR CUTTING Air Gear ___________ 602-275-7996 Apache Gear, Inc ______ 623-934-7144 GRAPHITE SOLUTIONS

Southwest Powder Coating _ 602-272-0878 Graphel Corp _________800-255-1104

GRINDING Arizona Wire & Tool ______ 480-813-1002 Auer Precision _________480-834-4637 AzMark ____________480-926-8969 Blue Streak Grinding ____ 602-353-8088 ChemResearch_________ 602-253-4175 GMN USA ___________ 800-686-1679 Grindworks __________ 623-582-5767 JWB Manufacturing ______480-967-4600 Osborn Products ________623-587-0335 PAS Technologies _______602-744-2600 Phoenix Grinding _______ 602-437-8401 Powill Manufacturing _____623-780-4100 Ron Grob ___________970-667-5320 Shaw Precision ________480-785-4925

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

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3301 EAST MADISON STREET PHOENIX, ARIZONA 85034

Territory Sales Manager SW

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Grinding, CNC/Contour Blue Streak Grinding _____ 602-353-8088 National Grinding & Mfg ___ 602-588-2869 Powill Manufacturing_ ___623-780-4100 Superior Grinding _______ 888-487-9701 Grinding… Cylindrical Steel Services Grinding ____ 800-662-0126 Grindworks __________ 623-582-5767 Systems Integrators ______ 623-434-3136 Grinding… Double Disc Sun Grinding _________ 602-238-9595 Phoenix Grinding _______ 602-437-8401 Superior Grinding _______ 888-487-9701

Grinding…Gear/Spline Air Gear ____________ 602-275-7996 Wissota Tool & Die ______ 480-507-3484

Grinding, Blanchard Grinding: ID/OD Steel Services Grinding ____800-662-0126 Air Gear ____________ 602-275-7996 Sun Grinding _________ 602-238-9595 AzMark ____________ 480-926-8969 Superior Grinding _______ 888-487-9701 Blue Streak Grinding _____ 602-353-8088 Grindworks __________ 623-582-5767 Grinding: Centerless (OD) Blue Streak Grinding _____ 602-353-8088 National Grinding & Mfg ___ 602-588-2869 Dynamic Machine & Fabrication_602-437-0339 Osborn Products ________ 623-587-0335 Grindworks __________ 623-582-5767 Ron Grob ___________ 970-667-5320 National Grinding & Mfg ___ 602-588-2869 Superior Grinding _______ 888-487-9701 Osborn Products ________ 623-587-0335 Phoenix Grinding _______ 602-437-8401 Ron Grob ___________ 970-667-5320 Shaw Precision ________ 480-785-4925 Sun Grinding _________ 602-238-9595 Superior Grinding _______ 888-487-9701

www.graphel.com Grinding: Tool & Cutter CTE _____________ 800-783-2400 Jeff W. Kiszonas Superior Grinding ______ 888-487-9701 Gun Drilling Powill Manufacturing ___ 623-780-4100 HEAT TREATING Chris Torres - Vice President Bolts Metallizing - CWST ____602-244-2432 Andy Severyn - President 6503 W Frye Rd #6 Chandler, AZ 85226 Controlled Thermal Techʼy___ 602-272-3714 www.shawprecision.com Grinding & Threading Rolling Phoenix Heat Treating_____ 602-258-7751 Heat Treating Office: 480-785-4925 Chris - Cell: 602-349-7921 Email: chris@shawsgrinding.com Bolts Metallizing - CWST ____602-244-2432 Andy - Cell: 602-903-7930 Email: andy@shawprecision.com Copper State Bolt & Nut ____ 800-603-6887 Leach Laser __________ 602-254-1141 Phoenix Heat Treating_____ 602-258-7751 Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090 Heat Treating/ISO9001/AS9100 TechMark __________ 480-820--9444 Bolts Metallizing - CWST ____ 602-244-2432 Silk Screen Large Capacity Drop Bottom Oven/ Arizona Finishing ______ 602-438-4443 Aluminum Heat Treating Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090 Lynch Brothers Mfg ______ 602-267-7575 INSPECTION Phoenix Heat Treating_____ 602-258-7751 Calibration HONING/LAPPING Field Calibrations ______ 480-756-8828 Grindworks __________ 623-582-5767 Washington Calibration ___ 480-820-0506 LAYKE, Inc.___________ 602-272-2654 Inspection, First Article National Grinding & Mfg ___ 602-588-2869 Klontech Measure Sol _____480-626-8131 Osborn Products ________ 623-587-0335 Total Quality Systems ____ 480-377-6422 Inspection Services Paramount Honing & Machine 480-577-9774

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

Phoenix Grinding _______ 602-437-8401 Arizona Wire & Tool ______480-813-1002 Grinding:Mattison Powill Manufacturing_____623-780-4100 Challenger Aerospace ____ 480-894-0802 Sun Grinding _________ 602-238-9595 HYDRO FORMING Grinding: Surface Precision Aerospace ______ 602-352-8658 Arizona Wire & Tool ______ 480-813-1002 IDENTIFICATION Blue Streak Grinding _____ 602-353-8088 Labels & Bar Code Grindworks __________ 623-582-5767 EPSI______________714-256-8950 National Grinding & Mfg ___ 602-588-2869 Osborn Products ________ 623-587-0335 Leach Laser __________ 602-254-1141

Mobile PartMarking Phoenix Grinding _______ 602-437-8401 Leach Laser __________ 602-254-1141 Quality Mold__________ 480-892-5480 Tool / PartMarking (Laser) Sun Grinding _________ 602-238-9595 Frontier Group_________ 928-636-0130 Superior Grinding _______ 888-487-9701 A2Z MANUFACTURING •

ISO9001 AS9100 NADCAP Certified ITARS Registered

PARAMOUNT HONING & MACHINE

Precision Honing Specialists  480.577.9774

 info@paramounthoning.com

771 N Golden Key St Ste A, Gilbert, AZ 85233

www.ParamountHoning.com

Klontech Measure Sol _____ 480-626-8131 Metals Eng & Testing Lab. ___602-272-4571 Micropulse West _______ 480-966-2300 Sustaining Edge Solutions ___888-572-9642 Total Quality Systems ____ 480-377-6422 Inspection Services, Welding Metals Eng & Testing Lab. ___602-272-4571 ISO9000 / AS9100 Cert.

BMSC_____________480-445-9400 Gladhill Assoc _________623-939-4412 Sustaining Edge Solutions ___888-572-9642 Quality Training Consultants _928-284-0856 Process Improvement/ Audit BMSC_____________480-445-9400 Quality Training Consultants _928-284-0856 Sustaining Edge Solutions ___888-572-9642 MACHINING Machining: 3D 3D Machine LLC ________480-239-8254 Cassavant Machining _____602-437-4005

Machining: 5 Axis Infinisys ____________602-276-2276 Accutech ___________ 801-975-1117 Jaguar Precision Machine __ 505-242-6545 ANEWCO __________ 520-751-1222 JBʼs Precision ________ 623-581-9088 Cassavant Machining ___ 602-437-4005 JD Machine _________ 801-782-4403 Dynamic Machine & Fabrication602-437-0339 KLK Ind. ____________ 602-267-1331 Evans Precision Machining 623-581-6200 L&W Machine Co ______ 602-323-2560 Faustson ___________ 303-420-7422 LAYKE, Inc.__________ 602-272-2654 Hi-Tech Machining & Eng __ 520-889-8325 Lynch Brothers Mfg _____ 602-267-7575 Industrial Tool Die & Eng ___520-745-8771 Matrix Machine ________480-966-4451 Jaguar Precision Machine __ 505-242-6545 Metalcraft Inc. ________ 480-967-4889 JDB Ltd ___________ 602-992-9627 Morsch Machine ________480-961-7673 Metalcraft Inc. ________ 480-967-4889 Nelson Engineering ______ 602-273-7114 Morsch Machine ________480-961-7673 Osborn Products _______ 623-587-0335 Specialty Turn Products ___ 602-426-9340 Powerhaus Precision ____ 480-225-8854 T-N Machining ________ 602-278-8665 Powill Manufacturing ____ 623-780-4100 Tech Five Machining _____ 480-699-4856 Precise Metal Products ___ 602-272-2625 Uni-Tek ___________ 602-272-2601 Pro Precision ________ 602-353-0022 Machining: Aerospace Service & Sales _______ 480-968-9084 AATC______________602-268-1467 Southwest Swiss Precision _ 602-438-4670 Abrams Airborne Mfg _____520-887-1727 Specialty Turn Products ___ 602-426-9340 ANEWCO ___________ 520-751-1222 Avtek Industries _______ 602-485-4005 Systems Integrators ______623-434-3136 Uni-Tek ____________602-272-2601 AzMark ___________ 480-926-8969 Machining: Contract Backerworks Mfg ______ 505-342-2943 Cassavant Machining ____ 602-437-4005 Aero Design & Mfg _____ 602-437-8080 Challenger Aerospace ____ 480-894-0802 AERO Spring & Mfg Co ____602-243-4329

Challenger Aerospace _____480-894-0802 Continental Machining ___ 800-777-2483 L&W Machine Co ______ 602-323-2560 Dynamic Machine & Fabrication 602-437-0339 MAKstride ___________928-460-6054 Evans Precision Machining _ 623-581-6200 Micropulse West _______ 480-966-2300 Gibbs Precision Machine ___480-753-1166 Pro Precision _________602-353-0022 Hi-Tech Machining & Eng __ 520-889-8325 Systems Integrators ______623-434-3136 HK Machining ________ 602-278-6704

Arizona Wire & Tool ______480-813-1002 Avtek Industries _______ 602-485-4005 Cleveland Electric Labs ___ 480-967-2501 Evans Precision Machining _ 623-581-6200 Flex-Pro ____________623-581-0551 GHT Services_________ 480-396-1800

Gibbs Precision Machine ___ 480-753-1166 Gilbert Metal Stamping ____ 480-503-1283 Group Mfg Serv. ________ 480-966-3952 HK Machining ________ 602-278-6704 Infinisys ____________ 602-276-2276 Janʼs Inc.____________ 480-833-7305 JD Machine __________ 801-782-4403 JDB Ltd. ____________ 602-992-9627 KLK Ind. ____________ 602-267-1331 Micropulse West ________480-966-2300 RM Garrison Machining___623-582-6544 Select Machining ______ 602-881-5845 T-N Machining _________ 602-278-8665 TVT Die Casting ________800-280-2278 Wrico _____________480-892-7800 Machining: Ceramic OʼKeefe Ceramics _____ 719-687-0888 Ceramic: Sapphire, Alumina, Silicon, Aluminum, Quartz OʼKeefe Ceramics _____ 719-687-0888 Machining: CNC 3D Machine LLC ________480-239-8254 AAE ______________ 928-772-9887 Accutech ____________ 801-975-1117 Abrams Airborne Mfg _____ 520-887-1727 Alpha Machine ________ 602-437-0322 ANEWCO ____________ 520-751-1222

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L&W Machine Co ______ 602-323-2560 LAYKE, Inc.___________602-272-2654 MAKstride ___________928-460-6054 Matrix Machine ________480-966-4451 Metalcraft Inc. _________480-967-4889 Metzfab ___________ 602- 539-9591 Micropulse West _______ 480-966-2300 Morsch Machine ________ 480-961-7673 Newport Tool _________ 801-295-7411 Osborn Products ________623-587-0335 Paragon Machining & Design _480-635-9163 Powerhaus Precision _____480-225-8854 Powill Manufacturing _____623-780-4100 Precision Aerospace _____ 602-352-8658 Precise Metal Products ___ 602-272-2625 Powerhaus Precision _____480-225-8854 Quality Mold_________ 480-892-5480 RM Garrison Machining __623-582-6544 RMSS ____________ 623-780-5904 Ron Grob ___________970-667-5320 Select Machining ______ 602-881-5845

Arizona Wire & Tool ______480-813-1002 ATEC Engineering _______480-569-3337 AzMark ___________ 480-926-8969 BEL Machining_________480-445-9881 BID Machine, Inc ______ 480-892-7304 Blaze Precision _______ 480-584-5227 Challenger Aerospace___ _ 480-894-0802 Cleveland Electric Labs ___ 480-967-2501 Continental Machining ___ 800-777-2483 Dynamic Machine & Fabrication 602-437-0339 Evans Precision Machining _ 623-581-6200 Systems Integrators ______623-434-3136 Faustson ___________ 303-420-7422 T-N Machining _________602-278-8665 Flex-Pro ____________623-581-0551 Tech Five Machining ______480-699-4856 GHT Services_________ 480-396-1800 Uni-Tek ____________602-272-2601 Gibbs Precision Machine ___480-753-1166 Val-Tech Mfg __________480-966-7376 HK Machining ________ 602-278-6704 Wrico ____________ 480-892-7800 Hi-Tech Machining & Eng __ 520-889-8325 Machining: Industrial & Repair HPMP _____________801-619-9850 BEL Machining_________480-445-9881 Infinisys ____________602-276-2276 Machining: Large Janʼs Inc.___________ 480-833-7305 Alpha Machine ________602-437-0322 Jaguar Precision Machine __ 505-242-6545 Backerworks Mfg _______505-342-2943 JBʼs Precision ________ 623-581-9088 Continental Machining ____800-777-2483 JD Machine _________ 801-782-4403 Empire Precision Mach. ___ 480-633-4580 JDB Ltd. ____________602-992-9627 HK Machining _________602-278-6704 Jemelco, Inc._________ 480-804-9541 K-zell Metals, Inc. _______602-232-5882 KLK Ind. ____________ 602-267-1331 KLK Ind. ____________ 602-267-1331 A Z MANUFACTURING SW • 96 • March / Apr 2020 2

Systems Integrators ______ 623-434-3136 Machining: Milling 3D Machine LLC ________480-239-8254 Avtek Industries ________602-485-4005 Challenger Aerospace _____480-894-0802 Exactitude Precision ______ 602-316-6957 Flex-Pro ____________ 623-581-0551 Genesis Precision _______602-687-9600 GHT Services__________480-396-1800 Gibbs Precision Machine ___ 480-753-1166 Graphel Corp _________ 800-255-1104 Hi-Tech Machining & Eng ___520-889-8325 Infinisys ____________ 602-276-2276 Jaguar Precision Machine ___505-242-6545 JD Machine __________801-782-4403 JDB Ltd. ____________ 602-992-9627 Jemelco, Inc.__________480-804-9541 L&W Machine Co _______602-323-2560 MAKstride ___________928-460-6054 Metalcraft Inc. _________480-967-4889 Morsch Machine ________ 480-961-7673 Paragon Machining & Design _480-635-9163 Part Partners _________ 603-831-2771 RMSS _____________623-780-5904 Ron Grob ___________970-667-5320 Select Machining ______ 602-881-5845 Stewart Precision Mfg _____623-492-9400 Systems Integrators ______ 623-434-3136 T-N Machining _________602-278-8665 Uni-Tek ____________ 602-272-2601 Machining: Milling - Long Part K-zell Metals, Inc. _______602-232-5882 Machining: MultiSwiss Specialty Turn Products ____602-426-9340 Machining Plastic Blaze Precision ________480-584-5227 JDB Ltd ____________ 602-992-9627

Systems Integrators ______623-434-3136 Machining Precision 3D Machine LLC _ ______480-239-8254 AAE _____________ 928-772-9887 AATC _____________602-268-1467 Accutech ____________ 801-975-1117 Abrams Airborne Mfg _____520-887-1727 Alpha Machine _______ 602-437-0322 ANEWCO ____________520-751-1222 Arizona Wire & Tool ______480-813-1002 ATEC Engineering _______480-569-3337 Auer Precision _________480-834-4637 Avtek Industries _______ 602-485-4005 AzMark ___________ 480-926-8969 Backerworks Mfg ______ 505-342-2943 BID Machine, Inc ______ 480-892-7304 Cassavant Machining ____ 602-437-4005 Challenger Aerospace ____ 480-894-0802 Cleveland Electric Lab (CEL) __480-967-2501 Continental Machining ___ 800-777-2483 Dynamic Machine & Fabrication 602-437-0339 Evans Precision Machʼg ___ 623-581-6200 Faustson ___________ 303-420-7422 Flex-Pro ____________623-581-0551 Genesis Precision ______ 602-687-9600 Gibbs Precision Machine ___480-753-1166

CNC MACHINE SHOP - DESIGN - SOLID MODELS - PRINTS 2225 W. Mountain View Suite #4 Phoenix, Az 85021

Jon Schaeffer Office: Mobile: E-Mail: Web:

(President)

602-687-9600 602-881-1055 jon@genesisprecisionaz.com www.genesisprecisionaz.com

Hi-Tech Machining & Eng ___520-889-8325 HK Machining _________ 602-278-6704 HPMP _____________ 801-619-9850 Jaguar Precision Machine ___505-242-6545 JBʼs Precision _________623-581-9088 JD Machine __________801-782-4403 JDB Ltd. ____________ 602-992-9627 Jemelco, Inc.__________480-804-9541 JWB Manufacturing ______480-967-4600 LAYKE, Inc.___________602-272-2654 Lynch Brothers Mfg ______602-267-7575 Matrix Machine ________ 480-966-4451 Micropulse West ________480-966-2300 Metalcraft Inc. _________ 480-967-4889 Milco EDM & Waterjet _____ 714-373-0098 Morsch Machine ________ 480-961-7673 Nelson Engineering ______ 602-273-7114 Newport Tool _________ 801-295-7411 Osborn Products ________ 623-587-0335 Paragon Machining & Design _ 480-635-9163 Powerhaus Precision _____480-225-8854 Powill Mfg ___________ 623-780-4100 Precision Aerospace ______602-352-8658 Quality Mold__________480-892-5480 RM Garrison Machʼing ___623-582-6544 RMSS_____________623-780-5904 Service & Sales ________480-968-9084 Southwest Swiss Precision __602-438-4670 Specialty Turn Products ____602-426-9340 Stewart Precision Mfg _____623-492-9400 Sun Tech ____________ 480-921-1665 Tech Five Machining ______ 480699-4856

Uni-Tek ____________ 602-272-2601 CNC MACHINE SHOP - DESIGN - SOLID MODELS - PRINTS 480-966-7376 Val-Tech Mfg __________ 2225 W. Mountain View Suite #4 Phoenix, Az 85021 Weiser Engineering ______ 303-280-2778 Yvonne Schaeffer Office: Tool 602-687-9600 Wissota & Die ______ 480-507-3484 Mobile: 602-430-8652 E-Mail: yvonne@genesisprecisionaz.com Machining: Production Web: www.genesisprecisionaz.com AAE ______________ 928-772-9887 GHT Services__________ 480-396-1800 JDB Ltd. ____________ 602-992-9627 MAKstride ___________ 928-460-6054 Newport Tool _________ 801-295-7411 T-N Machining _________ 602-278-8665 Tech Five Machining ______ 480699-4856 Machining: Prototype AAE ______________ 928-772-9887 AATC______________602-268-1467 Accutech ____________ 801-975-1117 Alpha Machine ________ 602-437-0322 Backerworks Mfg _______ 505-342-2943 BID Machine, Inc _______ 480-892-7304 Cleveland Electric Lab (CEL) __ 480-967-2501 Continental Machining ____ 800-777-2483 Evans Precision ________ 623-581-6200 Exactitude Precision ______ 602-316-6957 Flex-Pro ____________ 623-581-0551 GHT Services__________ 480-396-1800 Gibbs Precision Machine ___ 480-753-1166 Infinisys ____________ 602-276-2276 Jaguar Precision Machine ___ 505-242-6545 Avery 5371 Janʼs Inc.____________ 480-833-7305 Jemelco, Inc.__________ 480-804-9541 JD Machine __________ 801-782-4403 JDB Ltd. ____________ 602-992-9627 JWB Manufacturing ______ 480-967-4600 KLK Ind. ____________ 602-267-1331 L&W Machine Co _______ 602-323-2560 MAKstride ___________ 928-460-6054 Metalcraft Inc. _________ 480-967-4889 (General Manager)

Micropulse West ________ 480-966-2300 Milco EDM & Waterjet _____ 714-373-0098 Rich Schwab Newport Tool _________ 801-295-7411 Sr. Sales Representative Osborn Products ________ 623-587-0335 Powerhaus Precision _____ 480-225-8854 www.clevelandelectriclabs.com Pro Precision ________ 602-353-00220 AAE ______________ 928-772-9887 RM Garrison Machining ____ 623-582-6544 Alpha Machine ________ 602-437-0322 RMSS ___________ 623-780-5904 ATEC Engineering _______ 480-569-3337 Select Machining ______ 602-881-5845 Avtek Industries ________ 602-485-4005 Stewart Precision Mfg _____ 623-492-9400 AzMark ____________ 480-926-8969 T-N Machining _________ 602-278-8665 BEL Machining_________ 480-445-9881 Tech Five Machining ______ 480699-4856 Uni-Tek ____________ 602-272-2601 Cassavant Machining _____ 602-437-4005 Val-Tech Mfg __________ 480-966-7376 Cleveland Electric Labs ___ 480-967-2501 Wissota Tool & Die ______ 480-507-3484 Continental Machining ____ 800-777-2483 Dynamic Machine & Fabrication_602-437-0339 Machining: Quick Turn Exactitude Precision ______ 602-316-6957 Flex-Pro ____________ 623-581-0551 Flex-Pro ____________ 623-581-0551 Gibbs Precision Machine ___ 480-753-1166 Genesis Precision _______ 602-687-9600 Genesis Precision _______ 602-687-9600 HK Machining _________ 602-278-6704 GHT Services__________ 480-396-1800 Jemelco, Inc.__________ 480-804-9541 Graphel Corp _________ 800-255-1104 Paragon Machining & Design _ 480-635-9163 Hi-Tech Machining & Eng ___ 520-889-8325 Part Partners _________ 603-831-2771 HPMP _____________ 801-619-9850 Powerhaus Precision _____ 480-225-8854 JD Machine __________ 801-782-4403 RMSS____________ 623-780-5904 JDB Ltd. ____________ 602-992-9627 Jemelco, Inc.__________ 480-804-9541 Machining: Semiconductor KLK Ind. ____________ 602-267-1331 Metzfab ____________ 602- 539-9591 L&W Machine Co _______ 602-323-2560 Morsch Machine ________ 480-961-7673 Osborn Products ________ 623-587-0335 Machining: Swiss Cassavant Machining _____ 602-437-4005 Paragon Machining & Design _ 480-635-9163 HPMP _____________ 801-619-9850 Precision Metalworks _____ 602-455-9575 Pacific Swiss & Mfg ______ 503-557-9407 RM Garrison Machʼing _ __623-582-6544 361 South 52nd Street • Tempe, AZ 85281 Phone: 480-967-2501 • Fax: 480-967-2530 rschwab@cel-atg.com Cell: 480-375-1437

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RMSS _____________ 623-780-5904 Ron Grob ___________ 970-667-5320

Select Machining ______ 602-881-5845 Stewart Precision Mfg _____ 623-492-9400 Uni-Tek ___________ 602-272-2601 A2Z MANUFACTURING •

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Val-Tech Mfg _________ 480-966-7376 Metalcraft Inc. ________ 480-967-4889 Morsch Machine ________480-961-7673 Uni-Tek ___________ 602-272-2601 Machining: Turning: Automatic American Prec. Machine___ 602-269-6298 AzMark ___________ 480-926-8969 Challenger Aerospace ____ 480-894-0802 Evans Precision Machʼg ___ 623-581-6200 HPMP _____________801-619-9850 JBʼs Precision Ind ______ 623-581-9088 LAYKE, Inc.__________ 602-272-2654 Matrix Machine ________480-966-4451 Paragon Machining & Design 480-635-9163 RMSS ____________ 623-780-5904 Stewart Precision Mfg ____ 623-492-9400 Weiser Engineering _____ 303-280-2778 Machining: Ultra-Precision Auer Precision ________ 480-834-4637 Pacific Swiss & Manufacturing 503-557-9407 Southwest Swiss Precision _ 602-438-4670 MACHINING: LASER Laser Cutting Allfab Engineering______ 602-437-0497 EDM Tech __________ 602-278-6666 Fine Line Laser Cutting ____602-863-3196 K-2 Manufacturing _____ 602-455-9575 K-zell Metals, Inc. ______ 602-232-5882 KLK Ind. ____________602-267-1331 M3 (Modern Metal Masters) 623-233-7932 Marusiak LLC ________ 480-318-8883 A2Z MANUFACTURING •

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Precise Metal Products ___ 602-272-2625 Precision Aerospace _____ 602-352-8658 Southwest Waterjet-Laser __ 480-306-7748 The Metal Man _______ 800-448-9448 TMM Precision _______ 800-448-9448 Tube Service Company ___ 602-267-9865 Wrico ____________ 480-892-7800 Weiser Engineering _____ 303-280-2778 Laser Engraving & Etching Leach Laser __________ 602-254-1141 Marusiak LLC ________ 480-318-8883 Paragon Machining & Design 480-635-9163 Perfection Ind Finishing ___ 520-434-9090 TechMark __________ 480-820--9444 Laser Marking Leach Laser __________ 602-254-1141 Marusiak LLC ________ 480-318-8883 Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090 TechMark __________ 480-820--9444 Thread Rolling Ron Grob __________ 970-667-5320 MANUFACTURING AAE _____________ 928-772-9887 Abrams Airborne Mfg _____520-887-1727 Aero Tech __________ 801-292-0493 APMI __ __________ 480-668-0024 Creedbilt Inc __________ 623-939-8119 Exactitude Precision ______602-316-6957 Hi-Tech Machining & Eng __ 520-889-8325 Group Manufacturing Serv _ 480-966-3952 K-2 Mfg ___________ 602-455-9575 KLK Ind. ____________ 602-267-1331

Powerhaus Precision _____480-225-8854 Metzfab ____________602- 539-9591 MoldWORX __________480-668-8400 RM Garrison Machʼing___623-582-6544 RMSS____________ 623-780-5904 Scriven Precision________ 480-961-9775 Systems Integrators ______ 623-434-3136 Manufacturing: Electrode Quality Mold__________480-892-5480 Mfg: PhotoChemical Aero Tech ___________801-292-0493 Etching Fabrication Turnkey Product Services Aero Tech ___________801-292-0493 METAL FORMING Allfab Engineering_______ 602-437-0497 Creedbilt Inc __________ 623-939-8119 Desert Precision Mfg _____520-887-4433 Fry Fabrications ________ 602-454-0701 K-2 Manufacturing ______ 602-455-9575 TMM Precision ________800-448-9448 METAL RESTORATION Capital Metal Finishing ____ 520-884-7473 METAL STAMPING High Production Precision Stamping Precision Die & Stamping ___ 480-967-2038 Thompson Machine ______ 505-823-1453 MOLDS AAE ______________ 928-772-9887 JWB Manufacturing ______ 480-967-4600 Milco EDM & Waterjet _____ 714-373-0098

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Frontier Group_________ 928-636-0130 PAS Technologies _______ 602-744-2600 Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090 Pilkington Metal Finishing__ 801-972-2146 Semiray, A Div of Mistras ___ 602-275-1917 Bright Nickel Capital Metal Finishing ___ 520-884-7473 Sav-On Plating _______ 602-252-4311 Bright Tin Capital Metal Finishing ___ 520-884-7473 Foresight Finishing _____ 480-921-0000 Sav-On Plating _______ 602-252-4311 Copper Capital Metal Finishing ____ 520-884-7473 Foresight Finishing ______ 480-921-0000 Gold Tech Industries ______ 480-968-1930 Masic Industries ________ 503-232-9109 PAS Technologies _______ 602-744-2600 Electroless Nickel Capital Metal Finishing ____ 520-884-7473 Gold Tech Industries ______ 480-968-1930 Masic Industries ________ 503-232-9109 PAS Technologies _______ 602-744-2600 Embrittlement Relief E.P.S.I. _____________ 714-256-8950 Sav-On Plating_________ 602-252-4311 Gold E.P.S.I. _____________ 714-256-8950 Foresight Finishing ______ 480-921-0000 Gold Tech Industries ______ 480-968-1930 PAS Technologies _______ 602-744-2600 Nickel/ Chrome/Palladium Capital Metal Finishing ____ 520-884-7473 Collins Metal Finishing ____ 602-275-3117 E.P.S.I. _____________ 714-256-8950 Foresight Finishing ______ 480-921-0000 Gold Tech Industries ______ 480-968-1930 PAS Technologies _______ 602-744-2600 Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090 Silver Plating Capital Metal Finishing ____ 520-884-7473 E.P.S.I. _____________ 714-256-8950 Gold Tech Industries ______ 480-968-1930

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

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Index of Advertisers 3D Machine ...................................90 AAE .............................................20,99 Abrams Airborne Mfg................................93 ACC Machinery...............................................81 Accurate Scale.................................................89 Accutech.............................................................96 Ace Wire Spring & Form Co.................101 Adams Mach...................................53,81,104 Advanced Precision.....................................88 Aero Spring & Mfg........................................92 Aero Tech.............................................................97 Air Gear .........................................................77,94 Alerus Bank........................................................88 AllFab Engineering.......................................93 Alpha Machine ...............................................99 American Aerospace (AATC) ................91 American Tools & Metals ..................82,83 Americhem Engineering ........................92 ANEWCO..............................................46-47,96 Apache Gear.....................................................93 Apache Steel.....................................................85 APMI................................................................54,90 Arizona CNC...13,69,75,77,81,84,86-87 Arizona Finishing...........................................94 Arizona MEP.........................................64,89 Arizona Tool Steel..........................................86 Arizona Wire & Tool....................................101 ATEC Engineering......................................101 Athena 3D ..........................................................90 Auer Precision..................................................93 AutoDesk ............................................................92 Averigo Markets.........................................100 Avtek.......................................................................96 Axian Technology.........................................90 Ayers Gear & Machining ..........................71 AZMARK (Imaginetics)..............................99 AZ Metals ....................................................51,84 B&T Tool & Engineering ...........................86 Backerworks Mfg..........................................97 Banterra Bank...................................2,89 Barry Metals...............................................38,86 Barton International ..........................52,84 BC Barfeeds.......................................................83 Beau’s Crates.....................................................88 BEL Machining................................................92 BID Machine, Inc............................................92 Blaze Precision.................................................91 Blue Streak Grinding ...........................66,93 BMSC ................................................50,68,78,91 Bolts Metallizing-CWST............................91 Bralco Metals.............................................84,85 Bystronic Inc .....................................................82 C&M Rigging............................................44,89 Capital Metal Finishing .............................99 Cassavant CAP .........................................6,101 Cassavant Machining ................................98 Challenger Aerospace...............................95 ChemResearch...............................................95 CIS.............................................................................90 Cleveland Electric Labs .............................97 CNC Pros........................................30-31,81,83 Coast Aluminum....................................22,85 Coastal Metals..........................................12,86 Coating Tech........................................... 80,91 Collins Metal Finishing...............................91 Consolidated Resources...................28,88 Continental Machining............................96 Controlled Thermal......................................94 CopperState Nut & Bolt.........1,34-35,82 Crating Tech....................... ...............................88 D & R Mchy.............................17,79,81,82,87 DATRON...............................................................83 DAUM..............................................................54,89 Davis Salvage..................................76,100 Desert Precision MFG..........................92 DM Machine Repair..............................88 A2Z MANUFACTURING SW •

DMG Mori...................................................................81 Dynamic Machine & Fab.....................67,94 Ebbco Inc. ..................................................82 Echols Saw & Supply............................81 Edge Technologies...............................84 EDM Network....................................23,85 EDM Perform Access...........................86 EDM Tech...................................................92 Elevate Consulting ...............................89 Ellison Machinery..............5,49,71,81,83,85 Empire Precision Mach......................97 Enterprise Manufacturing ...............98 EPSI................................................................99 Evans Precision Mach’g .....................93 Fast DMS ....................................................89 Faustson .....................................................90 Field Calibrations...................................87 Fine Line Fabricating Inc. ..................93 Fine Line Laser Cutting ......................99 Flex-Pro .................................................89,97 Flow Corp ........................................... 81,82 FourPac .......................................................82 Foresight Finishing............................100 Frontier Group .................................14,99 Ganesh Machinery...............................82 Gateway Community College.70,88 Geiger Electric Inc .................................82 Genesis Precision ..................................97 GHT Services LLC...................................90 Gibbs Precision Machine ....56-57,98 Gilbert Metal Stamping.....................90 Gladhill Assoc ....................................72,95 GMA Garnet ...................................... 45,83 GMN USA............................................70,84 Gold Tech Industries............................95 Graphel .......................................................94 GreenBroz...........................................62-63 Grindworks ................................................91 Group Manufacturing........................92 Heller Machine .......................................25 Hexagon ....................................................39 Hi-Tech Machining & Welding.......92 HK Machining .........................................96 Horizon Carbide ....................................90 HT Metals...................................................29 Hunter Machine Moving..................88 Hurco ...........................................................17 Ind. Metal Supply ...........................45,86 Ind.Tool Die...............................................95 Industrial Electric Inc ...........................82 Industrial Solutions..............................89 Infinisys .................................................91,95 InterLink Engineering...................40,81 IPE Aerospace ..................................16,98 IPG..................................................................94 IRH .................................................................90 ITDE...............................................................95 J B’s Prec Ind...............................................95 Jacquet West ............................................86 Jaguar Precision Machine...54-55,98 Jan’s Inc........................................................96 JD Machine................................................90 JDB Ltd......................................................95 Jemelco Inc................................................88 K D Capital..................................................81 K-2 Manufacturing...............................99 K-Zell Metals, Inc.................................100 Kaiser Thinbit.....................................15,87 KALOS Certifications............................89 KLK Inc.........................................................96 KLM Realty .........................................60,89 Kloeckner Metals ..................................85 Klontech Metrology .............................81 KTR Machine............................................82 Kurt Manufacturing Co......................86 Kyocera .......................................................84

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L&W Machine Co.................................... 95 LAUBE Technology................................ 85 Layke Inc ......................................................91 Leach Laser ................................................ 95 Lone Arrow................................................84 Louie’s Black Oxide..........................92,94 LRW Cutting Tools ..................................87 Lucy’s Machine Company.................84 Lynch Brothers ........................................94 M3 Metals.................................................101 Magnum Companies .............18,65,92 Magnum Prec. ......................9,81-83,103 Makino ..........................................................81 MAKstride....................................................91 Marcus & Millichap................................88 Marshall Tool & Supply ........................87 Marusiak LLC.............................................99 MarZee.........................................73,93,100 Mario Pinto ................................................88 Matrix Machine .................................90,91 Matsuura......................................................81 Mesa Machinery...............................73,83 Metalcraft Inc............................................ 95 Metals Eng & Testing Labs .................91 Methods West................................3,82,83 Metzfab.........................................36,99,101 Micropulse West .....................................90 Midaco Corp ..............................................91 Milco..............................................................92 Mistras (Semiray)..............................58,91 Mitutoyo ...............................................71,83 MLC CAD Systems .................................88 MoldWORX ...............................................99 Moore Tool & Equip ..............................83 Morsch Machine ....................................90 MP Systems ...............................................84 MSC Direct ..................................................87 Mueller Prost.............................................88 NAI Horizon...............................................63 National Grinding & Mfg....................93 Nelson Engineering........................74,92 New Angle Media..................................89 Newport Tool .........................................101 NFP Property & Casualty....................88 NIkola.....................................................42-43 North-South .......................................27,84 O’Keefe Ceramics..............................64,96 Onsite Technical Services............48, 89 Osborn Products ..............................91,93 Paragon Machining & Design .........97 Paramount Honing Machine.......... 95 Part Partners LLC .....................................97 PAS (Standard Aero) ...................39,100 Perfection Industrial Finishing .......98 Phoenix Grinding....................................91 Phoenix Heat Treat................................94 Phoenix Metal Trading........................89 Pilkington Metal Finishing.............100 Pioneer Distributing Co.......................91 Port Plastics ...............................................86 Powerhaus Precision............................98 Powill Mfg...................................................94 PPE Engineering...................................101 Precision Aerospace ...........................101 Precision Die & Stamping ...........67,90 Precision Repairs ....................................66 Productivity, MMT.............................37,81 Qualichem, Inc...........................................85 Quality Improvement Consulting......89 Quality Mold...............................................93 R&D Gage.....................................................26 Renishaw.................................................19,83 RMG Machining............................. ....10,93

RMSS............................ ...................................98 Ron Grob.................................................72,94 Rotarex...........................................................89 Royal Products.....................................52,84 Ryerson...........................................................87 S&M Moving Systems............................88 S.L. Fusco........................................................82 Samuel, Son & CO.....................................86 Sav-On Plating ...........................................98 Savage Machine ......................................82 Scarla Consulting Group......................88 Schenk Intertech ......................................82 SCHUNK......................................................... 87 Scriven Precision Fab..............................90 Select Machining .....................................96 Service & Sales ........................................100 Shaw Precision...........................................94 Single Source Technologies.........81,85 Southwest Powder..................................94 Southwest Swiss Prec ............................96 SW Waterjet & Laser............................59,99 Specialty Turn Products (STP) ..............98 SPRINGWORKS Utah............................101 Standard Aero............................21,93,100 Starrett............................................................84 Star Metal Fluids ............................7,84-88 Steel Services Grind’g ......................74,91 Stellar Industrial ........................................83 Stevens Engineering ..............................85 Stewart Precision Manufacturing..........92 Sun Grinding..................................26,78,93 Sun Tech .....................................................100 Superior Grinding ................................8,94 Sustaining Edge Solutions............24,87 Systems Integrators........................................91 Takashi Sato.......................................................101 TMM Precision .....................................90,93 T-N Machining............................................96 T.S.M. Mach. .................................................81 Takashi Sato.................................................88 Tech Five Machining...............................95 TechMark.......................................................93 The Metal Man.....................................90,93 The Tool Crib Inc........................................ 87 The Werks C&C...........................................86 Thompson Machine...............................92 THT Machining ..........................................99 Total Quality Sys ........................................85 Tube Service................................................85 Tungaloy America....................................86 Turul Engineering ....................................88 TVT Die Casting...................................55,93 TW Metals.....................................................85 United Performance........................ 55,86 U S Shop Tools ....................................33,84 Uni-Tek............................................................95 Val-Tech Mfg................................................92 Vero Software............................................. 87 VonRuden .............................................86,88 Washington Cal. ................................94 Weiser/Mile High Precision ................93 Western Cast Parts...................................90 Western Sintering Co...........................101 Western State Bank...........................41,87 Western States Metal......................64,88 White’s Niche Products...................11,83 Whitley Machine ..........................61,93 Wissota Tool & Die ................................100 Wrico .........................................................32,92 Yellowbird.com..........................................89 Zeiss Metrology.........................................82

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