A2Z Metalworker SW Edition

Vol. 19, No. 3 May/June 2013

Southwest Edition (AZ, NV, and NM)

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Editors Corner I received this beautiful and touching story in my in-box a few months ago. It is an excerpt written by Bob Perks, in Chicken Soup For the Grieving Soul. I thought about using it for my Editor’s Corner, but decided against it last issue because it wasn’t my message. Since then, I kept the story in my in-box, and referred back to it occasionally.Today, I have decided that it is a message worth sharing, even if I didn’t script it. So, I hope this poignant message warms your heart. Here it goes.

Recently,I overheard a mother and daughter in their last moments together at the airport as the daughter’s departure had been announced.Standing near the security gate,they hugged and the mother said,“I love you and I wish you enough.”

The daughter replied,“Mom, our life together has been more than enough.Your love is all I ever needed.

I wish you enough, too, Mom.” They kissed and the daughter left.

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The mother walked over to the window where I sat. Standing there, I could see she wanted and needed to cry.

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I tried not to intrude on her privacy but she welcomed me in by asking,“Did you ever say good-bye to someone knowing it would be forever?” “Yes, I have,” I replied. “Forgive me for asking but why is this a forever good-bye?”

PUBLISHER/EDITOR Linda Daly linda@azmetalworker.com

“I am old and she lives so far away. I have challenges ahead and the reality is the next trip back will be for my funeral,” she said.

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When you were saying good-bye, I heard you say,“I wish you enough.” May I ask what that means?” She began to smile.“That’s a wish that has been handed down from other generations.My parents used to say it to everyone.” She paused a moment and looked up as if trying to remember it in detail and she smiled even more.

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“When we said‘I wish you enough’we were wanting the other person to have a life filled with just enough good things to sustain them”.Then turning toward me, she shared the following, reciting it from memory, “I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright.

I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.

I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive.

I wish you enough pain so that the smallest joys in life appear much bigger.

I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting.

I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess.

I wish you enough hellos to get you through the final good-bye.”

She then began to cry and walked away.

They say it takes a minute to find a special person. An hour to appreciate them. A day to love them.

And an entire life to forget them.

I wish you all enough. Nearly every reader of this 19 year old publication is involved in manufacturing in the United States, helping to make our country great.You deserve ‘enough’.

May 2nd half 2013 be good for you, and God Bless our Troops.

Linda Daly Publisher www.facebook.com/A2ZMetalworker A2Z METALWORKER

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Announcements & Releases

Desert Fire Celebrates 25 Years In Business

Desert Fire, a premier Heat Treat facility in Phoenix, is pleased to announce that it is celebrating 25 years in business. Greg McFee, General Manager for the company says, “We offer heat treat capabilities for our customers, in addition to shot blasting, and glass bead clean.”

Greg joined the company 2 years ago, relocating to Arizona, and he has more than 40 years in the heat treat field, working for large national heat treaters. Greg says, “It is such a pleasure working for a smaller, local heat treat company. What we can offer customers is responsiveness, quick turnaround, and superior pricing. We thank our loyal customers for allowing us to serve them for 25 years now.”

To learn more about Desert Fire’s capabilities, please contact Greg at 602-268-1511 or visit their website at www.desertfireht.com.

CJ Mfg Celebrates 20Years and New Ownership!

CJ Mfg, an ISO9001/AS9100 precision machining shop, is pleased to announce that it is celebrating its 20th year anniversary.

The company was founded in 1993 by partners Rick Johnson and R.C. Crook. In December of last year, Mark Musgrove purchased the entity.

Mark says, “Rick and R.C. have superior skills in engineering and management. My strength is in marketing companies to support their growth. I am delighted that Rick and R.C. are still active members of the team, Rick as Director of Sales, and R.C. as Director of Manufacturing.”

Mark was excited to purchase the superior company as it has some unique capabilities not available in many machines shops, including the ability to manufacture tooling and fixtures. The company additionally offers grinding as well as precision manufacturing, from prototype to production.

Prior to purchasing CJ Mfg, Mark founded and grew a successful waste management manufacturing company, which he sold in 2010.

To learn more about CJ Mfg, an ISO9001/AS9100 certified company, contact them at 480-517-0233 or visit them at CJMfgSolutions.com.

Arizona CNC and Omax Host Omax Demo Day!

of Omax waterjet training.The event, hosted on March 20th, proceeded their 2 day Open House, showcasing Arizona CNC’s full line of machine tools.

Greg Whelan, president/owner of Arizona CNC, says, “We’ve been the distributor in Arizona for Omax waterjets for a number of years. I think our new Omax users and our long term customers gained valuable information at the Omax training.” Call Arizona CNC at 480-615-6353 or visit www.arizonacnc.com for more information.

Nelson Eng ineer ing Acquires Metal Spinning Solutions Nelson Engineering, a premier manufacturer of high precision sheet metal and machined products for the aerospace, defense, semiconductor, medical and commercial industries, and an FAA REPAIR STATION (N4ER838N), is pleased to announce it has acquired Metal Spinning Solutions Inc. Nelson Engineering has for some time offered metal spinning for its customers. John Anglin, President of Nelson Engineering, says “With this acquisition, founder of Metal Spinning Solutions, Paul Clark is joining our team. Paul has 40 years of experience in this craft, and the acquisition included an additional 5 metal spinning lathes that are now resident at Nelson Engineering.”

Paul says, “Metal spinning can provide a more economical solution to other metal forming processes. Our capabilities allow for spinning of close tolerance parts from blanks as large as 60”.”

Paul and John both agree that the acquisition will enable Metal Spinning’s prior customers to have their parts spun, and then machined in one location. Further, Nelson Engineering’s customers will benefit from the expanded metal spinning capabilities now available. Literally, nearly all metals can be metal spun, including exotic metals such as titanium.

Contact Nelson Engineering at 602-273-7114 or visit their website at www.nelsonengineering.com to see what they can do for you.

Southwest Waterjet is Soon to be Southwest Waterjet and Laser!

M i ke G u d i n o p e n e d Southwest Waterjet in 2007 with 1 Omax waterjet.

Since then, the company has acquired its second and third waterjet.

As we go to print, the company is moving into its new facility in Phoenix, located conveniently near the airport.

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Mike says, “Our new facility more than doubles our square footage, with 15,000 square feet.”

And with their expanded shop, Southwest Waterjet is adding its Trumpf 3030 laser.

consistently problem free drilling at high Mike says,penetration “The newrates.

Trumpf laser will

allow us to provide laser services to our The new unique geometry combined with waterjet customers, as well as bring on new the new flute shape provides a cutting edge customers.shape It will allow us to cut thinner for effective clearance of the chip, metals much Our new facilityrates. will evenfaster. at increased penetration also enable us to store customer furnished Low cutting forces provide fewer problems materials, with our large storage capacity.

with weak fixturing, thin walled components and loads on the cutting edge.

To learn more about Southwest Waterjet,

now Southwest Waterjet and Laser, call them The drill comes in lengths 3-8xD as standard. at 480-306-7748 or visit swwj-laser.com.

Sandvik Coromant is a world-leading supplier of cutting tools and tooling systems CNC Performance Training for the metalworking industry and is at Ellison represented in 130 countries. 25 state-ofthe art Productivity Centers located around Ellison Machinery Company welcomes the world provide customers and staff with special guests from Kennametal Inc. tosolutions host and continuous training in tooling methods to increase productivity.

Sandvik the next CNC Performance Training session, Coromant is part of the Tooling business “Cutting Tool Selection and Operation for area of the Sandvik Group. For more information Maximumcontact: Productivity” scheduled for Email: faina.sandler@sandvik.com

Wednesday, June 12th @ 3:30PM. The Kennametal team of application engineers av tooling i d Oknowledge l ve r a Jo will bring D their andi n s industry experience to guide the discussion Makino as Senior Process of selectingDevelopment the highest-performing, materialEngineer specific tools for your application and how to run them most effectively.

Makino has expanded its titanium process research and development group with the recent addition of David Olvera. Joining Makino as a

CNC Performance Training sessions offerOlvera brings with him extensive senior process development engineer, experience in titanium local CNC knowledge machinistsand and programmers the processing. opportunity to dig deeper into topics that are vital to their success. Each 1½-2hr session is inspired “The addition of Olvera to the titanium research and development by the issuesgroup and questions most frequently presented to the Ellison team of solidifies our position as an international knowledge leader in service technicians application engineers and focuses improving the titanium and process engineering,” says Mark Larson, on Makino’s titanium skillset of the machinist a specific topic related to your machines.

R&D manager.on “His robust academic background willCNC be a key asset in our objective to research and analyze the machining of titanium, the

Please join effects us forwithin our upcoming sessions of ability CNC toPerformance Training. the cutting zone and our develop new processes for the highest level of productivity andwill efficiency.”

Advance registration is preferred as group size be limited. All sessions will begin at 3:30PM. Olvera received his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from

• June 12th: Cutting Toolof Selection and Operation Pachuca Institute Technology in Pachuca, Mexico.for He Maximum also holds a Productivitymaster’s degree in manufacturing systems from the Monterrey Institute Technology.

Olvera is currently working on his PhD in mechanical • July 31st: ofHaas Macro Programming engineering, design and manufacturing through the University of the Basque nearis Bilbao, CNC PerformanceCountry Training held atSpain. the Ellison Machinery showroom

at 1610 S. Priest Drive #101, Tempe, AZ. To register and for more Olvera has been published on a variety of topics related to titanium informationprocess call (480)968-5335 visitnose www.ellisonaz.com engineering suchor as ball helical milling of titanium alloys, analysis of a tool-tip’s radial stiffness on turn-milling centers, and the

Anmarkprediction Achieves NADCAP and of tool stiffness for machineAccreditation tools. In addition to his academic background, Olvera has worked with a variety of machine platforms Celebrates 35 Years in Business!

Anmark, an ISO9001/AS9100 certified company, is pleased to announce that it recently achieved NADCAP Accreditation. The company, found in 1978, is a full-service precision machining facility with major OEM customers, including Honeywell, GE, Goodrich, Pratt & Whitney, and Hamilton Sundstrand.

Kris Phillips, President and Operations Manager for the company, says

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A world leader in advanced CNC machining centers, Makino provides a wide range of high-precision metal-cutting and EDM machinery, “We were accredited to the NADCAP standards for ‘Conventional including horizontal machining centers, vertical machining centers, Machining as acenters, Special graphite Process machining (AC7126/5)’.

Thisand will allow 5-axis machining centers, wire andour company to meet of ourautomation aerospace customers’ for Ram EDMs.many Our flexible solutions providespecific reduced requirements labor costs and increased throughput in a variety of production volumes and grinding.” designs. With Makino engineering services, we offer industry-leading expertise even the most challenging applicationsengineering, across all industries.

Anmarkforspecializes in the manufacturing, testing and repair For information, call 1-800-552-3288 or visit makino.com. ofmore Curvic® couplings.

From tooling and gages to production hardware,

Anmark is the recognized leader in Curvic® grinding of engine, APU and transmission couplings and dynamic balancing of rotating engine components. For more information, call (480) 968-3126 or visit the website at www.anmark.com.

RM Garrison Machining Celebrates 40 years in Business and New Ownership!

RM Garrison Machining is celebrating its 40th year in business Announcements Continued Page 10 serving its customers’ screw machine • 7 • March/Apr 2012 A Z METALWORKER requirements with quick turn products. Recently, Shane and Tyler Williams purchased the shop with Ryan Terry.

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Shane says, “I have a background in manufacturing and marketing, and Ryan is an experienced airplane mechanic. My son Tyler is studying business in college, and will plan to become more active when he

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

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

ELMIRA, NY: Hardinge Inc. (www.hardin announce alliance with machines Arizona CNC E • TSCHUDIN, compact, high precisionanCNC grinding have exclusive and support respo for low or high-volume ODwill production CNCsales grinding. products in Arizona and portions of Neva • HAUSER, multi-axis precision jig grinding for complex period of the next few months they will profiles.

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Announcements & Releases Continued graduates. We liked RM Garrison immediately as we were looking to purchase a new business. It was profitable, had an excellent reputation and superior products, and we knew we could take it to the next level with a focus on marketing and improving RM Garrison’s focus on lean manufacturing. Previous owner Doug Graybill is a superior machinist, and we are delighted that Doug is staying on to support our screw machine shop.”

The company is in the process of purchasing new equipment and is poised to take on new customers. For more information, call them at 623-582-6544 or visit their website at www.rmgmachining.com.

Sustaining Edge Solutions, Inc. Now Offers NADCAP and ITAR Services Sustaining Edge Solutions, Inc. implementation plan can include on-site consulting; perform gap assessment, training, procedure and work instruction development and internal auditing services. Don’t leave your company in the hands of a novice. Working with us, you will be certain that your NADCAP and ITAR implementation will be done correctly and quickly with industry experts. Contact us today toll free at 888-572-9542, or email us at admin@sustainingedge.com.

Desert EDM Sales Expands With New Resin Exchange Program For the past decade, Desert EDM Sales has been providing its customers with EDM machines, parts and service.

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Rich Raucci, company president and owner, says, “Resin is a necessary ingredient in EDM machining, and it is often a hassle for companies due to environmental regulations associated with disposal of the spent resin.” He continued “The business model was for companies to order canisters or drums of the resin, purchasing coupons to register their resin. Then when the canister or drum was used, they would send it back to a company in California or Minnesota, get credit for the coupon, and get a refill many days later. If they didn’t have spares, they would be out of luck until the new resin arrived.” “The problems”, Rich said, “are that mailing the containers entailed shipping costs, could take a week to 10 days to get the replacement resin, and if the container was damaged, the customer wouldn’t get the credit.”

Rich saw an opportunity to help his local customers throughout Arizona.

He purchased a bulk supply of resin, and his team now brings the resin directly to the customer, and takes their spent resin.

For Rich’s customers in Arizona, the resin exchange program is extremely beneficial. The program eliminates their wait time, the cost of shipping spent resin, the inherent issues with damaged containers, and Desert EDM offers the resin at a cost lower than you will find it elsewhere. Convenience, delivered right to you, at a great price. With Desert EDM, you are working directly with a journeyman mold maker, with nearly 50 years of experience in manufacturing, with expertise in EDM machining.To learn more about Desert EDM Sales’ resin exchange program, call them at 480-816-6300 or visit www.desertedmsales.com Announcements Continued Page 12

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Announcements & Releases Continued

QS Machinery Celebrates 3 Years in Valley Selling Okamoto Grinding Machines Ernest “Sam” Garcia is pleased to celebrate 3 years as an authorized Okamoto distributor in Arizona.

Sam, President of Quality Solutions Machinery LLC (QS Machinery) offers 25 years of Okamoto service and sales experience for his customers.

Sam says, “With today’s demanding tolerances, Okamoto and QS Machinery LLC can offer solutions for machine shops making Military, Aerospace, Medical, automotive and other parts.

From their first gear grinder in 1930 to the world’s first CNC surface grinder in 1968, Okamoto is a name that is known and respected world wide.

Sam started as a service engineer in the late eighties, working directly for Okamoto. After 8 years servicing and installing Okamoto grinders, he became service manager. After that he serviced Okamoto grinders as an independent engineer. Now he offers factory trained service and Okamoto sales expereince to customers here in Arizona.

For more information, contact QS Machinery at 602-370-4733 or visit their website at www.qsmachinery.com.

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Makino Establishes Aerospace Engine Technology Group Makino is pleased to announce the establishment of its aerospace engine technology group, which has been formed to support customers’ grinding, EDM and machining of exotic aerospace alloys for the jet engine market.

This group will deliver the machines, processes and engineering solutions necessary to produce complex jet engine and turbo machinery components at the highest quality and lowest cost.

Billy Grobe will serve as manager of the new aerospace engine technology group. He has spent 25 of his last 33 years in the machining industry at Makino, most recently managing the process research and development group. For the last six years, Grobe has focused on aerospace grinding applications, and has been involved in the development of many Makino aerospace process solutions.

The group will coordinate aerospace engine projects, including grinding, 5-axis milling and EDM processes using new and innovative technologies and processes such as the G-Series 5-axis horizontal machining and grinding center, and the new EDBV3 EDM machine designed specifically to produce cooling holes and diffuser shapes in turbine blades.

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It’s the speed you need to handle the jobs that matter. The Makino a51nx and a61nx. makino.com

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Barton International Announces New Website and E-store Barton International, a leading supplier of abrasives and consumables for waterjet cutting systems, announces the launch of a new website and e-store.

The recently redesigned site offers a fresh look with easy to navigate pages focused on the needs of our customers. Navigation is optimized by using graphic links to each of Barton’s primary product lines: garnet abrasives and waterjet parts.

The site includes extensive product information to help customers understand Barton’s complete range of abrasive solutions. Users can find technical data and literature in the document library and A2Z METALWORKER

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“The launch of the new website, which offers quick and easy access to information, is part of Barton’s ongoing efforts to enhance the quality and availability of information to customers and industry professionals,” says Randy Rapple, President of Barton International.

The e-store offers a complete selection of replacement parts for abrasive waterjet cutting equipment including genuine OEM parts and Barton exclusive products. Free shipping is available for online parts orders of $300+ of most items within the continental United States.

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New Plate Mill Allows Diehl Steel to Custom Machine Large Footprint Steel Block Diehl Steel has installed a new plate mill that allows the company to custom machine steel material up to 30 inches wide by 50 inches long by 12 inches in height. Diehl can now machine larger sizes of tool steel, alloy steel, high speed steel, carbon steel, powder metal product and stainless steel to customer’s exact specifications and tolerances.

With a 20 inch cutting head, the new plate mill eliminates the ridges that occur when cutting with smaller diameter cutters. The new plate mill is capable of producing Diehl’s AccuSquare™ steel products that are machined to toolmaker tolerances. The result is a flat, squared and parallel final block that saves time and increases productivity.

GANESH Mid-West Technical Center Grand-Opening The new G a n e s h Machinery mid-west technical center and machinery showroom will host a GrandOpening on May 7th in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.

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Adams Machinery is Celebrating 47 years as Your Hometown Machine45 Tool Dealer Serving Celebrating Years Arizona and New Mexico.

as Your Hometown Machine Tool Dealer 21st Year Under the Ownership of Serving Arizona and New Mexico.

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Announcements & Releases Continued The tech center features strong production analysis, automation and turnkey capabilities in support of challenging production applications.

Ganesh offers a complete line of CNC milling and turning machines. The Ganesh Cyclone multitasking CNC lathe series is available in versions from 3 to 11-axis featuring up to 3-turrets, with 16 live tools each totaling 48tool stations and 70mm (2-3/4”) barstock diameter.

The 15,000 sq. ft. facility will house engineering, service, sales, and spare parts. Machine demonstrations and training classes will be hosted during the “Lunch & Learn” programs at the tech center. Ganesh provides free lifetime training with each machine.

The Grand- Opening is scheduled for May 7th at 318 Remington Road, Cuyahoga Falls, OH 44223 from 10am – 8pm to show the capabilities that Ganesh has to offer production minded shop owners.

Quality Vision International To Feature Advanced Metrology Technologies In 2013 Western Region Tech Tour QualityVision International (QVI®) announced plans for its 2013Western Region Technical Tour. The Tech Tour is a series of User Group Seminars and Micro-Shows, held in conjunction with QVI channel partners where visitors can see and interact with the latest measurement and quality control technology.

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QVI Tech Tours will showcase the latest QVIdeveloped technologies for inspection and measurement from Optical Gaging Products, RAM Optical Instrumentation, Certified Comparator Products, and VIEW MicroMetrology.

Existing customers can learn valuable new programming tips, while prospective customers can find the right solution for their applications. Locations and dates for the 2013 Western Region Technical Tour are: • Rowlett,TX – April 24-25 – at Crescent Gage and Tool Sales • Salt Lake City, UT – May 8-9 – at Gage Lab Products • Denver, CO – June 5-6 – at Advanced Coordinate Technology • Auburn,WA – June 26-27 – at Rosco Precision Machinery • Irvine, CA – July 31 – August 1 – at Pacific Inspection Company Learn more at www.qvii.com/techtours.

Solar Atmospheres Gains NADCAP Approval for Carburizing Solar Atmospheres recently received NADCAP approval for carburizing.

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U n i t e d Pe r f o r m a n c e Metals Recognizes Employee Service Congratulations to Tim Halloran for reaching 15 years of service with United Performance Metals during the first quarter of 2013. Mr. Halloran holds the position of Senior Account Manager for the company.

United Performance Metals is a leading supplier of specialty stainless steel and high temperature alloys. In business since 1982, United Performance Metals has experience serving the needs of customers in diverse markets including aerospace, aircraft, automotive, medical, food service, house-wares, petrochemical and many others.

United Performance Metals is one of more than a dozen companies that comprise O’Neal Industries (onealind. com), the U.S.A.’s largest family-owned group of metals service centers. With sales of approximately $2.5 billion in 2011, O’Neal Industries is based in Birmingham, Alabama, and has more than 90 specialized facilities throughout North America, South America, Europe, and Asia.

For more information on United Performance Metals visit us at www. upmet.com, call us at 1.888.282.3292 or email sales@upmet.com.

Announcements & Releases Continued with this accreditation. The already stringent review of quality procedures and processes was even more challenging for Solar. The Nadcap audit checklist is based on conventional carburizing processes which are controlled by carbon potential, but Solar’s patented low pressure vacuum carburizing (LPVC) process works a bit differently.

The most notable benefit of LPVC over traditional carburizing is the absence of intergranular oxidation (IGO). IGO-free parts eliminate the cost and time required for additional machining. In addition LPVC offers controllable, predictable and very uniform case depths as well as the ability to carburize in blind and very small diameter holes.

Solar’s quality and technical departments collaborated extensively to successfully meet Nadcap requirements while navigating the differences between the two processes. Solar passed the audit without any findings and satisfactorily answered all questions. This carburizing accreditation joins the Souderton plant’s other Nadcap approvals for heat treating and brazing. For more information or to request a quote, please contact Mike Moyer to discuss Solar Atmospheres capabilities at 1-800-347-3236 Ext. 1207.

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DGS Marketing Engineers Named to BtoB’s Top Agencies List For the fourth consecutive year, dgs Marketing Engineers has been named to BtoB’s annual list of top business-tobusiness agencies.The 2012 list was made public in the magazine’s March 4th issue. dgs earned recognition in the small agency category, which consists of companies with annual revenue of up to $10 million. dgs was one of only two Indiana agencies to be recognized on this year’s list.

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Seco Unveils Revolutionary CX1 and CX2 PCD Drills

Focused exclusively on business-to-business marketing of products for technically minded people, dgs added several clients to its portfolio in 2012, including DP Technology (Camarillo, CA), the world leader in high-performance, full-spectrum CAM software, Sherry Labs (Daleville, IN), a leading testing laboratory and the Reshoring Initiative (Kildeer, IL), an industry-led effort to bring manufacturing jobs back to the United States. In response to increased client need and as part of the agency’s growth strategy, dgs also expanded its digital media and video service offering in the last year.

A leading provider of metalcutting solutions for milling, turning, holemaking and toolholding, Seco recently introduced the company’s new CX1 and CX2 polycrystalline diamond (PCD) drills for composite holemaking. The new diamond-tip technology eliminates issues with uncut fibers or delamination in composite machining, and has allowed the company to successfully develop the industry’s first PCD three-flute geometry (CX1) for composite drilling.

As part of the selection process, BtoB considered multiple successful advertising campaigns that dgs developed for clients in 2012, including workforce development initiatives for OMAX Corporation (Kent,WA) and Seco Tools (Troy, MI), as well as integrated marketing campaigns for Mazak Corporation (Florence, KY) and SecoTools.These campaigns successfully achieved their intended objectives and positioned the companies as thought leaders in their respective spaces.

Recognized as the leading publication for business-to-business marketing professionals in the United States, BtoB is published by Crain Communications.The magazine covers all aspects of business-to-business marketing and has a circulation of 45,000.

Please visit dgsmarketing.com or call Marc Diebold at 317.813.2220.

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Designed to offer the sharpest and strongest cutting edges currently available, the new CX1 and CX2 PCD drills use solid PCD tips.These tips can be much sharper than PCD-coated drills as the coating, when applied, wraps around the cutting edge and creates a dulling effect. Additional benefits of the new solid PCD tipped drills include high cutting speeds, long tool life, low friction, superior thermal conductivity, multiple resharpening capacity and high process reliability.

For effectively drilling through “plain” composite materials, the third flute on the CX1 provides high levels of stability in the hole as well as decreases vibrations and improves roundness. Also, the dome-shaped tip of the CX1 applies a double-angle geometry that reduces uncut fibers and delamination in composite-only applications.

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Announcements & Releases Continued Grinding these highly complex types of geometries was previously impossible using conventional brazed or similar PCD techniques.

Seco developed the CX2’s flat geometry drill point for the machining of stacked composite materials that incorporate layers of aluminum, titanium or stainless steel. With a PCD cap and drill point angle of 180-degrees, the CX2 provides efficient chip breaking and evacuation.

This reduces the chance of metal chips damaging the hole when transitioning between layers of metal and composites and, as a result, keeps the surface finish of the composite intact.

Both the CX1 and CX2 series include a mix of dimensions for holes that range in size from 0.125” to 0.375”. Chamfers can also be incorporated into the drill designs to further increase application flexibility. For more information on Seco’s offering of PCD drills, please visit: http://www. secotools.com/en-US/Global/Products/Holemaking/Drilling/PCD-Drills/.

Mazak HCN 4000-III Performance Enhancements Boost Machine Productivity Mazak Corporation made several key performance enhancements to its next-generation HORIZONTAL CENTER NEXUS (HCN) 4000-III Horizontal Machining Center. As a result, the machine delivers significantly increased amounts of productivity and cost effectiveness, especially for those shops looking to implement horizontal machining centers as go-to workhorse machines for high-volume part processing operations.

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traverse speeds and acceleration rates, shorter chip-to-chip times and increased tool size capability are what contribute to reductions in cycle times.

Greater part size versatility and parts per fixture result from the HCN 4000-III’s expanded Y-axis travel/stroke, as well as a higher allowable thrust in its Z axis.

Rapid traverse speed on the HCN 4000III is now 2,362 ipm (60 m/min), and machine acceleration rate went from 0.8G to a faster 1G. Mazak also shortened the machine’s spindle acceleration speed to only 1.3 seconds for its standard 12,000rpm spindle and to 1.5 seconds for an optional 18,000-rpm spindle.

For fast, efficient and versatile machining of a wide variety of materials from steels to nonferrous metals, Mazak also offers 14,000-rpm and 30,000-rpm spindle options for the HCN 4000-II. The four available integral motor spindle types – standard, high torque, semi-high speed or high-speed – allow users to match spindle performance to their specific machining requirements with the proper speeds and power.

The standard 40-taper 12,000-rpm spindle provides power and speed for general machining applications, while the hightorque heavy-duty 40-taper 14,000-rpm version generates 88 ft-lbs of torque at a continuous rating to a maximum of 223 ft-lbs to increase metal removal rates for hard to machine materials. With maximum speeds of 18,000 rpm and 30,000 rpm, the 40-taper semi high-speed and HSK high-speed versions allow for faster machining and superior surface finishes when cutting aluminum and other nonferrous workpieces.

Mazak has equipped the HCN 4000-III with a standard 40-position tool storage magazine and, as optional, offers 60-, 80-, 120- and 160-position magazines in addition to its Tool Hive magazines with either 180, 240 or 330 positions.

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to use less water in everything from the paint process to washing parts, Ford has reduced water use by 62% or 10.6 billion gallons - enough to fill 16,000 Olympicsize pools.”

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Pentagon awards surge 71 percent in March as Congress eases budget blow The Defense Department announced contracts valued at as much as $39.4 billion in March, 71 percent more than the prior month, even as automatic federal budget cuts started taking effect.

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SME CEO: Manufacturing Sector Is Facing An Employment Crisis In the Huffington Post, Society of Manufacturing Engineers CEO Mark Tomlinson writes, “The manufacturing industry is facing an employment crisis. The rate of technical advances has outpaced our ability to educate and train workers on new machines and applications, creating a ‘skills gap.’”

Tomlinson writes, “This is a great time to work in manufacturing.We’re applying once pie-in-the-sky technologies to real-world needs: creating strong yet flexible limb replacements for our wounded warriors, robots that crawl into the fuselage of an aircraft, mountain bikes for extreme enthusiasts, engineered for safety pushing the boundaries of men and machine.”

Ford Says It Is Making Progress In Consuming Less Water The Detroit Free Press reported, “Ford is making progress in consuming less water to make each vehicle around the” globe. In 2012, Ford “said it wanted a 30% decrease between 2009 and 2015.”

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The work awarded on March 29 to Huntington Ingalls, the only U.S. builder of aircraft carriers, includes refueling nuclear reactors and upgrading ship systems at its facility in Newport News, Va. More than 3,800 people will work on the project, and “any further delay in receiving the contract would have negatively impacted our workforce,” Christie Miller, a company spokeswoman, said in an e-mail.

March’s award total continued an increase in defense contracts in 2013.

The Pentagon announced $23.1 billion in awards in February and $12.1 billion in January. The $39.4 billion in contracts announced last month was 15 percent less than the $46.1 billion disclosed in March 2012.

Even with the budget cuts under sequestration, the Pentagon will spend at least $300 billion on contracts in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, more than the amount spent in 2006, when the US was supporting troops deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, according to federal data.

Among the 284 deals announced last month was a $697 million contract with Lockheed Martin and a $682 million agreement with Austal for the Navy’s next

four Littoral Combat Ships. Lockheed, the world’s largest defense contractor, received awards with a potential value of at least $1.8 billion.

The Pentagon also awarded a five-year, $781 million contract for explosives manufacturing to BAE Systems. The order came under a 25-year agreement the London-based company holds to operate the Holston Army Ammunition Plant in Kingsport, Tenn., until 2023.

The award “extends our capability to develop new, safer and innovative” explosives and will increase efficiency, Erin Moseley, president of BAE’s support solutions division, said in an e-mailed statement.

The sequestration process had been set to strip $46 billion from Pentagon programs in the current fiscal year. The budget agreement signed by President Obama changed the savings target to $41 billion and gave officials some flexibility on where to apply the cuts.

The spending bill included $10 billion more for operations and maintenance accounts than allocated in the fiscal 2012 continuing resolution the Pentagon would have operated under if the new measure had not passed.

Still, those funds will fall short of what’s needed to maintain current spending levels by at least $22 billion this year, according to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel.

The higher spending in March “doesn’t mean the system has reopened and we’re back in business,’’ said Stan Soloway, chief executive of the Professional Services Council, a contractors lobbying group based in Arlington County.

Even with the passage of the full-year spending measure, government officials continue to delay contract competitions and revise agreements that were already issued to reduce their value, he said.

“It’s an obvious byproduct not just of sequestration per se but of the entire fiscal chaos in which the agencies are functioning,” Soloway said.

The Pentagon still must cut as much as $500 billion from planned spending over the next nine years unless Congress and Obama agree on an alternative deficit-reduction package.

It also spared the Pentagon from as much as $6 billion in “penalty” cuts because the measure came in under caps set by previous legislation, according to a Pentagon official who briefed reporters and asked not to be identified discussing the budget.

The March deals with the highest potential values went to small businesses that supply the military with survival gear and scuba-diving equipment.The contracts have a maximum value of $20 billion among four firms, representing more than half of the spending announced in March.

As a result of the budget restorations, furloughs for the Defense Department’s 750,000 civilian workers will be reduced to 14 days from the 22 days originally planned.

Those deals list the maximum values of awards over multi-year periods, rather than guaranteed funding, and there is little chance the companies will receive the announced contract values.

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Solar May Boost US Energy Independence, Erode Utility Market Share US News & World Report reports that although much has been made of the ability for US oil and natural gas production to place the nation on the path to energy independence, “it could be solar power that really helps” the nation become more energy independent. Disregarding the much-publicized tale of Solyndra, “the industry has been on a tear over the last couple of years,” with solar installations climbing over 75%, according to Solar Energy Industries Association data.

The group predicts installations will rise 65% this year, and this “rapid expansion” means solar is “the fastest growing energy source” in the US. Rapid advances in installation are said to be due to “tumbling installation and equipment costs” along with an increase in “third-party solar” financing for installations.

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begin “to erode the utility sector’s market share” next year, however, according to market analysis firm GTM, a projection “that’s making utilities increasingly nervous.”

Consumer Spending Expected To Continue To Gain Strength Bloomberg News reports US consumers, “who kept shopping through rising fuel costs and delayed tax refunds, will probably continue buoying the world’s largest economy as these hurdles dissipate.

After reaching a four-month high in February, gasoline prices have retreated in March at a time when they typically rise.

Cash returns from the Internal Revenue Service, held up when an agreement to avert the fiscal cliff came at the last minute, have almost caught up to last year’s pace.”

In addition, economists “are boosting spending estimates as retailers from Darden Restaurants Inc. to Ross Stores Inc.

say industry sales are picking up.”

He also wrote, “Taken in its totality, the prospects for growing a modern manufacturing workforce look bright, barring another recession. It’s important to keep up the current momentum and awareness in the halls of Congress, academia and state houses.”

US Losing Tech Workers Denied In H-1B Visa Lottery Bloomberg News reports “demand is so high” for 85,000 H1-B visas “that 65,000 of those may be awarded through a lottery.

Random selection means more risk for the technology companies that dominate these visas, and also may leave them waiting for months to find out if their employees are chosen.”

Tech “companies including Intel Corp. , the world’s largest chipmaker, say more H-1B visas would keep jobs in the US and prevent the uncertainty caused by a lottery.”

NASA Pushes Nuclear Power Systems For Missions NASA’s planetary sciences program is pushing ahead with plans to revive the production of Plutonium-238 through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) as well as develop a pair of Advanced Stirling Radioisotope Generators (ASRGs) to power yet-to-be-selected, medium-class planetary missions requiring the use of nuclear power sources.

The ASRG initiative is on track for the assembly of two generators that will be placed in storage without fuel during fiscal 2016. Meanwhile, NASA expects the DOE to forward a schedule and cost plan by the end of 2013 for the production of 1.5 to 2 kg (3.3-4.4 lb.) of Plutonium-238 annually.

U.S. production of Plutonium-238 was halted in 1988, and current stockpiles appear sufficient for missions in the pipeline through the end of the decade. NASA plans to combine what remains of the plutonium stockpiles with new production of the radioactive material and ASRGs – an upgraded version of the radioisotope thermoelectric generators that power NASA’s Curiosity rover – to stretch efficiency. The agency’s Discovery program appears to be the best fit for the new plutonium power sources, Green says.

Kendall Eyes More Funding For Industrial Base The Pentagon’s top procurement official is considering a strategy of funding research and development projects despite ongoing budget pressure, a slight shift from his fervent push to only proceed with well understood, affordable programs.

Frank Kendall, under secretary of defense for acquisition, says that the increasing pressure on the Pentagon budget — which could disproportionately threaten the research and procurement accounts — is driving him to consider moving slightly away from his staunch support for embarking only on programs that are considered “affordable,” and for which senior leaders have a clear understanding of the cost and risk.

This shift could lead to the first new X-plane in a generation of military technology, he says. Kendall is starting an air dominance initiative with the military services and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency that could lead to the next-generation fighter. And, he says, it could be the first of such low-level projects he views as a potential hedge against budget pressure eroding the U.S. global military advantage.

An advantage to this strategy is providing at least some funding to keep the cutting edge of the industrial base working on advanced technologies. It also better postures the government to deal with adversaries that may not have restricted budgets and whose technology advances at a rapid pace.

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DOE has already started production of the plutonium isotope using Neptunium-237 on a test basis with encouraging results.

The ASRGs could be assigned to Discovery missions, possibly selected later this year, if the scientists and engineers who proposed the projects can demonstrate that plutonium is an “essential element, an enabling technology, if you will,” Green said.

The revival represents a bright note in an otherwise uncertain long-range outlook for the future of the agency’s planetary sciences program. Like its sister federal agencies, NASA is operating under a soonto-expire continuing resolution and cuts imposed under the March 1 budget sequester.

President Barack Obama’s proposed 2013 budget would cut annual spending on planetary sciences from $1.5 billion in 2012 to $1.1 billion by 2015. The House, Senate and White House are formulating competing 2014 spending proposals amidst ongoing discord over how to handle the nation’s budget deficits.

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Pratt & Whitney Preparing Airbus A320NEO GTF For Flight Tests Aviation Daily reported, “The first Pratt & Whitney PW1100G geared turbofan (GTF) to be flight tested for the Airbus A320NEO is being prepared for installation on the engine maker’s Boeing 747SP testbed in Mirabel, Canada,” with a first flight expected in the second quarter of this year.

Bob Saia, Pratt & Whitney vice president of next generation engines, said the company “initially targeted a 12% reduction in fuel burn” with the engine but it will now have a 15% reduction.

California firm to build drone hangar, launch base for Arizona Nat’l Guard A Los Angeles construction company has won a $9.4 million contract to build a Predator drone hangar and launch base for the Arizona National Guard.

La Verne, Calif.-based Ace Engineering Inc. won the contract over 15 other bidders, according to a U.S. Defense Department announcement March 18. The launch base and a 20,600-square-foot hangar will be built at the Fort Huachuca U.S. Army base in Sierra Vista.

The company did not respond to requests for comment on the contract. Ace previously has done construction work at Nellis Air Force Base in LasVegas, as well as Port Hueneme Naval Base and Edwards and Vandenberg Air Force bases in Southern California.

The new procurement is from the Arizona National Guard in Phoenix. National Guard officials also did not respond to requests for comment.

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Predator drones are made by San Diegobased General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. They can be used for reconnaissance and surveillance as well as be outfitted for combat.

Fort Huachuca is a major U.S. military drone and unmanned aerial systems installation. The Army base is home to military intelligence operations and training for drone pilots. Some unmanned aerial vehicles used for border security are based there.

Major defense contractors such as Raytheon Co. and Northrup Grumman Corp. are working on UAV contracts in Southern Arizona. Boeing Co. also does drone manufacturing work at is plant in Mesa.

The Arizona Commerce Authority and Greater Phoenix Economic Council have put forward a bid to get Arizona included as one of six new federal research and development centers focused on drones and UAVs. Sierra Vista is 15 miles north of the Mexico border, 190 miles southeast of Phoenix and 70 miles east of Tucson.

Drones are a growing defense sector and have become a favored U.S. military weapon. UAVs usually are far cheaper than manned aircraft and do not carry the risk of U.S. military casualties.

The U.S. has been faulted recently for the civilian casualties that have accompanied drone strikes against al-Qaeda and Taliban combatants inYemen, Somalia, and Pakistan.

US Army Awards Contract to Phoenix, AZ Company Walker Power Systems Inc., Phoenix, Ariz., has been awarded a maximum $3,800,095 contract for diesel generator set.The award is a firm-fixed-price, sole source contract.

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Aristotle If your company requires aerospace coatings, more than likely you know Bolt’s Metallizing. You know them for their HVOF (High Velocity Oxygen Fuel), plasma, and thermal spray coatings, with the expertise and equipment to coat nearly every metal. Robotically controlled gun manipulation with dedicated programming, high quality fixtures and tools, aggressive quality and process controls combine with Bolt’s Metallizing’s trained operators to yield high integrity products to aerospace and industrial standards.

You may not be aware that Bolt’s Metallizing recently added new capabilities for their customers.

With a move into a new facility, effectively quadrupling their square footage (20,000), the company acquired the talent and equipment to offer brazing and heat-treating.

Bolt’s was founded more than 3 decades ago, in 1980, to provide the aerospace and industrial markets with high quality thermal sprayed coatings.

They can coat parts that are as small as the tip of a finger to heavy industrial parts the size of a truck.

Bolt’s Metallizing’s Certifications Bolt’s Metallizing is not your typical coating facility.

Long before large defense and aerospace companies pushed their suppliers to become ISO9001/ AS9100 certified, Bolt’s Metallizing achieved this milestone. This is one of the reasons that they are an approved supplier with GE, Goodrich, United Technology Corporation (UTC), Parker Hannifin, Rolls Royce, L3 and Honeywell. They consistently score high with these companies for on time delivery and quality (PPM) requirements. These scores place them in top ranking among coating companies worldwide who share similar approvals.

Bolt’s customers, numbering in the hundreds, are diversified across a number of industries, ensuring that Bolt’s Metallizing is shielded from a particular industry downturn.

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company. This asset provides real time analysis of current production in addition to supporting development and engineering projects. Quality Manager Dustin Hoffman says the new heat treat and brazing capabilities, coupled with their full metallurgical lab, were instrumental in securing new customers, including General Electric (GE).

In fact, the Bolt’s metallurgical lab is currently certified by several OEMs. Bolt’s Metallizing Drug and Alcohol Testing Program, a policy they have long adhered to, is just another reason they are approved by some of the largest aerospace, defense and medical companies.

Their quest for safety in the work place doesn’t end with drug and alcohol screening; they invest significantly in safety procedures and environmental equipment -- keeping the working environment for their employees clean and safe. In fact, Bolt Metallizing’s obvious respect for their valuable employees results in very low turnover. Eric says that the very first employee he hired is still with the company today.

Heat Treat at Bolt’s Metallizing Heat Treatment is the controlled heating and cooling of metals to alter their physical and mechanical properties without changing the product shape. It is often associated with increasing the strength of material, but it can also be used to attain certain manufacturability objectives such as improved machining, improved formability, to restore ductility after a cold working operation. Thus it is a very enabling process that not only helps other manufacturing processes, but improves product performance by increasing strength and other desirable characteristics.

To their knowledge, Bolt’s Metallizing owns the largest vacuum furnace in the valley. With an internal capacity of 48”x 48” x 71”, General Manager Dean Hoffman says, “Our vacuum furnace not only allows us to heat treat larger parts, but it additionally enables us to heat treat more pieces in one load. This results in better quality and faster turn-around for our customers.”

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they are set up to avoid bureaucracy, a trained team well equipped to get things done.

The company additionally runs 2 shifts to better support their customers’ requirements.

Hear From Bolt’s Metallizing’s Customers “We are in the process of getting Bolt’s Metallizing approved in our supplier data base. It is extremely beneficial that they are NADCAP approved and ISO9001/AS9100 certified.

One of our suppliers in Arizona highly recommended them, and given that Bolt’s is also in Arizona, this should be very helpful in the turnaround time for our products. We expect to use them initially for their coating capabilities.”

Engineer, Special Processes & NDT, Aerospace/ Defense Manufacturer “Bolt’s Metallizing has been doing our metalized coatings (HFOV sprays) for as long as I have been at the company, for 13+ years now. I give them an ‘A’ grade for quality and for their on-time delivery. Their pricing is good - we wouldn’t be using them if they weren’t doing a great job in all 3 of these categories.

Brazing is a metal-joining process whereby a filler metal is heated above melting point and distributed between two or more close-fitting parts by capillary action.The filler metal is brought slightly above its melting (liquidus) temperature while protected by a suitable atmosphere. It then flows over the base metal (known as wetting) and is then cooled to join the work pieces together. It is similar to soldering, except the temperatures used to melt the filler metal are higher.

Bolt’s Metallizing’s Turn-Around Time “The team at Bolt’s Metallizing prides itself on quick turnaround time.” Eric says. When asked how they can offer quick turns versus other coating companies typical 2-week turn time, Dean attributes it to the Bolt’s team. He explains that

On top of this, the team at Bolt’s Metallizing is very easy to work with, they are personable, and they work closely with us to solve any problems. Their NADCAP accreditation and ISO9001/AS9100 certification was particularly important when we started using them for one of our major aerospace customer’s products. Lastly, the fact that they are local is outstanding for us. I highly recommend Bolt’s Metallizing!”

Purchasing Manager, Aerospace Manufacturer “In comparison to our previous supplier, Bolt’s Metallizing is superior in their responsiveness to our needs.They matched our previous supplier’s pricing, and their quality is outstanding.

Their on-time delivery is 100%! You don’t see this often. The team at Bolt’s Metallizing clearly takes pride in the work they do!

We use them for a very specialized heat treat process. The fact that they are NADCAP accredited and ISO9001/AS9100 certified is extremely important to us. The work they do for us is so unusual that we wouldn’t go to anyone else to have it done.”

Sr. Buyer, CPIM, Aerospace Manufacturer To learn more about Bolt’s Metallizing, a NADCAP accredited, ISO9001/AS9100 certified aerospace coatings specialist, now offering heat treat and brazing capabilities, call (602) 244-2432 or visit their website at boltsmetallizing.com A2Z METALWORKER

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$976,000 for an arterial street fee and about $96,000 for a building permit, according to city documents.

The Chandler City Council has unanimously approved an agreement to pay General Motors an incentive to bring its Information Technology Innovation Center to the city.

The analysis found Chandler would reap about $947,000 over five years in tax revenue.This figure projected taxes based on the economic activity by GM, its employees and the secondary companies that work with or benefit from the company.

General Motors announced that it will locate its fourth IT Innovation Center in Chandler. The company has hired about 1,000 employees to date at the other three locations.

Under the agreement, Chandler will pay GM as much as $1.12 million over five years, based on the number of full-time jobs GM creates.

“We never would have offered it if we thought we could have gotten (GM) without it,” said Economic Development Director Christine Mackay. “We really feel for the jobs that we’re getting, that this is a good deal.”

General Motors is expected to build an approximately 150,000-squarefoot building near the northeastern corner of Loops 101 and 202 by Feb. 1. Until that building is completed, GM is expected to work out of a temporary space. Hiring is expected to begin in April.

Chandler will pay GM $1,200 per job for as many as 750 positions, and $900 per position for the next 250 jobs. Payments will be made at the end of each year, based on the number of jobs created in the previous year.

Chandler’s incentives come on top of as much as $15.3 million over five years in tax rebates and grants from the state if GM creates 1,000 jobs.

A third-party economic impact analysis was done “to ensure that Chandler would receive greater benefit through this agreement than it was offering to GM,” according to the memo to the City Council.

Those incentives include: a $1.3 million grant from the Arizona Competes fund; as much as $9,000 in tax credits per job, spread over three years; and a job training tax credit of as much as $5,000 per job.

Chandler expects the GM center to create $2.2 million in new revenue over five years, according to the memo.

The city also agreed to review and approve plans for construction and improvements to the building on an expedited basis.

The majority of that figure, about $1.3 million, would come from construction-related permits and fees, Mackay said.That includes about

Chandler has given financial incentives to five companies out of more than 150 it has worked with, Mackay said.

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Microchip Announces Results of 2013 FIRST® Robotics Competition Arizona Regional Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP solutions, announced the results of the 2013 FIRST® Robotics Competition (FRC) Arizona Regional, held March 22-23, 2013 in Chandler. Phoenix’s Carl Hayden High School; Tempe Preparatory Academy, Tempe; and Buena High School, Sierra Vista qualified to compete in the 2013 FIRST Robotics Competition Championship, April 25-27, 2013 in St. Louis, MO. Kingman High School/Kingman Academy of Learning, Kingman;Yuma High School, Yuma; and Rockwell-Collins & Escondido Charter High School, Escondido, Calif. were Regional Finalists. Students had six weeks to build a robot capable of competing in this year’s competition, the game called Ultimate AscentSM, where teams joined forces to fling saucer-like discs through various slots during several two-minute and fifteen-second matches. Any student participating on a FIRST team is eligible to apply for more than $16 million in scholarships.

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Chandler, Ariz.-based Microchip Technology is the organizing sponsor of the FRC Arizona Regional. Fifty high-school robotics teams competed in the 2013 FRC AZ Regional, including 44 teams from Arizona, three from New Mexico, two from California and one from Mexico. AZFirst, a non-profit organization, awarded the Steve Sanghi Scholarship to Bianca Rodriquez, a senior at Carl Hayden High School, Phoenix, AZ. Funded by Steve and Maria Sanghi, this scholarship totals $16,000 over four years, and is awarded to an outstanding FIRST participant who intends to pursue a college degree in science, technology, engineering or math. Coconino High School won the Regional Chairman’s Award, which recognizes the team that best represents a model for other teams to emulate, and embodies the purpose and goals of FIRST. Christine Sapio, teacher at Coconino High School, Flagstaff, a FTC (FIRST Technical Competition) Affiliate Partner, received the “Outstanding Volunteer of theYear” award for her success in growing the FTC robotics program for middle-school and high-school students.

Additionally, Dave Thompson, FIRST coach at Coconino High School, received the Woodie Flowers Finalist Award, which recognizes a teacher or engineer who demonstrates excellence in teaching science, math and creative design. Chris Brandt from Saguaro High School in Scottsdale was awarded the “Arizona Teacher of the Year,” based upon an essay written by his students.

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BAE to advance micro-robotics platforms development for US Army BAE Systems has received a contract to continue serving as industrial lead for the US Army Research Laboratory’s (ARL) Micro Autonomous Systems and Tec hnology (MAST) Collaborative Technology Alliance for the next five years.

Under the $43m cooperative agreement extension, the company will continue joint research with the MAST Alliance’s team of scientists from the army, academia and industry to help accelerate development of bioinspired micro-robotics systems for US ground forces.

Initiated in 2008, the MAST program features two main components, a fundamental research program, which is focused on microsystems mechanics, processing for autonomous operation, microelectronics and integration; with the second being a technology transition phase.

Other participants include University of California, California Institute of Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, North Carolina A&T and the University of New Mexico.

GE Plans To Have GE9x Engine Certified By 2018 Flightglobal reported, “Boeing’s selection of the General Electric GE9X for all three proposed variants of the still-unlaunched 777X begins a five-year campaign for the engine manufacturer to test and certificate a new product featuring several new advances in gas turbine technology and capability.”

Work specifically includes research, development and integration of micro-scale aeromechanics and ambulation, propulsion, sensing, autonomy, communications, navigation, and control, as well as microscale integration among others facilitating production of several different mission-capable robotic platforms.

With certification planned for 2018, the article predicts that “the first 777X is unlikely to enter service before mid-2019, as there is usually at least a one year gap between engine certification and aircraft certification.”

Micro-robots are expected to be used by dismounted troops for remote surveillance missions within complex urban environments and terrain.

Primary research labs supporting BAE in the second phase include the University of Maryland, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania and the Nasa Jet Propulsion Lab.

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Manufacturers of Composite Helicopter Rotor Blades With the Help of Ellison Machinery Machine Tools

Major helicopter manufacturers, including Sikorsky, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Bell Helicopter, and MD Helicopters, have long recognized the benefits of composites in aircraft components. In fact, in today’s military rotorcraft, composites regularly constitute 50 to 80 percent -- or more -- of the airframe by weight.

But in helicopters built for the civil aviation sector, composite application varies much more widely. Several manufacturers attribute their reluctance to expand composite use in rotorcraft to certification rules imposed by the FAA, whose more stringent requirements for composites inflate costs and overtax the smaller R&D budgets available.

Van Horn Aviation (VHA) was founded by mechanical engineer and former U.S. Army helicopter pilot James ‘Jim’ Van Horn in 2001.

Formerly the chief engineer for McDonnell Douglas on its MD500 line, Van Horn founded VHA to improve the performance of rotor blade systems in civil aviation helicopters through superior design, engineering and manufacturing processes using composites.VHA holds FAA STCs (Supplemental Type Certificates) for their products. FAA STCs are issued when an applicant has received FAA approval to modify an aircraft from its original design. The STC approves not only the modification but also how that modification affects the original design.

VHA General Manager Dean Rosenlof, an aeronautical engineer who met Jim shortly before graduating from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in 1995, says, “The large helicopter manufacturers continue to innovate on new helicopters, and these are the helicopters used extensively in the military. But in other industry segments, where budgets are much smaller, older helicopters are still a mainstay. And the large helicopter manufacturers aren’t typically allocating their R&D budgets in this segment. VHA’s goal is to improve the performance of light utility working legacy helicopters that are used in such applications as forest fighting, moving heavy equipment, crop dusting, and Medevac.

The buyers and owners of these helicopters are looking for performance and cost improvements, and are working with small budgets.”

With an experienced engineering team, and a small lean business mentality, Dean says that VHA can offer its products more cost effectively than the larger OEMs. Until recently, their product line consisted of composite tail rotor blades.With FAA regulations requiring the sheet metal rotor blades to be replaced after 2500 hours, VHA’s composite aftermarket tail rotor blades are ruggedly designed with a service life of double that, for 5000 hours. Dean says that with a cost roughly equivalent to the OEM’s replacement sheet metal rotor blades, VHA is not only saving the helicopter owner costs over the life of the blades, but he/she is realizing additional benefits with the composite rotor blade replacement, including a toughened more aerodynamic design, increased corrosion resistance, noise reduction, better fuel efficiency, and greater part-for-part consistency.

Today VHA manufactures composite tail rotor blades for the 206/OH58 and UH-1 Huey series of aircraft. VHA is also currently developing new composite main and tail rotor blade designs for various helicopters.

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Just recently, the company signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. for its 412/212 rotor blades. Under the MOU,VHA will design, certify and manufacture composite tail rotor blades to supply the Bell 412/212 product lines.

“Our 412/212 tail rotor blades will share many of the same qualities of our proven 206 tail rotor blades, including a robust composite design and efficient airfoil,” said VHA president James Van Horn.

VHA has expanded over the years, growing from a 1 bay to a 4 bay facility. In 2011, the company purchased a 24,000 square foot facility to house their operations. Dean says the company purchased additional land adjacent to their current facility that will enable continued growth as needed.

VHA is equipped to do complete design and manufacturing in-house, with such state-of-the-art equipment as a freezer, an oven, a waterjet, paint and sand booths, and a number of machining centers.

The company purchased their first machining center, a Haas VF-4, from Ellison Machinery about 5 years ago and has since added 3 more to their production line. Dean says the philosophy at VHA has been to stick with the same platform. “We like the consistency of working with 1 machine; it affords us a consistent interface and tooling. Even more importantly, we’ve been extremely pleased with Ellison Machinery, from their product line, to their service, to their expertise.”

More recently, the company is doing larger tooling for their main rotor blade product design. Lead Machinist Kelly Lessley says, “We needed a gantry router for this, and we purchased the Haas CNC Vertical Gantry GR 712. It worked right out of the box like a champ, and it only took 2 days from install to cutting.”

With an increase in their titanium machining for the newest rotor blades,VHA turned to Ellison again for a solution to handle the increasing demand. Kelly says, “We chose the DMG/Mori Seiki NHX4000 from Ellison Machinery. The NHX4000 horizontal machining center is a 4-axis machine with a 60tool capacity and is ideal for the machining our production titanium parts.With the pallet system, we can do all of our set-ups offline, which results in a significant time savings. With our 2 pallets, each holding 8 parts, we can machine 16 parts simultaneously” Dean and Kelly admit that they didn’t look at other machine tool dealers when making their latest purchases. “We probably have 100 suppliers,” Dean said, “and Jason McCurdy, our Ellison Machinery Sales Engineer, and the whole team at Ellison, make it so easy to stick with them.We don’t have a need or desire to look elsewhere for our machine tools.” Kelly added, “It is very hard to find a company like Ellison Machinery. The machine world, including the tooling and fixtures, is changing so rapidly. We can’t possibly stay on top of the latest innovations and do our jobs, but Ellison Machinery can. And they do. They have the knowledge of who to go to for everything we need to maximize our manufacturing productivity.” Jason McCurdy reflects the same commitment to the relationship, “VHA has been a valued partner over the last 5 years. From the family work environment that Jim and Dean have created to the professionalism of each employee, it has been my pleasure to work with their organization and I look forward to our future together.”

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For years, the U.S. military has been using the drones in Iraq and Afghanistan to monitor enemy troop movements and even take out enemy combatants with missile strikes. But the unmanned aircraft also are increasingly being flown in the U.S. for border patrol, disaster relief, search and rescue, training and law enforcement, even as critics voice opposition to their use, citing privacy concerns.

Currently, the FAA has issued only a few hundred certificates for drone operators, but it forecasts that as many as 7,500 unmanned aircraft could be flying over the U.S. within five years, Dorr said.

To ensure the drones are being used properly, the FAA plans to test the aircraft at six sites, which will be selected by the end of the year.

Since February, the FAA has received 50 applications from 37 states hoping to become drone test sites.

Federal procurement laws prohibit officials from discussing the specifics of the applications, but Dorr said the sites would be evaluated based on geographic and climatic diversity, ground infrastructure, research needs, population and air traffic density.

“You kind of want to be in the middle of nowhere,” Eileen Shibley, who leads the effort for the Indian Wells Valley Airport District, told The Associated Press. “You don’t want to risk being close to a populated area.”

The Indian Wells site sits about 150 miles north of Los Angeles in the high desert, according to the AP report.

Other states are pooling their resources with neighbors. Ohio teamed with Indiana to increase both states’ odds, AP reported. Like California, there is budding drone activity in Ohio, most notably at the Air Force’s sensor research facility at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

The untapped civilian market also has economic implications.“It’s the chance to get in on the ground floor of what may be the next big business,” Peter Singer, a robotics expert at the Brookings Institution think tank in Washington told the AP. “The states competing hope it might make them the robotics equivalent of Detroit for automobiles in the 20th century or Silicon Valley for computers.”

Privacy advocates worry that drones will make it easier for the government to spy on citizens and that the technology could be abused.

A recent American Civil Liberties Union report on drones calls for rules to stop them from “bringing us closer to a ‘surveillance society’ in which our every move is monitored, tracked, recorded and scrutinized by the government.”

Officials are working to integrate the aircraft into the nation’s airspace as quickly and efficiently as possible. However, they must balance issues such as safety, promoting economic growth and protecting those privacy interests, said FAA spokesman Les Dorr.

According to the ACLU, rules should require that a drone be deployed by law enforcement only with a warrant, in an emergency or when there are grounds to believe it will collect evidence relating to a crime.

That means careful planning and management of their integration into the world’s most complex airspace system to keep people, aircraft and property safe, he said in an email last month.

However, Allenby said drones are not the only thing threatening privacy. “With smartphones and drones, you have to assume that you have no privacy and if data mining techniques become good enough, people will be able to find out what they need to about you,” he said.

“It is going to be very hard to stop.”

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Arcas Machine Certifies To ISO9001/AS9100 Revision C With the Help of Consultant BMSC

Steve’s dad, Joe Arcas. Steve learned the trade under the tutelage of his father in France, and he trained there himself to become a Journeyman machinist.Today, the company is a superior precision machining company serving the aerospace industry, and it has some of the best machine tool and quality machinery you can get. It is run in the European philosophy of “buy the best, and don’t buy what you can’t afford”. The company prides itself on its financial integrity.

Certification wasn’t a piece of cake for the company, seasoned in years as a company, but young in its current staff. It is a fast growing entity, and its customers, including such industry aerospace giants as Honeywell and Moog, were putting pressure on the company to certify. Denny says, “We were ready to go through our next audit with Honeywell, and I let them know that we were certifying to the ISO/AS9100 standards.They gave us a reprieve on the audit, but it meant that we had to certify very, very quickly. In fact, we had about 3 months to get this done.”

Denny continued, “BMSC was the company that was recommended to us. In fact, as I have visited other businesses in the Valley, I see the BMSC logo on a number of walls. Our machine tool dealer, Jeff Currie from Arizona CNC, said he had heard good things about BMSC’s work. So, we made the decision based upon these recommendations to hire Bretta Kelly, owner of the ISO/AS9100 consultant company, on the spot.”

Bretta and member of her organization, Debbie Hart, worked with the team at Arcas Machine over the next 3 months. Denny says, “They would walk around and observe our workflow, and then record it. They didn’t try to change how we did business; they simply documented it. Then, they would work with us, and in the end, there were a few processes that we improved on, including our training and our traveler documentation.”

Arcas Machine just certified to the latest ISO/AS9100 standards, Revision C. And in the process of certifying, they are increasing their focus on ‘Green’. Denny Arcas, 3rd generation, and son of owner Steve Arcas, says, “We have long been serving customers in the Aerospace industry, and we were audited by each of them individually.That meant that we had many binders for each customer’s audit requirements. It filled up 2 boxes (with about 10 2” binders), as you can see to the left. Now that we are ISO9001/AS9100 Revision C certified, our manual is less than 1/4” thick.

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Denny enlisted the help of key employees on his team, including Travis and Logan, pictured to the left. And while Bretta and Debbie were confident that Arcas Machine was doing all of the right things to pass the certification, Denny still wanted more assurance. “One neat thing that Bretta did that we really appreciated was bring in an independent ISO/AS9100 Auditor. This person would not be immersed in the day to day certification, as Bretta and Debbie were, and could give us some real candid feedback.”

The process worked. Arcas Machine passed their true audit with ‘0’ findings. And though the process was condensed in timeframe, Denny and the team believe it will be advantageous to their ability to support their customers, new and old.They also plan on having Bretta and Debbie meeting with them on a regular schedule, to help conduct internal audits and to continue to focus on improvements. Call today to learn more about this dynamic, ISO9001/AS9100 Certified Company. (Arcasmachine.com; 480-632-9414) For ISO9001/AS9100 consulting to help you to improve your business and gain new customers, contact BMSC at businessmsc.com or call (602) 445-9400.

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However, he added that the economy may suffer from “cold spells” in the middle of the year before an entrenched momentum is likely in late 2013.

The State reported that a new program “allows students to earn college credit through a partnership with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.” Col. Jack Snider of Battery Creek, who “helped arrange the partnership,” said the courses are capstones to a series of engineering and aviation courses already taught at the school.

Unemployment rate for the country will remain above the mark of 7 percent through 2014, before dropping below 6.5 percent in the second half of 2015. Inflation, which may edge higher during the year, would still remain below the 2 percent target, he said.

Those classes are offered through Project Lead the Way, a national engineering curriculum that allows students to earn college credit.”

U.S. economy to grow 2.3 percent this year: think tank American economy may pick up modestly this year in a context of subdued inflation, the Peterson Institute for International Economies (PIIE), a Washington-based think tank, forecast last month.

Speaking at the semi-annual “Global Economic Outlook” meeting, David Stockton, a senior fellow at the PIIE, predicted that the U.S. economy would continue its slow recovery and expand by 2.3 percent in 2013 as an underlying improvement in household spending will be largely offset by the fiscal consolidation of the so-called “sequester,” -- the automatic across-the-board federal spending cuts.

Stockton expected the U.S. central bank to continue its quantitative easing through mid-2014, with asset purchases totaling 1.5 trillion U.S. dollars.

He warned that the country has yet to see the macroeconomic impact associated with the sequester, 85-billion-dollar government spending cuts which began to take effect from March, and predicted that the fiscal drag would show through the overall economy in a weaker middle part of 2013.

According to Stockton, the U.S. economic growth would accelerate to 3.1 percent in 2014, as some of the drags on economic activities continue to wane. He expected growth to pick up further in 2015 to a pace of 3.3 percent.

The U.S. economy grew at a meager pace of 0.4 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012. Many economists said recent consumer spending data point to a stronger growth in the first quarter of this year.

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U.S. manufacturing is back. That’s been the conventional economic Bell Helicopter has entered the production phase of the first protowisdom now for several months, and there’s plenty of proof to back type of the 525 Relentless, a “super-medium”-class product and the it up – rising factory output, strong manufacturing production gains, company’s boldest move to reclaim share in the commercial market. and lower labor costs that make American workers more attractive.

Couple that with the natural gas boom underway in the U.S., which The releasing models to suppliers manycompany experts started believe will lowerdigital energydesign costs for U.S. manufacturers, after completing a preliminary design phase on 26 June.

That aland you’ve got a resurgence of a sector that has been shrinking as a lowed suppliers of certain components, such as a tail rotor assembly percentage of the economy for several decades. “We are probably the actuator, a main rotor gearbox carrier development the most competitive, on a global basis, than we’ve been in thepart pastand 30 years,” accessory gearbox, to enter production, says Larry Thimmesch, says GE CEO Jeff Immelt. “Will U.S. manufacturing go from 9% to Bell’s vice commercial programs.

30% of all president jobs? That’sofunlikely.

But could you see a steady increase in jobs, over the next quarters and years. I think that will happen.”

Bell announced the Relentless program in February, finally taking Butwraps at leastoffone economic Goldman Sachs’ economist Jan the what had beenseer, internally known as chief Project Magellan.

Hatzius, is throwing a bit of cold water on the idea.

He recently released Aimed at the oil and gas, corporate and VIP transportation, and a report, which getting a lotmedical of attention on the web, arguing that isthe parapublic and isemergency services markets, the 525 U.S. “manufacturing renaissance” is cyclical, not structural – meaning, Bell’s biggest commercial helicopter and the beginning of an entire the sector is doingand as well as would have been predicted under any series of mediumheavy-lift helicopters. circumstances at this point in an economic recovery, and that the gains don’t point to a real seismic shift in U.S. manufacturing competitiveness.

Bell has not released its internal deadline for the 525’s critical design “Measured productivity growth has been strong,” admits Hatzius in the review, but it must come before the prototype begins assembly in report, entitled “U.S. Manufacturing Renaissance: Fact or Fiction?” the second quarter of 2013 at the company’s Xworx facility.

It’s a very interesting point, and it matters a lot to the broader economy.

In the meantime, Bell has activated a 525gain systems integration lab Nations that do better in manufacturing an edge in the global comprised of every a main$1rotor test rig, avionics tail rotor economy: For of manufacturing outputtest in a bench, community, there’s test rig and twoofflight control systems another $1.48 wealth created.

That’stest whybenches. economic advisor to the President Gene Sperling has been pushing pro-manufacturing policies.

But the report wouldcertification seem to indicate themeeting strengthwith in U.S. Bell has Goldman held its first interim type that board manufacturing output reflects more the relative weakness of Europe the FAA. Although it is the first such commercial helicopter to be and Japan, rather positivehaving shift inconversations the U.S. itself.with “Over certificated, Bell than says aitlong-term has benefitted the next few years, the manufacturing sector should continue to the FAA for several years over the requirements to certify the grow flya bit faster than the economy,” notesthetheBA609 report.tiltrotor.

“But the main by-wire controls of overall what was then called reason is likely to be a broad improvement in aggregate demand rather than a structural U.S. manufacturing renaissance.”

For now, the company has chosen to downplay its performance

claims for the 525.

It has isreleased the minimum value fora more the One immediate question whetheronly exports really do provide helicopter’s range 400nm.

Thimmesch says he wants to keep the accurate picture, as the report suggests. It may be that more goods company focused on making the aircraft as good as possible, rather manufactured in the U.S. are staying in the U.S. As we’ve traveled than meeting a particular specification. also has not around the country reporting on this topicThe overcompany the last couple of years, launched on behalf of thepointed aircrafttoprior to first flight, a numberaofsales big drive industrial firms have growing demand for and only released an unquantified order from oil and gas transportheir products here at home – Caterpillar, which makes an increasing tation service amount of itsPHI. large earth-moving equipment for domestic mining, agriculture, and energy operations, is a great case in point.

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China, which has been flat (and also suffers from rising wages), the big The Detroit News reports, between Japan reason and China question is how much more“The it candispute go up. We feel there’s to be over island territory month benefit US automakers. bullish on the growthcontinued potential last there, giventohow materials science and Ford Motor Co. jumped 48 percentare in fundamentally October, and General the evolution of sales the “industrial internet” reshaping Motors Co. sales increased 14 percent in China, the automakers said manufacturing in the U.S.’s favor. The once separate steps of designing Monday.”

China and or Japan “are the jostling over the East China a product, making buying parts, andislands then in putting everything Sea, whichareJapan nationalized September but also are claimed such by together beginning to blendin— a consequence of technologies China.

The hostility has brought on calls to boycott Japanese goods as additive manufacturing and 3-D printing. It means that manufacturing including automobiles in China.” wants to be closer to engineering and design — a dynamic that would

likely benefit the U.S., which still rules those high-end job categories.

Add the ability to include sensors in every part and process, and you’ve got a whole new manufacturing ecosystem that allows companies to accelerate product development cycles and deliver more variety and value more quickly to ever more fickle consumers.

Of course, the jobs that are being created aren’t your father’s (or grandfather’s) factory jobs of knocking in four bolts a minute for eight hours a day. The new economics of Made in the USA are built in large part around acquiring cutting-edge technologies ahead of global competitors and then using those new techniques to produce more efficiently on super-automated factory floors. And while all the technology will translate into higher end jobs, it will also mean — barring dramatic growth — fewer jobs overall, especially in the middle.

Positions will either be high end, or lower paid, since workers still have to compete with cheaper overseas labor (even with wage inflation in China, it will be years before the Chinese are on par with U.S. wages).

It’s no accident that many of the new manufacturing clusters in the U.S. are in the South, where unions hold less power. “Yes, manufacturing is coming back, but it’s evolving into a very different type of animal than the one most people recognize today,” says James Manyika, says James Manyika, director of McKinsey Global Institute, which recently did an exhaustive study on this shift entitled “Manufacturing the Future.”

“We’re going to see new jobs, but no where near the number some people expect, especially in the short term.”

It’s a sentiment that stands in sobering contrast to President Obama’s second term goal of creating a million new manufacturing jobs in four years. Some of the difference may lie in semantics. As Manyika points out, labor statistics underestimate the reality of manufacturing, since

they count mainly jobs inside factories. Related positions in, say, Ford’s marketing department, or small businesses doing industrial design or creating new software for big exporters don’t get tallied. Yet these jobs wouldn’t exist but for the big factories. The official 9% of U.S. employment represented by manufacturing belies the importance of the sector to our overall economy. Manufacturing represents a whopping 67% of all private sector R & D spending, as well as 30% of the country’s productivity growth.

In short, manufacturing’s value can be measured in many different ways.

“The ability to make things is fundamental to the ability to innovate things over the long term,” says Willy Shih, co-author of Producing Prosperity: Why America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance. “When you give up making products you lose a lot of the added value.” That’s as good a reason as any to care about the future of manufacturing.

Trade Deficit Narrows In February Bloomberg News reported, “The trade deficit in the US unexpectedly shrank in February as stabilizing overseas markets boosted exports and Americans imported less oil. The gap narrowed by 3.4 percent to $43 billion from a revised $44.5 billion in January.”

The AP reported, “It was the smallest trade imbalance since December when the gap had declined to $38.1 billion, the lowest point in nearly three years. Exports rose 0.8 percent to $186 billion, close to the record high set in December. Stronger exports of US energy products and autos offset declines in sales of airplanes and farm equipment. Imports were flat at $228.9 billion with the volume of crude oil falling to the lowest point since March 1996.”

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The Washington Times reports a new report commissioned by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) and authored by former George Washington University professor Darryl Jenkins found that domestic UAV developments “will create more than 70,000 jobs within three years and will pump more than $82 billion into the US economy by 2025.” However, the article notes this assumes the current timetable for integration into the national airspace continues as mandated by Congress.

The report claims there will be “especially big winners” in the future, such as California, Florida,Texas, NewYork,Washington, Connecticut, Kansas, Arizona, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.

Obama Says US Well On Way To Goal Of Doubling Exports By The End Of 2014 Bloomberg News reports, “President Barack Obama said the US is ‘well on our way’ toward doubling exports by the end of 2014, a goal aided by pressing ahead with new trade agreements in Asia and Europe.”

The President “created the council in March 2010, laying out a goal of doubling US exports to about $3.14 trillion by the end of 2014 from $1.57 trillion in 2009.”

Obama also “told business executives who are part of his advisory council on exports that he’s ‘modestly optimistic’ that US and European Union negotiators can reach a trans-Atlantic accord in the wake of Europe’s financial crisis.” “‘They are hungrier for a deal’ as European countries struggle to find solid footing in a difficult economy, Mr. Obama told the group,” the Washington Times “inside politics” blog reported. “’You’re going to see more pressure from more countries’ to reach a deal,” he said.

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Honeywell turbochargers are vital components of the new 3.0-liter EcoDiesel V-6 that will be available for the 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee and the 2014 Ram 1500 pickup as well as in the 2.0-liter diesel engine in the Chevrolet Cruze and the 2.2-liter SKYACTIV-D engine in the Mazda 6.

“The increase in turbodiesel applications in the U.S. makes perfect sense in light of the more stringent CAFE regulations requiring more miles per gallon from manufacturers in a relatively short period of time,” said Tony Schultz, Honeywell Turbo Technologies vice president of the Americas. “The performance benefits of turbodiesel engines simply cannot be ignored from an industry perspective in their ability to help

reach these new fuel economy targets.”

In the US, industry projections anticipate that sales of passenger cars with turbocharged diesel engines will grow 22 percent in the next five years, with annual sales of more than a million cars per year expected by 2017. Sales of clean diesel passenger cars in North America have increased in 26 of the last 27 months, and were up more than 25 percent in 2012. Honeywell also projects turbodiesel penetration growth of 3 to 4 percent by 2018.

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Automakers Are Developing Autonomous Vehicles, But They Will Be Limited At First Technology Review reports, “Vehicle autonomy is advancing at remarkable speed, and it promises to make driving safer, easier, and considerably less annoying, but will appear first in very controlled contexts such as the closed environment of a parking garage.” Technology Review reports that, in “many ways, developing the technology is the easy part; automakers now face many practical road bumps as they try to bring that technology to the road.”

The problem, according to Annie Lien, a senior engineer “at the Electronics Research Lab, a shared facility for Audi, Volkswagen, and other Volkswagen Group brands in” California, “and others within the industry, is that the kind of technology seen in many demonstrations given by automakers and in Google’s self-driving cars is nowhere near ready for the showroom.”

NV Energy Supports Statewide Organizations with $389,000 in Grants during First Quarter 2013 During the first quarter of 2013, the NV Energy Foundation contributed $389,000, including multiyear commitments, to nonprofit organizations statewide.

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The Federal Reserve said production at US “factories, mines and utilities rose 0.4 percent in March from” the previous month. Utility output increased “5.3 percent, as Americans had to use more heat during a colder-than-normal March. And production of autos and auto parts surged 2.9 percent, the second straight monthly gain.”

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Some carmakers may be wary of the “driverless” concept, but Google is embracing it.The search engine giant has been at work on a self-driving car for much of the past decade. Pushed by its lobbying, three states — Nevada, Florida and California — have passed legislation approving driverless cars on roadways over the last three years.

In California, the Google car has clocked more than 300,000 accidentfree test miles, and though someone sits at the wheel, the driver is hardly required. The car maneuvers its way using sensors, lasers, a 360-degree camera mounted on top and GPS integration. All the human has to do is sit there.

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Manuf acturer s Applaud Senator s for Immigration Reform Plan The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) welcomed bipartisan legislation released by Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL), Jeff Flake (R-AZ), John McCain (R-AZ), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Charles Schumer (DNY), Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Michael Bennet (D-CO) and Dick Durbin (D-IL). This comprehensive framework addresses all aspects of immigration critical to manufacturers. While manufacturers are still reviewing the language, the proposal is a thoughtful and positive step that addresses the real reforms necessary for the United States to succeed. For manufacturers, this means fixing our broken system in a way that strengthens our economy and grows our workforce without displacing American workers.

“This country depends on a strong manufacturing economy, and a strong manufacturing economy relies on a top-notch workforce,” said Caterpillar Inc. Chairman and CEO and NAM Board Chair Doug Oberhelman. “In today’s competitive global marketplace, small and large manufacturers in the United States need workers at every skill level.

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Alpha Machine, A Woman-Owned Full Service Machine Shop, Expands its Capabilities with its Newest Acquisition, an Omax ® 5555 Waterjet

Alpha Machine, a woman owned machining company, is pleased to announce that it now offers superior waterjet services for its customers.

Eric Maxey, co-owner with partner KathyTaylor, says, “We’ve been doing machining for our customers since 1965. In the last couple of years, we were outsourcing so much of our waterjet cutting, or sawing the parts.

It was time to bring waterjet cutting in-house.”

Founded in 1965, Alpha Machine long-term employee John Williams bought the company in 1980. Eric was a key employee to John for many years. When John made the decision to retire in 2007, John’s daughter Kathy and Eric made the decision to purchase the entity. Since Kathy is the majority owner, Alpha Machine is a true woman-owned company.

Alpha Machine supports customers in a variety of industries, from communications (fiber optic and semiconductor), aerospace, automotive (including performance), gas and alternative energy.

“Business was good since its inception nearly a half century ago”, Kathy says, “but since Eric and I took over 6 years ago, we’ve increased our workforce to keep up with increasing business.” Eric says, “We’ve been very lucky in that we picked up a couple of key customers who were small at the time, and are just growing so rapidly that we are growing with them. We had a local customer who called us with an emergency part that was broken.We had the part by 6 pm that night, and we worked all through the night to get the replacement part to the customer. Since then, they have been a loyal customer, one who is growing exponentially, and we’ve been there with them through this growth.”

Kathy says machining is in her family’s DNA. She remembers her grandfather, a machinist by trade, and as a hobbyist, had machines in his living room at home. Kathy’s dad, of course, was a machinist and a machine shop owner.

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machining, welding, and now waterjet cutting. Eric says, “The only thing we outsource is special processes, and if I could bring this in-house, I would.We want to do as much as we can in-house, because not only do we control the quality of output, and the pricing, but we can additionally ensure we are meeting customers rigorous schedules.”

Kathy and Eric believe that their team helps to make Alpha Machine great.

“We don’t have a lot of turnover”, Eric said, “and with our superior long term staff, we are able to consistently make great parts.You can’t do this if you have high staff turn-over.” It is not surprising that the experienced machinists remain loyal to Alpha Machine. Eric and Kathy have never instituted a lay-off. Kathy says, “When we’ve gone through economic downturns, we reduce hours for all, rather than do a layoff. This has been key when business turned back up, as we still had the staff in place, and we simply added working hours for all.” Since the economic upturn, Alpha Machine is actually in hiring mode.

Several months ago, Eric and the Alpha Machine team were making some giant rings for a customer. These had to be waterjet cut, and the team had to outsource this. Eric says, “One of our regular suppliers told us they couldn’t get to the project for another two weeks, and this didn’t

work for our customer. We found someone who took on the job. His price was high, but we needed to get the project completed on time.This supplier said it took 4 and half hours to waterjet cut each part, and this is what he based his pricing on. Admittedly, this guy’s waterjet wasn’t an Omax 5555, so I am sure this accounted for some of the extra time it took him to cut our parts.” “But”, he continued, “With our Omax 5555, we are cutting these parts in 1 hour and 25 minutes today.”

Kathy and Eric hadn’t done business with Arizona CNC until their Omax 5555 waterjet purchase. Eric says, “I pretty much knew I wanted the Omax for our new waterjet. I worked on one several years ago, and I knew that it was a great brand. I called some colleagues in the industry, and everyone had outstanding things to say about the Omax.Then I went to visit 2 of the shops, and in both visits, their waterjets were down!

(They weren’t Omax waterjets). That really sealed my decision for me.”

Eric and Kathy’s philosophy is to buy superior machine tools. Eric says, “You get what you pay for, and when you skimp and purchase entry level machines, they will be less reliable.You pay more for a lower end machine when it is not up and running when you need it.” The Omax fit the bill for Alpha Machine.

Kathy is the company researcher, amongst other things. Kathy says, “I checked out Arizona CNC’s website. I was impressed with a number of things about the company, including that they are locally-owned and operated, that they are a full-service machine tool and automation products distributor, serving all of Arizona and southern Nevada, and that they have been in business for a number of years.”

She continued, “I read their customer testimonials, and it emphasized how customers really appreciate the Arizona CNC team’s experience and superior customer support. We value the fact that they have an experienced applications engineering team that can do time studies,

programming services, and training.When we contacted them to inquire into the Omax products, we were really pleased to learn that in addition to the staff at Arizona CNC, Omax has 2 service technicians who reside in Arizona. We were confident we would get the support we needed from Arizona CNC and Omax.”

Jeff Currie is Alpha Machine’s sales engineer from Arizona CNC. Jeff came out to meet the team at Alpha Machine, and offered two solutions for waterjet cutting, Omax’s 5555 and their more price conscious MAXIEM product line. Eric says, “We cut some very large parts, and most are made from steel and stainless. We needed the horsepower of the Omax 5555. We liked the newer technology pump, the ease of access to the pump, and the single cylinder maintenance. The taper control head on the Omax 5555 was very important as we cut some very thick materials.”

The Omax 5555, with 60,000 psi, offers a small footprint but is capable of cutting 4 foot x 4 foot. It is a cantilever-style machine, and offers a cutting tolerance of ±0.003”(±0.08 mm).With a completely sealed and protected Ball Screw Drive System, this robust and reliable workhorse is perfect for shops cutting projects needing high precision. Eric says that Jeff shared the outstanding resale value of the Omax’s, and this was important for Eric and Alpha Machine’s growth strategy.

The team already received training at their location, provided by Omax. Eric says, “Omax offers training for life, and for as many in the organization as we want.This is done at their headquarters in Kent,WA. Several team members are planning their Omax training in the near term. Kathy says that Omax even offers its own financing, making the purchase easy for Alpha Machine.

Eric says, “Jeff has been great for us. He kept in constant communication with us through the ordering and installation process. Arizona CNC has been very easy to do business with.” He continued, “We had one small issue since purchasing the Omax 5555. Our waterproof mouse that came with the machine didn’t work. I went through a few standard PC mice that day, as they don’t work once they get water on them, but Omax overnighted a new mouse to us. Next day service!”

For more information on Alpha Machine, a woman owned full service machine shop, contact them at 602-437-0322.

To learn more about Omax waterjets and Arizona CNC’s complete line of machine tools, call them at 480-615-6353 or visit arizonacnc.com.

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Automakers See Strong Sales In March The New York Times reports, “Automakers reported that March sales of new cars and trucks were the highest monthly total in five years, providing more evidence of a sustained turnaround in the industry.

According to Autodata, 1.45 million vehicles were sold during the month, a 3.4 percent improvement over last year, as a strengthening housing market and low interest rates spurred consumers and businesses to replace aging models.”

The Detroit News reports, “It was industry’s best month in five years and translated into a seasonally adjusted annualized selling rate of 15.27 million vehicles, up from 14.14 million a year ago.

‘I think the industry is recovering at a healthy pace with very little downside risk,’ said Jesse Toprak, vice president of market intelligence at automotive research site TrueCar.com. ‘The recovery is real and substantiated with even more room to grow.’”

All three US “automakers outperformed the industry as a whole.”

“Ford said its US sales increased 5.7% in March, or just under the robust expectations for the overall industry, as sales of the Ford Fusion midsize sedan topped 30,000 units and pickup sales surged.

General Motors reported a 6.4% sales gain for the month, buoyed by a 31% sales increase of crossovers, a whopping 49% increase for Cadillac and a 37% increase for Buick. Chrysler said sales of its cars and trucks increased 5% in March as the automaker kept its streak of 36 consecutive year-over-year monthly sales increases alive.”

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The Navy’s request includes $1.68 billion for continued development and construction on the CVN-21 Ford-class aircraft carrier program, more than doubling this year’s $781.7 million request. Of that, $945 million would bankroll continued detailed design and construction of the second Ford-class carrier, the CVN-79 John F. Kennedy.

Debate about the carrier, built by Newport News, Virginia- based Huntington Ingalls, will intensify this year because the Navy will ask Congress to increase a cost ceiling imposed on the first carrier in the fiscal 2007 defense authorization bill. The ceiling, which allowed for increases to keep up with inflation, is now $11.8 billion.

Senator John McCain of Arizona, the senior Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee’s seapower subcommittee, last year asked the U.S. Government Accountability Office to review the Ford-class program’s cost, schedule and performance status.

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Requests for more submarine and destroyer money in the 2014 plan underscores the importance of a spending measure funding the government through Sept. 30 that was passed by Congress last month and signed by President Barack Obama. Before that, the Pentagon was operating under a continuing resolution that didn’t contain added submarine or destroyer dollars.

The U.S. Navy is seeking more money for the Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier dogged by rising costs and sticking to its plan to buy four more troubled Littoral Combat Ships, according to internal budget figures obtained by Bloomberg News.

“The Navy’s inclusion of a second Virginia-class submarine in fiscal 2014 follows through on Congress’ action,” Ronald O’Rourke, naval analyst for the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, said in an e-mail statement.

The service’s budget request for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1 also seeks $5.41 billion for the Virginia-class submarine made jointly by Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc. (HII) and General Dynamics Corp.

(GD), a 27 percent increase from $4.25 billion this year.

The Navy’s request will seek authority to enter into another multiyear contract for as many as 10 additional submarines.The current contract expires this year. Babcock & Wilcox Co. (BWC), based in Charlotte, North Carolina, makes the submarine nuclear reactors.

The Navy’s request asks for $1.8 billion to fund the previously planned procurement of four Littoral Combat Ships, built by Lockheed Martin Corp. (LMT) and Austal Ltd. (ASB) teams, the same number funded in the current fiscal year.

Still, Pentagon funding may face additional across-the- board reductions if automatic cuts known as sequestration stay in place throughout fiscal 2014.

The price of the ship, which is intended to be a small, speedy vessel for use in shallow waters close to shore, has doubled since 2005 to $440 million apiece. A decision to simultaneously build two versions will add to long-term operating costs.

The Pentagon’s chief weapons tester has cited flaws with the ship’s guns and questioned whether the LCS could carry on its mission after being hit in combat. A classified Navy memo last year called on the service to consider a ship with more firepower after the first 24 are built.

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Lieutenant Courtney Hillson, a Navy spokeswoman, declined to comment on details of the spending plan.

“Until the fiscal 2014 president’s budget request is submitted to Congress later this week, and becomes part of public record, all decisions are pre-decisional and it would be inappropriate to discuss specific details,” Hillson said.

The Navy is “committed to working more efficiently and cost-effectively in this resource-constrained environment,” she said.

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The AP reported that in the US Senate a nonbinding resolution passed 62-37, endorsing construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. In a bipartisan show of support, 17 Democrats as well as “all 45 Republicans” approved the measure, which was put forth by Sen. John Hoeven.

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Popular Science reported that to make sure the Webb telescope will avoid the same optical problems that plagued the Hubble telescope initially, “WaveFront engineers developed a measuring tool called an infrared Scanning Shack-Hartmann Sensor, which enables testing of the mirror’s surface immediately after grinding.” This system had applications in ophthalmology, as it was a “major improvement” over what ophthalmologists used to examine eyes in “procedures like fitting contact lenses--and mapping the eye’s topography for laser surgery.”

The article noted the spinoff technology, iDesign Advanced WaveScan Studio, was just released last year, “was approved for use in Europe last summer, and it’s still waiting approval by the US Food and Drug Administration,” according to developer Dan Neal.

University Of New Mexico Seeks Companies That Can Use Engineering Students As Summer Interns Albuquerque (NM) Business First reports, “The University of New Mexico is looking for companies that can use undergraduate engineering students as interns this summer.” The university “will pay half of the students’ salaries with money from a National Science Foundation grant, and the companies will pay the other half, according to UNM’s website.”

Tariq Khraishi, associate professor of mechanical engineering at UNM, said, “These are students with some engineering courses on their resume and they are ready to put their skills to use in a real world environment.”

Factory Workers Putting In More Overtime The Wall Street Journal reports that factory workers are working more overtime than they have in recent years, which the Journal says is a trend that is indicative of strengthening demand in the economy and may eventually lead to additional hiring. The Journal says that factory workers were working an average of 41.8 hours a week on average in March, down a bit from February’s 41.9, but still a recent high.

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Polymers are not “stiff and strong enough to hold bone together, and so scientists added glass particles, which gives the polymer extra strength. The only problem is that to make the implants, the plastic and glass particle mix has to be heat-treated.”

Jose Ramon Sarasua and Aitor Larrañaga, of “the materials engineering department of the University of the Basque Country, have proposed a way around this problem: treat the glass particles with a plasma, an ionized gas that alters the chemistry of the particles’ surface.”

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* 6% expect activity will decline, from 8% in the February report Metalformers’ expectation of incoming orders: * 46% of participants expect an increase in orders, from 50% in the February report * 43% expect no change, from 39% in February * 11% expect a decrease in orders, unchanged from the February report March average daily shipping levels were up slightly: * 42% of participants report that shipping levels are up from three months ago, compared to 40% in the February 2013 report * 42% report that shipping levels are the same as three months ago, from 37% in the February 2013 report * 16% report a decrease in shipping levels, from 23% in the February 2013 report Metalformers with a portion of their workforce on short time or layoff: 11% in March, a big drop from 19% in February. This is the lowest level since March 2012’s 10%.

“PMA’s manufacturing member companies reported fairly strong orders and shipments in the first quarter of 2013 vs the last quarter of 2012,” said William E. Gaskin, PMA president.

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US Army partners with Intel to optimize virtual training The US Army’s Simulation and Training Technology Center (STTC) has signed a cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) with Intel for collaboration and optimization of research in virtual training environments.

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STTC science and technology manager Doug Maxwell said proper representation of the operational environment for army training requirements was expected to require a substantial increase in simulation scalability and flexibility.

“This partnership is the first step to show that more than 1,000 users can operate in the same space and at the same time to achieve a realistic mission,” Maxwell said.

“This partnership is the first step to show that more than 1,000 users can operate in the same space and at the same time to achieve a realistic mission.”

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The HRED is focused on devising troops’ requirements in the next five to ten years.

Additional research include analysis and development in the domains of intelligent tutors, immersive learning environments, human agent teaming, dismounted soldier training, virtual world technologies, mobile applications, including applications, medical simulators and simulations.

Facebook’s Zuckerberg Launches Group To Push For Scientific Research, Immigration Reform The Chicago Tribune reports, “A new bipartisan political advocacy group cofounded by Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg launched last month with a line-up of technology leaders, including former Groupon Chief Executive Andrew Mason.

The group, FWD.us, said on its website that it will focus on ‘comprehensive immigration reform that allows for the hiring of the best and brightest,’ along with education reform and scientific research.”

In an op-ed in the Washington (DC) Post Zuckerberg wrote, “In a knowledge economy, the most important resources are the talented people we educate and attract to our country.” Zuckerberg wrote, “To lead the world in this new economy, we need the most talented and hardestworking people.” The US needs “a new approach, including: Comprehensive immigration reform that begins with effective border security, allows a path to citizenship and lets us attract the most talented and hardestworking people, no matter where they were born; higher standards and accountability in schools, support for good teachers and a much greater focus

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It is very difficult to plan into the future when there is such uncertainty in the tax code. No one likes a moving target, and for the last 10 years it has been a nightmare to plan.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;We recognize that policymakers face many difficult decisions ahead in reforming the tax code,â&#x20AC;? Griffith added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You will have to decide which

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SpaceX’s Dragon Capsule 2.0 Looks Like ‘Alien Spaceship,’ Elon Musk Says The next version of the Dragon spacecraft built by the private spaceflight company SpaceX will look like something truly out of this world, according to Elon Musk, the company’s billionaire founder and CEO. Musk detailed some of the high points of the firm’s much-anticipated Dragon Version 2 to reporters during a briefing with NASA to celebrate the firm’s second successful cargo mission to the International Space Station. SpaceX’s unmanned Dragon capsule returned to Earth in late March with a successful splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.

But according to Musk, Dragon Version 2 landings won’t be so … wet.

But it may look weird.

“There are side-mounted thruster pods and quite big windows for astronauts to see out,” Musk told SPACE.com. “There are also legs to pop out at the bottom. It looks like a real alien spaceship.”

Those pop out legs, Musk added, will be for land touchdowns.

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Musk is designing the capsule in the hopes that it will make its landings back on Earth, not at sea. The current Dragon space capsule design can only land in water, but Musk said he wants to “push the envelope” with the spacecraft’s next incarnation, be it for manned or unmanned flights.

Musk is expected to unveil the design sometime later this year.

Meanwhile, SpaceX is already experimenting with land landings using its Grasshopper rocket, a prototype for a completely reusable launch system that has made several test flights — each higher than the last — none of which were aimed at reaching space.

Dragon isn’t the only member of the SpaceX fleet getting an upgrade.

The company’s Falcon 9 rocket is also going to be retooled for more efficiency with 60 or 70 percent greater capacity and 60 percent more powerful thrusters, Musk added.

SpaceX’s most recent Dragon mission ended after three weeks attached to the orbiting laboratory.The capsule splashed downin the Pacific Ocean about 214 miles (344 kilometers) off the coast of Baja California to return about 2,670 pounds (1,210 kg) science gear and back to Earth.

The Hawthorne, Calif.-based SpaceX has a $1.6 billion deal with NASA to fly a dozen cargo missions like the one that just ended.The company’s fourth launch is scheduled for the end of September.

During its mission, Dragon returned time-sensitive science experiments that were successfully delivered to NASA on time once it arrived on dry land, according to SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell. Among the experiments were plants grown on station and new alloy mixtures that

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could help improve metal strength on the ground, International Space Station program scientist Julie Robinson said.

NASA also has a commercial resupply contract with Orbital Sciences Corp., a $1.9 billion deal for at least eight unmanned cargo missions with the Virginia-based company’s Antares rocket and Cygnus capsule.

Orbital Sciences Corp. is on schedule to launch a test flight of its rocket in mid-April.

The retirement of NASA’s space shuttle fleet in 2011 leaves the space agency dependent on Russia’s Soyuz spacecraft to ferry astronaut crews to and from the space station. Once private space taxis become available, NASA hopes to use them to launch American astronauts on trips to the station.

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NASA and SpaceX are planning to stage a “pad abort test” to gauge the functionality of the company’s “launch abort system” that would need to be in place before a crewed mission can take place, Musk said.

“That said, we welcome the potential new business in the launch vehicle group which is based in Chandler,” Beneski said.

Orbital’s rocket unit gets in on $150M contract Orbital Sciences Corp.’s rocket division in Chandler is part of a new $150 million research and development contract awarded by the U.S. Army.

Orbital’s Arizona division, New Mexico State University and Virginia-based Northrop Grumman Technical Services Inc. will provide engineering support and conduct studies for U.S. military R&D programs under the new contract.

Orbital Vice President Barron Beneski said the contract is structured to be worth as much as $150 million, but the amount will depend

Orbital has rocket and satellite divisions in Chandler and Gilbert. It has 1,500 has employees in the East Valley and 3,600 total.

The company reported 2012 reve-nue of $1.44 billion, up 7 percent from $1.35 billion in 2011.

A m e r i c a n M a c h i n e To o l Consumption Rises Manufacturing equipment installations grew 19 percent in the United States last year while leveling off in other major manufacturing nations, indicating that the recovery that began in 2010 continued into 2012. The data come from the 2013 edition of the World Machine Tool Output & Consumption Survey, which is released annually by Modern Machine Shop publisher Gardner Business Media.

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Held April 9 – 12, HaasTec included machine demonstrations, extensive tours of Haas Automation’s 1-million-square-foot facility, a catered lunch, and 38 vendor booths with representatives from major CAD/CAM, tooling, and workholding manufacturers. As an added bonus, Tony Stewart’s #14 Chevrolet racecar was on display, courtesy of Stewart-Haas Racing. A high percentage of the racecar’s high-precision chassis and engine components are machined exclusively on Haas machines by Stewart-Haas Racing and Hendrick Motorsports.

Visitors to HaasTec often arrived in large groups, accompanied by representatives from their local Haas Factory Outlet (HFO). More than 30 HFOs worldwide arranged trips to the event to personally show customers and potential customers what goes into making a Haas.

There were 19 machines on display and running demos at HaasTec, including the brand-new UMC-750 universal machining center. Also on hand were the Haas ST and DS turning centers – including dual-spindle and Y-axis models – the DT-1 Drill/Tap Center, a wide array of Haas VMCs, and a pair of Haas horizontals.Attendees also got to see nearly 200 Haas machines in action on the factory floor, making parts for more Haas machines. Of the 268 chip-making machines in the Haas factory, nearly 75 percent are Haas machines.

In addition to the CNC machines, a number of Haas rotary products were also on display, including the new HRC210 roller cam rotary table.With a maximum speed of 830° per second, the HRC210 is more than eight times faster than the standard HRT210.The unit’s high speed and accuracy make it the perfect complement for Haas Automation’s line of Super SpeedVMCs.

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MD Receives New 500E Order From Polk County Florida Sheriff ’s Office MD Helicopter, a Lynn Tilton company and leading manufacturer of commercial, air-rescue, military and law enforcement helicopters, announced a new order for a MD 500E helicopter from the Polk County Florida Sheriff’s Office (PCSO). The new MD 500E is the first order in a program to replace an aging fleet of three military surplus OH58’s.

Following a detailed review of competitive aircraft, the PCSO selected the MD 500E as the best helicopter to support its law enforcement missions.

This PCSO Aviation Unit supports ground units with pursuits, backup, surveillance, and the search for suspects and missing persons.

“My staff researched and evaluated helicopters and manufacturers for over a year before we decided that it was in our best interest, and in the interest of the safety and security of the people of Polk County, to do business with MD Helicopters, Inc.,” said Sheriff Grady Judd of the PCSO. “We are proud to announce this purchase of our first MD 500E helicopter to phase out the aging helicopters in our fleet. We are looking forward to a continued relationship with the fine professionals at MDHI.”

The MD 500E helicopter delivers the highest speed, payload and productivity in its class. The newly ordered helicopter will start the PCSO’s replacement plan of its current fleet of aging aircraft. The aircraft will be equipped with a 420-shp Rolls-Royce 250-C20B turbine engine and a complete law enforcement performance package.The MD 500E cockpit configuration will include a full complement of modern avionics with NVG lighting, Garmin radios, an Avalex monitor and a Technisonic tactical radio. Utility features include a Meeker mount, Nightsun searchlight, 2,000 lb. cargo hook, auxiliary fuel tank and wire strike protection kit.

Equipped with seven full-time pilots and 10 part-time flight officers, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office Aviation Unit began back in 1972, when it started with 2 fixed-wing aircraft. Helicopters were added to the aviation unit in 1982. In 1995 four U.S. Army surplus OH-58’s were acquired. Currently the PCSO Aviation Unit operates the three OH 58 turbine helicopters and one Cessna 182 fixed wing aircraft.

Solectria Renewables Chosen to Power 2.5MW PV System in Roswell, New Mexico Solectria Renewables, LLC, the leading U.S. PV inverter manufacturer, announced that it has been chosen by Green States Energy, an independent power producer (IPP), to power a 2.5MW groundmount PV system in Roswell, New Mexico.This PV system will be powered by Solectria’s PVI 95KW line of central inverters.

“This installation will be one of the largest in New Mexico and provide power to the surrounding communities. As part of a retail program, power from our projects are used right in the local community we are proud to be a part of,” said Stephen Clevett, CEO of Green States Energy. “We evaluated many inverter manufacturers for this project. Solectria Renewables’ central inverters proved to be the most robust, reliable and efficient.”

The electricity produced from the project will be sold to Xcel Energy, a local electric utility. Combined with its sister project that was installed in 2010, it will provide more than 9 million kilowatt-hours of electricity per year to the community, enough to power approximately 780 homes.The CO2 emissions saved over the lifetime of the system are estimated to be 226,125 tons, and the SO2 emissions saved will be over 994 tons.

“New Mexico is a hotspot for solar production and Green States Energy is one of the largest independent power producers in the state,” said Phil Vyhanek, President of Solectria Renewables. “We are pleased to be selected as the inverter manufacturer for this project. IPP’s such as Green States Energy realize that our inverters provide them with the greatest ROI for solar installations due to their reliability, efficiency and bankability.”

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Monarch Power aims to change the solar dynamic with mobile products Arizona State University professor of electrical engineering Joseph Hui s building a company called Monarch Power to develop the Lotus, a 1.1-kilowatt solar “flower” that opens and closes with daylight and tracks the sun on its path across the sky.

Joseph Hui wants to make solar power cheap and mobile, even if he has to mount his device to an electric vehicle to get his point across.

The Arizona State University professor of electrical engineering is building a company called Monarch Power to develop the Lotus, a 1.1-kilowatt solar “flower” that opens and closes with daylight and tracks the sun on its path across the sky.

The Lotus has been under development for about two years at Monarch’s offices at ASU SkySong in Scottsdale. The roughly 10-footdiameter solar dish is designed for multiple deployments and can go anywhere. Hui said his goal is to provide power where it’s needed, whether in Phoenix neighborhoods, the Australian Outback or the African savannas.

But the Lotus is more than just a solar dish. Hui’s plan is to roll out multiple products that include a small natural gas-powered turbine for when the sun isn’t shining, as well as options for a system that would provide clean water with the power produced. There’s also an eye on electric vehicles.

To demonstrate how mobile the Lotus is, he mounted one on a Tesla Roadster and carts it around to show just what it can do.

It’s also cheap. Really cheap by solar standards, where it takes tens of thousands of dollars to get a rooftop system. Hui says his system will cost about $4,000 before incentives. With incentives, it will be less than $2,000.

Monarch is aiming to bring power to people rather than making people move to cities to get power, he said.“I’m going to go out and reverse what Thomas Edison has done,” said Hui, who believes in decentralized power without a need for the Edison-developed grid.

Hui designed the Lotus for several reasons. He’d been working on concentrated solar power solutions, but found their applications could not be shrunk sufficiently to meet the needs of individual users. He also wanted to find a solar solution that didn’t need to be fixed to a roof.

There’s more Monarch is working on, including possible battery systems to provide storage for the Lotus and other features.

Hui is thinking even bigger than that. His goal is raising about $25 million for a “solar wonderland” that would be part manufacturing facility, part education facility and part test bed -- potentially on tribal land east of Scottsdale. He also envisions a similar facility, but bigger, in China at a cost of $50 million.

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Part of the work will be done by Monarch. Hui also has established the MPower Foundation, aimed at getting solar systems into the hands of needy areas across the world.

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“The InSight mission is a geophysical mission to Mars,” Banerdt said.

“It’s going to go to Mars and take its vital signs. It’s going to take its heartbeat - the seismic activity of the planet. It’s going to take its temperature by measuring the thermal gradient of its surface, which tells us how much heat is coming out. And it’s going to measure its reflexes by looking at how its rotation wobbles with the tidal effects of the sun.”

Based on a proven lander design successfully demonstrated by NASA’s Phoenix mission in 2008, the InSight spacecraft will make a rocketassisted touchdown in a region named Elysium Planitia, a broad equatorial plain dotted with extinct volcanoes.

“It’s very flat,” Banerdt said. “There are lava flows nearby, and we have already picked out landing ellipses around the flow.” Banerdt is a researcher based at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Teams identified 16 potential landing zones around the western side of Elysium Planitia. All of the ellipse-shaped landing site candidates meet the lander’s engineering constraints, which stipulate an area of sufficiently low altitude to allow the spacecraft to safely make a parachute- and rocket-assisted descent.

InSight also needs a flat landing area free of large rocks with penetrable soil to a depth of at least 5 meters, or about 15 feet.The mission’s two main instruments, a seismometer and drilling heat probe, require a site with soft rock-free soil.

According to a presentation by Matt Golombek, a geologist at JPL, the list of 16 candidate landing sites will be whittled down to and a half-dozen locations by the end of this year. Officials will select two or three finalists by the end of 2014, ultimately leading to a final decision on InSight’s destination by the end of 2015.

A high-resolution camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter will take detailed photos of each landing ellipse throughout the process, looking for hazards such as steep slopes and boulder fields.

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The three-legged InSight lander, built by Lockheed Martin Corp., will set down on Mars in September 2016, starting a surface mission expected to last at least two years.

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All the investigations have the objective of telling scientists about the interior of Mars. Banerdt said researchers can take that information a step further, comparing InSight’s findings with what is known about Earth and the moon to paint a clearer picture of how the solar system’s rocky planets formed and cooled.

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Rockwell Collins to Pursue Commercial Sales Amid Pentagon Cuts The chief executive officer of Rockwell Collins Inc. said his company will shift some of its business into the commercial sector as Pentagon budget cuts lead to the dismissal of hundreds of workers.

Clayton Jones, speaking with Bloomberg Television’s Hans Nichols in an interview, said he expects Rockwell Collins to trim about 300 employees this year because of automatic federal budget cuts known as sequestration, with more firings possible next year.

“I think that could be the tip of the iceberg because I think most of the effect is going to be felt in” fiscal year 2014, Jones said. “Sequestration is the single worst piece of public policy I’ve seen in my 33 years in this business, and it will absolutely affect us.”

Last year, federal agencies accounted for about 38 percent of sales for the Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based company, according to its 10-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Jones said the company expects to see its commercial work expand by 7 percent this year.

Rockwell Collins, which produces avionics and information technology systems for aircraft, won about $1 billion in direct U.S. government contracts in the year that ended Sept. 30.

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BAE Seeks Work on Boeing 737 as Defense Budgets Shrink BAE Systems is chasing a contract to supply flight-control gear to Boeing Co.’s 737 Max jetliner as it seeks to boost civil sales amid declining military spending in the U.K. and U.S. BAE’s electronic-systems plant is bidding to provide equipment that adjusts the plane’s flaps and rudder to dictate its movements, Michael Tierney, who is in charge of the site, said.

BAE, which quit large-scale civil aerospace manufacturing with the sale of its stake in Airbus SAS to European Aeronautic, Defence & Space Co. in 2006, currently supplies controls only to the Boeing 777 in the civil market and will also bid to do so on the upgraded 777X. That plane is slated to enter service around the end of the decade, with the Max, a re-engined version of the world’s best-selling airliner, due for first delivery in 2017.

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“Historically we have done a lot of control systems for the Typhoon fighter. Now we are concentrating on growing other parts of the business.”

BAE is targeting work with Boeing following the failure last year of a planned merger with EADS that would have boosted its chances of winning contracts from Airbus, in which it once had a 20 percent holding.The Londonbased company stopped making its own civil aircraft in 2001 and also tried to sell its U.S. commercial aerospace unit, Platform Controls, in 2010.

‘Strategic Conundrum’ Without contracts on new planes, the flightcontrol business risks entering permanent decline, according to Nick Cunningham, a London-based analyst at Agency Partners, who says BAE’s civil policy is a “strategic conundrum.” Work on the existing 777 model is guaranteed through 2019,Tierney said.

The production of controls for the Eurofighter Jagdflugzeug GmbH Typhoon warplane, in which BAE is a partner, may

also begin to tail off from 2016 in the absence of further export orders.

BAE is looking to secure flight-control work with Embraer SA (EMBR3) as the Brazilian company introduces upgrades of its regional jets at the end of the decade, Tierney said.

It’s also in talks to equip the Chinese MA700 turboprop after failing to secure a position on Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China Ltd.’s C919 narrow-body jetliner.

BAE could also adapt military technologies for commercial applications, including head-up displays which provide Typhoon pilots with information without having to look down at their instruments and which are also made at the Rochester site.

Bus Push There may also be an opening to supply the C919 with active control sticks giving pilots more tactile feedback, Tierney said. BAE provides the devices for Lockheed Martin Corp. (LMT)’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and the CH-53K troop-transport helicopter, and has developed a more compact version of civil use.

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A review is also under way to assess how BAE can extend the market for hybrid power-plants used to propel buses, the third main business focused on Rochester.

Eclipse Aerospace Wins Final FAA Approval For Eclipse 550 Production

While about 3,000 buses use the HybriDrive technology in the U.S. and more than 500 in the U.K., European penetration is relatively low at around 180 vehicles, giving “huge growth potential,” according to Tierney.

The Albuquerque Business First reports, “Eclipse Aerospace received final approval from the FAA to start production of its new very light jet,” the Eclipse 550.

BAE builds 300 hybrid systems annually and that output reach 800 units in a few years, he said, adding that the technology, which relies on power cells charged via an internal combustion engine, could qualify for state funding in France through the establishment of supplier relationships there.

In a reversal of the usual military-to-civil development of BAE’s programs, the engines may also transition to defense use via the company’s bid for the U.S. Army Ground Combat Vehicle contest, in which it’s competing with General Dynamics Corp.

The program is under review as part of a wider strategy update ordered by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel last month.

According to the article, the company “is the reincarnation of Eclipse Aviation, which filed bankruptcy and ceased production of the Eclipse 500.”

Eclipse CEO Mason Holland said with the ability to now produce and test the jet, “we are on our way to delivering jets this year.”

GE Aviation team recognized with Adamson Award for innovation A GE Aviation team, which BAE Systems supports as a subcontractor, was awarded the internal GE 2012 Adamson Award for significant innovation. BAE Systems

employees are important members of this project team, providing engine controls to support the GE3000 military helicopter engine program for GE Aviation, the world’s leading producer of large and small jet engines for commercial and military aircraft.

The Adamson Award is GE Aviation’s most prestigious internal innovation award.

“Laurie Kelly, GE’s engineering lead for the team, was ecstatic about the win and passed along GE’s gratitude to us for our significant involvement,” said Doug Williams, BAE Systems GE3000 program manager. “Laurie mentioned there were roughly 340 nominations this year [across all technology areas such as compressors, airfoils, etc.], and for them to win really set the stage for the importance of controls within the organization.”

The GE3000 answers a wide range of operational needs by combining advanced technologies with lessons learned from GE Aviation’s more than 50 years of helicopter experience.

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The technology is in its early stages; Stetson said Lockheed is still working on how to scale production and the company said it is seeking commercialization partners.

Lockheed is hardly alone in scouting commercial opportunities. Even General Dynamics, which has long had a robust commercial business, is pursuing expansion.The company earlier this year announced a strategic partnership with Samsung to incorporate GD technology into Samsung Galaxy devices.

BAE Systems’ too, is seeking sources of revenue to help make up for shortfalls in the U.S. defense business. Today, commercial business represents just under 10 percent of BAE’s work, but the company is seeking growth in commercial avionics and shipbuilding work, among other areas, said Thomas A. Arseneault, executive vice president of BAE’s product sectors.

The company has long been translating its experience providing flight and engine controls for military aircraft into the same kind of work for commercial airplane manufacturers. But Arseneault said BAE is expanding beyond its traditional customers such as General Electric and Boeing to now work with Embraer and Bombardier.

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In 2010, BAE bought Atlantic Marine, which has helped it expand from its experience in naval ship repair to commercial shipbuilding. Last year, it completed construction of the American Phoenix, a chemical tanker that BAE said is operating in the Gulf of Mexico.

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BAE is under contract to build nine more vessels for the oil and petroleum industry. “We took something we were good at … and translated that,” Arseneault said.

Lockheed Martin earlier this year received a patent for Perforene, a material used to make water potable by removing sodium, chlorine and other ions.

In BAE’s case, Arseneault said some of its focus industries aren’t so different than the government market. For instance, in the aerospace and the shipbuilding sectors, there are a limited number of customers and high barriers to entry.

It was a personal victory for John B. Stetson Jr., a Lockheed senior technical fellow who came up with the idea more than three years ago, but it was also a significant step for a defense contractor that has been primarily focused on the government market.

As contractors encounter shrinking federal budgets, they are increasingly seeking to bolster their presences in the international and commercial markets. Companies have long been promising this diversification, but there are now more signs this effort is fully underway.

“The bottom line is if their government customer continues to have less money for purchasing goods and services, then the companies really don’t have a choice but to diversify,” said Loren Thompson, a defense industry consultant.

Stetson came up with the idea for Perforene while at a conference in Houston. He was intrigued by the material graphene, which is composed of pure carbon.“This stuff is so thin and so strong,” he recalled thinking.

“If we could just poke holes in it that are the right size, we could filter the salt out of water.”

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APS Adds to Solar Leadership in Arizona An APS filing at the Arizona Corporation Commission underscores the company’s essential role in making Arizona one of the top solar energy markets in the nation.

Governor Jan Brewer announced last month that according to the 2012 U.S. Solar Market Insight Report from the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), Arizona now ranks second nationally for solar installations, and the state topped the list with the most utility-scale solar technology installed.

“As the recent solar rankings indicate, Arizona is one of the top solar markets in the United States,” said Brandt. “Our solar portfolio is growing and makes Arizona a national leader in both solar innovation and the sheer amount of solar generation serving customers.”

APS, Arizona’s largest and longest-serving electricity utility, serves more than 1.1 million customers in 11 of the state’s 15 counties. With headquarters in Phoenix, APS is the principal subsidiary of Pinnacle West Capital Corp.

AMEC, APS Partner to Dedicate Foothills Solar Power Plant Arizona Public Service Co. and AMEC, an international engineering and project management company, announced the completion of the first 17 megawatts (MW) of the Foothills Solar Power Plant – the fifth APS AZ Sun facility and the first ever solar project to be built on Arizona State Trust Land.

The plant is being built in two phases: the first 17 MW is now online, and the remaining 18 MW is scheduled to reach commercial operation by the end of the year. With a capacity of 35 MW, the Foothills Solar Plant will generate enough electricity to power 8,750 local Yuma customers.

The dedication of the first 17 MW was made today in Yuma, as APS Chairman and CEO Don Brandt spoke to 130 workers onsite.

“Foothills, like all of our AZ Sun facilities, is generating clean, solar energy that is becoming a critical part of our planning to meet the energy needs of APS customers. Beyond the solar energy being generated, these plants also are creating quality jobs for Arizona.

Foothills alone has brought more than 100 jobs to the Yuma area,” said Brandt. “ Arizona now ranks second in the country in solar megawatts installed, and APS is a big part of making Arizona a national leader in solar development. In fact, by the end of this year APS will have almost 700 MW of solar energy in our generation portfolio – enough electricity to serve 175,000 Arizona homes.”

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by Marion Blakey,President and CEO, Aerospace Industries Association

The Virginia General Assembly may have unwittingly done us a favor by attempting to pass a two-year moratorium on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, or drones, as they are more commonly known. Perhaps it will prompt a more reasoned debate about how we can make this breakthrough technology — a multi-billion-dollar market — serve the needs of society without compromising safety and privacy.

When viewed dispassionately, UAS are like any new technology.

They can have a multitude of positive uses such as finding lost hikers, studying hurricanes and the spread of plant diseases, and carrying cargo.

Although UAS have been with us for decades in various shapes and sizes, the technology for controlling and operating them has really matured in the last decade. And where we’ve seen them most is in combat operations and strikes on terrorists, a fact that has colored the public’s somewhat limited perception of their utility. Also, press coverage of Senator Rand Paul’s recent filibuster regarding imaginary deadly UAS hovering above our heads has had the effect of confusing the public about what domestic UAS are intended to do and not do.

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the National Airspace System. It is estimated that as many as 30,000 UAS could be flying domestically in a few years. This is certainly a big potential deal for America’s aerospace industry and the economy, as growing domestic uses will add to an ever increasing worldwide demand for these systems. Indeed, the Teal Group estimates that spending on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles—the flying component of UAS—will almost double over the next decade from current worldwide expenditures of $6.6 billion annually to $11.4 billion.

As part of the FAA’s UAS integration rulemaking process, the administration is seeking to establish six test sites around the country where they can test fly various sized and shaped UAS and collect data on their performance. Virginia is one of several states vying to be selected as a test site, recognizing the potential of those states that are keenly involved in this process to generate many of the 100,000 jobs the Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International estimates will be created nationwide by 2025. No doubt,Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell saw that being identified as a drone unfriendly state will not help the Commonwealth’s prospects for benefiting from UAS-related jobs creation when he offered amendments to the drone moratorium bill to allow the use of UAS by universities and by law enforcement for the “search or rescue of missing persons or in cases involving imminent danger to citizens.”

The FAA has accepted a responsibility to develop rules for UAS safety and privacy protection, and Congress is certain to hold their feet to the fire on these issues. What’s worrisome about the action of the Virginia General Assembly, and municipalities like Charlottesville, which has passed “anti-drone” legislation, is that natural disasters such as wildfires, severe storms, crop blight and earthquakes do not respect state or local boundaries. And UAS may come in handy some day if, for example, a hurricane or tornado bears down on Charlottesville.

Rather than have a patchwork quilt of regulation across multiple jurisdictions, I believe complex questions and concerns related to regulating UAS are best addressed at the federal level in the context of a national debate on how these systems can be deployed and regulated to ensure the greatest good for the American public.

Ford Offers $50,000 Prize For Developer That Can Create A Fuel Economy App The Detroit Free Press reports, “Ford wants to help customers more accurately measure the fuel economy of their Ford vehicles to counter claims it has overstated the fuel economy of certain models.”

At the New York Auto Show, Jim Farley, Ford head of global sales and marketing, “announced the Personalized Fuel Efficiency App Challenge. Software developers can access Ford’s OpenXC onboard data platform to come up with their own app solutions.”

The automaker “is offering up to $50,000 to developers who deliver hardware or software that helps drivers understand the effect of the elements and driving habits on their fuel economy.”

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Last year Bell CEO John Garrison challenged the aviation industry to arrest the exodus of its best engineering talent to the likes of Google and Apple. Since 2008, Bell has been doing its part in this effort by conducting an “engineering boot camp” for selected college sophomores and juniors during their spring breaks. Students are given real-world engineering problems to solve on actual Bell design and manufacturing programs. Graduates are given the opportunity to apply for multi-year Bell internships, and some are eventually hired as full-time company employees.

What started as a small program with about a dozen students and three universities has grown into a national one with nearly 500 applicants annually, according to Jeff Lowinger, Bell’s executive vice president of engineering.

The selection process is rigorous. “We focus on their schooling first. We do look for a certain grade point average, but it is not the end-all. It really centers around the conversation we have with an applicant.” From 500 applicants, Bell whittles the choice down to phone interviews with 50.

“We are looking at how well they articulate, what is their background, what are their interests, and do we believe they are really interested in coming to Bell and interested in the rotorcraft sector.Then we want to know how much they ask about the company and how much research they have done about it.We look at those things and we also try to maintain a balance.We don’t want to take too many applicants from any one school.The learning experience of having them integrate with people from different schools makes it more valuable for them,” Lowinger said.

Boot campers arrive on a Sunday for orientation and quickly are given training on the Bell products, tours of the company’s design and manufacturing facilities, familiarization with Six Sigma analysis quality tools, information in a designated subject matter, and assignment to a team charged with solving an actual problem.

“They work with that team for an entire week to solve the problem. They learn how to analyze it, come up with the best alternative approaches, make a determination, and, if they have time, prototype a solution.These students are up until two or three in the morning every day,” said Lowinger.

“It’s an intense week,” he said, with students sometimes working 20-hour days and providing creative solutions to vexing problems, “something we are struggling with,” Lowinger said.

At the end of the week, participants meet with Bell’s executive leadership team and present their solutions.

Boot-camper ideas have successfully been applied to front-line Bell products, including the under-development 525 Relentless super-medium twin, where a boot campers’ ideas were applied to the design of the cargo hold and the baggage handling system design and tooling for the drive system for the aircraft. “These students come up with a lot of different ideas.

It’s the benefit of having people on the outside looking in,” Lowinger said.

He said today’s engineering students are more adept at using electronic

tools that enable them to “learn much faster and more quickly produce a capable output,” allowing Bell to use leaner development teams for new products such as the 525. “The new engineering tools allow you to run with a smaller staff and collaborate and make decisions much more quickly. They are driving the collaboration to make faster decisions,” Lowinger said.

Lowinger said that students who come into the program “knowing nothing about rotorcraft become quickly engaged” and see the career opportunities within the industry. He estimates that Bell hires approximately 50 percent of all its boot-camp and internship graduates, between 40 and 70 each year. “It’s a great place for them to learn about the company and decide if it is the right place for them, and it is a good audition for us to see how they perform in the workplace.

First Solar Acquires 60 MWAC North Star Project from NorthLight Power First Solar, Inc. and NorthLight Power, LLC announced that First Solar has acquired the 60 megawattAC (MW) North Star solar project that NorthLight has developed in Fresno County, Calif. NorthLight is a joint venture of Renewable Energy Corporation ASA and Summit Power Group, LLC. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

The photovoltaic (PV) solar plant is expected to start construction in 2014 and be completed in 2015, providing up to 410 construction jobs. When fully operational, it will produce enough clean, renewable energy to power over 21,000 average California homes while displacing approximately 33,000 metric tons of water consumption and 39,000 metric tons of CO2 per year—the equivalent of taking about 7,500 cars off the road each year.

The North Star project is located near the city of Mendota and has a 20year power purchase agreement with Pacific Gas and Electric Company.

Aerospace firms to see export reform The rules on the export of U.S.-made aerospace items will soon ease, following a decision this week by the State Department to lessen restrictions on what it calls “less sensitive items.” Manufacturers will find it easier to export some aerospace components, including those that are part of engines.

“These reforms will allow the U.S. government to better focus on controlling the export of sensitive technologies remaining on the U.S. Munitions List while streamlining exports of defense-related items to U.S. allies and partners around the world,” a State Department statement said.

Cessna delivered 32 aircraft in first quarter Textron, the parent company of Cessna, said the manufacturer delivered 32 business jets in the first quarter, a drop from 38 aircraft for the same quarter last year. “Customers, especially in the light jet segment, tend to be small-business owners who continue to defer purchase decisions reflecting continued concerns about the financial outlook,” said Textron CEO Scott Donnelly.

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“Clearly, we wouldn’t be interested unless we thought there was money,” said Bob Knauff, a retired general leading a New York-Massachusetts bid, in the L.A. Times report.

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With an estimated potential value of $9.5m, the indefinite-delivery indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract covers delivery of spares for the M1A2 system enhancement package (SEP) version 1 and version 2 tanks to the DLA. General Dynamics Land Systems combat support and sustainment vice-president Graz Graziano said the company was committed to help DLA realise its strategic goal of reducing programme costs by $10bn in the next five years.

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Magnum Precision Mach 505-345-8389 Phoenix Small Tool ____ 602-256-7011 Starrett___________602-790-6073 Total Quality Systems ___ 480-377-6422 SPC Data Acquis.Equip.

D & R Machinery _____ 480-775-6462 Datum Inspection _____ 602-997-1340 Rapid Optical Inspection Schenk Intertech _______ 480-323-6755 Repair & Certification Washington Calibration__ 480-820-0506 Video Measuring systems Klontech Industrial Sales _ 480-948-1871 OGP ____________ 480-889-9056 Starrett___________602-790-6073 Total Quality Systems ___ 480-377-6422 ROBOTIC EQUIPMENT Integrated Systems Inc __ 928-649-9600 USED MACHINERY ACC Machinery ______ 602-258-7330 CNC Machinery Sales ___ 602-244-1507 EDM Network _______ 480-836-1782 Ganesh Machinery ____888-542-6374 Innovative Cutting Systems _ 480-557-7999 K D Capital ________ 480-922-1674 Methods West _______ 602-437-2220

Moore Tool & Equipment _ 602-455-8904 R. Jorgenson Company __ 800-952-0151 S&S Machinery Sales ___ 602-368-8542 Savage Machine Tools __ 480-275-8630 TSM Machinery ______ 602-233-3757 ACCESSORIES Total Filtration Services __ 602-244-0717 Abrasives Barton International ___ 800-741-7756 S. L. Fusco, Inc. ______ 480-753-5000 Aqueous Degreasers Petroferm Inc. _______ 317-371-8899 Abrasive Systems KMT Waterjet Systems __ 800-826-9274 Adhesives S. L. Fusco, Inc. ______ 480-753-5000 Air Blast Cabinets, Blast Rooms Lone Arrow________480-507-8074 Air Compressors Airtek ___________ 480-966-5267 Air Drying Systems Airtek ___________ 480-966-5267 Air Filtration Equipment Innovative Cutting Systems _ 480-557-7999 Magnum Precision Mach _ 602-431-8300 Total Filtration Services __ 602-244-0717 Ball Screws Fadal CNC _________208-855-9426 Band Saw/ Blades bandsawparts.com ____800-240-2932 Echols Saw & Supply ___ 602-278-3918 Innovative Tool Sales ___ 714-780-0730 Marshall Tool & Supply __ 602-269-6295

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Rocky Mountain Saw Blades303-761-3000 Roentgen USA ______ 847-787-0135 S. L. Fusco, Inc. _____ 480-753-5000 sawblade.com _______877-501-7297 Wayco Sales Inc _____ 562-927-3469 Bar Feeders Arizona CNC Equip ____ 480-615-6353 Edge Technologies ____562-597-7824 Ellison Machinery ____ 480-968-5335 Magnum Precision Mach _602-431-8300 Bar Feeder Accessories Edge Technologies ____562-597-7824 Trusty-Cook ________877-240-2462 Blast Abrasives Barton International __ 800-741-7756 Cabinets, Custom Lone Arrow ________480-507-8074 Chemicals: Ultrasonic Petroferm Inc. _______ 317-371-8899 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

An ISO 9001 Company

Jeff Klimowicz Senior Sales Engineer Southwest Region: AZ, UT, NV, CO, ID All Products Proudly Made in the USA

Chuck Jaws Arizona CNC Equip ____ 480-615-6353 Ellison Machinery ____ 480-968-5335 Chucks Adams Machinery _____ 480-968-3711 Arizona CNC Equip ____ 480-615-6353 Ellison Machinery ____ 480-968-5335 InnovativeTool Sales ___ 714-780-0730 Marshall Tool & Supply __602-269-6295 Seco Tools Inc _______248-528-5960 CNC Lathe Accessories Trusty-Cook ________ 877-240-2462

Mobile: 480‐320‐0308 jklimowicz@qualichem.com www.qualichem.com

CNC Spindle Liners Trusty-Cook ________ 877-240-2462 Cleaners: Ultrasonic Larry Arroues & Assoc __ 602-938-0603 Pro- Ultrasonics ______ 602-938-0603 CompressedAir Piping Systems Airtek ___________ 480-966-5267 Total Filtration Services __ 602-244-0717 Coolant Systems Blaser______________801-722-4095 DCM Tech _________ 800-533-5339 Ebbco Inc _________ 800-809-3901 Hangsterfers _______ 316-640-2462 Star Metal Fluids _____ 800-367-9966 Cutting Fluids & Oils (Coolants) Blaser______________801-722-4095 Canyon State Oil _____ 800-894-7773 Echols Saw & Supply ___ 602-278-3918 Hangsterfers _______ 316-640-2462 Houghton _________ 602-625-1407 5thAXIS FIXTURES

Innovative solutions for all 3, 4, and 5 axis machines.

Mathew Evans Director of Sales and Marketing

7140 Engineer Rd. San Diego, CA 92111 www.5axisfixtures.com sales@5axisfixtures.com

(858)-505-0432

Marshall Tool & Supply _ 602-269-6295 Maxum Petroleum ___ 602-278-8877 Pioneer Distributing Co. 602-278-2693 Rocky Mountain Saw Blades 303-761-3000 S. L. Fusco, Inc. _____ 480-753-5000 Star Metal Fluids ____ 800-367-9966 Cutting Tools Almar Tools, Inc. ____ 503-255-2763 Cutting Tools Consultants 602-277-1342 Eclipse Carbide _______480-214-3719 Innovative Tool Sales ___714-780-0730 Micro 100 _________480-495-1454 Rocky Mountain Saw Blades 303-761-3000 S. L. Fusco, Inc. _____ 480-753-5000 Sandvik Coromant ___ 480-233-0997 Sandvik Coromant ___ 602-628-4242 Seco Tools Inc ______ 248-528-5960 Cutoff Tools Eclipse Carbide _______480-214-3719 Deburring Equipment S. L. Fusco, Inc. _____ 480-753-5000 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

Door Opening Systems: Automatic Midaco Corporation ____ 847-593-8420 Dust Collectors Lone Arrow________480-507-8074 Total Filtration Services __ 602-244-0717 Factory Automation and Logistics Murata _________ 704-972-4469 Fasteners Parker Fasteners _____ 623-925-598 Filtration Equip.

Blaser______________801-722-4095

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Bar / Plate 24 Hour Delivery

Delivering Alloy Solutions to the World.

Contact Us for Your Local Representative

Nickel Cobalt. Titanium. Stainless.

Patricia Negoro 800.337.3766 x 148 AerodyneAlloys.com Santa Fe Springs, CA pnegoro@aerodynealloys.com

Industrial Controls Canyon State Oil _____ 800-894-7773 Ebbco Inc _________ 800-809-3901 IEC Supply LLC ________480-455-1446 Maxum Petroleum ____ 602-278-8877 Industrial Electronics Qualichem, Inc. ______480-320-0308 IEC Supply LLC ________480-455-1446 Star Metal Fluids _____ 800-367-9966 Lubricants / Systems Total Filtration Services __ 602-244-0717 Canyon State Oil _____ 800-894-7773 EDM Materials & Supplies Hangsterfers _______ 316-640-2462 Blaser______________801-722-4095 Houghton _________ 602-625-1407 Canyon State Oil _____ 800-894-7773 Maxum Petroleum ____ 602-278-8877 D & R Machinery _____480-775-6462 Pioneer Distributing Co. _ 602-278-2693 Desert EDM Sales _____ 480-816-6300 EDM Network _______ 480-836-1782 Star Metal Fluids _____ 800-367-9966 MachineTool Accessories EDM Performance acc’s __ 800-336-2946 Schenk Intertech ________480-323-6755 Global EDM Supply ____480-836-8330 Machine Tool Cool. Filtration Qualichem Inc _______480-320-0308 Blaser______________801-722-4095 Star Metal Fluids _____ 800-367-9966 Canyon State Oil ________ 800-894-7773 EDM Fluids D Hangsterfers _______ 316-640-2462 & R Machinery________ 480-775-6462 Pioneer Distributing Co. _ 602-278-2693 Houghton _________ 602-625-1407 Maxum Petroleum ____ 602-278-8877 EDM Tooling Systems Desert EDM Sales _____ 480-816-6300 Production Tool Co _______ 800-266-3253 EDM Network _______ 480-836-1782 Qualichem, Inc _________ 480-320-0308 EDM Performance ____ 800-336-2946 Star Metal Fluids ________ 800-367-9966 Global EDM Supply____480-836-8330 Total Filtration Services __ 602-244-0717 Filtration -Grind Wheels & Belts Magnetic Particle Ins Equip.

S. L. Fusco, Inc. ______480-753-5000 DCM Tech ___________ 800-533-5339 Guard & Vacuum Pedestals Micro Blasters: Comco For Grinders Larry Arroues & Assoc __ 602-938-0603 Midaco Corporation ____ 847-593-8420 Milling and Turning Products Hole Making Products Schenk Intertech ________480-323-6755 Schenk Intertech _______ 480-323-6755 Mist Collectors Industrial Automation Production Tool Co _______ 800-266-3253 IEC Supply LLC _______ 480-455-1446 Total Filtration Services __ 602-244-0717

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P.O. BOX 17010 800 ROSS AVE. CINCINNATI, OHIO 45217 sales@diehlsteel.com

Serving Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico

(800) 543-1566 FAX (513) 242-8988

www.diehlsteel.com

Motors Fadal CNC ________ 208-855-9426 Pallet Systems Adams Machinery _______ 480-968-3711 D & R Machinery________480-775-6462 Ellison Machinery _______480-968-5335 Parts Washing Equipment Blaser______________801-722-4095 Production Tool Co _______800-266-3253 Qualichem, Inc _________480-320-0308 Star Metal Fluids ________ 800-367-9966 Resolvers Fadal CNC ________ 208-855-9426 Sensors IEC Supply LLC ________480-455-1446 Solvents & Degreasing Agents Blaser______________801-722-4095 Canyon State Oil ________ 800-894-7773 Houghton _________ 602-625-1407 Maxum Petroleum ____ 602-278-8877 Petroferm Inc. _______ 317-371-8899 Pioneer Distributing Co. _ 602-278-2693 Qualichem, Inc _________480-320-0308 Star Metal Fluids ________ 800-367-9966 Solvents: Vapor degreasing Petroferm Inc. _______ 317-371-8899 Solvents:Hand Wipe Petroferm Inc. _______ 317-371-8899 Solvents: Mil PRF 680 Petroferm Inc. _______ 317-371-8899 Spindles Fadal CNC ________ 208-855-9426

GMN USA _________ 800-686-1679 Setco Spindles & Slides_____ 866-362-0699 Stainless Weld Discoloration Removal Larry Arroues & Assoc __ 602-938-0603 Steel Service Center Ryerson ____________ 602-455-3374 Vacuum Pumps &Workholding Airtek _____________ 480-966-5267 Vibratory Equipment Adams Machinery _______ 480-968-3711 Production Tool Co _______ 800-266-3253 Vises and Vise Jaws 5th Axis Fixtures _____ 858-505-0432 Arizona CNC Equip _______ 480-615-6353 Desert EDM Sales _______ 480-816-6300 Waterjet Abrasives Barton International ___800-741-7756 KMT Waterjet Systems __ 800-826-9274 Lone Arrow ________ 480-507-8074 Waterjet Replacement Parts Barton International ___800-741-7756 KMT Waterjet Systems __ 800-826-9274 Work Holding 5th Axis Fixtures _____ 858-505-0432 Ellison Machinery ____ 480-968-5335 Innovative Tool Sales ___ 714-780-0730 FIXTURING 5th Axis Fixtures _____ 858-505-0432 Fixturing Designs 5th Axis Fixtures _____ 858-505-0432 HARDWARE MATERIAL Alloys: High Temperature Aerodyne Alloys_____ 860-289-3820

VP/General.Manager

Haynes Intl ________619-449-1584 Western States Metals _ 801-978-0562 Alloys: Specialty Aerodyne Alloys_____ 860-289-3820 Haynes Intl ________619-449-1584 Aluminum AZ Metals ________ 602-688-8003 Bralco Metals _______ 602-252-1918 Ind. Metal Supply ____ 602-454-1500 Coast Aluminum ____ 877-977-6061 Diehl Steel _______ 800-543-1566 Fry Steel Company ___ 800-423-6651 MarZee Inc. _______ 602-269-5801 Ryerson _________ 602-455-3374 Samuel, Son & Co. ___ 800-631-9765 TCI Precision Metals____ 800-234-5613 Tolleson Steel ______ 623-936-3325 Tube Service Company _ 602-267-9865 Aluminum Extrusions Bralco Metals _______ 602-252-1918 Ind. Metal Supply _____ 602-454-1500 Coast Aluminum ____ 877-977-6061 Samuel, Son & Co. ___ 800-631-9765 Armor:Commercial Temtco Steel ________480-389-2883 Armor:Military Grade Temtco Steel ________480-389-2883 Bar: Large Diameter Bralco Metals _______ 602-252-1918 Coastal Metals ______ 800-811-7466 TW Metals _________800-203-8000 Brass AZ Metals ________ 602-688-8003

Bralco Metals _______ 602-252-1918 Coast Aluminum _____ 877-977-6061 Coastal Metals ______ 800-811-7466 Fry Steel Company ____ 800-423-6651 Ind. Metal Supply _____ 602-454-1500 State Industrial Prod ___ 602-275-0990 Western States Metals _ 801-978-0562 Bronze AZ Metals ________ 602-688-8003 Coastal Metals ______ 800-811-7466 Ind. Metal Supply _____ 602-454-1500 State Industrial Prod ___ 602-275-0990 Western States Metals _ 801-978-0562 Carbon AZ Metals ________ 602-688-8003 Coastal Metals ______ 800-811-7466 Ind. Metal Supply _____ 602-454-1500 Fry Steel Company ____ 800-423-6651 Cast Iron Western States Metals _ 801-978-0562 Castings Ind. Metal Supply _____ 602-454-1500 Ceramics MarZee Inc. ________ 602-269-5801 Chrome Rod Western States Metals _ 801-978-0562 Cobalt United Performance Metals _888-282-3292 Copper Apache Steel Company __ 602-323-2200 AZ Metals ________ 602-688-8003 Bralco Metals _______ 602-252-1918 Ind. Metal Supply _____ 602-454-1500 Coast Aluminum _____ 877-977-6061 State Industrial Prod ___ 602-275-0990 Western States Metals _ 801-978-0562 CPM Powder Metal Diehl Steel _______ 800-543-1566 Drill Rod Diehl Steel _______ 800-543-1566

Extrusions TW Metals _________ 800-203-8000 Lead Ind. Metal Supply _____ 602-454-1500 Material Sales Samuel, Son & Co. ___ 800-631-9765 TW Metals _________ 800-203-8000 Ulbrich of California __ 800-237-2888 Metals Advanced Metal Sales___623-434-8343 Apache Steel Company __602-323-2200 AZ Metals ________ 602-688-8003 AZ Tool & Steel ______ 480-784-1600 Bralco Metals _______ 602-252-1918 Coast Aluminum _____ 877-977-6061 Ind. Metal Supply _____ 602-454-1500 Ryerson _________ 602-455-3374 Samuel, Son & Co. ___ 800-631-9765 State Industrial Prod ___ 602-275-0990 TCI Precision Metals____ 800-234-5613 Tolleson Steel _______ 623-936-3325 Temtco Steel ________480-389-2883 Tube Service Company __ 602-267-9865 TW Metals _________ 800-203-8000 Ulbrich of California __ 800-237-2888 United Performance Metals _888-282-3292 Western States Metals _ 801-978-0562 Metals-Bar & Plate Aerodyne Ulbrich Alloys _ 800-337-3766 AZ Metals ________ 602-688-8003 AZ Tool & Steel ______ 480-784-1600 Coast Aluminum _____ 877-977-6061 Ind. Metal Supply _____ 602-454-1500 Samuel, Son & Co. ___ 800-631-9765 Temtco Steel ________480-389-2883 Tolleson Steel _______ 623-936-3325 Metals-Bar & Plate Aerodyne Ulbrich Alloys _ 800-337-3766 AZ Metals ________ 602-688-8003 AZ Tool & Steel ______ 480-784-1600

Coast Aluminum _____ 877-977-6061 Ind. Metal Supply _____ 602-454-1500 Samuel, Son & Co. ___ 800-631-9765 Temtco Steel ________480-389-2883 Tolleson Steel _______623-936-3325 Supra Alloys, Inc _____ 805-388-2138 Tool Steel Diehl Steel _______ 800-543-1566 Tubing & Pipe AZ Metals ________ 602-688-8003 Haynes Intl ________619-449-1584 Ind. Metal Supply _____ 602-454-1500 Samuel, Son & Co. ___ 800-631-9765 Supra Alloys, Inc _____ 805-388-2138 Tube Service Company __ 602-267-9865 Tubing: Titanium & Hastelloy Haynes Intl ________619-449-1584 Supra Alloys, Inc _____ 805-388-2138 GASES Cylinder Storage/Microbulk Praxair Distribution ____ 602-269-2151 Purification Units (CO2 and Hydrogen) Praxair Distribution ____ 602-269-2151 Welding and Cutting Praxair Distribution ____ 602-269-2151 TOOLING Phoenix Small Tool ____ 602-256-7011 Boring Bars Almar Tools, Inc. ____ 503-255-2763 B & T Tool & Engineering _ 602-267-1481 Marshall Tool & Supply __602-269-6295 Micro 100 _________ 480-495-1454

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Reamers & Drills, PCD Marshall Tool & Supply __602-269-6295 PrecisionToolholding Products 30 Years Experience Schenk Intertech _______ 480-323-6755 MIKE SMITH Thread Mills 602-397-4008 Almar Tools, Inc. ____ 503-255-2763 amtsmike@hotmail.com mike.amts@hotmail.com Horizon Carbide ______480-968-0957 Seco Tools Inc. _______ 248-528-5960 Horizon Carbide ______ 480-968-0957 Micro 100 _________480-495-1454 Carbide Arizona Machine Tool Service, AMTSDrills Sandvik Coromant ____480-233-0997 Opening a new chapter in my life, after 30 years, 22 in Arizona as Machinery Sales Almar Tools, Inc. ____ 503-255-2763 Cutting Toolsservicing Consultants 602-277-1342 Co. Senior Service Engineer, Bridgeport, Cincinnati, Hardinge, Okamoto, Sandvik Coromant ____602-628-4242 and many others, CNC andTool Manual Machine__ Tools, I will continue to provide service B & T Tool & Engineering _ 602-267-1481 Marshall & Supply 602-269-6295 Tooling Columns and repair to Arizona, Cutting Tools Consultants 602-277-1342 Moore Tool & Equipment _ 602-455-8904 Ellison Machinery ____ 480-968-5335 Thank you Mike Smith Eclipse Carbide _______ 480-214-3719 Sandvik Coromant ____ 480-233-0997 Tooling: Cutting Tools Helical Solutions _____ 866-543-5422 Sandvik Coromant ____ 602-628-4242 Custom Horizon Carbide ______ 480-968-0957 Seco Tools Inc _______ 248-528-5960 B & T Tool & Engineering ___ 602-267-1481 Innovative Tool Sales ___ 714-780-0730 Tooling Systems End Mills Magnum Precision Mach _ 602-431-8300 Ellison Machinery _____480-968-5335 Marshall Tool & Supply __ 602-269-6295 Almar Tools, Inc. _____ 503-255-2763 Global EDM Supply____480-836-8330 Micro 100 _________ 480-495-1454 Cutting Tools Consultants 602-277-1342 Micro 100 _________480-495-1454 S. L. Fusco, Inc. ______ 480-753-5000 Helical Solutions _____ 866-543-5422 Sandvik Coromant ____480-233-0997 Marshall Tool & Supply __ 602-269-6295 Cutting Tools Sandvik Coromant ____602-628-4242 Almar Tools, Inc. ____ 503-255-2763 Micro 100 _________ 480-495-1454 Seco Tools Inc _______248-528-5960 Cutting Tools Consultants 602-277-1342 S. L. Fusco, Inc. ______ 480-753-5000 METAL DISTRIBUTORS Eclipse Carbide _______ 480-214-3719 Sandvik Coromant ____ 480-233-0997 Western States Metals _ 801-978-0562 Helical Solutions _____ 866-543-5422 Sandvik Coromant ____ 602-628-4242 PALLET SYSTEMS Horizon Carbide ______ 480-968-0957 Form Tools Manual & Automatic Pallet Micro 100 _________ 480-495-1454 B & T Tool & Engineering 602-267-1481 Systems Sandvik Coromant ____ 480-233-0997 Cutting Tools Consultants 602-277-1342 Midaco Corporation ____ 847-593-8420 Sandvik Coromant ____ 602-628-4242 Horizon Carbide ______ 480-968-0957 Manual Lift Off Pallet Cutting Tools: Custom Systems Inserts, Indexable Almar Tools, Inc. ____ 503-255-2763 Horizon Carbide ______ 480-968-0957 Midaco Corporation ____ 847-593-8420 B & T Tool & Engineering _ 602-267-1481 Manual Rotory Pallet Marshall Tool & Supply __ 602-269-6295 Eclipse Carbide _______ 480-214-3719 Systems Sandvik Coromant ____ 480-233-0997 Midaco Corporation ____ 847-593-8420 Sandvik Coromant ____ 602-628-4242 ROBOTICS Inserts, PCD/CBN Robotic Part Loading Systems Horizon Carbide ______ 480-968-0957 Midaco Corporation ____ 847-593-8420 Marshall Tool & Supply __ 602-269-6295 PROG. SYSTEMS Loose Abrasive Grains CAD/CAM S. L. Fusco, Inc. ______ 480-753-5000 Adams Machinery _____ 480-968-3711 A2Z METALWORKER

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Relationship Manager 480.905.2407 rschwister@alerusmail.com alerusfinancial.com

Arizona CNC Equip ____ 480-615-6353 Delcam __________877 335 2261 Feature Cam _______602-502-9654 TMI (GibbsCAM) ______ 602-618-6553 Software, Inv. Control Delcam __________877 335 2261 Feature Cam _______602-502-9654 Software, NC Programming Adams Machinery _____ 480-968-3711 Delcam __________877 335 2261 Ellison Machinery _____480-968-5335 Feature Cam _______602-502-9654 TMI (GibbsCAM) ______ 602-618-6553 Software, Servicing Delcam __________877 335 2261 Feature Cam _______602-502-9654 TMI (GibbsCAM) ______ 602-618-6553 Tooling Systems Global EDM Supply____480-836-8330 REPAIR/DESIGN Bar Feeder Repair Edge Technologies ____562-597-7824 Machine Tool Design/ Engineering Ellison Machinery _____480-968-5335 Machine Tool Rebuilding API Services ________ 757-223-4157 A&J Ind Mch. Repair ___602-550-1339 Adams Machinery _____ 480-968-3711 Advanced Precision ____ 602-525-0156 AMTS____________602-397-4008 CNC Machinery Sales ___ 602-244-1507 DM Machine Repair ____480-709-1450

EDM Network _______ 480-836-1782 Jemelco, Inc. _______ 480-804-9541 Setco-Pope Spindles ____ 866-362-0699 Southwest Spindle Service 480-837-0368 The Werks C&C, Inc ____ 602-569-1809 Machine Retrofitting/CNC Adams Machinery _____ 480-968-3711 AMTS____________ 602-397-4008 API Services ________ 757-223-4157 Arizona CNC Equip ____ 480-615-6353 CNC Machinery Sales ___ 602-244-1507 Machinery Moving Advanced Precision ____ 602-525-0156 A&J Ind Mch. Repair ___ 602-550-1339 API Services ________ 757-223-4157 Machine Repair Parts/Filters Total Filtration Services __ 602-244-0717 Maint/Repair Services A&J Ind Mch. Repair ___ 602-550-1339 Adams Machinery _____ 480-968-3711 Advanced Precision ____ 602-525-0156 AMTS____________ 602-397-4008 Arizona CNC Equip ____ 480-615-6353 DM Machine Repair ____ 480-709-1450 D & R Machinery _____ 480-775-6462 Ellison Machinery _____ 480-968-5335 Jemelco, Inc. _______ 480-804-9541 Southwest Spindle Service 480-837-0368 State Industrial Prod ___ 602-275-0990 The Werks C&C, Inc ____ 602-569-1809 Mold Repairs B&B Tool _________520-397-0436 Stamping Repairs B&B Tool. _________520-397-0436 Prev. Maint Programs A&J Ind Mch. Repair ___ 602-550-1339 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 Ellison Machinery _____ 480-968-5335 Jemelco, Inc. _______ 480-804-9541 The Werks C&C, Inc ____ 602-569-1809 Total Filtration Services __ 602-244-0717 Repair -Hydraulic A&J Ind Mch. Repair ___ 602-550-1339 Advanced Precision ____ 602-525-0156 Road Machinery _______ 520-623-8681 The Werks C&C, Inc ____ 602-569-1809 Repair - Portable A&J Ind Mch. Repair ___ 602-550-1339 Advanced Precision ____ 602-525-0156

The Werks C&C, Inc ____ 602-569-1809 Spindle Rebuilding API Services ________ 757-223-4157 Setco-Pope Spindles ____ 866-362-0699 GMN USA _________800-686-1679 Southwest Spindle Service 480-837-0368 Tool Repair, Coating, Treatment Cutting Tools Consultants 602-277-1342 MACHINERY REPAIR PARTS Belts All World Machinery Supply 815-943-9111 Bearings(Precision) All World Machinery Supply 815-943-9111 Metric O-Rings All World Machinery Supply 815-943-9111 Switches (Proximity, Limit) All World Machinery Supply 815-943-9111 Valves (Hydraulic, Pneumatic) All World Machinery Supply 815-943-9111 SERVICES Banks Alerus Bank & Trust ____ 480-905-2407 Bank of Arizona ______ 480-642-2876 Business Consulting BMSC ___________ 480-445-9400 Quality Improvement Consulting480-861-7088 Quick Turn Financial ___ 480-385-1220 Calibration Services Klontech Industrial Sales _480-948-1871 MTLC ____________ 602-721-8819 Phoenix Small Tool ____ 602-256-7011 Starrett _________________ ___________602-790-6073 Washington Calibration_ 480-820-0506 Calibration: Repair & Certify MTLC ____________ 602-721-8819 Phoenix Small Tool ____ 602-256-7011 Washington Calibration_ 480-820-0506 Cash Flow Management Bank of Arizona ______ 480-642-2876 CNC Laser Calibration MTLC ____________ 602-721-8819 Computer/Web Services Gartman Technical Services _602-788-8121 Consulting American Global Standards 617-838-4648 BMSC ___________ 480-445-9400 Advanced Custom Screens 800-992-7936 Quality Advisory Services _ 602-910-1510

Quality Improvement Consulting 480-861-7088 Quality Training Consultants_ 928-284-0856 Sustaining Edge Solutions__ 888-572-9642 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 Jet Products _________623-869-6749 Design Services Metalcraft Inc. ________ 480-967-4889 Engineering Services Advanced Coord. Tech ___623-780-4137 Metals Eng & Testing Lab. 602-272-4571 Financial Services Alerus Bank & Trust ____ 480-905-2407 Bank of Arizona _______480-642-2876 Quick Turn Financial ___480-385-1738 SBG Capital ________480-897-4988 Heavyhaul IRH ____________ 800-334-2409 Insurance Services HUB Intl __________ 602-749-4190 Leavitt Group _______602-264-0566 ISO/AS9100 Consulting American Global Standards _617-838-4648 BMSC ___________ 480-445-9400 Quality Improvement Consulting 480-861-7088 Quality Training Consultants_ 928-284-0856 Sustaining Edge Solutions__ 888-572-9642 IT/ Network Support Gartman Technical Services _ 602-788-8121 Leasing and Financing Alerus Bank & Trust ____ 480-905-2407 Bank of Arizona ______ 480-642-2876 Quick Turn Financial ___ 480-385-1220 Lean Manufacturing BMSC ___________ 480-445-9400 Quality Improvement Consulting 480-861-7088 Sustaining Edge Solutions___888-572-9642 Manufacturers Rep Trepanning Specialties __ 562-633-8110 Quality Training Consultants_ 928-284-0856 Schenk Intertech ________480-323-6755 Rigging/Machinery Moving IRH ____________ 800-334-2409 Recycling Barry Metals_________602-484-7186 Consolidated Resources Inc. 623-931-5009 MMR,LLC __________ 623-937-0385

SA Recycling _________602-463-8791 Reverse Engineering BMSC ___________ 480-445-9400 Datum Inspection ___ 602-997-1340 Klontech Measure Sol___ 480-626-8131 Metalcraft Inc. ________ 480-967-4889 Metals Eng & Testing Lab. 602-272-4571 Rigging IRH ____________ 800-334-2409 Schools, Custom Training AZPMAP __________ 602-723-8191 Ellison Machinery _____ 480-968-5335 Jet Products ________ 623-869-6749 Quality Advisory Services __ 602-910-1510 Services: Network Support Shop Floor Automations___ 877-611-5825 Supplier Auditing BMSC ___________ 480-445-9400 Quality Improvement Consulting 480-861-7088 Systems Integration Ellison Machinery ______ 480-968-5877 Testing, Metallurgical Metals Eng & Testing Lab. __ 602-272-4571 ARTL _____________ 602-374-3770 Trade Show Booth Design Fry Fabricators _______ 602-454-0701 Transportation IRH ____________ 800-334-2409 Lynden Intl. ________ 602-252-2911 Transportation:Air/Freight/ Ground IRH ____________ 800-334-2409 Lynden Intl. ________ 602-252-2911 Working Capital, Credit Lines Bank of Arizona _______480-642-2876 Quick Turn Financial ____480-385-1220 SBG Capital ________ 480-897-4988 SHOP FLOOR AUTOMATION USB Shop Floor Automations _ 877-611-5825 Scheduling Shop Floor Automations _ 877-611-5825 Serial Port Shop Floor Automations _ 877-611-5825 Software:CNC Networking Shop Floor Automations _ 877-611-5825 RS232 Cabling Shop Floor Automations _ 877-611-5825 Virtual CNC Shop Floor Automations _ 877-611-5825

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Buyer’s Guide & Card Gallery Processes

WESTERN CAST PARTS LLC Steve Whisel Field Sales & Engineering 9630 N Rock Ridge Trail Fountain Hills, AZ 85268 (480) 284­6618 Office (480) 250­9764 Mobile swcastings@cox.net, email

ASSEMBLY CGS Technologies ______ 623-869-0600 Foresight Technologies ___ 480-967-0080 Fry Fabrications _______ 602-454-0701 Hi-Tech Machining & Eng __ 520-889-8325 Lindel Engineering _____ 520-792-3160 Morsch Machine _______ 480-961-7673 Pure-Logic Industries ____ 480-892-9395 Cable/Harness Assembly Bar-S Machine ______928-636-2115 X5 Manufacturing ______ 602-454-7385 Clean Room Assembly Jan’s Inc.___________ 480-833-7305 L&W Fluid ________ 602-323-2560

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BALANCING/DYNAMIC CARBURIZING May Foundry & Machine __ 801-531-8931 Anmark ____________480-968-3126 Solar Atmospheres _____ 866-559-5994 Western Cast Parts _____480-250-9764 BENDING Castings: Repair CASTINGS Advanced Metal Sales __ 623-434-8343 Precision Casting Repair __ 800-622-2404 AATC______________602-268-1467 Fry Fabrications ________602-454-0701 May Foundry & Machine __801-531-8931 Western Cast Parts _____480-250-9764 BRAZING COATING Precision Casting Repair __ 800-622-2404 Western Cast Parts ____ 480-250-9764 Accuwright Industries ____ 480-892-9595 Castings: Prototype Solar Atmospheres _____ 866-559-5994 AATC______________602-268-1467 Arizona Finishing ______ 602-438-4443 Brazing: Vacuum Bolt’s Metallizing _______602-244-2432 Solar Atmospheres _____ 866-559-5994 Western Cast Parts ____ 480-250-9764 Coating Technologies ____ 623-581-2648 BROACHING May Foundry & Machine __801-531-8931 Collins Metal Finishing ____ 602-275-3117 Apache Gear, Inc _______623-934-7144 LA Specialties _________ 602-269-7612 Castings: Production Ayers Gear & Mach ______623-934-6913 AATC_____________602-268-1467 Louie’s Black Oxide _____ 602-257-0530

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MAGNUM PRECISION MACHINES, INC. DAVID MORENO BUSINESS: 915-856-7900 12025 ROJAS DR. SUITE A FAX: 915-857-4700 EL PASO, TX. 79936 CELL: 915-892-0797 www.magnumprecisionmachines.com

EMAIL: dmoreno@magnumep.com

Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090 Perma-Finish ________ 602-278-1733 Precision Industrial Painting 602-256-0260 Southwest Powder Coating _ 602-272-0878

Gold Tech Industries ____ _480-968-1930 Jet Products _________ 623-869-6749 LA Specialties ________ 602-269-7612 Lynch Brothers Mfg _____ 602-267-7575 Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090 Precision Industrial Painting 602-256-0260 Treffers Precision ______ 602-744-2636 LAI International ______ 602-304-1160 The Metal Man _______ 800-448-9448 Sav-On Plating________ 602-252-4311

Coating: Black Oxide Coating: Dry Film Lube Coating Technologies ____ 623-581-2648 Coating Technologies ____ 623-581-2648 Collins Metal Finishing ____602-275-3117 Jet Products _________ 623-869-6749 Louie’s Black Oxide _____ 602-257-0530 Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090 Precision Industrial Painting 602-256-0260 Coating: Chem Film AP Industrial ________ 480-968-1947 Coating: Nickel/Teflon Certified Inspection _____ 602-267-0661 Coating Technologies ____ 623-581-2648 Collins Metal Finishing ____602-275-3117 Collins Metal Finishing ____602-275-3117

Coating: NP3 Coating Technologies ____ 623-581-2648 Coating:Zinc & Mag.Phos.

Coating Technologies ____ 623-581-2648 Collins Metal Finishing ____602-275-3117 Louie’s Black Oxide _____ 602-257-0530 Powder Coating Faist Greentek LLC _____ 602-633-0707 CUTTING Advanced Metal Sales __ 623-434-8343 bandsawparts.com ___ 800-240-2932 Echols Saw & Supply ____ 602-278-3918 Harschco LLC _______602-617-7514 LAI International ______ 602-304-1160 Southwest Waterjet-Laser 480-306-7748 The Metal Man _______ 800-448-9448 Bandsaw Cutting bandsawparts.com ___ 800-240-2932 Echols Saw & Supply ___ 602-278-3918

CNC Router Micropulse West _______ 480-966-2300 Laser APMI ____________ 480-668-0024 Faist Greentek LLC ______602-633-0707 Fine Line Laser Cutting ___602-863-3196 Tube Laser Cutting Tube Service Company __ 602-267-9865 DIE CASTING TVT Die Casting _______ 800-280-2278 Die Casting/Aluminum & Zinc TVT Die Casting _______ 800-280-2278

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Your Manufacturing Solutions Partner

Precision CNC Machining

Geno Forman

President Tel: 602.454.7385 Fax: 602.454.7389 Cell: 480.710.8420 Email: gforman@x5mfg.com

3342 E. Wier Ave. Phoenix, AZ 85040 NADCAP Approved Facility

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Spring & Manufacturing Co.,Inc.

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

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

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DIES Arizona Wire & Tool ______ 480-813-1002 Micro-Tronics, Inc _______602-437-8995 Precision Die & Stamp’g ___480-967-2038 EDM EDM: Drilling Small Hole Arizona Wire Specialists ____480-829-6530 Critical Cut ________ 480-785-1316 EDM Tech ___________602-278-6666 LAI International _____ 602-304-1160 LAYKE, Inc.___________602-272-2654 Micro-Tronics, Inc _______602-437-8995 Micropulse West ________480-966-2300 Sun Tech__________ 480-921-1665 EDM: Ram-Type (Sinking) EDM Tech ___________602-278-6666 LAI International _____ 602-304-1160 Micro-Tronics, Inc _______602-437-8995

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Micropulse West _______ 480-966-2300 Micro-Tronics, Inc ______ 602-437-8995 Quality Mold ________ 480-892-5480 Micropulse West _______ 480-966-2300 Sun Tech__________ 480-921-1665 PGI_______________505-884-5782 Tooling Molds West ______480-921-9939 Powill Manufactuing_____623-780-4100 Wright Prototype _______ 541-619-2760 Quality Mold__________480-892-5480 EDM: Dialectric Systems Sun Tech__________480-921-1665 /Filtration Thompson Machine ____505-823-1453 Ebbco Inc __________800-809-3901 Toolcraft of Phoenix __ 623-435-5405 EDM: Wire WC Machine & Tool _____ 480-507-4620 3D Machine LLC______480-239-8254 Whitley Machine ______ 602-323-5550 Arizona Wire & Tool ______ 480-813-1002 Wright Prototype _______ 541-619-2760 Arizona Wire Specialists ___ 480-829-6530 Graphite Services Auer Precision _________480-834-4637 Micro-Tronics, Inc ______ 602-437-8995 Continental Machining __800-777-2483 ENGINEERING/ Critical Cut ________ 480-785-1316 PROGRAMMING EDM Tech __________ 602-278-6666 Exactitude Precision ______602-316-6957 Hogan Manufacturing_____623-463-1939 Hexatron Engineering_____801-363-8010 LAI International _____ 602-304-1160 Pure-Logic Industries ____ 480-892-9395

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ENGINES Craig Roth Sport Plane President/C.O.O. Hexatron Engineering_____801-363-8010 Spring & Manufacturing Co.,Inc. A Complete Manufacturing Facility for FABRICATION Fabrication, Machining and Assembly East Wier Avenue Advanced Metal Sales __ 3325 623-434-8343 Phoenix, Arizona 85040 Phone: (602)243-4329 AERO Spring & Mfg Co ____602-243-4329 Cell: (602)370-5777 Aero Tech __________ 801-292-0493 Anewco ___________ 520-751-1222 Craig Roth President/C.O.O. APMI ______________480-668-0024 Arrow Sheet&Metal _______ 303-427-6419 Spring Manufacturing Co.,Inc. A Complete Manufacturing Facility for AzMark ____________480-926-8969 Fabrication, Machining and Assembly 3325 East Wier Avenue Arizona 85040 Bell Steel __________ Phoenix, 480-833-5538 Phone: (602)243-4329 (602)370-5777 BID Machine, Inc ______ Cell: 480-892-7304 CAID Industries ________520-294-3126 CAL Precision Inc. ____ 951-273-9901 CGS Technologies ______ 623-869-0600 Continental Machining ___ 800-777-2483 CygnetStamping & Fab ____ 818-240-7574

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Creedbilt Inc __________ 623-939-8119 Faist Greentek LLC ______ 602-633-0707 Fry Fabrications ________602-454-0701 Fine Line Fabricating ____ 602-863-3506 Gilbert Metal Stamping ____480-503-1283 Group Manufacturing Serv _ 480-966-3952 Howell Precision________623-582-4776 Nelson Engineering ______ 602-273-7114 New Hope Machine _____ 520-825-7830 Phoenix Metalcraft ______602-279-4810 Plastic Eng.__________480-491-8100 Precision Casting Repair ___800-622-2404 Precision Metal Products _ 408-699-5037 Pure-Logic Industries _____480-892-9395 PVB Fabrications _____ 520-623-3529 Scriven Precision _______480-961-9775 TMM Precision _______ 800-448-9448 Tolleson Steel ________623-936-3325

Weiser/Mile High Precision _ 303-280-2778 Whitley Machine ______ 602-323-5550 Wrico ____________ 480-892-7800 Fabrication: Certified Mobile PVB Fabrications ____ 520-623-3529

Aluminum (Medium & Large) Aero Tech __________ 801-292-0493 Fabrication: Custom Metal Arrow Sheet Metal______ 303-427-6419 CygnetStamping & Fab ____818-240-7574 Fine Line Fabricating ____ 602-863-3506 Howell Precision_______ 623-582-4776 Precision Metal Products 408-699-5037 Fabrication: Medium & Large APMI______________480-668-0024 Arrow Sheet Metal______ 303-427-6419

Bell Steel __________ 480-833-5538 CAL Precision Inc. ___ 951-273-9901 Continental Machining _ 800-777-2483 CGS Technologies ______ 623-869-0600 Faist Greentek LLC _____ 602-633-0707 Fine Line Fabricating ____ 602-863-3506 Fry Fabrications _______ 602-454-0701 Howell Precision_______ 623-582-4776 Precision Metalworks _ 602-455-9575 PVB Fabrications ____ 520-623-3529 Trepanning Specialties __ 562-633-8110 Fabrication: Mining PVB Fabrications ____ 520-623-3529 Fabrication: Rebuild/ Large Bell Steel __________ 480-833-5538 Empire Precision Mach.__ 480-633-4580 Fabrication: Sheet Metal ACME Metal Works _____ 480-926-4171 APMI_____________480-668-0024 Arrow Sheet Metal______ 303-427-6419 Bell Steel __________ 480-833-5538 Capital Stainless ____ 480-967-0016 CygnetStamping & Fab ___ 818-240-7574 Faist Greentek LLC _____ 602-633-0707 Fine Line Fabricating ____ 602-863-3506

Fry Fabrications ________602-454-0701 Howell Precision_______ 623-582-4776 Jan’s Inc.___________ 480-833-7305 New Hope Machine _____ 520-825-7830 Phoenix Metalcraft ____602-279-4810 Precision Metalworks _ 602-455-9575 Precision Metal Products 408-699-5037 Pure-Logic Industries ____ 480-892-9395 TMM Precision _______ 800-448-9448 Weiser/Mile High Precision _ 303-280-2778 FASTENERS 6 LOBE Parker Fasteners ______ 623-925-5998 Sockets Parker Fasteners ______ 623-925-5998 Tamper Resistant Parker Fasteners ______ 623-925-5998 FINISHING AP Industrial _________480-968-1947

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Shawn Carlin scarlin@gmsaz.com 526 E Juanita Ave Suite 8 Mesa, AZ 85204

Tollfree: 866-319-3719 Office:480-214-3719 Fax: 480-214-3954 info@eclipsecarbide.com

Arizona Finishing _______602-438-4443 Arizona Hard Chrome _____ 602-278-8671 Coating Technologies _____623-581-2648 EPSI______________714-256-8950 Faist Greentek LLC ______ 602-633-0707 Jet Processing ______ 623-869-6749 x117 LA Specialties _________ 602-269-7612 Louie’s Black Oxide ______602-257-0530 Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090 Perma-Finish _________602-278-1733 Phoenix Heat Treating ____ 602-258-7751 Southwest Powder Coating __602-272-0878 TVT Die Casting ________800-280-2278 Abrasive Blasting AP Industrial _________ 480-968-1947 STP Performance Coating LLC _ 602-276-1231 Dry Film Lubrication Jet Processing ______ 623-869-6749 x117 Precision Industrial Painting _602-256-0260 Electro-Polishing Collins Metal Finishing ____ 602-275-3117 Finishing: One Stop Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090 Finishing: Ops Cleaning Jet Products __________ 623-869-6749 Semiray Aerospace Testing __623-842-3030

Glass Bead Clean EPSI______________714-256-8950 Arizona Hard Chrome ____ 602-278-8671 Gold Tech Industries _____ 480-968-1930 Byington Steel Treating ___ 408-727-6630 L A Specialties ________ 602-269-7612 Coating Technologies ____ 623-581-2648 Powder Coating Gold Tech Industries _____ 480-968-1930 AP Industrial ________ 480-968-1947 L A Specialties ________ 602-269-7612 Faist Greentek LLC _____ 602-633-0707 Southwest Powder Coating _ 602-272-0878 Sand Blasting ACME Metal Works _____ 480-926-4171 A2Z Sandblasting ______ 602-716-5566 Glass Bead Clean Byington Steel Treating ___ 408-727-6630 A2Z Sandblasting ______ 602-716-5566 Coating Technologies ____ 623-581-2648 Desert Fire__________ 602-268-1511 Jet Products _________ 623-869-6749 Lone Arrow _________ 480-507-8074 Southwest Powder Coating _ 602-272-0878 Gun Drilling STP Performance Coating LLC 602-276-1231 ACME Metal Works _____ 480-926-4171 Shot Blasting Gun Finishing Desert Fire __________ 602-268-1511 Louie’s Gun Finishing ____ 602-257-0530 Stripping Passivation Coating Technologies ____ 623-581-2648 Certified Inspection Service___602-267-0661 Jet Products _________ 623-869-6749 Coating Technologies ___ _623-581-2648 Gold Tech Industries _____ 480-968-1930 Semiray ___________ 602-275-1917 Jet Processing _____ 623-869-6749 x117 Southwest Powder Coating _ 602-272-0878 FIXTURES Jet Products _________ 623-869-6749 CJ Mfg ____________ 480-517-0233 L A Specialties ________ 602-269-7612 Semiray ___________ 602-275-1917 Exactitude Precision _____ 602-316-6957 Hogan Manufacturing____ 623-463-1939 Polishing Arizona Hard Chrome ____ 602-278-8671 Siro Machining _______ 480-512-1467

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FORGINGS R&D Specialty Manco ____ 602-278-7700 Forgings: Titanium R&D Specialty Manco ____ 602-278-7700 FOUNDRY AATC _____________ 602-268-1467 May Foundry & Machine __801-531-8931 GEAR CUTTING Apache Gear, Inc ______ 623-934-7144 Ayers Gear & Machine ___ 623-934-6913 GRINDING Anmark ___________ 480-968-3126 Arizona Hard Chrome ____ 602-278-8671 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 CJ Mfg _____________ 480-517-0233 GMN USA __________800-686-1679 Grindworks __________ 623-582-5767 Hogan Manufacturing_____ 623-463-1939 JWB Manufacturing ______ 480-967-4600 Lindel Engineering ______ 520-792-3160 Osborn Products ________ 623-587-0335 Phoenix Grinding _______ 602-437-8401 Powill Manufacturing _____ 623-780-4100 RMG Machining ________ 623-582-6544 Ron Grob Co. _________ 970-667-5320 Steel Services Grinding ____ 800-662-0126 Sun Grinding _________ 602-238-9595 Superior Grinding _______ 888-487-9701 TCI Precision Metals____ 800-234-5613 Grinding, Blanchard Steel Services Grinding ____800-662-0126

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Sun Grinding ________ 602-238-9595 Superior Grinding ______ 888-487-9701 TCI Precision Metals____ 800-234-5613 Grinding: Centerless Blue Streak Grinding ____ 602-353-8088 Grindworks _________ 623-582-5767 National Grinding & Mfg __ 602-588-2869 Osborn Products _______ 623-587-0335 Phoenix Grinding ______ 602-437-8401 Ron Grob Co. ________ 970-667-5320 Shaw Precision _______ 480-785-4925 Sun Grinding ________ 602-238-9595 Superior Grinding ______ 888-487-9701 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… Curvic Anmark ___________ 480-968-3126 Grinding… Cylindrical Grindworks _________ 623-582-5767 Grinding… Double Disc Phoenix Grinding ______ 602-437-8401 TCI Precision Metals____ 800-234-5613 Grinding: ID/OD Anmark ___________ 480-968-3126

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Arizona Hard Chrome ____ 602-278-8671 AzMark ___________ 480-926-8969 Blue Streak Grinding ____ 602-353-8088 Grindworks _________ 623-582-5767 National Grinding & Mfg __ 602-588-2869 Osborn Products _______ 623-587-0335 Ron Grob Co._________970-667-5320 Superior Grinding ______ 888-487-9701 Grinding:Mattison Sun Grinding ________ 602-238-9595 Grinding: OD Anmark ___________ 480-968-3126 Arizona Hard Chrome ____ 602-278-8671 Grindworks _________ 623-582-5767 Micro-Tronics, Inc ______ 602-437-8995 National Grinding & Mfg __ 602-588-2869 Road Machinery _______ 520-623-8681 Grinding: Surface Anmark ___________ 480-968-3126

Arizona Wire & Tool ______ 480-813-1002 Blue Streak Grinding ____ 602-353-8088 Grindworks __________ 623-582-5767 National Grinding & Mfg ___602-588-2869 Osborn Products ________623-587-0335 Phoenix Grinding _______ 602-437-8401 Quality Mold ________ 480-892-5480 Sun Grinding _________602-238-9595 Superior Grinding _______ 888-487-9701 WC Machine & Tool _____ 480-507-4620 Grinding: Tool & Cutter B & T Tool & Engineering ___ 602-267-1481 CTE_____________800-783-2400 Gilbert Metal Stamping ____480-503-1283 Superior Grinding _______ 888-487-9701 GUNDRILLING Trepanning Specialties ___ 562-633-8110 HEAT TREATING Byington Steel Treating ___ 408-727-6630 Controlled Thermal Tech’y __602-272-3714

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Mark Musgrove Your Precision Partner

1317 W. 21st Street, Tempe, AZ 85282 p: 480.517.0233 c: 602.763.7811 f: 480.517.0253 Your Precision Partner mark.musgrove@cjmfgsolutions.com CJMfgSolutions.com

Tool / PartMarking (Laser) Desert Fire___________602-268-1511 Hogan Manufacturing____ 623-463-1939 Ace Laser ___________ 480-924-3232 L A Specialties ________ 602-269-7612 B & T Tool & Engineering ___ 602-267-1481 Phoenix Heat Treating ___ 602-258-7751 East Valley Laser Inc ______ 480-855-7137 Solar Atmospheres _____866-559-5994 TechMark __________ 480-820--9444 Team Industrial Services __ 602-269-7868 Silk Screen Heat Treating/ Aerospace Arizona Finishing ______ 602-438-4443 Byington Steel Treating ___ 408-727-6630 Faist Greentek LLC _____ 602-633-0707 HeatTreating/ISO9001/AS9100 Precision Industrial Painting 602-256-0260 Byington Steel Treating ___ 408-727-6630 INDUSTRIAL SEALINGS Solar Atmospheres _____866-559-5994 Gaskets:Manufacturing Large Capacity Drop Bottom Oven/ Cupps Ind Supply ______ 602-269-2301 Aluminum HeatTreating Industrial Sealings Byington Steel Treating ___ 408-727-6630 Cupps Ind Supply ______ 602-269-2301 HONING/LAPPING Packing Grindworks _________ 623-582-5767 Cupps Ind Supply ______ 602-269-2301 LAYKE, Inc.__________ 602-272-2654 INSPECTION Road Machinery _______ 520-623-8681 Calibration National Grinding & Mfg __ 602-588-2869 Washington Calibration ___ 480-820-0506 Osborn Products _______ 623-587-0335 Inspection, First Article Phoenix Grinding ______ 602-437-8401 Datum Inspection ______ 602-997-1340 Powill Manufacturing_____623-780-4100 Klontech Measure Sol _____480-626-8131 Total Quality Systems ____ 480-377-6422 IDENTIFICATION Inspection Services Labels & Bar Code EPSI______________714-256-8950 Arizona Wire & Tool ______480-813-1002 A Z METALWORKER • 104 • May/June 2013

Challenger Aerospace ____ 480-894-0802 Datum Inspection _______602-997-1340 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 (NDT) Jet Processing ______ 623-869-6749 x117 Jet Products __________623-869-6749 Semiray Aero. Testing _____ 602-275-1917 Team Industrial Services __ 602-269-7868 Inspection Services, Welding Metals Eng & Testing Lab. 602-272-4571 ISO9000 / AS9100 Cert.

ABS Quality Evaluations __ 281-673-2843 American Global Standards_ 617-838-4648 BMSC_____________480-445-9400 Gladhill Assoc _________623-939-4412 Orion Registrar ________303-645-4017 Great Western Registrar____623-580-1881 Sustaining Edge Solutions__ 888-572-9642 Quality Training Consultants _ 928-284-0856 ISO Registrar ABS Quality Evaluations __ 281-673-2843

American Global Standards_ 617-838-4648 Great Western Registrar___ 623-580-1881 Orion Registrar _______ 303-645-4017 Liquid Penetrant Certified Inspection Service _602-267-0661 Jet Products _________ 623-869-6749 Semiray ____________602-275-1917 Team Industrial Services __ 602-269-7868 MAG Particle Certified Inspection Service __ 602-267-066 Jet Products____ _____623-869-6749 Team Industrial Services __ 602-269-7868 Process Improvement/ Audit BMSC_____________480-445-9400 Quality Training Consultants _928-284-0856 Sustaining Edge Solutions__ 888-572-9642 X-Ray Certified Inspection Service __ 602-267-066 Semiray ____________602-275-1917 Team Industrial Services __ 602-269-7868 IRON STITCHING Precision Casting Repair __ 800-622-2404 MACHINING Machining: 3D 3D Machine LLC_____ 480-239-8254 Arcas Machine Inc ___ 480-632-9414

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Cassavant Machining ___602-437-4005 Challenger Aerospace _____ 480-894-0802 JD Ellen LLC _______ 623-587--0253 L&W Machine Co ____ 602-323-2560 Micropulse West _______ 480-966-2300 Pro Precision ________ 602-353-0022 Tooling Molds West ______480-921-9939 Machining: 5 Axis 5th Axis Fixtures _____ 858-505-0432 Cassavant Machining ___602-437-4005 Clings Mfg ________480-968-1778 Hi-Tech Machining & Eng __ 520-889-8325 Howard PMP _______ 801-808-4106 Industrial Tool Die & Eng 520-745-8771 indel Engineering _______520-792-3160 Metalcraft Inc. _________480-967-4889 Morsch Machine ________480-961-7673 St. Vrain Manufacturing ____303-702-1529 Uni-Tek ____________602-272-2601 Machining: Aerospace AATC_____________602-268-1467 Absolute Turning and Machine 520-624-5628 AMT-America ________ 602-443-1403 Anewco ___________ 520-751-1222 Arcas Machine Inc ____ 480-632-9414 AzMark ___________ 480-926-8969 Backerworks Mfg _____505-342-2943 CAL Precision Inc. ____ 951-273-9901 Cassavant Machining ___602-437-4005 Challenger Aerospace ____ 480-894-0802 CJ Mfg _____________480-517-0233 Cling’s Manufacturing_____480-968-1778 Continental Machining __800-777-2483 Evans Precision Machining _ 623-581-6200 Excaliber___________ 623-878-6800 Foresight Technologies ___ 480-967-0080 Gilbert Precision Machine __ 480-892-4730 Hexatron Engineering_____801-363-8010 Hi-Tech Machining & Eng __ 520-889-8325 HK Machining ________602-278-6704 Howard PMP _______ 801-808-4106 Infinisys ___________ 602-276-2276 JB’s Precision ________ 623-581-9088 JD Ellen LLC _______ 623-587--0253

Jet Products __________ 623-869-6749 KLK Ind. ____________ 602-267-1331 L&W Machine Co _____602-323-2560 LAYKE, Inc.___________602-272-2654 Lindel Engineering ______520-792-3160 Matrix Machine ________ 480-966-4451 Metalcraft Inc. _________480-967-4889 Micro-Tronics, Inc _______602-437-8995 Morsch Machine ________ 480-961-7673 Nelson Engineering ______ 602-273-7114 Nichols Precision _____480-804-0593 Osborn Products ________623-587-0335 PGI ____________ 505-884-5782 Powill Manufacturing ___ 623-780-4100 Pro Precision _________602-353-0022 Pure-Logic Industries _____480-892-9395 R&D Specialty Manco ____ 602-278-7700 Service & Sales _______ 480-968-9084 Satowfi ____________480-374-5706 Southwest Swiss Precision __602-438-4670 St. Vrain Manufacturing ____303-702-1529 Stewart Manufacturing ____ 623-582-2261 Trepanning Specialties ___ 562-633-8110 Uni-Tek ____________602-272-2601 Machining: Contract Absolute Turning and Machine 520-624-5628 Aero Design & Mfg ______602-437-8080 AERO Spring & Mfg Co ____602-243-4329 AMT-America ________ 602-443-1403 Anewco ___________ 520-751-1222 Arizona Wire & Tool ______ 480-813-1002 Banner Machine, Inc______ 602-437-4984 CAL Precision Inc. ____ 951-273-9901 Evans Precision Machining __623-581-6200 Gilbert Metal Stamping ___ 480-503-1283 Gilbert Precision Machine ___480-892-4730 Group Mfg Serv. ________480-966-3952 HK Machining _______ 602-278-6704 Hexatron Engineering_____ 801-363-8010 Howard PMP _______ 801-808-4106 Infinisys ___________ 602-276-2276 Jan’s Inc.____________480-833-7305 KLK Ind. ____________ 602-267-1331

Nichols Precision ____ 480-804-0593 Osborn Products _______ 623-587-0335 PGI______________505-884-5782 PMBC ___________ _602-431-8131 Powill Manufacturing____623-780-4100 Pro Precision ________ 602-353-0022 Pure-Logic Industries ____ 480-892-9395 Quality Mold ______ 480-892-5480 R&D Specialty Manco ____ 602-278-7700 RMSS623-780-5904 RPM Industries _______ 623-780-4993 Satowfi ___________ 480-374-5706 Siro Machining ________480-512-1467 St. Vrain Manufacturing ___ 303-702-1529 Stellar Machining & Fab _480-961-3075 Stewart Manufacturing____623-582-2261 SwissTech Tooling & MFg. ___480-998-2005 Toolcraft of Phoenix ___623-435-5405 Uni-Tek ___________ 602-272-2601 Val-Tech Mfg _________ 480-966-7376 WC Machine & Tool ______480-507-4620 Wire-Tech___________480-966-1591 X5 Manufacturing____ ___602-454-7385 Machining Composites Absolute Turning and Machine 520-624-5628 Innovative Cutting Solutions 623-842-1255 Machining: Large Alpha Machine _______ 602-437-0322 Backerworks Mfg ____ 505-342-2943 Continental Machining _ 800-777-2483 Empire Precision Mach.__ 480-633-4580 HK Machining _______ 602-278-6704 KLK Ind. ____________602-267-1331 Mach: Turning CNC 3D Machine LLC_______480-239-8254 Absolute Turning and Machine 520-624-5628 ACME Metal Works _____ 480-926-4171 Alpha Machine _______ 602-437-0322 AMT-America ________ 602-443-1403 Anmark ____________480-968-3126 Arcas Machine Inc ____ 480-632-9414 Anewco ___________ 520-751-1222 AzMark ___________ 480-926-8969 A Z METALWORKER • 105 • May/June 2013 A Z METALWORKER • 105 • May/June 2013

Micropulse West ________480-966-2300 RPM Industries ________623-780-4993 Stellar Machining & Fab _ 480-961-3075 Stewart Manufacturing ____ 623-582-2261 TVT Die Casting ________800-280-2278 Machining: CNC 3D Machine LLC______ 480-239-8254 Absolute Turning and Machine 520-624-5628 Alpha Machine ________602-437-0322 AMT-America ________ 602-443-1403 Arcas Machine Inc ____ 480-632-9414 Nichols Precision _____ 480-804-0593 Anewco ___________ 520-751-1222 Arizona Wire & Tool ______ 480-813-1002 AzMark ____________480-926-8969 BID Machine, Inc ______ 480-892-7304 CAL Precision Inc. ____ 951-273-9901 Challenger Aerospace___ _ 480-894-0802 Cling’s Manufacturing______480-968-1778 Continental Machining __ 800-777-2483 Evans Precision Machining __ 623-581-6200 Foresight Technologies ____480-967-0080 Gilbert Precision Machine ___480-892-4730 Glover Precision, Inc. ____480-464-0150 HK Machining ________ 602-278-6704 Hi-Tech Machining & Eng ___520-889-8325 Hogan Manufacturing_____ 623-463-1939 Howard PMP _______ 801-808-4106 Infinisys ___________ 602-276-2276 Jan’s Inc.____________480-833-7305 JB’s Precision ________ 623-581-9088 JD Ellen LLC _______ 623-587--0253 Jet Products _________ 623-869-6749 KLK Ind. ____________ 602-267-1331 L&W Machine Co _____ 602-323-2560 LAYKE, Inc.___________602-272-2654 Lindel Engineering ______ 520-792-3160 Metalcraft Inc. _________480-967-4889 Matrix Machine _______ 480-966-4451 Micropulse West ________480-966-2300 Micro-Tronics, Inc ______ 602-437-8995 Morsch Machine ________ 480-961-7673 New Hope Machine ______520-825-7830 2

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Bar-S Machine ______ 928-636-2115 Cassavant Machining ___ 602-437-4005 Continental Machining __ 800-777-2483 Exactitude Precision ______ 602-316-6957 Gilbert Precision Machine ___480-892-4730 Glover Precision, Inc. ____ 480-464-0150 Hi-Tech Machining & Eng ___520-889-8325 Hogan Manufacturing_____ 623-463-1939 JD Ellen LLC _______ 623-587--0253 Morsch Machine_______ 480-961-7673 New Hope Machine ______520-825-7830 Nichols Precision _____ 480-804-0593 Osborn Products_______ 623-587-0335 PGI _____________505-884-5782 Precision Metalworks __ 602-455-9575 RMSS_____________623-780-5904 Ron Grob Co._________970-667-5320 RPM Industries ________623-780-4993 Siro Machining ________ 480-512-1467 St. Vrain Manufacturing ____ 303-702-1529 Stellar Machining & Fab _ 480-961-3075 SwissTech Tooling & MFg. ___480-998-2005 Uni-Tek ____________ 602-272-2601 Val-Tech Mfg _________ 480-966-7376 Wright Prototype _______ 541-619-2760 Metalcraft Inc. _________ 480-967-4889 Morsch Machine ________ 480-961-7673 St. Vrain Manufacturing ____ 303-702-1529 Uni-Tek ____________ 602-272-2601 Machining Plastic Absolute Turning and Machine 520-624-5628 Howard PMP _______ 801-808-4106 Innovative Cutting Solutions 623-842-1255

Backerworks Mfg _____ 505-342-2943 BID Machine, Inc _______480-892-7304 CAL Precision Inc. ____ 951-273-9901 Cassavant Machining ___ 602-437-4005 CJ Mfg _____________ 480-517-0233 Challenger Aerospace _____ 480-894-0802 Continental Machining __ 800-777-2483 Evans Precision Mach’g _ 623-581-6200 Foresight Technologies ____ 480-967-0080 Gilbert Precision Machine ___ 480-892-4730 Glover Precision , Inc. _____ 480-464-0150 Hi-Tech Machining & Eng ___ 520-889-8325 HK Machining ________ 602-278-6704 Howard PMP _______ 801-808-4106 JB’s Precision _______ 623-581-9088 JD Ellen LLC _______ 623-587--0253 Jemelco, Inc. ________480-804-9541 Jet Products ________ 623-869-6749 JWB Manufacturing ______ 480-967-4600 LAYKE, Inc. ________ 602-272-2654 Lindel Engineering ______ 520-792-3160 Lynch Brothers Mfg ______ 602-267-7575 Matrix Machine ______ 480-966-4451 Micropulse West ________480-966-2300 Micro-Tronics, Inc _____ 602-437-8995 Metalcraft Inc. _________ 480-967-4889 Morsch Machine ________ 480-961-7673 Nelson Engineering ___ 602-273-7114 Nichols Precision _____ 480-804-0593 Osborn Products ________ 623-587-0335 PGI ______________505-884-5782 Powill Mfg ___________ 623-780-4100 Pro Precision _________602-353-0022 Quality Mold _______ 480-892-5480 R&D Specialty Manco _____602-278-7700 RMSS______________623-780-5904 RMG Machining ________623-582-6544 RPM Industries ________623-780-4993 Satowfi ____________ 480-374-5706 Service & Sales ______ 480-968-9084 Southwest Swiss Precision __602-438-4670 St. Vrain Manufacturing ____ 303-702-1529 Stewart Manufacturing ____ 623-582-2261

Machining Precision 3D Machine LLC______ 480-239-8254 Absolute Turning and Machine 520-624-5628 ACME Metal Works ______480-926-4171 AATC_____________602-268-1467 Alpha Machine ________602-437-0322 AMT-America ________ 602-443-1403 Arcas Machine Inc ____ 480-632-9414 Arizona Wire & Tool ______ 480-813-1002 Auer Precision _________ 480-834-4637 AzMark __________ 480-926-8969 A Z METALWORKER • 106 • May/June 2013 A Z METALWORKER • 106 • May/June 2013 2

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Sun Tech_________ 480-921-1665 SwissTech Tooling & Mfg.__ _480-998-2005 Tolleson Steel ______ 623-936-3325 Toolcraft of Phoenix __ 623-435-5405 Tooling Molds West _____ 480-921-9939 Tri-Matrix _______ 480-844-0165 Uni-Tek ___________ 602-272-2601 Val-Tech Mfg _________ 480-966-7376 WC Machine & Tool _____ 480-507-4620 Weiser/Mile High Precision _ 303-280-2778 Wire-Tech _________480-966-1591 Machining: Prototype A A T C ____________602-268-1467 Absolute Turning and Machine 520-624-5628 Alpha Machine _______ 602-437-0322 AMT-America ________602-443-1403 Anewco ___________ 520-751-1222 Arcas Machine Inc ___ 480-632-9414 Backerworks Mfg ____ 505-342-2943 Bar-S Machine ______928-636-2115 BID Machine, Inc ______480-892-7304 CAL Precision Inc. ____951-273-9901 CJ Mfg ____________ 480-517-0233 Continental Machining _ 800-777-2483 Evans Precision _____ 623-581-6200 Exactitude Precision _____ 602-316-6957 Foresight Technologies ___ 480-967-0080 Gilbert Precision Machine __ 480-892-4730 Glover Precision, Inc. ___ 480-464-0150 Hogan Manufacturing____ 623-463-1939 Howard PMP _______801-808-4106 Infinisys ___________ 602-276-2276 Jan’s Inc.___________ 480-833-7305 Jemelco, Inc. _______ 480-804-9541 JD Ellen LLC _______ 623-587--0253 JWB Manufacturing _____ 480-967-4600 KLK Ind. ___________ 602-267-1331 L&W Machine Co ____ 602-323-2560 Metalcraft Inc. ________ 480-967-4889 Micropulse West _______ 480-966-2300 Nichols Precision ____ 480-804-0593 Osborn Products _______ 623-587-0335 PGI_______________505-884-5782 RMG Machining _______ 623-582-6544 Pro Precision _______ 602-353-00220

R&D Specialty Manco ____ 602-278-7700 RMG Machining _______ 623-582-6544 RMSS ___________ 623-780-5904 RPM Industries _______ 623-780-4993 Siro Machining _______ 480-512-1467 St. Vrain Manufacturing ___ 303-702-1529 Stellar Machining & Fab 480-961-3075 Stewart Manufacturing ___ 623-582-2261 SwissTech Tooling & MFg. ___480-998-2005 Tooling Molds West _____ 480-921-9939 Tri-Matrix __________ 480-844-0165 Uni-Tek ___________ 602-272-2601 Val-Tech Mfg _________ 480-966-7376 Wire-Tech __________ 480-966-1591 Machining: Quick Turn HK Machining _______ 602-278-6704 Jemelco, Inc. _______ 480-804-9541 RMSS_____________ 623-780-5904 RPM Industries _______ 623-780-4993 Tooling Molds West _____ 480-921-9939 Wright Prototype ______ 541-619-2760 Machining: Milling 3D Machine LLC_____ 480-239-8254 ACME Metal Works _____ 480-926-4171 AMT-America ________602-443-1403 Anewco ___________520-751-1222 Anmark ___________ 480-968-3126 Bar-S Machine _____ 928-636-2115 Challenger Aerospace _____480-894-0802 Cling’s Manufacturing ____480-968-177 Exactitude Precision _____ 602-316-6957 Gilbert Precision Machine __ 480-892-4730 Glover Precision, Inc. ___ 480-464-0150 Hi-Tech Machining & Eng __ 520-889-8325 Hogan Manufacturing____ 623-463-1939 Infinisys ___________ 602-276-2276 Jet Products _________623-869-6749 L&W Machine Co ____ 602-323-2560 Metalcraft Inc. ________ 480-967-4889 Micro-Tronics, Inc ______602-437-8995 Morsch Machine _______ 480-961-7673 RMG Machining _______ 623-582-6544 RMSS ____________ 623-780-5904

Office: 480.306.7748 4221 E. Raymond Str. Fax: 480.306.7769 Suite #103 Info@swwj-laser.com Phoenix, AZ 85040

www.swwj-laser.com Dennis Reynolds

PH 602-863-3196 17464 N. 25th Ave. Ste B1 Phoenix, AZ 85023 DR@finelinefabricating.com

Siro Machining ________480-512-1467 Uni-Tek ___________ 602-272-2601 Wire-Tech __________ 480-966-1591 Wright Prototype _______541-619-2760 Machining: Semiconductor Foresight Technologies ___ 480-967-0080 Gilbert Precision Machine __ 480-892-4730 KLK Ind. ____________602-267-1331 L&W Machine Co ____ 602-323-2560 Satowfi ___________ 480-374-5706 Siro Machining ________480-512-1467 Machining: Swiss Absolute Turning and Machine 520-624-5628 Bar-S Machine ______ 928-636-2115 Cassavant Machining __ 602-437-4005 Howard PMP _______801-808-4106 RMG Machining _______ 623-582-6544 Ron Grob Co._________970-667-5320 Southwest Swiss Precision _ 602-438-4670 SwissTech Tooling & Mfg.____480-998-2005 Machining: Ultra-Precision Auer Precision ________ 480-834-4637 Southwest Swiss Precision _ 602-438-4670 Nichols Precision ____ 480-804-0593 Machining: Turning: Automatic Absolute Turning and Machine 520-624-5628 American Prec.Mach __ 602-269-6298 Ayers Gear & Mach ____ 623-934-6913 AzMark __________ 480-926-8969

Challenger Aerospace __ 480-894-0802 Evans Precision Mach’g__ 623-581-6200 JB’s Precision Ind _____ 623-581-9088 Jet Products ________ 623-869-6749 LAYKE, Inc. ________ 602-272-2654 Matrix Machine ______ 480-966-4451 Micro-Tronics, Inc _____ 602-437-8995 RMSS ____________ 623-780-5904 PGI_______________505-884-5782 MACHINING: LASER Laser Cutting Ace Laser ___________480-924-3232 Faist Greentek LLC _____ 602-633-0707 Fine Line Laser Cutting 602-863-3196 Howell Precision_______ 623-582-4776 LAI International ______ 602-304-1160 Precision Metal Products 408-699-5037 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 Laser Cutting:Rotary Axis K-zell Metals, Inc. ___ 602-232-5882 Laser Engraving & Etching Ace Laser ___________480-924-3232 East Valley Laser Inc ______ 480-855-7137 TechMark __________ 480-820--9444 Laser Marking Ace Laser ___________480-924-3232 East Valley Laser Inc ______ 480-855-7137

Faist Greentek LLC ______ 602-633-0707 TechMark ___________ 480-820--9444 MANUFACTURING Aero Tech ___________ 801-292-0493 APMI __ ___________ 480-668-0024 CJ Mfg _____________ 480-517-0233 Creedbilt Inc _______ 623-939-8119 Exactitude Precision ______ 602-316-6957 Harschco LLC _______ 602-617-7514 Hi-Tech Machining & Eng ___ 520-889-8325 Howell Precision________ 623-582-4776 Glover Precision, Inc. ____ 480-464-0150 Group Manufacturing Serv _ 480-966-3952 KLK Ind. ____________ 602-267-1331 PMBC ____________ 602-431-8131 PVB Fabrications _____ 520-623-3529 Precision Metal Products _ 408-699-5037 RMSS ____________ 623-780-5904 Stewart Manufacturing ____ 623-582-2261 Scriven Precision _______480-961-9775 Manufacturing: Electrode Wire-Tech ___________ 480-966-1591 Mfg: PhotoChemical Aero Tech ___________ 801-292-0493 Etching Fabrication Turnkey Product Services Aero Tech ___________ 801-292-0493 METAL FORMING Creedbilt Inc _______ 623-939-8119 Fry Fabrications ________ 602-454-0701 TMM Precision ________ 800-448-9448 Tri-Matrix ___________480-844-0165 METAL STAMPING High Production Precision Stamping Precision Die & Stamping__ 480-967-2038 Thompson Machine ____ 505-823-1453

METALIZING Accuwright Industries ____ 480-892-9595 Bolt’s Metallizing _______602-244-2432 Jet Processing ______ 623-869-6749 x117 MOLDING: RUBBER Micro-Tronics, Inc ______ 602-437-8995 MOLDS PMBC ____________ 602-431-8131 JWB Manufacturing _____ 480-967-4600 Quality Mold ________ 480-892-5480 Toolcraft of Phoenix ___623-435-5405 Tooling Molds West _____ 480-921-9939 Molds: Construction JWB Manufacturing _____ 480-967-4600 Molds: Plastic Injection Micro-Tronics, Inc ______ 602-437-8995 Wire-Tech __________ 480-966-1591 Molds: Rubber Toolcraft of Phoenix ___623-435-5405 Molds: Steel Aero Tech __________ 801-292-0493 PAINTING AP Industrial _________480-968-1947 Arizona Finishing ______ 602-438-4443 Coating Technologies ____ 623-581-2648 Faist Greentek LLC ______602-633-0707 Jet Processing ______ 623-869-6749 x117 Precision Industrial Painting 602-256-0260 STP Performance Coating LLC _ 602-276-1231 Painting& Blast Booths AP Industrial _________480-968-1947 107 • May/June 2013 • 107 • May/June 2013

A2Z METALWORKER • A2Z METALWORKER

Total Customer Satisfaction Quality Products On- Time Delivery

BOB HUDZIK

E.D.M. Specialists Precision Machining

Matthew Carlson Sales Manager

SUN TECH Since 1980

(602) 455-9575. Fax (602) 455-0166. Cell (623) 203-9619 1700 N. 22nd Ave .• Phoenix, AZ. 85009 matthewcarlson@pmaofaz.com

Faist Greentek LLC ______602-633-0707 STP Performance Coating LLC _ 602-276-1231 Phosphate Coating Technologies ____ 623-581-2648 Powder Coating AP Industrial _________480-968-1947 Arizona Finishing ______ 602-438-4443 East Valley Powdercoat ____ 480-215-2461 LA Specialties _________602-269-7612 Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090 Perma-Finish ________ 602-278-1733 Southwest Powder Coating _ 602-272-0878 Wet Paint/CARC AP Industrial _________480-968-1947 Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090 Precision Industrial Painting 602-256-0260 Sandblast/Automated STP Performance Coating LLC _ 602-276-1231 Screenprinting & Pad Printing AP Industrial _________480-968-1947 STP Performance Coating LLC _ 602-276-1231 PLATING Arizona Hard Chrome _____602-278-8671 ChemResearch_________602-253-4175 Coating Technologies ____ 623-581-2648 Collins Metal Finishing ____ 602-275-3117 EPSI______________714-256-8950 Gold Tech Industries _____ 480-968-1930 L A Specialties _________602-269-7612 Louie’s Black Oxide _____ 602-257-0530 Precious Metal Plating ____800-481-6271 Precision Metalworks __602-455-9575 Road Machinery ________520-623-8681 Sav-On Plating_________602-252-4311 Anodizing ChemResearch_________602-253-4175 Collins Metal Finishing ____ 602-275-3117 Gold Tech Industries _____ 480-968-1930

Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090 Brass Plating Sav-On Plating_________ 602-252-4311 Bronze Plating Sav-On Plating_________ 602-252-4311 Copper Gold Tech Industries ______480-968-1930 Electroless Nickel Gold Tech Industries ______480-968-1930 Embrittlement Relief EPSI______________714-256-8950 Gold Plating EPSI______________714-256-8950 Foresight Finishing ______480-921-0000 Gold Tech Industries ______480-968-1930 Hard Chrome Road Machinery ________ 520-623-8681 Nickel/ Chrome/Palladium Collins Metal Finishing ____ 602-275-3117 EPSI______________714-256-8950 Gold Tech Industries ______480-968-1930 LA Specialties _________ 602-269-7612 Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090 Sav-On Plating_________ 602-252-4311 Silver Plating EPSI______________714-256-8950 Gold Tech Industries ______480-968-1930 Tin: Matte Gold Tech Industries ______480-968-1930 Tin / Zinc Plate Collins Metal Finishing ____ 602-275-3117 EPSI______________714-256-8950 Perfection Industrial Finishing 520-434-9090 Sav-On Plating_________ 602-252-4311 POLISHING Gold Tech Industries ____ 480-968-1930 L A Specialties ________ 602-269-7612 Road Machinery ________ 520-623-8681

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PRODUCT DESIGN Design and Modeling Bar-S Machine ______ 928-636-2115 PRECISION FLAT STOCK Tri-Matrix ___________480-844-0165 PROCESSING: CHEMICAL LA Specialties _________ 602-269-7612 PRODUCTION Challenger Aerospace _____ 480-894-0802 Louie’s Black Oxide _____ 602-257-0530 Siro Machining ________ 480-512-1467 PUNCHING Group Manufacturing Serv _ 480-966-3952 Fry Fabrications ________ 602-454-0701 Phoenix Metalcraft ____ 602-279-4810 Precision Metalworks __ 602-455-9575 Precision Metal Products _ 408-699-5037 Stellar Machining & Fab _ 480-961-3075 WC Machine & Tool_ _____ 480-507-4620 X5 Manufacturing _______ 602-454-7385 Nelson Engineering ______ 602-273-7114 SPINNING: Metal Nelson Engineering ______ 602-273-7114 SPLINES Apache Gear, Inc ______ 623-934-7144 SPRAY: METAL, PLASMA Accuwright Industries _____ 480-892-9595 Bolt’s Metallizing _______ 602-244-2432 Empire Precision Mach.___ 480-633-4580 SPRINGS Flat and Wire Springs AERO Spring & Mfg Co ___ 602-243-4329 SPRINGWORKS Utah _____ 801-298-0113 Tri-Matrix ___________480-844-0165 STAMPING AERO Spring & Mfg Co ___ 602-243-4329

Auer Precision _________480-834-4637 CygnetStamping & Fab ____ 818-240-7574 Frontier Metal Stamping ___303-458-5129 Gilbert Metal Stamping ___ 480-503-1283 Pacific Metal Stampings __ 661-257-7656 Precision Die & Stamping__ 480-967-2038 Scriven Precision ______ 480-961-9775 Thompson Machine ____505-823-1453 Weiser/Mile High Precision _ 303-280-2778 Whitley Machine ______ 602-323-5550 Wrico _____________480-892-7800 Precision Metal Forming SPRINGWORKS Utah _____ 801-298-0113 Thompson Machine ____505-823-1453 Stamping: Aerospace Frontier Metal Stamping ___303-458-5129 Pacific Metal Stampings __ 661-257-7656 Stamping: Bending Pacific Metal Stampings __ 661-257-7656 Stamping: Deep Draw Thompson Machine ____505-823-1453 Stamping Design Frontier Metal Stamping ___303-458-5129 Pacific Metal Stampings __ 661-257-7656 SPRINGS WORKS Utah ___ 801-298-0113 Weiser/Mile High Precision _ 303-280-2778 Stamping Flat Forming Pacific Metal Stampings __ 661-257-7656 SPRINGS WORKS Utah ___ 801-298-0113

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