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Vol. 2, No. 6 Dec/Jan

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Regional Manufacturing Magazine For The Pacific Northwest

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Published bi-monthly to keep precision manufac-turers abreast of news and to supply a viable sup-plier source for the industry.

Circulation: The A2Z Metalworker NW maintains a master list of over 9500 decision makers consisting of fortune 1000 companies, small manufacturing companies, engineering firms, DOD & Scientific Lab facilities, machine shops, fab-shops, and secondary source businesses. It has an estimated pass on readership of more than 24,000 people. The majority of our readers are based in the Pacific Northwest!

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CONTRIBUTORSLinda Daly

Matt ErbachGary Grossen

Connie Bradley

Announcements/Releases ...................... 6-7Shop Profile ......... .............................1,16-18Feature Articles ......................... 8-9,26,30-31Buyers Guide Equipment .....................44-48Buyers Guide Processes .......................49-53Card Gallery .........................................44-53Index Of Advertisers .................................54Editorial ................................... Throughout

This Month’s Cover - Shop Profile, & Articles:

GK Machine, Inc.Delcam and Sutter Inst.

Service Steel & SigmaNESTTotal Quality Systems & Great Western

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PUBLISHERS/EDITORSKim Carpenter & Linda Daly

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“Talent is a dreadfully cheap commodity, cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work and study; a constant process of honing. Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force – a force so great that the knife is not really cutting at all but bludgeoning and breaking ... Discipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until it becomes sharp enough, hope-fully, to cut through even the toughest meat and gristle.”

Stephen King (1947 – ) American writer, hard worker

As I look back on 2012, I remember talking to so many great people and visiting so many different shops and manufacturing companies. What I have seen is; many businesses work-ing harder and smarter to keep the business they have and to fine tune their operation and reach higher levels of excellence to keep a tight hand on quality. I have also seen some companies do the same thing they always do, the same way they have always done it and the blame their lack of business on the poor economy. I have toured world-class facilities and I hear this resounding fact; the progressive thinking and harder working companies did better in the recession period than anyone else did. In fact some companies increased sales, bought machines, certified to a higher level of excellence, and thought out of the common box to do things better, quicker, and they worked hard to perfect their processes.

Lean manufacturing is not a bad thing and it is not only for Fortune 1000 businesses. I witnessed one business that continually improves on what they do by timing processes; cutting steps in the process, and creating visuals for their team to monitor themselves. It’s like having a mirror around all the time. You can see what you look like all the time. If you are a mess you can see it and change it, and hence clean up your act. This “time is money attitude” keeps your company competitive and helps your team hone their skills to be better, faster, and more efficient. Surprisingly, this attitude spurs another attitude, a positive one; an attitude of I can do it, I can do it better, and there is nothing that can’t be done if I put my mind to it.

This is the mindset that is winning business back from Asia and other offshore countries. This “can do better attitude” gives us pride in what we do and pushes us to do better in everything we do.

As we wind down this 2012; let’s reflect on what we did this year and look forward to 2013; to honing our skills, working smarter, and maintaining the discipline and constant work of improving ourselves.

We are all gifted in some way. But the most successful people in life work harder than anyone else in his or her field to attain success.

Thank you all for being a part of our magazine. Please help us get better by giving us feedback when you can. We will work harder for you in 2013! I promise.Have a great holiday season!

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Announcements & Releases “Serving Every Industry Sector One Chip At A Time”

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“Friend of the Agency” Awarded to United Perfor-mance Metals

United Performance Metals, a leading supplier of specialty stainless steel and high temperature alloys, was honored for its ongoing and multifaceted support by Big Brothers Big Sisters of Butler County, OH.

Butler County BBBS annual event honored top volunteers and in the area for their service to our local youth. The organization also awarded special recognition to United Performance Metals as an outstanding provider of corporate support by presenting them with the Friend of the Agency Award for 2012.

United Performance Metals assists BBBS through its annual Bowl for Kids’ Sake and Girls Night Out programs. The company also provides sponsorship to BBBS through the Butler County United Way.

“Our President, Tom Kennard, has challenged UPM employees to BE INVOLVED, and this includes making a commitment to give back to our community. One of the ways we do this is through our part-

nership with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Butler County. BBBS is changing the lives of Butler County children and we are honored to be a part of that” reports Sherri Davis, Human Resources and Training for United Performance Metals and BBBS Board of Directors member.

Big Brothers Big Sisters is the oldest, largest and most effective youth mentoring organization in the United States. Big Brothers Big Sisters serves children ages 7-18 who are facing adversity by providing 1-to-1 professionally supported relationships that change their lives for the better.

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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, petro-chemical and many others.

United Performance Metals is one of more than a dozen compa-nies 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.

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Roentgen USA Introduces the HM Titan SET Tooth Carbide blade

Roentgen USA is introducing an addition to their Carbide tipped line with the HM Titan Set tooth Carbide tipped blade. The Set tooth carbide blade is designed for tougher to cut materials that pinch together while cutting on band saw. The set tooth design eliminates the blades tendency to strip teeth.

Roentgen currently manufactures 4 types of Carbide tipped blades. The Titan MU is a line of unset multi chip ground Carbide tipped blades designed for cutting a majority a materials from Aluminum to tool steels. Roentgen also produces the Titan Forte C, a coated


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SigmaTEK Systems Announces SigmaNEST® Version 10

SigmaTEK Systems, LLC, the world’s leading CAD/CAM nesting authority, an-nounces the upcoming release of SigmaNEST Version 10. Powered the industry’s most advanced nesting en-gine this latest release represents a leap in material optimization and fabrication process efficiency. SigmaNEST 10 employs sophisticated heuristics and advanced algorithms to optimize part yield, maximize material usage, accelerate machine cycle time and produce the highest quality parts.

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SigmaTEK President & CEO, Ben TerreBlanche comments: “An example of what makes version 10 special is improved cutterpath planning that reduces machine cutting cycle time and consumable wear extending tool life. New functionality also includes BHQ™ (Bolt Hole Quality) technology. Specially designed for plasma cut-ting machines, BHQ improves edge quality by addressing material melting issues inherent to plasma cutting. By tightly controlling this cutting process BHQ produces the best hole quality eliminating clean-up or rework.”

SigmaNEST Product Manager, James Lindsey adds: “While 3D CAD model import is certainly nothing new to SigmaNEST this latest release boasts enhanced functionality in that area as well as the abil-ity tap into engineering data. We don’t impose a workload on the engineering department to save work as an IGES, STEP, DXF or any other neutral file format before being handed off to manufacturing. Companies select SigmaNEST not only for its superior functionality but also because of its ability to drive multiple cutting, punching and bending machines and import data directly from a number of popular CAD/CAM systems.”

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Fahey Machinery Celebrates 50 Years in Business

Raymond and Lauretta Fahey founded Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. (Fahey Machinery) almost 50 years ago as a machine tool distrib-utor, specializing in sheet metal and steel fabricating equipment. Fahey Machinery has become a leading distributor and represents some of the finest machine tool manufacturers in the industry and has a territory that spans the following states: Oregon, Wash-

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Fahey Machinery has offices located in Lake Oswego, Oregon and Sammamish, Washington. The main office in Oregon houses a wide variety of new and used equipment and machines for: bending, punch-ing, shearing, stamping, sawing, burning, welding, rolling, finishing, as well as milling and turning.

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In Portland Oregon there is a progressive manu-facturing/metalworking company with state of the art software and state of the art machines for fabrication and machining that builds high-level armor assemblies to protect our troops. Service Steel, Inc. is the sole provider for the armor and cabs for the US Military’s FMTV (Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles). Service Steel also makes the M-ATV (Military All-Terrain Vehicle), MRAP, Wrecker, JLTV, Husky TSV armor safety and metal packages that help keep our troops alive. They work with all the top tier suppliers to our military and they also work with many companies like Intel to produce high quality subassemblies to support their fab-line.

Service Steel was founded in 1987. Ed Wester-dahl’s father took over an existing company and he named it Service Steel. Ed’s father (Ed West-erdahl II) is very well known in the Portland area, primarily through his involvement in politics. Ed II retired in 1998 and Ed III became the new CEO. Ed III was a Tool and die maker for many years and he had a great vision for the company when it was pretty much a service center, with little value added. Ed pushed for valued added systems and soon transformed the company into a high level, value added manufacturing facility with robotic high volume welding, machining, and intricate mechanical assembly. They are much more efficient on material utilization because they nest to stock size sheets, and take advantage of keeping material scrap to it’s lowest level thus saving their customers substantial amount of money. They can process sheet sizes of 39 x 87 armor and they go through from 2000-3000 tons per month.

Service Steel has succeeded in becom-ing the leading steel processing facility in the region. They have a 300,000 sq. ft. building with 25 cranes in 12 bays and 3 rail spurs. Their facility built the Liberty Ships in WWII. It is ideal for high volume steel processing. Their combination of huge capacity and the latest CNC machinery and software are unrivaled. With 10 high power lasers they have more than twice the laser cutting capacity of their com-petitors. Their 8 large, combination

plasma/flame tables allow the processing of thousands of tons of metal each week. With CNC machining, forming, welding, and painting they go well beyond a typical Service Center’s limited processing abilities.

Whether it’s supplying stock plates, laser cut profiles or welded and painted assemblies, Service Steel is a “Single Source Solution” that can deliver what is needed, when it is needed.

We interview Ed Westerdahl III and his humble yet very knowledgeable demeanor was re-freshing. Ed said, “Service Steel utilizes the latest in CAD technology including AutoCAD, SolidWorks, MasterCAM and SigmaNEST. This enables us to provide world-class engineering services and to ensure performance at the highest level of quality. Service Steel starts with nesting first. When a quotation comes in Service Steel analyzes the data package through SigmaNEST and quotes it with minimal scrap and time utilization. SigmaNEST is at the start and at the heart of everything we do.”

Starting with nesting first is a creed that al-lows Service Steel to be the best and most competitive in their field. They can quote jobs so competitively that their competition often says they are quoting at the metal cost of the job. Ed says, “Our competitors often say they can’t make parts that cheap. They’re selling for less than the material costs. They’re try-ing to buy the job. In truth we quote to make money on every job using SigmaNEST. The software’s unmatched part nesting efficiency delivers 15% -20% material savings, accurate job estimations, and we win bids!”

Service Steel has a big ongoing commitment to improving the quality of their work as well as their customers’ continued satisfaction. They are ISO 9001 certified and ITAR reg-istered. Two important quality control tools

“Service Steel starts with nesting first! SigmaNest nesting software helps us orchestrate from lean quoting to perfection!” ,says Ed Westerdahl III, CEO

-Ed Westerdahl, President and CEOService Steel Company (Portland, OR)

“They can’t make parts that cheap. They’re selling for less than the material costs. They’re trying to buy the job... That’s what we often hear. In truth we quote to make money on every job using SigmaNEST. The software’s unmatched part nesting efficiency delivers15% - 20% material savings, accurate job estimations, and more winning bids!”

“SigmaNEST® helped us to win a contract approaching $100 Million.”

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they utilize are the Virtek LaserQC advanced, rapid, 2D laser quality inspection scanner and the 6-Axis ROMER Absolute Arm 7545 for work pieces that are large, difficult to move, or cannot be moved to an offline inspection station. The ability to quickly measure parts wherever and whenever required allows Service Steel to ensure quality, control processes, reduce scrap and eliminate re-work.

We asked Ed; what’s next for Service Steel? Brian Blair the sales manager for SigmaNest has shown us an MRP package that SigmaTEK is perfect-ing and they have extremely good programmers. We worked very closely with them when they were a new company. Today their growth is explosive and they have captured the market. We would like to be their beta site for this new MRP software because if it can work in this large multi-job environment we have it can work anywhere. IT differenti-

ates us from our competition; from etching part and heat numbers on each part, to planning and routing jobs through the shop. This is our marketing tool. We start with the best and we embrace new technologies, maintain a competitive advantage, and this remains an obstacle to our competitors.

For more information on Service Steel and how they can support your manufacturing requirements contact:

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Advanced Energy Inverters Used In Oregon’s First Utility-Scale Solar Energy Project

Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. announced that its utility-scale AE 500NX inverters were used for Oregon’s first utility-scale solar energy project, which is also the largest utility-owned and operated solar energy site in the state. The Black Cap Solar Facility, a two-megawatt solar farm in Lakeview, Ore., was completed by Swinerton Renewable Energy, a leading engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) builder in the solar utility industry. Black Cap is operated by PacifiCorp to benefit the utility’s 1.7 million customers in six western states.

Swinerton chose the AE 500NX because of Advanced Energy (AE) Solar Energy’s track record in utility-scale projects, its unsurpassed customer service, and for the product’s low cost and proven reliability.“Large scale projects like these are helping utilities meet their renewable energy goals at lower costs, and we were sure AE would be the right choice, given

its proven success on projects of this size,” said George Hershman, vice president and division manager at Swinerton Renewable Energy. “We have been impressed by the product’s built-in features and robust design and AE’s customer service has been invalu-able. We look forward to working on similar projects with AE in the future.”

The AE 500NX features a high-power, transformerless, bipolar design, which reduces balance of system cost (BoS) and increases return on investment (ROI). The inverter allows solar project stakeholders to offer system owners a lower levelized cost of energy (LCOE) and confidence their PV system will deliver on long-term production goals.

“AE is proud to be a part of this project and a member of the Oregon community, which places a high value on solar energy,” said Gordon Tredger, president for AE Solar Energy. “Our AE 500NX inverters are being deployed widely for utility-scale projects because of the industry-best ROI we offer to developers, utilities, and financiers for their solar energy investments.”

The Black Cap Solar Facility was dedicated on Friday, Nov. 9, and provides solar energy equal to the annual usage of approximately 400 average customer homes. The project consists of 9,000 panels, incorporating tracking technology to follow the path of the sun and increase energy harvest throughout the day.

“We’re proud to be able to place this facil-ity in an area we serve, while also helping Lake County advance its goal to become

‘The New Energy Frontier,’” said Mark Tallman, vice president, renew-able resources for PacifiCorp Energy, the PacifiCorp unit that operates the company’s owned renewable resources. “We’re also pleased that it provided a business opportunity for Advanced Energy, one of our central Oregon customers. Altogether, the Black Cap project has helped sup-port the economy in two of our counties while providing environmental benefits for the region and renewable energy for our customers.”

AE’s solar energy business delivers highly reliable inverters, complemen-tary BoS products and robust O&M services that allow its customers to secure more solar projects and grow their business. AE Solar Energy en-ables utility-scale, commercial and residential solar project stakeholders to offer system owners a lower LCOE and confidence their PV system will deliver on long-term production goals. With more than 30 years of lead-ership in delivering innovative energy solutions, AE is a trusted partner to solar project developers, financiers and beneficiaries around the globe.

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Boeing Business Jets to Offer the BBJ MAX

Boeing announced its intent to offer the BBJ MAX 8 and the BBJ MAX 9, furthering Boeing’s dominance in the large cabin ultra-long-range business jet market. The announcement was made today at the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) Conference in Orlando, Fla.

The BBJ MAX 8, based on the 737 MAX 8, will be the first member of the BBJ MAX family to take advantage of the efficiency of CFM International’s new LEAP-1B engines and the Boeing developed Advanced Technology winglet. The new engine and Advanced Tech-nology winglet will provide customers with a 13 percent fuel-use improvement. Together, these features will translate to a range of 6,325 nautical miles – a more than 14-percent increase over today’s class-leading BBJ 2 that will be validated in final configuration and flight test.

The Civil Aviation Flight Training and Simulation Market 2012-2022The BBJ MAX 8 will share the same cabin size with today’s BBJ 2, offering customers a 19-foot longer cabin and three times the cargo space of today’s BBJ. The BBJ MAX 8 will also improve on its market leading range capability and maintain the BBJ advantages of lower cabin altitude, unmatched reliability and outstanding product support around the globe.

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Boeing also intends to develop the plan for the BBJ MAX 9 based on the 737 MAX 9. Similar performance improvements are anticipated, offering a 6,255 nm range with an even larger cabin than the BBJ MAX 8. Plans for a BBJ MAX 7 are being studied.

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The Pentagon has notified Congress of its intent to sign a multi-billion-dollar deal with Lockheed Martin for 32 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, according to a senior defense official. The actual inking of the contract is expected on Dec. 14.

The final dollar value of the contract will be de-termined when the contract is signed, said Frank Kendall, undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics. The Pentagon also expects a preliminary deal for the sixth batch of F-35s in the near future.

“I think we made a lot of progress over the course of our negotiations in getting to a mutual understanding of where the program really is and what the costs are,” Kendall said.

“I think we made an enormous amount of progress.”

The signing of the contract will bring to an official close more than a year of sometimes turbulent negotiations that boiled over in September when the Lt. Gen. Christopher Bogdan, the F-35 program manager, called the relationship between the DoD and Lockheed “the worst I have ever seen.” At the time, Bogdan was the deputy program manager.

This was the first time DoD acquisition officials used a new negotia-tion tool, called a should-cost analysis. The analysis was based on

several years of F-35 cost data as well as data from the acquisition of the F-22A fighter, a similar stealthy fighter built by Lockheed and flown by the Air Force.

“We’re able to take all of that data and sit down at the table with Lockheed and go through in an enormous amount of detail all the elements of their cost and project forward from what they’ve already

done,” Kendall said.

Overall, Kendall characterized the use of the should-cost analysis as an “extremely useful ex-ercise.”

The Pentagon has put incentives in place for Lockheed if it meets or exceeds certain benchmarks.

“I think we have moved to where we all — both parties, Lockheed and the government — have a very good understanding for the cost basis for the F-35,” Kendall said. “I expect that the future negotiations for production will be much easier. They should be just because we have much less to disagree on.”

The F-35 is the Pentagon’s most expensive weapon program, with its total procurement and research-and-development expected to cost almost $400 billion. The Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps all plan to fly different versions of the jet. A number of U.S. allies have purchased, or plan to buy, the jet.

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Unemployment Rate Falls To 7.7 Percent

The U.S. economy added 146,000 jobs in Novem-ber and the unemployment rate fell to 7.7 percent, the lowest since December 2008. The government said Superstorm Sandy had only a minimal effect on the figures.

The Labor Department’s report Friday offered a mixed picture of the economy.

Hiring remained steady during the storm and in the face of looming tax increases. But the government said employers added 49,000 fewer jobs in October and September than it initially estimated.

And the unemployment rate fell to a four-year low in November from 7.9 percent in October mostly because more people stopped looking for work and weren’t counted as unemployed.

The report “is something of a mixed bag but, on balance, it’s a positive,” said Paul Ashworth, an economist at Capital Economics.

Sandy’s effect on the figures was much smaller many analysts had predicted. The government noted that as long as employees worked at least one day during a pay period — two weeks for most people — its survey would have counted them as employed.

Still, there were signs that the storm disrupted economic activity. Con-struction employment dropped 20,000. And weather prevented 369,000 people from getting to work — the most for any month in nearly two years. These workers were still counted as employed.

Investors appeared pleased with the report. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 56 points in the first hour of trading.

Since July, the economy has added an average of 158,000 jobs a month. That’s a modest pickup from 146,000 average in the first six months of the year.

The job growth suggests that most employers aren’t yet delaying hiring because of the “fiscal cliff.” That’s the combination of sharp tax increases and spending cuts set to take effect next year unless the White House and Congress reach a budget deal before then.

There is “no obvious impact from the looming fiscal cliff yet,” Ashworth added, “but it could still have a greater effect on December’s figures.”

In November, retailers added 53,000 positions. Temporary help companies added 18,000 and education and health care also gained 18,000.

Auto manufacturers added nearly 10,000 jobs.

Still, overall manufacturing jobs fell 7,000. That was pushed down by a loss of 12,000 jobs in food manufacturing that likely reflects the layoff of workers at Hostess.

Sandy forced restaurants, retailers and other businesses to close in late October and early November in 24 states, particularly in the Northeast.

Ashworth noted that hiring by companies was actually better in October than the gov-ernment first thought. The overall job figures were revised lower that month because governments cut about 35,000 more jobs than first estimated.

The U.S. grew at a solid 2.7 percent annual rate in the July-September quarter. But many economists say growth is slowing to a 1.5 percent rate in the October-December quarter, largely because of the storm and threat of the fiscal cliff. That’s not enough growth to lower the unemployment rate.

The storm held back consumer spending and income, which drive economic growth. Consumer spending declined in October and work interruptions caused by Sandy reduced wages and salaries that month by about $18 billion at an annual rate, the government said.

Still, many say economic growth could accelerate next year if the fiscal cliff is avoided. The economy is also expected to get a boost from efforts to rebuild in the Northeast after the storm.


Trade Deficit Narrows To $41.5B

by, Martin Crutsinger, AP Economics Writer

The U.S. trade deficit declined to the lowest level in nearly two years because exports rose to a record high. The gain may not last given the global economic slowdown.

Still, the narrower trade deficit could lead the government to revise its July-September economic growth estimate slightly higher than the 2 percent annual rate reported last month. That’s because U.S. companies earned more from over-seas sales while consumers and businesses spent less on foreign products.

The deficit narrowed to $41.5 billion in September, the Commerce Department said Thursday. That is 5.1 percent below the August deficit and the smallest imbal-ance since December 2010.

Exports climbed 3.1 percent to an all-time high of $187 billion. That followed two monthly declines and reflected stron-ger sales of commercial aircraft, heavy machinery and farm goods.

Imports rose 1.5 percent to $228.5 bil-lion. An increase in consumer goods drove the gain, including shipments of the new Apple iPhone5. Higher oil prices also contributed to the gain.

Economists cautioned that the increase in exports may only be temporary. One reason is soybean exports rose 32 percent in Sep-tember from August, in part because of a jump in prices linked to the summer drought.

“More generally, export growth has slowed by more than import growth as the weak global backdrop has taken its toll,” said Paul Dales, senior U.S. economist at Capital Economics. “So while these data may boost third-quarter ... growth by a couple of tenths of a percent, further ahead net exports may not add anything to growth.”

Europe’s debt crisis and slower global growth in emerging markets had weakened demand for U.S. goods overseas in the previous months. That subtracted from economic growth in the third quarter.

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although exports to Brazil declined. Brazil is South America’s big-gest economy.

So far this year, the U.S. deficit is running at an annual rate of $554 billion, slightly below last year’s $559.9 billion imbalance.

The U.S. deficit with China increased to $29.1 billion in September. It is running 6.8 percent ahead of last year’s record pace. America’s deficit with China last year was the highest imbalance ever recorded with a single country.

The widening trade gap with China has heightened trade tensions between the two countries. Many have complained that China’s trade practices are unfair. American manufacturers say China has kept the yuan undervalued against the U.S. dollar. A lower valued yuan makes Chinese goods cheaper for U.S. consumers and American products more expensive in China.

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Gary, CEO and President of GK Machine, holds dear his community and fosters a give mentality along with his can do mentality. GK Machine helps and sponsors many community associations including the FFA, Local Rodeos, and the State fair. If it has anything to do with agriculture, kids and manufac-turing, Gary and GK Machine are all in!

GK Machine started in the early 70’s and was literally born in a barn. Yes, humble beginnings and a dream of creating your own destiny. GK started with Gary (a journeyman machinist) working a full time night job as a ma-chinist on the graveyard shift and working his dream by day with little sleep and much determination. In 1976 the GK Machine name was christened with Gary’s brother Keith (a civil engineer) joining the business. Still a teen, Gary started with $75 dollars and a dream of can do, and will do better. The brother company grew as time allowed evolution with Keith staying in the shop and Gary venturing out to shake hands and sell a better and faster way to make and do things in agriculture. GK continues to be family focused with wife Jeanna, and their two children as well as nieces and nephews that work at GK Machine. GK always had a can do vision with a better solution and always made it happen to the Customer’s benefit.

How do they compete with Asia? Build it leaner, faster, and better, by taking out steps, operations and redesigning the product as a whole by starting at the smallest component. GK takes components that were made in 10 to 20 pieces and fabricates them as one unit, thus making it stronger, better, faster, with complete repeatability. They work up the bill of material from the least component to the highest level and suggest their design for manufacturability with the end result of tremendous savings to the customer.

With 13 degreed engineers, the company helps its customers take a product from conception to production. Customers who are designing a new product will send their engineers/designers to work onsite at GK, where they have an office and work directly with the GK team to move a product to production. Often, their assignment onsite with GK Machine is several months in duration.

GK is the epitome of lean. While they employ dozens of welders, by design, they work to take welding out of the equation. And while they have purchased the best software designed for lean, off the shelf software hasn’t worked ‘as is’ for GK, and in all cases, they have customized it to improve their operations. Every facet of their operation is studied, analyzed and improved, in order to optimize efficiencies. The company had to become the very best in order to design their own branded equipment, which ships internationally, and to compete with developing countries, where lower cost wages could threaten their business. And they have done it well. Their double-digit growth since their inception in 1976 is a testament to their quality and innovation. In fact, GK was just awarded a very high visibility contract -- for the 2016 Olympics in Brazil. They will build the trains needed to upgrade the transportation infrastructure needed to support all the visitors. In order to win the con-tract, the manufacturer had to have demonstrated a successful track record in manufacturing trains in the past. Since GK successfully built a number of trains from the track up for a contract in Alaska, they were awarded the prestigious contract to support the Brazilian government in its transportation infrastructure build out.

Gary says, “If you are a follower, you are too late. If you are a leader, you always look for better technology, better ideas, and anticipate the best direction for the future. We can always make it better; we can always make it faster and lean the process to help save time, money, with sure steps in a positive direc-tion! I like to think GK Machine sets the bar. We work hard to maintain the


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premier tier one position that fortune 1000 companies are looking for!” GK Machine is ISO/9001:2008 certified for contract manufacturing of parts, large and small equipment. Aerospace is the obvious next step to maintaining the high tier level of support for their customers. GK builds everything from trains to agricultural equipment with most everything performed in house. Gary told us the GK Team and system was always at the ISO/9001:2008 level, they just needed to wrap the ISO system around it and document what they already do. “When you certify to a high level of standards you don’t do it to get the business, you do it for your employees and for the quality of your product and organization”, Gary elaborates.

GK runs between 400 to 600 jobs on the shop floor at one time. This massive undertaking is controlled with lean practices such as bar cod-ing, terminals at every station, visual time studies resident at every workstation for every employee. There is no time clock, just resident terminals that are logged in with the employee’s identification card. Sate of the art software designed in house creates the router that fol-lows the jobs through the shop and gathers the vital data at every step along the way. This data is stored and evaluated to continue the lean process and to deliver the customer a higher quality product with the best possible price.

The company purchases the best equipment in the industry, including the Trumpf line. Gary says, “Not only do I value the equipment Fahey Machinery sells, particularly the Trumpf line of products, but I find in Bill Fahey, owner of the company, an outstanding partner. I met Bill at an auction 20 years ago, and he has supported our business since then. If I was to give Bill a score you have to give him the highest score A+, he provides great service, and he really listens to the customer. Bill is genuinely interested how we do business. He gets first bid on anything I need!”

Gary continued, “I go to the tradeshows because it is critical to stay up on technology. I also regularly attend the European machine tool shows. While I listen to other machine tool dealers, I have to say that Fahey is our first choice in local machine tool dealers. We purchased our first laser from Fahey more than 10 years ago. It’s about service, products, and ethics. Bill listens to us, knows our business requirements, and helps us to select the best machine tool for our current requirements. I also believe in buying the best - we have to -- in order to be up and running offering our customers the best products produced fasters

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Equipment Finance Sector to Surpass $740 Billion in 2013, Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation Forecasts

U.S. businesses and government agencies will finance more than $742 billion in equipment acquisitions in 2013, according to the U.S. Equipment Finance Market Study 2012-2013, released today by the Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation. The study, conducted by IHS, provides a comprehensive look at the size and expected growth of the U.S. equipment finance market. According to the study, the equipment finance sector has emerged from the Great Recession with finance volumes at an all-time high, as a result of double-digit

growth in equipment investment and a fa-vorable interest rate environment. However, equipment finance volumes are expected to expand at a more moderate pace over the next 12 to 18 months as equipment investment growth remains constrained by uncertainties at home and abroad. Companies are expected to remain cautious about taking on the risks associated with large capital investments until after important tax and regulatory decisions impacting short- and long-term fiscal stability have been made.

“The Foundation is delighted to present this essential study, which illustrates that the equip-ment finance industry is a critical source of funding for U.S. businesses,” said Cameron Krueger, Chairman of the Equipment Leas-ing & Finance Foundation and Director and National Asset Finance & Leasing Practice Leader at Deloitte. “The data provides a fresh and comprehensive picture of the domestic equipment finance sector and how it contrib-utes to the U.S. economy.”

“Equipment financing plays a significant role in helping businesses acquire the equipment they need,” said William G. Sutton, CAE, President of the Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation. “The equipment finance sector not only contributes to businesses’ success, but to U.S. economic growth, manufacturing and jobs. This study reveals the importance of resolving political and regulatory uncertainty so businesses can feel more confident about their futures and invest in capital equipment and job creation.” In 2012, equipment finance volume returned

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Delcam to launch new milling options in FeatureCAM at IMTS

Delcam will launch the 2013 release of its FeatureCAM feature-based CAM software on booth E-3222 at the IMTS exhibition to be held in Chicago from 10th to 15th September. This will offer a new series of options for three-axis milling and enhancements in five-axis machining, plus improvements in the turning and mill-turn modules.

FeatureCAM was the world’s first feature-based programming software when it was launched in 1995. Constant development since then has ensured that the system has retained its leadership in programming speed and ease of use, while an increased range of strategies has been added to provide more efficient toolpaths giving greater productivity on a wider range of machines.

The main change to the 2013 FeatureCAM product family has been the introduction of three levels of 3D machining functionality. FeatureMILL 3D Lite offers single-surface machining with a basic range of strategies and so provides an introductory product for companies moving into 3D machining for the first time.

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Aero Tech Manufacturing, Inc. Achieves ISO9001: 2008 Certification

Aero Tech Manufacturing, in business since 1967, is pleased to announce that it suc-cessfully certified to ISO9001: 2008. The scope of the company’s certifications are for fabrication and finishing of sheet metal and light structural steel products. The Registrar Company, Inc., was the certifying auditor.

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Phoenix groups help aerospace, defense companies diversify

With potentially huge cuts to federal defense spending looming by early next year, Phoenix-based groups are trying to reduce the impact by promoting diversification within Arizona’s aerospace and defense industry.

The Arizona Commerce Authority is focusing both on sustaining the state’s already existing industry and working to draw in new business. It is spearheading the effort to position Arizona as one of the six states selected as a testing range for aerial unmanned vehicles, a project being run by the Federal Aviation Administration.

Retired Lt. Gen. John Regni, an aerospace and defense adviser to the quasi-governmental ACA, also is co-director for the Arizona Aerospace and Defense Initiative. He said if the state is selected, it could bring in a new growth industry.

“This would open up doors in all kinds of areas outside of defense, in fire protection, in search and rescue, in law enforcement and a wide variety of new areas,” said Regni.

The ACA has taken other steps to ensure small and midsize businesses are ready for changes relative to large industry players, holding a requirements conference in January and working

on an interactive supply-chain database.

The conference allows smaller contractors and manufacturers to learn about what would be expected of them to subcontract with larger defense contractors.

Barry Broome, president and CEO of the Greater Phoenix Economic Council, said his organization is meeting with the 114 aerospace and defense companies in the top three tiers in the Phoenix area this summer to help them develop sustainable plans.

“We will have a plan of attack for each one of those companies; how to help this company grow, how to keep this company from closing. It’s a very hands on, tactical effort,” he said.

Broome said while the largest local aerospace and defense players, such as Boeing Co., Honeywell Aerospace, Raytheon Co. and Lockheed Mar tin Corp., already have diversified businesses, smaller companies with limited capital face greater challenges as effects roll down the supply chain.

“Our major companies have been relatively optimistic that they have done a good job of preparing for these cuts. It’s all the other companies that are connected to the big companies that we have to pay attention to because they can’t change their behavior and enterprise until the bigger companies change theirs,” Broome said.

Small to midsize companies that produce defense-specific products and rely on that pipeline may need to change to adapt.

“If you depend too much on one customer, or one industry segment, you are going to be more vulnerable than if you were more diversified,” said Steven Zylstra, president and CEO of the Arizona Technology Council.

Zylstra said strategic innovation and paying attention to where defense money is still being spent will be key.

“You have to be more innovative and ingenious to say what is my core competency and how can I re-apply that to some other industry? It’s a tough test. Those that are the most innovative are going to do the best,” Zylstra said.


Companies with sales between $25 million and $100 million doubled their share of financing volume from 2006—when the Foundation’s first market-sizing study was conducted to 2011. Companies with fewer than 51 employees also doubled their share equipment acquisition via financing in this time period. This may be in part a reflection of the difficulty in obtaining other forms of credit for these segments of the market. Cash as a method of purchasing declined for large companies from 2007 to 2012 as larger companies enjoyed greater ac-cess to credit markets. In the current low-interest-rate environment, financ-ing equipment acquisitions is especially attractive. Corporate perceptions of the economic outlook are the primary driver behind equipment investment decisions. When presented with a list of potential fac-tors that will drive future investment spending, companies surveyed by the Foundation overwhelmingly chose “gen-eral economic conditions.” The financ-ing decisions of smaller companies are especially sensitive to general economic conditions. Even with the relatively high degree of uncertainty over the economy and regulations/fiscal policy, nearly 30% of companies surveyed anticipated increasing their equipment investment over the next 12 months. This group of companies is disproportionately represented by large companies. For example, among companies with sales over $100 million, 51% indicated they would increase spending, yet only 17% of businesses with sales less than $1 million had similar plans. Over the next 12 to 18 months, businesses faced with rising un-certainty over the economy and regulatory policies are expected to be more cautious about spending on equipment and software, as well as taking on more credit. The silver lining to this cloud is that technological innovation and equipment replacement needs should spur rapid growth in volume in late 2014 and beyond. About the Study

U.S. Equipment Finance Market Study 2012-2013 was conducted

by IHS for the Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation, an in-dependent organization that publishes research for the equipment leasing and finance industry. The study draws on data from a num-ber of sources, including the Federal Reserve Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices, the Federal Reserve Flow of Funds, the 2012 Monitor 100, the Equipment Leasing and Finance Association’s 2012 Survey of Equipment Finance Activity, the IHS Equipment Market Monitor, and surveys conducted by the Foundation. A key input came from a custom survey of businesses that purchased equipment in 2011. The survey was conducted in August and September of 2012 by IHS on behalf of the Founda-tion. Responses were collected from 427 businesses, of which 372 acquired business equipment in 2011. For the purposes of the study, equipment financing refers to retail or end-user financing of equip-ment and software. The financing market estimates reflect lending to businesses and government agencies.


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They will essentially throw out the old “design it, build a prototype and test it, then fix the mistakes and test it some more” method that’s been in place since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. Approaches that worked for Robert Fulton or Henry Ford are now considered too expensive, wasteful, unpredictable and time-consuming.

Instead, virtually all of the design, testing, error identification and revisions will be done on a computer up to the point of commercial production. In theory, a new machine should work right the first time, and perform exactly as the computer said it would.

“If this works, and we believe it will, then it will revolutionize the way that machines get built,” said Irem Tumer, an associate profes-sor in OSU’s School of Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.

“The field holds great promise to design and test completed machines on a computer before they are ever built,” she said. “We’ll see what works, identify and solve problems, make any changes desired, and then go straight to commercial production.”

There’s some use of such approaches in the technology industry, which is a major reason it has boomed in recent decades. But this has never really been done before in mechanical engineering. The potential, experts say, is to radically change how almost any complex machine gets built, ranging from military vehicles to automobiles, air-craft, space vehicles, consumer products or machines used in industry.

The concept is called “model based design and verification,” and is getting initial impetus from a design challenge sponsored by the U.S. military, which wants a new amphibious vehicle in about one-fifth of the time it would ordinarily take to build it. They also want lower cost and excellent performance.

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OSU is joining with some of the nation’s leading universities and agencies on this problem, in work supported by the De-fense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA. Collaborators include Vander-bilt University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Georgia Tech University, Palo Alto Research Center, Carnegie Mel-lon University, and SRI International.

Advances already made at OSU, which have been published in professional journals, in-clude work on failure propagation analysis, led by Tumer; a model repository, led by Robert Stone, a professor of mechanical engineering; and verification tools that will ensure the model should work, led by Christopher Hoyle, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering. Some of Tumer’s continued studies will look more closely at fault behavior, to determine what will happen if a part fails.

“We’ve done a lot of work like this in the past with individual parts, small groups of components,” Tumer said. “Now we’re taking that complexity to the level of a fin-ished and completed machine, sometimes thousands of parts working together.

“That’s a much more difficult challenge,” she said. “But by the time we actually build it, we should know exactly what it will do and have already solved any problems. The testing will have already been done. There should not be any surprises.”

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Robert LeTourneau, a roving American evangelist and in-ventor, decided in the mid-1930s that a plot of lakefront land a mile and a half northeast of down-town Peoria would be a fine place to make earth-moving equipment. Skilled labor and suppliers were plentiful; transport links were good.

Nearly eight decades later, Japan’s Komatsu Ltd., 6301.TO +1.29% which owns the plant, still thinks Mr. LeTourneau chose the right loca-tion—even though most giant mining trucks made there are shipped overseas to Latin America, Australia, Asia and Africa.

About 80 miles south, in Decatur, Ill., rival Caterpillar Inc. CAT -0.30% makes its large mining trucks, most of which are exported. Caterpillar, No. 1 in this market, and No. 2 Komatsu account for roughly 85% of global sales of these trucks, roughly the size of two-story houses.

Their presence has created a cluster of skills and suppliers that feeds the industry. At a time when politicians are hoping for a job-creating revival of American manufacturing, this is one area where U.S.-based plants are still global champions.

The U.S. had a deficit of $509.7 billion in trade in manufactured goods in this year’s first nine months, largely due to gaping deficits in such major categories as consumer electronics and clothing.

But in certain areas—notably aircraft, industrial engines, excavators and railway and mining equipment—the U.S. exports far more than it imports. These industries produce relatively small numbers of very expensive goods, requiring specialized technology and labor. Their competitive advantage rests partly on expertise built by U.S. compa-nies in making durable, high-tech weaponry and other equipment for the military—frequently applicable to other products.

“We have a very strong and very innovative military,” said Cliff Wald-man, a senior economist at Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation, an Arlington, Va., research organization. That creates an infrastructure for manufacturing and spurs innovation in such areas as metallurgy and engines.

Determining where the U.S. can gain competitive edges is part of the challenge of creating more well-paid manufacturing jobs, a priority of the Obama administration, which is budgeting more money for research into manufacturing processes.

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“We need to broaden our capabilities,” said Gary Pisano, a professor at Harvard Business School, who writes about global competition. He prescribes more training of engineers and high-skill manufactur-ing workers, a longer-term investment horizon for managers and government support for research in advanced materials, biotechnol-ogy and nanotechnology.

Manufacturers benefit from clusters of suppliers and workers with specialized skills. Such clusters make Taiwan a powerhouse in semi-conductors and China nearly unbeatable in smartphones and other consumer electronics. Illinois, home to such heavy-equipment pio-neers as Caterpillar and Deere & Co., has maintained its expertise in building large metal structures needed for mining, construction and agricultural equipment.

Given decades of investment in skilled labor and nearby suppliers, “it’s not so easy just to pick it up and start somewhere else,” said Rod Schrader, CEO of Komatsu’s U.S. arm. Global demand for large mining trucks is too small to justify more than one plant.

The global market for large mining trucks, those that can carry 200 tons or more, is likely to reach about 1,900 to 2,000 vehicles this year, up from 1,591 in 2011, said Peter Gilewicz, managing direc-tor of Parker Bay Co., a mining industry research firm. The trucks typically sell for $2.5 million to $6 million each, executives say.

More than 90% are built at North American plants owned by Cater-pillar, Komatsu, Hitachi Construction Machinery Co. of Japan and

Liebherr Group, based in Switzerland. Hitachi aims to more than double its capacity for making mining trucks at a Guelph, Ontario, plant, through a 33 million Canadian dollar expansion. Liebherr makes mining trucks in Newport News, Va.

There are potential challengers in other parts of the world, includ-ing Belarus-based BelAZ and Xiangtan Electric Manufacturing Corp. of China.In Peoria, Komatsu over the past two years has expanded manufacturing space about 7% to 764,000 square feet, spread among three buildings, one dating to 1935. Most equip-ment isn’t cutting-edge: There are about 575 factory workers and no robots.

Komatsu tried welding robots years ago, but “we couldn’t get the quality where we wanted it,” said Mr. Schrader. He said the company continues to look at automation possibilities.

Rio Tinto PLC’s Bingham Canyon copper mine near Salt Lake City uses 89 Komatsu trucks. Because they are so big, pieces of the truck are partially assembled in Peoria, loaded onto highway trucks or railcars and assembled at the mine.

Like many factories, the Komatsu plant draws on both local and faraway suppliers. The diesel engines come from the Daventry, England, plant of U.S.-based Cummins Inc. Some of the electronics come from Asia, while certain steel parts are molded in Brazil. But Komatsu says the U.S.-made content of the plant’s biggest-selling trucks is more than 70%.

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Total Quality Systems (TQS) Offers ISO Certified Inspection ServicesAnd Superior Zeiss CMM (Coordinate Measuring Machine) Sales

Todd Johnson, founder and president of Total Quality Systems, says, “To my knowledge, we are the only Inspection Services and CMM sales company in the 4 CornersStates (Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Colorado) that is ISO9001:2008 certified, and we’ve been certified since 2004.”

TQS, founded in 1999, is comprised of two distinct businesses, including Inspection Services and Metrology Equipment Sales.

Inspection Services

TQS employes 3 certified inspectors for their inspection services department, and their customers reside throughout the United States. Todd says, “Our ISO certification more than 8 years ago enabled us to provide services to customers in the aerospace, medical, semi-conductor andaotomotive industries all over the country. Without the certification, many customers would send auditors to our facility to review our operations. Or, they would have to review our Quality documents to ensure we could handle the inspections they needed. With our ISO certification, customers are confident that our business processes are in place and we can do the inspections they need. This not only increases their confidence in TQS, but it saves our customers money and time.ISO certification is just one of the procedures we put into place to make it easier to do business with TQS.”

Todd says that large and small companies rely on TQS for their inspection services for a number of reasons, including lacking the personnel, the expertise, the equipment or the time. “When a business wins a new contract

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Their ScanMax Manual Scanning CMM allows TQS inspectors to acquire thousands of data points very quickly and accurately with minimal setup time. Todd says it is used for mold making, reverse engineering, and comparing measured values to a CAD model.

Their Zeiss/TSK Roundcom 41A allows TQS inspectors to measure roundness, flatness, concentricity, cylindricity, parallelism, coaxiality, squareness, run out, and thickness variations.

The Zeiss/TSK Surfcom 130A affords 16+ roughness parameters, including Waviness and Flatness, with 2” stroke capability, and ID capabilities of .040”.

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Metrology Equipment Sales

TQS has proudly carried Zeiss CMM product line since 1994. Todd says the Zeiss line is renown for its accuracy, and construction, and it is recognized as the premier CMM manufacturer in the world. He elaborates,

“If people don’t come to us for a bid, they sometimes feel they can’t afford a Zeiss . the reality is that they can. And while some of our custoemrs are industry giants, including Honeywell, NASA, and Raytheon, a larger percentage of our buyers are small machine shops. We just sold a Zeiss CMM to a 4 person shop in Gilbert, Arizona, last week. In fact, you can get into a Zeiss CMM that is fully automated and programmable for $65,000.”

Todd says that training and support are 2 of the

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About TQS’ ISO Certification

Todd was introduced to Great Western Registrar by the consultant they used in 2003 to prepare for certification. “I’ve used them ever since”, Todd says. they perform an audit on us each year and recertify us when our certification is set to expire.”

He says, “Great Western’s auditors, including Rebecca Salo, who supports us, are outstanding to work with. Not only are they extremely knowledgeable, but you always feel like they are on your side, here to help you to do what is necessary to certify. I’ve heard horror stories of auditors who are determined to find corrective actions - because they think this is what they just have to do. I’ve heard of companies spending enormous amounts of money for their auditors travel time and expenses. We don’t get this with Great Western. They are so good, I turn every customer who needs an ISO audit over to Great Western.”

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A2Z METALWORKER NW • 27 • Dec/Jan 2012-2013A2Z METALWORKER • 67 • Jan/Feb 2013

Total Quality Systems (TQS) Offers ISO Certified Inspection ServicesAnd Superior Zeiss CMM (Coordinate Measuring Machine) Sales

Todd Johnson, founder and president of Total Quality Systems, says, “To my knowledge, we are the only Inspection Services and CMM sales company in the 4 CornersStates (Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Colorado) that is ISO9001:2008 certified, and we’ve been certified since 2004.”

TQS, founded in 1999, is comprised of two distinct businesses, including Inspection Services and Metrology Equipment Sales.

Inspection Services

TQS employes 3 certified inspectors for their inspection services department, and their customers reside throughout the United States. Todd says, “Our ISO certification more than 8 years ago enabled us to provide services to customers in the aerospace, medical, semi-conductor andaotomotive industries all over the country. Without the certification, many customers would send auditors to our facility to review our operations. Or, they would have to review our Quality documents to ensure we could handle the inspections they needed. With our ISO certification, customers are confident that our business processes are in place and we can do the inspections they need. This not only increases their confidence in TQS, but it saves our customers money and time.ISO certification is just one of the procedures we put into place to make it easier to do business with TQS.”

Todd says that large and small companies rely on TQS for their inspection services for a number of reasons, including lacking the personnel, the expertise, the equipment or the time. “When a business wins a new contract

or has an expedited project”, Todd elaborates, “they may find that their Quality Control (QC) department can’t accomodate the new business initially. They come to TQS when situations like this arise.”

TQS’ inspection department utilizes a Zeiss Contura Select 28” x 40” x 24” Coordinate Measuring Machine for comparing parts to a CAD model, for reverse engineering and for curve analysis.

Their ScanMax Manual Scanning CMM allows TQS inspectors to acquire thousands of data points very quickly and accurately with minimal setup time. Todd says it is used for mold making, reverse engineering, and comparing measured values to a CAD model.

Their Zeiss/TSK Roundcom 41A allows TQS inspectors to measure roundness, flatness, concentricity, cylindricity, parallelism, coaxiality, squareness, run out, and thickness variations.

The Zeiss/TSK Surfcom 130A affords 16+ roughness parameters, including Waviness and Flatness, with 2” stroke capability, and ID capabilities of .040”.

Their Ram Optical Sprint 12×12 MultiSensor Measuring System facilitates Non-Contact Measuring for small or flexible parts.

Metrology Equipment Sales

TQS has proudly carried Zeiss CMM product line since 1994. Todd says the Zeiss line is renown for its accuracy, and construction, and it is recognized as the premier CMM manufacturer in the world. He elaborates,

“If people don’t come to us for a bid, they sometimes feel they can’t afford a Zeiss . the reality is that they can. And while some of our custoemrs are industry giants, including Honeywell, NASA, and Raytheon, a larger percentage of our buyers are small machine shops. We just sold a Zeiss CMM to a 4 person shop in Gilbert, Arizona, last week. In fact, you can get into a Zeiss CMM that is fully automated and programmable for $65,000.”

Todd says that training and support are 2 of the

most imprortant criteria a customer should evaluate when purchasing a CMM. He says that Zeiss has the best support in the industry. They are staffed with 2 Service Technicians in Arizona and Colorado, and 1 in UT.

About TQS’ ISO Certification

Todd was introduced to Great Western Registrar by the consultant they used in 2003 to prepare for certification. “I’ve used them ever since”, Todd says. they perform an audit on us each year and recertify us when our certification is set to expire.”

He says, “Great Western’s auditors, including Rebecca Salo, who supports us, are outstanding to work with. Not only are they extremely knowledgeable, but you always feel like they are on your side, here to help you to do what is necessary to certify. I’ve heard horror stories of auditors who are determined to find corrective actions - because they think this is what they just have to do. I’ve heard of companies spending enormous amounts of money for their auditors travel time and expenses. We don’t get this with Great Western. They are so good, I turn every customer who needs an ISO audit over to Great Western.”

Great Western Registrar is an ISO 9001 and ANAB accredited registrar offering complete AS9110 certification, AS9100 certification, ISO 9001 certification and registration services.Within this woman-owned company, all personnel are certified auditors. For more information, contact them at 623-580-1881 or visit greatwesternregistar.com.

For more information on TQS’ inspection services, available to customers through the U.S., or for their complete line of metrology equipment, available in AZ, CO, UT and NM, call (480) 377-6422 or visit their website at tqscorp.com.

America, The Blend Hub

I’m beginning to think that a key to more Ameri-can jobs could be a closer connection between European and American businesses.

Usually there is a light dusting of activity here at PCDworks, but the last few weeks have been a veritable blizzard. This is due, in part, to my company’s growing involve-ment in the food business, as well as a recently formed relationship with Henrik Stamm Kristensen, a Danish entrepreneur and innovator who was my co-presenter at the Open Innovation Summit in Brussels last May. The combination of these two factors has created an unusual and unexpected opportunity, and despite my habitually pessimistic tempera-ment, I feel hopeful for the future of innovation and the promise of real job creation, both here and abroad.

I’m beginning to think that a key to more American jobs could be a closer connection between European and American businesses — if we can only understand what it is that makes our nation an attractive place to do business. To get a little context, let me share my recent experiences, and examine the lessons that might be learned from them.

Kristensen’s great contributions to the world of food are threefold. First, he founded Premium Ingredients, a company that supplies powdered ingredients to a large customer base in Europe and the Middle East. From that came BlendHub, a company that makes a packaged, transportable

powder blending machine. Finally, Kristensen started the website all-foodexperts.com, an open innovation portal manned by experts in the food industry who take and answer the tough questions that Premium and its wonderful R&D team feel are out of their purview.

The innovation of the day, however, is the BlendHub machine. Imagine a 40-foot long, portable, stainless steel container with drop-down sides. Inside the container is all sorts of computer controlled machinery with everything needed to sift, inject, mix, meter, and package the various powders that go into our foods. If you have a question about what those powders might be, join the crowd. I can only suggest you look at any packaged food container to begin to understand the vastness of this blending phenomenon. As I sit at my desk and write this article, I am enjoying a delightful lunch of Grade-A, small curd cottage cheese. The ingredients of this cottage cheese, partially reads as follows: nonfat milk (in powdered form), whey, salt, guar gum, food starch, citric acid, titanium dioxide, locust bean gum, carrageenan, lactic acid, and potas-sium sorbate. All of these ingredients are added to the cheese curds that principally make up cottage cheese, and they are all in powder form. These powdered ingredients are combined in a powder blending machine in an ordered process, in very precise amounts, and then added to the curds at a later time.

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In 1977, Dale Flaming, a scientist working at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), was having difficulty in producing micropipettes for use in his study of retina cells in the eye. For those unfamiliar with a micropipette, they are formed from 1-1.5mm hollow glass tubing, which is then drawn down to create a microscopic needle at one end. Micropipettes can be used for such varied applications as in-vitro fertilization, cellular research and genetics. Dale developed the first electronic controlled micropipette puller as a tool to help fa-cilitate his research. Additional demand for the puller from colleagues prompted the formation of Sutter Instrument Company. Dale remains the active CEO of the company to this day.

Today, Sutter has grown from a modest “garage” operation to become a world-class manufacturer of biomedical and life science research in-strumentation. University research labs all over the world use Sutter’s instrumentation to enable them to do research that will ultimately save lives. Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis, cancer, and infertility are just a few examples of the types of research Sutter’s product help facilitate. The combination of motor control experience and in-house precision CNC machining expertise has led to a line of robust and versatile opti-cal products serving photonics, life science, imaging, and microscopy markets. Sutter holds more than a dozen patents in addition to a vast array of intellectual property.

Sutter’s integrated engineering and manufacturing facility occupies over 50,000 square feet and employs more than 70 staff, most of who have been with the company for more than a decade. Sutter’s machine shop, which is staffed with 14 employees, is one of the finest precision machining facilities in Northern California, employing state-of-the-art CNC machining and turning centers for volume production of preci-sion mechanical components.

OEM customization of their optical product line for unique applications has become a specialty for Sutter Instrument. This, in turn, has extended their customer base beyond the biomedical industry, into such diverse industries as aerospace, semiconductor, electronics, atmospheric research, astronomical imaging, fusion research and material analysis. Their production facilities include in-house electronic design, circuit

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Ron Davenport, Research and Development machinist with Sutter Instruments for the past 15 years, has more than 30 years of experience in precision manufacturing. He is a journeyman machinist, a trained tool and die maker, and a mold maker. Ron works closely with Fred, and the two are naturals with new technology. They are particularly excited that their R&D Machine shop recently acquired its first 5-axis machining center, a DMG. Ron says, “Our new machining capabilities will allow us to build more sophisticated contours, maintaining very tight tolerances in our lab, testing these out for production capabilities. Ellison Technologies did an outstanding job in supporting our purchase of the 5-axis DMG machine. The sales and service team were great. Fernando Garcia of the Ellison Technologies team invited us out to the new Mori Seiki/DMG facility in Davis, Ca. There, we got to see the machines in action.”

Fred and Ron bring a tremendous amount of background and expertise that allows Sutter to meet challenging design criteria. Together, they have engineered designs for confocal microscopy, 2-photon laser based microscopes, micromanipulators that move in increments of nanome-ters, as well as a host of outside OEM projects for related optics and microscope accessories.

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the Delcam for Solid Works came out -- it was literally inside of the Solid Works we were versed at using.”

He elaborated, “John Gale, Sales Engineer for Delcam, was a big influ-ence in getting us switched over to the new Delcam software years ago. He showed us how fast and easy it was to use. John is outstanding for technical support and any issues we have, John is always right on top of it. If we have a new rare issue that John can’t help us with, he gets someone from Corporate on the phone right away. Some of our ques-tions turn into new features for Delcam’s next version of the software.”

John Gale is quick to point out that Ron and Fred at Sutter Instrument are not your typical CAD/CAM software users. “They are very sophis-ticated users. They are aggressive in their use of the software, and they move quickly. This is one of the many reasons they have been a part of Delcam’s Beta test customers.” Today, Sutter Instrument owns 5 DFS and 3 FeatureCAM seats.

For more information on Sutter Instrument Company, contact them at 415-883-0128 or visit their website at www.sutter.com.

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To learn more about Delcam’s CAD CAM solutions, call them at 1-877-DELCAM 1 (335-2261) or visit www.delcam.com.

Both Ron and Fred have tried nearly every CAD/CAM software pack-age on the market over the past years. For more than a decade, they have been committed to Delcam and the software packages they offer for design and engineering. They are so adept that Delcam regularly makes them a beta test center for new software. Ron admits that neither he nor Fred have attended training classes , although Delcam offers it. Ron says, “When we got our new software package from Delcam, we easily picked up the new package, by learning the basics almost imme-diately. Over time, we have learned the more intricate features.” Ron says that he and Fred do call Delcam’s office located in Salt Lake City, UT from time to time with questions, and he says the technical support team is outstanding. In fact, Fred and Ron admit that years ago when they were first evaluating Delcam’s FeatureCAM, it was the technical support that they received that convinced them to switch to Delcam.

Besides FeatureCAM another package that Sutter Instrument Company has from Delcam is the Delcam for SolidWorks (DFS) product. DFS is a Gold SolidWorks partner product that offers SolidWorks users a manufacturing solutions inside the SolidWorks environment Ron says,

“Delcam for SolidWorks (DFS) is about twice as fast as anything else out on the market. We can quickly design it and put it right into the machine. In R&D we are able to get a prototype into the hands of our decision makers very quickly. In production they are able to fine tune the design very quickly and easily, cutting production times. This is very important to the company as a whole.”

Ron says, “It became so easy for Fred and me to machine parts when

A2Z METALWORKER NW • 31 • Dec/Jan 2012-2013A2Z METALWORKER • 30 • Dec/Jan 2012/2013

In 1977, Dale Flaming, a scientist working at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), was having difficulty in producing micropipettes for use in his study of retina cells in the eye. For those unfamiliar with a micropipette, they are formed from 1-1.5mm hollow glass tubing, which is then drawn down to create a microscopic needle at one end. Micropipettes can be used for such varied applications as in-vitro fertilization, cellular research and genetics. Dale developed the first electronic controlled micropipette puller as a tool to help fa-cilitate his research. Additional demand for the puller from colleagues prompted the formation of Sutter Instrument Company. Dale remains the active CEO of the company to this day.

Today, Sutter has grown from a modest “garage” operation to become a world-class manufacturer of biomedical and life science research in-strumentation. University research labs all over the world use Sutter’s instrumentation to enable them to do research that will ultimately save lives. Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis, cancer, and infertility are just a few examples of the types of research Sutter’s product help facilitate. The combination of motor control experience and in-house precision CNC machining expertise has led to a line of robust and versatile opti-cal products serving photonics, life science, imaging, and microscopy markets. Sutter holds more than a dozen patents in addition to a vast array of intellectual property.

Sutter’s integrated engineering and manufacturing facility occupies over 50,000 square feet and employs more than 70 staff, most of who have been with the company for more than a decade. Sutter’s machine shop, which is staffed with 14 employees, is one of the finest precision machining facilities in Northern California, employing state-of-the-art CNC machining and turning centers for volume production of preci-sion mechanical components.

OEM customization of their optical product line for unique applications has become a specialty for Sutter Instrument. This, in turn, has extended their customer base beyond the biomedical industry, into such diverse industries as aerospace, semiconductor, electronics, atmospheric research, astronomical imaging, fusion research and material analysis. Their production facilities include in-house electronic design, circuit

board layout, embedded systems programming, and state-of-the-art CNC machining and turning centers for volume production of preci-sion mechanical components. This expertise gives Sutter the ability to provide timely, cost-effective engineering and manufacturing solutions for Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs).

R&D Machining At Its Best

Fred Siedenburg, a Vice-President at Sutter, oversees the research and development activities in the machine shop. Fred, the son of a tool and die maker, was Sutter’s first employee, starting with the company in 1983. He has worked in every corner of the company, from customer support and product design to overseeing finances. Eventually, as the company became better staffed, Fred was freed to return to what he enjoyed doing the most, mechanical design and R&D machining.

Ron Davenport, Research and Development machinist with Sutter Instruments for the past 15 years, has more than 30 years of experience in precision manufacturing. He is a journeyman machinist, a trained tool and die maker, and a mold maker. Ron works closely with Fred, and the two are naturals with new technology. They are particularly excited that their R&D Machine shop recently acquired its first 5-axis machining center, a DMG. Ron says, “Our new machining capabilities will allow us to build more sophisticated contours, maintaining very tight tolerances in our lab, testing these out for production capabilities. Ellison Technologies did an outstanding job in supporting our purchase of the 5-axis DMG machine. The sales and service team were great. Fernando Garcia of the Ellison Technologies team invited us out to the new Mori Seiki/DMG facility in Davis, Ca. There, we got to see the machines in action.”

Fred and Ron bring a tremendous amount of background and expertise that allows Sutter to meet challenging design criteria. Together, they have engineered designs for confocal microscopy, 2-photon laser based microscopes, micromanipulators that move in increments of nanome-ters, as well as a host of outside OEM projects for related optics and microscope accessories.

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the Delcam for Solid Works came out -- it was literally inside of the Solid Works we were versed at using.”

He elaborated, “John Gale, Sales Engineer for Delcam, was a big influ-ence in getting us switched over to the new Delcam software years ago. He showed us how fast and easy it was to use. John is outstanding for technical support and any issues we have, John is always right on top of it. If we have a new rare issue that John can’t help us with, he gets someone from Corporate on the phone right away. Some of our ques-tions turn into new features for Delcam’s next version of the software.”

John Gale is quick to point out that Ron and Fred at Sutter Instrument are not your typical CAD/CAM software users. “They are very sophis-ticated users. They are aggressive in their use of the software, and they move quickly. This is one of the many reasons they have been a part of Delcam’s Beta test customers.” Today, Sutter Instrument owns 5 DFS and 3 FeatureCAM seats.

For more information on Sutter Instrument Company, contact them at 415-883-0128 or visit their website at www.sutter.com.

About Delcam for Solid Works

Delcam for SolidWorks is a SolidWorks Certified Gold Partner product that revolutionizes CAM programming inside of SolidWorks. Devel-oped by the largest CAM development company in the world – Delcam, Delcam for SolidWorks integrates the feature-based technology from FeatureCAM with PowerMILL’s ‘best in class’ multi-threaded toolpath algorithms into one completely embedded solution, through the world-renowned SolidWorks CAD system. Delcam for SolidWorks provides the most advanced manufacturing solution to the SolidWorks Com-munity, based on over 40 years of CADCAM expertise.

To learn more about Delcam’s CAD CAM solutions, call them at 1-877-DELCAM 1 (335-2261) or visit www.delcam.com.

Both Ron and Fred have tried nearly every CAD/CAM software pack-age on the market over the past years. For more than a decade, they have been committed to Delcam and the software packages they offer for design and engineering. They are so adept that Delcam regularly makes them a beta test center for new software. Ron admits that neither he nor Fred have attended training classes , although Delcam offers it. Ron says, “When we got our new software package from Delcam, we easily picked up the new package, by learning the basics almost imme-diately. Over time, we have learned the more intricate features.” Ron says that he and Fred do call Delcam’s office located in Salt Lake City, UT from time to time with questions, and he says the technical support team is outstanding. In fact, Fred and Ron admit that years ago when they were first evaluating Delcam’s FeatureCAM, it was the technical support that they received that convinced them to switch to Delcam.

Besides FeatureCAM another package that Sutter Instrument Company has from Delcam is the Delcam for SolidWorks (DFS) product. DFS is a Gold SolidWorks partner product that offers SolidWorks users a manufacturing solutions inside the SolidWorks environment Ron says,

“Delcam for SolidWorks (DFS) is about twice as fast as anything else out on the market. We can quickly design it and put it right into the machine. In R&D we are able to get a prototype into the hands of our decision makers very quickly. In production they are able to fine tune the design very quickly and easily, cutting production times. This is very important to the company as a whole.”

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Apple To Produce Macs In U.S. Next Year

Apple CEO Tim Cook says the company will produce one of its exist-ing lines of Mac computers in the United States next year.

Cook made the comments in part of an interview taped for NBC’s “Rock Center,” but aired Thursday morning on “Today” and posted on the network’s website.

In a separate interview with Bloomberg Businessweek, he said that the company will spend $100 million in 2013 to move production of the line to the U.S. from China.

“This doesn’t mean that Apple will do it ourselves, but we’ll be working with people and we’ll be investing our money,” Cook told Bloomberg.

A call to Apple Inc. for comment before business hours Thursday was not immediately returned.

Like most consumer electronics companies, Apple lets contract manufacturers assemble its products overseas. However, the assembly accounts for little of the cost of making a PC or smartphone. Most of the cost lies in buying chips, and many of those are made in the U.S., Cook noted in his interview with NBC.

The company and its manufacturing partner Foxconn Technology Group have faced significant criticism this year over working condi-tions at the Chinese facilities where Apple products are assembled, prompting Foxconn to raise salaries.

Cook didn’t say which line of comput-ers would be produced in the U.S. or where in the

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made. But he told Bloom- berg that the production would include m o r e than just final assembly. That sug-gests that machining of cases and printing of circuit b o a r d s could take place in the U.S.

Regardless, the U.S. manufacturing line is expected to represent just a tiny piece of Apple overall production, with sales of iPhones and iPads now dwarfing those of its computers.

Cook said in his interview with NBC that companies like Apple chose to produce their products in places like China, not because of the lower costs associated with it, but because the manufacturing skills required just aren’t present in the U.S. anymore.

He added that the consumer electronics world has never really had a big production presence in the U.S. As a result, it’s really more about starting production in the U.S. than bringing it back.

Apple originally made its computers in the U.S. It started outsourcing production in the mid-90s, first by selling some plants to contract manufacturers, then by hiring manufacturers overseas. It assembled iMacs in Elk Grove, California, until 2004.

BioSolar Drives Down Costs to Meet Growing Solar Industry Demand

BioSolar, Inc. , developer of breakthrough products and materials that reduce the cost of photovoltaic (PV) solar modules, today announced key cost saving measures that will allow the company to benefit from a more competitive marketplace for solar subcomponents.

Rapid price decline has prompted solar manufacturers to reassess all subcomponents and determine where changes can be made to drive down the cost of the bill of materials while still maintaining adequate robustness and reliability. “In adversity lies opportunity,” said BioSolar’s CEO, David Lee, “Manufacturers are accelerating efforts to drive cost reductions throughout all their solar product lines. Our BioBacksheet, with single layer composition, meets that need by delivering the reliability and robustness of the best available backsheets while maintaining cost competitiveness with the more economical backsheets on the market. Adopting BioBacksheet allows PV panel manufacturers to achieve cost savings without sacrificing panel quality or longevity.”

“We expect to benefit in this competitive environment since BioBack-sheet provides superior performance compared to similarly priced backsheets currently available in the marketplace,” Dr. Lee continued.

“Therefore, we are focusing on two specific features of BioBacksheet that will improve the competitiveness of our customers’ panels. First, a lower cost BioBacksheet will allow our customers to sell lower cost PV panels, resulting in a reduced cost per watt of solar power produc-tion. This is the equation that defines current PV panel economics and competitiveness. Second, reducing the panel’s average internal operating temperature improves PV panel power output.

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QBotix, which is the first com-pany to use robotics for oper-ating solar power plants, has received a $1 million develop-ment award under the SunShot Initiative sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy.

The award, part of the $10 million SunShot Incubator Program, will help fund the development of a new generation of robots for the QBotix Tracking System™ (QTS), which lowers the levelized cost of energy at large-scale power plants by up to 20 percent. QTS is based on a new paradigm for power plant architecture and operation invented by QBotix: Solar Robotics™.

The SunShot Initiative is a collaborative national effort to make solar competitive with other forms of electricity in the U.S. by the end of the decade. By reducing the cost for utility scale installations by 75 percent from 2011 levels to roughly $1 a watt -- which would correspond to roughly 6 cents per kilowatt-hour -- solar energy systems could be broadly deployed across the country.

“We are delighted to have been selected for this highly competi-tive award and look forward to collaborating with the agency on improving solar power plants,” said Wasiq Bokhari, CEO of QBotix.

“Lowering the cost of solar will boost our economic competitiveness in a number of ways, but it will require innovations across every seg-ment in the supply chain. At QBotix, we’re taking a novel approach to balance of systems by using robotics to dramatically reduce the cost of operating solar power plants.”

QTS is a comprehensive dual-axis tracking system that employs rug-ged, and intelligent, mobile robots that aim solar modules toward the sun and adjust their position throughout the day to maximize energy output. QTS utilizes a pair of autonomous robots, one primary and one back-up, to control 300 kW of solar panels with high accuracy and reliability. Popular Science recently selected the system as one of top six innovations in its list of “Best of What’s New” list for green technology for 2012.

The system allows solar power plant owners to eliminate hundreds of stationary motors as well as almost half of the steel and a substantial portion of the concrete and other foundational materials from the final design of their power plants, thereby lowering the cost and time needed to construct power plants. Solar power plants based on QTS are built with industry-standard solar panels and mounting founda-tions, eliminating the customized panels associated with many track-ing systems. So-called balance of systems expenses like construction, racking and installation now account for 68 percent of the cost of solar installations, according to a recent report from GTM Research.

A QTS-based power plant with dual-axis tracking will generate ap-proximately 15 percent more electricity than a power plant built with conventional single-axis trackers, but cost the same to build, giving QBotix customers dual-axis performance at single-axis pricing. A QTS-based power plant will produce up to 40 percent more electric-ity than a plant built with fixed-mount systems and lower the levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) by up to 20 percent per kilowatt hour.

Likewise, a QTS-based plant will produce approximately the same amount of energy as one built with conventional dual-axis trackers, but cost 50 percent less.

The intelligence and communication capabilities embedded in each autonomous robot also optimize power plant performance and pro-vide detailed operational knowledge at an unprecedented level. This results in a better return on investment for project developers and investors, greater system reliability and performance for operators and owners, and solar energy that competes in price globally with conventional grid power for utilities and consumers.Released in August, QTS is already being deployed on commercial projects.

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U.S. Economy Could Withstand Brief Fall Off ‘Cliff’

If Congress and the White House fail to strike a budget deal by New Year’s Day. Their stalemate triggers sharp tax increases and spending cuts. Those measures shrink consumer spending, stifle job growth, topple stock prices and push the economy off a “fiscal cliff ” and into recession.

Even if New Year’s passed with no deal, few businesses or consumers would likely panic as long as an agreement seemed likely soon. The tax increases and spending cuts could be retroactively repealed after Jan. 1.

And the impact of the tax increases would be felt only gradually. Most people would receive slightly less money in each paycheck.

“The simple conclusion that going off the cliff necessarily means a recession next year is wrong,” says Lewis Alexander, an economist at Nomura Securities. “It will ultimately depend on how long the poli-cies are in place.”

It’s always possible that negotiations between President Barack Obama and Republican leaders will collapse in acrimony. The prospect of per-manent tax increases and spending cuts could cause many consumers and businesses to delay spending, hiring or expanding.

But most economists expect a deal, if not by New Year’s then soon after. Businesses and consumers will likely remain calm as long as negotiators seem to be moving toward an agreement.

Though the fiscal cliff would cost the economy an estimated $671 billion for all of 2013, the tax hit for most people would be slight at first. The expiration of Social Security and income tax cuts would be spread throughout 2013. For taxpayers with incomes of $40,000 to $65,000, paychecks would shrink an average of about $1,500 next year but an average of just $130 in January, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center.

About a third of the tax increases wouldn’t touch most Americans. Some would hit businesses. Others, such as higher taxes on investment income and estates, and the expiration of middle-income tax credits, wouldn’t come due until Americans filed their 2013 taxes in 2014.

If a deal seemed imminent, some experts say the Internal Revenue Service could delay the increased tax withholding that’s due to kick in. Without a deal, the top income tax rate for single people with tax-able income between about $36,000 and $88,000 would rise from 25 percent to 28 percent. A delay in the increased withholding would ease the initial tax hit.

About $85 billion in spending cuts to defense and domestic programs would take weeks or longer to take effect. That means government agencies wouldn’t cut jobs right away.

Still, if budget talks dragged on, many businesses might put off invest-ment or hiring. That’s why most economists say it would be crucial to reach a deal within roughly the first two months of 2013.

Already, uncertainty is causing some businesses to delay spending. Consider Apex Tool and Manufacturing, a 10-person shop in Evansville, Ind., that makes parts for the automotive glass, telecom equipment and plastics industries.

Sales have picked up. Company President Terry Babb says he’d like to spend about $150,000 to buy a computer-controlled milling machine. A couple of years ago, Apex earned too little for Babb to even worry about taxes.

Yet he’s reluctant to absorb new costs until he’s sure what tax changes are coming. A tax break for companies that invest in new equipment is set to expire. Companies can’t claim that break unless new equip-ment is on site before year’s end. Machinery can take weeks to arrive, meaning it’s too late for Babb to claim the credit this year.

Many more people would be affected if something called the alterna-tive minimum tax isn’t fixed.

The financially painful AMT was designed to prevent rich people from exploiting loopholes and deductions to avoid any income tax. But the AMT wasn’t indexed for inflation, so it’s increasingly threatened middle-income taxpayers. Congress has acted each year for a decade to prevent the AMT from hitting many more people.

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If the extended benefits end Jan. 1 as scheduled, about $30 billion would be saved next year. But without that money, about 2 million people who have been out of work for more than six months would lose benefits averaging about $320 a week.

Economists note that recipients of unemployment aid tend to spend that money quickly, giving a lift to the economy. The expiration of the extended benefits would cut economic growth by about 0.2 percentage point next year, the Congressional Budget Office estimates.

The gravest scenario would be if the budget talks collapsed, negotia-tors went home and the tax increases and spending cuts appeared to be permanent.

In that case, Macroeconomic Advisors, a forecasting firm, warns that the Dow Jones industrial average could plunge up to 2,000 points within days. Businesses would turn gloomier in anticipation of Ameri-cans paying higher taxes. Retailers would order fewer cars, appliances and clothing. Consumers’ confidence would likely plummet, followed by their spending.

The economy would shrink at an annual rate of 0.6 percent in the first three months of 2013, estimates Joel Prakken, an economist at Mac-roeconomic Advisors. That compares with an estimated 1.9 percent

growth rate if a deal is reached.

Under that scenario, Social Security taxes would revert back to 6.2 per-cent on the first $110,000 of income, up from 4.2 percent. The increase would cost someone earning $50,000 an extra $1,000 a year, or nearly $20 a week.

For all their combative rhetoric, the White House and House Republicans have identified areas that could underpin a budget deal. Both sides concede, for example, that higher tax revenue and lower spending on programs like Medicare will be included.

Whatever the outcome, some trends could offset part of the economic damage. Ashworth notes, for instance, that the average retail price for gasoline has dropped 15 percent this fall. Lower gas prices give consumers more money to spend elsewhere.

And if the crisis is resolved, as many expect, the boost to business and consumer confidence would encourage more hiring and spending.

On Tuesday, the Business Roundtable, a group of large company CEOs, urged Congress and the White House to avoid the cliff by striking a budget deal containing about $4 billion in tax increases and spending cuts.

“We could end up with a much more robust recovery than anybody’s envisioned” if a deal is reached, said David Cote, CEO of Honeywell International.


Contracts

Daimler Trucks of North America L.L.C., Portland, Ore., was awarded an $8,589,566 firm-fixed-price contract. The award will provide for the procurement of trucks and trailers in support of Foreign Military Sales. Work will be performed in Egypt, with an estimated completion date of Nov. 5, 2013. One bid was solicited, with one bid received. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is the contracting activity.

Jupiter Systems, Hayward, Calif., was awarded a $7,776,600 firm-fixed-price contract. The award will provide for the procurement of Vizion Plus II Wall Processors. Work will be performed in Hayward, with an estimated completion date of Feb. 15, 2013. The bid was solicited through the Internet, with two bids received. The U.S. Army is the contracting activity.

Vigor Marine L.L.C., Shipbuilding, Portland, Ore., is being awarded a $34,848,589 firm-fixed-price contract for the detail design, construction, installation and systems verification for the mobile landing platform core capabilities set enabling the transfer vehicles and equipment at-sea froma legacy large, medium-speed, roll-on/roll-off ship and interface with surface connectors, to include landing craft air-cushion craft, todeliver the vehicles andequipment ashore. This contract includes options which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to $35,000,813. Work will be performed in Portland, Ore. (98.5 percent), and Oakland, Calif. (1.5 percent), and is expected to be completed by November 2014. This contract was competitively procured via the Federal Business Opportunities website, with one proposal solicited and three offers received. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington D.C., is the contracting activity.

Raytheon Co., Space and Airborne Systems, Goleta, Calif., is be-ing awarded a $23,183,614 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract for the procurement of 26 additional AN/ALR-67(V)3 radar warning receivers for the U.S. Navy, and four countermeasure signal processor weapons replacement assemblies for the of Switzerland. Work will be performed in Forest, Miss. (32 percent); Goleta, Calif. (20 percent); San Diego, Calif. (14 percent); Chatsworth, Calif. (11 percent); Sydney, Australia (11 percent); Lansdale, Pa. (8 percent); and McKinney, Texas (4 percent), and is expected to be completed in June 2015. This contract combines purchases for the U.S. Navy ($22,141,132; 95.5 percent) and the Government of Switzerland (4.5 percent) under the Foreign Military Sales Program. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity.

Insitu Inc., Bingen, Wash., is being awarded a $12,075,793 modifica-tion to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract to procure additional flight hours for pre and post deployment operations and servicesin support of the ScanEagle Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS). These services will provide electro-optical/infra red and mid-wave infra red imagery in support of land-based operations in Operation Enduring Freedom to provide real-time imagery and data. Work will be performed in Bingen, Wash., and is expected to be completed in January 2013. Contract funds in the amount of $12,075,793 will be obligated on this award, all of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity.

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Boeing Projects $820 Billion Mar-ket for 7,290 New Airplanes in North America

High fuel prices drive need for new, more fuel-efficient single-aisle airplanes

Boeing [NYSE: BA] forecasts that air carriers in North America will take delivery of 7,290 new airplanes over the next 20 years at a mar-ket value of $820 billion. Taking retirements of airplanes into account, the North America fleet will grow from 6,650 airplanes today to about 8,830 airplanes by 2031.

“The North American commercial aviation market is about to record a third consecutive year of profit, with modest passenger traffic growth,” said Randy Tinseth, vice president of Marketing, Boeing Commercial Airplanes, who released Boeing’s 2012 North America market outlook today in Toronto. “The long-term outlook for the North American airline industry is approximately 3 percent annual traffic growth through the forecast period. The market is shaped by aggressive growth of low-cost carriers and the need to replace aging airplanes in the fleets of the established network carriers.”

The network carriers are expected to main-tain strict capacity discipline. Low-cost carriers will continue to outpace network carrier growth to accommodate increased demand and fill some markets abandoned by network carriers. Financial stability will also be a key indicator of future growth. Several airlines have indicated growth planning to be executed when returns are sufficient to fund their strategic goals.

Boeing forecasts single-aisle airplanes will grow to 69 percent of the total North America fleet by 2031. High fuel prices are intensifying the need for new fuel-efficient airplanes, prompting several airlines in the United States to accelerate their fleet renewal programs. Alaska, American, Delta, Southwest and United have announced plans to replace some of their older, less efficient airplanes with Next-Generation 737s or the new 737 MAX. Both the Next-Generation 737 and the 737 MAX offer significant advantages in improved ca-pabilities, fuel efficiency and maintenance costs, as well as enhanced environmental performance.Long-haul international traffic to and from North America is fore-

casted to grow at an annual rate of approximately 5 percent. The

international growth is primarily driven by anticipated passenger

traffic to Southwest Asia, China, the Middle East, Africa and South

America. Passenger traffic between North America and those regions

is forecasted grow at or above 6 percent per year. This growth in the

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Boeing’s Next-Generation 737-900ER (extended range) reached 100 deliveries with a delivery this week to Tajikistan-based Somon Air.

To date, the 737-900ER has logged 414 orders from 16 customers. The Next-Generation 737 family (all models) has won orders for more than 6,000 airplanes and Boeing has delivered more than 3,800.

“Airlines around the world are recognizing the superior performance and operating economics of the Next-Generation 737-900ER,” said Beverly Wyse, 737 vice president and general manager. “It offers the best seat-mile cost of any single-aisle airplane which is especially important with today’s high fuel prices.”

The Next-Generation 737-900ER is a short-to-medium range twinjet that increases the capability of the Next-Generation 737 family. The higher-capacity, longer-range derivative of the 737-900 was launched in July 2005 with an order for 30 airplanes from Indonesia’s Lion Air and introduced into service in April 2007.

The Next-Generation 737-900ER replaces the larger, single-aisle Boeing 757, which ceased production in 2004. The 737-900ER is capable of operating more than 90 percent of the 757 twin-engine’s routes yet at a much lower operating cost.

The 737-900ER is the longest 737, typically carrying 180 passengers in a two-class layout with an exit limit certified for up to 220 passengers in a single-class configuration.

Somon Air, based in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, is the country’s first private full-service carrier. This is the airline’s second 737-900ER delivered with the Boeing Sky Interior.

Goodrich Wins Contract for Landing Gear System Overhaul Services

Goodrich Corporation has been selected by Boeing to provide landing gear system maintenance services in support of the United States Air Force fleet of Boeing C-17 Globemaster III aircraft. Included as part of the agreement, Goodrich will provide training to Hill Air Force Base (HAFB) in Ogden, Utah to perform overhaul of C-17 landing gear systems as a Goodrich supplier.

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Sikorsky’s first CH53K heavy-lift helicopter prototype ready for preflight ground testing

Sikorsky’s CH53K prototype Ground Test Vehicle was delivered in early December 2012 to the company’s flight test team. Source: Sikorsky

The West Palm Beach, Fla.-based Sikorsky team that is developing the CH53K heavy-lift helicopter for the U.S. Marine Corps has delivered the first proto-type aircraft — the Ground Test Vehicle (GTV) — from the assembly line to the flight test team. The move enables Sikorsky to prepare and test the GTV aircraft for hundreds of hours of powered ground checks ahead of four follow-on flight-test helicopters that will take to the skies during the 2014-2015 timeframe.

“The primary purpose of the GTV is to shake out the CH53K heli-copter’s dynamic systems by thoroughly testing and measuring the performance of the rotor blades, transmission, and engines while the aircraft is tied to the ground,” said Michael Torok, Sikorsky’s CH53K Program vice president. “Extensive ground-based flight checks with Sikorsky and NAVAIR test pilots at the cockpit controls will confirm whether these dynamic systems, as well as hydraulic, electrical, and

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Although it has the same footprint as the CH53E Super Stallion he-licopter that it will begin to replace in 2019, the CH53K helicopter will have triple the external load-carrying capacity — more than 27,000 lb/12,247 kg over 110 nautical miles under “high hot” ambi-ent conditions. Technology enablers for increased lift include 7,500 shaft hp GE381B engines; a split torque transmission design that more efficiently distributes engine power to the main rotors; 4th generation composite rotor blades for enhanced lift; and a composite airframe structure.

Flight test engineers will spend the coming months performing preliminary accep-tance tests that include calibrating the GTV’s fuel system and attach-ing measuring devices at more than 1,300 test locations on the aircraft to record temperature, aerodynamic loads, pressure and vibrations. By mid-2013, the GTV will be at-tached to a specially built outdoor platform to hold the aircraft in place when its three engines are powered on — a process known as a “lightoff.” Initial lightoff test events will be performed without ro-tor blades, followed by more rigorous tests with the blades attached.

“This is an important point of transition for the CH53K program,” said Col. Robert Pridgen, program manager for the heavy-lift helicopters.

“I am encouraged by the initial results of our testing at the component and subsystem level. Now we bring it all together. The GTV is our first dynamic system-level integration of those same components. We are looking forward to the sights and sounds these next heavy lifters will bring to the Marine Corps.”

Sikorsky is designing, building and testing the GTV and the four flight aircraft — designated Engineering Development Models — as part of a $3.5 billion (USD) System Development and Demonstration contract. Two additional ground test articles are undergoing airframe structural testing at Sikorsky’s main manufacturing plant in Stratford, Conn., as part of the same contract.

The aircraft’s major fuselage sections are supplied by Aurora Flight Sciences (Manassas, Va.), ITT Exelis (McLean, Va.), GKN Aerospace (Redditch, Worcestershire, U.K.) and Spirit Aerosystems (Wichita, Kan.). The prototype assembly line is located at Sikorsky’s Florida Assembly and Flight Operations facility in West Palm Beach. Ground and flight testing will occur at the Developmental Flight Center on the same Florida campus.

Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., headquartered in Stratford, Conn., is a world leader in aircraft design, manufacture and service and is a subisidary of United Technologies Corp. (Hartford, Conn.), which provides a broad range of high-technology products and support services to the aerospace and building systems industries.

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“Orders continue to be on pace for a record-setting year, and a monthly drop was fully ex pected in the month following IMTS,” said Douglas K. Woods, AMT President. “While manu facturing continues to play a strong role in economic recovery, our main concern heading toward the end of the year is that lawmakers do what’s necessary to avoid the

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Northeast Region: Manufacturing technology orders in the Northeast Region in October totaled $63.69 million, down 19.7 percent from September’s $79.27 million and down 3.6 percent when compared with the October 2011 figure. At $640.83 million, 2012 year-to-date is down 5.7 percent when compared with 2011 at the same time.

Southern Region: Southern Region manufacturing technology orders totaled $60.69 million in October, down 41.1 percent from the $102.99 million total for September but 12.8 percent higher than the total for October 2011. The year-to-date total of $683.23 million is 15.3 percent more than the comparable figure for 2011.

Midwest Region: At $162.75 million, October manufacturing tech-nology orders in the Midwest Region were down 20.0 percent when compared with the $203.33 million total for September but up 10.3 percent when compared with October a year ago. With a year-to-date total of $1,530.30 million, 2012 is up 4.9 percent when compared with 2011 at the same time.

Central Region: October manufacturing technology orders in the Central Region totaled $124.77 million, 30.2 percent lower than September’s $178.71 million and down 8.8 percent when compared with the October 2011 figure. At $1,341.76 million, the 2012 year-to-date total was 6.8 percent more than the comparable figure for 2011.

Western Region: Western Region manufacturing technology orders in October stood at $47.27 million, down 54.6 percent from the September total of $104.07 million and 14.3 percent lower than the figure for October 2011. The $557.56 mil lion year-to-date total was 5.7 percent above the total for the same period in 2011.


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Sheet & CoilRyerson Corporation_________425-204-2601

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Tool SteelTCI Precision Metals__________800-234-5613

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Ryerson Corporation _______ 425-204-2601Sequoia Brass & Copper _____ 800-362-5255

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Material SalesHaynes International _______ 425-422-6496Coastal Metals ___________ 800-811-7466Fry Steel ______________ 800-423-6651Laser Cutting Services, Inc _____503-612-8311Temtco Steel ___________ 480-389-2883United Performance Metals _888-282-3292

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Haynes International _______ 425-422-6496Marzee Inc. __________ 602-269-5801United Performance Metals _888-282-3292

Plate: Wear and Structural

Ryerson Corporation_________425-204-2601Temtco Steel ___________ 480-389-2883United Performance Metals _888-282-3292

Sheet & CoilRyerson Corporation_________425-204-2601

Stainless SteelFry Steel________________800-423-6651Laser Cutting Services, Inc_______503-612-8311Ryerson Corporation_________425-204-2601TCI Precision Metals__________800-234-5613Temtco Steel____________480-389-2883United Performance Metals _888-282-3292

Titanium Rod, Bar, & Wire

Supra Alloys, Inc._ __ ______866-949-1699Titanium Sheet & Plate

Supra Alloys, Inc._ __ ______866-949-1699Titanium Tube & Pipe

Haynes International _______ 425-422-6496Supra Alloys, Inc._ __ ______866-949-1699

Tool SteelTCI Precision Metals__________800-234-5613

CNC MillsChevalier USA __________ 562-903-1929Ganesh Machinery _______ 888-542-6374

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LMI Machinery Inc._______866-437-7315Machine Toolworks ______800-426-2052North Western Mach’y_____206-583-2333Performance Machine Tools ____510-249-1000Selway Machine Tool ______503-314-3165Selway Machine Tool _____ 425-931-1680Tornos USA. __________ 951-240-0818

MACHINERYCNC Lathes

Chevalier USA _________ 562-903-1929Ganesh Machinery ______ 888-542-6374Hallidie Machine Tool_____ 253-939-9020Machine Toolworks _______800-426-2052Muratec ___________ 949-466-8255North Western Mach’y_____206-583-2333OmniTurn _____________ 541-332-7004Performance Machine Tools ____ 510-249-1000Selway Machine Tool ______503-314-3165Selway Machine Tool _____ 425-931-1680CNC 3 & 5 Axis Routing Machines

ACS/MultiCamNW ______ 360-318-7534CNC Swiss Turn Machines

Ellis Machinery WA ______ 253-838-3443Ellis Machinery OR ______ 503-258-0526Ganesh Machinery ______ 888-542-6374

LMI Machinery Inc._______866-437-7315

Machine Toolworks ________800-426-2052North-South Machinery _____253-333-2439North Western Machinery___206-583-2333

Performance Machine Tools ____ 510-249-1000Tornos USA. __________ _951-240-0818

Custom Design/Build MachinesLambie Engineering ______ 509-868-3100

Double Column Vertical Milling Machines

Chevalier USA __________ 562-903-1929EDM Filtration

Desert EDM Sales ________480-816-6300EDM Network _________ 480-836-1782

EDM Machines4

Desert EDM Sales ________480-816-6300EDM Network _________ 480-836-1782North-South Machinery _____ 253-333-2439

EDM Service

Desert EDM Sales ________480-816-6300EDM Network _________ 480-836-1782

EDM Tooling Systems

Desert EDM Sales ________480-816-6300EDM Network _________ 480-836-1782Global EDM Supply _____ 480-836-8330

CNC Horizontal Boring & Milling Machines

Chevalier USA __________ 562-903-1929

Slant Bed Lathes

Chevalier USA _________ 562-903-1929Sub Spindle Lathes

Chevalier USA _________ 562-903-1929Used Wire EDM Machines

Desert EDM Sales _______ 480-816-6300EDM Network _________ 480-836-1782

PALLET SYSTEMSManual & Automatic Pallet Systems

Midaco Corporation _______ 847-593-8420Manual Lift Off Pallet

Systems

Midaco Corporation _______ 847-593-8420Manual Rotory Pallet Systems

Midaco Corporation _______ 847-593-8420REPAIR

Bandsaw Tech___________562--419-7675ROBOTICS

Robotic Part Loading Systems

Midaco Corporation _______ 847-593-8420NEW MACHINERY

FABRICATIONFahey Machinery Co., Inc. ___ 503-620-9031Jorgensen Machine Tools ___ 800-952-0151

Band & Cut Off Saws

DW Machinery Sales ______425-827-6931Innovative Tool Sales ______ 714-780-0730Jorgenson Machine Tools ____801-214-7309

Vice President/General Manager

UNITEDP E R F O R M A N C E M E TA LSO’NEAL HIGH PERFORMANCE METALS GROUP

888.282.3292 | www.upmet.com

3475 Symmes Road | Hamilton, OH 45015

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Machine Toolworks ________800-426-2052

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ASSEMBLIESDiamond Tool & Die_____510-534-7050

Matrix Machine ________ 480-966-4451Prescott’s MFG ________719-659-0262

BENDINGMandrel

Aeroform, Inc. ________ 360-403-1919BK Machine Inc. _______ 801-253-1929GK Machine __________ 503-678-5525Howell Precision ________ 623-582-4776

BONDINGDi�usion

Matrix Machine ________ 480-966-4451VACCO Industries _______ 626-443-7121

BRAZINGPrecision Casting Repair ___ 801-972-2345

BROACHINGPonderosa Ind __ _______303-298-1801Specialty Steel Services ____ 801-539-8252

Turning: AutomaticMatrix Machine ________ 480-966-4451

Castings: RepairAccuwright Industries ____ 480-892-9595

North Western Machinery ___ 206-583-2333CNC Knife Cutting with Registration

ACS/MultiCamNW _______ 360-318-7534CNC Turret Punches

DW Machinery Sales ______ 425-827-6931Muratec ____________ 949-466-8255

Drill Lines

Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. ____ 503-620-9031Cold Saws/Saws

DW Machinery Sales ______ 425-827-6931Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. ___ _503-620-9031North Western Mach’y______206-583-2333

Hardware InsertionFahey Machinery Co., Inc. ____ 503-620-9031

Iron WorkersFahey Machinery Co., Inc. ____ 503-620-9031Hallidie Machine Tool _____ 253-939-9020Jorgensen Machine Tools ____ 800-952-0151

Laser Cutting

ACS/MultiCamNW _______ 360-318-7534DW Machinery Sales ______ 425-827-6931Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. ____ 503-620-9031

Laser Marking

CNC Machine Services _____ 425-788-4500

Magnetic Drills/CuttersInnovative Tool Sales _______ 714-780-0730

NotchersFahey Machinery Co., Inc. ____ 503-620-9031

Pipe & Tube BendersNotchers

Hallidie Machine Tool_____ 253-939-9020

Magnetic Drills/CuttersInnovative Tool Sales _______ 714-780-0730Muratec ____________ 949-466-8255

Plasma/Gas Cutting Tools/SystemsACS/MultiCamNW _______ 360-318-7534DW Machinery Sales ______ 425-827-6931

Plate Bending & RollsFahey Machinery Co., Inc. ____ 503-620-9031Jorgensen Machine Tools ____ 800-952-0151

PressesDW Machinery Sales ______ 425-827-6931

Press Brakes DW Machinery Sales _______ 425-827-6931Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. ____ 503-620-9031Hallidie Machine Tool _____ 253-939-9020

Jorgensen Machine Tools _____800-952-0151Punches

Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. ____ 503-620-9031Rolling Machines

Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. ____ 503-620-9031Sanders/Finishing

DW Machinery Sales _______ 425-827-6931 Shearing Machines

Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. ____ 503-620-9031Jorgensen Machine Tools ___ _800-952-0151

Sign & Graphic Cutting Solutions

ACS/MultiCamNW _______ 360-318-7534Tooling

Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. ____ 503-620-9031Tube Bending

DW Machinery Sales _______ 425-827-6931Hallidie Machine Tool Sales ____ 253-939-9020

Welding Equipment

Rocky Mountain Saw Blades ____ 303-761-3000OTHER ACCESSORIES

Tooling Systems

USA EDM Supply ________ 480-836-8330

PROG. SYSTEMS

Factory Automation/LogisticsMuratec ____________ 949-466-8255

CAD/CAMSoftware, CADDelcam ______________ 877-DELCAM1

MRP SoftwareSigmaTEK _____________513-595-2022

Nesting SoftwareSigmaNEST ____________513-595-2022

Software, Solid ModelingDelcam ______________ 877-DELCAM1

Shop Floor ____________ 877-611-5825

REPAIR PARTS

Belts

All World Machinery _______815-943-9111

Bearings(Precision)

All World Machinery ___ ___815-943-9111Metric O-Rings

All World Machinery ___ ___815-943-9111Switches (Proximity, Limit)

All World Machinery ___ ___815-943-9111Valves (Hydraulic,

Pneumatic)

All World Machinery ___ ___815-943-9111

ROBOTICS

LMI Machinery Inc. _______866-437-7315

SERVICES

AS9100 RegistrationABS Quality Evaluations ______ 702-371-7591Great Western Registrar ______ 623-580-1881

Gap Analysis TrainingABS Quality Evaluations ______ 702-371-7591

Financial Services

Intech Funding __________800-553-9208U.S. Bank Equipment ______ 206-948-0022 ISO RegistrationABS Quality Evaluations ______ 702-371-7591Great Western Registrar ______ 623-580-1881

Lean Consulting TrainingABS Quality Evaluations ______ 702-371-7591Lambie Engineering ______ 509-868-3100

Liquid Penetrant

Team Industrial Services ______ 801-397-2202Team Industrial Services ______ 602-269-7868

X-RayTeam Industrial Services ______ 801-397-2202Team Industrial Services ______ 602-269-7868

ISO9000 / AS9100

Certi�cation

ABS Quality Evaluations ______ 702-371-7591BMSC_________________602-445-9400

Machine Tool RebuildingEDM Network _________ 480-836-1782

Management Systems TrainingABS Quality Evaluations ______ 702-371-7591BMSC_________________602-445-9400

Supply Chain AssessmentsABS Quality Evaluations ______ 702-371-7591

SPINDLES & SLIDES

Spindle Rebuilding/RepairGMN USA LLC___________800-686-1679

Setco _______________714-222-6523

Spindle Sales NewFadal CNC ____________ 208-855-9426GMN USA LLC___________800-686-1679

Setco _______________714-222-6523

USED MACHINERY

EDM Network ___________480-836-1782Hallidie Machine Tool _____253-939-9020Jorgensen Machine Tools_____800-952-0151K.D. Capital Equipt________480-922-1674

Machine Tools Northwest ____ 206-650-8999North Western Mach’y______206-583-2333Performance Machine Tools_____510-249-1000

WATERJET CUTTINGACS/MultiCamNW _______ 360-318-7534Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. ____503-620-9031Flow International_____ ____909-620-5707Jorgensen Machine Tools_____800-952-0151Machine Toolworks ________800-426-20521OMAX Corp_____________800-838-0343

Waterjet AbrasivesKMT Waterjet Systems ______800-826-9274

Waterjet Replacement PartsEDM Performance ________ 800-336-2946KMT Waterjet Systems ______800-826-9274

WaterJet: Filtration/Chillers

KMT Waterjet Systems ______800-826-9274

Waterjet NozzelsKMT Waterjet Systems ______800-826-9274

Waterjet PumpsFlow International_____ ____909-620-5707KMT Waterjet Systems ______800-826-9274

Waterjet Robot KitsKMT Waterjet Systems ______800-826-9274

Cell: 206-604-4928 Bellingham, WA Office: 360-318-7534 Salem, OR Office: 503-585-8741 Email: [email protected]

Ron Rankin, President4058 Hammer Drive, Unit B-101Bellingham, WA 98226

Router • Plasma • Knives • Waterjet • Laser • Cutting Solutionswww.appliedcuttingsolutions.com

Bearings(Precision)

Cell: 206-604-4928 Bellingham, WA Office: 360-318-7534 Salem, OR Office: 503-585-8741 Email: [email protected]

Ron Rankin, President4058 Hammer Drive, Unit B-101Bellingham, WA 98226

Router Router Router • Plasma • Knives • Waterjet • Laser • Cutting Solutionswww.appliedcuttingsolutions.com

Jorgensen Machine Tools 800-952-0151

All World Machinery

All World Machinery

All World Machinery SPINDLES & SLIDES

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MarZee Inc.2345 N. 34th Dr.Phoenix, AZ 85009

602-269-5801FAX 602-269-58101-877-885-1059

[email protected]

Product Stress TestingCorrosion Testing Vibration Testing

www.cascadetek.com

1530 Vista View Dr.Longmont, CO 80504Call: 888-835-9250

www.cascadetek.comwww.cascadetek.com

Innol/ative

Tool !!iales

Manufacturers Representatives

Randall J. Wilson

Industrial Products Manager

755 East Debra Lane ITSOffice, (714) 780-0730

Anaheim. CA 92805 Weld Shop: [7 I 4) 533- 1690

[email protected] Fax, [714] 780-0735

www.innovativetoolsales.com [ell, (714) 51 2-73 I 4

ASSEMBLIESDiamond Tool & Die_____510-534-7050

Matrix Machine ________ 480-966-4451Prescott’s MFG ________719-659-0262

BENDINGMandrel

Aeroform, Inc. ________ 360-403-1919BK Machine Inc. _______ 801-253-1929GK Machine __________ 503-678-5525Howell Precision ________ 623-582-4776

BONDINGDi�usion

Matrix Machine ________ 480-966-4451VACCO Industries _______ 626-443-7121

BRAZINGPrecision Casting Repair ___ 801-972-2345

BROACHINGPonderosa Ind __ _______303-298-1801Specialty Steel Services ____ 801-539-8252

Turning: AutomaticMatrix Machine ________ 480-966-4451

Castings: RepairAccuwright Industries ____ 480-892-9595

CHEMICAL ETCHINGAcu-Line ____________ 206-634-1618PMA Photometals _______ 480-773-3239VACCO Industries ______ 626-443-7121

COATINGAccuwright Industries ____ 480-892-9595Coating Technologies _____ 623-581-2648

Coating: Black OxideCoating Technologies _____ 623-581-2648

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

Coating: Nickel/ Teflon/ChromeCoating Technologies _____ 623-581-2648

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

Electro-Coating ServicesVACCO Industries ______ 626-443-7121

COLD SPRAYAccuwright Industries ____ 480-892-9595

DIE CASTINGHilton Tool___________503-657-9312

SMH Inc LLC __________ 360-341-2226

TVT Die Casting ________ 800-280-2278

DIESTool & Dies

Micropulse West Inc. _____ 480-966-2300Plastic Injection Molding ___ 509-531-2634

EDGINGUnited Performance Metals _888-282-3292

EDMEDM: Dialectric Systems

/FiltrationEbbco Inc ____________586-716-5151

EDM: Drilling Small HoleLayke Inc. __________ 602-272-2654Micropulse West, Inc. _____ 480-966-2300

EDM: Ram-Type (Sinking)Micropulse West, Inc. _____ 480-966-2300Petersen Inc. __________ 800-410-6789Wright Prototype _______ 541-924-1203

EDM: WireDiamond Tool & Die, Inc. ___ 510-534-7050Micropulse West, Inc. _____ 480-966-2300Jet Processing _______ 623-869-6749x117Pacific Tool, Inc. ________ 425-882-1970

Plastic Injection Molding ___ 509-531-2634ENGINEERING/DESIGN

GK Machine __________ 503-678-5525Pacific Tool, Inc. ________ 425-882-1970Service Steel __________ 503-224-9500

FABRICATION

Fabrication: Sheet MetalAeroform, Inc. ________ 360-403-1919Aero Tech MFG ________ 801-891-2740Cygnet Stamping & Fab ____ 818-240-7574Diamond Tool & Die, Inc. ___ 510-534-7050GK Machine __________ 503-678-5525Howell Precision ________ 623-582-4776Metalcraft Industries _____ 720-274-4504Mountain View Machine ___ 435-755-0500Service Steel __________ 503-224-9500SMH Inc LLC __________ 360-341-2226Valley Machine Shop, Inc. ___ 425-207-5951

Fabrication: Custom MetalCygnet Stamping & Fab ____ 818-240-7574GK Machine __________ 503-678-5525Group Mfg Serv ________ 480-966-3952

SPINDLES & SLIDES

Spindle Rebuilding/RepairGMN USA LLC___________800-686-1679

Setco _______________714-222-6523

Spindle Sales NewFadal CNC ____________ 208-855-9426GMN USA LLC___________800-686-1679

Setco _______________714-222-6523

USED MACHINERY

EDM Network ___________480-836-1782Hallidie Machine Tool _____253-939-9020Jorgensen Machine Tools_____800-952-0151K.D. Capital Equipt________480-922-1674

Machine Tools Northwest ____ 206-650-8999North Western Mach’y______206-583-2333Performance Machine Tools_____510-249-1000

WATERJET CUTTINGACS/MultiCamNW _______ 360-318-7534Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. ____503-620-9031Flow International_____ ____909-620-5707Jorgensen Machine Tools_____800-952-0151Machine Toolworks ________800-426-20521OMAX Corp_____________800-838-0343

Waterjet AbrasivesKMT Waterjet Systems ______800-826-9274

Waterjet Replacement PartsEDM Performance ________ 800-336-2946KMT Waterjet Systems ______800-826-9274

WaterJet: Filtration/Chillers

KMT Waterjet Systems ______800-826-9274

Waterjet NozzelsKMT Waterjet Systems ______800-826-9274

Waterjet PumpsFlow International_____ ____909-620-5707KMT Waterjet Systems ______800-826-9274

Waterjet Robot KitsKMT Waterjet Systems ______800-826-9274

Plastic Injection Molding 509-531-2634TVT Die CastingTVT Die Casting 800-280-2278 Plastic Injection MoldingPlastic Injection Molding

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Howell Precision ________ 623-582-4776Industrial Machine Svcs ____ 503-240-0878Metalcraft Industries _____ 720-274-4504Petersen Inc __________ 800-410-6789Service Steel __________ 503-224-9500SMH Inc LLC __________ 360-341-2226Solid Form Fabrication ____ 503-435-1400VACCO Industries ______ 626-443-7121Valley Machine Shop, Inc. ___ 425-207-5951Weiser/Mile High Precision __ 303-280-2778Wrico _____________ 480-892-7800Wright Prototype _______ 541-924-1203

Fabrication: Medium & Large

Aeroform, Inc. ________ 360-403-1919BK Machine Inc. _______801-253-1929GK Machine __________ 503-678-5525Group Mfg Serv ________ 480-966-3952Howell Precision ________ 623-582-4776Industrial Machine Svcs ____ 503-240-0878Metalcraft Industries _____ 720-274-4504Service Steel __________ 503-224-9500SMH Inc LLC __________ 360-341-2226

Solid Form Fabrication ____503-435-1400Weiser/Mile High Precision __303-280-2778

FASTENERS/HARDWARE

Self Clinch ___________ 801-746-2689

FINISHINGArizona Finishing _______602-438-4443Coating Technologies _____623-581-2648

METCO Metal Finishing ____ 602-276-4120Galvanizing: Hot Dip

TMM Precision ________800-448-9448Glass Bead Clean

Byington Steel Treating, Inc. _408-727-6630Coating Technologies _____623-581-2648GK Machine __________ 503-678-5525

Liquid PaintingAero Tech MFG _______ 801-891-2740IndustrialEX ________ 303-456-6847MPI International _______ 956-631-6880

PassivationCoating Technologies _____623-581-2648Jet Processing ______ 623-869-6749x117METCO Metal Finishing ____ 602-276-4120

Powder CoatingAero Tech MFG _______ 801-891-2740

SandblastingByington Steel Treating, Inc. _408-727-6630

Silk ScreeningArizona Finishing _______602-438-4443

IndustrialEX _________ 303-456-6847Potting/Encapsulation

IndustrialEX _________ 303-456-6847

FORGINGSAluminum

Aluminum Precision _____805-889-7569Hand Forgings

Aluminum Precision _____805-889-7569Titanium

Aluminum Precision _____805-889-7569GLASS/OPTICAL

Prescott’s MFG ________719-659-0262

GRINDINGChemResearch ________ 602-253-4175Industrial Machine Svcs _____503-240-0878Mountain View Machine ____435-755-0500

Pacific Tool, Inc. _________425-882-1970Precision Tech __________801-285-7288Ron Grob Co ___________970-667-5320Superior Grinding ________801-487-9700TCI Precision Metals _______ 800-234-5613

Grinding, BlanchardDiversified Metal Services ____801-972-6093

Superior Grinding _______ 801-487-9700 TCI Precision Metals ______ 800-234-5613

Grinding, CenterlessRon Grob Co __________970-667-5320

Grinding, Double DiscTCI Precision Metals ______ 800-234-5613

Grinding: ODPacific Tool, Inc. ________425-882-1970

Precision Tech _________801-285-7288Ron Grob Co __________970-667-5320Superior Grinding _______ 801-487-9700

Grinding: SurfaceChemResearch_________ 602-253-4175Quality Mold _________480-892-5480Superior Grinding _______ 801-487-9700TCI Precision Metals ______ 800-234-5613Westwood Precision ______ 425-742-7011

Grinding: Tool & CutterGet An Edge__________425-355-9593Superior Grinding_______888-487-9701

HEAT TREATINGByington Steel Treating___408-727-6630MET-TEK Heat Treating___503-519-9864

Phoenix Heat Treating____602-258-7751Cryogenics

Phoenix Heat Treating ____ 602-258-7751Heat Treating/ISO/AS9100

Byington Steel Treating__408-727-6630Heat Treating/Aerospace

Byington Steel Treating__408-727-6630

Howell Precision

Solid Form FabricationWeiser/Mile High Precision

Self Clinch

Arizona Finishing

1250 West 124th Ave | Westminster, CO 80234720-274-4504 | [email protected]

Darrin J. CaschettePresident

ISO 9001:2008

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Shawn Carlin [email protected]

Marjorie Langton President

J&M Machine, LLC

1703 NE 43rd Street Renton, WA 98056 Phone: 425-204-0848 Fax: 425-204-0850 Email: [email protected]

CNC Machining and Manufacturing Since 1968

DIAMOND TOOL & DIE, INC.

DDD

510 534-7050 Ext 215Fax 510 534-0454

[email protected]

508 29th AvenueOakland, CA 94601 USA

Large Capacity Drop Bottom Oven/Aluminum

Byington Steel Treating____408-727-6630MET-TEK Heat Treating_____503-519-9864

HONINGValley Machine Shop, Inc. ___ 425-207-5951Westwood Precision ______ 425-742-7011

INJECTION MOLDSHilton Tool ___________ 503-657-9312Plastic Injection Molding ___ 509-531-2634

INJECTION MOLDINGPlastic Injection Molding ___ 509-531-2634Prescott’s MFG _________719-659-0262

Inspection ServicesIRON STITCHING

Accuwright Industries____ 480-892-9595LASER CUTTING

Laser CuttingGK Machine __________ 503-678-5525Howell Precision ________ 623-582-4776Service Steel __________ 503-224-9500United Performance Metals _888-282-3292Wrico _____________ 480-892-7800

Laser Cutting: MicroHowell Precision ________ 623-582-4776

VACCO Industries ______626-443-7121Laser Cutting: 3D

Howell Precision ________623-582-4776

E-CoatMPI International _______ 956-631-6880

EMI/RFI ShieldingIndustrialEX ________303-456-6847

Laser EngravingPMA Photometals ______ 480-773-3239VACCO Industries ______626-443-7121

Laser MarkingPMA Photometals ______ 480-773-3239VACCO Industries ______626-443-7121

Precision Etched PartsPMA Photometals ______ 480-773-3239VACCO Industries ______626-443-7121

LEVELINGUnited Performance Metals _888-282-3292

MACHININGAdvanced Mfg Services ____310-320-28973rd Gen Machine_______435-794-4980BK Machine Inc. ______ 801-253-1929Bar-S Machine, Inc. _____ 928-636-2115Central Valley Machine ___ 435-752-0934Diamond Tool & Die, Inc. __ 510-534-7050Faustson ___________ 303-420-7422GK Machine _________ 503-678-5525Howard PMP _________ 801-619-9850Matrix Machine ________480-966-4451Metalcraft Industries ____ 720-274-4504

Pacific Tool, Inc. ________ 425-882-1970Premier Precision _______ 623-466-3156Ron Grob Co __________ 970-667-5320St. Vrain ____________303-702-1529Service Steel __________ 503-224-9500SMH Inc LLC __________ 360-341-2226Solid Form Fabrication ____ 503-435-1400TVT Die Casting ________ 800-280-2278Valley Machine Shop, Inc. ___ 425-207-5951Westwood Precision ______ 425-742-7011Wright Prototype _______ 541-924-1203

Machining: 5-AxisHoward PMP __________801-619-9850St. Vrain ____________303-702-1529

Machining: AerospaceBar-S Machine, Inc. ______ 928-636-2115Howard PMP __________801-619-9850Layke Inc. __________ 602-272-2654St. Vrain ____________303-702-1529SMH Inc LLC __________ 360-341-2226Teton Machine _______ 208-642-9344

Machining: Proto-R & D Advanced Mfg Services ____ 310-320-2897BK Machine Inc. _______801-253-1929Bar-S Machine, Inc. ______ 928-636-2115Central Valley Machine ____ 435-752-0934Howard PMP __________801-619-9850Industrial Machine Svcs ____ 503-240-0878Innovative Precision _______801-334-6317

Matrix Machine ________ 480-966-4451Petersen Inc __________ 800-410-6789Pacific Tool, Inc. ________ 425-882-1970Prescott’s MFG __________719-659-0262Ron Grob Co __________ 970-667-5320SMH Inc LLC __________ 360-341-2226TVT Die Casting ________ 800-280-2278Westwood Precision _______425-742-7011Wright Prototype _______ 541-924-1203

Machining: ChemicalAcu-Line ____________ 206-634-1618

Machining: CNCAdvanced Mfg Services ____ 310-320-28973rd Gen Machine_________435-794-4980Bar-S Machine, Inc. __ ____ 928-636-2115BK Machine Inc. _______ 801-253-1929Central Valley Machine ____ 435-752-0934Faustson ____________ 303-420-7422GK Machine __________ 503-678-5525Howard PMP __________ 801-619-9850Industrial Machine Svcs ____ 503-240-0878Innovative Precision _______801-334-6317

Layke Inc. __________ 602-272-2654Matrix Machine ________ 480-966-4451Metalcraft Industries _____ 720-274-4504Micropulse West, Inc. _____ 480-966-2300Pacific Tool, Inc. ________ 425-882-1970SMH Inc LLC __________ 360-341-2226Service Steel __________ 503-224-9500Teton Machine ________208-642-9344

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Valley Machine Shop, Inc. ___ 425-207-5951Westwood Precision _______425-742-7011Wright Prototype _______ 541-924-1203

Machining: LargeValley Machine Shop, Inc. ___ 425-207-5951

Machining: LaserInnovative Precision _______801-334-6317

Machining: MedicalPrescott’s MFG __________719-659-0262Teton Machine ________208-642-9344

Machining: ProductionHoward PMP __________ 801-619-9850Innovative Precision _______801-334-6317Prescott’s MFG __________719-659-0262Teton Machine ________208-642-9344

Machining: SwissHoward PMP __________ 801-619-9850Bar-S Machine, Inc. ______ 928-636-2115Teton Machine ________208-642-9344

Machining: TurningAdvanced Mfg Services ____ 310-320-28973rd Gen Machine_________435-794-4980Bar-S Machine, Inc. ______ 928-636-2115BK Machine Inc. _______ 801-253-1929Faustson ___________ 303-420-7422Howard PMP __________ 801-619-9850Industrial Machine Svcs ____ 503-240-0878Layke Inc. __________ 602-272-2654Metalcraft Industries _____ 720-274-4504Pacific Tool, Inc. ________ 425-882-1970SMH Inc LLC __________ 360-341-2226Teton Machine ________208-642-9344Valley Machine Shop, Inc. ___ 425-207-5951Westwood Precision _______425-742-7011

Machining: Turning LargeValley Machine Shop, Inc. ___ 425-207-5951

MANUFACTURINGAeroform, Inc. ________ 360-403-1919Advanced Mfg Services ____ 310-320-2897BK Machine Inc. _______ 801-253-1929Diamond Tool & Die, Inc. ___ 510-534-7050

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Howell Precision ________ 623-582-4776Industrial Machine Svcs ____503-240-0878Mountain View Machine ___435-755-0500Petersen Inc __________ 800-410-6789Service Steel __________503-224-9500Weiser/Mile High Prec. _ 303280-2778

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Welding: PrecisionGK Machine __________ 503-678-5525Howell Precision ________ 623-582-4776Industrial Machine Svcs ____503-240-0878Petersen Inc __________ 800-410-6789Service Steel __________503-224-9500Weiser/Mile High Prec. _ 303280-2778

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