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WE PUT OUR MOST IMPORTANT JOBS ON THE MAKINOS BECAUSE WE KNOW THEY ARE GOING TO RUN. THEY’RE INCREDIBLY RELIABLE MACHINES.– Machining Engineer

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CONTRIBUTORSLinda Daly, Hugh Taylor, Eugene Wirth, Stephen Hannemann, Kate Carpenter, Greg Ce de Baca

Cover & Inside Cover

This Month’s Cover , Inside Cover,

Shop Profiles, & Articles:

Pacific Swiss Manufacturing, Inc.

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PUBLISHERS/EDITORSKim Carpenter & Linda [email protected]

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Editor’s Corner

A Team Wins What An Individual Seldom Finds

Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.

- Henry Ford

It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

None of us is as smart as all of us.- Ken Blanchard

I witnessed something this weekend that I have only talked about and preached about for years. Yet there it was in front of me to enjoy and be edified by, hundreds of young people with their friends and family acting and working as cohesive teams. They were having fun, helping each other, encouraging each other, and when one failed to make their mark they were encouraged by their teammates, embraced, and admonished with words like, you got this, you can do it, and hugs and high fives.

The game of volleyball, originally called “mintonette,” was invented in 1895 by William G. Morgan 4 years after basketball. Morgan, a graduate of the Springfield College of the YMCA, designed the game to be a combination of basketball, baseball, tennis, and handball. Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team’s court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summer Olympic Games since 1964.

During all of these tournament games that filled the football stadium, I heard not one curse word, no one taunted each other and the only loud tones were cheers and admonitions. I saw one player get upset with herself and lightly slam the ball to the floor to let off some steam. The court judge immediately called over the team’s leader and notified her if her player slammed the ball again he was going to card her, which is a penalty.

All of these teams worked together in complete unison and had to communicate steadily to each other during the rapidly changing play. It looked as if no two plays were alike so creativity, quick innovative thinking and teamwork were necessary to survive and a positive attitude was medicine.

At the end of the day there were winners and teams that lost, but you would never know it because they all hugged each other and high fived each other and the teams worked together like a gaggle of geese heading south for the summer.

I think most of us work to create teams within our organizations and I think if we were to run our business teams like a volleyball team we would realize that our team could benefit from a true, “We Are In This Together” spirit. There is no win on the court by or for just one person. It takes the same team spirit to win on the shop floor.

In closing encourage your team, praise your team, and cheer your team on. When they fall, help them up, when they doubt themselves tell them we have this, and when they do well get the rest of the team together to cheer them on.

Until next issue, we wish you continued success, happiness, and health.

Stay united, and God Bless Our Troops!

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Announcements & ReleasesPerceptron Launches Expert CMM Solution – A Hybrid Coordinate Measuring Machine

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Perceptron has launched a CNC multi-sensor CMM solution that seamlessly integrates touch-probe and laser scanning functionality into a single measuring station, operated exclusively by touch software. The Perceptron EXPERT CMM offers full point-cloud geometric feature extraction and direct comparison

to CAD for automated inspection of production parts. The automatic scanning package price is comparable to lower accuracy manual portable arm measuring solutions.

Laser scanning has proven its role in manufacturing over past years with the increased application of manual portable arm scanning systems. These labor intensive systems are more suitable for reverse engineering and one-off inspection tasks. Perceptron has harnessed its expertise in automated inline production metrology for global vehicle production by widening the reach of its industry-leading scanning technology for general manufacturing. Software complexity of traditional measuring equipment mandates its use by metrology experts; Perceptron’s TouchCloud™ software module add-on for its TouchDMIS™ software puts the EXPERT into the solution, and significantly reduces the necessary user skill level.

Full feature extraction from point-cloud rather than rendered .STL format provides for faster and more accurate measurements. Part features can be touch-probed or laser-scanned depending on feature type and tolerance.

The Perceptron ScanR™ scanner is available with a standard red laser line and optionally with a green laser to significantly extend dynamic range, allowing scanning of both highly reflective and black parts.

EXPERT CMM can also be supplied with any size and configuration CMM from the Perceptron Coord3 CMM range or retrofitted to existing customer-installed CMMs.

Perceptron’s Vice President of Global Marketing, Keith Mills says “Perceptron is a leader in supplying automated metrology using robotic technology for the automotive industry in their most demanding production line applications. The EXPERT CMM package further extends the reach of our technology into global manufacturing.”

Perceptron supplies a comprehensive range of automated industrial metrology products and solutions to manufacturing organizations for dimensional gauging, dimensional inspection and 3D scanning. Products include 3D machine vision solutions, robot guidance, coordinate measuring

machines, laser scanning, and advanced analysis software. Automotive, aerospace and other manufacturing companies globally rely on Perceptron’s metrology solutions to assist in managing their complex manufacturing processes to improve quality, shorten product launch times and reduce costs. More than 900 systems, 12,000 Perceptron measuring sensors and over 3,000 COORD3 coordinate measuring machines are in active daily use worldwide. Headquartered in Plymouth, Michigan, Perceptron has approximately 360 employees worldwide, For more information, please visit www.perceptron.com.

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GMN’s New High Speed Spindles

GMN, a world leader in spindle development has released a new range of high-speed spindles with highly efficient hydroviscous damping. The innovative product successfully reduces natural vibrations by up to 65% in comparison with standard spindles. This makes for more cost effective workpiece machining, since components can be worked consistently with greater cutting depths and therefore higher material removal rates. Improved surface quality can be obtained throughout the machining process whether rough or finish machining.

The new high-speed spindles are independently driven by their own small, energy-saving hydraulic power unit. In addition, the bearing preload of the spindle can be controlled via the oil pressure. Through this process, the rigidity of the spindle can be modified and therefore its behavior optimized depending on the machine task, speed and tool. Increased preload can, for example, be used to significantly improve spindle performance at lower speeds.

The new spindle models with hydroviscous damping are available for machining centers for use in milling and drilling operations as well as grinding machines. Since they are structurally identical to the standard models, they can easily be retrofitted to existing machines.

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Announcements Continued Cimatron Donates $1.7 Million Software to

Iowa Community College for Advanced CAD/CAM Training

Cimatron Technologies Inc., a subsidiary of Cimatron Limited (NASDAQ: CIMT), is donating software valued at over $1.7 million to Southeastern Community College (SCC) in Iowa. The CimatronE software—a CAD/CAM solution for mold, tool and die makers as well as manufacturers of discrete parts—will be used to provide training for students in design and advanced manufacturing.

It is one of the largest donations to SCC and will provide the foundation for training students from high school through college to meet the increasing demand for manufacturing expertise by companies in Iowa. The region is home to such industries as energy, pharmaceutical, food

processing, and plastics. The donation was facilitated by the Lee County Economic Development Group, a private/public partnership to foster development and employment in the county.

“This donation, along with another donation to North Iowa Area Community College last year, underscores the importance Cimatron places on growing the manufacturing industry in Iowa and throughout North America,” said Bill Gibbs, Cimatron North America President. “The demand for skilled CAD/CAM workers is the number one challenge that comes up in every conversation we have with customers as well as in a survey of toolmakers and manufacturers we conducted last year.”

Training on CimatronE software for mold, die making, and manufacturing will be part of the curriculum for Associate of Applied Science in Computer Assisted Drafting and Advanced Manufacturing degrees. “This will elevate the status of SCC among prospective students and employers as a college on the cutting edge of CAD/CAM,” said Michael Ash, the president of SCC.

“In Iowa, manufacturing is big business. In fact, the percentage of the state’s GDP derived from manufacturing has consistently ranked in the top 10 in the country,” said Debi Durham, the director of the Iowa Economic Development Authority (IEDA). “The advanced manufacturing sector is so strong in Iowa because the public and private sectors work together to ensure conditions are favorable for growth. Keeping Iowa’s community colleges equipped with leading edge technology is an essential part of training the next generation of highly skilled workers who are sought by Iowa’s manufacturers to support future growth.”

With over 30 years of experience and more than 40,000 installations worldwide, Cimatron is a leading provider of integrated, CAD/CAM software solutions for mold, tool and die makers as well as manufacturers of discrete parts. Cimatron is committed to providing comprehensive, cost-effective solutions that streamline manufacturing cycles and ultimately shorten product delivery time.

The Cimatron product line includes the CimatronE and GibbsCAM brands with software solutions for mold design, die design, electrode design, 2.5 to 5 Axis milling, wire EDM, turn, Mill-turn, rotary milling, multi-task machining, and tombstone machining. Cimatron’s subsidiaries and extensive distribution network serve and support customers in the automotive, aerospace, medical, consumer plastics, electronics, and other industries in over 40 countries worldwide. For more information, visit www.cimatron.com

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“Cimatron has really helped us stay ahead of the curve when it comes to creating more sophisticated molds, such as those required for products with blended curves. Without Cimatron in place, designing and producing such goods would be nearly impossible.”Thomas LaMarca, Jr., Owner, L&Z Tool and Engineering

“We believe one of the things that sets LS Mold apart from other shops is our Cimatron CAD/CAM capabilities. Cimatron really listened to our needs and it shows in how they implement our requirements in the software. The modeling package is first rate. It particularly shines in electrode creation. Customer support from Cimatron is outstanding.”Jim Dent/David Koning, LS Mold

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Announcements Continued

Mitsubishi Will Spend $70M And Hire 50 Workers For Plant Expansion In South

Sacramento

Mitsubishi Rayon Co. Ltd. began site work two months ago to build a new $29.8 million building on the company’s 10-acre South Sacramento campus.

Site work began two months ago to build a new $29.8 million building on the company’s 10-acre South Sacramento campus. The machinery and equipment will cost another $30 to $40 million.l

The new plant is expected to open in the second half of 2016, and it will require about 50 more employees to the Sacramento operation’s existing 120-person workforce, said Susumu “Sam” Sasaki, president of Mitsubishi Rayon Carbon Fiber and Composites Inc. The Orange County-based firm is a subsidiary of the Japanese industrial giant.

The plant has been in Sacramento since 1980. Carbon fiber produced in Sacramento is used to make wind-turbine blades, robot arms, golf clubs and fishing rods.

The company is seeing strong demand from automotive manufacturers using carbon fiber to replace metal parts to cut weight. Another big

growth segment is for pressure tanks that hold gases or liquids, such as the fuel tanks for liquid natural gas trucks and busses.

Mitsubishi Rayon used to be called Grafil Inc. Acquired by Mitsubishi in 1991, it became a subsidiary. The company changed its name from Grafil in April 2013 when Mitsubishi merged two of its subsidiaries, Grafil and Newport Adhesives and Composites Inc. Source: Sacramento Business Journal


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dti EXACT™ Company History

Consistent product quality, extreme tolerances and the need for quick turnaround times all drove dti™ to invest in dti EXACT™. This idea became a reality in 2004 when dti EXACT™ established new facilities, top of the line equipment and talented employees, all to fill the demands of the ultra-high pressure waterjet cutting industry. Pure necessity driven, the sole purpose of dti EXACT™ was to manufacture extreme, tolerance sensitive tooling and fixturing and continuously develop and automate new specialized processes for diamond orifice.

With measurement capabilities far beyond that of typical fabrication shops, dti EXACT™ began manufacturing processes for drilling holes as small as .0001” and machining diamond edge reliefs at submicron levels.

After several years of great in-house success and a growing reputation for high precision and quick turnaround times, dti EXACT™ opened its doors to new manufacturing applications as a contract manufacturer for any industry in need of consistent quality, tight tolerances and short lead times.

Today the company continues to expand with more employees and precision equipment to capture the needs of our evolving customers. While we continue to grow, at the center of dti EXACT™ will always be the desire to fill our customer’s needs with meticulous care and precision.

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A $37B Deal Closes As Oregon Officially Loses Its Second-Largest Public Company

Precision is now, officially, a Berkshire subsidiary.The acquisition consisted of Berkshire’s $235 per share for Precision’s stock, in an all-cash $37.2 billion transaction. Precision’s shareholders had approved the deal, which also “met all U.S. and non-U.S. regulatory filing requirements.”

Precision’s Mark Donegan was honored Thursday as a PBJ Executive of the Year. Donegan will continue to lead Precision, which will keep its headquarters in Portland as it becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire.

Vancouver Yacht-Maker Back In Production Behind New President

Christensen Shipyards, a Vancouver-based yacht manufacturer that shut down last year, is now back in full production with a new interim president.

The appointment of Jim Gilbert, the founding editor and former president of ShowBoats International magazine, as interim president was announced earlier this week by Henry Luken, a long-time Christensen customer and shareholder from Chattanooga, Tenn., who took control of the company last year.

Christensen, whose customers at one point included Tiger Woods, was noted for being the only yacht builders to make everything, from the hull to the cabinets, in-house. But the yacht business rides the ebbs and flows of the global economy.It employed as many as 480 in 2008 before sinking to 80 after the Great Recession. It waged a comeback in 2012, bringing its workforce back to above 300. But, as the Columbian reported, Christensen struggled last year to pay contractors and its employees and ended up in receivership, where its $5.5 million in assets were acquired by WIT Washington, a company overseen by Luken.

Now Luken says the company is back in full production, with four yachts in some stage of construction, all between 160-feet and 164-feet long. To lead the company, at least for the time being, Luken chose someone he’s worked with before. Luken was a shareholder at ShowMedia, the holding company for ShowBoats International, when Gilbert and other shareholders sold it in 2004.

2015: A Year of Historic Victories for Manufacturers

National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) President and CEO Jay Timmons issued the following statement after a year of historic victories for America’s manufacturers and job creators:

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“We secured the reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank, passage of a long-term infrastructure bill and approval of Trade Promotion Authority, as well as made progress on important regulatory reforms, such as reform of the Toxic Substances Control Act and an extension of the Positive Train Control deadline. All of this will help small and large manufacturers better compete in the global economy.”

“For more than 20 years, the NAM has led the fight for a permanent research and development tax credit that can compete with the more robust research incentives of other countries—so that manufacturers will be better able to innovate here in the United States. As the year came to a close, that goal became a reality, and this one historic achievement will help to secure our mantle of leadership in innovation for future generations.”

“Manufacturers also secured other key tax provisions at the end of the year, such as the suspension of the medical device tax and a delay of the employee benefits tax, also known as the ‘Cadillac’ tax.”

“In the courts, the NAM led the fight against a requirement from the Securities and Exchange Commission that would have created unnecessary bureaucracy for manufacturers, fought in a landmark case to require the Environmental Protection Agency to consider costs in the rulemaking process and helped a small family-owned manufacturer win a 17-year battle against the federal government that will set an important precedent

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“These victories were no accident. This was a phenomenally successful year because manufacturers across the country raised their voices. By bringing people together and telling our stories, we were able to advance our priorities at a time when we faced serious challenges and headwinds.”

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You Can Now Buy Your Own $21,000 Oregon-Made Farm Drone

An Oregon manufacturer will start selling its agricultural drones in farm equipment stores across the Pacific Northwest. HoneyComb Corp. has struck a deal with Papé Machinery to sell the company’s drone

systems at Papé stores starting Jan. 25, according to agriculture publication Capital Press.

According to the story, the new partnership will place the drones in 21 Papé equipment dealerships in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and California.A full system sells for about $21,000. For that, buyers get a drone and case, spare parts and a data processing service from HoneyComb. Bargain buys are possible for $10,000 to $13,000, but those don’t include the bells and whistles like data processing, according to Capital Press.

Vestas Will Soon Start Buying Oregon Steel

A Danish wind energy company will soon buy steel for its turbine towers from Oregon.

Vestas will start purchasing steel from Evraz’s plate mill in Portland to use in manufacturing at its Pueblo, Colorado turbine tower-making plant.Vestas will soon buy steel plate from EVRAZ in Portland. According to the Pueblo Chieftain, which has the full story, steel plate will be shipped to Pueblo by rail. Evraz has a mill in the Colorado city, but it does not produce steel plate. The Chieftain reports the mill in Portland could supply as much as 20 percent of the tower factory’s steel orders. Vestas’ U.S. and Canada sales and service division is based in Portland. President Chris Brown was recently named an Executive of the Year by the Business Journal. Source: Portland Business Journal

Northrop CEO Says Autonomous Aircraft Represent The Future Of Drones

Autonomous systems will prove a game-changer for unmanned aircraft, according to Northrop Grumman CEO Wes Bush. “I’m talking about cognitive autonomous systems. These are robotic systems that operate using the same actions we would expect from the judgment and, ultimately, the ethics of a pilot,” he said, speaking at the Wings Club in New York. “It is not as mysterious as it sounds, but it is an enormous challenge to overcome. And autonomous aircraft will not grow into their full potential until we overcome that challenge.” Source: Aviation Week & Space Technology

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Aerospace Industry Rethinking How to Build Military Aircraft

The changing defense market is putting the squeeze on companies that design and build cutting-edge aircraft. The focus is now on rapid prototyping and other techniques that let buyers experiment with new systems before they commit to major investments.

“I’ve been hearing about a paradigm shift,” says Kevin Mickey, vice president of advanced design at Northrop Grumman. There appears to be a “real push” by customers like the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the U.S. Navy and Air Force to find more efficient ways to develop new aircraft as they try to figure out their requirements, Mickey tells National Defense. Mickey is an aerospace veteran who until recently was president of Scaled Composites, a Northrop subsidiary, that specializes in experimental aircraft and prototyping.

“I hear DARPA talking about X planes, the Navy talking about rapid capabilities,” he says. The technology exists to design and produce revolutionary aircraft in shorter timelines than has been possible in the past, but the question is whether the Pentagon is poised to exploit these advances. The military aircraft business increasingly is leaning toward “rapid prototyping,” Mickey says. As the military decides what it needs to fight

future enemies, it does not want to commit to traditional programs that do not allow flexibility to modify systems as security threats change. Prototypes are adaptable so buyers can test before they make up their minds, he says.

“You want to demonstrate aerodynamics at full scale. You don’t need all the capabilities [in order] to explore the aerodynamic envelope.” Northrop Grumman in 2007 acquired Scaled Composites with the goal of infusing fresh thinking into its military aircraft and space business. Under Northrop’s ownership, Scaled — founded by Burt Rutan in 1982 — still operates as a separate company. Scaled Composites president Ben Diachun says the company is working on 15 different aircraft programs, a mix of military and civilian models. Some of those designs are intended to help Northrop Grumman win future Pentagon competitions as a prime contractor, rather than as a supplier of major components.“On average we do one new aircraft type to first flight per year,” Diachun tells reporters. The secret sauce that enables the company to take a clean sheet design to flight within a year are engineers who wear multiple hats, he says. “They do conceptual designs, detailed designs and carry the hardware through the manufacturing and tests; and 70 percent of our engineers are pilots.” Some of the aircraft concepts that Northrop is positioning for future Pentagon deals bear the Scaled imprint, including a new trainer for the U.S. Air Force, an unmanned spy plane for the Navy and a sixth-generation fighter that would fly without a pilot in the cockpit.


Vice has been a staunch advocate of corporate investments in manufacturing technologies. In the early days of his career, Vice worked on the B-2 stealth bomber, one of the military’s most advanced but also most expensive airplanes. The company set up an assembly line in a one million square-feet facility to build 132 bombers, but the order was truncated to 21. The poor economies of scale inflated the price of the aircraft to about $2 billion each. To avoid a repeat of the cost escalation that doomed the B-2, Northrop is betting big on high-tech manufacturing and digital design. Aircraft should be affordable regardless of the size of the production run, Vice says during a meeting with reporters. “You’re building 70 Triton [unmanned aircraft] for the U.S. Navy, 21 B-2s, up to 2,000 F/A-18 fighters. The F-35 run is likely to be 3,000,” he says. “We have to have an ability to build 70 of something as efficiently and as cost-effectively as we would build 2,000 of something.” Modern manufacturing methods tend to help lower costs, but making programs affordable also requires a “consistency in how things are funded,” Vice says. “If we say we’re going to build 100 of something, let’s build 100” at the rate that was planned. While working on the B-2 bomber, Vice recalls, the company studied General Motors’ production process for introducing its new Saturn line and estimated that if only 20 cars had been built, each would have cost $350 million.“We do that sometimes to ourselves in this industry,” he says. “And it’s likely to happen in the future. So we have to think differently. How are we going to bring economies of advanced manufacturing and know-how so we can build fewer things, or many things, and still do it efficiently?”

In today’s defense market there is little tolerance for miscalculations, he adds. “There’s a lot at stake in the next 30 to 40 years. There’s an intensity around these competitions.” A key player in Northrop’s push for lower-cost production is KUKA Robotics, a global supplier of industrial robots. The company made the equipment used at the Northrop’s “integrated assembly line” that produces major components of the F-35 airframe. The next wave, what he calls the “factory of the future,” has been in the works for six years and will become a selling point as Northrop takes aim at future military contracts like the Air Force T-X trainer and the sixth-generation fighter. The idea is to create an “integrated digital enterprise” where the data, models and information about a system flow across the entire life cycle. “You can take something that’s brand new from a 3D model and actually forecast how it would go through a factory like this, how you would build it.” The company is making a big wager on next-generation robotics technology that would turn military systems into independent thinking machines. Today’s unmanned systems are not as revolutionary as they could be, he says. Current drone models “constrain our ability to think about innovative new designs. If we think about never having a pilot, it allows us to design things that human beings would never allow,” such as airplanes that push beyond 9 g’s, that take off and land vertically, and do things that pilots would not want to do.


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Boeing Will Boost 737 Production, Slow 777 Rates

The Chicago-based aerospace giant said in an earnings call the changes reflect shifting market demands as the two product lines prepare for the introduction of next-generation replacement variants before the end of the decade.

Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg announced in the call the company will boost production of its 737 single-aisle jet to a record 57 airplanes per month in 2019. The announcement follows previously planned rate increases to 47 jets per month in 2017 and a further jump to 52 in 2018. The company currently manufactures the airplanes at a rate of 42 per month at its plant in Renton, Wash.

Boeing released a bullish earnings report, but the stock is slammed after analysts are surprised the company will deliver about 20 fewer jets in 2016, after last year’s record of nearly 770 planes.

Boeing’s stalwart 737 continues to show strong sales, bolstered by the next generation iteration of jet; the 737 MAX. The company has booked 3,072 firm orders of the upgraded airframe since it launched in 2011. The first MAX is due to fly as early as this Friday, with a first delivery set for 2017. The order book extends beyond 4,300 airplanes orders for current generation models are included.

Many industry watchers believe the uptick is necessary to keep pace with rival Airbus, which is likewise setting record build rates on its A320 model, Airbus’ direct competitor to the 737. Airbus is set to produce 60 of the airplanes per month in 2019 across four factories spread worldwide. Boeing, meanwhile, produces every 737 from a single plant in Renton, leaving it at a delivery disadvantage.

While the 737 program cannot pump out jets fast enough, the 777 program has struggled to maintain production levels between current-generation 777 “classic” models and the next-generation 777X, which is due for delivery in 2020. Slumping 777 classic sales have left the company unable to keep the line going seamlessly during the transition between the two programs.

Boeing admits that even the new rate is still not enough. Should the company fail to sell enough 777 classics in the coming year, production rates could face further cuts. With the new rates, Boeing reported that 2016 delivery slots are sold out while 2017 stands at 80% filled. Details on 2018 and beyond were not disclosed.

The announcements follow Boeing’s decision to slash production rates for its poorly selling 747 jumbo-jet in half, to just a single airplane every other month. Source: USA TODAY


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Boeing Co has won a contract worth $2.5 billion to build 20 more P-8A maritime surveillance aircraft, the Pentagon announced recently.

The contract covers the production and delivery of 16 aircraft for the U.S. Navy and four for the Australian government, the Defense Department said in its daily digest of major weapons contracts.

The work is expected to be completed in December 2018. Source: Reuters

Textron Aviation Sees Higher Jet Deliveries, Profit

Textron Aviation delivered more jets and recorded a higher profit in 2015, and it expects to see higher sales and profitability in 2016.That was despite a fourth-quarter revenue decline in 2015.

Textron Aviation delivered 60 Cessna Citation business jets and 33 Beechcraft King Airs in the three-month quarter ended Jan. 2. That compares with 55 Citation and 41 King Air deliveries in the fourth quarter of 2014.

Despite lower King Air deliveries, which Textron Inc. said partly contributed to a $32 million quarterly decrease in revenue at Textron

Aviation, the Wichita-based aircraft maker increased its profit to $138 million in the fourth quarter of 2015, a 6.2 percent increase over the $130 million in the same quarter in 2014.

Textron Inc. CEO Scott Donnelly said on a conference call with analysts that for the year, Textron Aviation delivered 166 jets — including 16 of Cessna’s new midsize Latitude — compared with 159 in 2014.

Donnelly did not say how many King Airs were delivered in 2015.

This year, Textron Aviation is expected to see 6 percent growth in revenue, to $5.1 billion, which largely reflects an increase in Latitude deliveries, Textron Inc. chief financial officer Frank Connor said.

“We expect solid growth at aviation,” Donnelly said.

Donnelly said in his opening remarks that customer reaction to Textron Aviation’s announcement of the super midsize Longitude and the large-cabin Hemisphere has been “very positive.”

He added that new products such as the Latitude will largely lead the company’s jet sales this year.

“I would say most legacy (Citation) models will be sort of flattish, but … new things like the Latitude coming out is really what’s driving growth in the business,” Donnelly said.

Last June, the Federal Aviation Administration awarded type certification on the Latitude, which is the first Citation with a flat floor, 6-foot-high cabin. It began deliveries of the jet in the third quarter of 2015.

Analysts wanted to know why Textron was forecasting moderate growth in aviation profit, as well as if Textron Aviation’s $1.1 billion backlog — down $308 million from the third quarter of 2015 — shouldn’t be bigger.

In 2016, Donnelly said, Textron Aviation will have “a fairly high number of deliveries that will go into NetJets.” The fractional jet ownership company has a 2012 order for up to 150 Latitudes, which are priced at slightly more than $16 million.

“Typically sales into fractional are at a lower margin than our retail sales,” Donnelly said, later adding that the price of an airplane sold to a fractional company rather than to a single customer can be about 2 to 3 percent lower.

“It’s still good business for us, but lower margin,” he said.

Textron Aviation’s lower backlog was also a focus for a couple of analysts, including Noah Poponak of Goldman Sachs, who questioned whether $1.1 billion was enough to sustain the company in an economic downturn.Donnelly said that unlike the commercial airplane makers, business jet manufacturers don’t rack up backlogs with billions of dollars each time they announce a new airplane.

“If someone would give me another billion or so in backlog, we’d take it,” Donnelly said. “But the fact of the matter is that’s not where the market has been, and it’s been this way for at least six years.

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Saudi Arabia’s purchase of 10 Sikorsky MH-60R Seahawk ant i -submarine helicopters

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Lockheed Martin, particularly as production of Australian and Danish “Romeos” concludes.

Sikorsky clinched the Saudi contract for 10 green aircraft last month, seven months after the foreign military case worth an estimated $1.9 billion was approved by the US government.

Lockheed’s director of MH-60R business development Mike Fralen confirms that initial deliveries of the torpedo-toting maritime helicopter to Saudi Arabia begin in 2018 – with the first delivered in July and the last in April 2019.

That schedule aligns favourably with final delivery to the US Navy in 2018, with 217 of 278 production models already received by the service.

The last seven Australian MH-60Rs will be received by the Royal Australian Navy in 2016, concluding the 2011 deal for 24 aircraft — seven of which support training. Lockheed expects final delivery in August.

Two initial Royal Danish Air Force MH-60Rs have been completed, and were procedurally signed over to the US Navy in October as crew training gets underway at Naval Station Mayport in Florida.

Fralen says six Danish examples will be delivered in 2016, although the last aircraft is due by April 2018 – a spokeswoman confirms.

Opportunities for export of advanced anti-submarine warfare capabilities currently abound despite a bleak outlook previously for the Romeo, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region where sabre-rattling over territories has navies on high alert. This security climate gives Lockheed confidence of continued export success for the type, first delivered in 2005.

“The MH-60R is currently being considered by other countries, and we’ll look to see how their analysis and contract decisions mature over the next one to two years,” he says. “Over the next three years, we’ll look at what other countries want to add to their capabilities, then we’ll look at that production time line.” Lockheed, which supplies the submarine-hunting mission systems and cockpit, acquired Sikorsky in November, and is now leading the global sales push against competitors such as the anti-submarine-warfare-configured NHIndustries NH90 and Airbus Helicopters AS565.

There are outstanding MH-60R cases with South Korea, with eight aircraft approved by the US in 2012, and Qatar – 10 approved in 2013. Other interested parties reportedly include Taiwan.

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Northrop Lays Out Vision for ‘Cyber Resilient’ Next-Gen

Fighter Northrop Grumman is still ramping up its work on the Pentagon’s most advanced fighter jet, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, but the company is already thinking about what comes next.

Tom Vice, president of Northrop’s aerospace sector, laid out his vision for a long-range, potentially unmanned fighter, featuring laser weapons and advanced “cyber resiliency” to counter threats in the increasingly connected world of 2030.

The Pentagon has begun early conceptual work on a sixth-generation fighter, intended to replace the Air Force’s F-22s and the Navy’s F/A-18s in the 2030s. Early last year, the Air Force began a deep-dive process that will eventually determine what technology and capabilities it will fund to ensure air dominance in the future.

In the meantime, industry is gearing up for a competition in the next decade. Lockheed Martin, the prime contractor on the fifth-generation F-35, is reportedly working on a design for a future fighter concept, while Boeing has quietly released several mockups.

Northrop, a subcontractor on the F-35, will also make a bid as prime contractor for the sixth-generation fighter, Vice told reporters Jan. 14 during a media trip to Northrop’s Palmdale, Calif. facility. The company is involved in several trade studies to determine performance parameters for the next-generation jet, according to Chris Hernandez, company vice president of research, technology and advanced design.

One major problem the Pentagon must confront is protecting aircraft data and lines of communications in a world where cyber hacking is the norm. The government can’t thwart every cyber attack — instead, it must be able to detect the intrusion and prevent damage, Vice said.

“The human body today is susceptible to infection, so the idea of blocking at the skin surface any infection entering the skin — it’s just impossible to do. The question is, when you are infected, what does your body do?” Vice said. “Your body has an incredible system called white blood cells that attack and try to manage that virus in such a way that prevents it from

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Boeing Builds The Most Powerful Rocket Ever Made

A giant metal frame standing several yards wide rises up nearly 200 feet inside the Michoud Assembly Facility, NASA’s massive 832-acre space park.

“What you’re looking at is the largest welding system in the world,” said Jackie Nesselroad. She is leading a team from Boeing that’s welding together the world’s most powerful rocket, the Space Launch System. “It’s about the coolest job on earth.”

SLS is not a rocket that will be reusable, like the one Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin just landed for the second time in a row.

It is not a system like the one that Elon Musk’s SpaceX contracts out to NASA for ferrying supplies to the International Space Station.Instead, the SLS has one customer and one mission: to take Americans into deep space.

“Mars is a million times further away than the space station. It’s all about discovery. There isn’t a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, so to speak.” -Paul Wright, senior manager, Boeing.

The goal is Mars. The program will cost billions.“It is designed for beyond low-Earth orbit exploration with humans,” said Frank McCall, the deputy program manager from Boeing who called SLS “a mission that is long overdue.” The first unmanned test flight is slated for late 2018. By 2021, the rocket is supposed to carry astronauts aboard the Orion space capsule built by Lockheed Martin.

“The first crewed mission … will be a mission that goes to the far side of the moon, literally farther than we’ve ever gone before in manned spacecraft,” said NASA SLS manager Patrick Whipps.

This year alone, Congress is giving NASA $2 billion for SLS, and much of that funding is going to the core rocket built by Boeing. That core includes powerful liquid hydrogen and oxygen fuel tanks, which will give the first version of the rocket 8.5 million pounds of thrust.

“That’s 31 747s at full power,” said Boeing engineer Tony Castilleja. That thrust will be even greater in later versions. It also makes SLS the most powerful rocket in history. “This is the only rocket that can cut the time in half and double the science and double the exploration.”

Why does NASA have to pay so much, and why does it need to own the rocket? Musk has plans to get to Mars on his own, so why not just ride along with SpaceX? NASA management believes deep space exploration is so big, so expensive, so fraught with risk, that it needs to own the mission. “Mars is a million times further away than the space station,” said Paul Wright senior manager for test and evaluation at Boeing. “It’s all about discovery. There isn’t a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, so to speak.”


At least not yet.The good news for Boeing and NASA is that Americans are once again infatuated with space. The credit goes to everything from the bold visions of billionaires like Musk and Bezos to films like “The Martian.” Congress voted to give NASA a raise in 2016 to $19.3 billion — more than the agency requested. The SLS program

is hoping for continued funding to pay for more trips, because beyond the first two missions, the way to Mars isn’t clear. Perhaps the rocket system could take astronauts back to the moon, or to an asteroid. It all depends on how the first two missions go, how much it costs, and what other competing priorities there are through 2035.

Boeing is trying to keep costs down by reusing technologies from the space shuttle programs, such as the engines and solid-fuel rocket boosters. McCall doesn’t see that as looking backward. “Why reinvent the wheel if the wheel works?”

NASA is also exploring new technologies for the program down the road, such as using nuclear energy to take the Orion capsule all the way to Mars. NASA’s Whipps said astronauts will also need new spacesuits. Instead of wearing suits for a few hours a day on spacewalks outside the space station,

“we’ll be using the spacesuit literally every day, sometimes many hours every day, on the surface of Mars or an asteroid.” The suits will have to be stronger, and astronauts will need the tools to repair them on site.

“When you’re 40 or 60 million miles away from your home planet, there is not a depot to take parts back to,” Whipps said.

For now, however, the focus is building the rocket, making it lighter, and keeping the SLS program on budget and on time. The core rocket will be unpainted to save on hundreds of pounds of white paint that was only for cosmetic purposes. Boeing has revamped the welding facility at Michoud to create welds that weigh less, and it’s reduced the number of tools needed from two dozen during the Shuttle program to only six or seven for SLS.

Meanwhile, at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, NASA is spending $76 million this year to build two new towers where Boeing will test the fuel tanks. The liquid hydrogen tank alone will stand 130 feet, and testing could begin later this year. “The biggest challenge for us is we are going to be doing all these tests — the engine test, the liquid hydrogen tank, the inner tank and the liquid oxygen tank, almost all at the same time,” said Boeing’s Wright.

Those tests ultimately will determine the rocket’s limits. “We’re going to qualify those by testing all the way to failure,” said NASA’s Tim Flores. For him, knowing the rocket’s limits, and making sure SLS is safe, has gotten personal. His 11-year-old son recently decided he wants to be an astronaut when he grows up, and Flores believes someone his son’s age will be the first human on Mars.

“Now I think, ‘Am I making the right decisions with the things that I’m doing?’” he said, standing atop a test tower in Alabama. “My son might actually be on one of those flights.”


Pacific Swiss & Manufacturing, Inc. Supports Its Customers in a Large Way,

With CNC Swiss ‘Micro Components’

In the beginning, there was a clear focus on hi-precision small parts machining.

Since 1995, Pacific Swiss has been supplying precision-machined parts with short lead times to a variety of manufacturing industries worldwide. Their customers choose them and put us in a position of trust to provide them with quality parts, delivered on-time and at a reasonable cost. The parts they manufacture are for some of the largest companies in their respective industries. These industries include but are not limited to, medical, aerospace, electronic, interconnect, linear & motion control, plastic molding, recreation and telecommunication.

The Pacific Swiss niche is the ‘micro miniature” components. They consider themselves a small parts manufacturer which is one inch and under, but their real niche is ‘Micro Miniature’ CNC Swiss Turning. One of a handful of shops doing real Swiss Turning is Pacific Swiss and that’s what sets them apart from the multitudes of shops that claim to do it all. “This is all we do”, says Greg; Day to day we focus on ‘Micro Miniature’ and have for the past 10 years, as a whole for 20 years.”

When producing micro and miniature sized parts for their customers, it is the power and precision of their company’s machining capability and their team members’ experience that puts the strength and overall quality into every part. As is typical with these types of parts, they require extremely tight tolerances and high surface finish callouts. Everyday, they make parts with tolerances of +/- 0.0005” and surface finishes of 16Ra or better.

The benefit of machining parts on the multi axis CNC swiss machines is that it primarily allows Pacific Swiss the ability to produce simple to extremely complex parts in one machining operation, in which the part comes out of the machine virtually burr free. There is less chance, therefore that a part is damaged in a secondary operation. This reduces their thru-put time and allows them to get the parts to the customer faster, thus reducing their time to market. In the event parts do need a deburring operation, heat treat or a plating process, they have a highly qualified supply chain that they rely on for those processes. As these suppliers are extensions of Pacific Swiss, they review their quality systems annually.

Pacific Swiss is all CNC ‘Multi-Axis’ Swiss machines, and this is very important. Greg said, “we don’t have a secondary operation department. Everything we do comes off the machines complete. Everything is accomplished on the CNC machines and this accentuates our speed to get parts to our customers that helps them to be profitable. This also assures their parts will get to market faster which

is critical for the medical industry.

Pacific Swiss & Manufacturing Inc. has been involved with a number of major medical and electronic manufacturers from product design thru FDA approval and supporting full production. A few of those manufacturers have taken the assembly of their product off shore, either to China, Malaysia or England. These customers have chosen Pacific Swiss to support those global operations. Maintaining their capacity as a global critical component supplier to these customers is a testament to their commitment to quality and customer service. Pacific Swiss supported a major printing company’s assembly plant in Penang, Malaysia with critical plastic components for a number of years. These parts were supplied for the complete life cycle of multiple printer models.

Quality Control

Pacific Swiss is in the process of obtaining ISO certification. Currently their Quality Control manual meets the requirements of MIL-I-45208a and MIL-Q-9858a. It is also ISO and FDA compliant. Quality is constantly monitored on all parts and Jim Motter, their Quality Control Manager handles the AQL samplings for final inspections. The inspection room is temperature

controlled and equipped with an extensive range of inspection tools and gages. Parts are inspected under magnification on one of their many microscopes, Starrett HB350 optical comparator or on their state of the art Keyence IM-6225 non-contact automated dimension

inspection system. Jim states, “The addition of the Keyence non-contact inspection system with auto-recognition capability is key to our future growth. It will reduce the time it takes to inspect parts while giving our customers more inspection data. Once the part features, dimensions and tolerances are programmed into the system, that information will be used on all future inspections. As future parts are run, the parts will be placed on the inspection stage and the auto-recognition system takes over. The part will be recognized by specific features on the part. All measurements will be

taken simultaneously within 10 seconds and the data displayed on the monitor. That data will then be saved to file for use on the final inspection report. SPC charts and Histograms can then be extracted from the recorded data and sent to the customer.”

What’s New With Pacific Swiss?

They have added sales representatives in 4 major territories in the Western United States and they are looking to bring back representation in the Southwest US region. Their plan by the end of 2016 is to have the Western United States covered with specialized teams of outside sales representatives.

Pacific Swiss continues to work with students to help them get


the educational edge needed in today’s manufacturing environment by partnering with the manufacturing department of Clackamas Community College. Students come to Pacific Swiss to complete their Cooperative Work Experience (CWE) of 120 work hours. Pacific Swiss uses the college curriculum and they have their own internal curriculum. This has been a great recruiting method for Pacific Swiss as they have found some exceptional students to work in their business once they have completed their degree program. This work-study program actually allows students to have hands on experience and to see if they really like and want to do this for a living.

The Team at Pacific Swiss is unified in their goals to build the business; Greg Cde Baca is CEO/President, Jim Motter is QA, Jacob Sims in Customer Service, Doug Wilson is Engineering and new part introduction, and Shop Leader Mike Lally all have a combined tenure of over 45 years. Set up operators Justin, Kevin, Nick and Matthew support Doug and Mike unequivocally on the shop floor.

I asked Greg if people like working in his shop. Greg said, “I had 3 of our guys leave for greener pastures and all three came back and love it here. Dental and vision is paid 100% by the company and the employees get a monthly stipend for their medical, and they get free lunch on Fridays! We buy the Team lunch on Fridays as a way of saying thanks for the previous weeks work. The camaraderie is really great here and they all just generally like each other. Greg continued, “We are very focused but we are very flexible, they know when they need to buckle down and get things done and they know when they can be easy going in the shop. My team holds each other accountable and this allows me the freedom to step away from the shop because they know their responsibilities, and they are empowered to make their own decisions. It’s a great feeling to know my guys will take care of every shop and business related task as if it were theirs. I do follow email while I’m gone but I do enjoy a real vacation and feel a great deal of trust in my team to take care of the business.”

Another key ingredient to the Pacific Swiss successful business is their Citizen-Cincom CNC Swiss Machines and their distributor Spinetti Machinery Inc.. Page Spinetti of Spinetti Machinery out of Rocklin, CA takes excellent care of the Pacific Swiss business with local service and exemplary options for finance and tooling. Greg said, “Doing business with Spinetti has been tremendous! They have the best local service with service engineers that are minutes away from our shop when service is required. They are very flexible and very responsive, when we need replacement parts quoted or parts shipped in they make it happen, they are very accessible! That’s one of the things we look for when we buy equipment is the follow up service and accessibility from the distributor. Spinetti continues to be Top Notch!”

Pacific Swiss offers dock-to-stock quality and managed inventory systems for our customers. This gives them the flexibility to place large orders to get best possible pricing, Once parts are in inventory they can be shipped to a predetermined purchase order schedule or shipped on-demand.

Greg knows he needs great team members, great sales reps, and great machines to support his customers. He enlists the best distributor of the best machines, the best educated team members to support the best customers in the world, and it works well.

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“We send Pacific Swiss our smallest work but it is some of our most important work. Not many companies can do what Pacific Swiss does for us and they do it so well. We get good pricing, great delivery, and it’s a pleasure calling them because they are so upbeat. I highly recommend Pacific Swiss to anyone looking for a great Swiss machining company!”

- Engineering for a major US manufacturing company

“ I’ve worked with Pacific Swiss for over 3 years and they bend over backwards for us! They always run a few extra parts for us and stock them and this saves my bacon every time. Packaging is great, customer service is great, and they always exceed my expectations with a high quality product, on time!”

- A Supply Chain Manager at a major US Medical Company

“I’ve worked with Pacific Swiss for a few years now…very good relationship. Flew up to Oregon to see Greg’s shop with a customer and the customer was very at ease with putting work into the shop once they saw how totally organized the shop is. Pacific Swiss is great to work with. They

make great parts, on time, and they are attentive to customer needs.”- Sales Rep, So Cal

“I’ve been doing business with Pacific Swiss for over 5 years and my company has been with them for years before I showed up. We make inspection equipment and Pac Swiss as I call them makes parts that are integral with very tight tolerances. They are one of the best for meeting my requirements. They are flexible, priced right, and very high quality.”

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Machinists Inc. Creates Parts for World’s Largest Underwater Observatory

At 10,000 feet down to the Pacific Ocean floor, off the Washington, Oregon coast, the pressures are incredible. It’s called the Regional Scales Nodes Project, a joint project of the University of Washington and the National Science Foundation. Machinist Inc. is building titanium components for the project, very high pressure cylinders, where the scientists will place their electronic monitoring equipment, and also the titanium frameworks where all these monitoring devices will be placed and installed onto the sea floor.

It is the largest underwater observatory in the world, giving real time data back to the scientists who are watching the movement on those plates. At the same, its giving real time information on things related to climate change, changes to the ocean atmosphere and other affects on ocean life in that area.

Machinist Inc. has been building deep water equipment for a long time, according to MI sales and estimating. MI understands the real world circumstances that impact their customer’s designs and helps them develop workable solutions.

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Autonomous Underwater Vehicles, as they are called, have been in development for the last 20 years or so, but now, are becoming increasingly more prevalent, due to emerging technology. The AUVs are used as real time centurions patrolling under the water.

Machinists Inc. makes primary hulls for AUVs, which can withstand pressures at fairly significant depths. Typically, the AUV is made from titanium, but sometimes aluminum, for units not going as deep. They are basically like a small, unmanned submarine that flies around underwater through the commands of a computer aboard a ship usually that tells it what search area to work in.

They have a function very similar to the high pressure cylinders that MI has done for the other underwater vehicle projects, except for the fact they are independently mobile. MI has made a series of parts, which could be called production units. Those have been tested in the ocean areas where they’ll be working.

MI has completed recent prototypes for a new developing technology. AUVs will be deployed and run around the ocean, not to be retrieved for very long periods of time. AUVs will dock in

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The orders will amount to about $40 billion in new revenue for Lockheed, the Pentagon’s No. 1 supplier, and engine maker Pratt & Whitney, a unit of United Technologies Corp.

The revised procurement numbers will be released when the Pentagon issues its fiscal 2017 budget and the new five-year plan, said the sources, who were not authorized to speak publicly before the budget release.

The change in the Pentagon’s plan for the $391 billion weapons program defers orders for 45 Air Force jets, compared with last year’s plan, while accelerating orders for the Navy and Marine Corps models of the aircraft, the sources said.

The Pentagon still plans to buy a total of 2,457 jets for all three military services in coming years, they added.

The Pentagon’s plan does not include an estimated 260 international F-35 orders over the five-year period, said the sources. Those orders could rise further over the period given potential orders from countries including Finland, Denmark, Belgium and Singapore, the sources said.

The new plan calls for the Air Force to buy 243 F-35 jets through fiscal 2021, 45 fewer than planned, as the service juggles funds to pay for a new long-range bomber to be built by Northrop Grumman Corp, and KC-46A refueling planes to be built by Boeing Co.

It calls for the Navy and Marine Corps to buy 64 F-35C jets, which can take off and land on aircraft carriers, over the next five years, and 97 F-35B jets, which can land like a helicopter, the sources said.

Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced plans to buy 13 more F-35 fighter jets for the Navy and Marine Corps than planned last year, but he did not disclose the total number of jets to be purchased across the department.

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Two Seattle-area companies will be designing and building two 100-passenger cruise ships, a contract worth nearly $95 million.

The two 238-foot ships, in the smaller expedition category of cruise ships, will be built by Nichols Brothers Boat Building on Whidbey Island, and delivered in the second quarters of 2017 and 2018.

The 238-foot ships, to be built on Whidbey Island, will be outfitted for adventure travelers.

The buyer, New York-based Lindblad Expeditions, will operate the ships between Baja, Costa Rica and Panama during the winter, and southeast Alaska, Oregon, Washington and Canada during the summer months.

Designing the ships is Seattle-based Jensen Mar itime, owned by San Francisco-based Crowley Maritime Corp.

The contract demonstrates the continued competitiveness of Washington shipyards in fabricating new vessels. Nichols has long built medium-size work and passenger vessels, with the scale partly determined by the shallow waters of the tidal estuary where the vessels must be launched.

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“These new ships mark an exciting step in the long-term growth of the company, and enable us to capitalize on the substantial demand for our expeditions,” said Sven Lindblad, president and CEO of Lindblad, in a statement.

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Those moves are aimed at filling a shortfall in the number of strike fighters available on aircraft carriers, given delays in the Lockheed F-35 fighter jet program and longer-than-expected repair times for current Boeing F/A-18 jets.

The five-year budget plan calls for Lockheed to sell a total of 161 F-35 fighter jets to the Navy and Marine Corps

- 64 C-model jets that take off and land on aircraft carriers and 97 B-model jets, which can take off from shorter runways and land like a helicopter, according to one of the sources.

Boeing, Lockheed, Northrop Grumman Corp, which makes the unmanned, unarmed X-47B plane that has been tested on U.S. carriers, and privately held General Atomics spent tens of millions of dollars to prepare for the previous tender.

But the program was put on hold in 2014 pending a Pentagon-wide review of intelligence and surveillance programs. Source: Reuters

Boeing Looks To Continue Gresham Jobs-Creating

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Boeing’s Gresham facility helped the company meet its ambitious 2015 goals.

And because of that, the Chicago-based company that’s set a Pacific Northwest manufacturing standard “continues to make investments in our facility for future production rate increases,” a pronouncement that could mean good things for the Portland jobs picture.

The word came as Boeing officials revealed the company slightly beat its own guidance for 2015. Boeing delivered 762 jets among five different models.

Boeing had revealed in 2010 it would spend $100 million to fortify its Portland operations. That strategy came three years after the city of Gresham signed-off on a Boeing request that led to an $80 million investment in the site.

The Gresham Boeing site employs around 1,650 employees who work on complex machining, gear systems and flight controls. It employed 1,500-plus at the site in 2010.

Company leaders said the local facility “produces some of the most critical machined parts and structures for Boeing jetliners.”

Specifically, in 2015, the Portland-area site delivered parts for the company’s 747-8, 767-300 freighter and the 737 MAX. It plans to deliver parts for Chicago-based Boeing’s 777X jet in 2016.

The Puget Sound Business Journal’s analysis of Boeing’s report notes that Boeing had projected delivery of 750 to 755 jets for the year.

The highlight of the report was the 135 twin-engine 787 Dreamliners that Boeing delivered from its facilities in Everett and North Charleston. Boeing had sought to deliver 120 such models.

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Did Northrop Grumman Just Reveal America’s Next Fighter?

The arrow-shaped aircraft in Northrop’s Super Bowl ad could join the armed forces in the 2030s.

We now have an idea of how defense giant Northrop Grumman visualizes America’s first sixth-generation fighter, and it comes from an unlikely source: A Super Bowl

commercial. The plane seen buzzing around during the high-dollar ad may foreshadow the real fighter that will enter service in 15 to 20 years, replacing the F/A-18 Super Hornet and perhaps even the F-22 Raptor.

Even with the U.S. Air Force, Navy, and Marines Corps’ massive commitment to the F-35, the F/A-18 Super Hornet will still make up about half of the Navy’s fighter fleet by the 2030s. And at the same time, the Air Force’s F-22 Raptor will be a 40-year-old design by then, with the youngest aircraft in the fleet twenty years old.

Both services are starting up programs to replace these fighters: the Navy calls its program F/A-XX, while the Air Force’s is called F-X. The two services may even work together to develop a common fighter. Three companies—Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Northrop Grumman can be expected to bid for the new fighter.

While we don’t know what Lockheed’s or Boeing’s plane will look like, the commercial aired during the Super Bowl gives us an idea of what Northrop Grumman would propose. Northrop’s commercial briefly shows three mysterious, futuristic-looking fighters doing aerial acrobatics. The gray-painted fighters appear arrowhead-like, with one long, continuous wing and two engines. The fighters twist around in the sky, revealing large internal weapons bays.

While we’re a long way from hearing specifics about America’s next fighter, we can guess at what technologies will become key parts of the aircraft. For one thing, the fighter will probably be the first with a built-in laser weapon. The weapon could be used in place of a gun or short-ranged missile for dogfighting, and also to shoot down incoming air-to-air missiles.

Another technology is optional manning. The fighter could have a cockpit for a pilot, but on especially hazardous missions could be flown remotely like a drone. Other technologies include sensors built directly into the skin of the aircraft, small drones that can be deployed at near Mach 1, and artificial intelligence.

New threats will drive new requirements for the fighter. The rise of the Chinese Air Force—and the resurgent Russian Air Force—means America needs a fighter optimized for air-to-air combat. The plane probably will be big, as the long distances involved in Europe and Asia and the Pacific require an aircraft with a large internal fuel supply.

Another reason is that the Grumman half of the company has a very long history of producing fighters for the U.S. Navy. Grumman supplied the Navy with carrier aircraft continuously from the FF biplane of the early 1930s to the F-14D Tomcat produced up until the early 2000s. Northrop Grumman also developed the X-47B, the first carrier-based drone.

NASA Rover Marks 12 Years In Service On Mars, Far Past Its Expected Demise

With a little help from Martian dust devils, NASA’s Mars Opportunity rover has


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Musk Moving On Electric Jet

Elon Musk says he’s “close” to developing a “vertical takeoff and landing electric jet” as a practical alternative to conventional aircraft. During a Q&A session with students at Texas A&M last week the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX was asked what his “next great idea” might be and he brought up the design that he first mused about last year. “Well I have been thinking about the vertical takeoff and landing electric jet a bit more,” he told the students.

He first talked about the concept last October in a podcast interview with Marketplace about the future of electric power. “I do like the idea of an electric-aircraft company. I think one could do a pretty cool supersonic, vertical takeoff and landing electric jet,” he said. “That would be really fun … I have a design in mind for that.” “I think, ultimately, seeing is believing. Seeing physical hardware moving and doing useful things, that’s what convinces people.”

W h a t R e c e s s i o n ? Manufacturing Jobs Hit 7-Year High

Apparently, no one told American manufacturers that their business is collapsing, because they kept on hiring more workers in January.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that manufacturing companies added 29,000 workers in January to reach a seven-year high of 12.4 million. After a soft patch in the middle of last year, it was the fourth month in a row that manufacturing payrolls had increased.

It wasn’t just a few sectors that increased employment. Of 79 manufacturing industries, 64% were adding workers.

Not only were factories hiring, they were working their employees longer shifts. Average weekly hours rose a tick to 40.7 hours in January, which is significant because the manufacturing workweek is considered to be one of the best leading indicators for the health of the economy as a whole. Despite the strong dollar, the drop in export orders and the decrease in capital spending, average hours in manufacturing have been roughly unchanged since April.

Factories were also paying their workers more in January. Average hourly pay rose 0.3% or 8 cents to $25.61 an hour. Weekly pay rose by $5.81 to $1,042.33 a week.

It wasn’t supposed to be this way. All we’ve been hearing for the past few months is how terrible manufacturing is doing. Orders for factory goods are falling. Exports are down. Companies aren’t investing in new equipment. The Institute for Supply Management’s widely following index has been in contraction mode for four straight months. If manufacturing is in a recession, it hasn’t hit the workers yet. Source: MarketWatch


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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) opened a competition to award new cooperative funding agreements for its Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) centers in 12 states and Puerto Rico. The competition continues a multiyear effort to update the program’s funding structure to better match manufacturing industry needs with resources in MEP’s nationwide network. The MEP centers help small and mid-sized U.S. manufacturers create and retain jobs, increase profits and save time and money.

The current competition will fund awards for centers in Alabama, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Missouri, Montana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Utah and Vermont.

“MEP continues to play a key role in the resurgence of manufacturing in the United States. These new awards provide resources that will assist U.S. industry in remaining as competitive as possible in the current global environment,” said Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and NIST Director Willie E. May.

The awards provide half of each center’s first-year operating funds, which the centers must match with funding from nonfederal sources. MEP anticipates awarding a total of nearly $39 million for up to 13 centers in these locations.

Established in 1988, MEP is a public-private partnership that delivers a high return on investment to taxpayers. For every one dollar of federal investment, MEP helps businesses generate nearly $19 in new sales growth and $21 in new client investment. This translates into $2.2 billion in new sales annually. For every $1,978 of federal investment, MEP helps create or retain one manufacturing job.

Each MEP center works directly with area manufacturers to provide expertise and services tailored to their most critical needs, ranging from process improvement and workforce development to business practices and technology transfer. Through local and national resources, MEP centers have helped thousands of manufacturers reinvent themselves, increase profits, create jobs and establish a foundation for long-term business growth and productivity.

U.S.-based nonprofit institutions or organizations, including existing MEP centers, are eligible to participate in the competition.

This competition will continue to ensure the process of re-competing the centers in all states will not disrupt the MEP system or degrade its performance. It also will allow for the testing and refinement of procedures, milestones and resource requirements. To date, new awards have been made for centers in 20 states.

MEP will host a webinar for interested parties approximately 15-30 business days from the release of the Federal Funding Opportunity. Full details on the competition and award process can be found in the Federal Register Notice.



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The Line Control Instruments Group has developed equipment that measures the tension on large maritime winches and related equipment.

The structure of the companies –which are housed under a single roof – is complex.

Tim O’Neill is founder and president of Measurement Technology Northwest and president of Engineered Compost Systems. Rick Burke is president of Thermetrics, while Tom Rezanka is president of Rugged Controls.

This approach makes Measurement Technology Northwest Inc. seem more like a collective than a single company.

But to O’Neill, it makes perfect sense.

“The common thread,” O’Neill said, “is that we apply sensors, software and automation to all these different product areas.”

The formula must be working, because the 55-person company, half of them engineers, has grown at a steady 5 percent to 15 percent a year since 2002, with revenues now in the $10 million to $12 million range. About half of the company’s products are exported.

Measurement Technology Northwest’s single biggest business sector is the life-size “thermal manikins,” which the company produces for automobile companies.

Those companies need to know how well their cars’ heating and cooling systems are working, and the manikins are fully fitted with sensors that measure temperature, humidity and air flow across multiple points on the dummy’s body.

Most of them are customized for specific needs, and the company has developed submersible and child models that can supply data that will tell researchers what a human’s experience will be.

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Elizabeth McCullough, co-director for the Institute for Environmental Research at Kansas State University, said her organization depends on the manikins for fabric testing.

“Thermetrics is the leading producer of thermal measuring equipment for textile products,” she said. “I would not recommend anybody else. They are the best by far, and they continue to innovate their thermal equipment.”

In this category — and most of the sectors in which the Measurement Technology Northwest companies operate — the companies are world leaders because their niches are so specialized and technical.

One Chinese company tried to make a knock-off of one of Measurement Technologies garment-testing tools, but was unable to replicate the key sensor technology.

“We look for places where very specific technical knowledge and capabilities, allow us to operate successfully without a lot of competition,” O’Neill said. “In small markets, as a small company, you can do marketing more efficiently.”

Also, O’Neill said as a manufacturer operating in Seattle, the company must produce products that have a high value.

“You can’t manufacture in a high-paying area unless you’re doing high-value products,” he said. “Land prices and wages being what they are here, you have to produce things that have quite a bit of value-add to them.” Source: Puget Sound Business Journal

Siemens Opens Rail-Car Maintenance Facility In Sacramento

Siemens has opened a 60,000 square-foot plant in McClellan Park to repair and maintain rail cars, the global manufacturing company announced.

The leased site will be for refurbishment and accident repair, as well as a delivery space for spare parts. It will serve as the U.S. headquarters for Siemens Mobility Customer Services and its West Coast logistics hub.

“This expansion signals our dedication to servicing and modernizing rail systems across North America while continuing to deliver industry-leading manufacturing expertise,” said Chris Maynard, head of customer service for Siemens Mobility, in a statement.

The new plant will complement operations at the existing Siemens plant in South Sacramento, said company spokeswoman Annie Satow. That facility employs over 800 people and houses manufacturing, design and engineering for light rail and locomotives. Thirty people will be transferred from the South Sacramento facility to the new plant in McClellan Park. Source: Sacramento Business Journal


High-Speed ‘Trees’ Generate Electricity From Wind

Small electromechanical structures that look like trees shaking in a storm could prove to be the next big thing in energy generation.

Research announced by the Ohio State University points to the possibility. There, engineers used mathematical modeling to study realistic ambient vibrations, such as the random motions experienced by the leaves of a tree in high wind. The project was led by Ryan Harne, an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and the director of the Laboratory of Sound and Vibration Research.

Next, he and his team built a practical model. That model was made up of two thin steel beams, one serving as the equivalent of a truck and the other a branch. They were connected by polyvinylidene fluoride, an electromechanical material that could convert movement into electrical energy.

Vibrating the device at high speeds creates a high-energy trick of the eye: while it oscillated at such a high speed that the human eye couldn’t see it moving, it produced a small amount of voltage (0.8 volts). Adding noise to the system – a random ‘nudge’ in the oscillation that varies the

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It might not be a lot of energy right now, but Harne sees it as just a proof-of-concept for something larger.

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Women in Manufacturing™ Launches Community Chapter in California

Women in Manufacturing™ (WiM) is pleased to announce the launch of a community chapter in San Francisco, California. The newly established WiM California Chapter will host an event on Monday, February 22, 2016, from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m. at Carbon’s headquarters in Redwood City, California. This is an opportunity to network with other WiM members and women in the manufacturing industry. WiM President Allison Grealis will kick off the chapter’s first event. WiM California is directed by Dana McCallum, business development manager at Carbon. Dana has a history in manufacturing, beginning her career in injection molding and 3D printing. She also serves as vice president on the board for the Additive Manufacturing Users Group (AMUG).

“I am honored to be a part of the launch for the WiM California Chapter,” said McCallum. “I am a true believer in WiM’s purpose and have a passion for manufacturing as well as networking, so it is exciting to have the opportunity to bring women in California together.”

Kicking off our very first WiM California chapter event as keynote speaker will be Milo Werner, director of new product introduction operations at Fitbit. “We are extremely excited to have Milo, a great leader in manufacturing, share her story with us,” said McCallum.

“We are thrilled to launch our first chapter on the West Coast,” said Allison Grealis, WiM president. “As a growing national organization, we aspire to eventually have a community chapter in every state and our WiM California Chapter is another step towards this goal. Women across the country are seeking an industry support network and I’m proud that Women in Manufacturing is fulfilling this need.” WiM communities are designed to bring together women in their states, allowing them to develop new contacts, participate in local networking events and become an advocate for women in the manufacturing industry—all while simultaneously learning about business development and job opportunities in their communities.Community chapters should typically meet bimonthly and meetings


range in subject matter based on the interests of members. Each community is pioneered and run by a WiM member. Contact Kristin Moore at 216-503-5700 or [email protected] if interested in starting your own WiM community.For more information or to register for the WiM California kickoff meeting , visit the WiM website.

Internet Access Taxes Banned By Congress

The ban was included in a customs enforcement bill that passed the Senate 75-20 and is headed to President Barack Obama for his signature.The technology industry welcomed the permanent ban, which had been in effect on a temporary basis and extended seven times since 1998. Without the legislation, Internet access could be subject to taxes that are imposed on traditional telecommunications services.

“This legislation ensures, once and for all, that hundreds of millions of consumers, students, families and businesses across the country will never have to pay onerous taxes to use the Internet,” said Jay Driscoll, executive director of the ITFA Coalition, which lobbied for the Internet Tax Freedom Act.

“The cost, speed and availability of broadband Internet access should continue to be a national priority, and by making the Internet Tax Freedom Act permanent, we can boost the growth of the Internet and the economic and societal benefits that come with it,” said Daniel Castro vice president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation.The National Retail Federation had hoped a permanent ban on Internet access taxes would be combined with legislation allowing states to collect sales taxes on more Internet purchases. But it endorsed the bill that included the Internet access tax ban, the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act, because faster processing of cargo through customs will benefit retailers.

Manufacturers also stand to benefit from the legislation.“By streamlining procedures that will cut red tape and facilitate legitimate trade, this bill would provide one of the most concrete improvements to our customs and border policies in over a decade,” said Jay Timmons, president and CEO of the National Association of Manufacturers.

The legislation also strengthens trade enforcement mechanisms, particularly on intellectual property, according to the National Foreign Trade Council.


First Image Of Bezos’ Blue Origin Rocket Engine Contains Hints It Will Be Built In

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Jeff Bezos’ new BE-4 rocket engine will be larger than a person, judging from the first photos of the engine’s metal bell.

We can tell the size of the engine from a photo Blue Origin tweeted out, with the engine bell next to a smiling propulsion design engineer. A company contact declined to

share the name of the woman in the photo.

The metal bell next to the woman is where the combustion will place, which will provide the engine thrust. Pumps and ignition equipment will be attached to the apex of the bell, to make it a functioning engine.

The bright metal of the bell suggests it was milled in Kent out of one large piece of metal, or several put together.

When complete, the 500,000-pound-thrust engine will power United Launch Alliance’s forthcoming Vulcan launch vehicle, as well as Blue Origin’s own booster, which will launch from Florida.

While prospects for the BE-4 were knocked back in December, when the omnibus spending bill included a provision lifting a ban on purchasing Russian-built RD-180 engines, that decision may be reversed.

Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona), has introduced new legislation to re-instate the ban, saying: “It is morally outrageous and strategically foolish to ask American taxpayers to subsidize Russia’s military industrial base,” in a Jan. 27 statement.

Blue Origin’s BE-4 engine is to be fueled by natural gas, unlike the current and smaller BE-3 engine, which runs on hydrogen.

If Bezos’ team builds the BE-4 engines at Blue Origin’s Kent headquarters as locals hope, the production will be a significant boost to the region’s growing outer space industry.

Blue Origin’s Kent campus is large – 260,000 square feet on 26 acres – which is plenty of room for full production.

In addition, while the 550,000-pound-thrust engines will be relatively large – about 12 feet high – that’s still not too large to transport.

Last month Blue Origin had multiple Kent job listings on its website, many of them for manufacturing-related engineers. The Florida listings are mostly for launch site developers, suggesting that the company’s manufacturing focus is Kent.Source: Puget Sound Business Journal

After $12.4M Industrial Deal, California Investor Wants To Buy More In Seattle

The Puget Sound area’s industrial market is surging and attracting investors.

The latest to enter the market is Bixby Land Co., a Newport Beach, California-based investor and developer. It has bought two new industrial buildings in Auburn and Sumner from Panattoni Development Co., for a total of $12.4 million. The buildings are fully leased to an aerospace company and a communications firm.

Real estate investors are pouring billions of dollars into the Puget Sound region’s industrial market. Among the latest investors is Bixby Land Co., which is the new owner of this Auburn building, which Tellwork Communications leases.

Spurred by greater Seattle’s strong economy, the region’s industrial market is surging. Big new buildings are going up, but not fast enough to keep up with demand. This has caused rents to rise more than 8 percent in the Kent Valley, and investors like Bixby are flocking here to capitalize. Last year, total sales volume surged 202 percent to $2.4 billion, according to international research firm Real Capital Analytics.

Bixby owns properties in California, Arizona and Nevada, and is now making Seattle “a major focus,” said Bixby Senior Vice President Mike Severson said, who added that the company is looking to buy more assets here.


In Sumner, Bixby bought a 63,768-square-foot building at 14513 32 nd St. E. The tenant is Omada International, a new company that supplies the aerospace industry. Last spring, Omada acquired Carlson Formetec, a Tacoma company that specializes in a technology for forming titanium for aerospace.The Tacoma company, which now operates in a 25,000-square-foot facility, is the second acquisition for Omada. Bixby also acquired a 34,435-square-foot building at 1417 West Valley Highway N. in Auburn. Tellwork Communication is the tenant.

SpaceX Ramping Up Rocket Production

This year’s busy launch schedule has pushed SpaceX to transition its Falcon 9 rocket cores from testing and development to mass production.

SpaceX COO Gwynne Shotwell made the announcement at the Federal Aviation Administration’s Commercial Space Transportation Conference last week. At the conference, Shotwell also said that the company would make several modifications to make the rockets “even more robust” for reuse after examining the Falcon 9 that the company landed in December.

“Now we’re in this factory transformation to go from building six or eight a year to about 18 cores a year,” Shotwell said, according to Gizmodo.

“By the end of this year, we should be at over 30 cores per year.”

The company’s next launch is schedule for Feb. 24 and will put a SES-9 satellite into orbit. Given that the rocket will use nearly all of its fuel — reaching about 35,000 kilometers above the Earth’s surface — SpaceX is expected to again use a drone ship for a landing at sea.

Following the February launch, Shotwell estimates that launches could take place every two to three weeks through the rest of the year, mainly through missions for the International Space Station and the U.S. Air Force.

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NASA’s next crewed spacecraft is now under development and represents a return to the design philosophy of the Apollo era. Stuart Nathan reports

Since the last flight of the Space Shuttle in 2011, there has only been one way to get humans into space: the Soyuz system, using the capsule design that has been in operation since 1968 with only minor changes; the most recent was in 2010 and that module was intended to go out of service the following year. It’s a highly reliable system, but a Soyuz is nobody’s idea of a comfortable place. As those who have visited the Cosmonauts exhibition at London’s Science Museum will know, it’s so cramped that its crew can’t even sit with their legs extended during launch and re-entry. And it can’t get beyond low-Earth orbit.


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NASA’s next crewed spacecraft, Orion, is under development. It passed one major milestone in 2015 with the first flight of a functional model of its crew capsule into Earth orbit and its successful return, and has reached a second with the start of testing of structural test models of its major components, the crew module and service module.

As this implies, Orion represents a return to the design philosophy of the Apollo era. Rather than design another fully reusable system such as the Shuttle, NASA has opted to save money by going for the older, less complex design.

L i ke A p o l l o, Orion consists of a cylindrical service module t h a t h o u s e s t h e c r a f t ’s p r o p u l s i o n system, along with a ir and water for up to four crew, who will sit in a command module in a frustum (truncated cone) shape whose base is a heat shield to protect the crew during re-entry. “This is a design and a shape that we can be completely confident will work,” said Mike Kirasich, NASA’s programme manager for Orion at the agency’s Johnson Space Centre in Houston at an event to welcome the structural model of the service module to NASA’s test site in Sandusky, Ohio.

The Service Module is being supplied by the European Space Agency; the first time NASA has collaborated with the outside agency on a crew-carrying spacecraft. The collaboration is part of the agreement covering the International Space Station, to which ESA contributes ‘in kind’ rather than by financial payments.

The European Service Module (ESM) is based on the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) or ‘Space Truck’, the unmanned craft developed by ESA to resupply the ISS, of which five were built; originally ESA hoped to develop this directly into a crewed craft – the agency’s first – but abandoned this plan when the opportunity arose to become part of the Orion project.

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Experts: Boeing Could Deliver 737 Max Six Months Early

Boeing won’t confirm, but several experts are predicting company will deliver the first of its new 737 Max aircraft, to Southwest Airlines, up to six months early.

In a Wall Street Journal story, writer Jon Ostrower said Boeing may accomplish what he called a “rare feat” in the industry: an early delivery.

“Behind the scenes, industry officials say, Boeing is telling customers it might deliver the jet as much as six months early,” he wrote.

An early delivery would be a significant accomplishment for Boeing, and for its workers, signalling that the 737’s storied dependability is continuing with the new, re-engined model.

Analyst Bjorn Fehrm is among those who foresees first delivery earlier than Boeing’s official projection of third quarter of 2017.

“It will be earlier, barring a major problem cropping up (and the chances are good there will be none,” Fehrm wrote in a digital update of Leeham News, adding that he expects first delivery at least three months — and perhaps six months — earlier than what Boeing previously has said publicly.

To be sure, Boeing still is sticking with its official guidance.

“First delivery of the MAX is still on track for 3Q 2017,” Boeing spokesman Doug Alder said. “There has been no change to that guidance.”

Six months early would still be more than a year from now. That time buffer is far larger than during the flight test period of the 787 Dreamliner, which had just nine months for an extremely difficult regime of flight tests, after it finally first flew in 2009.

In that case, nearly everything about the Dreamliner was new. In the case of the 737 Max, the jet is a proven air frame, well understood by engineers, with the only variations being the new engines, digital cockpit displays, and a few details, including the split winglets and tail cone.

The plane that flew virtually flawlessly last month will be the first delivered. Pilots emerging from the plane last week after the first flight were all smiles.

“It was an unbelievably clean airplane,” chief test pilot Craig Bomben said, referring to the lack of technical problems or surprises. “It flew beautifully.” Source: Puget Sound Business Journal

NASA Electric Propulsion Technology Could Be The Future Of Aviation

At Edwards Air Force Base in California, NASA has been testing a new technology called distributed electric propulsion. “DEP could mean a fundamental shift in how we design aircraft,” said NASA researcher Mark Moore of the Convergent Electric Propulsion Technology Sub-Project based at Langley Research Center. Source: PBS

Air Force Picks Aerojet To Set Standard For 3-D Printed Rocket Parts

Aerojet Rocketdyne is literally going to write the book on 3-D printing of metal parts used for liquid rocket engines.

The Rancho Cordova company announced Tuesday it won a $6 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to define standards for qualifying liquid-fuel rocket components made by additive manufacturing techniques.

Aerojet Rocketdyne announced it won a $6 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to define standards for qualifying liquid-fuel rocket components made by additive manufacturing techniques, which is the metal version of 3D printing.

Aerojet has been testing and using additive manufacturing — the process of layering metal alloys — for two decades.


Aerojet is being tasked to set a standard that defines the engineering and inspection processes to be followed when producing and testing 3-D printed components for critical space missions.

This award is a part of the U.S. Air Force’s migration away from the use of Russian-made RD-180 engines, which are currently used on Atlas V launches for Air Force missions. Aerojet is in the third year of development of an American-made replacement for the RD-180 engine, called the AR1.

Aerojet has shown additive manufacturing cuts costs and reduces manufacturing time, while maintaining quality of precision metal parts. Last year Aerojet hot-fire tested a rocket engine with 5,000 pounds of thrust made entirely with additive manufacturing. Source: Sacramento Business Journal

Are You Ready For The 18-Hour Flight?

The oil embargo of 1973 was a miserable period when American towns banned Christmas lights to save electricity, billboards urged citizens to

“turn off the damn lights” and filling stations dispensed gasoline by appointment only. The crisis got everyone thinking seriously about innovation and energy efficiency. One result: the massive and efficient jet engines that power the world’s longest commercial flights today.

Emirates launched the world’s longest passenger flight between Dubai and Panama City. A westbound Boeing 777-200LR powered by a pair of GE90 engines covers the 8,950 miles that separates them on a single tank of gas in 17 hours and 35 minutes. But that record may soon topple. Qatar Airways just announced plans to launch a 9,034-mile flight lasting 18 hours and 30 minutes between Doha and Auckland in New Zealand. That route would also use a Boeing 777. Finally, United said it would start the longest flight originating at a U.S. airport between San Francisco and Singapore. If approved by regulators, it will be the world’s longest scheduled route flown by a GEnx-powered Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner.

Qatar Airways just announced plans to launch a 9,034-mile flight lasting 18 hours and 30 minutes. Above: A Qatar Airways’s 25th Boeing 787 powered GEnx engines. Images credit: Adam Senatori for GE Reports

These new efficiency benchmarks have their origin in the oil shock. NASA, in particular, began a quest to develop an energy-efficient engine for commercial aircraft known as the E3 (E-cubed) program. GE joined

early on and developed a new generation of high-bypass turbofan engines starting with the GE90. It has since added the GEnx for the Dreamliner and 747-8, and the GE9X engine, which is currently in development.

To reduce weight, GE equipped the engines with light, carbon-fiber composite fan blades. To this day no other engine maker has engines with composite fan blades in service today. (The design for the GE90 was so fetching that one blade is now on display inside New York’s Museum of Modern Art.). “This was a huge, expensive and risky project,” says Shridhar Nath, who leads the composites lab at GE Global Research. “We planned to replace titanium with what is essentially plastic. We were starting from scratch and we did not know how carbon fiber blades would respond to rain, hail, snow and sand, and the large forces inside the engine.”

The GEnx engine has 18 fan blades made from lightweight carbon fiber composites. GE Aviation by Tomas Kellner

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New Power Generation: GE-Alstom Energy Deal Redefines Power Industry In Coming

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GE completed its acquisition of Alstom’s power and grid business today. The transaction, GE’s largest industrial deal ever, unites two storied businesses with roots stretching to the very dawn of the power industry more than a century ago and to its pioneering founders Thomas Edison and Elihu Thomson.

GE has been transforming itself into the world’s largest digital industrial company. With Alstom’s power and grid global footprint, GE will be able to apply big data analytics to an even larger installed base to reduce unplanned downtime and improve performance of turbines, power plants, wind farms, and the grid.

“The completion of the Alstom power and grid acquisition is another significant step in GE’s transformation,” said Jeff Immelt, chairman and CEO, GE. “The complementary technology, global capability, installed base, and talent of Alstom power and water will further our core industrial growth. We are open for business and ready to deliver one of the most comprehensive technology offerings in the energy sector for our customers.”

The Haliade turbine developed by Alstom has a rotor diameter of 150 meters – one and a half times the length of a football field. Image credit: GE Power & Water

Some 1.3 billion people don’t have access to reliable electricity today. The International Energy Agency’s 2014 World Energy Outlook estimates the world needs to add some 7,200 gigawatts (GW) of power generating capacity by 2040 to meet new demand and replace old plants. Two thirds of that growth will be in non-OECD countries, including places like China when Alstom had a big presence.

The acquisition boosts GE’s installed power generation base to some 1,800 gigawatts (GW). That’s more than enough to supply all of U.S.

The company will also be able to improve its power plant design and greatly expand its grid business. With Alstom, it now has the grid footprint and scale to compete globally. Alstom, for example, supplied equipment to the world’s largest transmission line, the Linhão do Madeira in Brazil. The 2,380-kilometer (1,480 miles) long line runs from the Amazonian state of Rondônia to the state of São Paulo in the southeast, and includes 20,000 kilometers (12,400 miles) of cable held aloft by 5,000 steel towers.

Software analytics applied to data coming from a huge installed base will help GE and customers reduce unplanned downtime and improve performance of turbines, power plants, wind farms and the grid.

The will deal will also leave GE with one of the broadest and deepest renewable energy portfolios in the industry. While GE has been a leader in


onshore wind, the acquisition will allow GE to expand into offshore wind. For example, GE acquired the massive Haliade wind turbines that will power America’s first offshore wind farm off the coast of Block Island, RI.

Bryan Martin, head of U.S. private equity at D.E. Shaw & Co. — which is backing the offshore wind farm — says combining Alstom’s wind turbines and GE’s power generation into a single company changes the wind farm competitive landscape. “GE and Alstom getting together creates the first real competitor to Siemens” for offshore wind farms in Europe, Martin says.

The company also believes that the GE Store — the concept that knowledge and inventions fuel further innovation and applications across the company’s varied industrial sectors as workers in different businesses share their expertise and technology — will also benefit from the combined firm. GE expects $3 billion in savings from synergies in year five of the merger.

The deal closed after receiving regulatory approval in over 20 countries and regions including the E.U., U.S., China, India, Japan and Brazil.

The ties between the two companies predate the creation of GE itself. The name Alstom (originally Alsthom) itself underscores the links between the two firms. The name is a mash-up of the Société Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques (giving “Als” to the name) and the Thomson-Houston Electric Company (the “thom” of the original moniker).

General Electric inventors Elihu Thomson and Charles Steinmetz, on a street in Boston, Massachusetts.

Elihu Thomson and GE engineer Charles Steinmetz, whose power grid designs helped electrify America, on a street in Boston, Mass. Image credit: Museum of Innovation and Science Schenectady

The two firms merged in 1928. Thomson-Houston was a predecessor to General Electric. In 1892, it merged with the Edison General Electric Company to form GE.


The Manufacturer’s Secret Weapon

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We all have enjoyed music at one time or another, be it on the radio, a home sound system, or at a club or concert. But unless we are musicians, or work in the music business, few of us pause to ponder how music reaches our ears. Ever since Les Paul revolutionized the guitar’s sound and created the multi-head recorder, sound engineers have been on the move, improving, manipulating, purifying and delivering music to our ears. And for 35 years the folks at RANE Corporation have been doing it well and at the speed of technology.

Founded and incorporated in 1981, RANE’s four founders set up shop in Mountlake Terrace, Washington. Right away they made their mark in the industry by blowing away the competition with their versions of a headphone amplifier, an equalizer with real time analyzer, a mixer of live sound and a rugged six channel amplifier for commercial installations. These units provided both superior sound quality and equipment longevity at a midrange price point thus guaranteeing their long-term future in the marketplace. In the first two years RANE designed and shipped eight new products, four of which are still in production today, with the HC6 headphone amplifier being one of the original four.

Now nestled in the trees of Mukilteo, WA, RANE is a bustling hive of activity, creating and assembling a bevy of mixers, DJ platforms, and specialty controllers and related equipment. RANE products have found homes in prestigious locations such as Churchill Downs, Abercrombie & Fitch,

G r e a t Wo l f Lodge, Hollister, Victoria’s Secret, and the Pan A m C e n t r e in Markham, O n t a r i o , Canada. RANE p l a t f o r m s are used by a plethora of DJ greats the likes of Grandmaster F l a s h , K i d Kola, and Paul Oakenfold, and

performer Blake Lewis and audio producer and engineer Bil VornDick. It can be said that RANE keeps “sound company.”

The SMH Inc. connection: Two years ago the RANE engineering team and SMH Inc. came together at the perfect time – while RANE was conceptualizing the DR6 controller.

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Leonardo da Vinci Exhibition

The Science Museum is the latest venue for a touring exhibition originating with the French organisation for public science communication, Universcience, and Milan’s Museo della Scienza e della Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci (MUST). Entitled ‘Leonardo da Vinci: The Mechanics of Genius’, it presents 39 models of the machines Leonardo designed, including flying machines, weapons and tools. In doing so, it presents a side of the archetypal Renaissance man that many people will not be familiar with, and one that engineers in particular will find fascinating.

Today, we think of Leonardo (as he’s invariably known; never call him da Vinci, especially if you’re within earshot of a Renaissance scholar) primarily as an artist. We know he was a polymath, and his anatomical studies are well-known (although even those are more often l inked to their use a s r e s e a r c h for ar t than anything else). What becomes clear from the exhibition is that Leonardo was, possibly above all other things, an engineer. That was how he made his living: the princes who paid his salary might have commissioned the odd fresco from him, but it was his machines they were really after.

Living in 15th century Italy, Leonardo’s world was one of city-states that were constantly at war with each other, and Leonardo spent a lot of his time compiling what we might see as prospectuses to show prospective employers what he could do for them in defending their own citizens and massacring those of their neighbours (you could easily draw parallels with the preoccupations of today’s politicians). An important part of these documents were designs for siege engines and weapons; and it’s clear that these were as much to terrify the enemy as anything else. One of the first objects in the exhibition is a huge crossbow, placed vertically and about three metres high. From Leonardo’s drawings, we can see this is a scale model: he intended the actual thing to be the height of a house, and its purpose was

to fire flaming projectiles into the midst of the enemy. Leonardo’s letters often talk of the damage and great injury his designs could cause, but they also make a point of stressing the panic and terror they would inspire. Clearly Leonardo would have completely understood the deterrent theory of today’s nuclear states. You’d only have to see a house-sized crossbow once before you ran like hell.

Leonardo didn’t build these machines; but what he did do was draw them. He drew everything. “Nobody drew machines like Leonardo; his designs have an incredible vivacity that still speaks to us today,” explained Martin Kemp, emeritus professor of the history of art at Oxford University, one of the world’s leading authorities on Leonardo and a guest at the exhibition viewing. It wasn’t just the way the machines looked on paper that was so revolutionary, Kemp added: it was the thinking and analysis behind them, and the methods

Leonardo invented to depict them.

F o r L e o n a r d o , invention began with observation. Aged 20, his first proper job was as an apprentice in a workshop on the enormous building site for Florence’s c a t h e d r a l , t h e Duomo. We know that he was involved

in the construction of a huge metal sphere that now sits on top of the cathedral’s crowning dome, but he would have been familiar with the machines on the site, such as the cranes that were being used to lift the dressed stones, designed by the artist/architect Brunelleschi. He observed them, and he drew them. “He visualised things, understood things and drew things in three dimensions, so they appear as solid objects,’ Kemp said. “but the point about that is that sometimes important parts of the mechanism would be hidden behind something closer to the observer. So Leonardo drew what he called elementi but we would think of as components: detailed diagrams of how the mechanisms worked and the parts they were made up from. Nobody had done that before.” What is now very familiar to us as an exploded diagram was pioneered by Leonardo.

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One of the things that marked Leonardo out was his curiosity. It’s clear that he sought out mathematicians, talked to them and read their texts, and his machines are based on a rigorous understanding of their underlying principles (or at least as rigorous as the science of the time allowed; Leonardo didn’t know much trigonometry, Kemp noted, because the Ancient Greek texts on the subject weren’t translated into Italian at the time.) He also experimented throughout his life, into phenomena such as the properties of materials and friction, using instruments he designed himself. The exhibition includes models of instruments he used in his investigations of his lifelong obsession with flight, including an anemometer consisting of a flexible flap that the wind would blow against a curved scale to indicate its speed, and a hygrometer, consisting of a balance that weighed a wax sphere against a piece of wadding of equal weight when dry, but which would become heavier as it absorbed moisture from the atmosphere. They are brilliant pieces of instrumentation engineering, and as curator Jim Bennet, an emeritus keeper at the Science Museum who worked on the exhibition pointed out, completely unprecedented.

Bennet worked on the Science Museum’s contribution to the exhibition: a series of small mechanical models produced in 1952 for an exhibition to mark the 500th anniversary of Leonardo’s birth, which was staged at the Royal Academy and was the forerunner of the blockbuster art shows we know at the Academy today (if any of our readers remember this show, we’d love to hear from them). The other models in the exhibition were made for MUST, also in the 1950s; but the British ones, commissioned from a company in Wimbledon called Goacher Model Engineering, came first, Bennett said. He writes about them here. ‘We are claiming some primacy here,’ he said. Much smaller than the Italian models, the Goacher set is labelled ‘Leonardo for a time of austerity’, reflecting post-War Britain’s lack of funds.

The Science Museum’s Keeper Emeritus Jim Bennet, pictured in the “Leonardo da Vinci: The Mechanics of Genius” exhibition.The Science

Museum’s Keeper Emeritus Jim Bennet © Science Museum.

The distinction we see between engineer and artist simply didn’t exist in Leonardo’s time, Bennet told me; our view of him today is coloured by the fact that the artwork survives whereas the machines didn’t. Never in charge of his own workshop, Leonardo would have known that most of his designs would never be built. There is no physical trace today of the completed engineering works that we do know of from his journals, such as a sluice that formed part of the defences of Venice; and the precious drawings were not known until relatively recently. Bennett thinks that it’s more a Victorian hangover than a modern view: art was seen as much higher status in the 19th century, and engineering had the taint of ‘trade’ about it.

Martin Kemp said that Leonardo saw his role as being ‘a second Nature.’ “He looked at what was around him, understood it very often by drawing it, and then took the principles he had learned and used them to create something new. When he was designing a flying machine, he knew that you couldn’t copy feathers; you had to understand how they worked, how they created lift, and then devise something that did the same thing.” Kemp added that Leonardo knew full well that his ornithopter

– a flying machine with flapping wings operated by a pilot pulling levers – would never fly because of the power-to-weight ratio; after 1500 he switched to designing hang-gliders, but even these incorporate a mechanism to spread the wing-tips to improve their flight characteristics.

Macchine per il voloBy 1500, Leonardo had abandoned impractical ornithopters and switched to designing hang-gliders, but he still couldn’t resist biomimimcry and mechanisms. © Archivio Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci – Alessandro Nassiri

Equally, some of the machines were just for show. The famous screw-aerofoil helicopter was a novelty designed as an entertainment (an important part of Leonardo’s role at court); equally, a self-propelled vehicle driven by the energy stored in crossbow-like components wasn’t a weapon, but was intended to carry the figures of gods in an elaborate court masque. Incidentally, this sort of thing was going on all over Europe; England’s own Renaissance prince, Henry VIII, employed Hans Holbein the Younger in a similar role (as well as painting stunning portraits, he designed salt cellars and stage sets). Stuart Nathan, The Engineer Editor


How Software Can Eat The Energy Industry And Help Save The World

.As we enter the 4th Industrial Revolution, technological innovations — particularly advances in software — are increasingly being used to address some of the world’s most pressing issues. Perhaps nowhere is software’s ability to solve our most difficult challenges more apparent than in energy. Big Data, artificial intelligence, machine learning and the Internet of Things (IoT) are enabling us to transform the electric grid — making it cleaner, more affordable and more reliable.

It is true that software can’t actually generate electricity. But it can allow us to maximize the value of the power we generate through effective use of data. In doing so, we can reduce our dependence on dirty fossil fuels, improve the effectiveness of energy efficiency, renewable energy and

energy storage technologies, and create a more efficient, carbon-free electric grid. Software will turn data into a new source of power. This transformation will allow us to cost-effectively extend the benefits of electricity to the 1.1 billion people in the developing world without access to reliable electricity and accelerate our transition to a fossil-fuel free economy. When it comes to energy, software will not eat the world — it will help save it.

The need to transform our electric grid — reducing greenhouse gasses associated with energy generation while extending energy access to those in the developing world — is urgent. Left unchecked, climate change will cause a massive amount of economic and humanitarian damage. The difference in climate damage costs between low (1.5°C) warming and high (4.5°C) warming scenarios could be as high as $50 trillion, according to Citibank. The World Health Organization expects that, between 2030 and 2050, climate change will cause approximately 250,000 additional deaths per year from malnutrition, malaria, diarrhea and heat stress.

Moreover, though we have made strides in reducing global poverty, we still need to extend access to reliable and affordable electricity if we hope to continue to increase the income and improve the living standards of millions of people living in the developing world. To put it simply, if we want to sustain the economic progress the world has achieved since the dawning of the industrial revolution, and foster a 4th Industrial Revolution, transformation of our electric grid is essential. The potential for

the energy transformation is clear, as GE’s Global Innovation Barometer illustrates, with 61 percent of citizens surveyed saying the industry could benefit greatly from the digital revolution.

There is no doubt that new renewable energy, energy storage and electricity distribution technologies will be needed to enable this transformation. However, software will also play a critical role in making the grid cleaner, more affordable and more reliable.

One area that software can particularly help is in maximizing the efficiency of the grid. The amount of energy we currently waste is stunning — with more than 30 percent of the energy used inside buildings being wasted due to activities such as the lighting and cooling of empty rooms, according to the EPA. We can use software to lower the amount of energy we waste or use inefficiently. Software connected to IoT device sensors and controls


can unobtrusively turn off or down Internet-connected appliances and devices, dramatically reducing energy use. In the U.S., utilities such as Austin Energy, the City of Palo Alto Utilities and Bonneville Power Administration are using software to implement programs that can curb power demand for air conditioning by 30 percent or more. Customers do not notice any change (except for a lower monthly bill), while they can avoid adding hundreds of megawatts from new power plants.

Software can also help maximize the effectiveness of renewable energy, energy storage and other distributed energy assets. Utilities can now forecast, optimize and control these assets, helping them better balance energy supply and demand. With this flexibility, they can integrate more intermittent renewable energy into their generation portfolios, tapping into other sources of energy if there is a drop in renewable energy generation. Moreover, because the software can anticipate peaks and valleys in renewable energy generation, they can reduce unnecessary energy storage system discharge cycles

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The most farsighted enterprises have mastered five unconventional practices for building and using distinctive capabilities.

by Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi Almost every business today faces major strategic challenges. The path to creating value is seldom clear. In an ongoing global survey of senior executives conducted by Strategy&, PwC’s strategy consulting business, more than half of the 4,400 respondents said they didn’t think they had a winning strategy. In another survey of more than 500 senior executives around the world, nine out of 10 conceded that they were missing major opportunities in the market. In the same survey, about 80 percent of those senior executives said that their overall strategy was not well understood, even within their own company.

These problems are not caused simply by external forces. They are the outcome of the way most companies are managed. In all too many businesses there is a significant and unnecessary gap between strategy and execution: a lack of connection between where the enterprise aims to go and what it can accomplish.

Yet a few companies seem to have this problem solved. They naturally combine strategy and execution in everything they do. These companies seem to make the right choices about what type of value to offer and how to deliver it — and those choices often run contrary to the conventional wisdom of the industry.

For example: A European retailer–manufacturer sells stylish, functional, inexpensive furniture so that people at any income level can more easily improve their lives. Its large retail stores are designed so shoppers can comfortably spend a whole day there, eating in the store’s restaurant and leaving their children in its play area. The enterprise has remarkable capabilities, including an innovative manufacturing process and supply chain; a proficiency in designing attractive furniture that ships in a flat box; and an ability to develop keen insights about the way customers live at home, and to translate those insights into new products. This rapidly growing enterprise, of course, is IKEA. In 2014, IKEA had 361 retail stores in 46 countries, with total annual revenues of €30.1 billion (about US$40 billion).

Another example is a Brazilian purveyor of high-quality, natural personal-care products. Its identity, captured by the Portuguese slogan bem estar bem (“well-being, being well”) celebrates health and quality of life at every age, rather than a forever-young ideal of beauty. The company has built a network of 1.5 million direct sales consultants, who have close relationships with seemingly every woman in Brazil. To give those consultants a reason to visit their customers every few weeks, the company has developed a proficiency in rapid-fire innovation, releasing more than 100 new products every year. It demonstrates respect for nature and local communities by sourcing many raw materials from remote villages in the Amazon rain forest, and by using its business skills to help make those regions economically and environmentally sustainable. You may not have heard of Natura Cosméticos unless you live in Latin America, but it is the largest personal-care products company in that region. It had revenues of 7.4 billion reals (about US$2.6 billion) in 2014.

Another case is a U.S. enterprise known for buying industrial and technological companies, reframing the way its member businesses operate, and managing them for profitability. It has developed its own rigorous day-to-day disciplines for managerial excellence and continuous improvement. The Danaher Corporation, named after the founders’ favorite fishing creek, is recognized among management experts for its remarkable performance and its phenomenal M&A success rate. It had revenues of about US$19.9


billion in 2014. (See “Danaher’s Instruments of Change,” moderated by George Roth and Art Kleiner, s+b, Spring 2016.)

Several other well-known enterprises, including Apple, Haier, Industria de Diseño Textil (Inditex, known for its Zara brand), Lego, Qualcomm, and Starbucks, have also closed the strategy-to-execution gap. These companies are all idiosyncratic; at first glance, they seem to have little in common, and they are rarely thought of together. And yet, they have all built the kind of differentiating capabilities that give them a major strategic advantage.

In our previous book, The Essential Advantage: How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy (Harvard Business Review Press, 2011), we described the financial advantage that companies enjoy when they build their business around a clear, coherent identity: a few distinctive capabilities aligned with their value proposition and their lineup of products and services. It’s not enough to simply have good capabilities; every company has them. To sustain success you have to have capabilities that are truly superior, and distinctive enough that others cannot copy them. When you have several such capabilities reinforcing one another, you will be able to both differentiate yourself from and consistently execute better than your competitors.

Distinctive capabilities are not easy to build. They are complex and expensive, with high fixed costs in human capital, tools, and systems. How then do businesses such as IKEA, Natura, and Danaher design and create the capabilities that give them their edge? How do they bring these capabilities to scale and generate results?

To answer these questions, we conducted a study between 2012 and 2014 of a carefully selected group of extraordinary enterprises that were known for their proficiency, for consistently doing things that other businesses couldn’t do. From dozens suggested to us by industry experts, we chose a small group, representing a range of industries and regions, that we

could learn about in depth — either from published materials or from interviews with current and former executives. The 14 we studied are Amazon, Apple, CEMEX, Danaher, Frito-Lay (the snack foods enterprise within PepsiCo), Haier, IKEA, Inditex, the JCI Automotive Systems Group (the seat-making division of Johnson Controls Inc., since renamed the Automotive Experience Group), Lego, Natura, Pfizer (specifically its consumer healthcare business, sold to Johnson & Johnson in 2006), Qualcomm, and Starbucks.


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Contracts: Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, Marietta, Georgia, is being awarded a not-to-exceed $141,936,871 value firm-fixed-price, undefinitized contract action for the P-3B modernization program for the government of Greece, which will provide an extension of service life by 15,000 flight hours. This contract provides for the reactivation of one P-3B aircraft and the procurement of hardware kits for the upgrade/modernization of four P-3B aircraft to support a structural mid-life upgrade. In addition, this contract provides for phased depot maintenance; a Greece indigenous mission integration and management system; new avionics; and other ancillary hardware and services. Work will be performed Marietta, Georgia (62 percent); Athens, Greece (15 percent); Schimatari, Greece (13 percent); Baltimore, Maryland (9 percent); and Greenville, South Carolina (1 percent), and is expected to be completed in July 2019. Foreign military sales funds in the amount of $26,514,460 will be obligated at time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured pursuant to 10 U.S. Code 2304(c) (4). The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Lakehurst, New Jersey, is the contracting activity (N68335-16-C-0125).

Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded an $81,386,343 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for requirements decomposition and development of Block 4 modernization program capabilities in support of the F-35A/B/C aircraft. This contract includes new and upgraded capabilities to provide enhancements and continuous improvements to maintain viability against evolving threats, reduce life cycle costs, and improve operational suitability. Work will be performed in Fort Worth, Texas, and is expected to be completed in May 2017. Fiscal 2015 research, development, testing and evaluation (Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force) and non-U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)

participant funds in the amount of $55,705,494 are being obligated on this award, $35,990,124 of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract combines purchases for the Marine Corps ($4,164,539; 5.12%); Navy ($6,611,354; 8.12%); Air Force ($25,214,231; 30.98%); and non-U.S. DoD participants ($19,715,370; 24.22%). This contract was not competitively procured pursuant to 10 U.S. Code 2304(c)(1). The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting authority (N00019-16-C-0008).

Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded not-to-exceed $47,000,000 for undefinitized delivery order 0026 against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N00019-14-G-0020). This order provides for non-recurring effort and integration tasks required to operate a hardware-in-the-loop laboratory used to build, modify, verify and validate, and distribute mission data file sets for the F-35. This contract will deliver modification kits to upgrade the RC West Block 3i Verification Validation Station to the Block 3F, 3F+, and 3F Digital Channelized Receiver/Technique Generator and Tuner Insertion Program configurations, and provide engineering support during the installation and integration of the modification kits, verification and validation test venue support in support of the F-35A aircraft for the governments of Japan and Israel, under the Foreign Military Sales program. Work will be performed in Fort Worth, Texas (53 percent); Orlando, Florida (25 percent); Nashua, New Hampshire (18 percent); El Segundo, California (2 percent); and San Diego, California (2 percent), and is expected to be completed in September 2021. Foreign Military Sales funds in the amount of $12,000,000 are being obligated on this award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.





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Cutting Tool Control Inc. ____ 206-617-2201King Machine Inc. _______ 509-435-6741OGP _____________ 480-889-9056Rosco Precision Machinery __ 206-818-6813S.L. Fusco San Leandro ____ 510-895-9000S.L. Fusco R. Dominguez ___ 310-868-1010S.L. Fusco National City ____ 619-477-7733Swift Tool Co, Inc. ______ 800-562-0900Verisurf ____________ 714-381-2322

3D CAD for CMMVerisurf ____________ 714-381-2322

CMM ProbesOGP _____________ 480-889-9056

Coordinate Measuring Mach.OGP _____________ 480-889-9056

Laser TrackersMetrology Instruments

OGP _____________480-889-9056Optical Comparators

OGP _____________480-889-9056Particle Inspection Mach

DCM Tech ___________800-533-5339INSURANCE

Business Insurance SolutionsLaPorte Insurance _______ 971-404-3768Sentry Insurance _______ 877-373-6879

MACHINERY/MACHINE TOOLSBoring Mills

Rosco Precision Machinery __ 253-333-2439Bridgeport Parts

Desert EDM __________ 480-816-6300CNC Controls & Retro Fits

Rosco Precision Machinery __ 253-333-2439CNC Lathes

Automatics & Machinery Co., Inc 303-990-6190Chevalier USA _________ 562-903-1929CNC Machine Services _____ 206-999-3232Desert EDM __________ 480-816-6300Ellison Technologies ______ 206-669-3578Ganesh Machinery ______ 888-542-6374Gosiger ____________ 937-586-5067King Machine Inc. _______ 509-435-6741Machine Toolworks ______ 800-426-2052Methods Machine Tools Inc. __ 714-292-9384North-South Machinery ____ 253-333-2439North Western Machinery ___ 206-583-2333Romi Machine Tools, Ltd ____480-510-4146

Rosco Precision Machinery __ 253-333-2439Santa Cruz Electronics _____ 831-479-5444Selway Machine Tool ______503-314-3165Selway Machine Tool _____ 425-931-1680

3 , 4, & 5 Axis CNC MillsAutomatics & Machinery Co., Inc 303-990-6190Bixby Machine Tool Supply __509-534-1208Chiron America ________ 704-534-5436CNC Machine Services _____ 206-999-3232Desert EDM ___________480-816-6300Ellison Technologies ______ 206-669-3578Ganesh Machinery ______ 888-542-6374Gosiger ____________ 937-586-5067King Machine Inc. _______ 509-435-6741LMI Machinery Inc. ______ 866-437-7315Machine Toolworks ______ 800-426-2052Methods Machine Tools Inc. __ 714-292-9384North-South Machinery ____ 253-333-2439North Western Machinery ___ 206-583-2333Romi Machine Tools, Ltd ____480-510-4146Rosco Precision Machinery __ 253-333-2439Santa Cruz Electronics _____831-479-5444Selway Machine Tool ______503-314-3165Selway Machine Tool _____ 425-931-1680

CNC 3 & 5 Axis Routing MachinesEllison Technologies ______ 206-669-3578

CNC Swiss Turn MachinesAutomatics & Machinery Co., Inc 303-990-6190CNC Machine Services _____ 206-999-3232Ellison Technologies ______ 206-669-3578Ganesh Machinery ______ 888-542-6374

Gosiger ____________ 937-586-5067King Machine Inc. _______ 509-435-6741LMI Machinery Inc. _______ 866-437-7315Machine Toolworks _______800-426-2052Methods Machine Tools Inc. __ 714-292-9384North-South Machinery _____253-333-2439North Western Machinery ____206-583-2333

Custom Design/Build MachinesLambie Engineering _______509-868-3100

Dot Peen MarkersKwik Mark Inc _________ 815-363-8268

EDM AutomationMethods Machine Tools Inc. __ 714-292-9384

ONA EDM USA _______ 602-328-0881EDM Die Sinking Machines

Desert EDM ___________480-816-6300Methods Machine Tools Inc. __ 714-292-9384

ONA EDM USA _______ 602-328-0881EDM Filtration

EDM Network _________ 480-836-1782Methods Machine Tools Inc. __ 714-292-9384

EDM MachinesCNC Machine Services _____ 206-999-3232Current EDM, Inc. ________612-840-0037Desert EDM ___________480-816-6300EDM Network _________ 480-836-1782Methods Machine Tools Inc. __ 714-292-9384North-South Machinery ____ 253-333-2439

EDM Drilling & Micro Hole Machines

CNC Machine Services _____ 206-999-3232

FAB-LINE

MACHINERY, LLC

Robert Herling

West Coast Regional

Sales Manager

1900 EAST TYLER ROAD

BUILDING 800

ST. CHARLES, IL 60174 USA

1-866-466-8298

OFFICE 630-587-0505

CELL 206-972-6215

E-MAIL [email protected]

www.fab-line.com

763.682.0322763.682.3122763.682.3954

[email protected]

Brandon AndersonVon Ruden Manufacturing, Inc.

DIRECT:PHONE:

FAX:MOBILE:E-MAIL:

1008 First Street NE - PO Box 699 - Buffalo, MN 55313 USA www.live-tooling.com

Made in Italy

Since 1922

Made in ItalyDriven Tooling for the Machine Tool Industry

GROUPISO 9001:2008 Certified

Ray ElledgeSales Manager

Verisurf Software, Inc.4907 E. Landon DriveAnaheim, CA 92807www.verisurf.com

O�ce +1(714) 970-1683 x107 Mobile +1(714) 381-2322 [email protected]

Verisurf Software, Inc. 4907 E. Landon DriveAnaheim, CA 92807www.verisurf.com

David OlsonDirector of Sales & Marketing

888.713.7201 714.970.1683 x39

[email protected]

Toll FreePhoneFax

Northwest Regional Manager

EMKA Incorporated 1961 Fulling Mill Road Middletown, PA 17057 Phone: (717) 986-1111 Fax: (717) 986-1080 www.emkausa.com [email protected]

Manufacturer of Industrial Hardware

Industries Served: HVAC, Transportation, Data Center, Oil and Gas, Commercial Vehicles, Telecommunications, etc.

660 W. Palm Ave El Segundo, CA 90245 Cell: (310) 529-2199 Fax: (310) 333-0710 [email protected]

Chuck Pinkham Regional Sales Manager

Doug BanksSales Manager

Cell: 503-351-8692Office: 800.523.2549Fax: 503.620.191117605 SW 65th Ave.Lake Oswego, Or. [email protected]

Michael GarverSales Manager

GOSIGER NORTHWEST21911 68TH Ave SouthKent, WA 98032T 253.826.3921C 253.508.4771E [email protected]

Exclusive provider of OKUMA

Kristin Barsch Office Manager

[email protected] | mobile: 123.456.7890 | 800.542.2125

5515 SE Milwaukie Ave. Portland, Oregon 97202

CA 123456CA OF75327

Larry W. Johnson, MBA, CIC Account Executive

[email protected]

5515 SE Milwaukie Ave. Portland, Oregon 97202

971.404.3768


www.kdcapital.com480-922-1674

Kwik Mark Inc

www.kwikmark.com

Dot Peen Marking Systems

Phone 815 363 8268Fax 815 363 [email protected]

Kwik Mark Inc4071 Albany Street

McHenry IL 60050

Current EDM, Inc. ________612-840-0037Methods Machine Tools Inc. __ 714-292-9384

EDM ServiceEDM Network _________ 480-836-1782

ONA EDM USA _______ 602-328-0881EDM Tooling Systems

Desert EDM __________ 480-816-6300EDM Network _________ 480-836-1782Global EDM Supply ______ 800-676-7336

Equipment Financing

Pacific Continental Bank ___ 503-310-3604Scottrade Bank Equip. Finance_ 206-948-0022U.S. Bank Equipment _____ 800-810-0038

Gantry & Bridge SystemsEllison Technologies ______ 206-669-3578CNC Machine Services _____ 206-999-3232

Horizontal Boring & Milling Machines (CNC )

CNC Machine Services _____ 206-999-3232Rosco Precision Machinery __ 253-333-2439

Jig BoringMethods Machine Tools Inc. __ 714-292-9384

LathesBixby Machine Tool Supply __ 509-534-1208CNC Machine Services _____ 206-999-3232Desert EDM ___________480-816-6300 King Machine Inc. ________509-435-6741Rosco Precision Machinery __ 253-333-2439

Long Bed & Dual MachiningChiron America ________ 704-534-5436

Manual Mills And LathesGanesh Machinery ______ 888-542-6374Machine Toolworks ______ 800-426-2052North Western Machinery ___ 206-583-2333Swift Tool Co, Inc. ______ 800-562-0900

Multi-Spindle MachiningChiron America ________ 704-534-5436

Parts WashingGosiger ____________ 937-586-5067

Profile & Bar MachiningChiron America ________ 704-534-5436

Sawing MachinesBixby Machine Tool Supply __509-534-1208CNC Machine Services _____ 206-999-3232Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. __ 503-620-9031North-South Machinery ____ 253-333-2439North Western Machinery ___ 206-583-2333Performance Machine Tools __ 510-249-1000Rocky Mountain Saw Blades _ 303-761-3000Rosco Precision Machinery __ 206-818-6813

Saw Replacement PartsCNC Machine Services _____ 206-999-3232Rocky Mountain Saw Blades _ 303-761-3000SawBlade.com ________ 800--240-2932

SawsFahey Machinery Co., Inc. __ 503-620-9031King Machine Inc. _______ 509-435-6741

Sub Spindle LathesRosco Precision Machinery __ 253-333-2439

Turning CentersCNC-PROS ___________ 602-344-9753

Used Wire EDM MachinesCurrent EDM, Inc. _______ 612-840-0037Desert EDM __________ 480-816-6300EDM Network _________ 480-836-1782

MATERIALAluminum

Bralco _____________ 602-722-3324

Fry Steel ____________ 800-423-6651Gorilla Metals Inc. _______ 855-516-3825Industrial Metal Supply Co. __ 818-729-3333Ryerson Corporation _____ 425-204-2601Sunshine Metals ________ 760-579-8327TCI Precision Metals ______ 800-234-5613

Aluminum ExtrusionsAluminum Precision ______805-889-7569Bralco _____________602-722-3324

Armor:CommercialKloeckner Metals _______480-389-2883Service Steel __________503-224-9500

Armor: Military GradeKloeckner Metals _______480-389-2883Service Steel __________503-224-9500

Brass Bralco _____________602-722-3324Coastal Metals _________ 800-811-7466Fry Steel ____________ 800-423-6651Gorilla Metals Inc. _______ 855-516-3825Industrial Metal Supply Co. __ 818-729-3333Ryerson Corporation _____ 425-204-2601Sequoia Brass & Copper ___800-362-5255

BronzeCoastal Metals _________ 800-811-7466Sequoia Brass & Copper ___800-362-5255

Carbon SteelBralco _____________602-722-3324Coastal Metals _________ 800-811-7466Fry Steel ____________ 800-423-6651Laser Cutting Services, Inc __ 503-612-8311Ryerson Corporation _____ 425-204-2601

Cobalt AlloysAerodyne Alloys ________ 800-337-3766United Performance Metals __888-282-3292

CopperBralco _____________602-722-3324

Gorilla Metals Inc. _______855-516-3825Industrial Metal Supply Co. __818-729-3333Ryerson Corporation _____425-204-2601Sequoia Brass & Copper __ 800-362-5255

Drill RodAZ Tool Steel _________ 877-795-1600

Electrical SteelsFry Steel ____________800-423-6651

High Temperature AlloysUnited Performance Metals _888-282-3292

Laser Cut MaterialLaser Cutting Services, Inc __ 503-612-8311

LeadIndustrial Metal Supply Co. __818-729-3333

Material SalesCoastal Metals _________800-811-7466Fry Steel ____________800-423-6651Kloeckner Metals ______ 480-389-2883Laser Cutting Services, Inc __ 503-612-8311Sunshine Metals ________760-579-8327United Performance Metals _888-282-3292

Metals: Bar & PlateFry Steel ____________ 800-423-665Ryerson Corporation _____425-204-2601Sequoia Brass & Copper __ 800-362-5255Sunshine Metals ________760-579-8327United Performance Metals _888-282-3292

Nickel AlloysAerodyne Alloys ________800-337-3766 Fry Steel ____________800-423-6651Marzee Inc. __________602-269-5801United Performance Metals _888-282-3292

Plate: Wear and StructuralKloeckner Metals ______ 480-389-2883Ryerson Corporation _____425-204-2601United Performance Metals _888-282-3292

Precision Ground FlatAZ Tool Steel _________ 877-795-1600

EDGEA DIVISION OF HYDROMAT INC

TECHNOLOGIES

11600 Adie RoadMaryland Heights, MO 63043

main: 314.692.8388 x3927cell: 951.440.1574fax: 314.692.5152

James PetersonRegional Service Technician

[email protected]

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Mike MillsPresident West Division

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Ganesh MachineryMachine ToolworksNorth Western MachinerySwift Tool Co, Inc.

Chiron America


For AZ, NM, and NV publication Southwest Edition

Delivering Alloy Solutions Worldwide

Patty Negoro (800)337-3766 ext. 148 [email protected]

www.aerodynealloys.com

O’Neal High-Performance Metals

Delivering Alloy Solutions Worldwide

O’Neal High-Performance Metals

For No. CA, OR, and WA publication Northwest Edition

Bill Voden (800)337‐3766 ext. 152 [email protected] www.aerodynealloys.com

Nickel Cobalt Titanium Stainless

Nickel Cobalt Titanium Stainless

TCI Precision Metals ______ 800-234-5613Sheet & Coil

Ryerson Corporation _____ 425-204-2601Stainless Steel & Steel

Aerodyne Alloys ________ 800-337-3766AZ Tool Steel __________ 877-795-1600Bralco _____________ 602-722-3324Fry Steel _____________800-423-665Gorilla Metals Inc. _______ 855-516-3825Industrial Metal Supply Co. __ 818-729-3333Kloeckner Metals _______ 480-389-2883Laser Cutting Services, Inc ___503-612-8311Ryerson Corporation _____ 425-204-2601TCI Precision Metals ______ 800-234-5613United Performance Metals _ _888-282-3292

Titanium Rod, Bar, & WireAerodyne Alloys ________ 800-337-3766Bralco _____________ 602-722-3324

Tool SteelAZ Tool Steel __________ 877-795-1600Industrial Metal Supply Co. __ 818-729-3333TCI Precision Metals ______ 800-234-5613

CNC MASTERCAM TRAINING

Streamingteacher.comMETROLOGY PRODUCTS

Rosco Precision Machinery __ 253-333-2439NEW MACHINERY

FABRICATIONBixby Machine Tool Supply __ 509-534-1208Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. __ 503-620-9031

Gladwin Machinery ______ 360-448-0951Icon Machine Tool, Inc. ____ 306-434-8844Jorgensen Machine Tools ___ 800-952-0151North-South Machinery ____ 253-333-2439

Band & Cut Off SawsFahey Machinery Co., Inc. __ 503-620-9031Hydmech Sawing Solutions __ 714-620-5560Icon Machine Tool, Inc. WA __ 306-434-8844Icon Machine Tool, Inc. OR __ 503-887-1003Innovative Tool Sales _____ 714-780-0730North-South Machinery ____ 253-333-2439North Western Machinery ___ 206-583-2333Rosco Precision Machinery __ 253-333-2439

CNC Turret PunchesMuratec ____________ 949-466-8255

Drill LinesFahey Machinery Co., Inc. __ 503-620-9031

Cold Saws/SawsFahey Machinery Co., Inc. _ _503-620-9031Hydmech Sawing Solutions __ 714-620-5560

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

Iron WorkersFahey Machinery Co., Inc. __ 503-620-9031Icon Machine Tool, Inc. ____ 306-434-8844Jorgensen Machine Tools ___ 800-952-0151

Laser Cutting MachinesFahey Machinery Co., Inc. __ 503-620-9031Gladwin Machinery ______ 360-448-0951Icon Machine Tool, Inc. ____ 306-434-8844

North-South Machinery _____ 253-333-2439Magnetic Drills/Cutters

Innovative Tool Sales ______714-780-0730Material Handling Systems

Hydmech Sawing Solutions ___ 714-620-5560Metal Marking Systems

Kwik Mark Inc __________ 815-363-8268Swift Tool Co, Inc. _______ 800-562-0900

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

Plasma/Gas Cutting Tools/SystemsFab - Line Machinery ______ 206-972-6215Rosco Precision Machinery ___253-333-2439

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

Power ToolsIcon Machine Tool, Inc. WA ___306-434-8844Icon Machine Tool, Inc. OR ___503-887-1003MP Industrial _________ 800-759-4282

PressesBixby Machine Tool Supply __ 509-534-1208

Press Brakes Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. __ 503-620-9031Fab - Line Machinery ______ 206-972-6215Gladwin Machinery _______ 360-448-0951Icon Machine Tool, Inc. WA ___306-434-8844Icon Machine Tool, Inc. OR ___503-887-1003North-South Machinery _____ 253-333-2439

PunchesFahey Machinery Co., Inc. ___ 503-620-903

Gladwin Machinery ______ 360-448-0951Icon Machine Tool, Inc. WA __ 306-434-8844Icon Machine Tool, Inc. OR __ 503-887-1003

Rolling MachinesFahey Machinery Co., Inc. __ 503-620-9031

Shearing MachinesFab - Line Machinery _____ 206-972-6215Fahey Machinery Co., Inc. __ 503-620-9031North-South Machinery ____ 253-333-2439Sign & Graphic Cutting Solutions

ToolingFahey Machinery Co., Inc. __ 503-620-9031

Welding EquipmentRocky Mountain Saw Blades _ 303-761-3000

PALLET SYSTEMSManual & Automatic

Pallet SystemsMidaco Corporation ______847-593-8420

Manual Lift Off Pallet Systems

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

Midaco Corporation _____ 847-593-8420Shipping Solutions

Perry Pallet Co. _______ 360-366-5239Wood Pallets

Perry Pallet Co. _______ 360-366-5239PRECISION TOOLHOLDING

PRODUCTSTooling

Von Ruden Manufacturing, Inc. 763-682--3122

PERRY PALLET CO.O. JOSH PERRY Sales Manager Phone: (360)366-5239 Email: [email protected]

Capabilities: Web: www.PerryPallet.com

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PROG. SYSTEMSFactory Automation/Logistics

North-South Machinery _____253-333-2439CAD/CAM Software, CAD

Automatics & Machinery Co.__303-990-6190Delcam Software _______ 877-DELCAM1

MRP SoftwareSigmaTEK ___________ 513-595-2022

Nesting SoftwareSigmaNEST __________ 513-595-2022

Software, Solid ModelingDelcam Software _______ 877-DELCAM1

PROTOTYPE MACHINERYSanta Cruz Electronics _____ 831-479-5444

REPAIRCNC-PROS ___________ 602-344-9753

Bar Feeder RepairEdge Technologies ______ 562-243-4659

QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMSUL DQS Inc. __________ 360-901-4785

ROBOTICSEllison Technologies ______ 206-669-3578LMI Machinery Inc. ______ 866-437-7315

Robotic Part Loading SystemsMidaco Corporation ______ 847-593-8420

ROUTERSRosco Precision Machinery __ 253-333-2439

SAFETYFire Protection Systems

Rotarex North America ____ 480-689-8756

SAWSBand & Cut-Off Saws

Swift Tool Co, Inc. ______ 800-562-0900

SERVICES

AS9100 RegistrationGreat Western Registrar ____ 623-580-1881UL DQS Inc. __________ 360-901-4785

Custom Packaging/Shipping Supplies

Alliance Packaging ______ 206-445-5898-Engineering/Mechanical Design

Sherpa Design_ _______ 503-771-3570Environmental Management

UL DQS Inc. __________ 360-901-4785Financial Services

Intech Funding ________ 800-553-9208Quick Turn Financial _____ 415-608-5692U.S. Bank Equipment _____ 206-948-0022

ISO Consulting/RegistrationGladhill Associates ______ 719-239-9830Great Western Registrar ____ 623-580-1881

Lean Consulting TrainingGladhill Associates ______ 719-239-9830Lambie Engineering ______ 509-868-3100

ISO / AS9100 Certi�cationBMSC______________ 602-445-9400Gladhill Associates ______ 719-239-9830Sustaining Edge Solutions __ 888-572-9642UL DQS Inc. __________ 360-901-4785

Machine Tool RebuildingEDM Network _________ 480-836-1782

Management Systems TrainingBBMSC______________ 602-445-9400Gladhill Associates ______ 719-239-9830Sustaining Edge Solutions __ 888-572-9642

Quality Management System Registration

UL DQS Inc. __________ 360-901-4785Supply Chain Assessments

Gladhill Associates ______ 719-239-9830Sustaining Edge Solutions __ 888-572-9642

SIX SIGMA TRAININGSustaining Edge Solutions __ 888-572-9642

SOFTWARE CAD CAMMachining

Cimatron ______ 248-596-9700 ext. 237Delcam ____________ 877-335-2261Solid Products _________ 480-206-0330

Mechanical DesignCimatron _______ 248-596-9700 ext. 237Delcam _____________877-335-2261Sherpa Design_ ________ 503-771-3570

Post-Processor SoftwareSherpa Design_ ________ 503-771-3570

SPINDLES & SLIDESSpindle Rebuilding/Repair

C & M Precision Spindle, Inc._ _503-691-0955GMN USA LLC_ _________800-686-1679Setco ______________714-222-6523

Spindle Sales NewC & M Precision Spindle, Inc._ _503-691-0955GMN USA LLC_ _________800-686-1679Setco ______________714-222-6523

STREAMING VIDEO EDUCATIONAL TRAINING

Streamingteacher.com

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENTUL DQS Inc. ___________360-901-4785

TOOLING SYSTEMSMP Industrial _________ 800-759-4282

USED MACHINERYAutomatics & Machinery Co., Inc 303-990-6190EDM Network ___________480-836-1782Jorgensen Machine Tools ____ 800-952-0151K.D. Capital Equipt _______480-922-1674North Western Machinery ____206-583-2333Performance Machine Tools ___ 510-249-1000Resell CNC ____________ 844-478-8181

WATERJET CUTTINGFahey Machinery Co., Inc. ___503-620-9031Flow International ___________909-620-5707King Machine Inc. ____________ 509-435-6741Machine Toolworks ___________ 800-426-2052Waterjet & Blast Abrasives, Garnetentury

Barton International _____ 800-741-7756GMA Garnet Group __________ 832-243-9300

Waterjet BricksBarton International _____ 800-741-7756GMA Garnet Group ___________832-243-9300

Waterjet HoppersBarton International _____ 800-741-7756

GMA Garnet Group _____ 832-243-9300Waterjet Replacement Parts

Barton International _____ 800-741-7756dtiEXACT ___________ 360-866-1337EDM Performance _____ 800-336-2946GMA Garnet Group _____ 832-243-9300

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3D TOOLS

3D Printing Proto & ProductionNW Rapid Mfg. _________503-434-8557Ultimate 3D ___________503-848-8227

3D ScanningNW Rapid Mfg. _________503-434-8557Ultimate 3D ___________503-848-8227

SLS (Selctive Laser Sintering)Ultimate 3D ___________503-848-8227

ASSEMBLIESCascade Systems Technology __503-640-5733Columbia Manufacturing Svcs. _360-735-3763Clings Aerospace_________480-968-1778

BENDING

MandrelAlbina Co., Inc. _________866-252-4628Bending Solutions, Inc. _____360-651-2443

Aeroform, Inc. __________ 360-403-1919Buyken Metal Products _____ 206-947-9122

Speciality BendingAlbina Co., Inc. ________ 866-252-4628Bending Solutions, Inc. ____ 360-651-2443

Structrual BendingAlbina Co., Inc. ________ 866-252-4628

Tube and Pipe BendingAlbina Co., Inc. ________ 866-252-4628

BONDING

AdhesiveVacco Industries _________626-450-6472

BONDING

Di�usionVacco Industries _________626-450-6472

BRAZING

dtiEXACT _____________ 360-866-1337Evans Precision _________ 623-582-4776Precision Casting Repair _____801-972-2345Thermal-Vac Technology______714-997-2601

Brazing: DipThermal-Vac Technology______714-997-2601

Brazing: VacuumThermal-Vac Technology______714-997-2601

BROACHINGEvans Precision _________ 623-582-4776Ponderosa Ind ___ _______303-298-1801Specialty Steel Services _____801-539-8252

CASTINGAATC ___________ 866-792-2814 X 235RJM Sales Solutions _______630-849-8644

Investment Casting-Precision

AATC ___________ 866-792-2814 X 235Dolphin Investment Castings __ 602-272-6747

CHEMICAL ETCHINGPMA Photometals ________480-773-3239Vacco Industries _________626-450-6472

CUSTOM CREFORM ASSY.PlaSteel _____________480-491-8100

CUTTING

Bar & Plate CuttingAZ Tool Steel ___________877-795-1600

Industrial Precision Grinding __ 310-352-4700SW Waterjet & Laser _______480-306-7748

DIE CASTINGSMH Inc LLC ___________360-341-2226

TVT Die Casting _________800-280-2278

The Manufacturer’s Secret Weapon

JEFF TOMSONCELL: 360.202.7342

[email protected]

P.O. Box 80505 800.244.4130

7600 5th Ave. S. • Seattle. WA 98108 • 206.763.0990 • Fax 206.763.8709



DIESTool & Dies

Micropulse West Inc. _______480-966-2300

Plastic Injection Molding_____509-531-2634

DEBURRING

Industrial Precision Grinding _ 310-352-4700EDGING

United Performance Metals ___888-282-3292EDM

EDM: Dialectric Systems/Filtration

Ebbco Inc ____________ 586-716-5151EDM: Drilling Small Hole

Layke Inc. ____________602-272-2654EDM Express ___________800-780-7075

EDM: Ram-Type (Sinking)Micropulse West, Inc. _____ 480-966-2300Milco Wire EDM,, Inc. ______714-373-0098Stevens Tool & Die ________503-682-3185

EDM: WireClings Aerospace_________480-968-1778

EDM Express __________ 800-780-7075Evans Precision ________ 623-582-4776Micropulse West, Inc. _____ 480-966-2300Milco Wire EDM,, Inc. _____ 714-373-0098Micropulse West, Inc. _____ 480-966-2300Plastic Injection Molding ____ 509-531-2634Stevens Tool & Die _______ 503-682-3185

ELECTRO-FORMING

Vacco Industries ________ 626-450-6472ELECTRO MECHANICAL

Sub-Assembly BuildsCascade Systems Technology _ 503-640-5733

ENGINEERING/DESIGNCascade Systems Technology _ 503-640-5733Hexatron Engineering _____ 801-363-8010Lambie Engineering ______ 509-868-3100

FABRICATION

Architectural Forming & FabricationAlbina Co., Inc. ________ 866-252-4628

Fabrication: Sheet MetalAEI Fabrication ________ 480-733-6594

Aeroform, Inc. __________ 360-403-1919Aero Tech MFG __________ 801-891-2740Buyken Metal Products _____ 206-947-9122Cygnet Stamping & Fab ______818-240-7574Gillaspie MFG __________ 360-921-3973NW Metalcraft Industries ____ 888-280-7080Mountain View Machine _____ 435-755-0500QUAL-FAB, Inc. ___________206-762-2117Rickard Engineering ______ 866-845-8838SMH Inc LLC ___________ 360-341-2226Valley Machine Shop, Inc. ____ 425-207-5951

Weiser Engineering _______ 303-280-2778

Fabrication: Custom MetalAEI Fabrication _________ 480-733-6594Buyken Metal Products _____ 206-947-9122Cygnet Stamping & Fab ______818-240-7574Group Mfg Serv _________ 480-966-3952Industrial Machine Svcs _____ 503-240-0878NW Metalcraft Industries ____ 888-280-7080PlaSteel _____________ 480-491-8100QUAL-FAB, Inc. ___________206-762-2117

SMH Inc LLC __________ 360-341-2226Valley Machine Shop, Inc. ___ 425-207-5951

Weiser Engineering ______ 303-280-2778Wrico _____________ 480-892-7800

Forming & FabricationAlbina Co., Inc. ________ 866-252-4628Bending Solutions, Inc. ____ 360-651-2443

Precision Sheet Metal Fabrication: Medium & Large

AEI Fabrication ________ 480-733-6594 Aeroform, Inc. __________360-403-1919Buyken Metal Products ____ 206-947-9122Columbia Manufacturing Svcs. 360-735-3763Gillaspie MFG _________ 360-921-3973Group Mfg Serv ________ 480-966-3952Industrial Machine Svcs ____ 503-240-0878NW Metalcraft Industries ___ 888-280-7080QUAL-FAB, Inc. __________206-762-2117SMH Inc LLC __________ 360-341-2226Solid Form Fabrication ____ 503-435-1400Weiser Engineering ______ 303-280-2778

Aeroform, Inc.

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

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Shawn Carlin [email protected]

Joe TripiISO9001:2008 President

[email protected]

444 W. 21st Street / Suite 101 / Tempe, AZ 85282(480) 966-2300 / Fax (480) 966-2323

Tube & Pipe Bending FabricationAlbina Co., Inc. ________ 866-252-4628Bending Solutions, Inc. ____ 360-651-2443

FINISHINGArizona Finishing _______ 602-438-4443Arizona Hard Chrome ______602-278-8671Coating Technologies _____ 623-581-2648

Gold Tech Industries ______ 480-968-1930Real Axis Machining ______ 360-723-5386

Galvanizing: Hot DipTMM Precision ________ 800-448-9448

Glass Bead Clean Byington Steel Treating, Inc. __ 408-727-6630Coating Technologies _____ 623-581-2648

Gold Tech Industries ______ 480-968-1930

Liquid PaintingAero Tech MFG __________801-891-2740MPI International _______ 956-631-6880

PassivationCoating Technologies ____ _623-581-2648

Gold Tech Industries ______ 480-968-1930Polishing

Arizona Hard Chrome ______602-278-8671

Powder CoatingAero Tech MFG __________801-891-2740

Sandblasting

Byington Steel Treating, Inc. __ 408-727-6630Silk Screening

Arizona Finishing _______ 602-438-4443

FIXTURINGReal Axis Machining ______ 360-723-5386

GASKETS3-D Plastics, Inc. ________ 503-720-0572

GRINDINGAZ Tool Steel __________ 877-795-1600Bourdelais Grinding Co., Inc. _ 805-583-9966ChemResearch _________ 602-253-4175EDM Express __________ 800-780-7075Evans Precision ________ 623-582-4776Industrial Machine Svcs ____ 503-240-0878Industrial Precision Grinding _ 310-352-4700Mountain View Machine ____ 435-755-0500Ron Grob Co __________ 970-667-5320Sun Grinding _________ 602-238-9595Superior Grinding _______ 801-487-9700TCI Precision Metals ______ 800-234-5613

Grinding, BlanchardAZ Tool Steel __________ 877-795-1600Bourdelais Grinding Co., Inc. _ 805-583-9966Diversified Metal Services ___ 801-972-6093Evans Precision ________ 623-582-4776Industrial Precision Grinding _ 310-352-4700

Sun Grinding _________ 602-238-9595Superior Grinding ________801-487-9700

TCI Precision Metals _______800-234-5613Grinding, Centerless

Bourdelais Grinding Co., Inc. _ 805-583-9966Ron Grob Co ___________970-667-5320Sun Grinding _________ 602-238-9595

Grinding, Double DiscBourdelais Grinding Co., Inc. _ 805-583-9966Industrial Precision Grinding __310-352-4700Sun Grinding _________ 602-238-9595TCI Precision Metals _______800-234-5613

Grinding: ODArizona Hard Chrome ______602-278-8671Bourdelais Grinding Co., Inc. _ 805-583-9966Precision Tech __________801-285-7288Ron Grob Co ___________970-667-5320Sun Grinding _________ 602-238-9595Superior Grinding ________801-487-9700

Grinding: SurfaceBourdelais Grinding Co., Inc. _ 805-583-9966ChemResearch __________602-253-4175Industrial Precision Grinding __310-352-4700

Superior Grinding ________801-487-9700TCI Precision Metals _______800-234-5613

Grinding: Tool & Cutter

Superior Grinding_________888-487-9701Swift Tool Co, Inc. _______ 800-562-0900

GUN DRILLINGEvans Precision _________ 623-582-4776

HEAT TREATINGByington Steel Treating______408-727-6630Columbia Manufacturing Svcs. _ 360-735-3763Controlled Thermal Tech______602-272-3714Evans Precision _________ 623-582-4776MET-TEK Heat Treating______503-519-9864

Phoenix Heat Treating_______602-258-7751Thermal-Vac Technology______714-997-2601

CryogenicsPhoenix Heat Treating ______ 602-258-7751

Heat Treating/ISO/AS9100Byington Steel Treating______408-727-6630Phoenix Heat Treating_______602-258-7751Thermal-Vac Technology______714-997-2601

Heat Treating/AerospaceByington Steel Treating______408-727-6630Phoenix Heat Treating_______602-258-7751Thermal-Vac Technology______714-997-2601

Large Capacity Drop Bottom Oven/Aluminum

Byington Steel Treating______408-727-6630MET-TEK Heat Treating_______503-519-9864

HONINGValley Machine Shop, Inc. ____ 425-207-5951

HYDRAULIC REPAIRArizona Hard Chrome ______ 602-278-8671

GASKETS RUBBER PRODUCTSRJM Sales Solutions _______630-849-8644

Shelly Conti

[email protected]

www.tfcplating.com

503-771-0969 [email protected]

13305 41st Ave NE | Marysville, WA 9827I360-386-6294 | 888-280-7080 x204 [email protected]

Darrin J. CaschettePresident

Mystique Engineering & MfgDan's Machine Works

AS9100CISO9001:2008

Byington Steel Treating, Inc.Byington Steel Treating, Inc. Sun GrindingSun Grinding

[email protected]


INJECTION MOLDSPlastic Injection Molding _____ 509-531-2634

INJECTION MOLDINGPlastic Injection Molding _____ 509-531-2634

LABELS-DECALS-OVERLAYSRJM Sales Solutions _______ 630-849-8644

LASER CUTTINGLaser Cutting

AEI Fabrication _________ 480-733-6594Buyken Metal Products _____ 206-947-9122dtiEXACT _____________ 360-866-1337SW Waterjet & Laser _______ 480-306-7748United Performance Metals ___888-282-3292

Weiser Engineering _______303-280-2778Wrico ______________480-892-7800

Laser Cutting: 3D

SW Waterjet & Laser _______ 480-306-7748Micro-Laser

Vacco Industries _________626-450-6472Precision Etched Parts

Vacco Industries _________626-450-6472LEVELING

United Performance Metals ___888-282-3292

MACHININGAlpha Precision Machining, Inc. _ 253-395-7381Bar-S Machine, Inc. _______ 928-636-2115Cascade Engineering Tech ___503-266-1300Central Valley Machine _____435-752-0934

Clings Aerospace_________480-968-1778EDM Express ___________800-780-7075Faustson _____________303-420-7422Grovtec US, Inc. _________503-557-4689Howard Precision Machine ___ 801-619-9850Larkin Precision Machine ____831-438-2700Machinists Inc. __________360-202-7342NW Metalcraft Industries ____888-280-7080PlaSteel _____________ 480-491-8100Portland Precision Manufacturing 503-253-6700Real Axis Machining _______360-723-5386Ron Grob Co ___________970-667-5320St. Vrain _____________ 303-702-1529SMH Inc LLC ___________360-341-2226Sunshine Metals _________ 714-225-4972Treske Precision Machining ___ 503-625-2821TVT Die Casting _________800-280-2278Valley Machine Shop, Inc. ____ 425-207-5951

Weiser Engineering _______303-280-2778Western Precision Products, Inc. _503-786-8923

Machining: 5-Axis

Accutech Machine Inc ______ 801-975-1117Cascade Engineering Tech __ 503-266-1300Clings Aerospace________ 480-968-1778Columbia Manufacturing Svcs. 360-735-3763Machinists Inc. _________ 360-202-7342St. Vrain ____________ 303-702-1529Strom Manufacturing ______503-447-1021Treske Precision Machining __ 503-625-2821Western Precision Products, Inc. 503-786-8923

Machining: AerospaceAlpha Precision Machining, Inc. 253-395-7381Bar-S Machine, Inc. _______928-636-2115dtiEXACT ____________ 360-866-1337Flex-Pro Manufacturing. ____ 623-277-8031Larkin Precision Machine ___ 831-438-2700Layke Inc. ___________ 602-272-2654Portland Precision Manufacturing 503-253-6700St. Vrain ____________ 303-702-1529Strom Manufacturing ______503-447-1021SMH Inc LLC __________ 360-341-2226Teton Machine ________ 208-642-9344Treske Precision Machining __ 503-625-2821

Western Precision Products, Inc. 503-786-8923Machining: Chemical

Vacco Industries ________ 626-450-6472

Machining: Horizontal BoringMachinists Inc. _________ 360-202-7342

Machining: Proto-R & D Alpha Precision Machining, Inc. _253-395-7381Bar-S Machine, Inc. _______928-636-2115Cascade Engineering Tech __ 503-266-1300Central Valley Machine ____ 435-752-0934Flex-Pro Manufacturing. _____623-277-8031Industrial Machine Svcs ____ 503-240-0878PlaSteel _____________480-491-8100Portland Precision Manufacturing 503-253-6700Real Axis Machining ______ 360-723-5386Ron Grob Co __________ 970-667-5320Savage Machining Inc. _____805-584-8047SMH Inc LLC __________ 360-341-2226Strom Manufacturing ______503-447-1021Treske Precision Machining ___503-625-2821TVT Die Casting ________ 800-280-2278Western Precision Products, Inc. 503-786-8923

SCOTT FERGUSONMarketing & Sales Manager

[email protected] (503) 625.2821

TRESKE.COMISO 9001:2008 | AS9100C (2013) | ITAR

KOTLOFFRON

[email protected] W. Birchwood AvenueMesa, Arizona 85210

TELFAX

EMAILWEBMAIL

Founder / CEO

AEIFABRICATION

INJECTION MOLDS


Machining: CNC MillingAccutech Machine Inc ______801-975-1117Alpha Precision Machining, Inc. 253-395-7381Bar-S Machine, Inc. __ ____ 928-636-2115Cascade Engineering Tech __ 503-266-1300Central Valley Machine ____435-752-0934Clings Aerospace________ 480-968-1778Columbia Manufacturing Svcs. 360-735-3763dtiEXACT ____________ 360-866-1337EDM Express __________ 800-780-7075Faustson ____________ 303-420-7422Flex-Pro Manufacturing. ____ 623-277-8031Gillaspie MFG _________ 360-921-3973Grovtec US, Inc. ________ 503-557-4689Howard Precision Machined Prod. 801-619-9850Industrial Machine Svcs ____ 503-240-0878Larkin Precision Machine ___ 831-438-2700Layke Inc. ___________ 602-272-2654NW Metalcraft Industries ___ 888-280-7080Micropulse West, Inc. _____ 480-966-2300Portland Precision Manufacturing 503-253-6700Real Axis Machining ______ 360-723-5386Rickard Engineering _____ 866-845-8838Savage Machining Inc. ____ 805-584-8047SMH Inc LLC __________ 360-341-2226Strom Manufacturing _____ 503-447-1021Sunshine Metals ________ 714-225-4972Teton Machine ________ 208-642-9344Treske Precision Machining __ 503-625-2821Valley Machine Shop, Inc. ___ 425-207-5951Western Precision Products, Inc. 503-786-8923

Machining: LargeAccutech Machine Inc ______ 801-975-1117

Alpha Precision Machining, Inc. _ 253-395-7381Cascade Engineering Tech ___503-266-1300Machinists Inc. __________360-202-7342Valley Machine Shop, Inc. ____ 425-207-5951

Machining: MedicalCascade Engineering Tech ___503-266-1300Portland Precision Manufacturing 503-253-6700Teton Machine _________208-642-9344

Machining: ProductionAccutech Machine Inc ______ 801-975-1117Alpha Precision Machining, Inc. _ 253-395-7381Cascade Engineering Tech ___503-266-1300Columbia Manufacturing Svcs. _ 360-735-3763dtiEXACT _____________ 360-866-1337Flex-Pro Manufacturing. _____ 623-277-8031Grovtec US, Inc. _________503-557-4689Howard Precision Machined Prod. 801-619-9850Larkin Precision Machine ____831-438-2700PlaSteel _____________480-491-8100Portland Precision Manufacturing 503-253-6700Strom Manufacturing ______503-447-1021Teton Machine _________208-642-9344Western Precision Products, Inc. _503-786-8923

Machining: Shaft TurningMachinists Inc. __________360-202-7342

Machining: SwissBar-S Machine, Inc. _______ 928-636-2115dtiEXACT _____________ 360-866-1337Grovtec US, Inc. _________503-557-4689Howard Precision Machined Prod. 801-619-9850Ron Grob Co ___________970-667-5320Teton Machine _________208-642-9344Western Precision Products, Inc. _503-786-8923

Machining: TurningAccutech Machine Inc ______ 801-975-1117Bar-S Machine, Inc. _______ 928-636-2115dtiEXACT _____________ 360-866-1337

Alpha Precision Machining, Inc. Cascade Engineering Tech Machinists Inc.Valley Machine Shop, Inc.

Cascade Engineering Tech EDM Express ___________800-780-7075Faustson _____________ 303-420-7422Flex-Pro Manufacturing. _____ 623-277-8031Grovtec US, Inc. _________503-557-4689Howard Precision Machined Prod. 801-619-9850Industrial Machine Svcs _____503-240-0878Larkin Precision Machine ____831-438-2700Layke Inc. ____________602-272-2654NW Metalcraft Industries ____888-280-7080Portland Precision Manufacturing 503-253-6700Real Axis Machining _______360-723-5386Savage Machining Inc. _____ 805-584-8047SMH Inc LLC ___________360-341-2226Strom Manufacturing ______503-447-1021Teton Machine _________208-642-9344Valley Machine Shop, Inc. ____ 425-207-5951Western Precision Products, Inc. _503-786-8923

Machining: Turning With Live Tooling

Weiser Engineering _______303-280-2778

Machining: Turning LargeMachinists Inc. __________360-202-7342Valley Machine Shop, Inc. ____ 425-207-5951

MANUFACTURING VALUE ADDED

Contract ManufacturingAATC ___________ 866-792-2814 X 235AEI Fabrication _________480-733-6594Aeroform, Inc. __________ 360-403-1919Albina Co., Inc. _________866-252-4628Alpha Precision Machining, Inc. _ 253-395-7381Bending Solutions, Inc. _____360-651-2443Cascade Systems Technology __503-640-5733Columbia Manufacturing Svcs. _360-735-3763dtiEXACT _____________360-866-1337

Flex-Pro Manufacturing. _____ 623-277-8031G & G Custom Metal Fab ____ 503-931-7069Group Mfg Serv _________ 480-966-3952Larkin Precision Machine ____ 831-438-2700NW Metalcraft Industries ____ 888-280-7080Portland Precision Manufacturing 503-253-6700QUAL-FAB, Inc. ___________206-762-2117Rickard Engineering ______ 866-845-8838Teton Machine _________ 208-642-9344Treske Precision Machining ___ 503-625-2821TVT Die Casting _________ 800-280-2278Western Precision Products, Inc. _ 503-786-8923

Industrial ManufacturingAlbina Co., Inc. _________ 866-252-4628

Turnkey Product ServicesAero Tech MFG __________ 801-891-2740Columbia Manufacturing Svcs. _ 360-735-3763

METAL INJECTION MOLDINGRJM Sales Solutions _______ 630-849-8644Custom Airplane to Marine Polishing

Metal Polishing By Timothy ___ 503-253-5294Personal Collectables Polishing

Metal Polishing By Timothy ___ 503-253-5294Production Polishing

Metal Polishing By Timothy ___ 503-253-5294

METALIZINGControlled Thermal Tech ____ 602-272-3714

METROLOGY

Part Probing & InspectionBlum Novotest _________ 909-670-8411

Production MetrologyBlum Novotest _________ 909-670-8411

Heather CutlerSales ManagerOFFICE 503-406-3774 MOBILE 503-853-6234

[email protected]

Passivation, Electroless Nickel, Gold, Hard Chrome, Silver, &

Tin Plating. 206-947-4052 [email protected]


Tool MeasurementBlum Novotest __________909-670-8411

Tool BreakageBlum Novotest __________909-670-8411

MOLDING: RUBBER

Molds: Plastic InjectionPlastic Injection Molding_____ 509-531-2634SMH Inc LLC ___________ 360-341-2226

MOLDS Aero Tech MFG __________ 801-891-2740Advanced Mold Technology ___ 714-990-0144Arizona Finishing ________602-438-4443Milco Wire EDM,, Inc. ______ 714-373-0098Plastic Injection Molding _____ 509-531-2634

Molds: High Volume Class 100Advanced Mold Technology ___ 714-990-0144

Molds: Fast Turn Prototype and Bridge Molds

Advanced Mold Technology ___ 714-990-0144

Molds: Expertise in Overmold and Insert Molding

Advanced Mold Technology ___ 714-990-0144

PACKAGING/SHIPPING SUPPLIESAlliance Packaging _______ 206-445-5898

Passivation

ASKO Group ___________ 206-947-4052

TFC Plating ___________ 503-771-0969

PC BOARDS

Surface Mount & Thru Hole

Cascade Systems Technology __ 503-640-5733

PLASTIC MACHINING

PlaSteel _____________ 480-491-8100Portland Precision Manufacturing 503-253-6700

PLASTIC MOLDING

3-D Plastics, Inc. _________ 503-720-0572Plastic Injection Molding _____ 509-531-2634

SMH Inc LLC __________ 360-341-2226

Mold Making3-D Plastics, Inc. ________ 503-720-0572Plastic Injection Molding ____ 509-531-2634

PLATING

ASKO Group __________ 206-947-4052ChemResearch _________ 602-253-4175EPSI ______________ 714-519-9423Foresight Finishing ______ 480-772-0387Gold Tech ___________ 480-968-1930

Anodizing

ChemResearch _________ 602-253-4175Bright Tin

Foresight Finishing ______ 480-772-0387Precious Metal Plating Co. ___ 800-481-6271

Chrome/Nickel/PalladiumEPSI ______________ 714-519-9423Gold Tech ___________ 480-968-1930

CoatingCoating Technologies _____ 623-581-2648Controlled Thermal Tech ___ 602-272-3714

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

Copper

Gold Tech Industries ______ 480-968-1930Foresight Finishing ______ 480-772-0387

TFC Plating __________ 503-771-0969

Embrittlement ReliefEPSI ______________ 714-519-9423

Electroless Nickel

ASKO Group __________ 206-947-4052

Gold Tech Industries ______ 480-968-1930Foresight Finishing ______ 480-772-0387Precious Metal Plating Co. ____800-481-6271

TFC Plating __________ 503-771-0969Gold

ASKO Group __________ 206-947-4052EPSI _______________714-519-9423Foresight Finishing ______ 480-772-0387Gold Tech ___________ 480-968-1930Precious Metal Plating Co. ____800-481-6271

Hard Chrome

Arizona Hard Chrome ______602-278-8671ASKO Group __________ 206-947-4052

NAD CAP & Boeing Approved Processes

Precious Metal Plating Co. ____800-481-6271Nickel-Bright

Gold Tech Industries ______ 480-968-1930Foresight Finishing ______ 480-772-0387Precious Metal Plating Co. ____800-481-6271

TFC Plating __________ 503-771-0969GTin / Zinc Plate

ASKO Group __________ 206-947-4052EPSI _______________714-519-9423Gold Tech ___________ 480-968-1930

TFC Plating __________ 503-771-0969Silver Plating

ASKO Group __________ 206-947-4052EPSI _______________714-519-9423Gold Tech ___________ 480-968-1930Precious Metal Plating Co. ____800-481-6271

TFC Plating __________ 503-771-0969Tin Plating

Precious Metal Plating Co. ____800-481-6271

TFC Plating __________ 503-771-0969

ASKO GroupASKO Group 206-947-4052

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PLASMA CUTTING

G & G Custom Metal Fab ____ 503-931-7069

PRECISION FORMINGAeroform, Inc. __________360-403-1919

Cygnet Stamping & Fab _____ 818-240-7574Gillaspie MFG __________ 360-921-3973Pacific Tool, Inc _________ 425-882-1970QUAL-FAB, Inc. __________ 206-762-2117SpringWorks Utah ________ 801-298-0113Wrico ______________ 480-892-7800

PRINTING

UV LED PrintingAlliance Packaging _______ 206-445-5898-

Custom Package PrintingAlliance Packaging _______ 206-445-5898-

Flat Bed Digital PrintingAlliance Packaging _______ 206-445-5898-

PROCESSING: METAL

Acid Pickle

MPI International ________ 956-631-6880

Chemical

LA Specialties __________ 602-269-7612


Plating Alodine


Phosphate


PROTOTYPES

Cascade Systems Technology __ 503-640-5733NW Rapid Mfg. _________ 503-434-8557

PUNCHING

AEI Fabrication _________ 480-733-6594Cygnet Stamping & Fab _____ 818-240-7574Group Manufacturing Serv ___ 480-966-3952QUAL-FAB, Inc. __________ 206-762-2117

Cell: 937/503-4708O�ce: 937/885-1878E-mail: [email protected]

Wohlhaupter Corporation10542 Success LaneCenterville, Ohio 45458

Nick HochuliSales Engineer

C O R P O R A T I O N

SMH Inc LLC


Weiser Engineering ______ 303-280-2778

RECYCLING MATERIALS

Aluminum, Brass, Copper, Nickel, Plastics, Stainless Steel, Steel, Tin

Calbag Metals Company ___ 253-283-8657Metro Metals Northwest ____503-819-1284

Bin Service

Calbag Metals Company ___ 253-283-8657Excess Material Handling

Calbag Metals Company ___ 253-283-8657Full Service Scrap Management

Calbag Metals Company ___ 253-283-8657Scrap Metal Prrocessing

Calbag Metals Company ___ 253-283-8657Waste Metal Management

Calbag Metals Company ___ 253-283-8657Wood Products

Perry Pallet Co. ________ 360-366-5239

REPAIR

CNC-PROS ____________602-344-9753ROLLING

Albina Co., Inc. ________ 866-252-4628SANDBLASTING

Byington Steel Treating, Inc. __ 408-727-6630Production Sawing

Bourdelais Grinding Co., Inc. _ 805-583-9966SEWING

Grovtec US, Inc. ________ 503-557-4689SHEARING

United Performance Metals _ _888-282-3292SIGNAGE & DISPLAYS

Milco Wire EDM,, Inc. ______714-373-0098Custom Printing Displays & SignageAlliance Packaging ______ 206-445-5898

SILICONE3-D Plastics, Inc. ________ 503-720-0572

SINTERINGWestern Sintering _______ 509-375-3096

SLITTINGUnited Performance Metals _ _888-282-3292

SOFTWARE

MachiningDelcam _____________877-335-2261

Mechanical DesignDelcam ____________ 877-335-2261

SPINNINGEvans Precision ________ 623-582-4776

SPLINESSpecialty Steel Services ____ 801-539-8252

SPRINGSSpringWorks Utah ________801-298-0113

STAMPING PRECISIONAEI Fabrication ________ 480-733-6594Cygnet Stamping & Fab _____818-240-7574 Gillaspie MFG _________ 360-921-3973NW Metalcraft Industries ___ 888-280-7080Precision Die & Stamping ___ 480-967-2038SpringWorks Utah ________801-298-0113

Stamping:Design

SpringWorks Utah ________801-298-0113Stamping:Flat Forming

Gillaspie MFG _________ 360-921-3973NW Metalcraft Industries ___ 888-280-7080SpringWorks Utah ________801-298-0113

Stamping: Light

Gillaspie MFG _________ 360-921-3973NW Metalcraft Industries ___ 888-280-7080SpringWorks Utah ________801-298-0113

Stamping: Production/

Precision

Precision Die & Stamping ___ 480-967-2038SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

Cascade Systems Technology _ 503-640-5733Columbia Manufacturing Svcs. 360-735-3763

TESTINGTesting: Corrosion, Product Stress,

THERMAL SPRAYControlled Thermal Tech ___ 602-272-3714

TOOL & DIE DESIGNWrico _____________ 480-892-7800

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