March, 2014 Photos, Top, L-R: Buy Rite Finishing’s Jim Beeson & Eric Beeson. Buy Rite equipment in use. A large part being washed at J&J Wire. Bottom L-R: PowderTech’s Jim Callaway with finished parts. An exterior view of PowderTech’s new 1200’ foot automated & conveyorized powder line. O&F Machine Products’ Mike Cowan, Jeremy DeMint, Casey Pattyson and Cleetus Pattyson. POWDER COATING & INDUSTRIAL SERVICES Buy Rite Finishing, Hastings, NE, Continues Growth PowderTech, Wichita, KS, Installs New 1200’ Automated & Conveyorized Line J&J Wire, Beatrice, NE, Prepares for 30th Anniversary; New Batch Powder System O&F Machine Products, Joplin, MO, Installs New Miyano Turning Center KC NTMA Tours Kansas City Kansas Com- munity College’s Tech Education Center CHANGE SERVICE REQUESTED MACI Publishing, Inc., 2432 SW Pepperwood Rd, Topeka, KS 66614-5293
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Photos, Top, L-R: Buy Rite Finishing’s Jim Beeson & Eric Beeson. Buy Rite equipment in use. A large part being washed at J&J Wire. Bottom L-R: PowderTech’s Jim Callaway with finished parts. An exterior view of PowderTech’s new 1200’ foot automated & conveyorized powder line. O&F Machine Products’ Mike Cowan, Jeremy DeMint, Casey Pattyson and Cleetus Pattyson.
1200’ Automated & Conveyorized Line J&J Wire, Beatrice, NE, Prepares for 30th
Anniversary; New Batch Powder SystemO&F Machine Products, Joplin, MO, Installs New Miyano Turning CenterKC NTMA Tours Kansas City Kansas Com-
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O&F Machine: New Miyano ..... 5Buy Rite Finishing Continues
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mated & Conveyorized Line ..12J&J Wire Installs Batch System ..14Hartwig Hosts St. Louis NTMA ....16ISM-KC Meets ..............................18ISM-Wichita Tours Facility ............20Editorial ..........................................22Upcoming Issues ..........................24Icon Welcomes Hoffman .............28Mo-Kan AFS Meets ......................29Upcoming Trade Shows ..............30
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O & F Machine Products Co., Joplin, Missouri, has recently installed a new Miyano ABX-64-TH3 turning center.
The 59-year-old firm, which is ISO 9001:2008 and AS 9100 certi-fied, offers precision machining (milling, turning, Swiss), grind-ing, boring, lapping, EDM and heat treating.
The new Miyano, purchased from McClain Tool & Technology, features 10 axis, dual spindles, three turrets, two “Y” axis and 36 revolving tool stations.
“The new Miyano (the com-pany’s second) improves our pro-ductivity, efficiency and expands our offerings, ” stated Cleetus Pattyson, CEO/President and 45-year industry veteran. “The technology and service McClain Tool & Technology has offered in the 19 years we have worked with them has been one of the keys to our success. Another key factor has been our group of dedicated, hard-working employees.”
O & F Machine has grown from two employees in a 5,000-sq.-ft. building to 62 em-ployees in a 55,000-sq.-ft. facil-ity with over 25 pieces of CNC equipment. It serves the indus-trial, medical, defense, construc-tion, farming, oil and aerospace industries worldwide. It works with stainless steel, tool steel, and high-strength alloys.
The company’s heat treat-ing and NDT processes are both NADCAP certified.
O & F Machine Products can be contacted at: (417) 623-7476; Fax (417) 623-4736; 3020 West 20th, PO Box 1363, Joplin, Mis-souri 64802; www.ofmachine.com.
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Joplin, Missouri
Above (l-r): O&F Machine Products’ Mike Cowan, Jeremy DeMint Casey Pattyson and Cleetus Pattyson.
Above:A new Miyano ABX-64-TH3 at O&F Machine Products. It features 10 axis, dual spindles, three turrets, two “Y” axis and 36 revolving tool stations.
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Buy Rite Finishing, Hast-ings, Nebraska, has grown to be a leader in the powder coating in-dustry. The company emerged in 2000 from the transition of a com-pany owned by Jim Beeson that did powder coating to Buy Rite Finishing, a supplier of powder coating equipment and solutions. Eric Beeson joined his father at this time and together they recog-nized the need for an experienced finishing equipment supplier for both used and new products.
“Powder coating has been around since the 1950s,” noted Jim Beeson. “We’ve seen an emergence of this finishing proce-dure in recent years in manufac-turing. Metal finishers have found that powder coating and curing
gives a longer lasting finish to parts and equipment.”
The firm has been successful in supplying services through-out Northern America and sales of new and used products and equipment. It’s headquartered in the Midwest, and there are sales representatives throughout the country. Jim Beeson serves as the Operations Director and VP of the company. Jim’s son, Eric Beeson, serves as the President and Sales Director. Eric’s son, Tayler Bee-son, is the Warehouse and Service Manager. Buy Rite Finishing also employs three sales and sup-port staff. The company recently relocated their operation to a new 15,500-sq.- ft. warehouse/office. The company offers product such
Buy Rite Finishing Continues Growth In Powder Coating Industry
Above (l-r): Buy Rite Finishing’s Jim Beeson and Eric Beeson. The firm offers powder coating equipment Such as the ColorBoard system.
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Buy Rite Finishing has been successful in launch-ing its own proprietary products through research and development over the last five years. This line, Husker Finishing Equipment, includes powder hoppers, sieves, washing stations, cleaning materials and the most rec-ognized, the ColorBOARD Color Management System. This can accommodate up to six different powder col-ors, allowing the operator to use two different powder guns for application. It comes equipped with Buy Rite Finishing’s proprietary ColorPURGE. This option also eliminates labor by allowing the powder gun and hose to be cleaned free of powder in a matter of seconds. A typical color change with the ColorBOARD takes ap-proximately thirty seconds. The company has planned many new ventures in the near future as the business continues to develop. Its new facility will have a testing station for new and used equipment. Its team is also working on the develop-ment of training curriculum and certification programs for powder coaters.
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The Kansas City Chapter of the National Tool-ing & Machining Association (NTMA) held a Shop Meeting at the Kansas City Kansas Community Col-lege (KCKCC) TEC Education Center’s new loca-tion on February 27th. Over 60 attended the event.
The meeting was sponsored by SECO Tools. The evening started with tours of KCKCC
TEC’s machining and welding facilities. Other training offered at the center include: automotive tech; property maintenance; computer repair; con-struction; cosmetology; culinary arts; electrical tech; health; HVAC; appliance tech and others.
The first speaker at the event was KC NTMA’s Andy Borst speaking about the Emerging Leaders program within the chapter. This is getting the next owners/managers involved with the chapter.
Maureen Carruthers and Steven Tamasi spoke next about NTMA’s National Robotic League (NRL). They noted how the robotic competition is drawing the interest of teens (and their parents) and making them aware of careers in manufacturing.
Rick Cavallaro, Safety/Facility Mgr with Oregon Blount Inc., covered global safety harmonization
labeling and SDS. He noted the new pictograms being used internationally and becoming required in the U.S. by OSHA and EPA.
Photos from the event are on this page and on the chapter’s website. The KC NTMA chapter can be con-tacted at (816) 739-4422 or www.kcntma.org.
KC NTMA Tours Kansas City Kansas Community College’s Technical Education Center
Above: KC NTMA members tour KCKCC’s TEC Center.
Above: Matt Moser & Steve Nance at the SECO Tools’ booth.
Above: NTMA National Robotic League’s Maureen Carruthers speaking at the KC NTMA meeting.
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By LaRoux K. Gillespie, Dr. Eng., FSME, CMfgE, PE
Almost every machine shop or manufacturing facility today decries the lack of skilled help. While having a cadre of person-nel with requisite skills, they need more with similar abilities. Several options are available to companies including community colleges graduates, a number of excellent high school pro-grams and a few new apprentice programs. Additionally, many companies are turning to online training due to its advantages for upgrading the knowledge and abilities of existing staff as well as new employees. Many of those choosing this later approach miss a key element in its success however.
Shop owners frequently be-lieve they know what their staff’s missing knowledge is. After all, they work with these people day after day so they should know what an individual needs in the way of training. But too many do not undertake an assessment of their worker’s knowledge needs before they begin the training effort. Everyone gets the same training even though they come with different knowledge. The more cost effective approach is to document the knowledge and
skills needed by the company and then assess each person relative to those documented needs.
Several years ago, we devel-oped a lengthy training program to teach new staff how to manually deburr complex precision minia-ture parts (0.000050 inch toler-ances) without breaking edges more than 0.001 or 0.003 inches. It only took a few days to realize that none of the workers had any concept of what 0.003 inch was. It was not in the new employees understanding. We corrected that oversight, but we had to add more training time (no we did not do an assessment like we should have). We started at the wrong place in their education. The same can be true for just jumping into a train-ing program without an assess-ment.
Today in the machining com-munity, national skills standards exist through NIMS and other national programs and training providers such as Tooling U-SME provide online and in-person assessments so that companies can plan cost effective and timely training to meet what a company really needs for both existing staff as well as entering staffs. As-sessments from basic manufactur-ing and workplace knowledge to manufacturing engineering and
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technologist are available to help identify knowledge gaps. That as-sessment is good for the company as well as clearly identifying for each employee what he/she needs in terms of additional training and education. Further, an assess-ment can provide the employee a clear statement of their abilities so they understand and can take pride when they have reached the next level of ability.
LaRoux Gillespie, Dr. Eng., FSME, CMfgE, PE, and former SME national president in 2012, spent 40 years as manufacturing engineer and manager in a high precision manufacturing company and led two major training efforts in deburring and machining. He can be contacted at: [email protected]
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PowderTech, LLC, Wichita, Kansas, has a new 1200’ auto-mated and conveyorized powder coating line.
The firm, which operates in a 75,000-sq.-ft. facility on the north side of Wichita, offers powder coating, liquid painting and blast-ing .
The new GAT system features a 6-stage prewash, a Nordson Col-orMatch system and 18 auto-guns. It can handle parts up to 84” x 42” x 12’ and features 98% reclama-tion.
PowderTech LLC Installs New 1200’ Automated/Conveyorized Powder Line
“We continue to improve our efficiency and quality with updated technology,” stated Jim Callaway, general manager and a 42-year industry veteran. “The new line and equipment allows for faster color changes, recycling of 80% of the waste water and im-proves our work flow.” He noted that the new powder line pre-treat-
ment wash system removes laser scale. The ovens for the line are located outside the main building to improve energy efficiency.
“The improved quality, speed, energy efficiency and wastewa-ter reduction will really help our operation,” noted Callaway.
Other paint and powder equip-ment at PowderTech includes a large batch system that features a wash booth, two dry off/curing ovens and a paint booth that can handle pieces up to 7’ x 8’ x 25’.
Blasting equipment includes a blast booth (40’ x 14’ x 16’), a sand/soda blasting booth and a burn off oven (8’ x 8’ x 8’).
The company serves a wide range of industries including: HVAC; agriculture; high end sporting equipment; electronic;
general manufacturing; transpor-tation; construction; automotive; military; aerospace and individual hobbyists.
PowderTech offers pickup and delivery within a 100-mile radius of Wichita.
The 11-year-old company also provides CARC approved coat-ings for the military.
PowderTech is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Great Plains Ventures, which has over 30 years of manufacturing experience. As-sembly and fabrication work are considered on a job by job basis.
PowderTech can be contacted at: (316) 832-9210; Fax (316) 832-9236; 800 E. 37th Street North, Wichita, Kansas 67219; [email protected]; www.powdertechllc.com.
Above: PowderTech’s Jim Callaway with part finished at the company.
Above: An exterior view of PowderTech’s new 1200’ foot automated and conveyorized powder line. It features a 6-stage prewash, a Nordson ColorMatch system & 18 auto-guns. It can handle parts up to 84” x 42” x 12’.
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Above: An interior view of PowderTech’s new 1200’ foot automated and conveyorized powder line.
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J&J Wire, Inc., Beatrice, Ne-braska, is preparing for its 30th anniversary and has installed a batch powder coating system. The firm specializes in the fabrication of wire, rod and tubing.
Starting out in his garage, John Church started the company as a sideline business. Now it operates in a 40,000-sq.-ft. facility with 15 employees.
Powder coating was added to improve efficiency and turnaround time. “We identified powder coating as an opportunity to improve our flow, efficiency and delivery,” stated Church.
“We purchased the system from Buy Rite Finishing (out of Hastings, Nebraska). They treated us right.”
The new batch system can handle parts up to 15’ x 8’ and fea-tures a 3-stage steam pre-treatment system, a gas oven for dryoff/curing and KCI coating equipment/guns. Multiple finishes and a broad range of colors can be applied.
J&J Wire can take a customer from design to prototyping to final assembly and finishing. Whether a customer’s needs are best served by computer controlled forming ma-chinery or hard tooling, the company has the capability to form almost any configuration in solid round or square in sizes ranging from 12 gauge (.105) to over one inch in diameter.
Services offered at the company include: ring forming (2” to 36” in diameter from 9 gauge to 1/2 inch thick); welding and fabrication; tube forming (two or three dimensional); flat strap forming; secondary opera-tions (drilling, punching, threading and etc.); and straightening/cutting.
All tooling and fixtures are produced in-house, so alterations to a project can be made quickly and efficiently.
J&J Wire, Inc. Prepares For 30th Anniversary and Installs Batch Powder Coating System
Beatrice, Nebraska
Above: A large part is washed in the pre-treatment booth at J&J Wire.
Above: a large part is ready for powder coating at J&J Wire.
Above: An example of J&J Wire’s capabilities.
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The firm works with steel, stainless steel and spring steel with sizes ranging from .105” to over 1”.
Industries served by the company include: housewares, giftware, lawn & garden, indus-trial equipment, safety equip-ment; hunting equipment; medical equipment and food equipment.
“The people working here are as good as you can get! We have learned to be very efficient over the years and know how to get things done,” commented Church. “Often we can make design or production suggestions to a cus-tomer that saves them time and money.”
J&J Wire Inc., can be contact-ed at:(800) 633-0466; Fax ((866) 565-9473; 2315 Ridgeview Drive, Po Box 188, Beatrice, Nebraska 68310; [email protected]. www.jjwirecustom.com.
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Hartwig Hosts St. Louis NTMA Meeting on “Improving Your Shop’s Productivity”
Verteran Industry Leader Larry Schwartz Featured Speaker The St. Louis Chapter of the
National Tooling & Machining Association (NTMA) held a meeting on March 11th at Hartwig’s St. Louis facility. Over 80 attended the event.
The featured speaker was Larry Schwartz, retired President and CEO of Okuma America Corporation.
Schwartz, a 40-year industry veteran, started out as an engineering aid and worked his way up through his first company (converting it from a manual shop to a CNC operation). He continued his career in the manufacturing industry in the distribution, sales, service and manufacture of machine tools. He was responsible for many of the advancements at Okuma and the technological aspects of its equipment.
Schwartz addressed in a very frank and candid manner his thoughts on “Increasing Your Shop’s Productivity.”
He covered such aspects as set-up reduction, automation, job planning and improving processes.
In other chapter business, new member plaques were presented to U.S. Integrity Machine (a company started in 2013) and Delta Gear Company.
The St. Louis NTMA can be contacted at: (314) 9378-1293 or [email protected].
Above: Larry Schwartz speaking.
Above: Part of the audience at the St. Louis NTMA meeting at Hartwig.
Above (l-r): NTMA’s Ed Hinders & Nick Berilla (far right) present a member plaque to U.S. Integrity Machine’s Ken Unnerstall & Chad Skornia.
Above (l-r): NTMA’s Ed Hinders & Nick Berilla (right) present a member plaque to Delta Gear Company’s Paul Muckerman, Jr.
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ISM-Kansas City Hears About “Saying No With Finesse”
Above: Part of the crowd at the ISM-KC luncheon meeting on February 18th.
Above (l-r): Esmeralda Phillips receives her CPSM certificate from Joe Steve, ISM-KC’s Director of Education.
ISM-Kansas City, an affiliate of the Institute for Supply Management, held a luncheon meeting on February 18th at the Holiday Inn & Suites in Over-land Park, Kansas.
The featured speaker for the event was Barbara
Teicher of etc. Executive Training and Coaching. Her topic was: “How to Say No With Finesse? It’s HOW you Say It!”
Teicher has over 25 years of experience in officer level training and consulting. She is heavily involved with numerous training and speaking organizations in the region.
Teicher discussed how to identify and handle internal requests in a way that leaves the person you’re dealing with a sense of your professionalism, dedica-tion and quality of effort.
She used live interactive polling to have the audi-ence identify what types of situations are encountered
Wichita ISM Tours Sedgwick County Emergency Management Facility
The Wichita Chapter of the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) held a membership meeting on February 13th at the Sedgwick County Public Safety Center in Wichita.
The center houses the Emer-gency Management and Com-munications Operations for the county and many of the communi-ties inside the county.
Its purpose is to help citizens and local governments mitigate against, prepare for, respond to and recover from all types of emergencies and disasters (natu-ral, technological and national security).
Staff from the center covered some of the extensive, ongo-ing training that goes on every month. Examples from recent events were used to demonstrate how the center is used to facilitate communications and responses to emergencies. The staff discussed how the county’s procurement staff has a role to play in obtaining needed material/supplies to help with a disaster. The example was given for a recent grain elevator collapse that required truckloads of plywood and beams to stabilize the grain and allow rescue staff to search for victims. The lumber and other specialty equipment was needed instantly.
Above: ISM members, seated at stations for emergency management responders, during a presentation at the Public Safety Center.
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The center is also the primary answering point for 9-1-1 calls in Sedgwick county and also dispatches emergency responders. The group toured the 9-1-1 call center.
In other chapter business, members of the WITS (Wichita Industrial Trade Show) committee presented a check from the event to help fund the chapters activities for the next two years.
ISM-Wichita can be contacted at www.ismwichita.org.
Above: ISM’s Joe Thomas, Sedgwick County Purchasing Director, talks to the group at the ISM Wichita meeting.
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Many of you will remember the Clinton campaign slogan in 1992: It’s “the economy, stupid.” Today, six years after the current recession began, this should be our major focus, too.
However, according to a sur-vey by the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) and Indus-try Week, it appears the main con-cern for members right now isn’t the economy, but the “dad gum guv’ment,” as Huck Finn’s dad sang in the musical “Big River.”
Despite manufacturers “show-ing the highest level of optimism since late 2012, Washington continues to be the major source of burdens facing manufacturers.”
“The top business challenge,
cited by 79% of respondents, was an unfavorable business climate due to taxes, regulations, government uncertainties and Washington’s inability to solve problems. Rising health care and insurance costs followed closely behind (77%), with uncertain-ties attributed mostly to the start of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). (Ninety-seven percent of manufacturers offer health care coverage.)
NAM Chief Economist Chad Moutray said, “Manufacturers are prepared to make the investments that will jump-start our economy, but we need Washington to work with us, not against us.”
On February 25, Jay Timmon, NAM president and CEO, dis-cussed the “State of Manufactur-ing 2014” at a meeting in Hous-ton. Output from manufacturers has increased 18% since the end
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comes down to a focus on three specific areas: products, people and policy, Timmons said.
While manufacturing de-clined as a share of the Ameri-can economy for decades, it has grown the past few years, even as the broader economy needed to be juiced up by the monetary equiva-lent of steroids.
“Innovation is a big reason why manufacturing products like cars and trucks are making a strong comeback. The ability to adapt, innovate and improve is at the foundation of the U.S. econo-my, and it shows up in abundance in manufacturing in America.
Affordable natural gas has made production more cost-effec-tive for manufacturers across the board. According to the American Chemistry Council, $90 billion of new private-sector manufacturing investments in the chemical sector are planned.
People. While finding workers with the right skills is a challenge, Timmons said more and more young people are seeing manufac-turing as an exciting and fulfilling career. Eighty-two percent of manufacturers report they have jobs going unfilled because they can’t find people due to the skills gap. By and large these are the STEM skills–science, technology, engineering and math.
“For the high-tech jobs of today, workers need a foundation in science and math as well as the ability to think analytically. The Manufacturing Institute runs a skills-certification program that enables American workers to receive a portable credential dem-onstrating the skills they possess. Immigration reform could also provide the workers needed.”
In regard to policy, “while there are many reasons to be opti-
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mistic about the future of American manufacturing, government over-reach poses the biggest threat.
“A die-caster sent us a list of regulations with which he must comply. The company estimates that one of every five dollars of pretax profit is spent on comply-ing with a dizzying array of new regulations.”
One small manufacturer re-ported how an inspector at his facil-ity told him a fire extinguisher was affixed too low on the wall, making it hard for employees to see. He corrected the problem, just to have another inspector come in later to say the extinguisher was too high and, therefore violated the Ameri-cans with Disabilities Act.
“These companies are not alone. One entire industry–en-ergy–is at risk of suffocation by regulation. New ozone regulations proposed by this Administration would practically halt manufac-turing expansion and growth in America.”
Timmons said 95% of the world’s customers live outside our borders and we need more free trade agreements. “America has the highest corporate tax rate among developed countries—a big reason why it’s 20% more expensive to do business here than in any other country, before you even account for wage costs.
“When you consider where the economy is today, our growth— modest as it is–is a testament to the resilience of our free-market system and our way of life,” he concluded. ****************************
P.S.: The Heritage Foundation and Wall Street Journal’s Index of Economic Freedom shows the U.S. dropped from “free” in 2009 to “mostly free” in 2010 and is now down to 10th place in the world, mainly because of the thousands of new regulations on most phases of commerce and industry.
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Above: Russ Rosmait, FEF Key Professor at Pitt State (left) and Mo-Kan AFS’ Dwight Barnhard (second from right) pose with FEF Scholarship Recipients.
The Mo-Kan Chapter of the American Foundry Society (AFS) met on February 18th at the Ar-gosy Casino in Kansas City.
The featured speaker was Bill DeWood of REFCOTEC, Inc.
His topic was “Refractory Coatings, What’s New and What’s Important.”
DeWood, a long-time foundry industry veteran, spoke about trends in refractory coatings and how they help foundry operations with reduced cleaning time, im-proved finishes, directing gas flow and insulating cores.
He discussed application methods, supply and costs.
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