January 2003

Welcome to The CTMA Connector, a monthly newsletter designed to provide news and ideas about the Commercial Technologies for Maintenance Activities (CTMA) program. The CTMA program is a joint Department of Defense/National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (DoD/NCMS) effort promoting collaborative technology development between industry and the DoD maintenance and repair facilities. This newsletter highlights ongoing projects, serves as a forum for promoting new project ideas, and provides other news of interest to the program. Our goal is to stimulate your participation and solicit your input. Feel free to submit items for the newsletter as well as any suggestions to make it more useful. More information about the program can be found at http://ctma.ncms.org/. To subscribe or unsubscribe to the CTMA Connector, send a message to listmanager@ncms.org with "subscribe CTMANewsletter" or "unsubscribe CTMANewsletter" in the subject line.

Register now for the 2003 CTMA Symposium (on-line registration at http://ctma.ncms.org)

Scheduled for 1-3 April 2003 at the WestCoast Hotel in Salt Lake City, Utah, we are continuing to emphasize new technology developments focused upon the maintenance and repair community. Ongoing projects within the Department of Defense will be presented in several tracks including metals, non-metals, electronics, concurrent engineering/advanced business practices. In addition, the event will feature hands-on demonstrations of ongoing technology development as well as guest speakers. Confirmed plenary speakers include Vice Admiral Keith W. Lippert, Director of the Defense Logistics Agency who will discuss providing parts support to maintenance activities; Major General Scott Bergren, Commanding Officer of the Air Force Ogden Air Logistics Center, Colonel Robert E. Gerlaugh, Commanding Officer of the Marine Corp Multicommodity Maintenance Center, Barstow, CA, and Dr. James Meng, Executive Director at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Keyport, WA, all of whom will address technical/manufacturing hurdles they face in their depot facilities.

Co-sponsoring Organizations

We are pleased that the following organizations are again cosponsors to this years Symposium:

Symposium Objectives

  • More widely shared technology development efforts
  • Seek synergies, expand collaborations between projects and between programs
  • Increase DoD and industrial participation in partnerships for technology development

Registration Fee

Since this is a working symposium, the registration fees are only high enough to cover costs incurred during the symposium, such as presentation rooms, A/V equipment, and food.  Also, to keep the size of the Symposium to levels conducive to participation, we are capping attendance at 300.

  • Before March 15 – $200 per person for NCMS Members, DoD employees, and speakers, $250 for all others
  • After March 15 – $250 per person for NCMS Members, DoD employees, and speakers, $300 for all others

    Pre-Symposium Workshops

New this year will be pre-symposium workshops designed to help you address issues you are facing in your facility today.  At no added cost, these workshops are being held on Monday, 31 March from 2-5 pm.  Right now, two workshops are being offered:

  1. Knowledge Based Product and Process Development – an executive overview on how Toyota performs product and manufacturing process development with 2-4 times the speed and half the cost of their competition (Mike Gnam, NCMS)
  2. Capturing Knowledge from the Aging Workforce – a look at an economical, multi-media approach for knowledge capture and transfer. (Ken Johnson, NCMS)

Accommodations

The 2003 CTMA Symposium is being held at the WestCoast Salt Lake Hotel in Salt Lake City, Utah.


161 West 600 South
Salt Lake City, UT 84101
PHONE: (801) 521-7373
FAX: (801) 524-0354
RES: (800) 325-4000

A block of rooms have been secured for the Symposium at the special rate of $72.  Please contact the hotel directly for room reservations.

Call for Presentations

We invite project presentations that currently involve Department of Defense depots.  Please send a title and contact information to Chuck Ryan.

Project Opportunities

Environment Stabilization System (ESS)

A Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project, lead by Logis-Tech,  for the Department of the Navy has developed a dynamic maintenance program of corrosion prevention utilizing controlled humidity protection (CHP).  This technology has demonstrated as much as an 8 to 1 return-on-investment, with capitalization costs often recovered in less than one year. Possible applications include controlling complex industrial processes, protection of commercial and personal property, and preservation of sophisticated military weapons systems.  Systems can be custom tailored to control the customer's selected environment to their unique specifications and requirements.

If you are interested in initiating a project to assess these systems, contact Chuck Ryan, 734-995-4905.

New Project Ideas (click on topics to see descriptions)

 

1 Reconfigurable Tooling Systems
2 OptiCam: Optical Generation of 3D Models for Computer-Aided Manufacturing
3 Robotic Painting Optimization
4 Electronics Lead-Free Assembly: Isotropically Conductive Adhesives
5 Laser Engineering Net Shaping, II
6 Laser Coating Removal
7 Light Armored Vehicle Condition Based Maintenance
8 Remote Turbine Engine Borescope Inspection
9 Flat Wire Deposition Process
10 Safety Line Track Manufacturing Process
11 Advanced Inspection and Repair Cell for Radomes

 

We appreciate your feedback. Please contact Chuck Ryan with suggestions or input on other topics that would be of interest to you in this newsletter. The CTMA Program is sponsored by the Department of Defense; the content of this newsletter does not necessarily reflect the position or policy of the government; no official endorsement should be inferred.


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National Center for Manufacturing Sciences