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January 2005 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 listserv@listserv.ncms.org with "subscribe CTMANewsletter" or "unsubscribe CTMANewsletter" in the subject line. 2005 CTMA Symposium "Where Ideas Become Reality"
April 18 - 21 at the Tacoma Sheraton, Tacoma, Washington.
Keynote speakers include: Congressman Norm Dicks, Washington 6th District and a senior member of the House Appropriations Committee,
Vice Admiral Phillip Balisle, Commander, Naval Sea Systems Command, and David Pauling, Assistant Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Maintenance Policy, Programs, Resources, and Material Readiness
Join us for networking, technical project reviews in four concurrent tracks, and putting forth your project ideas for possible inclusion in the CTMA program.
Information and Registration at http://ctma.ncms.org NCMS Welcomes New Member Companies Working with the Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT), we welcome the following companies into NCMS. We are working with each of these companies to identify potential project involvement and welcome others that might be interested in working with these organizations. Let Chuck Ryan know of your interest (chuckr@ncms.org) Advanced Assembly Automation Division (www.assembly-testww.com): Offers assembly system solutions ranging from Lean Manufacturing cells to fully automated assembly and test systems. Automatic Feed Co. (www.automaticfeed.com): Designer and manufacturer of coil handling and press feeding automation systems. Bardons & Oliver, Inc. (www.bardonsoliver.com): Manufactures standard and custom lathes for a broad range of industries. Bertsche Engineering Corp. (www.bertsche.com): Designer and builder of high performance standard and custom machining tolls, automatic toolchangers and robotics. Bosch Rexroth Corporation (www.boschrexroth-us.com): Provides a complete range of best-in-class products, systems and services for drive, control and motion technologies. Their solutions serve industries like machine tool, automation, packaging, printing and converting, electronic assembly, semiconductor, material handling, plastics, medical, heavy industry, automotive body and assembly, and wood industries. Charmilles Technologies Corporation (www.charmillesus.com): Leading supplier of EDM machine tools in the U.S. and Canada. Products are used extensively at all tiers of the automotive and other major U.S. and Canadian industries. Drake Manufacturing Services, Inc. (www.drakemfg.com): Provides superior machine tools and ongoing service that meet and exceed customer expectations Flow International Corporation (www.flowcorp.com): Inventor of abrasive waterjet technology, is the world leader in the development and manufacture of ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) waterjet systems. Gehring L.P. (www.gehring-lp.com): Leading corporation for honing technology worldwide. The Gleason Works (www.gleason.com): Global leader in the technology of gearing. This includes machinery for the production, finishing and testing of gears as well as a worldwide support system which provides tooling, replacement parts, field service application development services, gear design and inspection software, training programs, engineering support and machine rebuild and upgrade services. Hardinge Inc. (www.hardinge.com): Full service machine tool solution provider, including turning, milling, grinding, and workholding solutions. They help their customers successfully make complex parts at the lowest possible cost. Moore Tool Company (www.mooretool.com): Providing precision machine tools and measuring machines. Nuvonyx, Inc. (www.nuvonyx.com): Fabricates the next generation industrial lasers. These are direct diode or semiconductor laser, which are the most efficient and most compact laser in the world. Nuvonyx, specifically makes the highest power industrial laser system in the world, and they are the only U.S. owned manufacture of direct diode laser systems. Positrol, Incorporated (www.positrol.com): Manufacturer of standard and special chucks and expanding arbors. Preco Industries, Inc. (www.precondustries.com): Leading manufacturer of high-tech die cutting, screen printing, insert-mold decorating, and laser systems utilized in processing non-metallic materials. PIA Group, Inc. (www.piagroup.com): Leader in integrated systems for the automated assembly of discrete parts. They offer a broad range of branded technologies allowing them to be a single source for a complete line of integrated automated assembly and testing systems. PRIMA North America, Inc. (www.prima-na.com): Manufacturer of turnkey standard-built 2D and 3D laser material processing equipment and industrial CO2 and Nd:YAG lasers for users worldwide. Remmele Engineering, Inc. (www.remmele.com): Leader in contract manufacturing and the design and build of custom equipment for leading-edge companies worldwide. Their wide range of expertise includes consumer products, electronics, defense systems, aerospace components, medical devices, semiconductor equipment, novel drug delivery systems, in-vitro diagnostics, energy storage, and pumps, controls & actuators. Rimrock Automation (www.rimrockautomation.com): World leaders in supplying industrial robots and systems, and now affiliated with Rimrock Corporation - the premier supplier of automation equipment for the high-pressure die-casting and foundry industry. Sunnen Products Company (www.sunnen.com): Global leader in the manufacture and distribution of bore sizing and finishing equipment, engine rebuilding equipment, and tooling and abrasives since 1924. UNIST, Inc. (www.unist.com): Provides manufacturing of equipment to most efficiently accomplish metal working operations with minimal fluid consumption. Zagar Incorporated (www.zager.com): Machine Tool Builder specializing in the mass production and/or the qualification of holes. With our crank style design multiple spindle drilling and tapping head Zagar can design machinery with more rotating cutting tools in a smaller area. Our machines are used in the automotive, aerospace, electrical, electronic, propulsion, off-road construction equipment, hydraulic, pneumatic and general job shop industries to name only a few. New Project Ideas (click on topics to see descriptions), if you are interested, contact the project manager listed. 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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