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May 2007 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 message body. Plan to Participate in the CTMA/JTEG Regional Workshop: Register at https://www.ncms.org/SSL/Tobyhanna/regstration.htm Joint Technology Exchange Group & Commercial Technologies for Maintenance Activities Workshop - “Technology Transition as a Continuous Process Improvement (CPI)” in Collaboration with the Tobyhanna Army Depot July 24-26 Lackawanna Inn, Scranton, PA Working Agenda
Tuesday / 24 July 2007 /
Plenary Session 1415-1445 The Challenges of Emitters (Traveling Wave Tubes, Magnetrons) for Maintainers 1515-1545 Opportunities for Technology Insertion During Reset, Jim Mangino, Director of Production Engineering, TYAD 1545-1615 Shaping the Future: TYAD’s successful partnership with CTMA, Rick Foley, CTMA Engineering Liaison, TYAD
1615-1645 Continuous Process Improvement - Successes,
Challenges and Lessons Learned, Brad Jones, Director of Productivity
Improvement and Innovation, TYAD We welcome the following new member into NCMS: Purdue University (www.purdue.edu) Purdue University is a non-profit institution of higher education in the State of Indiana. As a result from the 2007 CTMA Symposium in San Antonio, March 26-29, the following projects are being developed into funded CTMA projects. If you have any interest in participation, please contact the listed NCMS program manager. Project ideas are still being solicited for the CTMA program. Ideas that can be submitted on-line at http://ctmaideas.ncms.org (contact Lee Patch at NCMS for assistance if needed, 734-995-4972, leep@ncms.org). Further details on the projects below can be found be clicking on the weblink for each project, or contacting the listed NCMS program manager. 1. Aircraft Panel Replacement – Bill Waddell, 231-264-9774, Wwadd49648@aol.com Utilizing advanced inspection technology, the holes on an aircraft panel adjacent to the panel to be replaced are mapped and a surface data model created with precise hole locations. The data model will then be used to create a program to drill the holes. The panel will then formed and assembled to the aircraft.
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Replacement for Hexavalent Chromium in
Surface Finishing Process Phase II
3. Modernization of Nickel Electroplating at Depots – Paul Chalmer, 734-995-4911, paulc@ncms.org. The objective of this proposed project is to introduce new nickel electroplating tooling into Department of Defense maintenance activities, including no-mask tooling, auxiliary anodes, innovative racks, partial immersion plating, and solution pumping. 4. Enhanced Wiring Integrity System Phase II – Lee Patch, 734-995-4972, leep@ncms.org Phase I of the Electrical Wiring Integrity Systems Program (EWIS) demonstrated the potential that can be realized by effective wire testing and maintenance. Phase II will extend EWIS into other DoD applications that can benefit from the technology. 5. Laser Projection of Camouflage and Stencil Patterns – Connie Philips, 386-445-2785, conniep@ncms.org Application or chalking of camouflage and stencil patterns is a manual method dependent on the skill of the technician. This project aims to reduce the time required to chalk a system and to change to another system is required to make the painting operation more efficient and to reduce the disruption of the product flow while increasing quality. 6. Smart Machine Phase III – Tony Haynes, 734-995-4930, tonyh@ncms.org This effort will deploy ‘Smart Machine’ technologies to equip different machines from different manufacturers with integrated plug-and-play condition logging capabilities that support the operating, processing, and maintenance teams to effectively optimize factory asset performance over time, and lay the foundation for additional developments, such as predictive maintenance. 7. Metal Finishing Development Program – Bill Chenevert, 734-995-7989, billc@ncms.org This project will develop a unified DOD-wide metal finishing (electroplater) workforce training program. The self-study PC based program (i.e. e-learning or computer based learning) would consist of modular lessons that cover common metal finishing processes. Specific processes include, but are not limited to, chromium, cadmium, nickel, copper, and silver plating, aluminum anodizing, and conversion coatings (for cadmium, aluminum, and magnesium).
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Erosion
Corrosion Resistant Coatings for Gas Turbine Engine Compressor Airfoils
– Debbie Lilu, 734-995-7038,
debral@ncms.org
Development, testing, and deployment of errosion corrosion resistant
coatings for engines. Continued thanks to our break sponsors during the 2007 Symposium: Solidica, RW Appleton, and Black & Rossi Participants needed on New Project Ideas: Submit and view project ideas at http://ctmaideas.ncms.org. Add your comments to new project ideas and indicate your interest in helping to define and participate in the project. 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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