West Manufacturing News • December 2012

M ANUFACTURING N EWS WEST Vol. 1 No. 12 December 2012 Serving Since 2012 Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington & Wyoming Feature Editorial Automation Robotics Manufacturing Systems Flexible Manufacturing Crankshaft assembly and piston stuffing... See Page 14 Online Publication: www.mfgnewsweb.com Kurt Donates Vises to Workshops for Warriors OMAX Corporation Kurt Manufacturing Announces Major d onated eig ht new vises to Workshops for Headquarters Warriors, an organiza-tion that helps veterans Expansion transition into civilian life through training, certification, and place-ment. The Kurt vises will be used to convert machining center spin-dles into functioning workstations to train veterans in precision machining operations. “We are ecstatic that Kurt stepped in and saved the day by donat-ing the industry lead-ing Kurt D688 vises,” said Hernán Lui s y Prado, the President of Workshops for War-riors. Workshop for War-riors is a San Diego Continued on Page 8 OMAX Corporation designs, man-ufactures, markets and supports its ad-vanced abrasive waterjet machines and accessories from its manufacturing fa-cility and corporate headquarters in Kent, WA. Now, the company is an-nouncing the largest expansion of its campus since opening the Kent facility in 1999 by adding a new 22,000 sq. ft. building that will extend OMAX’s training, research and development Continued on Page 8 Controls UltiMotion Integrated control for complex geometries... See Page 30 SU-matic Comes to North America Morris Group, Inc. announced that it has entered into an exclusive business agreement with SU-matic, a subsidiary of Suhner Holding AG of Switzerland, to supply Okuma lathe, multitasking machine and ma-chining center tool-ing to the N orth A m erican m etal-working industry. B rad M orris , President of Morris G ro up, Inc., and Otto H. Suhner, Pres-id ent of S u hner Continued on Page 8 Aerospace Dynamics International, Inc. (ADI) will increase its titanium ma-chining capacity approximately 40% to support Airbus A350 and Boeing 787 programs with a $90 million invest-ment that includes a new 120,000 sq. ft. facility and acquisition of eight 5-spin-dle, 5-axis MAG XTi profilers. Upon completion, the expansion will give ADI approximately 600,000 sq. ft. under roof, and require more than 200 new employees to fully staff the opera-tion. This new order follows ADI’s 2011 purchase of two MAG 5-spindle 3-axis XTi profilers, which were part of an earlier plant expansion that included Continued on Page 7 Increase in Titanium Machining Applying Technology Abrasive Flow Machining Ganassi Racing increases racing performance... See Page 36 Metalforming Fabricating Waterjet CNC Punches with28XX Tooling system with air/hydraulic clamping... See Page 48 Brad Morris, President, Morris Group, Inc. and Otto H. Suhner, President, SuhneHolding AG, shake hands as a new agreement is formed between the two companies. Siemens Product Lifecycle Man-agement (PLM) Software and Sandvik Coromant, suppliers of cutting tools and tooling systems for the metal-working industry, launched an initia-tive to standardize the structure and content of cutting tool vendor catalogs. The effort will help manufacturers ad-dress the complexity of obtaining cutting Continued on Page 8 Siemens and Sandvik Coromant to Standardize Vendor Catalogs for Cutting Tool Industry Fasteners Keyless Bushings Heavy-duty models now available in 20, 40 and 60 mm... See Page 58 Literature & Web Tutorials OMAX and MAXIEM Mobile websites with quick access to product lines.... See Page 62 Subscription Changes: To make name, address subscription changes contact: • Phone: 800-375-8488 • Fax: 817-488-7813 • E-mail: info@mfgnewsweb.com • www.mfgnewsweb.com CHANGE SERVICE REQUESTED Gross Publications, Inc. WEST MANUFACTURING NEWS P.O. Box 847 Grapevine, Texas 76099-0847 U.S.A. DALLAS, TX PERMIT 4245 PRSRT STD U.S. POSTAGE Advertiser Index Page 55 PAID