Northeast Manufacturing News • April 2015

NORTHEAST Serving Since 2005 Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont & West Virginia M ANUFACTURING N EWS Feature Editorial Drilling / Tapping Synchro Tapping Chuck Designed for minimum quantity lubrication (MQL) and dry processing for reasons of efficiency and environment... See Page 12 Vol. 11 No. 4 April 2015 See Online DIGITAL EDITIONS at www.mfgnewsweb.com Scalable Automation and Drive Technology Package for Tapping Centers SME’s EASTEC 2015 to Showcase New Technologies With manufacturing a driving force of economic growth in the North-east, as well as the United States, more than 12,000 business owners, engineers, designers, production managers and purchasing executives will gather May 12-14, 2015, at EASTEC, the East Coast’s premier manufacturing event. Pro-duced by SME, the biennial event takes place at the Eastern States Exposition in West Springfield, MA, and features more than 650 exhibitors and three days of complimentary educational sessions. Continued on Page 110 Medical Manufacturing Aqueous Cleaning Systems Serves medical manufacturers providing treatment of cardiovascular diseases... See Page 30 Siemens has put together a scala-ble package of coordinated automation and drive components specifically for tapping centers. It consists of the Sinu-merik 828D compact CNC with new panel processing units PPU2xx.3 of various performance classes as control hardware and the new variant of the Sinamics S120 Combi drive with triple overload capability. The package fea-tures the Simotics M-1PH8 Premium Continued on Page 16 Albright Technologies Passes ISO 13485:2003 Surveillance Audit Albright Technologies, a silicone prototype and low-volume production molder, has announced that it passed its ISO 13485:2003 mid-term surveil-lance audit. ISO 13485:2003 is a stan-dard issued by the International Or-ganization for Standardization that specifies requirements for a medical device manufacturer to maintain a quality management system. Albright’s notified body ISO auditor conducted an intensive two day, com-pany-wide audit in which the quality Continued on Page 110 Applying Technology Electron Beam Weld Aerospace link assemblies used in engines for civilian and military aircraft... See Page 56 Ornament Manufacturer ChemArt Partners with Students White House Christmas orna-ments and the Frank Lloyd Wright Jewelry Collection. A new partnership between ChemArt and the East Provi-dence Area Career and Techni-cal Center has given high school seniors the opportunity to explore various career op-portunities within the manu-facturing industry. The project enables students to work with ChemArt to oversee the cre-ation of an ornament for their senior class. This partnership was first forged by Chris Matteson, Deputy Di-rector for the Rhode Island Manufac-turers Association (RIMA) and Certified Continued on Page 110 KOMET SERVICE Adds Three New Partners to Its Network KOMET of America signed three new partners for its KOMET SERVICE network in January. “These new addi-tions represent a 40% increase in the size of the network in North America,” said a company spokesperson. “This latest bout of growth reaffirms both KOMET’s commitment to the platform and ongo-ing customer demand for affordable, re-liable, quality refurbishment and man-ufacture of solid carbide tooling.” The latest partners are Cutting Tool Engineers, Inc., of Pelham, AL; Continued on Page 110 Metalforming / Fabricating / Waterjet New Short Torch For 3D plasma cutting that is capable of proper beveling motion... See Page 62 ChemArt is a manufacturer in the decorative photochemical etching in-dustry as well as a manufacturer of decorative ornaments. The company, based in Lincoln, RI, manufactures the Replacement Parts Gear Couplings For positive torque transmission that compensates for radial, axial and angular shaft misalignments... See Page 70 To make name, address subscription changes contact: • Phone: 800-375-8488 • Fax: 817-488-7813 • E-mail: info@mfgnewsweb.com • www.mfgnewsweb.com Subscription Changes: Gross Publications, Inc. NORTHEAST MANUFACTURING NEWS P.O. Box 847 Grapevine, Texas 76099-0847 U.S.A. CHANGE SERVICE REQUESTED PRSRT STD U.S. POSTAGE DALLAS, TX PERMIT 4245 Advertiser Index Page 84 PAID