Midwest Manufacturing News • July 2015

MW M W MIDWEST Vol. 9 No. 7 M ANUFACTURING N EWS Serving Since 2007 Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin Feature Editorial Automation Robotic Inspection Touch-and-scan 3D laser scanners for inline robotic inspection to automate inline quality control... See Page 12 July 2015 See Online DIGITAL EDITIONS at www.mfgnewsweb.com GPI Adds Facility Expansion, Personnel, ISO Certification Performance Machinery Opens New Technical Center and Showroom Performance Machinery, LLC, the exclusive source for several MC Machin-ery Systems products in Michigan and Windsor, Ontario, has announced the opening of a new 9,000 sq. ft. technical center. The recently purchased facility will host the dealer’s extensive training program. It is also home to a showroom displaying Mitsubishi MV series CNC wire EDM, EA series CNC sinker EDM and DV series milling machines. “This new technical center will provide our customers with local sup-port and ongoing training,” said Dan Continued on Page 108 Micro Manufacturing Nano Parts Gauging devices for high precision grinding of parts that are measured in the nano technology range... See Page 46 GPI Prototype re-cently announced the completion of a facility expansion to double office space to accom-modate new staff brought in to handle rapid company growth. In addition, existing ware-house space has been remodeled to ac-commodate six more direct metal machines. Historically focused on building metal proto-types, GPI has been grow-ing the portion of its business dedicated to addi-tive manufacturing. “In preparation for this strategic commitment, GPI added two key individuals to its production Continued on Page 108 AT&F Awarded AISC Certification for Bridge Projects AT&F, a large-scale metal fabrica-tor, has been awarded certification by the American Institute of Skilled Con-struction (AISC). This now allows AT&F to perform work on a variety of bridge projects requiring an AISC-cer-tified contractor and expands the ways in which AT&F can serve its customers. “We want to be able to build com-ponents for accelerated bridge con-struction projects for our customers, and this certification will help us de-liver,” said Paul Horbaly, Business De-velopment Representative at AT&F. Continued on Page 108 Applying Technology Aerospace Machining Challenges KMP manufactures complex aerospace components in titanium... See Page 56 Chip-in-Spindle Detection System After sev-eral years of collaboration with two in-dustrial associ-ates from the Allgäu region o f G e r m a n y, GROB engi-neers have fi-nally found a solution for dealing with chips during a tool change: the GROB motor spindle with an intelligent spindle nose. With this GROB innovation, after an automatic tool change, the tool interface checks EDM Machinery & Consumables Hybrid Wire Designed for maximum speed (average 30% higher) superior accuracy... See Page 68 Auto Supplier Selects Kansas City for Manufacturing Operation with ultra-precision for the presence of chips. Because this chip-in-spindle Continued on Page 108 The Kansas City Area Develop-ment Council has announced that US Farathane LLC, a source of plastics manufacturing that has supplied the automotive industry for more than 40 years, will locate its newest manufac-turing operation in Riverside, MO, part of the greater Kansas City area. The company will hire 267 over the next three years and will invest $51.6 mil-lion. Continued on Page 108 Plant Safety Compact LED Signal Light Provides status change indication for machine tools, robots, vehicles... See Page 90 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: CHANGE SERVICE REQUESTED Gross Publications, Inc. MIDWEST MANUFACTURING NEWS P.O. Box 847 Grapevine, Texas 76099-0847 U.S.A. PRSRT STD U.S. POSTAGE DALLAS, TX PERMIT 4245 Advertiser Index Page 81 PAID