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ISO & Lean: Twin Strategies for Success
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a CAMT webinar on May 23
Have you focused on reducing waste and optimizing processes through Lean Manufacturing techniques, yet still struggle with issues elsewhere in your organization? Or, have you focused on quality management systems through ISO compliance, but see your production lines suffering from lackluster performance?
Lean Manufacturing and ISO techniques share many common attributes: both are focused on meeting customer needs through optimized processes using the PDCA (Plan, Do, Check, Act) method and utilizing metrics to ensure improvements. Yet Lean & ISO have unique benefits to boost quality and profitability. Join us on May 23rd to learn how applying a dual approach in your facility can help you achieve a complete competitive advantage.
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| Red Canyon Software Secures SBIR Grant | |
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an article from InnovatioNews
Red Canyon Software has been awarded a Phase 1 NASA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant to further develop software to increase spacecraft in-flight self-monitoring and correction capabilities. Red Canyon used the expertise of Joni Richards, a NASA technology transfer advisor placed with CAMT through a five-year economic development-focused Space Act Agreement, to research NASA needs and help develop a successful proposal.
Read full article here.
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Innovative Manufacturer: Colorado Cold Spray
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High Pressure Cold Spray Repairs & Surface Layering
Colorado Cold Spray, Pueblo, CO  Nick Laydon, Engineering and Operations Manager Briefly describe your company's products and services.
High Pressure Cold Spray is a material deposition process whereby solid metal particles are accelerated through a robotic and computerized system at supersonic speeds at a substrate.
What makes your company unique?
Cold spray technology is unique in that it can apply identical, similar, or dissimilar additive material (metal powder) to a substrate without changing the material properties of the substrate.
How does your company innovate?
Colorado Cold Spray innovates by qualifying formerly unthinkable repairs and material surfacing applications.
Where do you see your company in five years?
The pioneering presence, ability, and willingness to develop the technology for use in any industry will make Colorado Cold Spray one of the leaders in the technology for many years to come. In five years, we envision High Pressure Cold Spray will be used in applications currently not even imagined.
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| IndustryWeek Articles of Interest | |
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Additive Manufacturing Brings New Life To Old Tools New NAMII grant matches industry with academy to bring 3-D printing to the foundry. Read full article here.
The Myth of Profit or Loss
Manufacturing is the US is not a matter of profit or loss. The reality is more complex--more like American politics. Read full article here.
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