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| September 2010
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. We welcome the following company into NCMS: GM Powertrain Transmission Manufacturing Engineering (www.gm.com/vehicles/innovation/powertrain-technology/transmissions ) As the world’s largest supplier of automatic transmissions, GM Powertrain is able to offer a wide range of smooth-shifting, reliable and efficient transmissions for cars and trucks.
You Can Still Plan to Join Us at the: Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony at Tobyhanna Army Depot (TYAD) Automated Intensifier Measurement System (AIMS) Wednesday, 29 September 2010 This CTMA project has developed and deployed, with TYAD, automated test equipment for night vision tubes which has the ability to replace the outdated manual test equipment presently used by government and industry. This capability will reduce cycle time for returned night vision devices and significantly reduce costs by increasing the reuse of image intensifier tubes. If you are interested in attending this ceremony and demonstration, send an email to Debbie Lilu at debral@ncms.org.
Defense Manufacturing Symposium: Tampa, Nov. 15-18 http://www.sae.org/events/dod/ Plan to join us at the Maintenance Symposium. In the Great Ideas Competition, three (of six total) CTMA projects are being judged including:
In addition, we plan on being repeat champions for the best large booth competition. This year the NCMS/CTMA booth (#327) will feature four project teams:
Kudos to the CTMA project: Volumetric Accuracy for Large Machine Tools (VALMT), winner of the 2010 R&D 100 Award. VALMT, which pioneered an innovative process in volumetric error compensation for large machine tools, is the fifth R&D 100 Award NCMS has received. Widely recognized as the “Oscars of Innovation,” the annual R&D 100 Awards honor excellence in high technology products. VALMT will save ship and aircraft manufacturers millions of dollars. Machine tool calibrations used to take an entire week. VALMT allows the same process to be performed in a day. The benefits of this technology arent just time savings; it will allow for more accurate parts, reducing or eliminating expensive re-work during assembly. The CTMA project teamed private industry (Automated Precision Inc., The Boeing Corporation, Siemens Energy and Automation, and MAG Cincinnati Machine, LLC) and the Department of Defense (Warner Robins Air Force Logistics Center, Naval Foundry and Propeller Center, Fleet Readiness Center East, and the Anniston Army Depot) , quickly developing the groundbreaking technology affordably, and with less risk than alternative go it alone R&D methods. Winners of the R&D 100 Awards are selected by an independent judging panel and the editors of R&D Magazine. The publication and its online portal serve research scientists, engineers, and other technical staff members at high tech industrial companies and public and private laboratories around the world. In addition to the award, Northrop-Grumman recently selected VALMT to improve accuracies on their large-volume machine tools used for production of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. The NCMS contact is Tony Haynes, tonyh@ncms.org, 734-995-4930. Save the Date: 2011 CTMA Symposium April 4-6 Quantico, VA 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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