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Photos, Top, L-R: Buffco Engineering’s Karl “Buff” Jones Sr. Part of North Topeka Fabrication’s crew (see page 9). SWIC’s Mark Bosworth at the St. Louis NTMA meeting. Bottom L-R: C&R Mfg.’s Ron Wosel & Andrea Wosel with a laser marking system. A new CITIZEN M32-4M8 CNC lathe at Millennium Machine & Tool. Grain Belt Supply’s Doug Beauchamp at the Tulsa Industrial & Tool Show.

MACHINE SHOP & CUSTOM FABRICATIONBuffco Engineering, Mulvane, KS, Installs

Toyoda FH800 HMCNorth Topeka Fabrication, Topeka, KS: 5

Years & Installs Laser With Tube Cutting St. Louis NTMA Tours Southwestern Illinois College’s Machining FacilityC&R Mfg., Shawnee, KS, Celebrates 35

Years; Installs More Equipment Millennium Machine & Tool, Newton, KS,

Installs CITIZEN M32-4M8 CNC LatheTulsa Industrial & Tool Show Photos

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Millennium Installs CITIZEN .... 5C&R Mfg. Celebrates 35 Years .. 6ISM-KC Meets: Elects Leaders .. 8North Topeka Fab: 5th Anniver-

sary and New Laser ............ 9PSS: 20 Years & Open House 11Haas Intros New Bar Feeder ... 12Tulsa Show Photos ................ 13Mfg. Confident About Economy ...15Hartwig KC Holds Open House ...16St. Louis NTMA Tours SWIC ..... 18Editorial ....................................... 20Upcoming Issues ....................... 23KC NTMA Tours Vista & A&E .... 24Buffco Installs Toyoda ................ 26Mo-Kan AFS: Safety Issues ...... 28Upcoming Trade Shows ........ 30

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Millennium Machine & Tool (MMT), Inc., Newton, Kansas, has recently installed a CITIZEN Cincom M32-4M8 sliding head-stock CNC lathe.

The company, which is a full-service machine shop, started in 1998 in an 1800-sq.-ft. building.

Today, the company operates with 43 employees working two shifts in a 38,000-sq.-ft. facility in Newton (just north of Wichita). Plans are underway for another expansion to the facility.

The CITIZEN, purchased from McClain Tool & Technology, was needed to increase the com-pany’s capacity and efficiency. It features 3-tool simultaneous machining capabilities, 32-mm diameter capacity, 8,000-rpm dual spindles and a 12’ magazine barloader.

This brings MMT’s CNC machine tool count up to 35. These include 6 CNC lathes, 22 CNC vertical mills, 5 horizontal machining centers and 2 CNC Citizen Swiss turns. “We have been very happy with our 2nd CITIZEN,” stated Kris Wondra, co-owner and founder. “It has gone beyond our expectations in reducing cycle times for complex and complete parts. The service from McClain’s crew has been excellent.”

MMT works with most metals and plastics and can handle ev-erything from prototypes to large runs.

“We work hard to deliver quality work, on time and at a good price,” commented Nick Messer, director of sales and mar-keting. “We are very flexible and can implement changes quickly.”

MMT serves numerous indus-tries in Mid-America including: motorcycle; automotive; agricul-

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Above: The new CITIZEN M32-4M8 CNC lathe at Millennium Machine & Tool.

Above: Parts produced on the CITIZEN M32-4M8 CNC lathe at MMT.


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C&R Manufacturing, Shaw-nee, Kansas, is celebrating its 35th anniversary and has installed two new Hurco machining centers and a laser marking system.

The precision manufactur-ing firm, which offers machining, welding, assembly and inspection, started out in the basement of Ron Wosel’s home in 1979.

The Hurcos, purchased from Gage Machine Tool, include a VMX42i VMC and a second VMX30Ui 5-axis machining center with an integrated trunion table. Newer technology helps to keep customers’ costs down.

An Epilog FiberMark laser marking system (with 12” x 24” capacity) was also added to help improve efficiency and reduce turnaround times.

“We needed the additional equipment to improve our capac-ity and efficiency,” stated Wosel. “We now have eleven pieces of Hurco equipment. We are pleased with the equipment and the soft-ware is easy to operate.”

C&R’s 18 employees oper-ate in a 32,000-sq.-ft. facility with an impressive array of CNC equipment, including mills, live tool lathes, horizontal machining centers with pallets, and 5-axis waterjet cutting. Wosel noted that

the average tenure of the com-pany’s employees is 18 years.

“We have great employees that make our business efficient,” commented Wosel. “An experi-enced crew can identify ways to be more efficient like reducing

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Above: C&R Mfg.’s Ron Wosel & Andrea Wosel with a laser marking system.

Above: A new Hurco VMX30Ui 5-axis machining center at C&R Mfg.

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ISM-Kansas City, an affiliate of the Institute for Supply Man-agement, held a meeting on April 21st at the Holiday Inn & Suites in Overland Park, Kansas.

The featured speaker was Paul Buchanan, principal and founder of BUCS Analytics. His topic was, “Big Data: What is it? How can it help me?” Buchanan, a long-time industry veteran dis-cussed how predictive analytics can impact a company’s supply chain and financial results chain. His firm focuses on manufacturing and distribution companies.

In other chapter business of-ficers/directors for the next year were elected and past presidents were recognized.

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North Topeka Fabrication (NTF) is celebrating its 5th an-niversary and has installed a new Amada 4,000-watt laser cutting system with a rotary indexer for tube cutting.

Owned by long-time industry veteran Jim Lee, NTF offers laser cutting (up to 14’ in length), form-ing, punching and welding. It has 20 veteran employees that work with a wide assortment of fabri-cating equipment.

The laser system, an Amada 4,000-watt FO RI 3015 MII, is one of the first in the region in a custom shop. It can handle steel sheet/plate up to 3/4” thick and 5’ x 10’ and round tubing up to 8.66” in diameter or 6” square tubing. Angle and channels can also be cut on the system. A dual-pallet setup helps the system’s effi-ciency.

“This adds to our ability to be a one-stop shop,” noted Lee, a 40-year industry veteran. “This is faster at cutting plate and expands the capacity and capabilities of

our operation,” stated Lee.“The new laser system will

help us serve new customers that will use its features,” stated Ryan Juhnke, inside sales.

Other equipment at the facility includes a 4,000-watt fiber laser, four turret punches (including a punch/shear and a punch/laser) two 2000-watt lasers as well as several press brakes (up to 14’), shears, saws and other shop equipment. The 14’ press brake was just upgraded to a new CNC version.

NTF works with sheet metal and plate up to 5’ wide and 3/4” thick including steel, stainless steel, aluminum, brass, copper, galvanized and galvanealed. Lee

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Above: NTF’s new Amada FO RI 3015 laser system with rotary indexer for tube cutting. Inset: An example of the tube cutting capabilities.

Above: Part of North Topeka Fabrication’s crew including sales team (kneeling l-r) Mindy Worthing, Jim Lee, Scott Lee and Ryan Juhnke.


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Scott Lee, NTF’s sales manag-er and a 14-year industry veteran, commented that the additional laser allows NTF to handle more projects in house. He also noted that the company’s website is now updated and more user friendly.

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The machine tool sales and service firm offers several lines of machine tools and related products in Kansas, Nebraska and Western Missouri.

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For the third straight year, respondents to CLA’s annual survey of the manufacturing and distribu-tion industry have listed “economic and political uncertainty” as one of their top concerns over the next two years. But the trend is downward: In 2012, 51 percent listed uncertainty first; in 2013, it was 46 percent.

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In other chapter business: Herb Homeyer was recognized for being installed as the National NTMA Chair-man; R.L. Industries was welcomed as a new member and Haas Factory Out-let was welcomed as a new Associate Member.

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Usually, students are surprised at how much is expected of them in arithmetic, reading, spelling, geography, writing and history. Since most farm families in those early years considered school-ing a privilege, they saw to it that homework was completed on time. Yes, students did have to take the grade over again if they “flunked.” We mention the one-room school, not because we want to get nostal-gic about those days, but simply to remind us of the basic education goals at that time.

Parents expected their children to be able to read any type of book, instructions or contract; to be able to add, subtract, multiply and divide; write a coherent essay or letter, and know something about U.S. and world history.

Music, school plays, art, health and science depended somewhat upon each teacher’s training and background and if the PTA would help out. In those early days, many students would not get to attend high school, so the teacher had just a few years to prepare students for careers outside of farming.

Not everyone was fond of one-teacher schools. Here’s a comment from the Tuscaloosa News in 1931.

“Modern roads, modern transportation and modern minds open to the future, cannot tolerate the condition that attends the one-teacher school.” (At that time there were still a reported 150,000 such schools nationwide.) “Their aboli-tion is certain and every decrease in their number means increased intelligence for the children of the present and of posterity.”

Now that we’re down to about 200 country schools, how is that

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“increased intelligence” expecta-tion working out today? It’s hard to tell since school districts and states can be so different, but with the breakup of families, the growth of political correctness, emphasis on diversity and social concerns and threats of lawsuits, the paperwork and topics to be covered have sky-rocketed. Time for the old “basics” and even a recess period is often limited.

Since the 1970s, employ-ers have complained to us that too many high school graduates couldn’t read well enough to complete a simple job applica-tion form without help. All public schools aren’t failing their students, but some are when their graduates have to take remedial courses when entering college.

Terry Jeffrey, columnist for Creators Syndicate, recently checked on the Baltimore school system. He found that Baltimore City Public Schools spent $17,329 per student in the 2010-2011 school year. (That would be $18,083 in 2015 dollars.) Yet, eighth graders in the city continued to have reading and math scores lower than nation-al and state averages.

Jeffrey writes that Balti-more had 5,380 teachers in the 2012-2013 school year, making a student-to-teacher ratio of about 16 students per teacher.

The Baltimore public schools also had “1,690 ‘instructional aides,’ 422 ‘school administra-tors,’ 482 ‘district administrators,’ approximately 508 ‘school admin-istrative support’ personnel, 628 ‘student support services’ person-nel, 116 ‘guidance counselors,’ 86 ‘librarians’ and ‘media specialists,’ 75 ‘instructional coordinators and supervisors,’ and approximately 1,150 workers providing ‘other support services,’”

These 10,165 teachers and other staff made a ratio of about

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one for every 8.3 students, which would often have been better than that at the one-teacher school. Perhaps more money and lots of staff aren’t the only ways to turn out well- educated students.

Today, there are so many ways to get a basic education when students can reach into thou-sands of libraries for information and communicate with teachers and specialists around the world. But, a growing percentage of high school graduates could be left be-hind simply because they lack the reading, writing and math skills to take advantage of the opportuni-ties.

Fortunately, more communi-ties are putting pressure on school districts and unions, charter and private schools are grow-

ing, some 2.2 million students are being home-schooled, and school vouchers may help identify dysfunctional schools. And, tech schools, which have always been important, are finally getting some national attention.

The good news is that with on-line classes students that missed the basics can still catch up with a little help and some de-termination. As job requirements change rapidly, “lifetime learn-ing” is a necessity. But, of course, manufacturing people have always been on the cutting edge, adapt-ing to new processes, materials, equipment, tools and regulations.

So, students might marvel at the old school house, but they’ll be even more excited if you invite them to visit your shop or plant and show why manufacturing is the place of the future.

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Founded in 1996 by long-time industry veteran Karl “Buff” Jones Sr., the firm offers precision CNC machining (3-5 axis) to the aerospace industry (private, commercial and defense). It is ISO and AS9100 certified.

The new Toyoda, purchased from Maruka USA, was needed to keep up with Buffco’s strong growth. It can handle parts up to 58” x 48” and features a 14K spindle and a 130-tool magazine. “We have dealt with Maruka for many years, buying nine pieces of equipment, and have been happy with their service,” stated Jones.

Starting with just a Bridgeport mill, Buffco now has 11 pieces of CNC equipment in its 12,000-sq.-ft. facility and is continuously developing its lean processes, including going to manufacturing cells.

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As he considered the rapid growth of his company, Jones commented, “It’s all about never giving up and being a good partner.” He also noted that Valley State Bank of Wichita has really helped the firm grow.

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