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The world of manufacturing technology1988 INTERNATIONAL MACHINE TOOL SHOWSeptember 7-15,1988- Chicago, Illinois, USA

TABLE OF CONTENTS

FOREWORD AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

TECHNICAL CONFERENCE STAFF

NMTBA BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND STAFF

or C O N T E N T S / T E C H » I C M . co»rEREHCE PKOGRAM ( F o r a l l S e s s i o n s )

SESSION 1A - Computer-Aided Manufacturing

COMPUTER-AIDED MANUFACTURING IN SMATiPaul Brauninger; MIS Managed, Confe

1-7IMPLEMENTING CIM ELEMENTS

CO. 1_oTHE WAGES OF CIM "Donald Ewaldz; Director, Ingersoll Engineers

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SESSION IB - Precision Machining Operations ' ^

ABRASIVE FLOW MACHINING

John Stackhouse; Executive Vice President, D y n e tics CorpNEW TECHNIQUES IN ORBITAL ABRASIONRandy Gilmore; Manager, GrafEx Div E x . n i H „

iv.. Extrude Hone Corporation 1-71SHORT STROKE HONINGPeter Thielenhaus; Executive V. P Th4 1 ,.

e v. P., Thielenhaus Microfinish i_o.=ULTRASONIC MACHININGHilary Clouser; Special Projects Mgr., Extrude Hone Corp.PRECISION TURNING/THE LATEST TEH3NOiry-vJohn F. Kane; Polymer Concrete Div l £ r »= * •

J-v. Mgr., Hardmge Brothers x l n

SESSION 1C - Factory Management IssuesA MANAGEMENT PLAN FOR TECHNOLOGY TRAN<?FPRJack Barckhoff; President, BarckhoJff^Associates, 2 n c.

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BEYOND MACHININGKeith McKee; Dir., Mfg. Product. Center, IIT Research Inst.

COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING MANAGEMENTJohn Wicker; President, Micross Manufacturing Systems, Inc.

INTEGRATING MODELING INTO A CAD/CAM SYSTEMJeff Beckmen; Product Manager, Roland DG Corporation

THE IMPACT OF CUSTOMER SERVICE

William J. Ransom; President, Ransom & Associates

SESSION ID - Machine Design Issues

BUILDING STABLE HIGH SPEED CUTTING MACHINESPeter J. Koblischek; President, Polymerbeton 1-187DESIGNING WITH PRECISION LINEAR BEARINGSGeorge Jaffe; Engineering Manager, Schneeberger, Inc. 1-207COMPUTER MODELLING OF SPINDLE GROWTHEnayat Mahajerin; Professor, Saginaw Valley State Univ. 1-255

LUBRICATION OF HIGH SPEED SPINDLE BEARINGSFritz Wunsch; Sr. Tech. Consultant, Kluber Lubrication Corp. 1-275

NEW SAFETY SOLUTIONS FOR FMS AND ROBOTICS

Wolf Windau; Product Manager, Sick Optik Elektronik, Inc. 1-289

SESSION 2A - Software for Manufacturing

COMPUTER.OPTIMIZED MANUFACTURINGWilson T. Lundy, Jr.; Executive Vice President, Optimation 2-1SOFTWARE FOR MANAGING CAPACITYDick Lilly; Chairman, ProfitKey International, Inc. 2-27SELECTING A MANUFACTURING SOFTWARE SYSTEMKishan Bagadia; General Manager, Spacesaver Software Systems 2-33

NC PROGRAM VERIFICATIONAnn E. Meister; President, Ann E. Meister Co. 2-51

SOFTWARE FOR SURFACE MACHINING IN THE 1990'S

Gordon Sweet; Manager, Engineering, Schlumberger 2-63

SESSION 2B - Modern Finishing Operations

FLEXIBLE DEBURRING SYSTEMSKlaus Przyklenk; R&D Engineer, Surf/Tran/Robert Bosch 2-73ROTOLYTIC DEBURRINGVictor Vishnitsky; Manager of Engrg., Cation/Surf/Tran 2-105TRENDS IN FLEXIBLE ABRASIVE FINISHING TOOLSAlfred Scheider; Vice President, R&D, Osborn Manufacturing 2-113

PNEUMATIC BLAST FINISHING' ; Pres ident , Empire Abrasive Equipment Corp. 2-125

r,CTr OF ELECTROSTATIC POWDERED PAINTSchard KoSlo^i ; CVS, Morton Thiokol, Inc. 2-137

SESSION 2C - industr ial Laser Systems

TAC5VRS ON THE PRODUCTION LINEx ' ^ ««-«-. Marketing Director, Coherent General, Inc. 2-159James Rux-t, r»

E R OPTIC LASER BEAM DELIVERY SYSTEMSTh as Kuqler; Applic. Engineer, Lumonics Material Processing 2-161

EXPERT SYSTEM FOR LASER PROCESS DIAGNOSTICSP t- Harris* Sr. Application Engineer, Laser Expert Inc.o- hard Saunders; Sr. Application Engineer, Laser Expert Inc. 2-163

PROGRAMMING MULTI-AXIS LASER SYSTEMS FOR 3-D MACHININGM ke Polad; Manager, Electrical Engineering, Laserdyne Group 2-169

SESSION 2D - Machine Control Technologies

.- I N SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE CONTROL TECHNOLOGIESErnest Nemeth; Marketing Project Coordinator, Allen-Bradley 2-179

r K T H G BCll PART PROGRAMMING FORMATSGarland Smith; Chief, Metalworking Specifications, DIPEC 2-207

nc-riNTNG GENERAL PURPOSE AUTOMATION CONTROLSPaul Epner; Senior Product Engineer, Allen-Bradley Company 2-213

& rOKFIGURABLE MACHINE CONTROL SYSTEMSue Dorscheid; * i c Application Engineer, Giddings & Lewis 2-225

rOMPUTER CONTROLLED MILL FEEDSjerry Saveriano; V. P., Marketing/Sales, Servo Products 2-227

SESSION 3A - FMS For Sheet Metal Parts

FTEXIBLE MANUFACTURING CELL FOR SHEETS AND PLATESAl Julian; Systems Application Engineer, W. A. Whitney Corp. 3-1

DOPfT«;Tf)H IJ3VELING FOR FMS—GETTING YOUR SHEETS IN SHAPEHenry Theis; V- p-» Marketing & Sales, Herr-Voss Corporation 3-3

R T A, HANDLING IN A FLEXIBLE FABRICATING SYSTEMWilli Flick; Director of Sales & Marketing, C. Behxens AG 3-21

PT*F<;SROOM MONITORING WITH A SMALL COMPUTERBill Hodges; Product Manager, Data Instruments Inc. 3-27

TNCREASE YOUR ?*ZSS PRODUCTIVITY WITH PSDIDennis R-Ebens; President, Rockford Systems, Inc. 3-39

SESSION 3B - Bar Coding for Manufacturing

BAR CODE BASICSHenry Johnson; Commercial Mrktg. Mgr., Training, Allen-Bradley

BAR CODE APPLICATIONS IN MANUFACTURINGDavid Czaplicki; Director, Corporate Comm., Jntermec Corp.

BAR CODE FACTORY DATA COLLECTION SYSTEMSRonald Donoghue; Sales Manager, Lowry Computer Products

SESSION 3C - MANUFACTURING RESOURCE PLANNING

THE IMPACT OF JUST-IN-TIME ON MANUFACTURING RESOURCE PLANNINGThomas Bihun; Director, Mgmnt. Info., International Jensen

MAKING MRP II A REALITYSri Nivas; Marketing Coordinator, Martek, Inc.

INVENTORY CONTROL—NOT BY ITSELFPaul Hemmen; President, The Oliver Wight Companies

COMPUTERIZED MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT AND INVENTORY CONTROLKishan Bagadia; General Manager, Spacesaver Software Systems

DYNAMIC SCHEDULING

John Wicker; President, Micross Manufacturing Systems, Inc.

SESSION 3D - Human Factors in Manufacturing

PREPARATIONS FOR MANUFACTURING IN THE 1990SKwok-sang Chui; Mgr., Installation Engrg., Cummins Engine Co.TRAINING FOR THE NEW HIGH TECH FACTORIESJames Hatch; Managing Dir., Rochester Tool & Machining Inst.ASSESSING WORK ENVIRONMENT AND ORGANIZATION CHARACTERISTICSJ"im Carlopio; Research Associate, Industrial Technology Inst.David Roitman; Senior Researcher, Industrial Technology Inst. 3-1i

HOW TOMORROW'S MANUFACTURING MANAGEMENT MUST CHANGEHelen Vassallo; A3soc. Professor, Worcester Polytechnic Inst.Howard Oden; Assistant Professor, Worcester Polytechnic Inst. 3-1"

CHOOSING A SYSTEMS INTEGRATOR

Charles Haarlammert; Systems Analyst, Belcan Corporation 3-11

SESSION 4A -Modern Forming Technologies

COST EFFECTIVE PRECISION TUBE BENDINGRonald Stange; President, Tools for Bending, Inc. 4-1AUTOMATIC TUBE BRANCH FORMING SYSTEMSWilliam Holyoak; President, T-Drill " 4-2:

FORMING COST REDUCTIONS USING NITROGEN DIE CYLINDERSGeorge Stauch; General Sales Manager, Livernois/Forward Co. 4-51

ORBITAL COLD FORGING: A NET SHAPE COLD FORMING PROCESSR. Scott Dinger; Sales Engr., Schmid Corporation of America 4-71

SIMULATION OF THE BENDING PROCESSESMatthias Kleiner; Dr. Ing., University of DortmundE. Von Finckenstein; Dr. Ing., University of Dortmund 4-79

SESSION 4B - Metal Cutting Technologies

TURN BROACHING TECHNOLOGY FOR MACHINING ROUND PARTSNorbert Reiter; Director, Heinlein Div., Krupp Widia Corp. 4-93

TURN BROACHINGGary Milcox; Sales Manager, Crankshaft Machine Company 4-105

COMPUTERIZED MANUFACTURE OF BROACH CUTTING TOOLSEdward Kokmeyer; President, American Broach and Machine Co. 4-107

IMPROVEMENTS IN WHISKER-REINFORCED CERAMIC CUTTING TOOLSRonald Peters; Mgr., R&D, Hertel Cutting Technologies, Inc. 4-117

OPTIMIZING THE PERFORMANCE OF TiN COATED TAPS

Al Barrows; Product Specialist, Greenfield Tap & Die 4-139

SESSION 4C - Cost Justification Techniques

SELLING MANAGEMENT ON EQUIPMENT ACQUISITIONSteve D. Bloom, Sr. Industrial Engineer, The'Marquardt Co. 4-159JUSTIFICATION AND PLANNING FOR FLEXIBLE FABRICATING SYSTEMSMark Barszcz; Systems Product Manager, Strippit, Inc. 4-161

A COMPUTERIZED MODEL FOR FMS ECONOMICSKwok-sang Chui; Mgr., Installations Engrg., Cummins Engine Co.David Adams; Applications Engineer, Cummins Engine Co. 4-163

GOOD PLANNING PLUS GOOD INFORMATION EQUALS GOOD JUSTIFICATIONMichael Paris; President; Michael Paris Associates Ltd. 4-179

SESSION 4D - Modern Shop Operations

THE AUTOMATED FACTORY BEGINS ON THE SHOP FLOORRainondo Zailo; President, Mandelli Incorporated 4-19"5

USING AUDITS TO UPGRADE YOUR WAREHOUSINGWilliam J. Ransom; President, Ransom & Associates 4-197

REDUCING SET-UP TIME ON CNC MACHINESYusuf Venjara; General Manager, Hitachi-Seiki, USA, Inc. 4-213

HIGH SPEED METAL SAWINGTed Slezak; Consultant, Armstrong-Blum Mfg. Co. 4-241

PARTS CLEANING MEETING NEW REQUIREMENTS

Ronald Phillips; Vice President, Midbrook Products, Inc. 4-251

SESSION 5A - Lasers in Manufacturing

LASER MACHINE GEOMETRY MEASUREMENT AND CONTROLMartin Hamar; President, Hamar Laser Instruments, Inc. 5-1DRILLING WITH HIGH POWERED LASERSJohn Ruselowski; Manager, Laser Products, Raycon 5-29SURFACE MODIFICATION USING LASERSEdward Vesely, Jr.; Senior Engineer, IIT Research Institute 5-65

INDUSTRIAL LASER MACHININGSteve Medeiros; Sales Manager, Laser Fare 5-73

ADVANCED LASER CUTTINGLeonard Migliore; Applications Manager, Araada Laser SystemsDonald Hoffman; Marketing Manager, Amada Laser Systems 5-75

SESSION 5B - High Speed Grinding

A STRATEGIC APPROACH FOR PRECISION GRINDING MACHINESK. Subramanian; Director, Ceramic Market Dev., Norton Company 5—87

PICKING THE RIGHT GRINDING MACHINE CONTROL APPROACHSara Harris; Senior Application Engineer, Giddings & Lewis 5-105

IMPROVED PART QUALITY WITH FORCE-ADAPTIVE GRINDING

Robert Hahn; President, Hahn Engineering, Inc. 5-109

SESSION 5C - Statistical Quality Control

SQC IN INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING ENVIRONMENTSFred Alsup; Systems Engineer, Texas Instruments 5-125HOW SPC SMOOTHS THE WAY FOR CIMJerry Houston; Marketing Manager, DataMyte . 5-137WHY APPLY SPC TO AUTOMATIC ASSEMBLY SYSTEMSRonald Brown; Engineering Mgr., Kingsbury Machine Tool Corp. 5-147

CAPACITANCE SURFACE TEXTURE MEASUREMENT

Donald Risko, Manager, SurfEx Div., Extrude Hone Corporation 5-155

SESSION 5D - Flexible Cells & Systems

AFFORDABLE MANUFACTURING CELLSSteve Passmore; Mgr., Production Engineering, Valtek, Inc. 5-157CRITICAL FACTORS II? ASSEMBLY SYSTEMS PERFORMANCEPeter Austin; Proposal Manager, Kingsbury Machine Tool Corp. 5-171SIMPLE AUTOMATION FOR MACHINE LOADINGWalt Hessler; Training Manager, PHD, Inc. 5-191

CNCS FOR THE FACTORIES OF THE FUTURE

Michael Stanislawski; CIM Consultant, Digital Equipment Corp. 5-205

SESSION 6A - Machine Vision for the Factory

FUNDAMENTALS OF MACHINE VISION SELECTIONAmir Novini; Director, Engineering, Penn Video 6—1VISION SENSORS FOR MACHINE TOOLSW. J. Pastorius; Dir., Strategic Accounts, Diffracto Limited 6-19VISION BASED INTELLIGENT MACHINING CELLJerry Saveriano; V. P., Marketing/Sales, Servo Products 6-29

SESSION 6B - New Cutting Tool Techniques

STRESS RELIEVING FOR INCREASED TOOL LIFERandall Moroney; Applications Engineer, Innovex 6-37

TITANIUM NITRIDE TOOL COATINGSRoger Bollier, Jr.; V. P., Marketing, Balzers Tool Coating 6—47

HIGH PERFORMANCE DRILLINGFritz Fiesselmann; General Partner, Evergreen Engineering 6-71

EXOTIC MATERIAL HOLE TAPPINGAl Barrows; Product Specialist, Greenfield Tap & Die 6-99

CERAMIC TOOLING FOR TURNING HIGH STRENGTH/HARDNESS STEEL

Kim Matherne; Project Engineer, Morton Thiokol, Inc. 6-121

SESSION 6C - Coordinate Measuring Machines

COORDINATE MEASURING MACHINES IN TURBINE BLADE INSPECTIONRichard Johnson; Manager, Digital Electronic Automation 6-141FLEXIBLE HIGH VOLUME PART INSPECTION CELLAnthony Hough; Project Engr., Digital Electronic Automation 6-151FLEXIBLE INSPECTION SYSTEM APPLICATION EXPERIENCEJim Henry; Mgr., Systems Engineering, Sheffield MeasurementTom Sabick; Applications Engineer, Sheffield Measurement

VIBRATION DAMPING FOR CMMSHarrison Williams; Mgr., Engineered Systems, Fabreeka Int'l.

QUALITY INTELLIGENCE: THE MISSING LINK IN CAD/CAMChris Garcia; Vice President, Engineering, Valisys Corp.

SESSION 6D - Transportation & Storage Systems

A FLEXIBLE AUTOMATION MATERIAL HANDLING CONCEPTLoren Shaum; President, Shaum Manufacturing, Inc.

SOFT MATERIAL HANDLING FOR SOFT AUTOMATIONMark C. Garvey; Vice President/General Manager, Garvey Corp.

AUTOMATED WORKPIECE TRANSPORTATIONRobert Pierson; General Mgr., Jervis B. Webb Company 6-20!

PALLET SYSTEMS TO INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY

James Farrell; Application Engineer, S-P Manufacturing Corp. 6-2i:

SESSION 7A - Computer Simulations for Manufacturing

SIMULATION: DESIGNING IN AN IMPERFECT WORLDKenneth Musselman; Vice President, Pritsker & Associates, Inc. 7-1RELIABILITY SIMULATIONFred Shadko; Computer £ Controls Director, Comau Systems 7-15SOLID MODELLER BASED MACHININGEugene Hartquist; Sr. Research Support Spec, Cornell Univ. 7-23

HIERARCHICAL SCHEDULING USING SIMULATION

Christopher Clapp; Sprvsr., Applications Consultants, FACTROL 7-39

SESSION 7B - Production Facilities Planning

CHOOSING THE RIGHT PRODUCTION MACHINE TOOLSAlbert Albrecht; V.P. Sales & Marketing, NATCO, Inc. 7-55MACHINERY INSTALLATION ALTERNATIVESRichard Haase; Chief Engineer, Unisorb Machinery Installation 7-69OPPORTUNITIES AT AN INCUBATOR PARK COMPLEXDallas Garrett; Dean of Tech., Daytona Beach Community College 7-79

TECHNO-ECONOMICS—A MODERN ANALYTICAL TOOL

Hal Brownfield; Sr. Vice President, Comau Productivity Systems 7-85

SESSION 7C - Non-Conventional Machining

THE ELECTROCHEMICAL MACHINING PROCESSDonald Risko; Manager, ECM Div., Extrude Hone Corporation 7-93ELECTROCHEMICAL DEBURRING OF PUNCHED METAL STRIPSTerry L. Morris; Product Manager, SpeedFam Corporation 7-95ELECTROCHEMICAL ARC MACHINING—AN ALTERNATIVE TO EDM AND ECMK. P. Rajurkar; Associate Professor, University of Nebraska

NEW STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE EDM OPERATIONSLawrence Rhoadea; President, Extrude Hone Corporation

IMPROVEMENT IN EDM PROCESS PERFORMANCE BY R.F. CONTROL

K. P. Rajurkar; Associate Professor, University of Nebraska

SESSION 7D -.Precision Metrology

IMPROVING MACHINE TOOL ACCURACYRobert Callaghan; President, Independent Quality Labs, Inc.

USING MATHEMATICAL MODELLING TO MEASURE GEOMETRIC RELATIONSHIPSL. Sanders Corbit; V. P., Sales/Marketing, Axiam Corp. 7-153

MACHINE TOOL THERMAL DISTORTION COMPENSATIONJohn Janeczko; Research Engineer, Giddings & Lewis 7-167

CAPACITANCE SURFACE TEXTURE MEASUREMENT

Don Risko; Manager, SurfEx Div., Extrude Hone Corporation 7-183

SESSION 8A - Factory Communications

INTERFACE GUIDELINES FOR BUILDING CIM SYSTEMSP. Michael Brady; Sr. Project Engr., Ralph M. Parsons Company 8-1USING THE MANUFACTURING AUTOMATION PROTOCOLGuy Nicoletti; Professor of Engineering, Univ. of Pittsburgh 8-21CNC APPLICATIONS USING MAP 3.0Jerry Johnson; Senior Development Engineer, Giddings & Lewis 8-53

SMART CARDS IN MANUFACTURING

Yusuf Venjara; General Manager, Hitachi-Seiki, USA, Inc. 8-67

SESSION 8B - Computer-Aided Process Planning

INTEGRATING CAD AND CAPP SYSTEMSGerald Graves; Assistant Professor, Louisiana State Oniv. 8-83GENERATIVE PROCESS PLANNING SYSTEMS "William Zdeblick; Tech. Dir., Metcut Research Associates Inc. 8-85GT PARTS MODELLING FOR FMS

Giles Lovelace; President, Industrial Cybernetics Co. 8-101

SESSION 8C - Waterjet Machining

MACHINING WITH WATERJETS AND HYDROBRASIVESDamon Schroter; Product Manager, Ingersoll-Rand 8-103NON-TRADITIONAL MACHINING WITH WATER AND ABRASIVE JETSCharles Johnston; Vice President, Engrg., Flow Systems, Inc. 8-105WATERJET MACHINING OF.NON-METALLICS

Damon Schroter; Product Manager, Ingersoll—Rand 8-125

SESSION 8D - Quality Control & Assurance

LASER CALIBRATION OF MACHINE TOOLSDuane Christy; Marketing Mgr., Federal Products Corporation 8-127FUNCTION: THE KEY TO SURFACE FINISH REQUIREMENTSAlexander Tabenkin; Product Mgr., Federal Products Corporation 8-147FLEXIBLE GAGING - A KEY IN FUTURE FACTORIESDavid Genest; Marketing Manager, Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing 8-195

DYNAMIC CHECKING OF NC MACHINES

Robert Darrow; Sales Manager, Movomatic USA, Inc. 8-207

SESSION 9A - Today's Industrial Robots

INTELLIGENT CONTROL & INTELLIGENT ROBOTSA.. Hsie; Associate Professor, SUNY College of TechnologyX. Y. Tu; Professor, Beijing University of Iron & Steel 9-1END-EFFECTOR CONTROLLER FOR AUTOMATED MANUFACTURINGKang Lee; Project Manager, National Bureau of Standards 9-21ROBOT 3D QUASI-STATIC SPATIAL ACCURACY EVALUATIONAlbert Sturm, Jr.; Manager, R&D, CIMCORP, Inc.Ming-Yih Lee; Project Manager, Robot VAE, CIMCORP, Inc. 9-23

SESSION 9B - New Welding Technologies

NEW TRENDS IN AUTOMATED WELDING 4 SOLDERINGCharles Miller; President, H.-.nson Systems, Inc. " 9-35

TACK WELD AUTOMATION DEVICES ' »Tzay—Chyan Wang; Mechanical Industry Research Laboratories 9—49

MECHANISATION AND AUTOMATION FOR LARGE WELDMENTSBertil Pekkari; Technical Director, J7SAB 9-59

EXPERT SYSTEMS FOR WELD PROCESS CONTROLRichard Reeves; Chairman, General Digital Industries, Inc. 9-71

ADVANCED FRICTION WELDING TECHNIQUES FOR HYDRAULIC CYLINDERS

J. R. Huber; President, A. R. D. Industries Ltd. 9-91

SESSION 9C - Tooling Today's Machines

NEW TOOLING FOR FLEXIBLE AUTOMATIONHans Pegels; Worldwide Sales Director, Krupp Widia Corp. 9-103REVOLUTIONARY TOOLING FOR THREADED HOLE MAKINGManuel Turchan; C.E.O., Turchan Enterprises, Inc. 9-121INNOVATIVE HIGH PRECISION CUTTING TOOL SYSTEMSBert Erdel; Executive Vice President, Mapal, Inc. 9-123

ADVANCES IN FLEXIBLE TOOL HOLDINGE. Pfalzgraf; President, EPB 9-161

CHIP BREAKING FOR AUTOMATED TURNING SYSTEMSMarvin Burnham; Consultant, The BDM CorporationLeonard Abbatiello; Project Mgr., Martin Marietta Systems 9-173

SESSION 9D - Factory Cost Issues

VALUING ASSETS TO EXPAND MANUFACTURINGAlan C. lannacito; President, ACI Associates, Inc. 9-207

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THE INDUSTRIAL MODERNIZATION INCENTIVE PROGRAMR. Tim Dickinson; Tech. Mod. Office, Wright-Patterson AFB 9-233

THE TRUE COST OF FOREIGN SOURCINGPerry Quick; Consultant, Quick, Finan & Associates 9-243

THE PULL OF JUST-IN-TIME COST ISSUES

Ken Meyer; Senior Manufacturing Engineer, Fenwal Division 9-269

SESSION 10A - Modern Gear Making Methods

UNIVERSAL BEVEL AND HYPOID GEAR GENERATORSKent Yunker; Controls Staff Engineer, The Gleason WorksTheodore Krenzer; Director of R & D, The Gleason Works 10-1HIGH PRODUCTION PLUNGE FORM GRINDING OF SPIRAL BEVEL GEARSKrishnaswamy Kumar; Research Project Engr., The Gleason WorksJames J. Knopp; Application Engineer, The Gleason Works 10-15

ERROR COMPENSATION CONTROL FOR GEAR GENERATIONKuang-Pu Wen; Mechanical Industry Research Laboratories 10-31

PRECISION GEAR MACHINE RESEARCH NEEDS

Maurice Howes; Senior Engineer, IIT Research Institute 10-45

SESSION 10B - Laser Applications

LASERS IN MANUFACTURINGMassimo Mattucci; V. P., Engrg., Comau Productivity Systems 10-75LASER & ELECTRON BEAM JOB SHOP TECHNOLOGY •Richard Trillwood; President, EBTEC West 10-77LASER MARKING TECHNOLOGIESBill Moran; Product Manager, Coherent General, Inc. 10-127

LASER TRAINING PAYS DIVIDENDS

Ron Smeltzer; Director, Customer Services, Coherent General 10-129

SESSION 10C - Shop Monitoring Systems

MACHINERY MONITORING SYSTEMSRonald Wharton; Electrical Engineer, Benet Laboratories 10-131TOOL AND MACHINE MONITORING SYSTEMSLarry Stockline; President, Promess, Inc. • 10-157TOOL MONITORING IN LATHES AND MACHINING CENTERSGerhard Lechler; President, Promess GmbH 10-167

TOOL MONITORING WITH INTELLIGENT INSERTSS. Ramalingam; Professor, University of Minnesota 10-181

SESSION 10D - Part Inspection Systems

FLEXIBLE INSPECTION FOR THE FACTORY ENVIRONMENTGerald Franck; Product Manager, Sheffield Measurement 10-199

AUTOMATED INSPECTION ON MACHINE TOOLSEdmund Bangs; Manufacturing Advisor, IIT Research Institute 10-219

NON-CONTACT SURFACE ROUGHNESS MEASUREMENTSKatherine Creath; Optical Engineer, WYKO Corporation 10-235

PHASE SHIFTING FOR INCREASED CONTOURING ACCURACYSteven Lange; Vice President, WYKO Corporation 10-245

ON-LINE MEASUREMENT OF INTERNAL THREADS

Wendell Whetstone; Project Engineer, Morton Thiokol, Inc. 10-255

SESSION 11A - Flexible Machining Systems

THE LOGICAL DEVELOPMENT OF FMSLeonard Kozlowski; Mgr., Mfg. Engrg., New York Air Brake Co. 11-1A NEW CONCEPT IN MANUFACTURING CENTERSKen Cope; Director of Product Development, Kaufman Mfg. Co. 11-3FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING FOR MEDIUM TO HIGH PRODUCTION FACTORIESNeil Coughlin; V. P., Sales/Marketing, Kingsbury Machine Tool 11-19

HIGH PRODUCTION TURNING

James Buckley; Exec. Vice President, Saginaw Machine Systems 11-37

SESSION 11B - The Automated Factory

A GUIDE TO UNATTENDED MACHININGSteven Beem; Program Manager, Cincinnati Milacron Inc. 11-49PITFALLS OF GT CELLS & FLOWLINESDavid Callahan; Chief, Adv'd. Tech. Design, Watervliet Arsenal 11-51AUTOMATED AUTOMOBILE ASSEMBLYHal Brownfield; Senior V. P., Comau Productivity Systems 11-77

SIMULATION FROM DESIGN THROUGH IMPLEMENTATION

Kevin Kandt; Sr. Systems Analyst, Pritsker & Associates, Inc. 11-87

SESSION 11C - Punching/Shearing/Bending

COMMON SENSE AUTOMATION FOR METAL STAMPERSCraig Schnelle; Mgr., Stamping Sys., Minster Machine Company 11-99THE OTHER CHOICE FOR FABRICATORSBurton Rolland; Division Manager, W. A. Whitney Corp. 11-119RIGHT ANGLE BLANKING SHEARS FOR IMPROVED PRODUCTIVITYHenry Theis; V. P., Marketing & Sales, Herr-Voss Corporation 11-133

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FINEBLANKING: A NET SHAPE STAMPING PROCESSR. Scott Dinger; Sales Engr., Schmid Corporation of America 11-135

PROGRAMMABLE SYSTEM FOR PRESS AUTOMATION

Ashok Bhide; Marketing Manager, Data Instruments Inc. 11-141

SESSION 11D - Advanced Finishing Processes

HUMAN RESOURCE: A MULTIDIMENSIONAL APPROACH TO DEBURRINGLinda Buzzee; Dr. Eng. Mfg., Westfield Precision Deburring 11-157ABRASIVE SELECTION AND CONTROL IN LAPPING OPERATIONSGerald Simmons; Mgr., Distribution/Sales, Chemical-Ways Corp. 11-171ABRASIVE FLOW MACHININGLawrence Rhoades; President, Extrude Hone Corporation 11-179

PRECISION FINISHING USING COATED ABRASIVE BELTSRobert Koes; Sales Engineer, Acme Manufacturing Company 11-201

BALLIZING AS A PRODUCTION TOOL

Geoff Linzell; Enginoer, Ty Miles, Inc. 11-213

SESSION 12A - Modern Workholding Techniques

MODERN WORKHOLDING TECHNOLOGYHelmut Steger; President, Forkardt, Incorporated 12-1AN ADVANCED WORKHOUDING/WORK TRANSFER SYSTEMLeo Monroe; V. P., Sales & Marketing, Taft-Peirce Mfg. 12-21VACUUM CHUCKS FOR PRECISION DIAMOND MACHININGDon Morrison; Product Manager, Moore Special Tool Co., Inc. 12-27

PALLET SYSTEMS TO INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY

James Farrell; Application Engineer, S-P Manufacturing Corp. 12-45

SESSION 12B - Sensors for Automation

CAPACITANCE SENSORS .FOR AUTOMATED MANUFACTURINGDonald Risko; Manager, SurfEx Div., Extrude Hone Corporation 12-47PROFILING FOR AUTOMATED MACHINING USING NONCONTACTING SENSORSWilliam D. Boyle; Product Manager, Kaman InstrumentationRichard Dambman; Applications Engineer, Kaman Instrumentation 12-49

SENSOR RESEARCH FOR UNATTENDED PRECISION GRINDINGT. Raj Aggarwal;'Principal Engr., Metcut Research Associates 12-59

SAFETY INTERLOCKING IN THE AUTOMATED FACTORYAndrei Moldoveanu; Prod. Mgr., Data Acquisition, Telemecanique 12-79

SESSION 12C - High Performance Drive Systems

RECENT ADVANCES IN MACHINE TOOL DRIVE TECHNOLOGYRichard L. Quickel; CNC Area Sales Mgr., GE Fanuc Automation

ROBUST AXIS CONTROL FOR MANUFACTURING SYSTEMSYieth - Jang Liang; Mechanical Industry Research Labs.

PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATORS FOR HIGH-SPEED SPINDLE SYSTEMSTojiro Aoyama; Director of Engineering, Keio University

SESSION 12D - Manufacturing Fluids Management

METALWORKING FLUID MANAGEMENTR. M. Dick; Product Manager, Cincinnati Milacron Inc.G. J. Foltz; Technical Service Mgr., Cincinnati Milacron Inc.

SUCCESSFUL COOLANT MANAGEMENT PROGRAMSWilliam Sluhan; Chief Int'l Officer, Master Chemical Corp.

CFC CLEANING AGENTS WITH REDUCED OZONE DEPLETION POTENTIALDavid Lermond; Technical Service Consultant, E.I. Du Pont

DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY HAZARDOUS WASTE MINIMIZATION PROGRAMDent Williams; Lead Mechanical Engineer, DIPEC

SkLPHABETICAL INDEX OF AUTHORS