http://engineer.industrysearch.com engineering services, environmental engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, design engineering, industrial engineers, machine engineers, automation engineers, plastics engineering Today’s enterprise has emerged as a shared resource of global manufacturing relationships. When a company outsources manufacturing, critical data for operations planning and execution is now beyond the scope of traditional Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. As a result, the enterprise has poor visibility into this fragmented and discontinuous information now held in these external systems. In creating a lean manufacturing enterprise, organizations must address key challenges inherent in outsourced manufacturing including weak supply chain visibility, limited agility associated with supply and demand matching, diminished control over quality and challenges associated with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance. Frustrating efforts to streamline outsourced manufacturing are increasing supply-chain complexity and pressure for real-time decision support. http://engineer.industrysearch.com/cgi-bin/portal2/main.plx?file=14410%2etxt Terre Haute, Indiana – ChemGen Corp., a privately-held biotechnology company that specializes in the development of products through the use of microbial fermentation technology, has aquired the former Alpharma fermentation facility in Terre Haute. http://engineer.industrysearch.com/cgi-bin/portal2/main.plx?file=14404%2etxt Elk Grove Village, IL Meiji Corporation, supplier of the Miracle Boy ultra-fine oil filtration systems, announced that Michigan Automotive Compressor, Inc. (MACI) in Jackson, Michigan recently purchased several Miracle Boy high performance oil filtration systems. With recent price hikes causing the price of crude oil to exceed $100 per barrel of oil, MACI took a proactive step to reduce their oil expenditures and carbon footprint. Testing started in 2004 and has proven the Miracle Boy filtration system to reduce oil usage in main vacuum pumps for inspection machines and die cast machines by over 92%, resulting in a reduction of global green house gases from 26.4 ton to nearly zero! Mr. Lee Kline, Production Engineer, said that 85% was written off in one year due to savings of materials and labor and that it was a good decision to purchase this system. http://engineer.industrysearch.com/cgi-bin/portal2/main.plx?file=14399%2etxt MAG Cincinnati clears the table and collects all the chips in high-value aluminum machining, introducing industry's highest output 5-axis horizontal machining center for clean, contained cutting of parts up to 2 x 4 meters. Designed especially for high-throughput, precision machining of next-generation aircraft components, the new HyperMach H4000 adapts proven modular components from the company's advanced high-speed vertical profiler family. http://engineer.industrysearch.com/cgi-bin/portal2/main.plx?file=14398%2etxt http://engineer.industrysearch.com/cgi-bin/portal2/main.plx?file=14389%2etxt CCE, a provider of CAD/CAM data translation and viewer products, has announced that EnSuite Version 2 - its multi-CAD viewing, translation and productivity software - has been upgraded to support point cloud files. EnSuite Version 2 can be used to import point cloud files in .xyz and .csv files that are typically produced on a coordinate measuring machine (CMM), laser scanner, or other inspection equipment. http://engineer.industrysearch.com/cgi-bin/portal2/main.plx?file=14387%2etxt Ophir-Spiricon, the global leader in precision laser measurement equipment, announces the II-VI-CO2-58 Industrial Laser Beam Analyzer. The II-VI-CO2-58 is a laser beam profiling system that enables the quantitative measurement and viewing of high power CO2 beams. The system diagnoses faults quickly, in real-time, and corrects issues related to beam stability, alignment, tuning, and optimization. http://engineer.industrysearch.com/cgi-bin/portal2/main.plx?file=14381%2etxt The company will spend $58 million for additions that will bring 280 workers from an old downtown site to a newer facility on the north side of town. http://engineer.industrysearch.com/cgi-bin/portal2/main.plx?file=14366%2etxt AMT Machine Systems, LTD, located in Columbus (Franklin County), has been awarded a $949,725 Innovation Ohio Loan Fund loan at an interest rate of five and one quarter percent for a five year term. AMT is a growth-stage developer and manufacturer of "simplified embedded robotic" components and systems for the $28 billion automation industry. http://engineer.industrysearch.com/cgi-bin/portal2/main.plx?file=14356%2etxt A custom integrator of turnkey automated inspection machines for quality control, Cincinnati Automation "saw the light" — adopting a new LED backlit conveyor to convert automotive part gaging from a step-by-step to continuous process, more than tripling throughput. http://engineer.industrysearch.com/cgi-bin/portal2/main.plx?file=14335%2etxt WEST TERRE HAUTE, Indiana - Marion Manufacturing, a woman-owned family business that provides precision machining services to the heavy equipment, aerospace and military markets, will expand its operations here and more than double its workforce by 2011. http://engineer.industrysearch.com/cgi-bin/portal2/main.plx?file=14333%2etxt SOMERSET, KY. - Local leaders joined Fifth District Congressman Hal Rogers to dedicate the newest building in Valley Oak Technology Complex and welcome its two new high-tech tenants to the region. http://engineer.industrysearch.com/cgi-bin/portal2/main.plx?file=14318%2etxt reThink Engineering, Inc., a value added reseller of CAD/CAM software, published the webpage www.machinetoolmodels.com. This page allows users of GibbsCAM machine simulation software to purchase computer models of machine tools. Each model is configured to run inside the GibbsCAM application. reThink Engineering has worked with a number of machine tool builders and distributors to gather data about machine tools. Launched with 20 machine models, new models will be added each week. Current models include 3-, 4- and 5-axis mills as well as 2- axis lathes and multi-axis lathes. Manufacturers include Doosan, Haas, Hardinge, Mazak and Okuma, among others. Pricing for the models vary with machine complexity. reThink Engineering’s objective is to provide high quality models at prices below the cost of internal development. http://engineer.industrysearch.com/cgi-bin/portal2/main.plx?file=14316%2etxt Covington, Ohio - AIRAM® Press Co. Ltd., combines its engineering application expertise and in-depth press knowledge to offer a diverse range of standard and custom engineered pneumatic presses, 3 to 210 tons, capable of meeting general stamping needs, piercing, blanking, forming, cut-off, coining, embossing, laminating and assembly type operations. http://engineer.industrysearch.com/cgi-bin/portal2/main.plx?file=14311%2etxt Working in close cooperation with systems integrator Sieghard Schiller GmbH, a specialist in automated manufacturing, ABB has upgraded its IRB 6640 robot to create a new “clean room” version. The project was undertaken in response to the strict specification required for thin film production processes used in solar module manufacturing; where cleanliness is a critical factor. http://engineer.industrysearch.com/cgi-bin/portal2/main.plx?file=14309%2etxt