Society of
Manufacturing Engineers Mid Kansas Chapter 230 - Salina, Kansas
Society of
Manufacturing Engineers
Mid Kansas Chapter 230 - Salina, Kansas
April 2008 Bulletin
Updated April 15, 2008.
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Bus tour with Chapter 052 Wichita Friday April 18th
K-State at Salina Student Projects and Meeting Thursday May 8th
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Friday April 18th. 7:00 am Lawrence Dumont Stadium Parking Lot
LEAVE AT 7:00 AM FROM LAWERENCE DUMONT PARKING LOT - BACK AT 6ish. SCHUFF STEEL COMPANY - Ottawa, Parent offices are in Phoenix AZ, this is the former Haven Steel plant, really big plant fabricating I-beams, etc.API Foils - Lawrence, Corporation is from England, they are laying aluminized foils for high gloss labels one atom at a time. All type of very interesting labels. API makes Holographic FoilsUPU Industries - Junction City - corp. is out of Ireland, makes nylon netting to protect fruit/ finished machined parts to prevent parts contacting one another . UPU also make Farmer’s baler twineHallmark Cards Plant - Topeka - A very large plant where they make cards and envelopes.CALL IN YOUR RESERVATIONS PROMPTLY !!!!!! Rocky and Marianne Slagle 316 788-3290 (leave a message on the answering machine with who and how many are coming) Cost - $10.00 Couples - $20.00 $5.00 Students |
Next Month's Meeting - Thursday May 8, 2008 at 6:30pm. Dinner and Program rates are $12 for Members and guests, $5 for students, free for presenters. K-State
at Salina - Mechanical Engineering Technlogy - Student-Industry Projects
This is usually one of the hits of the local SME Calendar Year. The K-State Salina Engineering Technology students present the projects they have been working on in their senior and sophomore design classes. The audience members then give scores on their presentation, and the business community gets a great insight into the manufacturing leaders of tomorrow. Where is the meeting? K-State at Salina College Center Ballroom. A map is here online.Use the main drive entrance from Centennial Rd. just north of Magnolia. The College Center is the building to your left as you approach the circle drive. Veer into the parking lot to the left. Gather in the College Center Lobby. IMPORTANT: Meal reservations are required! Please RSVP by May 1st with your meal count! E-mail rdandu@k-state.edu or call (785) 826-2629 to make sure you have your meal reserved. |
Recent
Meetings
Grain Belt Supply - Decmber
Our Current Chapter Chair, Greg Myers led us
on a tour of their facility in North Salina. We got to see an amazing
place with seven flat lasers, one Tube Laser with Tapping and eight press
brakes with the flexibility to fabricate large and small parts. The
computer-controlled lasers are capable of cutting sheet sizes up to 6' x 20'.
Large parts can be bent and formed on our 22', 350 ton press brake. Parts
identification is easily done by laser etching serial numbers and logos on the
part. They also have New WaterJet Cutting for exceptional edge
quality can cut any shape in a single step. It has edge quality that
doesn’t require secondary finishing. It can cut a wide range of materials
from 1/64" to over 8" thick, including metals, composites, glass, stone,
rubber and plastics. The five-axis head cuts much tighter tolerance at
higher speeds. Grain Belt has taken a small part of their original
business and completely changed the direction of the company using modern
manufacturing.
August - Geoprobe
For the August meeting, SME 230 visited
Geoprobe Systems, where Jason Eikllberry gave us a tour of the production
facility. Geoprobe manufactures soil probing equipment for a variety of
industries. The machines are self contained, with onboard diesel engines, wireless remote control, and
canbus computer system for data aquisistion and control built into the
machine. We really appreciate the tour.
UPCOMING
TOURS
If you have ideas or contacts
for tours or programs, please let us know!
Treasurer's Report
Webmaster
Report
If you have an email
address please send it to Ryan Hampl at bigrbandit@yahoo.com. Make sure to put SME somewhere in the subject line so
my spam filter doesn't pitch it. As an organization we need to
keep our costs in line, and electronic bulletin distribution
really helps.
SME is now sending their Executive Daily Briefing out by email, and it has lots of great business and manufacturing news in it. I highly recommend going to the www.sme.org website and signing up for it.
Secretary's Report
We have had a
great year with SME, but we would really like to
see some other members take on leadership roles in the chapter. The number of tours, newsletters,
parties, and other events that we enjoy are directly related to the
amount of leadership applied. We also realize that the health of our chapter is
dependent on the level of commitment of our members, and that
many of us are very busy at work. But if you do have some spare time,
even an hour a month, it would be very helpful to us. We need to have
officer elections for a new group of leaders.
Chapter Sponsors - Please support our manufacturing partners. Additional ads will be posted from time to time
Last Tour
Sponsor: Grain Belt Supply, Inc. 217
East Diamond Dr. ROBOTICS, CONTROLS, MACHINING
Mailing Address: Phone: 1-800-436-7762 (toll-free) or
785-825-1842 SME230
Advertising rates 1/2 page
(320x480) -$125.00/year Business Card -
$35.00/year COLLEGE
OF TECHNOLOGY & AVIATION 785-826-2640 or
Salina, Kansas 67402-0615
Tel (785) 827-4491
Fax
(785) 827-4494
laser@grainbeltsupply.com
salesman@grainbeltsupply.com
www.grainbeltsupply.com
Ryan Hampl, Project
Engineer
1100 W Grand Ave.- Building 2D
Salina, KS 67401
785 309
0505 ryan@bcd.com
601 N.
Broadway
Salina, Kansas
67401
Fax: 785-825-2097
Email: info@geoprobe.com
ENROLLMENT
The College of Technology & Aviation is the newest
and fastest growing of all the colleges at Kansas State
University. Approximately 1,000 undergraduate students
(70 percent male, 30 percent female) are enrolled at the
Salina Campus with 89 percent of students coming from
Kansas.
ACADEMIC PROGRAMS
The College of Technology and Aviation offers two and
four-year programs in the fields of engineering
technology and aviation (including professional pilot).
The academic programs are designed to prepare people
directly for the world of work and are very application
oriented and laboratory intensive. Students learn by
doing. The college regularly places more than 95 percent
of its graduates and each year several employers actively
recruit on campus.
College of Technology and Aviation
Kansas State University at Salina
2310 Centennial Road
Salina, KS 67401-8058
1-800-248-5782 (toll free in Kansas)
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