Society of Manufacturing Engineers
Chapter 173
Los Angeles & Ventura County, CA

Selected Past Events

  • Joint tour with APICS-SFV: Rico Reeds International, Sun Valley, CA
  • "Introduction to Lean Manufacturing" course (June 09)
  • SME Ch. 173 tour of Ultraviolet Devices Inc., Santa Clarita: Lean, demand-flow production system, six sigma success story (April 09)
  • JPL tour with SME Chapters 27, 153, 233 & 234 (Feb 09)
  • San Fernando Valley Engineer's Council banquet. Keynote speaker was Col David R. Scott, Gemini VIII pilot and former Director of NASA, Dryden (Feb 09)
  • Pacific Design & Manufacturing Show, Anaheim (Feb 09)
  • APICS-SFV Plant Tour, Classic Wire Cutting, Valencia (Jan 09)
  • Fadal Open House & Tour (2008)
  • HAAS Tour (2008)
  • CSUN fuel cell tour (2007)
  • All WESTECs
  • San Fernando Valley Engineer's Council awards banquet. Special Award Presentation by Brig. Gen. Chuck Yeager.
  • The Nanotechnology Revolution Conference - San Fernando Valley Engineer's Council
  • Speaker, Brian J. Bastow, APICS Ventura County Chapter 101 - “Getting Users Ready to Successfully Implement a New System"
  • Joint Meeting with APICS San Fernando Valley - " LEAN: Human Aspects to Achieving Bottom Line Improvements"
  • Plant tour, Bodycote Thermal Processing facility, Tarzana - Vacuum and endothermic heat treating; alpha case heat treatment of titanium; vacuum and inert atmosphere brazing
  • CSULA Open House - College of Engineering & Technology
  • Speaker, Dr. James Leslie, CEO of Advanced Composite Products and Technology Inc. - Advanced Composites
  • Speaker, Stratasys - Rapid Prototyping FDM (Fused Deposition Modeling)
  • Demo, Go-Engineer - SolidWorks & PDMWorks
  • Technical Presentation, CASA 233 - MEMS
  • AIAA Presentation, Michael Zyskowski, Microsoft - Microsoft Flight Simulator