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HMonoring etalforming
Excellence
To honor excellence in metalforming, the Precision Metalforming Association presents its annual Awards of Excellence. PMA presented the following companies with a plaque, commemorative flag and $1500 cash prize in a special ceremony held during FABTECH, November 12-14 in Las Vegas. Please join us in celebrating this year’s winning entries.
Excellence in Design
Honeywell Aerospace
Honeywell Aerospace, Phoenix, AZ, received the 2012 Higgins-Caditz Design Award, for work related to its HTF700-series engine. To manufacture the com- bustor assembly for its 7000-lb.-thrust propulsion engines, Honeywell fabricates 16 tiled heat shields. Previously, these heat shields were machined from a cast material, weighed 3.8
oz and cost $910 per combustor. Honeywell Aerospace engineers Thomas Johnson and Ronald Pardington redesigned the heat shield as a stamping, reducing its weight and cost.
Working closely with Cygnet Metal Stamping & Fabricating Inc., Glendale, CA, the engineers developed the new stamped part from 0.040-in.-thick Haynes sheet. As a result, part weight was reduced by more than half, and its cost by more 85 percent compared to the machined heat shield.
The Design Award, created by the Worcester Pressed Steel Co., Worcester, MA, and sponsored by The Quarterly Club, recognizes a manufacturing company for
2012 Award Winners Higgins-Caditz Design Award
Honeywell, Phoenix, AZ
Ulbrich Award for Competitive Excellence in Product Development
Pridgeon & Clay, Inc., Grand Rapids, MI
Waukesha Metal Products Excellence in Quality Award
Pridgeon & Clay, Inc., Grand Rapids, MI
Link Systems Process Control Award
Ramcel Engineering, Northbrook, IL
Pitcher Insurance Agency Safety Award
Unirac, Inc., Albuquerque, NM
A.R. Hedberg Training & Education Award
The Diemasters, Elk Grove Village, IL
Zierick Manufacturing Corporation Productivity Award
Eclipse Manufacturing Co., Sheboygan, WI
Clips & Clamps Industries Educational Institution Award
Orleans/Niagara Occupational & Technical Education Center, Medina, NY