Appointments.
The Board of Directors at ASCO Sintering Co. wishes to announce that Patrick Schuster has resigned as President/CEO of ASCO Sintering Co. due to his medical condition.
The Board of Directors at ASCO Sintering Co. wishes to announce that, effective February 24 2010,
Neil A. Moore, PMT has been appointed President/CEO of ASCO Sintering Co. Mr. Moore has been with ASCO Sintering for 14 years and held various engineering and manufacturing positions before being promoted to COO in 2008.
The senior management of ASCO Sintering Co. is pleased to announce that Joseph M. Ferenchak has joined the company as National Sales Manager. Mr. Ferenchak brings a broad background in sales and marketing management in the refractory metals and lighting component industry, and was most recently Regional Sales Manager for Elmet Technologies.
Please join us in wishing them the best in their new positions!
ASCO CELEBRATES 40 + YEARS OF AWARD WINNING INDUSTRY RECOGNITION
Winners of the 2010 Powder Metallurgy Design Excellence Awards Competition sponsored by the Metal Powder Industries Federation were announced at PowderMet2010. ASCO Sintering Co. received the Award of Distinction in the Hardware/Appliances Category for a high-strength sinter-hardened powder metallurgy (PM) steel dead-locking lever made for a 40H series high-security mortise lock made by Stanley Security Solutions, Inc. Warm compacted and sintered to a density of 7.0 g/cm3, the part has a 145,000 psi ultimate tensile strength, a 9.5 foot-pound impact strength, a 40,000 psi fatigue strength, and a 30 HRC hardness. The part undergoes resin impregnation, deburring, zinc plating, and chromating. By eliminating a milling operation, which uses cutting fluids that may contain harmful chemical agents that ultimately contribute to the “greenhouse effect,” PM not only provided a 40% cost savings but clearly demonstrated PM’s “sustainability” advantage.
This Award of Distinction again distinguishes ASCO Sintering as the company with the most design awards in competition history, beginning in 1969, and is another outstanding example of powder metallurgy’s precision, performance, complexity, economy, and innovation.
ISO Certification Renewal
Upon successful completion of our certification renewal audit, ASCO Sintering Co. is now registered to the ISO 9001:2008 quality standard, effective February 25th 2010.
Command Centers
To further complement and enhance our internal “best practices”, ASCO Sintering Co. has recently completed the design and implementation of “Command Centers” in both the Production Planning & Control and Quality Control areas. These planning and control areas utilize multiple 40” LCD monitors to display in real-time the current state of the production shop floor in terms of Machine Scheduling, Production Performance vs. Targets, SPC Control Charts and Alarm Conditions, as well as overall Corporate Performance Metrics. This data is available for all to view at anytime as they pass through these respective areas.
USC
For a fifth consecutive year, a team of USC engineering students completed a final year project at ASCO. The scope helps to provide a “real world” experience for the students, not only in industrial, mechanical and production engineering, but also an appreciation of operating costs such as workers compensation and medical premiums, electricity, and gas. |
