Appointments
The Board of Directors at ASCO Sintering Co. wishes to announce that, effective February 24 2010, Neil A. Moore, PMT has been appointed to the Board of Directors. Mr. Moore has been with ASCO Sintering for 15 years and held various engineering and manufacturing positions before being promoted to President/CEO in 2010.
Please join us in wishing him the best in his new position!
ASCO CELEBRATES 40 + YEARS OF AWARD WINNING INDUSTRY RECOGNITION
Winners of the 2011 Powder Metallurgy Design Excellence Awards Competition sponsored by the Metal Powder Industries Federation were announced at PowderMet2011. ASCO Sintering Co. received the Grand Prize in the Hardware/Appliances Category for a high-strength powder metallurgy (PM) steel Outer Hub Exit Spindle made for an electronic card reader-activated door lock system made by Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies. Compacted and sintered to a density of 7.7 g/cm3, the part has a 95,000 psi ultimate tensile strength, 100 ft-lb Unnotched Charpy Impact Energy, 8% elongation, and a 90 RB hardness. The part undergoes infiltration, heat-treating, drilling, deburring, and plating. Material-utilization for PM process and wrought/blank machining of this part are 95% and 45% respectively, indicating 111% material savings via PM process over wrought machining. Energy input for its manufacture is estimated at 0.052 kWh/piece for PM process and 0.094 kWh/piece for wrought/blank machining, translating into 90% energy savings by using PM process.
This Grand Prize 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.
Six Sigma Certifications
To further complement and enhance our internal best practices, ASCO Sintering Co. has recently completed the training and Green Belt Certification of an additional eight employees in the methods of Six Sigma. This brings the total number of employees having Green Belt Certification to 30% of the ASCO work force.
USC
For a sixth consecutive year, two teams 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.
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