ASCO CELEBRATES 40 YEARS OF AWARD WINNING INDUSTRY RECOGNITION
Winners of the 2009 Powder Metallurgy Design Excellence Awards Competition sponsored by the Metal Powder Industries Federation were announced at PowderMet2009.
ASCO Sintering Co., Commerce CA, received the grand prize in the hardware/appliances category for a PM steel lockset retractor assembly made for Best Access Systems–Stanley Security Solutions. This grand prize 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.
DIGNITARY VISIT
California 34th District Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard’s representative Kimberlee Tachiki-Chin visited ASCO to present key personnel from Engineering, Manufacturing and Quality with their SIX-sigma Green Belt certificates for completing training provided by California Manufacturing Technology Consulting. ASCO now has 20% of its workforce qualified as SIX-Sigma Green belts.
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.
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