Northwest Manufacturing Initiative
Abstract
The Northwest Manufacturing lnititaive, through its partner organizations, has conducted research into Northwest defense industrial base capability gaps, primarily through manufacturing workforce assessment and targeted training, including Lean Manufacturing, Leadership and Supervisory Training, and Project Management, resulting in increased and retained sales and job creation. A database to optimize manufacturing buyer/supplier connections, called the NW Connectory, was also developed. In addition, we sought to address defense systems engineering gaps through university based research and development focusing on improving or extending defense equipment lifecycles by determining plane strain fracture toughness, fatigue crack growth and threshold stress corrosion cracking and intensity levels for Carpenter Technology Custom 465 and Ferrium S53. The impact of ultrasonic impact treatment, advanced gas metal arc welding, cold metal transfer, electrospark discharge surfacing on these alloys were also assessed. Statements of the problems studied and summaries of the most important results can be found in the Executive Summaries of collaborative partner organization, including the Oregon Manufacturing Extension Partnership, The Pacific Northwest Defense Coalition, Portland State University, and Worksystems, Inc.. The detailed research data from each of our partners can be found in the appendices.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 27, 2012
- Accession Number
- ADA559536
Entities
People
- Brice Barrett
- Ellen A. Fuller
- J. R. Evans
- Jesse Aronson
- Jyothi Kadali
- Mary Chalkiopoulos
- Rajarsekar Talla
- Richard Nordstrom
- Thomas Quale
- William E. Wood
Organizations
- Organization for Economic Initiatives