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66 www.CNC-West.com CNC WEST August/September 2018 The Oregon Manufacturing Innovation Center Research and Development (OMIC R&D) contin- ues to grow a strong membership base with the ad- dition this month of HAIMER. With a total now of seventeen manufacturing industry partners and three Oregon public universities, the Scappoose, Oregon based R&D facility continues to build a world-class operation to develop advanced metals manufacturing technologies. Through this partnership, Boeing -- with its cen- ter of excellence and main production plant for heavy metal machining in Portland, Oregon -- is intensifying its strategic partnership with HAIMER by sponsoring a joint membership at OMIC R&D. The partnership between Boeing and Haimer reaches back more than 10 years when Boeing started using HAIMER’s Safe- Lock™ pull out protection system. With one of the largest titanium machining shops in the world, Boeing Portland has set the standard for cutting tools and tool holder applications for difficult to machine materials. Due to its technology advantages, the Haimer Safe-Lock™ system has become the Boeing Port- land standard for roughing in their milling operations. Haimer implemented an open licensing policy where additional American and other cutting tool makers of- fer this technology as a standard solution which are widely used in the Boeing machining operations. In fact, the Boeing Company has also received an IP, pat- ent and trade mark license from Haimer to be able to quickly respond to their machining needs. William Gerry, Global Technology program man- ager for Boeing Research and Technology said: “Boe- ing is very carefully vetting and inviting members to partner up and contribute to OMIC R&D. We are de- lighted about the new membership of HAIMER, who we know as a high quality tool holding, shrinking, balancing and presetting technologies company that Boeing has relied on heavily and exclusively for this service. HAIMER can support OMIC R&D and its members with state of the art technology and industry 4.0 connectivity solutions.” OMIC R&D is the fifteenth such research center established with Boeing leadership worldwide, and the first Boeing has sponsored in the United States. Its mission is to bring together manufacturing companies and higher education in an innovation environment Partnership between Boeing Portland and HAIMER at OMIC R&D where “outside-in” applied research with faculty and university students solves real problems for advanced manufacturers while training the next generation of engineers and technologists. Member companies share machinery, equipment such as tools, and expertise. Andreas Haimer, president of the HAIMER Group, explained during the official handshake at becoming an OMIC R&D member, “We are proud and happy to be closely associated with Boeing as a leading aircraft manufacturer and one of our biggest global customers. The investment and membership at OMIC R&D is a clear commitment to the community, our customers and the entire manufacturing industry in Oregon, the Pacific Northwest and American manufacturing. OMIC R&D is an ideal platform to share these kinds of best practices making American and Oregon manufacturers more competitive. Apart from Boeing Portland we also heavily support the leading U.S. Boeing facilities with our system technologies in Auburn, Seattle, Everett, Helena, St. Louis, and Fredrickson.” HAIMER joins eighteen other OMIC R&D indus- try and university members in the Scappoose facility. Craig Campbell, executive director of OMIC R&D said: “Outside-in advance manufacturing research ac- tivities from Oregon Institute of Technology, Portland State University, and Oregon State University are solv- ing manufacturing problems sets at OMIC R&D to sup- port our members. Due to the strong investments from state and local government, OMIC R&D has become a draw for global manufacturing companies and is real- izing its promise as an economic driver for the state and region.” The OMIC R&D model focuses research on help- ing indigenous industries increase competitiveness while creating a real partnership with and integration into the local economy. As research activities expand with high-cost, high-value machinery added on to the production floor, OMIC R&D will increase state and regional commercial productivity in manufacturing and stimulate economic growth and development. Coordinated with OMIC R&D’s applied research projects will be hands-on “earn and learn” appren- ticeship programs at the PCC OMIC Training Center, led by Portland Community College, and located in a nearby facility that PCC is building. While the Training Center construction is underway, PCC has a temporary delivery site at Scappoose High School.