SECTION NEWS Specialists, Inc., Owner Rodney Du- Four spoke to apprentices and students in the room about the importance of learning their craft and understanding their industry. District 10 Mike Sherman, director (216) 570-9348 mike@shermanswelding.com District 11 Robert P. Wilcox, director (734) 721-8272 rmwilcox@wowway.com DETROIT January 14 Location: Camarc, Westland, Mich. Speakers: Russ Hughes, technical director, Camarc, and Tom Graham, manager, key accounts group, ABICOR BINZEL Event: The Section’s January meeting was hosted by Camarc and MC’d by Wes Doneth, Section chairman. Camarc Technical Director Russ Hughes shared his insight into alternate welding processes. Hughes spoke about how wire-feed GTAW can make comparable welds to that of a wire-feed laser system. His presentation included a video and a live demonstration of the process. Tom Graham, manager, key accounts for ABICOR-BINZEL, spoke about the breadth of alternative welding processes, including joint tracking with visual and tactical guidance systems. A video of the process showed the ability of the guidance system to account for poor part fitup by oscillating the laser beam in two directions. 78 WELDING JOURNAL / MARCH 2016 William D. Ford CTC Student Chapter December 14, 2015 Location: Madison Heights, Mich. Speaker: Nicole Rackley, vice president, Magna Chek Co., and Scott Bucholz, tour guide and ND examiner Activity: Chapter members toured the Magna Check Co. and learned about nondestructive examination. District 12 Daniel J. Roland, director (920) 241-1542 daniel.roland@airgas.com LAKESHORE November 19, 2015 Location: McCormick Place, Chicago, Ill. Event: FABTECH NEW ORLEANS — Speaker Jimmy Cochran, project manager, Kiewit Construction, spoke about changes to AWS D1.1, Structural Welding Code — Steel. William D. Ford CTC Student Chapter — (Front row from left) Joe Fox, Abdulrahman Abed, Rick Laurence, Michael Klein, Nikki Owens, Advisor Richard Randall, and Nick Cadaret; (back row from left) Dawson Bragenzer, James Bedzyk, Wesley Pringle, Ryan Sherman, Jake Longuski, Danny Thacker, Magna Chek Vice President Nicole Rackley, Guide Scott Bucholz, Anthony Juarez, Brennan Lindermann, Eric Cassidy, and Tyler Braun. DETROIT — Section Chairman Wes Doneth (right) thanks Russ Hughes, technical director, Camarc. William D. Ford CTC Student Chapter — Advisor’s Assistant Wesley Pringle (from left), Chairman Danny Thacker, Treasurer Jake Longuski, Host Nicole Rackley, Secretary Ryan Sherman, and Advisor Richard Randall.
Welding Journal | March 2016
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