Koike Aronson Names New President, Reveals Succession Plan Koike Aronson, Arcade, N.Y., a manufacturer of metal cutting and positioning equipment, has appointed James McAuliffe Jr. to the positions of president and chief operations officer. Most recently, McAuliffe was chief financial officer at Rigidized Metals Corp., Buffalo, N.Y. He has extensive experience in finance, distribution, acquisitions, manufacturing, and international operations. Jerry Leary, formerly the company’s president and chief executive officer (CEO), will remain CEO until March 2017, at which time he will retire. Leary became head of Koike in 2002 when the company was near bankruptcy. Since then, it has doubled in size, expanded three times, and invested more than $25 million in new facilities and equipment without borrowing. EWI Opening Applied Research Center in Colorado EWI is opening a new center dedicated to establishing best-in-class technical capabilities in advanced quality measurement technologies. Located at the Rocky Mountain Center for Innovation & Technology in Loveland, Colo., it’s expected to open in late summer. With a focus on advanced quality measurement, the center will concentrate on technologies to improve first-time quality. Focus areas for applied R&D will include real-time manufacturing process monitoring and analysis, advanced nondestructive evaluation, computer vision inspection, and noncontact metrology. In addition, the center will work to enable manufacturers to transition proven, high-value, technologies to the factory floor. AWS Partners with Prometric to Offer Certification Exams Nationwide The American Welding Society (AWS), Miami, Fla., has partnered with Prometric, a wholly owned subsidiary of Education Testing Service, to begin offering Certified Welding Supervisor (CWS) and Certified Welding Sales Representative (CWSR) exams at all U.S. and international Prometric locations beginning June 1. “AWS had been looking at ways to make certification exams more accessible to the industry. Until recently, CWS and CWSR test takers took a paper-based test at limited AWS testing sites across the country,” said Vanessa Gonzalez Hernandez, manager of certification programs, AWS. “By partnering with Prometric, qualified applicants trying to achieve CWS or CWSR certifications can save time and money by avoiding long distance travel to exam sites. They can now take computer-based exams at one of the many conveniently located Prometric test sites, on a day and time that is most suitable to the candidate.” To learn more about how to prepare for computer-based testing and what to expect on the test day, visit prometric.com/en-us/for-test-takers/prepare-for-test-day/ pages/take-a-practice-test.aspx. Southern Arkansas University System Starts Welding Engineering Technology Program The Southern Arkansas University (SAU) System has developed a welding engineering technology program. Recently, the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board approved for the university to add a bachelor of science in engineering physics with an option in welding engineering technology. There’s a need for welding supervisors to lead the welding and fabricating operations in advanced manufacturing industries, specifically in the aerospace defense and oil/gas manufacturing industries of southern Arkansas. “We hire locally as much as possible, and look forward to recruiting at SAU to fill positions as they become available,” said Colin Sterling, director of Lockheed Martin Camden Operations. This four-year program will provide hands-on instruction in various welding processes, welding metallurgy, material selections for welding, maintenance of welding products, and welding automation. Students will take the first two years of coursework at Southern Arkansas University Tech, including a year of general education courses and nine months of training at its welding academy. They will finish their bachelor’s degree through the SAU engineering program. PRESS TIME NEWS 8 WELDING JOURNAL / JUNE 2016 WJ Jerry Leary James McAuliffe Jr. This new program, created to meet the need for welding supervisors specifically in the aerospace defense and oil/gas manufacturing industries of southern Arkansas, will provide handson instruction (as displayed in the above photo).
Welding Journal | June 2016
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