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BOULEVARD MACHINE & GEAR, Inc.

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BOULEVARD MACHINE & GEAR, Inc. Springfield, MA

satisfaction. Boulevard's historic reputation, technical capability, on-time delivery performance, and quality, has earned orders from many Fortune 500 corporations for decades such as: Atlas Pacific, Boeing, Hamilton Sundstrand (or now known as UTAS), Cenveo, Siemens, Parker Aerospace, Proctor & Gamble/Tambrands, Solo Cup/Sweetheart, Timken Purdy Systems, Titeflex Aerospace, and GE. By adding a unique bonding of experience, well-

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B oulevard Machine and Gear, Inc., started in business in 1954 to primarily service the paper mill industry. It changed

directions a few times over the years, but in 2006 Susan Kasa acquired the company.

Susan recognized the need to modernize the equipment, raise the training level of the employees, while increasing a younger workforce. The company now has one area where CNC and conventional machining is done, another for CNCs and another building for conventional gear making. The employees are all trained in programming their own equipment and are capable of running long run CNC orders, or prototype parts on their manual equipment. The company is certified as a women’s business enterprise through the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC). Susan is working with the Regional Employment Board, local vocational-technical colleges and vocational high schools to improve the trained work force in Western New England. Boulevard Machine & Gear is dedicated to producing top quality products and services with competitive prices and complete customer

Jay Roberge, Operations Manager, and Susan Kasa, Owner and President, go over a customer’s

print together. Susan and Jay both work together on inside and outside sales for the firm.

A machine operator scanning a traveler into the Job Boss program. Boulevard can live track every job in

the shop giving them up-to-date progress through each work center.

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Manual milling with Proto-Trak controller is possible since all machine operators are trained machinistS. The fellows gear cutter is the star

in the gear shaper area along with other gear production machines.

This Eclipse CMM unit is just one of a couple quality control ways of insuring every part that leaves Boulevard is 100% in tolerance. Look at the complicated part that they checked with this machine!

trained machinists, and up-to-date technology, Susan and Boulevard Machine & Gear, Inc. is a place where challenges are met and conquered. The investments Boulevard have, and continue to make, are aimed to provide solutions allowing their customers to grow their business. Boulevard Machine & Gear, Inc. is AS9100, Rev C, ISO 9001:2008 and WBENC certified and approved. Their quality rating is one of the most important areas they have for their customers and has earned them continued success by meeting their customer’s requirements.

In addition to quality being first and foremost, Susan explained that they pride themselves with their on-time-delivery focus. Something that most shops don’t do, is Boulevard communicates with their customers. If for some uncontrolled reason they hit a glitch, which is very rare, and if delivery will be affected, they call and forewarn the customer. But, back to quality. Quality to many shops simply means "in-process and final inspection". Not so at Boulevard! Here quality directs every business decision toward the goal of complete customer satisfaction. You can’t inspect quality into a part.

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From design consultation, in-house fixturing, metal cutting, finishing and final inspection, they are passionate about quality. They recognize their commitment to their customers. All of the company's services are focused on reducing their customer's costs while maintaining high-quality services and customer satisfaction. CNC machining of long and medium quantity runs are where Boulevard wants to grow their business,

both turned (1/2” to 26” diameter) and milled (40” x 20” x 20” work cube) parts. The growth will come with their aggressive pricing plan that will save customers money, and by never sacrificing quality. The team of more than 20 skilled specialists possesses the ability to create sophisticated parts and components. They have the expertise to make manual machining a viable option. (They also have manual machines with Proto-Trak controllers.) This skill advantage allows them to perform single part prototyping manually until the part has been fully optimized for production, thus saving customers time and money. The gear cutting area has also been updated by adding CNC gear cutters. They offer spur, helical, and beveled gears, internal and external splines, spline shafting, gear racks, keyways, sprockets, timing belt pulleys, etc. They not only machine plastics, cast iron, inconel, titanium and all grades of steel parts, but make gears in these materials as well.

Ed Koziol, Quality Control Manager, and John Galloni, Quality Inspector, work on this tight

tolerance part together.

Examples of parts created by Boulevard Machine & Gear, Inc.

10 Nothing has more lives than an error you refuse to correct. (O.A. Battista)

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Mission Statement: At Boulevard Machine & Gear, we strive to perform the highest standards both professionally and technically. We focus on continuous improvements, adapting to the changing demands of our industry. We are always taking steps to become more efficient and stay-up-to-date with the latest technology. This allows us to reduce set-up time while increasing productivity.

785 Page Boulevard Springfield, MA 01104

Tel: 413.788.6466 Telefax: 413.734.6814

Email: [email protected]

Kaz, Vice President, and Susan reviewing a customer job and drawing.

They also do some other quite unique things. They own the dies to make a very special and critical identification tag from 321 stainless that is on every hose used on aircraft or other critical components.

Diane Trombley uses the Job Boss system for order entry and quote presentation.

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Editor’s note! I’m not so sure this has been true for a good many years. An efficient bureaucracy might have existed be before taxes were developed, but that was before I was born.

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PRESS RELEASE LP Launches New Website http://www.laminatedplastics.com Laminated Plastics a Massachusetts based advanced Fabricator & Distributor of plastic components, announced the launch of their newly designed Website which went live February 17, 2014. “The new site provides a fresh look and welcomes visitors in a friendly and uncluttered format while providing ease of navigation,” said Scott Richards, LP’s Marketing & Business Development Manager. “It uses a streamlined content format focused on giving LP customers helpful product information, while sharing our 50 years plastics materials and fabrication expertise.” Richards added “we have a great feature that allows users to instantly retrieve technical information with one click; it’s a very useful engineering support tool”. The new site also offers extensive plastics information, material selection and application guides, along with several handy cross reference tools. Rounding out the site are informative videos depicting LP’s plastics fabrication technology including 5-axis CNC machining, forming, welding, bending, bonding and assembly capabilities along with plant virtual tour displaying the expansive materials inventory.

For more information, contact Scott Richards, Laminated Plastics, 7 Executive Park Dr., Billerica, MA, 01862, Email [email protected], Web www.laminatedplastics.com, Phone 1-800-225-5004

United Tool & Die Co., Inc., a contract manufacturer specializing in wire EDM, manual machining and metal stamping, grinding and forming, is pleased to announce the acquisition of Smith Brothers Machine Company, a precision CNC milling and turning company located in Rockport, MA. In addition, United Tool & Die has announced a name change to United Tool & Machine Co., Inc. The name change is a result of the acquisition and reflects the company’s long-term growth strategy to better meet the needs of OEM’s for high quality, responsive, domestic machining operations. “The acquisition of Smith Brothers was a logical next step for United and gives us a terrific opportunity to expand our customer base, deepen our capabilities, and gain skilled personnel, all in one transaction. It also provides us with entry into new markets,” said Scott Fallavollita, President of United Tool & Machine. “We believe the synergy created by combining these two companies under one roof will bring tremendous value to our customers.” United Tool & Machine primarily serves the medical and industrial sectors while Smith Brothers brings expertise in defense, electronics and microwave applications. The physical transition of Smith Brothers

into United’s facility in Wilmington, MA, will take place by early-March 2014. For more information about United Tool & Machine Co., visit: www.unitedtoolmachine.com.

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18 Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things then doing them. (Jawaharlal Nehru, 1889-1964)

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