Authors

Terry M. Iverson is an industry veteran and the founder of CHAMPION Now!, a nonprofit organization on a mission to change the way American manufacturing is perceived in the United States. CHAMPION Now! supports the mobile Camp CHAMP educational campaign that brings hands-on machining experience to middle school students with the help of high school student mentors.

Thomas Benjamin is a product manager with Ingersoll Cutting Tool Co., Rockford, Illinois.

Thomas Service, Ph.D., P.E., is a senior research engineer for Thielsch Engineering Inc., Cranston, Rhode Island, and a member of the ANSI B7.1 Committee.

Thomas Van Hersh, Single Source Technologies. For more information about Valley Tool Inc., call (662) 473-3066 or visit www.valleytoolinc.com.

Thomas Walz is owner and president of Northwest Research Institute Inc. and Carbide Processors Inc., Tacoma, Washington. For more information, call 800-346-8274 or log onto www.carbideprocessors.com.

Thomson Mathew, ANCA software product manager. ANCA (www.anca.com) is a manufacturer of CNC grinding machines. It was founded in 1974 in Melbourne, Australia, where the company still has its global headquarters. ANCA has offices in the U.K., Germany, China, Thailand, India, Japan, Brazil and the U.S., as well as a comprehensive network of representatives and agents worldwide.

Tim Croan has been involved with machine tools since 1975. Heis a sales and application engineer at Micro Centric Corp., a Plainview, New York, manufacturer of precision workholding systems.

Tim Hanna is the Vice President of Business Development for PRAB, a leading designer and manufacturer of wastewater recycling systems as well as engineered conveyors and equipment for processing turnings, chips and metalworking fluids.

Tim Malone is involved in marketing for Stellram, LaVergne, Tennessee.

Tim McKeever is the machining supplier coordinator for Carleton Technologies Inc., Orchard Park, New York.

Tim Simmermon is a manufacturing engineer at a job shop in Chicago.

Timo Mager is with Walter AG.