Eastern Idaho Montana American Welding Society
January 2005 Meeting
Section 185
Friday, January 21, 2005
12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Tour and Presentations at Montana Tech Research Park
RAVE Creativity Forge
100 South Parkmont Road
Butte, Montana 59701
About the RAVE Creativity Forge
Montana Tech and its Rocky Mountain Agile Virtual Enterprise Technical Development Center (RAVE TDC) provides hands-on technical education and manufacturing prototyping, and is a partnership between Montana Tech, RAVE, Haas and King Machine Inc., which is Haas' representative in Montana and Idaho. The Forge is a Haas Technical Education Center, one of only 51 in the nation. The center is the new home to Montana Tech's robotic GMA welder, to a robotic GTAW system donated by Edwards AFB and to a computer numerically controlled (CNC) lathe and vertical mini-mill developed by Haas Automation, Inc.
Directions to the RAVE Creativity Forge
From the center of Butte on I-15/I-90,
- take the Harrison Avenue South Exit 127A. (Harrison Ave is MT Route 2)
- go south on Harrison Ave about 5 miles
(past the Airport on the left, past Walmart on the right, past the Montana Tech College of Technology on the right)
- turn right on South Parkmont road
( there is a Fed Ex building just before South Parkmont, and a small Montana Tech Research Park sign at the corner of South Parkmont and Harrison)
- go west on South Parkmont approximately 0.5 mile
- turn left at the first drive into the Montana Tech Research Park
- the three buildings to the right are the RAVE Creativity Forge
- walk in the first building
2:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Tour of Advanced Silicon Materials, Inc. (AsiMI)
(hosted by Mr. Mark Danninger (AWS))
119140 Rick Jones Way
Silver Bow, Montana 59750
406-496-9898 Voice
About AsiMI
- Producer of high purity polycrystalline silicon and silicon gases for the integrated circuit industry.
- We operate high temperature pressure vessels and piping containing hydrogen, chlorosilanes, and silane gases and liquids.
- We weld Incoloy 800 and 825, Hastelloy C-276, Ferralium 255, a variety of austenitic stainless steels, and carbon steels both manually and automatically (orbital welding). Our welding technicians are certified to ASME IX and AWS D1.1.
- We conduct in-house pressure testing and NDE for structural and process equipment welding and process equipment Mechanical Integrity using UT, UTT, PT, VT. RT, AE, and ET is conducted by a contractor. Our NDE technicians are certified in accordance with ASNT-TC-1A.
- We are one of the only employers in the state of Montana with a VR Stamp (pressure relief device repair authorization) and an R-Stamp (pressure vessel repair authorization), administered through the National Board of Boiler and Pressure Vessel Inspectors.
Directions to ASiMI
- from the center of Butte, take I-90 West (toward Anaconda/Missoula) and drive west about 10 miles to Exit 121, (toward Idaho Falls, I-15 South).
- take Exit 121 onto Interstate 15 South.
- take Exit 119 (Hub Access Silver Bow) and turn right at the stop sign.
- proceed over the bridge and take the first left turn, Rick Jones Way, as indicated by the ASiMI V-2000 sign.
- continue along Rick Jones Way 1.8 miles to the ASiMI plant.
- guest parking is located near the Commons building.
- please check in with the receptionist in the lobby.
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Dinner and Presentation
Development of the Manufacturing Engineering Curriculum at Montana Tech
by Richard Donovan/Bruce Madigan
Pintler Room, Student Union Building
Montana Tech Campus
1300 West Park Street
Butte, MT 59701
Directions to Student Union Building, Montana Tech
- from AsiMI, take I-15/I-90 North-West to Butte
- exit I-15/I-90 at Montana Street
- go north on Montana Street to Park Street
- turn west (left) on Park Street
- Park Street ends at Montana Tech
- the Student Union Building is the second building on the left after the Marcus Daley statue
- parking is available further on Park Street just past the library on the right
(Dinner will be a buffet at about $12 per guest, I will need a body count by Jan 17, 2005)