Industry Members
Membership has many benefits. CCAM members:
- Become a part of a collaborative research community that sets the direction of future technology developments for advanced manufacturing applications in surface engineering and manufacturing systems.
- Become integrally involved with advanced manufacturing technology developments and receive rights to non-exclusive, royalty-free licenses to all intellectual property developed through CCAM’s generic research program.
- Direct the work of CCAM research staff in directed research projects and own the intellectual property that results.
- Have access to academic faculty as well as their students – tomorrow’s business and manufacturing leaders.
- Leverage new technology developments that advance manufacturing and improve business.
Membership is offered at three levels:
Organizing Industry Members (OIM)
OIMs join during CCAM’s formative stage and agree to a long-term commitment. They have influence over initial organization, management, vision and research plans. They appoint one voting member to the CCAM Board of Directors, and CCAM’s Industry Operations Board and the Technical Advisory Council.
Tier 1 Industry Members
Like OIMs, Tier 1 Industry Members appoint one voting member to the Industry Operations Board and the Technical Advisory Council to lead activities.
Tier 2 Industry Members
Tier 2 members participate in generic research and will have non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free rights to its results while a company is a member. Tier 2 members will appoint one member from their ranks to the CCAM’s Technical Advisory Council.
Tier 3 Industry Members
Tier 3 members commit manufacturing equipment , tools and research instruments to CCAM and serve on its Technical Advisory Council.
Fees
Organizing Industry Members and Tier 1 Industry Members each pay $400,000 per year in membership fees. Tier 2 Industry Members each pay $100,000 per year in membership fees. All Members commit to a minimum of five years of membership.
CCAM uses its best efforts to ensure that no more than 40% of annual membership fees are used to support overhead functions, including facility costs, research equipment, leadership staff, CCAM marketing expenses, CCAM legal expenses, and the costs of protecting intellectual property resulting from Generic Research. CCAM has a goal to ensure that the percentage is no more than 30%, but is committed to members to keep it less than 40%.
Industry Members List
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Canon
Located in Newport News, Canon is a global brand synonymous with quality products, quality service and quality people. Since 1985, Canon Virginia, Inc. (CVI) has been manufacturing products on the Virginia Peninsula. CVI serves as Canon’s only manufacturing, engineering, recycling and technical support center in the Americas region. CVI produces new products using advanced manufacturing methodologies while also serving as a factory service center. For more information call (757) 881-6001.
Chromalloy
Chromalloy has evolved from a gas turbine parts repair business into the leading independent supplier of advanced repairs, FAA-approved replacement parts and maintenance, repair and overhaul for gas turbines used in aviation and land-based applications. Chromalloy serves the airline, military, marine and industrial gas turbine segments with a broad range of services at locations in 17 countries around the globe. Chromalloy is a subsidiary of Sequa Corporation.
Newport News Shipbuilding
Newport News Shipbuilding is the birthplace of the U.S. Navy’s nuclear fleet. They are the sole designer, builder and refueler of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and nuclear-powered submarines. They also provide fleet services for naval ships and have expanded their nuclear and manufacturing expertise into Department of Energy and alternative energy business ventures. Headquartered in Newport News, Virginia, the shipyard’s facilities span more than 550 acres along the historic James River.
Rolls-Royce
Rolls-Royce, a world-leading provider of power systems and services for use on land, at sea and in the air, has established strong positions in four global markets—civil aerospace, defense aerospace, marine and energy. The company’s regional corporate headquarters is located in Reston, Virginia.
Sandvik Coromant
Sandvik Coromant is a world-leading supplier of cutting tools and tooling systems for the metalworking industry and is represented in 130 countries. Twenty-five state-of-the-art Productivity Centers located around the world provide customers and staff with continuous training in tooling solutions and methods to increase productivity. Sandvik Coromant is part of the Tooling business area of the Sandvik Group.
Siemens
Siemens is a worldwide leader in the fields of automation systems, industrial controls and industrial software. Its portfolio ranges from standard products for the manufacturing and process industries to solutions for whole industrial sectors that encompass the automation of entire automobile production facilities and chemical plants.
Sulzer Metco
Headquartered in Switzerland, Sulzer Metco enhances surfaces with coating solutions and equipment. Customers benefit from a uniquely broad range of surface technologies, coating solutions, equipment, materials, and services, as well as specialized machining services and components. The innovative solutions improve performance and increase efficiency and reliability of their customer’s products. Sulzer Metco serves industries such as power generation, aviation, automotive and other specialized markets.
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Blaser Swisslube
Blaser Swisslube is a global company in the metalworking fluid sector. The independent and family-owned Swiss company develops, produces and sells high-quality cutting and grinding fluids used to produce everything from the tiniest of components for medicinal technology to gigantic structural elements in the aircraft industry. Founded in 1936, Blaser Swisslube employs more than 500 people. With its own subsidiaries and representative offices, Blaser Swisslube is close to its customers in about 60 countries.
Aerojet
Aerojet is a world-recognized aerospace and defense leader principally serving the missile and space propulsion and armaments markets. The company’s solid and liquid propellant rocket engines are used for strategic missiles as well as manned and unmanned satellite launch vehicles. Aerojet also manufactures satellite orbit transfer and attitude control systems as well as long-range spacecraft propulsion systems.
Hermle Machine Company
Hermle Machine Company is a leading manufacturer of high precision 5-axis milling machines. Hermle has been known worldwide to design and build milling machines that can achieve the most difficult machining tasks covering a wide industry span, including medical, defense and tool & die mold, all the way to commercial aerospace and high-tech R&D laboratories.
Mitutoyo
Mitutoyo Corporation is the world’s largest provider of measurement and inspection solutions offering the most complete selection of machines, sensors, systems and services with a line encompassing CMMs (Coordinate Measuring Machines), vision, form and finish measuring machines as well as precision tools and instruments, and metrology data management software.
TurboCombustor Technology, Inc.
TurboCombustor Technology provides advanced manufacturing services and solutions, including laser services, air flow measurement, thermal coatings and electric discharge machine services, to the world’s major turbine engine manufacturers. Additionally, the company provides concurrent engineering expertise and integration capability using state-of-the-art processes, such as Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma. Based in Stuart, Florida, the company also has operations in Cincinnati and Budapest, Hungary.
