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Precision Castparts (PCC) was founded by Joseph Buford Cox on April 1, 1953. [6] Cox was owner of Oregon Saw Chain and in 1949 had started a casting operation to make saw teeth with assistant general manager Ed Cooley also working on the project.
Precision Metalforming Association or PMA is a trade association [1] representing the $137-billion metalforming industry of North America: the industry that creates precision metal products using stamping, fabricating, spinning, slide forming and roll forming technologies, and other value-added processes. PMA’s origin was the Pressed Metal ...
Ukrainian company Precision Systems developed a miniaturized handheld version of AGS-17 called RGSh-30 [1] "in order to create a grenade launcher that could respond to the needs of Ukrainian units and special forces operating in the Donbas" that can be carried like an assault rifle.
Founded in 1883 as a manufacturer of crankshafts for looms, it has a long history of making forged metal components, particularly for the aerospace industry. Wyman-Gordon is a wholly owned subsidiary of Precision Castparts Corp., and is based in Houston, Texas. It has thirteen (13) plants in five countries, and employed about 2,500 people as of ...
Howmet's roots go back to 1926, when Austenal, a company that manufactured materials for dental appliances, was founded. Its founders, Reiner Erdle and Charles Prange, worked to improve investment chrome base castings using two separate investments: The first coating, named "protective coat", gives a smooth finish.
Dell touts their Precision Mobile Workstations are "optimized for performance, reliability and user experience." [1] Although the official introduction of the Precision line was in 1997 [2] with the first systems shipping in 1998, there were some systems released under the Precision line as early as 1992. Examples are the Precision 386SX/25 in ...
Telos Alliance began as Telos Systems, a part-time project founded in 1985 by radio station engineer and talk show host (WFBQ, WMMS) Steve Church.[2] [3] Its first product was a telephone hybrid, the Telos 10, which was based on digital signal processing.
In 2011, it created a long-range rifle system that was the first precision guided firearm. [1] [2] Formed by John McHale in February 2011, the company created its first PGF prototype in March 2011. The company offered its first product in January 2013 [3] and a second, the AR Series semi-automatic smart rifle, in January 2014. [4]