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February 2019 Shop Meeting @ LMV Automotive
Posted March 13, 2019
The Kansas City Chapter of the National Tooling & Machining Association held a shop meeting at LMV
Automotive in Liberty, MO. LMV Automotive is a Tier 1 Automotive supplier, and a Division of Magna
International. Magna is the 3rd largest automotive supplier in the world and 1st in North America.
LMV specializes in spot welded underbody assemblies, making 740 million spot welds per year using 468
Fanuc robots.
After tours and Jack Stack for dinner, speakers for the evening included Chris Hinman, General Manager
LMV and Omar Bernal, Director of Education Excellence for KC Tech Academy. Chris and Omar presented to
the group KC Tech Academy, and how they intend to help bridge the workforce training gap. KC Tech
Academy offers a two-year training program for local high school students to earn a high school diploma
and certification in manufacturing technologies, automation and robotics. Together LMV & KC Tech Academy
will host the 2019 BotsKC competition.
September 2014 Shop Meeting @ RUCO Products
Posted September 25, 2014
The Kansas City Chapter of the National Tooling & Machining Association (NTMA) held a Shop Meeting at
Ruco Products in Blue Springs, Missouri. Ruco is a 46-year-old custom plastic injection molding company. It
operates in a 27,000 sq. ft. facility that includes 15 injection molding machines ranging in size from 28 to 300
tons and shot sizes range from .3 to 30 ounces. A tool room is on site for mold repair/maintenance and a 3D
printer has been added for prototyping in the last year.
The meeting was sponsored by the National Bank of Kansas City.
After tours and an Italian dinner, the first speaker at the event was National Chairman Ted Toth. He had
toured several member shops that day and updated the group on all the events happening at the NTMA
office and at the national level.
The next speaker was Omar Nashashibi, founding partner of Franklin Partnership, LLP. The group is a
bipartisan government relations firm that works on behalf of NTMA members and the manufacturing
industry with Congress, the Administration and relevant government agencies.
Nashashibi discussed many of the pressing issues facing manufacturing and the NTMA in the upcoming year
and the current trends in the political races for the upcoming 2014 elections. His topics included taxes,
regulations, R&D tax credits, section 179 deductions and many more.
Skills USA 2014
Posted July 29, 2014
The Kansas City Chapter helped with the 25th and final SkillsUSA National Championship in Kansas City the
week of July 23rd. NIMS (National Institute of Metalworking Standards) was the main sponsor of the CNC
Milling, CNC Turning and Precision Machining Technology (PMT) events. The chapter helped with these
events as they have for the last 25 years.
NTMA member companies volunteering or providing equipment/materials included Crossland Machinery,
Haas Automation, R&D Leverage, MCC’s BTC and TCI Precision Metals.
Nearly 150 post-secondary and high school students participated in these contests at the MCC’s BTC.
At a Judges dinner the KC NTMA Chapter and Crossland Machinery were recognized for their 25 years of
support and participation.
KC/STL Summer Lake Meeting
Posted July 29, 2014
The St. Louis and Kansas City Chapters of the National Tooling & Machining Association (NTMA) held their
annual joint summer conference at the Chateau on the Lake in Branson, Missouri, on July 25-26. Sponsors of
the conference included Federated Insurance, CliftonLarsonAllen, Paulo Products, J&S Tool, Superior Die Set,
United Community Bank and Sandvik Coromant.
Friday afternoon started off with a workshop on “The Great Game of Business” by Steve Baker.
A two-hour industry roundtable was then held. It was facilitated by a team from the Quality Coach
consultants of Washington, Missouri. Topics covered helping employees obtain an “owners attitude”; training
and development of employees; how to keep employees informed and how to encourage and incentivize
employees.
Friday night featured a social mixer/dinner and a concert at the Mickey Gilley Theater. Activities during
Saturday included golf, skeet shooting and a catamaran cruise on the lake.
The Saturday dinner featured a presentation by NTMA national Chairman Ted Toth. He spoke about this
year’s theme (Retooling the Precision Manufacturing Industry), the different programs offered by the NTMA
and the importance of training the next generation of employees and owners. The audience at the dinner
was brought up to speed on NTMA developments and encouraged to attend national meetings. The
featured speaker was Economist Chris Kuehl of Armada Corporate Intelligence on economic trends
impacting manufacturing.
April 2014 Shop Meeting at United Metal Spinning
Posted April 17, 2014
The Kansas City Chapter of the National Tooling & Machining Association (NTMA) held a Shop Meeting at
United Metal Spinning in Kansas City, Missouri. The meeting was sponsored by Environmental Air Tech.
The evening started with tours of the 5th generation family firm. The 84-year-old company offers metal
spinning. This unique process takes a flat piece of metal and makes a cyclindrical object without a seam. The
pieces produced include: funnels, goblets, light fixtures, fuel cans, missile nose cones, and can be made out
of all types of metal including: steel, aluminum, brass, bronze, copper, stainless steel, pewter, silver, and
even gold.
United Metal Spinning can produce parts manually or with CNC equipment. This allows them to make
prototypes or small runs as well as large runs.
The speaker for the event was Don Hamer, national sales manager for MicroAir Clean Air Systems. He
discussed air quality issues and regulations in the industry and the various methods to deal with them.
In other chapter business, Ruco Products, Blue Springs, Missouri, was presented a new member plaque.
February 2014 Shop Meeting at KC KS Community College
Posted March 5, 2014
The Kansas City Chapter of the National Tooling & Machining Association (NTMA) held a Shop Meeting at the
Kansas City Kansas Community College (KCKCC) TEC Education Center’s new location on February 27th. Over
60 attended the event. The meeting was sponsored by SECO Tools.
The evening started with tours of KCKCC TEC’s machining and welding facilities. Other training offered at the
center include: automotive tech; property maintenance; computer repair; construction; cosmetology;
culinary arts; electrical tech; health; HVAC; appliance tech and others.
The first speaker at the event was KC NTMA’s Andy Borst speaking about the Emerging Leaders program
within the chapter. This is getting the next owners/managers involved with the chapter.
Maureen Carruthers and Steven Tamasi spoke next about NTMA’s National Robotic League (NRL). They
noted how the robotic competition is drawing the interest of teens (and their parents) and making them
aware of careers in manufacturing.
Rick Cavallaro, Safety/Facility Mgr with Oregon Blount Inc., covering global safety harmonization labeling and
SDS. He noted the new pictograms being used internationally and becoming required in the U.S. by OSHA
and EPA.
January Networking Mixer
Posted January 31, 2014
The Kansas City Chapter of the National Tooling & Machining Association (NTMA) held a member networking
mixer to kick off the new year at Maker’s Mark Bourbon House & Lounge in Kansas City’s Power & Light
District on January 23rd.
September 19, 2013 Shop Tour at Accessible Technologies
Posted September 21, 2013
The Kansas City Chapter of the National Tooling & Machining Association (NTMA) held a Shop Tour at
Accessible Technologies in Lenexa, Kansas on September 19th. Over 80 attended the event.
The manufacturing firm produces the Procharger brand of super chargers for autos, trucks and motorcycles
and also produces the Inovair brand of turbo blowers for industrial use.
The featured speaker was Josh Boggs of Fisher/Unitech. He spoke about 3D Printing Technology and its
growth in the manufacturing arena. He specifically talked about polyjet and FDM 3D applications and their
potential uses for NTMA members. These included prototyping, tools/fixtures and inspection. He noted that
the typical savings of time and/or money in using 3D printing can range from 70-75% for most
manufacturers.
Skills USA Championships
Posted July 17, 2013
NIMS (National Institute for Metalworking Skills) sponsored the CNC Milling, CNC Turning and Precision
Machining Technology National Competitions at the SkillsUSA Championships in Kansas City during the last
week of June.
The Metropolitan Community College-Business & Technology Campus (MCC-BTC) hosted the SkillsUSA/NIMS
Manual Machining Championship on June 26th.
High school students, technical college students and their instructors from all over the country came
together in Kansas City to put their technical skills to the test.
Numerous KC NTMA member firms provided volunteers for the judging of the event.
Members providing volunteers included: Crossland Machinery; Haas Automation; Kansas City Kansas
Community College; R&D Leverage and the MCC BTC.
A competition dinner was held on June 26th at the Golden Ox in KCMO. National NTMA Chairman Bob
Mosey was a speaker at the dinner.
Shop Meeting at Heartland Fabrication & Machine
Posted April 23, 2013
The Kansas City Chapter of the National Tooling & Machining Association (NTMA) held a Shop Meeting at
Heartland Fabrication & Machine’s (HFM) new location in Raytown, Missouri on April 18th. Over 80 attended
the event.
The CNC machine and fabrication shop offers CNC turning (including y-axis), milling, drilling, tapping,
welding (MIG & TIG), CNC sawing, tube bending and light punching. HFM serves a wide range of industries in
mid-America including: Department of Defense, architectural/ ornamental; construction; railroad; agriculture
and food processing. HFM, which has DBE and MBE designations, can be contacted at: (816) 778-0766 or
www.heartlandfab.com.
The meeting was sponsored by Federated Insurance and the bar sponsor was National Bank of Kansas CIty.
The featured speaker was Kirk Young, SPHR, CEO of Job Match Assessment. A 28-year HR veteran, Young
spoke about “Getting Gen Y Hired & Engaged.” He discussed traits and characteristics of Gen Yers and the
best ways to hire, train, motivate this younger generation. Young gave numerous examples of how this
generation thinks and look at their careers.
Ernie May Passes Away
Posted March 10, 2013
The chapter is sad to report that Ernest “Ernie” May, founder of May Technology & Mfg (May Tool & Mold),
passed away on February 17th. He was born in Romania in 1928. During WWII, he and his family moved to
Austria where he was able to learn the Tool & Die trade. He then moved to England where he waited for a
visa to emigrate to the U.S.. He arrived in the US in December 1955. Shortly after arriving, he met Theresia
Reinhart, visiting from Germany. They were married in 1956. Ernie built his American dream, May Tool &
Mold, Co. a Tool & Die Shop.
He is survived by his wife and their two sons Steve (Gayla) May and Reno (Ronda) May, both of Grain Valley
and 4 grandchildren, Kristin, Erin, Austin, and Alexandra May. He was a patriotic citizen and was forever
thankful for being accepted to this country.
2019 Annual KCNTMA Scholarship Golf Tournament
Posted May 30, 2019
The Kansas City Chapter of the NTMA held it’s annual scholarship golf tournament on May 17 at Deer Creek
Golf Club.
We got a break in the rain and the weather was perfect for golf. Thank you to the 17 teams that came out to
play as well as all the sponsors that help make this event a great success!
Congratulations to our top two teams!
1st Place: 60 Michael Bohning, Brandon Bohning, Dwane Rice, and Rick Rodenbeck
2nd Place: 61 Landon Thompson, Kent Eagleberger, Chris Johnson, Mark Jackson
2019 BotsKC Competition
Posted June 4, 2019
2019 was BotsKC’s biggest and most successful year yet! This year we had 35 teams, adding nearly ten more
teams than 2018. We had teams from all across the Kansas City Metro, as well as teams traveling in from
Joplin, Wichita, Iowa and even as far as North Dakota! Also this year we move the competition to KC Tech
Academy, a tech school started by Manga International in Liberty, Missouri. This allowed students to both
compete with their robots and see an actual manufacturing facility in action. This brought the potential
careers for the students much more into focus. In this double illumination tournament we ended up having
an all-female middle school team from Winfield, KS go undefeated to take the 2019 1st Place spot. This
team also went on to place fifth out of 68 teams in the National Competition. We had a variety of activities
aside from the competition for our guests to do during lulls in competition. This included a robotics
competition that the guest could actually compete in, food truck, booths with robotics related material, and
even a visit from Slugger and KC Wolf. BotsKC plans to continue to grow and perfect the competition for
2020 – and for years to come!
1st Place: Winfield Middle Overload
2nd Place: K-State
3rd Place: North Dakota State University
Grand Champ: K-State
Documentation Winner: ONW Kronos
September Shop Meeting @ High Tech Laser & Polishing
Posted September 12, 2019
Members heard from associate member CBIZ, one of the nation’s leading providers of professional advisory
services, focused on accounting, benefits and insurance, HR and payroll solutions. The CBIZ Retirement Plan
Services division is an Affinity partner of NTMA nationally. CBIZ offers investment advisory, fee and expense
benchmarking and participant education and advice.
Omar S. Nashashibi, a Founding Partner with The Franklin Partnership provided the group with an update
from Washington.
Omar S. Nashashibi, will spoke about the latest information on tariffs, trade negotiations, regulations and
workforce training. The actions by our federal government have a direct impact on your business and
recognizing the threats and opportunities created by politicians is critical.
Workforce Development Workshop at Top Golf
Posted July 25, 2019
Members heard from local industry educators on what they are doing to educate our future generations in
manufacturing.
-John Littleton - JCCC
-Billy Dinman - William Chrisman High School
-Rich Piper - KCKCC
-Jim Colson - KC Tech Academy
-Shonda Atwater - MCC
-Jeremy Bonnesen - Summit Tech Academy
Kirk Young, CEO of Job Match Assessment spoke about how to engage new generations entering the
workforce.
James Mayer, NTMA gave a brief NTMA-U overview.
Speakers were followed by Golfing!!
1st Annual Trap Shoot
Posted November 15, 2019
KC NTMA held it's 1st annual Trap Shoot on November 15th at the Lake Lotawanna Sportsman's Club.
BBQ lunch was sponsored by MSI followed by 25 attendee's shooting on the trap course.
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Networking Mixer January 23, 2020 at the Kill Devil Club
Posted January 29, 2020
KC NTMA held its annual Networking mixer to kick off the new year. 2020 President, Chris Hinkebein
welcomed new board members and presented a plaque to long time treasurer and board member Bill
Goodman as he retired at the end of 2019.
Golf Tournament
Posted September 1, 2020
Thank you to our sponsors and all 13 golf teams that came out to support our annual Scholarship Golf
tournament! We had a great turnout and wonderful weather!
1st Place
Michael Bohning
Brandon Bohning
Dwane Rice
Rick Rodenbeck
2nd Place
Hannu Multala
Joe Purcell
Brian Roder
James Beckmon
Contest Winners
Longest Putt Made: Dennis Massey
Longest Drive: Brandon Bohning
Closest to the Flag: Michael Bohning
KC NTMA 2020 Trap Shoot
Posted October 19, 2020
KC NTMA held it’s annual trap shoot on October 16th. Attendee’s enjoyed a beautiful fall day at the Lake
Lotawanna Sportsmans Club. Congratulations to our winners:
1st Place
Pete Delgado
2nd Place
Owen Franklin
3rd Place
Tanner George
KC NTMA 2021 Golf Tournament
Posted May 24, 2021
Thank you to everyone that made it out to the golf tournament Friday. The rain held off and it turned out to
be a beautiful day for golf! Below are the top 3 teams and contest winners as well as a few pictures.
Congratulations to our winners:
1st Place
scoring a 59
Brandon Bohning,
Brent Stowell,
Dwayne Rice,
Bryan Lockart
2nd Place
scoring a 62
John Hovelsrud,
Chad Neiman,
Alex Goodpaster,
Mark Steinman
3rd Place
scoring a 68
Brennan Briscoe,
Tim Burch,
Mark Zonnefield,
Ryan Hardie
Longest Putt Made
Tim Burch
Closest To The Flag
Chad Nieman
KC NTMA 2021 Trap Shoot
Posted October 21, 2021
KC NTMA held it’s 3rd annual trap shoot at the Lake Lotawanna sportsman’s club Friday October 15th.
MSI & Federated insurance were sponsors of the event.
KC NTMA 2022 Golf Tournament
Posted May 16, 2022
KC NTMA held its annual scholarship golf tournament on Thursday May 12th at Drumm Farm Golf course.
The weather was beautiful for golf! We appreciate everyone's support helping to make the golf event such a
success each year.
Thank you to our sponsors!
Generational Shift event @ Arrowhead Stadium
Posted April 28, 2022
KC NTMA welcomed speaker Katherine Jefferies to our April meeting. Katherine presented on the
generational shift currently happening across our country. The Generational shift presentation aimed to
equip those seeking to navigate this unique Intergenerational transition across industries. Attendees
learned the why behind the tension that exits across the Generations and how to communicate the vision
and purpose of their organizations in a way that motivates and inspires each generation.
Attendees enjoyed stadium tours as well as BBQ dinner.
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February 2019 Shop Meeting @ LMV Automotive
Posted March 13, 2019
The Kansas City Chapter of the National Tooling &
Machining Association held a shop meeting at LMV
Automotive in Liberty, MO. LMV Automotive is a Tier 1
Automotive supplier, and a Division of Magna
International. Magna is the 3rd largest automotive
supplier in the world and 1st in North America.
LMV specializes in spot welded underbody assemblies,
making 740 million spot welds per year using 468 Fanuc
robots.
After tours and Jack Stack for dinner, speakers for the
evening included Chris Hinman, General Manager LMV
and Omar Bernal, Director of Education Excellence for KC
Tech Academy. Chris and Omar presented to the group KC
Tech Academy, and how they intend to help bridge the
workforce training gap. KC Tech Academy offers a two-
year training program for local high school students to
earn a high school diploma and certification in
manufacturing technologies, automation and robotics.
Together LMV & KC Tech Academy will host the 2019
BotsKC competition.
QUICK LINKS
2019 Annual KCNTMA Scholarship Golf Tournament
Posted May 30, 2019
The Kansas City Chapter of the NTMA held it’s annual
scholarship golf tournament on May 17 at Deer Creek
Golf Club.
We got a break in the rain and the weather was perfect
for golf. Thank you to the 17 teams that came out to play
as well as all the sponsors that help make this event a
great success!
Congratulations to our top two teams!
1st Place: 60 Michael Bohning, Brandon Bohning, Dwane
Rice, and Rick Rodenbeck
2nd Place: 61 Landon Thompson, Kent Eagleberger, Chris
Johnson, Mark Jackson
2019 BotsKC Competition
Posted June 4, 2019
2019 was BotsKC’s biggest and most successful year yet!
This year we had 35 teams, adding nearly ten more teams
than 2018. We had teams from all across the Kansas City
Metro, as well as teams traveling in from Joplin, Wichita,
Iowa and even as far as North Dakota! Also this year we
move the competition to KC Tech Academy, a tech school
started by Manga International in Liberty, Missouri. This
allowed students to both compete with their robots and
see an actual manufacturing facility in action. This brought
the potential careers for the students much more into
focus. In this double illumination tournament we ended up
having an all-female middle school team from Winfield, KS
go undefeated to take the 2019 1st Place spot. This team
also went on to place fifth out of 68 teams in the National
Competition. We had a variety of activities aside from the
competition for our guests to do during lulls in
competition. This included a robotics competition that the
guest could actually compete in, food truck, booths with
robotics related material, and even a visit from Slugger and
KC Wolf. BotsKC plans to continue to grow and perfect the
competition for 2020 – and for years to come!
1st Place: Winfield Middle Overload
2nd Place: K-State
3rd Place: North Dakota State University
Grand Champ: K-State
Documentation Winner: ONW Kronos
September Shop Meeting @ High Tech Laser & Polishing
Posted September 12, 2019
Members heard from associate member CBIZ, one of the
nation’s leading providers of professional advisory
services, focused on accounting, benefits and insurance,
HR and payroll solutions. The CBIZ Retirement Plan
Services division is an Affinity partner of NTMA nationally.
CBIZ offers investment advisory, fee and expense
benchmarking and participant education and advice.
Omar S. Nashashibi, a Founding Partner with The Franklin
Partnership provided the group with an update from
Washington.
Omar S. Nashashibi, will spoke about the latest
information on tariffs, trade negotiations, regulations and
workforce training. The actions by our federal government
have a direct impact on your business and recognizing the
threats and opportunities created by politicians is critical.
Workforce Development Workshop at Top
Golf
Posted July 25, 2019
Members heard from local industry
educators on what they are doing to educate
our future generations in manufacturing.
-John Littleton - JCCC
-Billy Dinman - William Chrisman High
School
-Rich Piper - KCKCC
-Jim Colson - KC Tech Academy
-Shonda Atwater - MCC
-Jeremy Bonnesen - Summit Tech Academy
Kirk Young, CEO of Job Match Assessment
spoke about how to engage new generations
entering the workforce.
James Mayer, NTMA gave a brief NTMA-U
overview.
Speakers were followed by Golfing!!
1st Annual Trap Shoot
Posted November 15, 2019
KC NTMA held it's 1st annual Trap Shoot on November
15th at the Lake Lotawanna Sportsman's Club.
BBQ lunch was sponsored by MSI followed by 25
attendee's shooting on the trap course.
Networking Mixer January 23, 2020 at the Kill Devil Club
Posted January 29, 2020
KC NTMA held its annual Networking mixer to kick off the
new year. 2020 President, Chris Hinkebein welcomed new
board members and presented a plaque to long time
treasurer and board member Bill Goodman as he retired at
the end of 2019.
KC NTMA 2022 Golf Tournament
Posted May 16, 2022
KC NTMA held its annual scholarship golf tournament on
Thursday May 12th at Drumm Farm Golf course.
The weather was beautiful for golf! We appreciate
everyone's support helping to make the golf event such a
success each year.
Thank you to our sponsors!
Generational Shift event @ Arrowhead Stadium
Posted April 28, 2022
KC NTMA welcomed speaker Katherine Jefferies to our April
meeting. Katherine presented on the generational shift
currently happening across our country. The Generational
shift presentation aimed to equip those seeking to navigate
this unique Intergenerational transition across industries.
Attendees learned the why behind the tension that exits
across the Generations and how to communicate the vision
and purpose of their organizations in a way that motivates
and inspires each generation.
Attendees enjoyed stadium tours as well as BBQ dinner.
