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More Than 600 Students and Teachers Attend ACE Clearwater Manufacturing Day spected, delivered and installed, the Primary’s unique and complex construction resists wear-and-tear from extreme heat and vibration from the Apache’s twin GE T701D turboshaft engines. ACE is a third-generation, build-to-data manufacturing company that employs nearly
200 welders, machinists, metal forming specialists and manufacturing engineers.
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Burrous Bites Visits Café Corleone On Friday, October 6 t h AC E C l e a r w a t e r hosted its fifth Manufacturing Day celebration – a national event of more than 2,700 c o m p a n i e s a n d bu s i nesses that open their doors to educate students and their local communities about the new, creative world of manufacturing. This year ACE again hosted more than 600 students and their teachers from local middle schools, high schools, and trade schools. The ACE team created 20 work center simulations manned by ACE experts – who demonstrated many of the processes which go toward the manufacture of Aerospace and Power Generation parts and assemblies. There were
also exhibits about futuristic technologies – tools which are here, now. New this year, ACE presented “The Manufacturing Process from Conceptual Design to Final Assembly”. The twenty work centers showcased traditional, innovative and futuristic, state-of-the-art processes and technologies — including Computer-assisted Des ig n So ftwa r e ’s , Ad ditive Manufacturing (3D Printing), Hydroforming and Hydraulic Press Metal Forming, Robotics, Precision CNC and Conventional Machining, Oculus Rift 3D Goggles, Compute r- d r ive n L a s e r C u t ting, 3D-Coordinate Measuring Systems,
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and an Interactive Welding Exhibit. They also demonstrated Specialized Raw Material Characteristics, Water Jet, and LEAP Motion movement-tracking Interactive Software. At the core of the d a y ’s a c t iv i t i e s w a s the manufacture of the Apache Helicopter primary exhaust assembly. Each work center demo n s t r a t e d a d i ff e r e n t step in its production. The Apache Helicopter is heavily relied upon by the armed services, and is frequently in the harshest military operating environments imaginable. One of the significant defenses it has is the way it hides its heat signature from infrared sensors. Once thoroughly in-
Chris Burrous with Cafe Corleone restaurant owner Alicia Costa and her daughter Connie Costa.
Channel 5 News personality and anchorman Chris Burrous of “Burrous Bites” recently visited Café Corleone in Paramount. After dining on Bow Tie Pasta with Salmon and Dolores Pizza he had this to say, “this is the creamiest, cheesiest pizza I have ever had in my life.” Burrous called Café Corleone
a neighborhood gem serving real Italian and Sicilian food. Café Corleone is a family owned and operated business serving authentic dishes from southern Italy and fresh vegetables from the family garden. The restaurant has a four-star rating on Yelp making the Costa family very proud.
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