Hermle Machine Joins CCAM
The newest industry member to the Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing contributes a precision milling machine and manufacturing expertise to the Center’s collaborative research efforts.
Posted: November 10, 2012
In addition to Hermle Machine Company, other CCAM industry members include Aerojet, Buehler, Canon Virginia, Chromalloy, Cool Clean Technology, GF AgieCharmilles, Mitutoyo America Corporation, Newport News Shipbuilding, Rolls-Royce, Sandvik Coromant, Siemens, Sulzer Metco and TurboCombustor Technology. University members include the University of Virginia, Virginia State University and Virginia Tech.
Hermle Machine Company joins CCAM ranks as a Tier 2 member that will participate in “generic research” programs, meaning it will jointly fund and direct research activities with other Organizing, Tier 1 and Tier 2 members. Members share ownership of intellectual property resulting from generic research. Organizing and Tier 1 members, however, can sponsor “directed research.” Sponsors of directed research exclusively own IP resulting from their sponsorship.
“Hermle brings both insight and innovation to CCAM that will take our research efforts to another level,” said David R. Lohr, CCAM’s president and executive director. “With so many great companies sharing ideas, addressing problems collaboratively and accessing advanced tools onsite, the advanced manufacturing industry is going to see some incredible opportunities emerge from CCAM.”
Hermle Machine Company is a leading manufacturer of high precision 5-axis 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. For 74 years our innovative staff has been building our machines exclusively in Gosheim.
Hermle continues to provide sales, service support and application engineering out of this facility. Our integrated demo center is utilized to provide test machining, process development and full scale turnkey engineering projects for our customers throughout the US, Canada and Mexico. www.hermlemachine.com
CCAM is a research-based collaboration between the University of Virginia, Virginia Tech, Virginia State University and manufacturing companies worldwide. Manufacturers join CCAM as members and guide research leveraging both university faculty and CCAM scientists in two focus areas: surface engineering and manufacturing systems. www.ccam-va.com
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