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INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
PAGE 3 VISION, MISSION, GOAL
PAGE 4 UPCOMING COMPETITION
PAGE 7 SPECIAL THANKS
PAGE 8 MEET OUR SPONSORS
PAGE 10 APRIL WINNERS
PAGE 11 RULES & STRATEGY
PAGE 11 TEAMS
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Welcome to the November 2013 BotsIQ Competition at Moraine Park’s AMTC
Welcome to our 19th BotsIQ Wisconsin
Competition. BotsIQ provides a platform to
allow students to discover their skills in a
competition using a combination of math,
science, electronics, mechanics, and
engineering in a team work environment. The
matches are scored using a number of criteria
which are explained in the Competition
Terminology section of this program.
Destructive product testing is performed many
times and in many ways on every product that
consumers buy to ensure the ultimate safety
and performance of that product. Likewise,
these matches are a form of destructive product
testing to ascertain the integrity of the design
and construction coupled with the usefulness
and ingenuity of each bot.
BotsIQ was formed to introduce students,
teachers, and parents to the career
opportunities available in high tech
manufacturing. Most of these career
opportunities are available with a two year or
less technical college degree followed by
apprenticeship and employment. As an
apprentice, you can earn while you learn on the
job. Whereas your typical college students are
borrowing through school loans to attend a four-
year university and then have to find a job upon
graduation.
While at the competition, take a look at the
various technical degrees available from area
technical colleges. There is a table set up with
information and staffed with people to answer
your questions. Many of the team mentors are
from area manufacturing companies that need
motivated job entrants that desire interesting
work in a meaningful and well paying career
loaded with benefits. Feel free to talk to them at
the competition or give them a call.
Enjoy the competition, and please check out
what the future may hold for you or your student
in high tech manufacturing.
We support the BotsIQ Program and their mission.
Good Luck, Competitors!
The Germantown Chamber offers scholarships to students
pursuing manufacturing careers.
Contact the chamber for details! 262.255.1812
Visit: www.germantownchamber.org
BotsIQ Wisconsin
N14W23777 Stone Ridge Dr. Suite 290
Phone: 262.391.1028 Fax: 262.522.0995
[email protected] www.botsiq-wi.org
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BotsIQ, An Educational Foundation For Advanced Manufacturing Careers. Vision
BotsIQ Wisconsin (BotsIQ) encourages young adults to create and explore, giving them an opportunity to problem solve using science, technology, engineering, mathematics, mechanics, computer-aided design, metal fabrication, physics and project management in a teamwork environment.
The BotsIQ challenge is to create and build a robot to outscore other robots. Students participate in competitive environments, with safety and operational limitations to test robotic designs. The excitement of competition gives the students an opportunity to utilize existing educational resources as well as explore learning opportunities not currently offered in a traditional educational structure. Teams take ownership of creating, building and maintaining their remote controlled robot.
Mission
BotsIQ’s goal is to introduce career opportunities by combining Apprenticeship with a Technical College degree which will lead to a fulfilling Advanced Manufacturing Career.
BotsIQ matches each team with a volunteer or sponsoring company as a coach and mentor. Mentors and Sponsors provide seminars and tours to demonstrate how technology has advanced traditional skill sets into higher educational opportunities.
BotsIQ endeavors to create awareness and enhance the educational foundation for Advanced Manufacturing by introducing young adults to the career opportunities associated with creating a vision, designing, budgeting, constructing, assembling, testing and maintenance of an automated robot.
Goal
Vision, Mission, Goal
TOOLING (ALL TYPES):
ALUMINUM DIE-CAST – PLASTIC INJECTION MOLDS - RUBBER & OVER MOLDS
TRIM DIES - MUD UNITS – STAMPING DIES – TOOL DESIGN AND EDM SERVICES
PRODUCTION METAL STAMPINGS: LIGHT ASSEMBLIES – FORMING
BENDING - DRILLING –TAPPING - SPOT WELDING – SECONCARY MACHINING
WWW.daco-precision.com PH 262-626-6591 FAX 262-626=2602
ISO 9001/2008 CERTIFIED
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Allen Weiss Owner
Wire EDM
Micro Wire EDM
Grinding
Turning
Milling (CNC)
Phone: 262.820.3400 Fax: 262.820.3444
N53 W24794 S. Corporate Circle — Unit B
Sussex, WI 53089
[email protected] www.integritywireedm.com
Join Us At Our Upcoming Competition
Spring 2014
Waukesha County
Technical College
Mahuta Tool Corp. N118 W19137 Bunsen Drive Germantown, WI 53022
PH: (262) 502-4100 FX: (262) 502-4200
[email protected] www.mahutaool.com
Tools / Dies / Fixtures
CNC Machining
CNC Turning
Certified ISO 9001:2008
We are your partner in building tomorrow.
Wanted CNC Machinist with 3 to 5 Years Experience Second Shift
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Thank You
Thank You
BotsIQ WI Competition Committee
and the volunteers that make this
competition possible!
Special Thanks To
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Thank You, April Competition Volunteers: Ken Mahuta Kim Mahuta Lynn Mahuta Joe Mingari
Dan Neuman Frank Patti John Puhl
RAM Tool Mike Retzer Nancy Sachs Mark Verhein
Al Weiss Steven Widberg
Pat Yunke
Busch Precision Tom Dornoff Barry Graff
Bill Krumenauer Connor Mahuta
Ian Mahuta Jeff Mahuta
Meet Our Sponsors
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SUPER SPONSORS
Strohwig Industries is a leading manufacturer in the technology driven advanced manufacturing fields of machining, engineering, and large tool manufacturing. We offer training in a growth environment while providing secure career and high wage opportunities.
We are proud to sponsor Bots IQ Wisconsin and the National Robotics League because we feel it is important that students get exposure to the high paying careers in advanced manufacturing.
Waukesha® Metal Products has over 40 years of experience in high quality precision tooling, metal stampings, sheet metal fabrications, and assembled components. Located in the Greater Milwaukee area in southeastern Wisconsin, Waukesha® Metal Products operates out of two modern manufacturing facilities. The Stamping and Tooling facility is 48,000 square feet in Sussex, Wis., and the fabrication facility is 42,000 square feet located in Grafton, Wis. 140 dedicated people armed with controlled processes provide production seven days per week. Practicing lean manufacturing techniques throughout the organization, we optimize production with automation, cellular manufacturing, en-terprise resource planning and efficient utilization of assets.
Waukesha® Metal Products is ISO/TS 16949 certified, manufacturing metal stampings and fabrications for a diverse range of industries including: automotive, aerospace, med-ical, dental, lighting, military and many more. From humble beginnings as a two man tool and die shop, Waukesha® Metal Products has developed into an international full-service metalforming manufacturer, delivering the best-value parts and assemblies in the industry since 1971. For more company information visit: www.waukeshametal.com
Therm-Tech is rapidly completing an expansion that encompasses over a $5 million dollar invest-ment in new facilities and equipment. Our goal is to make the place more efficient in running the larger volumes of work we have had the opportunity to process due to the continued growth in the manufacturing market here in the United States. Some of the new furnaces we have added address greater capacity needs for oil hardening and carburizing. Two more furnaces address market needs for more Austempering and Marquenching capacity in the nation. Another new addition helps us specialize in rapid hardening heavy section sizes to achieve the mechanical requirements for the fracking industry. Between these new capacities and over 75 new hires in the past 18 months, Therm-Tech will continue to evolve into one of the premier commercial Heat-Treating facilities in the nation. www.thermtech.net
RAM Tool Inc., proud to be a woman owned and operated business since 1979, specializing in the building of aluminum and zinc die cast dies. We are also a proven industry leader in manufacturing, machining of large weldments and forged material. RAM Tool has the dis-tinction for doing the job right the first time, to exceed our customer’s expectations, to deliver a quality built tool and part ready for production.
RAM Tool assures this quality with the most advanced technology and equipment along with a knowledgeable workforce to set the standard in a competitive industry. RAM Tool’s focus is to remain on the cutting edge of technology operating from our 80,000 sq. ft. state of the art facility located within the Grafton, WI Corporate Park.
SUPER SPONSORS CONTINUED
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Omega Tool designs, builds and samples high end high production plastic injection molds. Serving the consumer, industrial and medical markets. We focus on Multi-cavity stack molds, auto unscrewing molds and 2 shot molds.
KLH Industries is an AS9100-certified precision manufacturer, specializing in wire EDM, small hole EDM drilling, sinker EDM, CNC machining, CNC turning, CNC surface grinding, waterjet cutting, and dimensional inspection. KLH provides the passion, creativity, and experience to develop and maintain new technologies and projects, including flight critical aircraft or aerospace components.
Meet Our Sponsors
Wenthe-Davidson Engineering Co is a metal fabricator that specializes in the Electric Motor, Generator, Tubular products, value added services and Emission system components. We are 70 years old and located in the New Berlin Industrial park. We employ 131 active associates on two working shifts. We are 23% employee owned and proud to be a non union facility.
We provide many services to our customers that provide value such as CNC Turret stamping, CNC Turning Lathes, Hydraulic Forming Presses, Robotic Welding and Laser Etching to name a few. We ship all across the United States, Mexico and Canada. Our specialty is lean manufacturing where we often ship with one day lead time in exact quantities with perfect quality guaranteed.
PLATINUM SPONSORS
Integrity Wire EDM, Inc. specializes in high precision Wire EDM and tool room ser-vices. For companies that need to outsource Wire EDM or tool room work, we are an experi-enced resource that offers excellent turn around time along with competitive pricing.
Our ability to work with a variety of materials such as carbide, powdered metals, stainless, tool steels, and the exotic alloys found in manufacturing makes us a very flexible job shop. Manu-facturers of all types of industries have come to Integrity Wire EDM to provide micron level tolerances in Wire EDM and tool room grinding. Creating and manufacturing stainless steel fixtures for your production jobs, we are able to hold the tolerances that your projects require.
Since 1950, Mequon, Wisconsin based Jorgensen Conveyors, Inc has been a major manufacturer of conveyors, coolant filtration and material handling equipment for the metal working industries. Jorgensen is a global supplier who leads the way in providing the broadest range of engineered conveyor and coolant filtration solutions for CNC machine tool chip removal and coolant filtration. Jorgensen also designs and builds a complete line of process feeder conveyors for the recycling industry.
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GOLD SPONSORS
April Competition Results
DACO Precision-Tool (ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED) designs and builds all types of tooling (Alum Die-Cast, including Trim Dies), (Plastic Injec-tion Molds, including Over Molds), (Stamping Dies, all types including Progressive Dies). DACO also has a complete metal stamping department with auto-feed CNC press’s up to 330 Ton capacity servicing OEM and Distributor customers. www.daco-precision.com
Mahuta Tool Corp. Germantown , WI Our goal is to forge partnerships with our clients by providing cost competitive products that meet their quality, engineering and delivery expectations. As a full-service manufacturer and supplier to national and local OEM’s, our focus in-cludes metal stamping dies, die cast trim dies, tooling and fixtures with in-house design and build capabilities. In machining our strength is short run Wire EDM, CNC milling and turning. We believe in the apprenticeship program and current-ly have two apprentices as part of our highly skilled workforce also, two of our new hires have been involved in the BotsIQ program.
Mahuta Tool Corp. is ISO 9001 certified with a diverse customer base including: automotive, medical, construction, mining, food, sports equipment, electronics, power generation and machine building industries in both tooling and CNC con-tract machining. www.mahutatool.com
1st Place A-Team
GPS Education Partners—Generac
Documentation Winners
3rd Place Chompy
Wauwatosa East
2nd Place Mehring’s Nightmare
Germantown
A-Team
Competition Winners
1st Place Octavus MKII
Germantown
2nd Place Over Power Germantown
3rd Place Uprising
Germantown Octavus MKII
April Competition
Teams/Rules & Strategy
Judging & Scoring Basic Rules for 15lb Bots
Bots must weigh less than 15lbs & fit through
the Arena door
Bots can use pneumatics (compressed air)
Hydraulics (pressurized fluids) are not allowed
Guns, Explosives, Acids and Radio Jamming
devices are not permitted
Bots can be made from most materials
Organic materials such as food products are
not allowed
Harmful or dangerous materials such as
Uranium are not allowed
Matches are 3 minutes long
The goal of a Bot is to disable the other Bot before the end of the match. A 10 second countdown will be
started if a Bot does not show any movement. If the Bot does not move within this 10 second time frame, the match ends with a Technical Knock-Out.
A Driver may Tap-Out. A Tap-Out is usually done when a Bot is about to sustain considerable damage.
A Tap-Out will end the match with a loss but it may save the Bot for an upcoming match.
Strategy
3 Judges score the Bots. This
eliminates the possibility of tie.
Points are awarded for Control,
Aggression and Inflicting Damage
A Bot may win a match by a
Technical Knock-Out (disabling the other Bot) or by Decision (highest score)
West Bend HS Instructors - Jacob Gitter & Ryan Johnson
Roulette, Slots, Snake Eyes
Germantown HS Instructor - Tim Mehring
Black Hawk Down, Downfall, Lunar Eclipse,
NanoBot, Octavus MKII, Red Ring of Death, Uprising
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Horace Mann HS (North Fond du Lac)
Instructor - Tom Kiser
Pop Tart
Slinger HS
Instructor - Aaron Pokrzywa
Shoot To Thrill
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