THE TECHNICAL ADVANTAGE

Our President, Joe Brouwer, has over 30 years of engineering experience as a contract engineer with a large variety of companies, such as Pratt and Whitney, Boeing, Williams International, Solar Turbines, Ford Aerospace, Spacelabs, Square D, Hughes Aircraft, Convair, Teledyne Continental Motors, Martin Marietta and Gates Learjet. Since being introduced to CAD in 1982 he has accumulated over 18,000 design hours on 3-D CAD, 10,000 on Computervisions CADDS 4X and the remainder on CADKEY.

We support the largest base of companies that use CADKEY in the Northwest: 56 companies and 400 individual CADKEY stations. We also support companies outside our area.

We use CADKEY and the enhancement products in our own engineering division. We can offer you engineering and manufacturing services including design engineering, drafting, 3-D graphic conversion and Computer Aided Manufacturing. Our associates are required to have a minimum of 2,000 hours on CADKEY. Most have many more hours than that, and are experienced in a large variety of engineering disciplines. We can provide on-site contract labor, engineers, designers, draftsman, CNC Programmers.

We have a network of companies that provide a variety of services from metal fabrication to NC machining. All use CADKEY and most use CAM and have their own NC mills or metal forming tools.

We are associated with a variety of companies, such as BK Business Systems, Poelman Design and CB Consulting that assist us in offering complete system integration services. This integration is company wide, from CAD to planning to CAM to purchasing, payroll, billing and payables.

Our business division provides support in a variety of business applications from accounting to office automation.

We can provide complete CAD systems, from a single workstation to a hundred stations hooked together by networking. This provides you with a single responsible vendor for all your CAD needs.

Our staff includes only experienced individuals:

Cindy Borgen
Business Division Manager
Ms. Borgen has over 8 years of experience on PC based systems. She managed the books for a company with over 12 million dollars in revenue. She has kept abreast of the constantly changing PC environment and has experience in a wide variety of PC bookkeeping software packages and other business software such as Lotus, Excel and other DOS and Windows based products. She is responsible for sales, training and support of business systems.

Ed Ney
CAD/CAM SALES Manager
Over 12 years in engineering and manufacturing, of which the last 9 years have been in CAD/CAM/CNC. Mr. Ney has been in management positions and is experienced in the aerospace industry. CNC experience: 3 and 4 axis vertical machining, horizontal machining and 4 axis turning. Experienced in CADKEY, FastSURF, FastSOLID, Advanced Modeler, Smartcam and Surfcam.

Gordon Kushner
CAM Division Manager
Over 12 years in computer programming of which the last 2 years have been in CNC. Mr. Kusher has worked at a variety of companies and has been in management positions. He has experience in Surfcam, FastSURF and CADKEY.

Larry May (PE)
TECH-NET IDAHO
Mr. May represents TECH-NET in Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho. He has a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering. He is responsible for sales, training and support in his area. He also provides engineering analysis on our projects.

Cheryl Svornich
Publications Manager
Cheryl Svornich has been working in the graphics and desktop publishing field for over 8 years. She is responsible for printed material, advertising and newsletters.