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Metal Improvement Company (MIC) is a company specializing in metal surface treatments. MIC is a subsidiary of the Curtiss-Wright Corporation (NYSE: CW). Metal improvement Companies work with several metal treatment techniques, which are usually required in some industries to enhance the performance of metal components, preventing premature fatigue and corrosion failures. ==History== This company was founded in 1945 in southern California by engineer Henry Fuchs.〔Nachman, G; Shot Peening-Past, Present and Future http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:yfKFunVDnqoJ:www.shotpeener.com/library/pdf/1999008.pdf+Henry+Fuchs+metal+improvement&hl=es&gl=mx&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESjlP8qQn8OE063fKB6iD9jF61pcL0QCLpu9T7OmmKAZ6Njmauxe4Frlmw-2xqboxqwFiWix6q2n8hM5vFsQYaoFuxcHupX7GDQ1POhasQAao6xelkxDX7t_0ie8EC3-4lw9Jkp7&sig=AHIEtbR4ALAfGHAa7Woc5Vy9XljtCho1RA〕 Fuchs had been working with John Almen on new applications for shot peening of automobiles and military equipment companies produced before and during World War II. Fuchs and Almen worked at the Research Laboratory of General Motors Corporation before the start of MIC. The Almen strip or Almen system, a tool for duplicating the shot peening process, was named after John Almen. Fuchs started in his garage accompanied by his son-in-law, Fred Landecker, with the idea of working in railways car suspensions and assemblies. Nevertheless, the shot peening industry was beginning and the automotive sector was not showing much interest. So it was the aircraft industry which first began to use the beneficial processes. The company worked, for example, in the early 1950s with the famous Douglas DC-3 aircraft. In the mid-1950s, the company worked on the wing skins of Lockheed Super Constellation aircraft. In 1968 the company was acquired〔Curtiss-Wright History http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/CurtissWright-Corporation-Company-History.html〕 by Curtiss-Wright which had begun an expansion program at its Buffalo extrusion facility, adding new forging and machining equipment for building aircraft and aerospace components. In the 1970s, the idea of metal peening with light was explored in the company and in the metal treatment industry. Lawrence Livermore Laboratories at the end of the 1990s, working under a government contract for a laser to illuminate passing satellites, developed a process of peening with light with enough power to use it also for commercial purposes. Metal Improvement Company, under a joint agreement with Lawrence Livermore Laboratories, began to develop 〔Hackel, Lloyd; Laser Peening Technology Has Come of Age http://www.shotpeener.com/library/pdf/2005028.pdf〕 this technology for commercial customers and in 2003 the company introduced the laser peening to the market. Henry Fuchs died in 1989. He was a Professor Emeritus of Stanford University. The Society of Automotive Engineers named an award "Henry O. Fuchs"〔Henry O. Fuchs Student Award http://students.sae.org/awdscholar/awards/fuchs/〕 in his honor. In 2006 NASA worked with the company, and they together presented a study called: "Effects of Laser Peening, and Shot Peening on Friction Stir Welding".〔Effects of Laser Peening, and Shot Peening on Friction Stir Welding http://www.asipcon.com/2006/06_proceed/Tuesday/0200_Harrison.pdf〕 MIC, as a subsidiary of Curtiss-Wright, seems to be focused also in the shot peening outsourcing services for enterprises, and the company claims that they are the leader in this area. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Metal Improvement Company」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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