CAE Ransohoff in Butler County has won a multimillion-dollar contract from Ford Motor Co. to provide metal cleaning equipment for the company's new ''FN'' front-wheel-drive transmission.
Last fall, Ford said it would invest $220 million to build the new small-car transmission at its Sharonville and Sterling Heights, Mich., transmission plants.
Ford is investing $90 million in the Sharonville plant for a production line that will build gears and carriers for the new transmission. The project, to be completed by the end of the decade, is expected to create 160 jobs at the Sharonville plant.
CAE Ransohoff will build and install 19 satellite cleaning systems in the plants.
CAE Ransohoff, a division of Toronto-based CAE Inc., said the central solution supply system that Ford will employ is expected to save the automaker $5 million in operating costs during the first 10 years of operation.
KDI unit wins agreement with Hughes Missile
The Electronic Products Division of KDI Precision Products in Clermont County has won a $4.1 million engineering and manufacturing development contract from Hughes Missile Systems Co. to develop an electronic safety and arming device for the AIM-9X missile. The contract could eventually be worth $20.2 million in sales for KDI.
MacNeal-Schwendler, SDRC in joint effort
Milford-based Structural Dynamics Research Corp. and rival MacNeal-Schwendler Corp. (MSC) have agreed to work together to improve the linkage between their computer-aided engineering software.
Los Angeles-based MSC said it would participate in SDRC's I-DEAS Solutions Network to develop tighter links between MSC's NASTRAN and SDRC's I-DEAS Master Series software. The new agreement extends a cooperative relationship that the two companies have had for several years.
Walker Manufacturing honors AK Steel
Middletown-based AK Steel was one of six companies receiving Walker Manufacturing's preferred supplier award for 1996.
Walker said AK Steel had the best quality performance among its raw-material suppliers.
Walker, a unit of Tenneco Automotive, is the world's largest maker of auto exhaust components and systems. AK Steel is the sole supplier of aluminium-coated steel to Walker.
Cincom software to be included in Tapestry
Cincom Systems' TOTAL FrameWork software has been picked by D2K Inc. to be included in its Tapestry informational distribution software for the data warehouse market. San Jose, Calif.-based D2K said TOTAL FrameWork provided better performance and data manipulation.
