AUTOMATION, MACHINE DESIGN AND TOOLING

Making Facilities Competitively Productive

Assuring Processes Achieve Required Quality

Machines And/Or Automation Systems Successfully Undertaken And Delivered:

• Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS): Provides true "lights out" manufacturing.  Multiple commercial and/or custom machines integrated with robots and conveyors, performing machining, assembly, testing and/or functional inspection; monitoring tool performance and condition, providing for offline or automated setup changes and product turnover, incorporating RDM, RNC and other factory integration and automation systems. 
  
  
• Retrofit existing machinery: integrating it to a FMS, automate its function and setup, new controls with CNC/DNC or graphic computer control, add auto load/unload, integrated quality and closed loop controls, incorporating required safety features, giving the equipment you now have new life and performance.
  
  
• Integration of existing equipment into manufacturing cells.  Add conveyors, robots, positioners, inspection/measuring, vision, functional test or S.P.C. monitoring and much more integrated to existing machines to yield unsurpassed productivity! One operator may run the same equipment that previously required several.
  
  
• Automation Systems & Special Machines: We can meet your specific requirements building Machining Centers, Cutting, forming, rolling and stamping systems, Assembly and functional test systems. Finishing, packaging and labeling equipment, Integration of conveyor, robotic, screw, pneumatic/vacuum or electronic x/y positioning and/or material handling systems, Systems can include the automatic change over and setup of tooling, jigs and fixtures drastically reducing setup and increasing productivity.
  
  
• Tooling, Jigs, Fixtures: Manually actuated or machine controlled devices to hold parts for any machining, assembly or finishing operations, built in go/no-go inspection.  We specialize in designing and building “qualified” tooling that meets “SMED” setup requirements.
  
  
• Qualified tooling systems: custom fit to the application to eliminate/reduce setup, scrap.  The ultimate in quick change tooling systems to drastically reduce setup and/or move to off-line locations that don’t consume productive machine cycle time.
  
  
• Welding, brazing and sintering in high vacuum / high temperature: Designing machinery and tooling for these harsh difficult high temperature and corrosive environments. Expertise and familiarity with the design and working of the materials used for these systems: molybdenum, tungsten, titanium, quartz, graphite, carbides and machinable ceramics.
  
  
  

Partial List Of Machines & Users:

• Drill and tap systems; IBM, HP, MDC, Martin Marietta, C.A. Norgren
  
  
• Specialty Machining Centers; HP, Wilkerson, Martin Marietta, MDC, Western Forge
  
  
• Assembly Systems; Martin Marietta, Wilkerson, Western Forger, C.S. Machine, RMO
  
  
• Multi-Machine Flexible Manufacturing Systems; Wilkerson, Summit Precision, IBM
  
  
• Functional test & Inspection Systems; Wilkerson, IBM, Western Forge
  
  
• Finishing, Packaging & Labeling Systems; IBM, Wilkerson, Western Forge