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Typical Projects

Whether you are a large company adding a fully automated system to an existing factory, or an inventor trying to design and prototype your idea, we have had experience with all industries and business types.

Some of our typical projects include the following systems:

Hazardous Environment and Pyrotechnic and Energetic Materials Automation Equipment
Automated Paint and Adhesive Application Lines
Install and Service Fluidizing Bed Systems
Automatic and Manual Munitions and Ordnance Equipment
Design and Build Turnkey Automation Systems
Design/Build Dial Assembly and Walking Beam Equipment
Design/Build Pallet Power and Free Transfer Systems
Total System Integration
Design/Build Automatic Drilling and Machining Systems
Full Automation and Machine Controls Systems
Precision Pick, Place and Alignment to +/- 3 um (0.00012")
High-Precision Assembly Equipment to Sub-Micron Accuracy
Invention Prototype and Production Design

Below you will find several photographs and descriptions of projects we have completed for our customers:

Precision Pick, Place and Alignment System

This machine was designed and built to pick, place, and actively align a 100-micron wide laser diode to a silicon substrate. The servo-controlled, vision-assisted alignment required a placement accuracy of +/-3 microns. Once the diode was placed into position it was aligned into its angular position by the integrated precision rotary stage and vision system.

The system was custom designed and built for an optical drive company. It operated in a class 500 clean-room, and performed its pick, place, and alignment operation in an average cycle time of 4 seconds per part. The picture quality of this machine is intentionally set low at the request of our customer.

Leak Check Machine

Designed to satisfy the most stringent military specifications, this machine tested possible leaks in a munitions energetic charge capsule. The operator loaded both test chambers and simultaneously tested two capsules for preset pass/fail criteria.

The machine was designed with the most reliable commercial and mechanical components, and used intrinsically-safe sensors and an air-purged cabinet. It was ruggedly designed to withstand daily operation in an army munitions production environment.

Fully Automated Dial Assembly System

This machine comprised a 16-station dial assembly system with an integrated SCARA robot, and load/unload conveyor station. Several of the assembly processes included in the envelope were as follows: Pick and Place, Automatic Feeding and Orienting, UV adhesive Apply and Cure, Electrical Testing, Inkjet Marking and Pack Out.

70,000 lb Aluminum Billet Lift

This unit was located at the end of a continuous casting aluminum plant; it was used to lift hot stacks of aluminum up to 40-inches thick by 6-ft wide and 15-feet long.

The hot billets were automatically picked from a cut-off saw, placed in stacks, and finally loaded onto railway carriages. The picture quality of this machine is intentionally set low at the request of our customer.

Assembly Cell

This unit is based on five sub systems: (1) impulse welding, (2) heat sealing, (3) positive displacement fluid filling, (4) ring crimping and (5) labeling. The systems were integrated together to produce up to 10 parts per minute in a prototype production line.

Connector Machine

This machine is a compact 8-position dial assembly system which manufactures electrical connectors. It is equipped with modular tooling for a Manual Load and is designed to assemble the Body, the Connector, and an O-Ring as well as perform an Electrical Test to verify the completed product’s functionality.

F-16 Maintenance Stands

These fully adjustable maintenance platforms provide complete access to all pertinent maintenance areas for an F-16 aircraft. The stands dramatically reduce aircraft maintenance time and technician fatigue while improving maintenance quality and safety.

Box Load

This machine is used to place protective support sleeves around heavy medical equipment packs then slide them into an outer corrugated shipping case. This equipment improved throughput at a medical group’s pack-out area by 60% while at the same time eliminating operator injury and reducing fatigue.