Experienced manufacturing and testing personnel operate seamlessly with engineering and design staff to enhance manufacturing and equipment evaluation. This team effort is essential when fabrication processes must be carefully planned and controlled to meet critical tolerance requirements when projects move from engineering to supply. Engineering and design capabilities are optimized by the ease at which critical design elements can be prototyped and tested in house, before a design commitment is required. This integration ensures that critical design features for manufacturability are incorporated into final product design.

Qualified assemblers and millwrights fabricate complicated and precise equipment. Most machining is completed in-house using a combination of conventional and CNC machines. Our machine shop is staffed by a group of experienced and well-qualified machinists and toolmakers. There is extensive experience working with conventional materials such as carbon steels, stainless steels and aluminum, as well as less common materials such as Tantalum, Inconel, Zircalloy, Titanium, and non-metallic materials such as PEEK and Vespel.

Certified welders fabricate components from stainless steel, Inconel, hastalloy, tantalum, titanium and other exotic materials. All such elements are separated and quarantined according to material to prevent cross contamination and welding functions are performed in climate controlled environments. Tools such as grinding wheels and wire brushes are clearly identified for usage and restricted for use only with the applicable metal (i.e. carbon or stainless steel). Welding jigs, fixtures and other tooling are also manufactured with parts that are consistent with the metals that will be assembled in the fixture. Tooling is also stored separately according to intended application.

Our Clean Room is used for the assembly and testing of such items as hydraulic and pneumatic valve stations,electrical control panels, electro-mechanical tooling, robotic systems and smaller skid-mounted process systems. A mass spectrometer helium leak test station is also located in this room. Personnel access to the clean room area is restricted and controlled by use of a key-pad entry system with only specific personnel actively working in the area provided with access codes.

Material is controlled from the Purchase Order to the finished product by a well established QA system. Incoming material is received to the PO and then reviewed and accepted by a QA representative to the “Defined QA Requirements” document. Material is identified with a unique Stock Number and stored in racks or the controlled stores compound.