Facilities & Equipment:
Manufacturing 382,000 sq. ft.
Clean Room 33,000 sq. ft.
Administration 77,000 sq. ft.
Autoclaves:
> 22'Length, 8'10"width, 8' height, 350º F, 50 psi (#2)
> 20'Length, 6'9"width, 6'7"height, 350º F, 100 psi (#3)
> 40'4"Length, 15'6"width, 12' height, 450º F, 100 psi (#4)
> 8'Length, 4'width, 800º F, 200 psi (#5)
> 50'Length, 10'width, 7 'height, 400º F, 100 psi (#6)
> 30'Length, 8'width, 650º F, 145 psi (#7)
Other:
> 5 Curing Ovens, up to 10' x 25' x 8' high.
> Automated Water-jet Cutters: 5-axis 24' x 14' x 5' and 3-axis 12’ x 6’ x 1’
> CNC Router – Thermwood 3 axis, 9.5’ x 6.5’ x 0.8’
> Auto Prepreg Kit Cutter, 2 each, 60' x 6'.
> Paint/Spray Booth, 6 each, up to 16' x 25' x 8.5'
> Warm Rooms, 10 each, up to 39' x 17' x 9'
> Environmental Control Booths (ECB’s), 17 each from 11’x7’6” to 33’9” x 11’3”
Physical tests
Five physical test machines with diversified group of removable and adjustable fixtures, jaws, blocks, and loading heads capable of performing the following tests:
> Flat-wise and edgewise compression
> Peels of all types
> Flat-wise tensile
> Lap shears and inter-laminar shears
> Core shears and flex shears
> Long and short beam flexes
> Tensile of solid laminates and bolts
> Tube Shears
> Pressure tests and leak tests
> Fatigue testing
Physical test Equipment
> Thermo-Gravimetric Analyzer (TGA)
> Thermo-mechanical Analyzer (TMA)
> Differential Scanning Calorimeter (DSC)
> Muffle furnace (for resin burn out)
> Heat test/flame test cabinet
> Infrared spectrophotometer
Non-Destructive Inspection Equipment
> Ultrasonic C Scan of composite structures:
> Boeing St. Louis AUSS V scanning system (nine axis).
> Boeing St. Louis ADIS II scanning system (seven axis). Envelope: 10’ wide by 8’ high by 28’ long. Capable of scanning panels up to 56’ long
> Boeing St. Louis MAUS III Mobil Composite Scanner.
> Manual Ultrasonic Testing. Through transmission squirter yokes with up to 5’ depth. Pulse echo contact of radii and stiffeners.
> Real Time Film and X-ray of Composites. FeinFocus microfocus X-ray system
> Level III Services. ASNT certified in Ultrasonic.
Engineering & Tooling
> CATIA V4 & V5 and UNIGRAPHICS NX2
> Composite & Metallic Design
> NASTRAN & PATRAN Finite Element Modeling
> Material Allowables & Specifications
> Fibersim Nesting & Design Validation
- Direct output to Gerber (prepreg kit cutter) & OLT
> Tool Design & Manufacturing
> Flowjet & Mastercam NC Programming
> 3 Staff Engineers with delegated Boeing MRB authority