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APS Engineering was contracted to fabricate a Progessive Form Die. The die was constructed of A2 tool steel. The steel was heat treated and precision ground to a specific tolerance of .0001 of an inch. for the production of a special wire part.
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APS Engineering was asked to design tooling for a prototype flywheel Generator. This design required a special jacket for cooling of the high speed bearing housing which operated at 80000 to 100000 RPM.
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| The mating part fits precisely together, the grooved part was sand blasted to get greater surface area cooling internally. | ||
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The parts were then weld together and normalized back to a T-6 condition, as the material is 6061 Aluminum. The upper end utilized a magnetic bearing.
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Flywheel housing on lathe setup to turn Precision Bore with mating piece doweled to it. Flywheel assembly indicated to within .0002" of Run out.
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Magnetic Bearing Control Stator precision doweled in place and turned to form the magnetic bearing
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APS Engineering designed and built a Computerized Reagent filling , measuring and sealing machine for a pharmaceutical Company. Most parts of the Machine were built with 304 stainless steel. The aluminum table top was covered with a 316 stainless steel sheet and anodized for clean room spec.9
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8 nesting stations accepting plastic reagent vessels, rotated 45 degrees when indexing. Station 2, the pockets in vessel were automatically filled with nycal stir bars which were fed from a feeder bowl and deposited in each cavity in the vessel, while station 1 is being loaded with a new vessel. Station 3 then precisely filled various reagents in each cavity, (milliliter).
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When rotated to station 4 the height of the reagents were measured by a laser system and remembered and kept track of by the computer. When arriving at station 4 the vessel received a foil cover which was precut and waiting, it was precut behind the station. Moving to station 5 where the foil cover is heat sealed to top of reagent vessel. Then rotated to station 6 where the vessel was marked with the appropriate info.
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Then rotated to station 7 (accept or reject station) where the computer kept track of all operations. If any one of the operations failed on any given task then is was put down the reject tube and if all went well the vessels went down the accept tube to be packaged. The machine was also fitted with a state of the art touch screen to computer interface.
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