Custom Manufacturing For Aerospace Components
At Step Rapid, we have been providing custom component manufacturing services for the aerospace industry. Each of these demonstrates our commitment to providing airworthy custom-fabricated aerospace components and parts. We also offer custom tooling to match OEM parts.
With our custom component manufacturing services, we produce body components, housings, and baffles, Our aerospace industry parts are fabricated from fiberglass, carbon fiber, honeycomb, and Kevlar materials. From rapid prototype, CNC machining, mold design and development, and injection molding to color and finish matching, our component manufacturing services always exceed our client’s expectations for craftsmanship.
Component Manufacturing Services
Step Rapid offers one-off part prototyping or production prototyping for virtually any machined or formed part. Our expert staff can manufacture aerospace components from functional prototypes to large-scale models from a wide variety of materials, such as plastic, aluminum, stainless steel, and titanium.
Serving the needs of diverse industries, such as aerospace, manufacturing, and medical. Our state-of-the-art facility can manufacture prototypes utilizing CNC, five-axis machining, forming, water-jet cutting, and full welding services. Our skilled machinists and fabricators are craftsmen, and our ability to create prototypes accurately, precisely, and quickly is the key to our success. so if you need aerospace components, pls feel free to contact us.
Materials Matter for Aerospace Parts
Materials are always the first step to define, especially for aerospace parts. they require authentic choices with special characteristics. below are the kinds of common materials used for producing aerospace parts.
Titanium
This lightweight and strong material offers excellent corrosion and temperature resistance and can be machined or 3D printed. Titanium is used in aircraft jet engines and spacecraft. Its strength and lightweight reduces fuel costs.
Aluminum
With its high strength-to-weight ratio, aluminum is a good candidate for housing and brackets that must support high loading. In addition, aluminum is the most cost-effective metal for machining or 3D printing.
Stainless Steel
Stainless steel 17-4 PH is widely used in the aerospace industry due to its high strength, good corrosion resistance, and good mechanical properties at temperatures up to 600°F. Like titanium, it can be machined or 3D printed.
Liquid Silicone Rubber
Elastic fluorosilicone material is specifically geared toward fuel and oil resistance while optical silicone rubber is a good PC/PMMA alternative. Common applications in aerospace include soft-touch surfaces, gaskets, seals, and O-rings.
Inspections, Quality Control, and Certifications
When serving industries such as aerospace, where equipment failure can be dangerous or, in some cases, even fatal, customers are understandably keen to ensure compliance with quality metrics. This often includes a policy to work only with manufacturing service providers that have industry-specific certifications. Among some of the most important certifications for aerospace companies are, respectively, AS9100D.
AS9100D
AS9100D is a standard for quality in the aerospace industry adopted from ISO 9000 / ISO 9001 standards. Since its release in 1999 by the Society of Automotive Engineers and the European
Association of Aerospace Industries, AS9100D has become a gold standard for effectively every aerospace industry participant across the globe, with all suppliers required to be compliant. Regular reviews and revisions—the most recent having taken place in 2016—ensure that the standard stays up to date with today’s realities in aviation, and space.
Inspection Reporting and Quality Control
Certifications are the foundation, not the ceiling, of aerospace and defense applications. Certified facilities seeking end-to-end, concept through final product, advanced manufacturing practices vet those processes post-production.
Several means of process control are being integrated throughout production, including in-situ monitoring for real-time feedback and adjustment during part builds on advanced systems. Once the jobs are finished, parts may be subjected to either destructive or nondestructive testing (NDT). The latter is becoming more highly preferred, as parts made tend to be expensive and time-intensive. NDT methods often involve equipment such as coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) measuring for dimensional accuracy with touch probes or lasers, X-ray or other scanning technologies, and/or tensile testers.
Full traceability throughout the entire manufacturing process also ensures that each batch of material, item in a build, and batch of parts can be traced back to its origins and through every part of each process. Well-kept records will allow manufacturers to trace back a single part made years before to the source of its raw materials, for example, should any problems be found and need to be checked against other results from the same batch. Records will also indicate dates and employees who came into contact with each part.
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