ATI’s State-Of-The-Art Fabrication Facility & Equipment
Composite Blade & Scale Model Manufacturing
Advanced Technologies, Inc. (ATI) operates in a modern 84,000 square foot aerospace manufacturing facility that includes a precision machine shop, large model assembly areas, environmentally controlled composite areas, secured design and fabrication rooms and a controlled storage area. Our facility contains three (3) high bay fabrication areas totaling 24,500 square feet. The largest work area is 70’ x 150’. ATI also houses a 15,000 square foot precision machine shop with CNC and conventional milling machines and lathes.
ATI operates a Large-Scale Composite Tooling Facility within ATI’s main location. Our composite tooling facility houses an IRB 6400 ABB Dual Robotic Machine Center. The robotic machine has a milling envelope of 90 feet long, 16 feet wide, and 10 feet high. Though production of larger parts is possible, this would commonly be executed by the machining of multiple pieces that can be assembled into a single pattern exceeding 200 feet in length.
ATI has a custom Fatigue Testing Rig and two (2) environmentally controlled areas for composite fabrication totaling 13,500 square feet. The facility also features overhead cranes, heavy-duty forklifts, and an electric tug to handle tooling and components.
ATI has seven 3-axis CNC machines, two 5-axis CNC, 2 CNC lathes, two 3-axis wire EDM machines, 2 NC plycutting machines, 2 walk-in freezers for prepreg material storage, and 3 ovens for curing composites, and a 5' diameter autoclave. ATI has two large 3-axis CNC machines with travel limits of X=204.7” Y=102.4” Z=36.5” and X=157.5” Y=82.7” Z=30.0”. ATI has three large ovens, one electric infrared 4’ diameter by 33’ long, one autoclave 5’ diameter x 28’ long, and the other gas with an 7’-9” high x 10’-11” wide x 29’-6” long. All of ATI’s ovens have temperature chart recorders.
ATI’s Quality Assurance (QA) Department utilizes a state of the art 3-axis Brown and Sharpe 48” x 96” coordinate measuring machine (CMM) with direct computer control (DCC) operating on PC DMIS software. They also utilize one (1) FARO ION Laser tracker, one (1) FARO X Laser tracker, one (1) FARO Vantage Laser tracker, and one (1) FARO Platinum Arm operating with Verisurf software.
ATI’s Quality Management System is certified to ISO9001 and AS9100. ATI’s composite operations have been approved by Boeing Helicopter, Bell Helicopter, Sikorsky, Northrop Grumman, Carson Helicopter, and Erickson Air Crane to produce flight critical components.
All of ATI’s inspection tools are calibrated and traceable back to National Institute of Standard and Technology (NIST) standards.
