Ardel Engineering & Manufacturing Co., Inc.

United States

• Overall Part Dimensions1 1/4" diameter, 3 1/2" long
• Tightest Tolerance±.0005"
• Material Used6061 T651 Cold Finished Aluminum

This project involved the fabrication of an aerospace filter body with complex geometry and multiple features, and highlights the capability of our technical team to produce such complicated parts on a swiss screw machine. Normally, fabrication of an aerospace filter body with multiple features would require multiple set-ups on many different machines—by nature requiring a long lead time due to the change-over involved with multiple set-ups.

• Dimension (LxWxH)1-1/4"
• Tightest Tolerance±.0005"

The live tooling and part index abilities of our Swiss Screw Machines allow us to load a full bar of stock and produce burr free parts in one operation. This eliminates the need for material sawing, setting up multi vises or a 4th axis rotary indexer to handle the machining on multiple sides of the part. Using a Swiss Screw Machining also eliminates the possible process variability since none of the small, typically delicate, parts need to be hand loaded into multiple fixtures. This aspect also offers a cost savings opportunity since the hand loading process is being removed.

• Overall Part Dimensions3" x 4" x 5"
• Tightest Tolerance±.0005

But just how do you know whether or not you are getting the appropriate protection from gas masks and respirators? Any leak or faulty seal could lead to dire health consequences! Ardel Engineering was retained by a client to improve the manufacturability of a particle counter components, a challenge that was tackled with a strict implementation of DFM (design for manufacturability) principles. The focus was on improving the design and manufacturability of a core part, while maintaining low costs.