Scope of Technical Expertise
Our main areas of engineering technical expertise are diverse but focus on precision instrumentation applications including:
Gearing for instrumentation, light actuation and ultra-short life applications
- Measurement (encoder drive) gearboxes
- Ring gears, azimuth/elevation and gimbal system design
- Motor drive gearboxes
- High stiffness, low backlash gearbox design
- High performance epicyclic design
- Gear ratings for fine pitch gears beyond conventional standards
- Rotary to linear actuation devices
Specialist higher load actuation
- Flight control surface actuation gearboxes
- In-flight refuelling systems
Servo systems and subsystems
- System modelling
- Mechanical design
- Control system design and optimisation
- Electronics and hardware design
- Embedded design techniques, packaging
High vacuum system design
- Quadrupole mass filters
- Ion optics
- Ion sources
- Actuation in vacuum, including XYZ stages and MALDI stages
Beam manipulation
- Optical component integration into mechanical systems
- Optical focusing mechanisms
- Optical filter mechanisms
- Laser beam manipulation systems
Design for challenging environmental conditions
- Wide temperature ranges up to -60° / +250°C
- Random, sinusoidal and mixed mode vibrations and shocks
- Sealed unit designs
- Sub-sea and high corrosion requirements
- Zero maintenance for extended service (or pre-service) life