“So, we bought our first VMC from Hyundai WIA and absolutely loved it. Then we
bought another, then another, and then another. Bang for the buck, you can’t beat them. Excel Machine Technology (Rochester, NY), is the Hyundai WIA distributor that handles all of our service, and it has been fantastic. We’re very happy. I call it a very good marriage. This investment has really helped us in terms of productivity, throughput and competi- tiveness. The Hyundai WIA machines have played a key role in achieving the qual- ity required by the energy industry, making it is easier to machine great finishes on certain materials, thus con- suming less time. Runtimes have gone down because the machines are beefier and are able to handle bigger parts faster. So we have increased cycle time, throughput and quality. For the investment, these machines keep us a step or two ahead of the competition, which is enormously important in today’s marketplace,” said Leonard. ME For more information from Hyundai WIA go to
www.hyundai-wiamachine.com, or phone 201-636-5601; from Seeley Machine, go to
www.seeleymachine.com or phone 518-798-9510.
Fixturing Trims Setup for Aerospace Carbon Parts
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leven years ago, David Shaw and his wife Penny launched Flying-S Inc. (Palestine, IL) as an aeronautical consulting firm. David, who like his father is an avid pilot, had
earned his private pilot’s license when he was 16 and studied aeronautical engineering with an eye to being involved with the aviation business. Along with Penny, who had studied business, David founded the design firm which has grown from a one-man shop designing parts for the James Webb Space Telescope for NASA into a 16,000 ft2 (1486-m2
) manufacturing facility with a workforce of 30 people. Today, the company
designs and manufactures aerospace parts like wings for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), as well as components for NASA. “Ten years ago, Flying-S began as a home-based design consultancy. We then expanded to the garage with a couple of technicians fabricating various prototypes that David would design. When the team grew to half a dozen people and a job site trailer two years ago, we knew we needed a different facility with room to expand into more manufacturing designs. A year ago, we built a new facility and now our team of 30 people has outgrown that. Right now construction crews are almost done completing an addition to double the size of the facility,” said Penny Shaw.
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Complex Seeley parts like these are machined on Seeley Machine’s Hyundai Wia CNC machines.
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