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The part arrives, or the machine does
A worn component, a broken one, or an assembly that has to be stripped to find the item that failed. Where nothing is left to measure, the mating parts and the housing carry the dimensions instead.
Capability
When the manufacturer stops supplying, we make it
Indigenisation by reverse engineering: measuring a component that is out of production, drawing it properly, and making it again so the equipment stays in service.
- On record since
- 2015
- Certified
- ISO 9001:2015
- Named on scope
- First line
- Input
- Part or drawing
The problem
Equipment outlives its supply chain
A pump, a gearbox or a handling rig will run for thirty years. The company that made its impeller may have stopped making it after eight, changed the design twice, or closed. The machine is fine. The part is unobtainable.
What we need from you
- Best case
- The part, and the machine it came out of
- Workable
- The worn part on its own
- Also workable
- The mating parts, or the housing it sits in
- Not needed
- The original manufacturer's drawing
What you get back
- The part
- Made to the drawing produced from the original
- The drawing
- So the next one does not start from zero
- Lead time
- Quoted per part, once the item has been seen
- Quantity
- One, or a batch
The method
Seven steps, in this order
The order is the discipline. Measuring before drawing, and separating wear from design intent, is what stops a reverse engineered part from reproducing the failure it replaced.
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Measurement
Every feature that matters is measured: diameters, fits, thread forms, keyways, hole positions, surface condition. Wear is separated from design intent, because copying a worn part reproduces the fault.
03
Drawing
The measurements become a drawing with tolerances, not a sketch. This is the document that lets the same part be made again in five years without the original ever coming back.
04
Material and treatment
Material is specified from what the part has to survive, not from what is convenient to buy. Heat treatment, plating and surface finish are called out on the drawing with everything else.
05
Manufacture
Machining of engineering components is on the certified scope, and fabrication work is done in the same shop that builds the handling equipment on the defence page.
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Check against the original
The made part is checked against the drawing and against the item it replaces. A part that fits the drawing but not the machine has failed.
07
Fit and record
The part goes back into the equipment, and the drawing stays. The second one costs less than the first, which is the whole point of doing it this way.
Certified scope
This is the first line of the certificate
Indigenisation of engineering and defence equipment and spare parts through reverse engineering, machining of engineering components, maintenance of equipment, marine services, and the design and development of control systems.
ISO 9001:2015, QFS Management Systems LLP
How the work is checkedSend the part that nobody sells any more
Tell us what it came out of and what it does. If it can be measured, it can usually be made.