Universal Engineering apply a comprehensive range of machining and manufacturing methods that are integrated to deliver complex work programmes in accordance with the requirements of our customers.
We use an extensive range of CNC and manual machining centres, used to manufacture high performance, safety critical components from aluminium and titanium alloys in addition to both high carbon and nickel steel alloys.
Typical projects include:
-The production of several hundred close tolerance component kits, scheduled and packaged to facilitate customer lean flow line production. We have both weapon system and aircraft customer case studies of this type.
-Specialist machining of large components that are part of a fabricated system. We have case studies that include sub-sea assemblies and sub-sea turbine blades used to generate renewable energy.
Our planning engineers have extensive manufacturing experience and take pride in developing the most cost effective methods and associated process routing, optimising the overall approach wherever possible. Supporting this we can offer both manual and automated manufacturing approaches relevant to the inputs provided by our customers. Our 4 and 5 axis CNC milling and mill-turn machines can operate automatically taking component and manufacturing data from CATIA and CAD files. Alternatively, our machining and inspection teams, who have many years of experience, can operate from conventional drawings and apply a wide range of manually operated manufacturing techniques including milling, turning, cutting, bending and grinding.
Accredited quality inspection, full component traceability and the associated documentation are core to our service. We can produce conventional 2D drawings from CATIA models to facilitate mandated first article inspection needs, when customers are unable to do so. We operate 3 Axis CMM machines with direct CMM comparison to original specification and are fully accredited to ISO 9001:2000 and AS EN9100. We also offer a destructive and
non-destructive testing for strength, hardness, conductivity, magnetic permeability, chemical composition and metallurgical properties such that we guarantee to our customers to provide something that is proven and documented to meet the specification they require.
Lean Manufacturing methods are also fundamental to our proposition so we are working towards Supply Chain 21 certification and beyond. This is under-pinned by our corporate vision to be experts in the field of manufacuring techniques and associated technology.