When it comes to aircraft sheet metal components, precision is of the utmost importance. That’s why Capps Manufacturing’s sheet metal fabrication process includes build to engineering. We work closely with your engineering team to ensure our tooling, cutters and instruments are all calibrated to your design files. And, our capabilities include a full range of sheet metal processing plus select bench assembly services to complete your parts.
Our Quality Control system meets the requirements of MIL-I-45208A and Boeing D1-9000.
What Does Build to Engineering Mean?
Build to engineering is the process of translating engineering designs into functional aircraft components. Parts and tools are fabricated with precise adherence to your engineering specifications so you can ensure your components will fit and operate as intended.
At Capps Manufacturing, we create all the tooling in-house to fabricate your parts according to your engineering drawings. This includes the jigs, fixtures, molds and dies.
CAD/CAM
Our two full-time programmers use CATIA as the primary CAD/CAM programming system for receiving and converting data from our customers’ drawings. We also use CATIA to design tooling fixtures for sheet metal aircraft parts and verify CNC machine cutter paths.
We download customers’ engineering files and use them to program our CNC machining centers and CMM’s. These electronic engineering files are used for design and build of both vacuum fixtures and tooling.
CMM
Capps Manufacturing is equipped with a Romer portable computer aided measurement system, or CMM, to handle tool/part verification requirements. Our computer aided measurement system, or laser tracker, is used for large tool fabrication and tool/part verification. This equipment allows us to measure large or difficult-to-move workpieces without the need to move them to the measuring instrument. And, we can coordinate large assemblies with high precision and accuracy.
High Quality Build to Engineering Sheet Metal Aircraft Parts
Capps Manufacturing has been providing precision build to engineering sheet metal parts for the aerospace industry since 1983. Based in Wichita, KS, we serve customers around the world in the general aviation, military and commercial aircraft industries.