High Technology Machining For The 21st Century

A generation of dedication and service in the engineering and machining of extremely complicated components for the aerospace, avionics and defense industries among others, have made Florida Precision Aerospace, Inc. proud of its position in the market place.

Alberto Dibella

 

Founded in 1979 by Alberto Di Bella, Florida Precision Aerospace, Inc. has developed the skill to high precision machining of individual parts as well as assembly consisting of various components brazed or welded together, then machined to very close tolerance.

The company is capable of machining ferrous and non ferrous materials from plastics, aluminum castings, to beryllium and ceramics.  The company supplies products for the aerospace, avionics, automotive, health care and defense industries.  Facility list includes among others:  CNC milling, CNC turning, CNC wire and sinker EDM, jig boring up to 60" diameter by 30" high.

Florida Precision Aerospace, Inc. quality assurance program operates to MIL-I 45208-A, being upgraded to ISO 9001.

 
Florida Precision Aerospace, Inc., fully owned Division of EVTN is the engineering and manufacturing branch of the patented Voraxial Separator.  Florida Precision supports also the machining needs of its Fortune 500 customers, such as Allied Signal Aerospace, Hughes Electronics, New Venture Gear and The Defense Department among others, with emphasis in manufacturing aerospace application components, where the company has developed a superior skill in the machining and assembling of complex assembly for space navigation, such as:
  • High precision castings
  • Beryllium and ceramics
  • Precision tools and fixtures
  • Deep brazing
  • CNC machining
  • CNC tuning
  • Precision Jig Boring and assembly

The company will continue to solicit manufacturing an assembly opportunities with present customers and also is offering its services to new customers by advertising on the Thomas Register.

We are equipped with high speed modems and can receive DXF, IGES, directly onto our CAM system.  We can of course transfer and receive files via the INTERNET.

 

18,000 SQUARE FEET AIR CONDITIONED OFFICE & MANUFACTURING SPACE

In-process inspections are extremely important quality control steps in the manufacturing field.  Florida Precision Aerospace, Inc. controls a large run via SPC method, and control small lot by process inspecting every operation before continuing with next set up or operation.  Here, A Florida Precision quality control technician conducts an operation check before releasing the part for the next operation.  A full set of inspection report is delivered to the customer each time an item is shipped, either as partial or complete order.

This new generation of gyro housing was machined by Florida Precision.  All critical dimensions were finished to plus or minus .0002".  Machined casting were delivered to customer complete of sub assembly with no defects of any sort confirming the company experience in machining and assembling extremely critical parts.  Florida Precision Aerospace, Inc. is capable of engineering and machining a single part of a kind, or a production run of thousands of parts.

Florida Precision Aerospace, Inc. maintains a highly sophisticated jig boring department consisting of six Pratt & Whitney high precision jig boring machines which allow us to support the various engineering departments of our customers from the beginning of a new program, with quick response in prototyping of a project in preparation for production.

Here Jig bore technician Anthony Brusco is preparing for final operation on a large gyroscope assembly.
This picture (right) sent to Florida Precision by the customer after completion of the assembly shows the technical knowledge and precision machining capability of Florida Precision to deliver a very demanding close tolerance product.  Florida Precision machined the casting and most of the mechanical components of this space navigation assembly.


note: Customer granted permission to publish this picture.

Ceramic inserts assembled in beryllium housing machined and lapped to .0001" flatness and parallel.  The hardest task in working with beryllium is tapping of holes.  Because of special application most of the holes in beryllium are small, this makes them even harder to tap.  We at Florida Precision Aerospace, Inc. had thousands of 2-56 holes to tap.

We started by buying expensive imported taps at approximately $23.00 each and still could not tap more than 3 holes per tap.  We decided to conduct an experimental program that after three days we had learned to tap over one hundred (100) 2-56 blind holes X .250 deep for each set of three commercial taps that we purchased for $3.00 each, saving in the process two third of the estimated required time to do the tapping as well.