Case Studies

Our customer, a large commercial airframer, challenged themselves to produce a next-generation aircraft concept that would deliver significantly lower total life cycle costs—including dramatically reduced-maintenance requirements.

As our customer’s rigs ventured further off shore, their equipment experienced significantly higher differential pressures. One of the critical components, gas lift valves, were facing differential pressures in the 10,000 psig range.

The U.S. Air Force KC-135 Aerial Refueling Tanker was experiencing severe aircraft downtime due to a highly unreliable piston accumulator used on the fuel boom.

Extreme demands for reliability, precision, and absolute seal were matched by the already strict regulatory requirements for biocompatibility and compatibility with the drugs the new system was dispensing within the body.

An existing pneumatic actuator was repurposed by a major producer of semiconductor equipment for a new application. The existing actuator performed sub-optimally in the new application due to lower forces, higher operational life requirements, and more aggressive processing chemistries.