Excalibur Armament Actuator
National Center for Defense Manufacturing & Machining
Material: 7075 Aluminum Conventional Machining Method: Run Time was 7.5 hours with six (6) setups Unacceptable part quality System Solution: JUMPED™ Reduced setups from six (6) to three (3) All required tolerances and critical feature characteristics were achieved Processing time reduced from 7.5 hours to 1.5 hours Utilized new state-of-the-art tooling No disruption to daily ARDEC Prototype Lab activities Expected Cost Savings: Prototype Build = $90K Low Rate Initial Production(LRIP) = $5.25M Planned Production = $75M
Provenance
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