FAIRMOUNT TECHNOLOGIES LLC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: DLA152-001

FAIRMOUNT TECHNOLOGIES LLC — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.

Amount
$100,000
Agency
Department of Defense · Defense Logistics Agency
Program / Phase
SBIR · Phase I
Topic
DLA152-001
Solicitation
2015.2
NAICS
Place of performance
KS
Period
2015-09-30 → 2016-09-29

Description

Fairmount Technologies (FT) proposes to develop a new process for machining curved extrusions that will have profound benefits in terms of improved part quality, lower production cost and reduced environmental impact. FT envisions a CNC process embodied in a ExtruMach multi-axis CNC machine that is much smaller in footprint, while being more capable than existing machines in that it will neither need fixtures, nor risk the part geometry becoming inaccurate (as is the case when a formed extrusion is flattened for machining), and be capable of thinning the part. It will take the known contour of the extrusion into account to trim, drill and thin extrusions as required.