XCRAFT  has the capability to take your design from a “back of the envelope” concept and expand it to a plant-scale production article.  We help customers transition through all aspects of technical readiness levels, including: bids and proposals, program management, design and simulation, stress analysis, proof of concept, laboratory and field testing, tooling design, low rate intitial production (LRIP), and large scale production.  Some of the customer products and applications include:

• • Hard Drive Manufacturing Automation and Test Systems
  • Electric Vehicles and Components
  • Missile Launch Systems
  • Aircraft Structures and Control Surfaces
  • Expeditionary Roll-out Roadways for Heavy Military Vehicles
  • Expeditionary Runway Matting for Heavy Aircraft (C-17, F-18E)
  • SiC-SiC Turbine Engine Components
  • Airdrop Platforms                                                                               
  • Artillery Mortar Components
  • Portable Bomb Detection
  • Ammunition Shipping Containers
  • LCAC Hovercraft Components
  • Vehicle Rescue Spreaders

CAD Design and 3-D Modeling

We offer a full range of Computer-Aided Design (CAD), 3-D modeling, and photo realistic rendering services using SolidWorks and CATIA software.

Production Quality Engineering Drawings

XCRAFT also has the capability to generate complete, production quality engineering drawings and drawing packages compliant to ASME Y14.5 in either INCH / Metric units. We can take your design from a “back of the envelope” concept to a plant scale production article.

Simulation

We have the ability to perform computer-based machine synthesis and simulation using tools like SolidWorks and Working Model. Several design aspects are considered including, synthesis, kinematics, kinetics, interference, dynamics, stress, and noise vibration & harshness (NVH).

Stress, Impact, Vibratory, Thermal, and Flow Analysis

XCRAFT has the capability to perform both “Soft” and “Solid” mechanics computational prediction. We have a particular specialty in structural, non-linear structural, vibratory, kinematic, dynamic, and impact analysis using finite element methods. We also have the capability to perform thermal and fluid flow numerical prediction (CFD). Some of the software tools include SolidWorks Simulation, ANSYS, LS DYNA, and Fluent.

Tooling Design

Our company provides 30 years of experience designing tooling for limited protoype fabrication, low rate intitial production, and mass production. While we have particular expertise in polymer and ceramic composite tooling for VARTM, RTM / LRTM, pultrusion, and compression molding, we also provide tooling design and fabrication services for metal die-casting, vacural casting, hydroforming, and plastic injection molding.

Testing

XCRAFT utilizes a network of laboratories to provide a wide variety of mechanical and chemical testing services including tensile, compression, short-beam shear, flexure, fatigue, vibration / modal, adhesive lap shear, adhesive peel, Cone Calorimetry (FS&T), Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC), burn-out, void & porosity X-Ray, accelerated aging, UV degradation, and quality inspection. We can provide mechanical testing at loads ranging from ounces to millions of lbf.

Prototype Fabrication

XCRAFT has extensive experience in rapid protoype fabrication using metal and polymer 3-D printing, in addition to low-cost composite construction methods such as Light Resin Transfer Molding (LRTM), hand lay-up, and compression molding. Our company has the capability to generate metal components, machinery, and complex assemblies using CNC machining, milling, and turning as well as welding and sheet metal forming.

Production

We offer low rate production and plant-scale production services at the most competative pricing and produce composite parts in US-only facilities at the fraction of the cost of other manufacturers who source off-shore. We are capable o meeting both military and commercial production quality standards. XCRAFT designed many of the components utilized in Teradyne’s hard drive test system using polymer-based composite construction.  Teradyne’s system is the industry standard hard drive test apparatus, testing virtually every hard drive produced worldwide.

Patents, Bids, and Proposals

A large percentage of XCRAFT’s business is comprised of assisting customers (from individuals to large business) develop their ideas from the initial “prior art” search phase through the provisional patent and full patent process. Furthermore, we have considerable success in assisting companies generate proposals in whole or part for government awards and institutional grants with a 95% award rate.

Program Management

XCRAFT has the ability to manage customer projects and programs on every level from individual inventor patents all the way to multi-million dollar programs and plant production schemes. .