Personnel and Certifications
- Over 70 metal technicians
- Fully qualified welding staff
- Inconel and stainless steel welding to ASME Section 9
- Aluminum welding to ASME Section 9 and CWB 47.2
- MIL Standard 2219 for Titanium welding
- Mild steel welding to CWB 47.1 W59 Division 3
Quality Assurance
- AS9100B Certified
- ISO 9001 : 2000 - CGSB Certified
- Dedicated QA/QC and inspection staff
- Program audited and approved by major defence and aerospace contractors
Engineering Support
- 15 professional engineers
- Computer aided engineering systems for structural design (FEM-ANSYS)
- Computer aided project management systems for complex fabrication and installation projects
- Design Drafting (SolidWorks solid modeling/parametric design)
- Computational Fluid Dynamics - Fluent
Facilities and Equipment
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18,000 m² (60,000 ft²) plant
- Grade level and loading dock access
- Access doors 4.27m wide (14 ft) x 4.88m high (16 ft)
- Hot Gas Wind Tunnel for scaled model development
- Material handling equipment to 7.6 tonnes (16000 lbs.)
- A-Frames, jib and overhead cranes
- Full
range of shop tooling including cutting and welding equipment
for ferrous and
non ferrous metals - Welding:
-MIG welding to 400A
-TIG welding to 300A
-Spot welding
-Seam welding - Welding positioners - 10,000 lb. capacity
- Forming:
-Plate shear ½ in. x 10 ft mild steel capacity
-Pinch type forming rolls ¼ in. x 10 ft in stainless steel capacity
-Press brake 12 ft x 300-ton capacity
-Sheet metal forming (English wheel, hammer machines, stretch forming) - Special
Processes:
-Non Destructive Testing (LPI, FPI)
-Glass beading
-Stress relieving
-Machining (milling machines, lathe)
-Plasma cutting
-Riveting
-Passivation
Davis Engineering's Ottawa facility places it in close proximity to the R&D facilities of the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) and their Institute for Aerospace Research (IAR). We have made use of many of the the NRC's test facilities for the purpose of product development. We have made extensive use of the NRC's Structures, Materials & Propulsion Laboratory (SMPL) for structural vibration testing and qualification of our products to military vibration and shock standards. We have utilized the gas turbine engine testing facilities of the SMPL's Aeropropulsion Laboratory for testing our aerospace IR devices directly on their corresponding gas turbine engines. We have used the helicopters of the NRC's Flight Research Lab (FRL) for test flying our Centre Body Tailpipe (CBT) and Film Cooled Tailpipe (FCT) aerospace IR suppression devices.
