A few minutes before lunch break at 12:00PM on Thursday, 19 August, President of Magnus, Frank Bonarrigo, took some time to personally prepare a lunch for the rest of the Magnus Hi-tech family. Photos below show employees enjoying themselves to a variety of foods and the company of each other.
A special thanks to Lockheed Martin Melbourne and Cape Canaveral for allowing Magnus Hitech to be a part of the Persistant Threat Detection System in association with the United States Army. Below is a slideshow of our latest contribution to the system.
It has been a great priviledge for Magnus Hitech to have been a part of Lockheed Martin’s TPS Offload Program. The program included innovations that allowed the United States Navy to execute automated tests on station platforms to pin point and confine faults in electronical assemblies on aircraft systems. On July 19, 2010 Magnus Hitech was awarded with a plaque of appreciation for its outstanding support and commitment to mission success for the Phase II TPS Offload Program. A special thanks to Lockheed Martin for allowing us to be a part of the program.
Within the April 2010 issue of Design2Part Magazine, Magnus Hi-Tech is referred to its constant strive to always become more efficient. The article entitled, “CAM Software Helps Precision Fabricator Get To Market Faster” goes on to give a brief description of Magnus Hi-Tech’s integration with CAMworks software from an interview with Methods Engineer/Program Manager, Mike Blake.
“Melbourne, Florida-based Magnus Hi-Tech Industries Inc. (www.magnusht.com) has built a diverse, high-tech customer base by providing high-quality, turnkey manufacturing services that meet a wide range of customers’ fabrication needs. The ISO 9001:2000 certified company employs advanced sheet metal fabrication and machining technology, coupled with rigorous quality methodologies, to produce parts for the defense, aerospace, medical, communications, fiber optics, and other demanding industries. Parts produced by Magnus Hi-Tech include holding brackets and complex components for military simulators, as well as housings, struts, mounting blocks, impellers, and military chassis, to name just a few.
[...]Part of being good consists of “knowing that you are never good enough,” and this commitment to continuous improvement led the company to seek a way to reduce engineering and CNC programming times and decrease time to market. They found it in CAMWorks® (www.camworks.com). Looking ahead, both CAMWorks and Magnus Hi-Tech, which now has two CAMWorks seats, seem to be similarly focused. “CAMWorks is always making improvements to their product and staying abreast of technology,” reflects Blake. “That is the same philosophy we have at Magnus Hi-Tech.” “
The employees of Magnus Hi-Tech are proud to have played a role in the manufacturing of the PTDS (Persistent Threat Detection System) Surge. Lockheed Martin awarded Magnus Hi-Tech with a certificate of appreciation at a ceremony held in New Jersey. Lockheed Martin thanked Magnus for their outstanding support of the program. Magnus contributed with a number of components needed to produce the final product. Below is a photo of the award itself, the second photo is of Magnus Hi-tech’s President, Frank Bonarrigo presenting the award to the shop. Click them enlarge.
The welding department, here at Magnus Hitech, has recently added another unit to its line up, further diversifying methods of welding and making it more efficient. Miller’s state of the art AlumaFeed™ Synergic Aluminum Welding System uses the productivity and simplicity of MIG (Molybdenum Inert Gas), but provides a TIG (Tungsten Inert Gas) feel and appearance. The AlumaFeed uses a wire feeding mechanism which elimates the need to manually applying welding wire to the product. This, undoubtedly, allows the welder to have a free hand, allowing them to work more comfortably and accurately.
Features included in the AlumaFeed, such as Hot Start, help begin and end welds accurately, without messy puddles. The Crater ability is another useful feature which prevents from making crater defects. It does so by gradually decreasing the rate of currents when ending a weld. And with the built-in programmable Pulsed Programs, peak and background currents are automatically adjusted into sync with the welder’s desired wire speed, virtually eliminating warping and distorting.
Magnus Hitech was recently featured in the “Customer Success” division of the CAMworks website, where Mike Blake, Methods Engineer/Program Manager, discusses topics such as Magnus Hitech Industries’ ability to perform precision machining in an efficient manner. Below is a selection for the article:
“Magnus Hi-Tech Industries Inc., (www.magnusht.com) Melbourne, Florida, is good at what it does: providing high quality solutions to the full range of its customers’ fabrication needs. Using advanced sheet metal fabrication and machining technology, coupled with rigorous quality methodologies, has enabled Magnus Hi-Tech to win a host of customers in the defense, aerospace, medical and other demanding fields.
With a range of products that includes holding brackets and complex components for military simulators, plus housings, struts, mounting blocks, impellers, and military chassis to name just a few, the company is called on to respond quickly and efficiently to a diverse array of fabricating and machining needs. They do this through an equipment lineup that includes laser cutting and electrical discharge machining (EDM) as well as CNC turning and milling machines.” (CAMworks)
For more details, and the remainder of the article, please click on the following link.
Below is a slideshow displaying the process of piecing together a multi-assembly sheet metal part from start to finish. You will see it being cut out on the punch press, go through inspection, being bent at the brake, being welded, deburred, assembled, submerged in iridite, masked and primed, painted, and part marked/silkscreened.
Navy to execute automated tests on station platforms to pin point and confine faults in electronical assemblies on aircraft systems. On July 19, 2010 Magnus Hitech was awarded with a plaque of appreciation for its outstanding support and commitment to mission success for the Phase II TPS Offload Program. A special thanks to Lockheed Martin for allowing us to be a part of the program.
