Depending on part production and cure pressure requirements, Janicki will design invar, steel or aluminum tooling to match the CTE’s (Coefficient of Thermal Expansion) of your project. In addition to our composite tooling options, Janicki offers an array of standard metal tooling products which can be quickly produced to meet your schedule.

Engineering Design Capabilities for Metal Tooling

Janicki routinely performs the following services in-house for metal tooling:

• CATIA V5 / Unigraphics NX
• Metrology
• Stress Analysis
• Finite Element Modeling
• Reverse Engineering
• Large-scale capacities
• 3D Rapid Prototyping
• Highly skilled workforce
• Short turn-around projects

Description	Typical Temp	Typical Cycles
Aluminum Lay-up Mold and Fixture	250°	250
Invar Lay-up Mold and Fixture	360°	500
Steel Lay-up Mold and Fixture	250°	250

Facilities and Equipment

Janicki’s facilities are designed to be highly flexible, adapting to a variety of project types; from proto-types and models to high volume parts production. Our in-house state of the art equipment produces high quality, tight tolerance parts & tools.

• High-Tolerance Welding Tables – Up to 16’ x 70’
• GTAW, GMAW, FCAW and SMAW Welding Machines
• Alpha Laser Cladding System
• (2) Large Waterjet Cutters – Up to 14’ x 42’
• 5 Axis Plasma Cutter
• 500 Ton Press Brake w/ 12’ Bed
• 1,000 Ton Ship Building Press – Forming to 3”
• (9) Custom Built 5-Axis Mills – Up to 100’ x 20’
• Complete Machine Shop – 4 & 5 Axis Mills and Lathes
• Tube and Pipe Pinch/Bend Machine
• Metrology Laser Trackers and Faro Arm
• Blast & Paint Booths—60’x16’x10’
• Annealing Furnace – 24’ x 72’
• Autoclave – 50’ Long x 12’