Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

ARINC provides management, technical, and engineering support to all areas of DoD and commercial aircraft maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) operations. Our capability encompasses everything from facility planning, design, and activation to machine and tooling operation, design, and fabrication. Working closely with our clients, we define requirements, develop detailed plans, design solutions and, if requested, implement required changes—no matter how big the challenge.

So when the U.S. Air Force decided to move its F100 engine overhaul facility to its Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center, ARINC was ready to help. Our scope was large—support new-depot activation, including the design, development, and remanufacture of up to 2,000 tools to be used at the facility. These ranged from simple hold-down fixtures to complex engine test-cell adapters. One of the major tasks was to make sure that all of the new and modified equipment worked together perfectly. Using advanced interoperability-engineering techniques, we developed the processes and equipment necessary to get the job done.

Another example: ARINC designed and built a number of state-of-the-art engine maintenance facilities for the U.S. Air Force. These include an acid-etch facility that prepares gas turbine engine components for fluorescent-penetrant inspection and an engine component brazing facility, where government personnel routinely perform critical brazing operations using precious metals.

Our overall areas of expertise include:

• Facility planning, design, and implementation
• Machine and equipment modernization
• Tooling design and manufacture
• Safety and environmental compliance assessment
• Interoperability engineering