Facilities
Head office of Quickstep Holdings Ltd and Quickstep Technologies Pty Ltd
- Goods inward/outward
- Facility manufacturing floor space currently
- 2000m2 plus offices with provision for expansion on site (17,000m2)
Focus
- Ongoing development of the Quickstep Plant and Process
- Centre of Quickstep engineering activities
- Developing a state of the art, aerospace standard manufacturing facility
Technical capabilities
- CAD/CAM
- Catia V5 R17 with CPD Workbench for composite ply development interfacing with:
- inite element (FE) and Ansys CFX 11.0
- computational fluid dynamic (CFD) software
- NC ply cutting machine
- Laser Projection System (LPS)
- 5 axis machining
- CMM inspection
- Reverse engineering software
- Temperature controlled clean-room (20m x 10m)
- 4m x 2m NC ply cutter
- I stereo LPS station
- Freezer for cut kits
- Potential for expansion
Curing Plant and Equipment
- QS 20 Quickstep plant
- QS TP20 Quickstep for medium temperature (~200C) thermoplastics and thermosets
- 2 off 8m x 3m autoclaves for part and composite tool manufacture
- 1 off 5m x 2.5m autoclave for silicon diaphragm and diaphragm tool manufacture
- 5 axis NC heavy duty machining centre (4.5m x 2.5m x 1.5m)
- Jig and tool manufacture
- Machining tooling block patterns and moulds
- NC routing parts
- Honeycomb and foam core machining
Key clients
- Airbus UK
- Airbus Germany
- Eurocopter Deutschland GmbH
University partners
- Deakin University, Geelong, Australia
- University of Manchester, United Kingdom