Skills, equipment and programmes

Highftech Engineering is led by qualified, experienced, competent and constantly updated designers, engineers and mechanical experts. Each member of our team operates using state-of-the-art instrumentation, equipment and programmes. With the best resources, we can offer quality solutions, services and products for the aerospace industry, products for the aviation sector and solutions for other industries.

Skills

Highftech personnel offer the following skills:

Engineering

senior designer (Master’s degree and experience > 6 years, or Bachelor’s degree and experience > 10 years)

  • systems design management
  • advanced 3D cad design
  • advanced finite element thermo structural analysis
  • system verification and qualification planning
  • FMECA
  • safety analysis
  • fracture analysis

junior designer (Master’s degree and experience > 6 months or Bachelor’s degree and experience > 1 year)

  • 3D cad design
  • planning
  • finite element thermo-structural analysis (linear only)
  • production of system technical documentation
  • experimental tests

design assistant (secondary school diploma and experience > 1 year)

  • 3D cad design support
  • planning
  • Processing technical system documentation

Manufacturing

senior builder (Bachelor’s or Master’s degree and experience > 4 years, or secondary school diploma and experience > 8 years)

  • 5-axis machine tool programming (positioned and continuous)
  • 3D cad design of machining equipment
  • machine tool management

junior builder (Bachelor’s or Master’s degree and experience > 1 year, or secondary school diploma and experience > 4 years)

  • 5-axis machine tool programming (positioned and continuous)
  • 3D cad design of machining equipment
  • machine tool maintenance

construction assistant (secondary school diploma and experience > 6 months)

  • programming support
  • tool set-up
  • machine tool maintenance

Testing

senior testing (Bachelor’s or Master’s degree and experience > 4 years, or secondary school diploma and experience > 8 years)

  • Setting up verification and qualification plans
  • programming measuring machines
  • measuring instrumentation use
  • measuring and testing instrumentation management

junior testing (Bachelor’s or Master’s degree and experience > 1 year, or secondary school diploma and experience > 4 years)

  • measuring machine programming
  • measuring instrumentation use
  • measuring and testing instrumentation maintenance

construction assistant (secondary school diploma and experience > 6 months)

  • support for testing activities
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Equipment and programmes

Our construction department is equipped with:

  • n°1 Hermle C40 5-axis CNC machine with pallet changer
  • n°1 CNC 5-axis DMG DMU 50 III gen machine with pallet changer
  • n°1 multitasking 5 axis DMG CLX 450 TC machine
  • n°3 ultrasonic washing machines
  • n°1 Lasit laser marking machine

Our laboratory is equipped with:

  • n°1 Wenzel three-dimensional measuring machine
  • n°1 Faro measuring arm
  • measuring instruments such as gauges, micrometers, dial indicators, load cells, calibrated weights, strain gauges
  • n°1 Fokker instrument
  • n°1 leak detector machine to perform He leak test (with vacuum chamber)

All the measuring instruments we use are calibrated at predefined intervals by a certified external laboratory or in-house in accordance with the procedures of the Quality Manual.

In our technical department we use:

  • CATIA V5 3D software as a cad system
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  • Thinkdesign 3D software as a cad system
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  • NX 3D cad software
  • Hypermill software as a cam system
  • Mastercam software as a cam system
  • Suite Simcenter 3D software for engineering analysis
  • MSC Patran/Nastran software for finite element analisis
  • MSC Marc/Mentat software for finite element analysis in nonlinear field
  • MSC Adams software for multi-body analysis
  • Exacrack software for fracture analysis