Beaumont Machine Provides SpaceX with Small Hole EDM

Beaumont Machine has been supplying to the aerospace industry Fast Hole and Small Hole EDM for over 20 years, in service to market leaders such as Lockheed Martin, Pratt & Whitney and General Electric. Those ranks expanded recently with a new small hole EDM supplied to SpaceX in Hawthorne, CA.

Company President Ed Beaumont said, "As the needs in the industry are changing, we have made changes to keep pace. For the past three years, Beaumont Machine has been working with advanced CNC control systems from Siemens to support the real-time connection to our power supply. This has improved our hole shape technology, breakthrough rate and overall holemaking process quality. We just completed a project with SpaceX using this newly developed control system in tandem with integrated large ABB robotics for positioning of the electrode."

The new Beaumont small hole machine at SpaceX has a reach of 8' in diameter and 8' in height. Beaumont has built equipment as small as a phone booth and as large as this newest SpaceX collaboration.

Beaumont said, "All of our machines are built for production purposes, right here in Southwest Ohio. Our customers demand the uptime we provide as well as preventative and predictive maintenance programs with NADCAP-approved calibrations. Beaumont equipment, built for the long haul on the strength of our 22-year experience and machines operating in eight countries, are still in production and still holding tight aerospace tolerances. Beaumont welcomes all challenges from the aerospace industry for small hole EDM and robotic articulation."

For more information contact:

Ed Beaumont, President

Beaumont Machine

4001 Borman Drive

Batavia, OH 45103

513-701-0421

beaumach@msn.com

www.beaumontmachine.com