Acorn Engineering is located on the south coast of England and was formed in 1983. Over the years we have built up wealth of knowledge and experience in the manufacture of special purpose machines. We have designed and manufactured a wide range of equipment which varies from simple hand operated jigs to complex fully automated assembly machines.
Acorn Engineering has been operating for 40 years. In that time we have designed thousands of bespoke one off manufacturing machines for companies in a extensive selection of sectors across the south coast. We manufacture a wide range of equipment which varies from human operated poka yoke jigs to complex fully automated assembly lines.
Acorn Engineering has been operating for 40 years. In that time we have designed thousands of bespoke one off manufacturing machines for companies in a extensive selection of sectors across the south coast. We manufacture a wide range of equipment which varies from human operated poka yoke jigs to complex fully automated assembly lines.
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Acorn's background in mechanical design and droughting comes from a wide range of engineering sectors. Our team of design engineers have experience with almost every common manufacturing strategy. Acorn engineering has capacity to produce parts via a full spectrum of manufacturing strategies. We have continued to invest in the latest in 3D parametric CAD systems to allow us to bring better products to market faster.
The following machine is a flexible chaff cutting and loading machine for a defence company. The purpose of chaff is for it to be deployed from an aircraft in an attempt to confuse and avoid radar seeking missiles. The chaff itself consists of thousands of glass fibers coated in aluminium. The length that these fibres are cut to is critical to ensure that it interacts with specific wavelengths of radar in predictable ways.
In this job we were tasked with reverse engineering a punch and place mechanism and retrofitting it to an old machine. The previous design of this mechanism relied on being able to gun drill down the center of the rod of a large cylinder so that a smaller cylinder could act co axially through the centre of the larger cylinder.
Here at Acorn Engineering we are able to program and fault find systems utilizing Siemens or Mitsubishi PLC and Human Machine Interface (HMI) hardware. We can modify existing programs, sometimes even without the source code, or create new programs for existing applications. We program all or our machines in house.
Our team has experience in a wide variety of sectors with an extensive portfolio of customers. We are very flexible in our methodology and so can tailor our approach to suit your needs best. Getting us involved with your project while it is still in the design stage will help prevent you running into potentially costly issues later in your manufacturing stage by making changes to your product.
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Benjamin Van Der Lugt
Mar 31, 2021
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