Features include:
37,000-ft2 production space
6,300-ft2 cleanrooms
6,000-ft2 machine shop
1,800 ft2 of testing equipment
10,000-ft2 engineering office space
1,500-ft2 conference center
SDC's facilities focus on the production of hardware for missiles, canisters space structures and aircraft.
SDC also reports that it has delivered a Composite Gimbal Structure for an optical design customer. The Composite Gimbal Structure is one of three unique parts SDC produced for this stable structure platform. SDC designed and manufactured a multi-piece tool to achieve the trapped geometry features of the Composite Gimbal Structure. SDC then its all-digital composites manufacturing process, known as HD Composites, to produce the high-quality hardware. SDC's HD Composites process uses state-of-the-art CAD software for digital ply pattern generation, automated CNC ply cutting, digital laser projection for precise ply placement, automated CNC machining, and digital laser final inspection for quality assurance. SDC's HD Composites process eliminates human handoffs and opportunities for error to significantly reduce production time and lower scrap rate for the highest quality and lowest cost composite hardware.