Hardware Fabrication

Sierra Lobo has extensive experience designing, building, and validating specialty hardware including demonstrated capability for building and certifying aerospace flight hardware. We provide the following capabilities:

• Multi-Axis, High-Speed Machining with Large Diameter Turning
• Hydraulic Shear, Punch, Pressing and Hot Stamping, Rollers, Various Tube Benders and Flaring Machines, Sander/Grinders, Vertical Mills, Drill press, Band Saw
• Precision Machining
• Sheet Metal, Tubing, and Piping, Cutting, Beveling and Other Fabrication Processes
• Electronics Fabrication

In addition to these general machining and fabrication tasks, our staff has extensive experience in the following processes:

• Surface Treatment: Oxygen Cleaning, Passivation, Plating, Anodizing, and Dry Film Lubrication
• Coating: Priming, Full Painting, Brush Electroplating, and Casting Impregnation
• Welding and Heat Treatment: Certified Welding per ASME Code (TIG, MIG, SMAW, and Orbital)
• Propellant Handling/Testing: Propellant handling and high energy testing. Our facility is has provisions to satisfy NFPA sitting and exclusion zone requirements.

Sierra Lobo has a highly skilled, multi-disciplined technical work force to perform in-house, as well as on-site customer machining services, in accordance with ASME/ANS code fabrication and quality assurance requirements. Our mechanical technicians possess advanced mechanical training and are certified in using tools, measuring instruments, specialized, non-conventional and complex machining and fabricating equipment and in operating complicated and varied mechanical parts, components, and systems.

Our Instrumentation Laboratory develops innovative solutions for difficult problems in instrumentation and measurement technology. We design and produce cost effective, compact, lightweight, low power, user-friendly solutions. Our Instrumentation Lab supports and enhances our research efforts through the design and fabrication of custom instrumentation automation packages. Our instrumentation personnel have extensive experience in the installation and fabrication of system instrumentation including pressure, flow, temperature, and strain gauge instruments.

In addition to the hardware fabrication, Sierra Lobo provides research hardware, systems validation and testing services. Typical tests include:

• Aerodynamic Testing:
  Supersonic and Subsonic Wind Tunnels
• Dynamic Actuation, Vibration and Acceleration Testing:
  Sinusoidal and Random, Multi Axis Vibration at Cryogenic Temperatures
• Environmental Simulation Testing:
  Temperature, Humidity, Altitude, Rain, and Solar Light
• Cryogenic Fluid Research:
  Handling, Operations, Insulation, Densification, and Storage
• Strength and Reliability/Durability Testing:
  Stress, Fatigue, and Aging to ASTM or Custom Specifications

Sierra Lobo is an ISO 9001:2008 registered company. Our scope, as described in the registration statement reads:

“A Provider of Engineering and Technical Services, including Hardware Fabrication and Testing, to the Aerospace and Transportation Industries”.

We believe that our registration stimulates a climate of customer confidence in the procedures and practices that Sierra Lobo applies to provide its products and services. It reinforces Sierra Lobo's management system and provides a framework for controlling and improving our business activities. We also believe that this registration adds value, competitiveness, and marketing edge to our products and services. We are registered by NQA, one of the world's largest accredited certification bodies.

Sierra Lobo’s Quality Assurance Office provides in-house and outside services that include scheduled quality inspections, ANSI/ISO/ASQ Q9001:2000 Compliance, documenting non-conformances, reporting discrepancies, completing Acceptance Data Packages, ensuring that personnel are properly certified and trained, and establishing a Preventative Corrective Action Program. Sierra Lobo’s Quality Assurance Office also provides material certification, recording and filing certification records, and aligning and calibrating all machining and fabrication tools and equipment.