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Dual AFP Gantry machine with offline maintenance cell. To allow for highest machine utilization, operators in this cell can automatically swap
heads to an offline maintenance cell, allowing a process error to be cleared while another fully loaded AFP head continues lamination.
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hey have a focus of delivering the highest speed AFP manu-
facturing, equivalent to high speed machining at 4000”/min, and
more importantly, the highest utilized AFP equipment.
In the short term, he is looking for machine-proof inspection that
is so dialed-in that, “If the machine says it’s good, it can proceed
autonomously without human intervention.”
Electroimpact’s customers are diverse. According to http://www.
electroimpact.com, “Our customer base includes Airbus, Boeing,
Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Fuji
Heavy Industries, Spirit Aerospace, Vought, Northrop-Grumman,
Israeli Aircraft Industries, Xi’an Aircraft of China, Bombardier,
and Embraer, among others.”
The company has been heavily invested in engineering and robot-
ics competitions including at the high school and college level.
They also provide regular industry tours of the Mukilteo facility.
Scarborough, although younger in his career, has found a home at
Electroimpact. Hempstead said that turnover is low, and although
the company is male dominated, they are always seeking to hire
more female engineers.
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“We don’t practice preferential hiring — everyone must come
in through the front door and go through the testing. We aren’t
going to hire someone to do that work that isn’t qualified. It is a
marketing exercise to increase the number of females to apply for
the jobs. We are maintaining the same standard for all appli-
cants,” said Hempstead.
He added, that for applicants that are, “self-governing, self-moti-
vated, self-confident, responsible, integrated, involved, team-ori-
ented, and want to volunteer to be on projects,” they might be
a good fit at Electroimpact — that is, if you are willing to take
a call from a client after 17 years and are prepared to get up to
speed on the project you sold to them!
Electroimpact, Inc.
4413 Chennault Beach Rd
Mukilteo, WA 98275
Phone:[phone]
www.electroimpact.com