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Creating a waterproof but air permeable high performance coating requires nine steps.
 
Such commitment to detail is a mark of Oregon Aero quality.
 
Bonnie
 
Outside service person Bonnie die-cuts fabric, visco-elastic foam (shown in photo) and leather for Oregon Aero, which designed the precision steel rule dies used in such manufacturing. The company also uses computer-driven technology to cut products.
 
Eleanor
 
Eleanor, sales coordinator, works with customers when they have questions or place orders. Nearly every Oregon Aero product originates with listening to customers and solving their problems.
 
Product Testing and Manufacturing

 
Manufacturing

Digital And Proprietary Equipment Ensure Precision

VISCO-ELASTIC FOAM WEDGES VISCO-ELASTIC FOAM WEDGES — the building block for designing cushions with compound curves, extruded from our proprietary "Wedge-o-Matic" wedge machine. Oregon Aero proprietary designs, cutting equipment, molding techniques and other manufacturing methods make us the leader in using visco-elastic foam.

Oregon Aero develops, uses and adapts cutting edge manufacturing technology and we often build our own proprietary equipment. Many of our products, however are made by hand by individuals.  We also create strategic manufacturing partnerships with locally available companies in order to remain flexible and responsive.  All Oregon Aero products are manufactured in the U.S.A.

Oregon Aero re-invented the machinery that accurately cuts visco-elastic foam to desired thicknesses.  We designed the "Wedge-o-Matic" machine to extrude visco-elastic foam into wedge shapes for product designs with compound curves.  We developed a laminating process to build cushions with compound curves from foam parts with simple cross sections.  We built semi-automatic forming machines to precisely bend the bands used in the BLSS® Kit (Ballistic Liner & Suspension System).

Oregon Aero proprietary designs, cutting equipment, molding techniques and manufacturing methods make us the leader in using visco-elastic foam and other materials.


.005" PRECISION — Commercial thickness tolerance for cutting visco-elastic foam is ±1/8". But we designed and built a bun saw (above) which cuts thickness to within .005". (Visco-elastic foam comes to Oregon Aero as large rectangular blocks called "buns.")  The saw, which cuts simultaneously, is another reason our product designs are more complex and effective.

PAINLESS SEAT CUSHION SYSTEMS MADE BY HAND
assembling a seat

Each custom-designed Oregon Aero® Seat Cushion System, whether for aircraft, land vehicles, or other applications, is made by hand.  Some aircraft seats are sent to Oregon Aero, where they are stripped to their frame.  The frame is repaired if necessary, new webbing is usually installed, and then a seat cushion system is constructed layer by layer.  For other aircraft, the Oregon Aero® seat cushion system is installed by the customer.

Seat Cushion Systems are made from several materials, including visco-elastic foam and as many as 20 individually shaped pieces.  Every seat cushion system provides pain-free seating.

DIGITAL AND PROPRIETARY EQUIPMENT ENSURE PRECISION


Oregon Aero uses digital equipment to ensure precision in seat cushion designs. Photos show the use of a FARO portable, digital measuring arm to digitally reverse engineer an F-4 Phantom ejection seat. The engineering data enables the production of an exact seat model, used to create the custom seat cushion system. The digital measuring arm produces a digital 3-D image of any shape, in this case the F-4 seat.

The 3-D image is processed through CAD software and used by Oregon Aero’s computerized milling machine (in photo background) to produce an exact model of the original seat in plastic or metal, accurate to ±.002".

Because the digital measuring arm is portable, Oregon Aero can take it to aircraft when necessary, collect the seat engineering data, return to the shop and manufacture the custom seat cushion design.

Oregon Aero proprietary foam cutting machinery features similar precision (thickness is within .005"), ensuring that each finished seat cushion system is as precise as possible. Such commitment to detail is a mark of Oregon Aero quality.

Becky removes cut seat cushion parts from a computer controlled fabric cutting machine. COMPUTERIZED CUTTING MACHINE - Becky, fabric and finishing coordinator, removes a cut piece of fabric which will be used to cover a Portable Universal SoftSeat™ Cushion.The computer-controlled cutting table above uses a vacuum to hold fabric in place.  The department also uses an additional computerized high volume, continuous-output cutting table.

COMPUTERIZED MILLING MACHINE COMPUTERIZED MILLING MACHINE — Mike Dennis works at Oregon Aero’s computerized milling machine. The machine, through its linkage with CAD software in the computer shown at right, produces finished parts and reverse engineered models of specific seat pans and structures. Data is loaded onto the computer from various sources, including the digital measuring arm that produces 3-D images of any shape.

Precision steel rule dies DIE CUTTING PARTS - Mike Dennis looks at one of the hundreds of precision steel rule dies used by Oregon Aero to but visco-elastic foam and fabric parts.

Evan and Jim, outside suppliers, set up a large clamp jig to autoclave and bond aluminum parts. IT’S NOT JUST ABOUT FOAM! — The wide variety of Oregon Aero products requires that we use a wide variety of materials and manufacturing methods. Here Evan and Jim, outside suppliers, set up a large clamp jig to autoclave and bond aluminum parts. The autoclave oven (at top in photo) lowers over the jig to bake the parts.


Seat Cushion Testing
Complete Seat System Testing
Fire Resistance
Aviation Helmet Upgrade Testing
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