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Manufacturing Department

RPM-PSI Machine ShopRPM maintains well equipped facilities to allow for in-house fabrication and assembly of nearly every component that goes into our product.  Each manufacturing department is independently housed in its own air-conditioned facility.  This allows RPM to maintain control over our entire workflow, and to react quickly to any required changes in production schedule in order to meet all of our customer's requirements.

All of RPM's manufacturing departments employ skilled direct labor.  The majority of our manufacturing personnel have been employed by RPM for longer than three years, and many for as long as fifteen years or more.  These employees are all highly trained and fully versed in our product.

RPM-PSI Electrical Assembly building UAV Datalink PedestalOur Machine Shop boasts six Haas CNC Vertical Machining Centers, two Mazak CNC Turning Centers, one Hass 4th Axis Rotary Table, and a multitude of hand-operated machines.  This equipment allows RPM to manufacture 95% of the custom fabricated components that are used in our systems, including all high precision parts.  For specialized operations such as heat treating, welding, gear-cutting, plating, and painting, RPM has developed a network of company approved vendors that we can use to meet the fabrication needs of every design.

Located directly adjacent to the machine shop, RPM's Quality Assurance Department performs detailed inspections on all manufactured and purchased items as required.  This location enables Quality Assurance personnel to provide the Machine Shop with immediate feedback on any first article item they produce, to ensure dimensional accuracy on all items.  Among other tools, this department is equipped with one 7-Axis FARO© Platinum arm, one 6-Axis FARO© arm and one FARO© gauge, which enables the user to simultaneously inspect all features of a part, in three dimensions.

RPM-PSI Mechanical Assembly building Electronic Warfare Antenna Pedestal and Military Radar Antenna Positioner

RPM also maintains designated, enclosed areas for both our Mechanical and Electrical Assembly departments. These areas provide our assembly technicians with all of the tools and space required to build every RPM product.  Currently RPM Electrical assemblers and QA department are qualified in the IPC-A-610, IPC/WHMA-A-620 and J-STD-001 standards. In addition, RPM as a company has completed ESD training with Electrical, Test and QA receiving IPC and ESDA certification as "ESD Safe Electrical Assemblers.

Common components used in our manufacturing operations are maintained in a two story stock room and other storage areas.