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Assembly, Inspection & Testing Services
APS has a highly experienced Quality Engineering and Inspection staff. Contract assembly and testing services are available.
Quality Inspection Equipment
- 8-ft, 6-axis FARO Platinum Portable CMM
- 4 x 8 ft Starrett Surface Plate
- 14 in. Mitutoyo Optical Comparator
- 0.098 x 48 in. Fiber Optic Boroscope
- Gage block sets; plus/minus pin sets, bore gages, height indicators
- Standard metric, Acme and API thread gages
- Wilson Rockwell hardness tester
Testing Services
- Vertical test facility
- 750 gpm, 1,000 psi flow loop: Caterpillar 3412 850 hp engine; National Oilwell 7P50 Triplex pump
- Pressure testing to 27,500 psi to 200° C
- Non-magnetic D&I sensor calibration facility and Helmholtz coil
- Electrodynamic shaker table / oven
- HALT / HASS chambers
- 200° C non-conductive sub oven
- Resistivity test tank
- Strain gauge instrumentation, load testing
- Torsional, axial and lateral strain calibration
- Shock testing to 1,000 g
- Lateral and torsional (stick-slip) testing of sensor assemblies
- Bending and rotating fatigue testing of drill string components
- Dynamometer testing to 8,000 rpm, 70 HP
- Fatigue life testing
- Ultrasonic and LPI inspection
- Helium leak and vacuum testing
