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Laser Systems
Pulsed fiber laser ablation for coating, corrosion and contaminant removal — the machine, the Class IV safety program that makes it legal to run, and the crew trained to do it.
432 Design designs, builds and commissions pulsed fiber laser ablation systems, writes the safety and compliance programs that let a shop run them legally, and trains the crews. The FP-300 went from a sketch to eight units in the field, and remains the only laser currently in use in aviation MRO for corrosion and paint removal.
The hard part of laser ablation is not the laser. It is removing a coating without putting heat into the substrate underneath — which on landing gear, skin panels or composite means knowing exactly how much energy the part can take, and giving the operator a way to see thermal build-up while it happens. That is the part we engineer.
The other hard part is regulatory. A 300 W Class IV laser inside a Part 145 hangar sits under OSHA, FDA, FAA and — for European-certificated work — EASA at the same time, and a shop that cannot document compliance cannot run the machine. So the safety manual, the SOPs, the Laser Safety Officer role and the SMS integration are part of what gets delivered, not somebody else's problem.
Capabilities
- Pulsed fiber laser ablation system design
- Coating, corrosion and paint removal process development
- Substrate thermal limits and heat-monitoring methodology
- Class IV laser safety programs — ANSI Z136, OSHA 29 CFR 1926.54, FDA 21 CFR 1040.10
- EASA Part 145 and SMS documentation; FAA AC 70-1B and Form 7140-1 filings
- Laser Safety Officer role definition, audit programs and incident procedures
- Prototype through low-rate production builds
- On-site commissioning and operator training
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