Celebrating 50 Years of Innovation

 

 

A. S. Thomas, Inc. is a high technology firm with over 50 years of research, engineering and manufacturing experience.

 


A. S. Thomas, Inc. is proud to be present at EASTEC-2002 with the following manufacturers: Fryer Machine Tools, MAZAK and Mikron-Bostomatic.

 

Manufacturing

 

MAZAK Variax  showing live machining of a steam turbine bucket from 410 stainless steel bar stock.

Steam Turbine Bucket, Platform and Tenons machined in one set-up on MAZAK Variax.

 

 

A. S. Thomas, Inc. has developed this and numerous other production machining processes which have provided dramatic reduction in machining cycle while improving part quality and consistency.

 

 

NUFORM CAD/CAM and JIT

 

The NUFORM CAD/CAM System as well as various Expert systems were demonstrated. The Expert Systems demonstrated included Blade Milling Expert Systems and other Knowledge Based CAE/CAD/CAM Systems designed to solve numerous manufacturing problems.

 

A.S. Thomas, Inc. has provided a large variety of turn-key manufacturing solutions across a wide spectrum of products, including: medical instruments, surgical saw blades, turbine blades, thread rolling dies, feedscrews, tooling hobs, etc.

 

 

6" Diameter Blisk 

6" diameter Blisk machined on BD-605.

       

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