Aerospace engineering shops throughout North America focus daily on producing complex parts that meet tight tolerance and high precision requirements. Some, like Harbor City, CA-based Hansen Engineering Co. (HEC), specialize in MDI surface geometry, statistical process control and electronic probing of part surfaces.
The 55-year-old company is an approved ATA (Air Transport Association) supplier of CNC-machined multi-axis parts, assemblies and major structural assemblies. Its manufacturing facility includes two buildings that operate 14 CNC machines, including Mazak five-axis machining centers (one with a dual shuttle table), horizontal machining centers with dual tombstones, and three-axis machining centers.