The Case of the Lost Robot

THE MYSTERY ACES was onsite working with a customer on a project, while there, the customer mentioned a Yaskawa Motoman MH24 they were trying to get up and running.  The technician returned to ACES and had our in-house CSI team reach out to the customer. During the...

The Case of the Hot-and-Cold Oven

THE MYSTERY An aerospace customer had recently moved one of their composite ovens which they used for curing aircraft parts. When they hooked it back up again they ran into a couple of problems: First, the machine wasn’t warming up fast enough. Second, once it finally...

The Case of the Howling Burner

THE MYSTERY One of ACES’ aerospace customers had an atmosphere oven which they used for heat treating parts. It was down for an overhaul, and they asked ACES to remove the eight burners and burner tubes and clean and inspect them. When the ACES Control Systems...

The Case of the Green Parts

THE MYSTERY One of ACES’ customers called with a curious issue: They were an aerospace company using an older vacuum furnace to anneal stainless steel parts, making them shiny and silver — but now the parts were coming out green. A Control Systems Inspector (CSI) was...