Our facilities and equipment are capable of working with metals,
plastics and most construction materials from concept to finished
product. Below is a partial list of the computer labs and manufacturing
equipment available at the Center for Product Research and Development.
Please contact us regarding your unique needs. We specialize in problem
solving.
Computer Aided Design (CAD) Lab
- 24 stations
- AutoCAD
- Catia
- SDRC-Ideas
Computer-Aided Manufacturing Lab (CAM)
- Rapid Prototype 3-D Printer
- CNC lathe and mill
- Machining Center
- Master CAM
- Moldflow Robots
- SURFCAM
Plastics Lab
- Blow molding 5 separate layer vacuum former
- Dehumidifier drier
- Extruder 1-inch single screw
- Heated two-roll rubber mill
- Hot foil stamp Injection molding 75 ton
- Plastic testing equipment: Impact Compression, Tensile Mold flow
index ,Automatic capillary, rheometer Rotomolder
- Vacuum former .
Foundry and Metal Forming
- Gas-fired crucible melting furnace
- Heat-treat furnaces
- Metalography lab
- Mullor
- Sand testing lab
- Sheet metal forming and cutting equipment
Machine and Pattern Shop
- Combination mill, lathe, drill press
- Electronic discharge machining
- Lathes
- Milling machines vertical and horizontal Precision grinders
- Surface grinders
Welding
- Arc
- Gas
- MIG
- Spot
- TIG
- Ultrasonic
Metrology
- Brinnel hardness tester
- Compression testing machine
- Concrete testing lab
- Coordinate measuring machine
- Fatigue testing machine
- Laser transits
- Layout table
- Optical comparitor
- Rockwell hardness tester
- Tensile testing machine
- Torsion testing machine
Construction Computer Lab
- 18 workstations
- Primavera estimating software
- Timberline scheduling software
Polymers & Coatings
Through affiliation with the Coatings Research Institute, the services
and equipment of three additional centers are provided:
- Coatings Research Institute Centers
- NSF Cooperative Research Center
- Polymer Physics Center
- Surface Science Center
Coatings equipment
- Communications technology lab
- Computerized colorimeter
- Fourier transform infrared spectrometer with microscope
- High field nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer
- Medium-pressure UV curing equipment
- Modulated differential scanning calorimeter
- Nano-indenter and scratcher
- Pigment dispersing equipment
- Prohesion cabinet
- Q-UV testing cabinets
- Scanning probe microscope (SPM)
- Size exclusion chromatograph Spray equipment: airless, conventional,
electrostatic, powder
Textiles
Through affiliation with the Textiles Research and Training Institute
in the College of Health and Human Services, the following facilities
and equipment are available:
- 2-D pattern design software Pattern Grading
- CNC industrial cutter software
- Crockmeter for colorfastness and abrasion
- Dyeing and finishing
- Elongation testing
- Flammability testing
- Looms
- Marking and nesting systems
- Product data management software
- Seam slippage
- Tensile testing
- Wyzenbeek for abrasion testing
Never invent anything unless there is a market for it! Thomas
Edison
