CIC Tank

We were contacted by a British company specialising in components and subsystems, primarily for the aerospace and defense industries to design a piece of machinery to pressure test a wide variety of components for leak identification.

This was decided to be through the design and manufacture of an underwater test machine to test the components.

We developed the design of a single machine that could accommodate a significant amount of variation between test components, to allow the testing of the entire catalogue of components in a monitored fashion.

The design is unique through the implementation of weirs and water pumps to reduce residual oil slick and aide the operators view of the component. The incorporation of immersion water heaters to improve operator comfort when operating the machine.

A custom designed and built table lift, which operates pneumatically while fully submerged, with the lifting capacity for all the customer’s large catalogue of components. A fully integrated and bespoke PLC program, which was programmed and developed in-house to exactly follow the relevant international standards and comply with customer specific requirements.