NVision Engineering Division
The NVision Solutions Engineering Division (NED) has seven core competencies:
- Design Conceptualization and Illustration
- System Level Electronic, Mechanical, Operation, Support Design
- Design for Regulatory Testing and Approval
- Design for Early Test and Integration
- Production Engineering / Low Volume Production
- Program Management (Military, Government, large program)
- Logistics/Life-Cycle Support
NED's processes are certified to industry standards:
- AS9100C
- IPC 610/620
- CMMI MLII/CLIII
NED Facility
The NED Facility resides in a 32,000 sq. ft. state-of-the-art engineering facility including:
- 7,500 sq. ft. Development Lab
- 6,000 sq. ft. Production Integration Lab
- 7,500 sq. ft. High-Bay Integration and Assembly Area
- 2,000 sq. ft. Machine Shop
- 500 sq. ft. Encapsulation / Molding Lab
Additionally, the NED facility has multiple test fixtures and chambers.
- Low & High Pressure Hydrostatic
- Autoclave
- Temperature Chambers
- Vibration Table
- RF/EMI test chambers
- 75’ RF Tower
- Secure Concrete Hardstand
NED has existing equipment supporting multiple contracts and customers.
- Electronic test systems
- Mechanical test systems
- Machine Shop
- Design tools
NED Staff
NED has seven full-time engineering staff with two of our five engineers holding master's degrees. We
also have a certified electro-mechanical technician (certified IPC-610-D trainer) and a machinist who operates a
full rapid-prototyping machine shop and 3-axis CNC.
All of our engineers work in the following technical areas:
- System Engineering (cross functional)
- Electronic Design (Digital, Analog, FPGA, Communications)
- Software Design (Embedded, Digital Logic)
- Mechanical Design (Ocean systems, MIL-STD)
- Underwater Acoustics Design
Machine Shop
NED operates a rapid-prototyping and low-rate production machine shop.
- 3-axis CNC mill
- 2 Manual mills, 10” x 50”
- Lathe, 14” x 22”
- Horizontal and Vertical bandsaws
- MIG, TIG, and Stick Welding
- Flex arm pneumatic tapper
- 12 gauge, 48” box and pan bending brake
Molding and Encapsulation
- Custom designed and fabricated molds
- Underwater splices
- Feed-throughs / penetrators
- Junction boxes
- Breakouts
- Vacuum, heat and pressure chambers for high quality and fast curing
- Off the shelf ultra-miniature underwater connectors (MINCON)
- In-line – all polyurethane
- Bulkhead – Al, Ti, SS
- 7 contacts
- Full ocean depth rated
Engineering Products
- Buoys
- 25 years Buoy and Array design and production history
- Moored, Drifting, and Spar
- High prevision RTK-GPS water height
- Data acquisition, storage, and reporting
- Primary battery, secondary battery with solar charging
- EARS Data Logger Program
- Refurbishment
- Supplier Management
- Supervision of skilled assembly technicians
- Maintenance of parts inventory
- SAKI™ Network Node Technology
- Miniature, rugged nodes for building sensor networks and data acquisition systems
- Sonar systems
- Buoys
- Vertical line arrays
- Towed arrays
- Seafloor arrays
- Instrumentation
- Shipboard and UxV networks
- Automatic Flood Warning System
- Low-cost, low maintenance, robust stream gages
- Automated flood inundation modelling
- Automated flood impact analysis
- Web-based access to models and raw data
- 19 deployed in St. Tammany Parish, LA
- NVTouch Surface Computer - Click for more information
Areas of Expertise
- Marine Systems
- Surface Buoys
- Bottom-mounted
- Vertical Arrays
- Acoustic sensor systems
- Shipboard & Airborne systems
- Telemetry & data comm
- Data acquisition & recording
- Embedded signal processing
- Sensor arrays, sonar
- Acoustic tracking & comms
- Radar systems
- High-speed, real-time networks
- Digital displays
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