Engine mounts, chassis parts, and machined components for assembly lines.
High-strength fasteners, landing gear parts, and structural assemblies.
Forged housings, armor brackets, and mission-critical structural parts.
Precision housings, actuator frames, and armature linkages for automation systems.
Metal frames, brackets, and assemblies for appliances and home equipment.
Busbar holders, battery pack parts, and lightweight structural enclosures.
Solar mounting parts, wind turbine brackets, and battery enclosures.
Valve bodies, flange blocks, and downhole drilling components.
Large welded frames, PEB structures, and assemblies for industrial equipment.
Durable transformers built for consistent performance, energy efficiency, and stable power regulation.
Frigate’s industrial-grade enclosures provide durable, customizable protection with efficient thermal management for high-performance applications.
High-performance cables and wires engineered for durability and seamless connectivity across applications.
Custom-built wiring harnesses for secure connections and streamlined installations.
Precision-engineered busbars for efficient power distribution and minimal energy loss.
Robust connectors designed for secure locking, reliable conductivity, and long-term performance.
Diverse solutions covering automotive, electrical, mechanical, and industrial needs with precision-built components.
CNC machining delivers micron precision and tight tolerances for complex geometry.
Frigate CNC Machining offers high-precision, custom solutions for complex casting geometries. Multi-axis capabilities ensure tight tolerances and optimal surface finishes.
Sheet metal fabrication uses laser cutting, punching, and bending for precision.
Frigate Sheet Metal Fabrication utilizes advanced laser cutting and press brake technology for custom casting applications. Tight tolerances, superior welds, and high-strength materials ensure structural integrity.
Injection molding produces high-precision parts with consistent quality.
Frigate Injection Molding delivers custom-engineered parts with micron-level precision and structural integrity. Specialized molds maintain tight tolerances for complex geometries and high-stress applications.
Precision casting ensures accurate, high-quality parts.
Forging services improve material strength with precise tolerances.
Frigate Casting Services provides custom casting with tight tolerances and complex geometries. We enhance material properties using advanced metallurgy, ensuring strength and wear resistance. Our precision methods support high-performance aerospace, automotive, and industrial applications.
End-to-end part production from samples to bulk supply.
Ready-to-use assemblies built to exact fit and function.
Heavy-duty fabrication with high-strength materials for demanding applications. Robust welding for maximum structural durability.
PCB Drill Alignment Fixture provides structural support that accounts for thermal expansion differentials between copper, FR4, and high-CTE materials such as polyimide or PTFE. The fixture’s low-CTE base materials and calibrated clamping pressure neutralize non-uniform elongation during spindle heat generation, preventing layer delamination and drill bit wander during thermally intense operations.
PCB Drill Alignment Fixture integrates vibration isolation elements with tuned stiffness and damping coefficients to suppress modal excitation from drill motors operating beyond 30,000 RPM. This reduces drill bit deflection, entry burrs, and Z-axis overshoot, enabling precise depth control for microvias and stacked via structures critical to HDI applications.
PCB Drill Alignment Fixture maintains planar uniformity during fixture engagement by distributing axial force symmetrically across the stack surface. Its precision-ground contact planes and localized clamping pads prevent inner-layer displacement caused by uneven c. This is vital for ensuring interlayer via continuity and avoiding Z-axis misalignment that may escape post-drill X-ray detection.
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Used to maintain microvia accuracy and reduce drill wander in sequential lamination HDI boards with sub-100 µm features.
Ensures interlayer via alignment in multilayer stacks exceeding 12 layers by compensating for Z-axis skew and stack compression.
Supports hybrid stackups by stabilizing both rigid and flexible regions during synchronized depth drilling across varying material stiffness.
Enables precise stub length control by maintaining consistent drill entry angle and depth alignment for impedance-critical signal layers.
Mitigates CTE mismatch in PTFE or ceramic-filled laminates during drilling to prevent via breakout or pad lifting.
Maintains vertical and lateral registration for complex via configurations requiring multi-pass drilling with variable depth constraints.
PCB Drill Alignment Fixture ensures tool orthogonality by mechanically indexing the panel to eliminate angular deviation relative to the drill head. Deviation from perpendicular entry compromises annular ring geometry and can lead to breakout or via necking. The fixture’s rigid mounting architecture locks all degrees of freedom not used by the drilling apparatus, preserving axial alignment throughout the drilling cycle.
PCB Drill Alignment Fixture utilizes a kinematic pin and bushing system correlated with board-level fiducials defined in CAM tooling data. This mechanical referencing system aligns the drill origin to the zero-point of the imaging system, eliminating cumulative tolerance stack-up from prior processes such as imaging, lamination, and punching.
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Frigate calibrates each PCB Drill Alignment Fixture with sub-micron fiducial recognition systems for enhanced microvia placement accuracy. This supports HDI stack-ups and blind/buried via designs. The fixture integrates with optical pre-alignment modules to reduce layer-to-layer shift. It helps maintain ±10 µm drill registration tolerance on multilayer rigid and rigid-flex boards.
Frigate’s PCB Drill Alignment Fixture uses an adaptive bed leveling system with thermal profile mapping. This compensates for localized warpage and copper expansion. It stabilizes drill trajectories by dynamically adjusting Z-axis pressure based on topographic variation. This results in uniform hole registration even on panels with uneven copper density.
Frigate configures each PCB Drill Alignment Fixture with modular clamping systems and programmable X-Y calibration routines. This allows for tool offset correction across variable panel dimensions. Real-time encoder feedback ensures drill depth control regardless of stack thickness. Fixture settings are stored per panel type for quick repeatability.
Frigate incorporates bit deflection prediction into the alignment control loop using drill RPM and backpressure feedback. The PCB Drill Alignment Fixture supports axial stabilization to counter lateral drill movement. Fixture software compensates entry point drift in real-time to maintain positional accuracy. This approach improves microvia yield rates and reduces rework.
Frigate’s PCB Drill Alignment Fixture uses vacuum hold-down systems with contour adaptation to fix flexible substrates without distortion. The system includes soft contact pads that prevent film shift during spindle entry. Optical alignment references are projected through transparent substrates to aid positioning. This method ensures high-precision drilling on polyimide and PET-based circuits.
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