The Dayton Daily News reports that Ohio aviation electronics producer Projects Unlimited Inc. is has won a pair of multi-million dollar contracts, in keeping with its physical expansion.
The company announced that it has been awarded a nearly $10 million contract to build integrated wiring assemblies for Bell Helicopter of Fort Worth, Texas, and a $4.1 million contract to build harness and cable assemblies in support of a computer-controlled, radar-guided gun system for Raytheon Missile Systems, of Louisville, Ky.
Projects Unlimited president and chief operating officer Christopher Wyse said he anticipates announcing three to four additional contracts valued at $4 million to $5 million each. The surge in contracts comes as the company expands with the construction of an 8,000-square-foot, $1.2 million addition to its existing plant in Vandalia, OH, along with the acquisition of a nearby building for its PUI audio division.
The company assembles and tests circuit boards and wiring harnesses on its manufacturing floor, which is coated with a spark-resistant surface to impede potentially damaging static electricity. By moving its audio products division (which makes speakers, microphones, transducers and other components) the firm says it was able to reclaim 4,000 square feet for assembly work.
Meanwhile, the firm says its circuit boards are rigorously tested for operation while undergoing dramatic temperature swings and robust physical shaking. Wyse says that his company's boards are designed to endure 25 Gs of gravity forces, but pilots may pass out at 9 Gs. “Almost everything we build flies,” he added. “It goes onto an airplane and it has to work.”
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