CAD / CAM Wins Bid to Provide High-Accuracy CAD Scanning Services to Tinker Air Force Base

Online, March 10, 2010 (Newswire.com) - CAD / CAM Services, Inc., one of only a few companies in the world who is certified for Department of Defense large format scanning and CAD conversion work, was recently awarded a $1,400,000 contract by Tinker Air Force Base to scan 45,000 aircraft drawings dating from the 1950's to the present day. This scanning contract begins immediately. CAD / CAM Services expects to deliver 2,000 calibrated images each month via a secure FTP site. A local scanning office that is close to Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma will be doing the scanning.

The Tinker Air Force project requires a tolerance of +/-.005" accuracy over any five- or ten-inch area for the digital scanned files. The drawings are on Mylar, which is a plastic sheeting material that may be affected over the years by changes in temperature. This means that the older drawings may have stretched or otherwise changed in size, affecting the accuracy of the drawing itself.

Frank Maschino, Engineering Data Manager, at Tinker Air Force Base says, "The accuracy of the final digital file is of paramount importance to us. These digital files are stored in Tinker Air Force Base's electronic repository as a permanent archive for all of our drawings. If we need to refer to these digital drawings, or print out a new paper drawing, it is essential that the measurements be as accurate as, if not better than the original Mylar drawing when it was new."

CAD/CAM Services has a proprietary method that electronically compensates for error within each five- or ten-inches to restore original drawing accuracy. This is a Boeing and Lockheed certifiable tolerance for aircraft drawings.

"The scanning accuracy requirement called for in the bid far exceeds the accuracy that is available from any conventional scanning system,"says Scott Shuppert, President of CAD / CAM Services. "We are one of only a few firms world-wide who is able to generate calibrated digital files of this accuracy. Our approach is unique and it enables us to specialize in tough jobs like this. "

Shuppert goes on to say, "We beat our competition with this unique process, which is not only more accurate, but also one-half of the cost of other methods."