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    Enclosures and consoles, including complex panels and box build, sub-system assembly and build to print

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    Platform expertise for installing, integrating and setting-to-work complex systems

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    Surface mount and through-hole PCB capabilities, cables and harnesses for air, land and marine applications

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    Subject matter expertise in mission-critical satellite communications, networks, electronic warfare and deployed multimedia services

Agile and responsive with a passionate belief and commitment to quality

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Adaptable approach to design, engineering and manufacturing

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Developing solutions for your programmes and business

System Assembly

  • Design and manufacture of enclosures and consoles for aerospace and military applications
  • Complex panel and box build
  • Subsystem assembly and build to print
  • Water-cooled, ingress-protected equipment racks for harsh environments
  • Control units for power systems
  • Communications masts and antennas
  • Containerised control and communication solutions
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System Integration and Commissioning

  • System engineering delivery and configuration control
  • Platform expertise for installing, integrating and setting-to-work complex systems
  • Subject matter expertise in mission-critical satellite communications, networks, electronic warfare and deployed multimedia services

Installation

  • Mechanical and electrical installation
  • Data and fibre optic installation and testing
  • Setting-to-work, trials and commissioning
  • Network specialists
  • Safety engineers
  • All activities are compliant with current defence standards and commercial shipping guidelines.
  • Installation site surveys, preparation and management, feasibility studies and reports

Technical publications

  • Installation design solutions
  • Technical documentation
  • Safety cases and management

PCB Assembly

  • Nadcap AC7120 accreditation at Merit status for Circuit Card Assembly
  • Single board prototypes to high volume production
  • Two surface mount lines and conventional through-hole
  • Leaded and lead-free (SMT, TH and Wave)
  • BGA and X-Ray inspection capable
  • Conformal coating
  • Environmental stress screening
  • Automatic optical inspection
  • IPC-A-610 operators
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Interconnects

  • Nadcap AC7121 accreditation at Merit status for Cable and Harness Assembly
  • Electrical and data cable looms and bespoke wiring harnesses for air, land and marine applications
  • Aerospace wiring looms to IPC-WHMA-A-620 workmanship standards
  • Harsh environment and subsea cable and connector solutions
  • Cable braiding – steel, copper and Nomex™
  • Fibre optic cable assembly
STS Defence Production Operative Design and Manufacturing

Test and Evaluation

  • Automated Test Equipment design and development
  • Functional electrical, mechanical and system level testing
  • Computational fluid dynamics analysis
  • Finite element analysis
  • Electrical safety
  • Hyperbaric pressure testing to 3,000psi
  • Electronics cooling assessment and thermal imaging
  • Antenna testing
  • Non-destructive structural testing
  • High/low temperature and humidity testing
  • Ingress protection
  • EMC, shock and vibration testing
STS Defence Design & Manufacturing Production Operative

Tools and Facilities

  • Design and tooling of mouldings
  • TIG, MIG and spot welding (coded welders)
  • Precision milling and turning
  • Painting and finishing – wet, dry, powder, silk screening, engraving and plate finishing
  • Amada® punch press and fold, small to high volume, steel and aluminium

Subsea Systems

Highly-specialised, bespoke subsea connectors, electrical umbilicals, cables and antennas designed for use in under-sea or harsh environments.

We specialise in adapting commercially available products for use in subsea and harsh environments, tailored to specific customer needs. This allows us to offer a very wide range of connectors at a very competitive cost and lead times when compared to traditionally manufactured subsea connectors.

  • Design
  • Prototyping
  • Manufacture
  • On-site moulding and over-moulding for Polyurethane, Neoprene and Polyethelene
  • Metal to glass seals (up to 3600m depth)
  • Pressure Testing (to 10,000psi)
Subsea connectors subsea capabilities at STS Defence

Project Management

  • Project Management
  • Effective project management and delivery
  • Best-practice management process based on APM and PRINCE2 methodology
  • Procurement and supply chain management
  • Stakeholder engagement and customer reporting
  • Risk, issues and opportunities and assumptions tracking, analysis and reporting

Procurement

  • Category management approach to managing supply chains
  • Identification and mitigation of supply chain risks
  • Supplier base developed and managed in accordance with CIPS best practice
  • Managed and reviewed Approved Supplier List
  • Robust export-controlled items plan, assures compliance to both the ITAR and EAR

View our Case Studies

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Consoles and Equipment Racks

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Royal Navy flight deck

Deployable Support Containers

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Aircraft engine Nacelle

Engine cases for Vector Aerospace

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Ships Engine

Rolls-Royce Engine Control Unit

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Opportunities for work, apprentices and graduates

View our Vacancies