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ENGINEERING SERVICES

Vacuum Chamber Design - Pressure Vessel Design - Cryogenic System Design

We have been designing and building custom pressure, vacuum, and cryogenic products servicing the particle accelerator industry since 1969.  Our engineering staff can assist you with the design of your next chamber system.  We specialize in expert engineering design for fabrication based on our nearly 50 years of experience fabricating precision machined and welded assemblies.

We take on the tough projects that other shops either pass by or quote inefficiently.  Our development processes are optimized to streamline and troubleshoot prototype scale projects and turn them into optimized production runs.

You will receive a dedicated engineering resource for your project.  Our engineering staff will work with you to optimize your design for fabrication.  The Meyer Tool engineer will put together the manufacturing plan, order materials, and manage the project schedule.  They will be your single point of contact to ensure that all of your project needs are met.   

ENGINEERING DESIGN SERVICE OFFERINGS

Our engineering staff is well versed in ASME code requirements and our shop maintains a "U" and "R" stamp allowing us to both repair and build new ASME code vessels.

We can review your vessel design to ensure that it meets code or we can come up with  a design from scratch.  We will get familiar with your project requirements and walk you through the design process to ensure that the final design is optimized for cost and manufacturability.  

There are dozens of design variables to consider when fabricating a pressure vessel and we will walk you through the decision making process.  Here are just a few of the design variables to consider: ASME code requirements, material choices, maximum operating temperature, minimum design temperature, lethal or non-lethal status, # of nozzles and their locations, general size and shape, weight limitations, NDE requirements, process fluid adaptations, corrosion allowances, external loads, lifting locations, coatings / paint, testing, tolerancing and dimensioning, etc...

We have designed pressure vessels for a wide variety of applications including oil & gas process vessels, biomedical process vessels, semiconductor process vessels, coating deposition vessels, and many more.
We have experience designing vacuum chambers and components for a wide variety of applications.  A large portion of the products that we make are put to use within particle accelerators.  There are many other customers and industries that utilize vacuum related products.  

We have made chambers and components for deep space telescopes, semiconductor process equipment, solar cell process equipment, lab grown diamond manufacturing, and aerospace applications.

There are many variables that go into the design of a vacuum service product.  Our engineering staff can walk you through the design process to ensure that your final product specifications will be met.  

Here are just a few of the design variables that we will account for when designing and building chamber for vacuum applications: leak rate, cleanliness, seal surface finish, seal surface types, port quantity and locations,  max temperature, minimum design temperature, general size and shape, external loads, coatings / paint, weight limitations, view ports, etc....

We can custom engineer a chamber to meet your specific needs or we can work with you to finalize a design that you already have started  We troubleshoot challenging fabrication problems.
Stephen Hawking in front of a Meyer Tool distribution box installed in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
Cryogenic system design is very broad term that can refer to many different products that can be used in a vast array of industries.  We have developed cryostats for deep space telescopes, cryogen distribution boxes for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), cryogenic bayonet valves for laser research applications, and many more unique and challenging projects.  

Our engineering staff is uniquely experienced with the design of cryostats, dewars, distribution boxes, cold boxes, and piping systems based on our 50 year history creating cryogenic products for the particle accelerator industry

Here are just a few of the various components that we can design for optimal cost and performance results: cryogenic piping systems, thermal intercepts, thermal shielding, internal pressure vessels, external vacuum shells, piping supports, transfer lines, and bi-metal fittings.