The Annual turnover by the private sector in the aerospace and defence sector in 2018-19 was $ 2.4 billion, poised to reach more than USD 23 billion by 2025, growing at slightly more than five percent, with India, being one of the fastest growing aerospace markets in the world after the Govt. Of India’s “Make In India – Atma-Nirbhar Bharat Initiative”.
Global OEMs and their suppliers view India as THE destination to play a vital role in the global supply chain for aerospace components. There are several advantages like low costs along with technical and engineering expertise / skills available for high-precision and high-quality components design, high growth markets and active support from the government’s new policies.
The sector has seen adoption of best practices and maintains international quality standards for components except for end-to-end aerospace solutions which will happen with time.
Leading Global OEMs have established JVs in India for the manufacturing of assemblies related parts and assemblies which find their way into many commercial and defence aircraft and helicopters.
The sector has seen adoption of best practices and maintains international quality standards for components except for end-to-end aerospace solutions which will happen with time.
Aggressive growth through private industry participation, backed by large corporate houses such as Godrej, Tata, Mahindra and L&T. These companies have made a successful foray in the aerospace industry on the strength of their engineering skills and expertise acquired in other industry sectors.
Aerospace CNC machining is the creation of parts used in assembling and maintaining aircraft and space shuttles. CNC-machined components, kits, and assemblies are very much necessary for aircrafts in the aerospace industry. Whether one needs hinges, bushings, manifolds, clamps, or other custom manufactured parts, the components have to be of the most superior quality.
Aerospace equipments, and parts need the best components made with the highest quality metals in order to function properly. Titanium and Kovar are most often used for aerospace components, but others include stainless steel, inconel, invar, super invar, aluminum, brass, bronze, ceramic, copper, and other certain types of plastic.
The Journey So Far It All Started With One Component
An inadvertent meeting 15 years ago, with the then director of SAC (Space Application Centre), Ahmedabad who was on the lookout for quality vendors changed a lot of things for MAGMA, he gave me a component to manufacture. I had no machine, no other means to develop or create a component except the where-with-all to do something substantial, and somehow I developed the said component for them, the accuracy and quality of which impressed him so much that he embedded me in their system on-the-spot for the next three years, Today, 15 years and 15 machines later, I have still not forgotten that first component given to me by SAC.
The Planning Has To Be So Intense That The Execution Takes Care Of Itself
Our clients know that MAGMA will exceed their
highest quality and advanced precision machining expectations of highly complex jobs which is the precise reason why most of them are with us after 15 years. With all our clients it is not just a one off job, instead, a long term relationship, based on trust, value and jobs delivered with precision, time and time again
No Compromise With Quality
A state-of-the-tech works floor, an awareness of new international market trends, their relevance to the aerospace market, the target products & sectors along with a vibrant and young team and the ability to complete the most difficult jobs with absolute relative ease, is what sets us apart from our peers
Every job completed by MAGMA has to pass through three levels of quality checks and there is no room for compromise in any of these levels, which is why MAGMA is known for the quality delivered
"We have always delivered Quality Advanced Precision Components through innovative, cutting edge technology in line with International Standards ".
Magma - A Name That Invokes Trust
"Weight is one of the most important factors that affects fuel consumption in any aerospace component. One of our clients had come across a major challenge but knowing the technical and machining prowess of MAGMA, they wanted only MAGMA to take up this challenge of machining a 300 kg aluminium box shaped structure into an 11.5 kg component (more than 95% material scooped) by maintaining the hole centre distance within 50 microns. The client did not outsource this job to any other manufacturer though there were others and they were so delighted with the results that the client immediately visited our premises and personally congratulated TEAM MAGMA for the results achieved with such precision," says Yogesh.
Another client approached MAGMA for this unique job for which they were quite sure, multiple trials would be necessary, MAGMA machined this Diplexer assembly having a length of 800 mm with a cross section of 28.5 x 12.62 mm and succeeded in giving the desired component in the first trial itself. Our valued customer examined in disbelief by different RF – testing methods but were taken aback in their first round of testing. In addition to this, MAGMA met their expectations for all the stages of inspection.
Creating incredibly complex components by meeting tight tolerance and high precision demands, thereby exceeding expectations in a receding world
Equally challenging, are Ku Band feed systems, C – Band feed systems, S – Band feed systems, X – band feed systems which are very popular sub-assemblies for Satcom antenna products. H – Plane Bends, E – Plane Bends and 90 degrees Meter Bends are very useful micro –waveguide components for circular to square transitions, cylindrical waveguide with square transitions, Transformers, Adaptors, Septum Polarisers with different frequency ranges are all parts of these assemblies.
After facing rejection by major machining companies in Ahmadabad, one of Magma’s clients approached them because he had heard about MAGMA’s accomplishment in the 20 micron range, but this was a 10 micron job to be done along with maintaining complex GD&T parameters of 15 microns with a surface finish of 1.6 micron (or better). Radius of central axis, flatness of flanges, parallelism of internal surfaces and perpendicular of flange reference to cavity were crucial parameters that needed to be maintained within the permissible limit and that client is still associated with Magma for three successful years.
Our Achievements
MAGMA's expertise to work across all manufacturing verticals with endto-end solutions that address quick turnaround, on-demand, custom manufacturing of parts from prototype through production. It has an adaptive supply chain, which addresses ondemand manufacturing in today’s everchanging landscape delivering finesse work up to .08 microns surface finish. Magma’s customer base includes blue chip companies and up and coming players and is a minimally-funded, privately owned business with growth built on customer successes.
JOURNEY AHEAD
So far we have been focussing on the domestic market however the need of the hour for MAGMA is a technology related JV with an international company and an international wing focussing only on International markets are amongst some of the strategical ideas to be incorporated at MAGMA.
Last Impressions
I think that the Indian market should really work towards coming out of the L1 mindset and emphasize on providing quality deliverables. Everybody is aware that quality comes at a price, the moment we start working in that direction I see the Indian market evolving dramatically, until then it’s the same story all over again.
To all the dreamers out there, Always follow your dreams to make it a reality, because if you have the capability of dreaming, you will see that your dreams start taking shape and that is the best feeling on this mother earth.
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