| Machine Type | Description |
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| (n/a) | Used when in situations such as when a machine is not relevant to an audit finding. | Edit |
| Autobraze | Type of machine that automatically brazes one component to another. HVAC manufacturers use these to braze return bends into heat exhanger coils. Coils are hung, looped with return bends having braze rings on them, and run through a furnace. | Edit |
| Braze Fixture | | Edit |
| Braze Station | | Edit |
| Digital Compressor Analyzer | | Edit |
| Drill Press | An essential tool for drilling precisely positioned holes or various diameters to exact depths. | Edit |
| Electrical Discharge Machine (EDM) | One of the most accurate processes available for making both complex and simple shapes from ferrous alloys, EDM works by vaporizing metal in the path of an electrical arc between an electrode and the work piece. | Edit |
| Expander | Often used in the manufacture of heat exchanger coils for the HVAC industry, expanders ream out metal tubes creating an interference fit with the fins though which they pass. Expanders may be horizontal or vertical. | Edit |
| Fin Press | A special type of sheet metal press that processes raw sheets of thin metal (generally aluminum) into fins. Fins are generally long, thin and full of equally spaced holes which later accept metal tubes bent into hairpins. | Edit |
| Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) | Plastic filament or metal wire is unwound from a coil and extruded through a heated nozzle which melts the material and can be turned on and off or moved in space as necessary to additively realize parts of complex geometry. | Edit |
| Hairpin Bender | A special type of tube bender that takes coiled metal tubing (generally refrigeration-grade copper), uncoils it, straightens it, bends it 180deg., cuts it to length, then deposits finished hairpins in a receptical for the operator. | Edit |
| Lacing Table | A table where condenser coil fins are layed out in sections before several hairpins are assembled into them. | Edit |
| Laminated Object Manufacturing (LOM) | Uses layers of adhesive-coated paper, plastic, or metal successively glued together and cut to shape with a knife or laser. | Edit |
| Lathe | Rotates a part against a tool whose position can be controled to form parts and/or features with a circular cross-section. | Edit |
| Louver Line | A sheet metal line which punches holes and bends louvered openings then automatically handles and forms various bend geometries. | Edit |
| Milling Machine | | Edit |
| Powder Booth | | Edit |
| Radii Bender | Used to form a complex radius in a part. One application is the louver panel of a condenser unit which may have a large radius along the majority of the panel, then a tighter radius in the corner. | Edit |
| Refrigerant Charge Board | Device that adds a prescribed amount of refrigerant to an assembly - generally a condenser or heat pump. | Edit |
| Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) | An additive process using where a laser fuses small particles of material into a shape generally represented by a 3D CAD model. Sintered materials include plastic, metal, ceramic, or glass. | Edit |
| Sheet Metal Press | | Edit |
| Stereolithography (STL) | A process where parts of infinitely complex geometry are additively formed one layer at a time as a UV laser cures a liquid photopolymer. Laser motion is driven by a computer-generated, 3D model of the part. | Edit |
| Strippit | | Edit |
| Torque Wrench | | Edit |
| Tube Bender | | Edit |
| Tube Cutter | | Edit |
| Tube Punch | | Edit |
| Vacuum pump | | Edit |
| Wash Station | | Edit |
| Wire Crimper | | Edit |
| Wire Die | | Edit |