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CONTACT US Phone ++64 (0)3 579 2033 Mobile ++64 (0)21 411 063 Fax++64 (0)3 579 3519 email tony@cams.net.nz
| About Us CAMS is a privately owned firm specialising in reverse engineering and remanufacture of hard to obtain classic, experimental and modern aircraft parts and engines. Owner and Engineer Tony Wytenburg has decades of experience in CAD/CAM and practical machining in aviation engineering firms. Originally working on heavy aircraft maintenance, Tony and CAMS has specialised since 2004 in the reverse engineering of aircraft parts and engines. CAMS is located on the Omaka Airfield in Marlborough New Zealand, alongside the Omaka Aviation Heritage Centre and Airpark. The CAMS team are in face to face contact with aircraft owners, restorers and maintenance engineers every day. Combined with their decades of maintenance experience on many different types of aircraft they design and manufacture with an aircraft engineer’s eye to detail and know exactly what is needed when it comes time to incorporate the parts into the customers’ aircraft. The CAMS team are not only exceptional craftsmen engineers but enthusiasts for their work as well. Nothing gives them more satisfaction than to start with a corroded, badly damaged part, figure out how it worked, redesign it then the critical bit - figuring out how to remanufacture it. Then down to the workshop and watch as a new part – both functional and beautiful - emerges from a billet of raw metal. The end of the day comes as a disappointment, the end of the week as an excuse to come into the workshop on the weekend. All of CAMS design, reverse engineering and manufacture is under Owner/Engineer Tony Wytenburg’s personal direction and each part must meet with his exacting standards of engineering and craftsmanship. Nothing leaves the workshop without his approval. CAMS outstanding capability is to find ways to remanufacture parts and components using modern techniques and materials but that retain as close as possible the original appearance and specifications. Tony not only has an almost obsessive attention to detail but a highly developed sense of fairness. That’s reflected in CAMS pricing policy. Because many parts have to be reverse engineered before they can be remanufactured, there’s a lot of thinking time involved. Part science, part art, CAMS figures out how parts can be manufactured, often having to use different materials and technologies to the originals. “Sometimes it takes us days, weeks for more complex jobs, just to figure out how to machine the new part. We can’t always charge that all on to the customer. We look at the job and ask ourselves, what’s it worth to the customer and that’s what we charge. Then we store away the CAD file and hope we’ll get asked to make another one some time in the future.” says Tony. Fortunately, as the business grows, more and more CAMS is able to manufacture to inventory providing customers with more choice and even quicker delivery. You can contact Tony by email or phone. Here are his details:
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