Design And Quality

Armaments By Design Pty Ltd is a privately owned Australian company devoted to the design and manufacturing of innovative firearms and accessories using the latest CAD design software, CAM machine operating software and CNC manufacturing machines available.

Our primary focus in manufacturing armament industry products is on quality of design, the use of advanced manufacturing procedures and fit for purpose operation of the equipment we design and manufacture. Our Tertiary qualified Mechanical Engineers oversee all design, prototype production, testing and final quality checking of all manufactured products.

All products manufactured by Armaments by Design go through a rigorous number of steps before being released for sale. We utilise Autodesk Inventor and Solidworks CAD software for all design work and items that undergo any significant loading in use are analysed utilising FEA (finite element analysis) software which shows the theoretical stress levels experienced in the component when subjected to its designed loadings. Our 5 and 7 axis machines utilise MasterCam operation software to allow the full capabilities of these advanced machines to be used.

Like all businesses in Australia, we have experienced quality issues with raw material supplies in recent years. This has resulted in the implementation of a strict procurement policy and we now only source all our raw materials from proven suppliers primarily in Europe, Japan, and USA. These suppliers are not usually the lowest price, in fact rarely are, but we have found we cannot produce product that meets our set quality standards using the cheapest raw materials in the marketplace.

Our quality laboratory is equipped with modern hardness testing and material identification equipment and all measuring equipment is verified and certified to NATA traceable standards where applicable. In addition, we utilise a range of other testing equipment to measure chamber pressures and action lock times in our rifle test chamber and load cells to determine input and induced forces in all our reloading and bullet swaging presses.