| Tony Davis, MEE |
- With Los Alamos National Laboratory’s help, HYTEC Inc.’s engineering team has successfully made the transition from lab dependent to independent.
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- Their innovations and expertise are now being applied to projects at other world-renowned institutions including the Applied Physics Laboratory (Johns Hopkins), Cal Tech, Department of Energy Laboratories, MIT, Naval Research Laboratory, NASA, etc.
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- They occupy 7,000 square-feet of laboratory, prototyping, testing, and office space in Los Alamos and maintain offices in Washington, D.C. and Boulder, Colorado.
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- Tony Davis is deputy general manager of the sensor and imaging division at HYTEC’s Los Alamos headquarters. He had originally worked for LANL on the FlashCT project that was done in collaboration with HYTEC—founded by two former lab employees.
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- Davis is an expert in the field of advanced sampling theory, frequency domain analysis and filtering, data acquisition programming, image processing, advanced algorithm design and digital radiography techniques.
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- The former LANL staff member worked on various advanced nondestructive evaluation technologies, including Acoustic Resonance Spectroscopy and Computed Tomography.
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- In this capacity, he was part of the team responsible for developing FlashCT, an award winning volumetric computed tomography system employing an amorphous silicon detector as part of a cooperative research and development agreement with HYTEC.
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- When the project reached a certain point of completion in 2000, Davis joined HYTEC to continue FlashCT’s deployment.
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- FlashCT is a system similar to a medical cat scanner but used for industrial purposes such as scanning airplane wings to locate malfunctions, etc. It affords the user a 3-D view of the situation. “ Now in my capacity at HYTEC, my job is to get other people to do what I used to do and help them to do it even better,” said Davis.
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- HYTEC was a small engineering consulting firm that has grown to be a leader in its field since receiving a National Science Foundation award several years ago. The NSF award was to build the most advanced vibration isolation system in the world for the Laser Interferrometric Gravitational wave Observatory.
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- LIGO measures laser path perturbations in a four kilometer long ultra high vacuum system, at a sensitivity of ten to 21 meters, or less than one-hundred-millionth the diameter of a hydrogen atom. Unique isolation concepts and structural analysis methods developed from LIGO have led to the development of new business opportunities for the company.
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- Today, HYTEC is comprised of three wholly owned subsidiaries: HYTEC Engineering Inc. (HEI), HYTEC Sensors & Imaging Group (HYSIG), and HYTEC Scanning Services Inc. (HSSI).
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- HEI provides quality engineering design services for major projects in both the U.S. and abroad. In the last three years, HYTEC’s engineering and experimental expertise has been strengthened and expanded in structural dynamics, thermal mechanics, and advanced composite materials to meet the growing demand for ultra-lightweight stable structures.
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- HYSIG’s premier products started through close association with Los Alamos National Laboratory on two Co-operative Research and Development Agreements. One was the Precision Real-time Instrument for Surface Measurement and the other was the high-speed Computed Tomography system. HSSI provides high-speed, X-ray scanning services.
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- HSSI was born from HYTEC’s success working with Align Technology, Inc., the world’s largest rapid prototyper. HYTECH has won many awards for technological excellence including in a joint submission with LANL, the 2003 R&D 100 Award for FlashCT as “one of the 100 most technologically significant products introduced to the marketplace in the past year.” “ We are certainly happy to receive this award, and I know our FlashCT development team is pleased,” said HYTEC Co-Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer Tim Thompson in a press release. “With FlashCT HYTEC is continuing its tradition of innovation by introducing a fully integrated solution for mass customization and reverse engineering. By reducing cycle times to a matter of minutes instead of hours, this tool is making mass customization manufacturing economically feasible.”
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- HYTEC also was honored this year with both the 2003 Flying Forty award from Technology Ventures Corporation for being one of the 40 fastest growing corporations in New Mexico and with the 2003 Successful Client of the Year award from the New Mexico Small Business Development Center.
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- Davis graduated from Texas Tech University in 1999 with a master’s degree in electrical engineering. While in graduate school, Davis worked summers in the engineering science applications division at LANL. “It was fun to refine systems and make them work a little better,” he said. He worked for more than eight years within the Department of Energy research laboratories at both Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque and at LANL.
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- Davis highly recommends his field to engineering students. “Electrical engineering is an enormous field,” he said. “There is so much to do from building mechanical devices to spending all day on a computer. It’s so much fun to deliver what you’ve been working on directly to a customer and get that feed back that they really like the product.” “ We are always excited about what we do and welcome the public to visit our facility at 110 Eastgate Drive or visit our web site at hytecinc.com,” said Davis.
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