Axis Developments

Axis Developments is a consulting engineering company performing designs of machinery, pressure vessels, structures, vehicles for the following industries:
Petro-Chemical, Nuclear, Defence, Transport, Security, HVAC, Manufacturing
Axis Developments does work, for mainly the South African industries, but also has experienced working for the armoured and leisure vehicle industries in the USA.
The firm was established in 1991 specializing in the design of special machinery and vehicles. The projects undertaken then were typically the design of fire engines and special vehicles and special testing facilities for the military. The cc gradually moved from design only, to both design and manufacture.
The manufacturing capabilities started in 1994 when the firm was contracted to manufacture anti riot water canon vehicles for crowd control during the 1994 elections. Manufacturing and fabrication continued till 2009 when it was decided to scale down the company's activities to consulting engineering only. By then the company had vast experience of both design and manufacture to serve the
industry with experience driven design and planning.
Petro-Chemical:
Stress verification on pressure vessels and heat exchangers is done
according to the ASME and other related codes. Typical customer SASOL
and PBMR
Nuclear:
From September 2008 till March 2009 work was done for the PBMR [Pebble
Bed Modular Reactor, Company] in Pretoria on structural and component design of nuclear safety critical components and structures, mainly according to the ASME pressure vessel codes. Designs were verified and optimised making use of finite element analyses (FEA) methods.
Military Industry
Design of various mine resistant armoured personnel vehicles.
General Machinery and Structures
Various machinery structures and bases for general industry, minerals processing industry and mining applications.
Reverse engineering using 3D scanning technology and conversion to any CAD software system.