FTSI world headquarters, design studio and manufacturing facility in fabulous Las Vegas Nevada, USA located in the industrial complex at the Las Vegas International Speedway.

FTSI utilizes a flex space layout which allows the shop space to be reconfigured to accommodate construction projects of any size. In the lower right are some older G winches getting an update on their controls. The large black cabinets are racks of D series controls and the white cabinets are custom control cabinets. On the left is part of FTSI’s controls department skunk works for research and development.

A 515 winch receives its final acceptance testing; a row of massive customs winches await crating and shipping; the test pieces for the Phantom Chandelier hang above the parts department while raw materials and finished goods are stacked by the loading dock. The center of the space is currently the welding center and all tables and equipment are mounted on heavy-duty wheels to allow for rapid reconfiguration. Against the far wall are raw metal and the machine shop.

Racks of D22s and D23s being assembled into their final configurations. The tops of the racks have E-stop controllers and network switches.

FTSI does virtually all of its metal and electrical fabrication on site in Las Vegas. Here a giant automatic band saw slices up a piece of 8” aluminum bar to make the quick disconnect couplings for the Modular series winches.

FTSI’s Omax waterjet. The waterjet uses high pressure water mixed with a fine mineral powder to cut metal of virtually any thickness in two dimensions. Winch chassis, track components, skate bodies and the ever-popular “FTSI keychains” are all produced by the waterjet.

The waterjet hard at work converting drawings to metal.

These flat aluminum pieces were generated from the waterjet and are then jigged together for final welding. After welding this Deck winch chassis will be sent off site for powder coating.

Finished Modular winch drums chassis awaiting a trip to the powder coater.

Mike Banak, the rock star welder of FTSI, tigging aluminum.

To ensure the highest possible quality control virtually all machining is done on site at FTSI.

Finished drums for the CWA (counter weight assisted) line set winches.

Finished F515 winches await shipping.

FTSI’s newly added 27,000 square feet has allowed for a huge expansion of space for FTSR’s rapidly expanding rental inventory (foreground), additional space for testing, research and development (upper left), more offices (upper center), a large flex space for test rigging big project (big truss), more room for electrical fabrication (upper right) and whole new dedicated area for finished good inventory. The doorways in the far wall lead to the old FTSI shop. It didn’t take too long to fill it all up!

Rental gear, road cased up and ready to ship.

FTSI D drives (from D 25s to D21s) ready for shipment.

The new space allows for large scale FAT, mockups and testing. Here and below, a 1,008 sphere dynamic array is undergoing factory acceptance testing before shipment.

By moving storage and large electrical fabrication out of the old shop we have freed up valuable space, enabling us to continue to expand our mechanical production throughput. Here is another pallet of FTSI's beautiful aluminum drums.