Q&A with Eric Barnes, RAPID + TCT event advisor.
Robots have become able co-pilots on the factory floor as painters, sanders, machine tenders, and materials transporters.
New solutions in direct pellet-fed 3D printing and hybrid additive and subtractive approaches may be a plus for aerospace.
Computed tomography (CT) scan data analysis can help trace failures and performance shortcomings back to their design roots.
At Lockheed Martin, are critical to meeting performance targets.
Digitalization presents both challenges and opportunities for the aerospace and defense manufacturing industry.
What’s still missing in AM is a step-up in technical sophistication that provides consistent results at a part level from the get-go.
A look at Bell’s Manufacturing Technology Center, also known as the MTC, a digitally-connected proving ground for new manufacturing technologies.
The next frontier includes 3D-printed materials and antennas.
Improved additive manufacturing (AM) processes used for tooling and sandcasting molds and cores are shortening design and manufacturing lead times from months to weeks.
