Foundation of data Airbus is connecting its software platforms, old and new, to create a data collection and analysis system that drives continuous improvement within the European giant and beyond to its supplier…
Igniting the spark of FMS In a Q&A session, Alfred Lilla Starrag’s sales director aero structures, explains how the company has written the ‘never-ending success story’ under the flexible manufacturing system (FMS) banner. A…
Riding the CAD/CAM wave An engineering subcontractor moves all its CAM programming across to EDGECAM after Seco Tooling provides them with support solutions to specific issues on complex components. Aerospace Manufacturing reports. I &…
Digital manufacturing encouraged at AMRC Factory 2050 event While national policy makers wrestle with how to solve the UK’s productivity conundrum, the AMRC’s inaugural ‘beer and bytes’ event at Factory 2050 suggests an informal, grass roots approach might…
Solving the design cost conundrum Pinning down the cost of manufacture for aerospace components can be a difficult business, however, aPriori offers an off-the-shelf software solution which is gaining increasing up take in the aerospace…
Starrag set to offer à la carte Industry 4.0 solutions To avoid the possibility of engineers glazing over at the mention of Industry 4.0, “there is no better way to describe the potential rewards of the concept than by illustrating…
University of Sheffield partners with GKN with £32m new centre The University of Sheffield has been announced as a partner in GKN Aerospace’s new Global Technology Centre (GTC) aiming to accelerate the adoption of new digital technologies in the aerospace…
Robots building robots Mike Richardson meets with FANUC UK’s managing director, Tom Bouchier to hear more about the company’s role in what is fast becoming a burgeoning automated robotics market. Faced with more…
Time to join the digital dots Under the umbrella of digital manufacturing, Meggitt Applied Research & Technology Group’s graduate engineer - global programme, Theo Abbott investigates how knowledge gleaned from large-scale data capture in a flexible…
A formula for future success According to, Stephen Dyson, head of Industry 4.0 at Proto Labs by embracing advanced manufacturing methods industry can still meet unprecedented aerospace demand and counter a shortage of skills.…
