Aerospace

Machine shops and other companies discuss the workpiece materials, machine tools and metalcutting processes needed to make the fasteners that keep aircraft and spacecraft together.

This brief video report features United Titanium employees who demonstrate the production of proprietary threaded titanium fasteners.

Integrating new technology without disturbing production schedules. With demand for aerospace parts booming, can machine shops risk using new technology to boost productivity?

What manufacturers should do to become suppliers of aerospace parts. Making aerospace parts can be lucrative, especially while the industry is experiencing record-setting growth, but manufacturers need to be prepared before quoting those jobs.

Machine and cutting tool requirements for titanium alloys. The art and science of milling titanium to make aerospace parts.

Grinding turbine blades challenges manufacturers.

A flexible and reconfigurable machine tool is used during assembly of aerospace parts.

Airlines are manufacturing more of their own replacement parts.

Producing "high risk" aerospace parts requires unique strategies and tactics.

Making of the F-22 Raptor fighter jet.

Titanium aluminides hold potential as a parts material for the aerospace industry.

Because of their size and shape, aerospace parts require special workholding considerations.