Source: The Nation Thailand

The event highlighted the kingdom’s suitability as manufacturing base under modern global trends. Thai trade delegates led by Deputy PM and Commerce Minister Phumtham Wechayachai met with executives of Keidanren, led by Suzuki Jun, chair of Japan-Thailand Trade and Economic Committee at Imperial Hotel in Tokyo.

During the meeting, Phumtham underscored Japan was Thailand’s third-largest trade partner last year, while accumulated investment amount from Japanese corporations made up for 25% of the kingdom’s total foreign investment, more than any other country.

He invited Japanese business leaders to invest in Thailand as well as visit the country to witness its potential. The Thai government has facilitated this by exempting visa requirements for Japanese visiting Thailand for up to 30 days since 1 January 2024, he added.

Phumtham said Thailand possesses readiness to be a manufacturing and exporting bases for various industries, adding that the government has prepared and promoted Thai entrepreneurs for new global trends that focus on green business, sustainable manufacturing, low-carbon emission and the use of renewable energy.

What You Missed:

Tesla Profits Decline By More Than 50% In Q1 2024
Tesla Reduces Full Self-Driving Software Price To US$8,000
Researchers Turn Metal Waste Into Catalyst For Hydrogen
Is AI Is Looking More Like A Band Aid Now?
Rever Automotive Builds And Tests BYD Buses In Thailand
Tesla Cuts More Than 10% Of Its Workforce
Tesla Settling Lawsuit Erodes Faith In Autonomous Driving
IoT Offers A Wealth Of Opportunities
High Household Debt In Dips Thailand Automotive Production And Sales
AST Begins Constructing Singapore Facility For High-End Substrates & Advanced Technologies

WANT MORE INSIDER NEWS? SUBSCRIBE TO OUR DIGITAL MAGAZINE NOW!

CONNECT WITH US:  LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter

Letter to the Editor
Do you have an opinion about this story? Do you have some thoughts you’d like to share with our readers? APMEN News would love to hear from you!

Email your letter to the Editorial Team at Christellee@epl.com.sg

The post Thailand May Be The Next Manufacturing Base With Japan’s Support appeared first on Asia Pacific Metalworking Equipment News | Manufacturing | Automation | Quality Control.

Boeing continues to be plagued by a string of unfortunate incidents. It began with an earthshaker involving Alaskan Airlines’ midair door incident was a result of four missing bolts which left the door loose! If it was not bad enough, United Airlines met with another incident terrifying the living daylights out of a passenger (in midair again) when a wing was showing signs of falling apart. 

Shortly after, Ed Clark, Head of 737 Max program left Boeing immediately. His 18 years of service were not enough to mitigate the damage or redeem for his loyalty to the aircraft maker.

In the latest incident involving the engine cover, the aircraft carried 135 passengers and six crew members on board and rose to about 10,300 ft (3,140m) before landing. This came amid manufacturing and safety concerns at Boeing.

Southwest Airlines said its maintenance teams would review the Boeing 737-800 after its cowling, which covers the plane’s engine, fell off. The airline confirmed it was responsible for maintenance of such parts.

“We apologise for the inconvenience of their delay, but place our highest priority on ultimate safety for our customers and employees,” a statement read.

The plane was manufactured in 2015 according to regulator Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) records, and the 737-800 is an earlier generation of the 737 from the latest Max model. The aircraft in the latest incident was powered by CFM56 engines while the 737 Max models use the CFM-Leap engine. Both are made by a joint venture between General Electric Aerospace and Safran Aircraft Engines.

The FAA said the Boeing aircraft was towed to the gate after landing. Boeing declined to comment when approached by media, referring questions to Southwest for information about the airline’s plane and fleet operations. 

Southwest said it would fly passengers on another plane to Houston about three hours behind schedule. Boeing has been under scrutiny following a dramatic mid-air blowout in January, in which passengers on the flight from Portland, Oregon, to California narrowly escaped serious injury.

It was recently announced Boeing paid $160m (£126m) to Alaska Air to make up for losses the airline suffered following the emergency. Regulators temporarily grounded nearly 200 Boeing 737 Max 9 jets after a door plug fell from the Alaska aircraft shortly after take-off.

Its popular 737 Max planes were subsequently grounded globally for more than 18 months after a series of mishaps.

What You Missed:

Boeing Review Reveals Appalling Disconnect Between Hierachies
Another Black Mark For Boeing For Damaged Wing Discovered Mid-Air
Implications For Automakers After Baltimore Bridge Collapse
High Household Debt In Dips Thailand Automotive Production And Sales
AST Begins Constructing Singapore Facility For High-End Substrates & Advanced Technologies
eVTOL Aircrafts May Dominate The Skies
Get To Zhuhai From Shenzhen In 20 Minutes With AutoFlight
Wire 2024 in Düsseldorf: Electrifying Prospects for Cables
Cover Focus – Milling with “Xtended Technology” – Xtra·tec® XT
wire and Tube 2024 To Set New Standards

WANT MORE INSIDER NEWS? SUBSCRIBE TO OUR DIGITAL MAGAZINE NOW!

CONNECT WITH US:  LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter

Letter to the Editor
Do you have an opinion about this story? Do you have some thoughts you’d like to share with our readers? APMEN News would love to hear from you!

Email your letter to the Editorial Team at Christellee@epl.com.sg

The post More Woes For Boeing After Engine Cover Falls Off appeared first on Asia Pacific Metalworking Equipment News | Manufacturing | Automation | Quality Control.

According to a report by Allied Market Research, “Southeast Asia Air Transport MRO Market by Aircraft Type, End-Use, Organization Type, and Service Type: Southeast Asia Opportunity Analysis and Industry Forecast, 2021–2032,” the Southeast Asian air transport MRO market was valued at US$5,259.1 million in 2021, and is projected to reach US$13,481.3 million by 2032, registering a CAGR of 7.8% from 2022 to 2032.

The Air Transport MRO (Maintenance, Repair, and Operations) sector plays a vital role in ensuring safe and efficient aircraft operation. It encompasses a range of services and activities necessary to maintain & repair aircraft, systems, and components throughout their operational lifespan.

MRO services cover various aspects, including routine inspections, scheduled maintenance, unscheduled repairs, component replacements, and overall management of aircraft maintenance programs. These services are conducted by specialised MRO companies, both in-house by airlines and outsourced to third-party providers, and adhere to strict regulatory standards and guidelines to ensure compliance with safety regulations.

The return of air travels are jump starting MRO investments. Greater penetration in the commercial sector hike MRO activities in Southeast Asia.

However, the biggest challenge as seen in other industries — shortage of skilled labour and jammed supply chains are thwarting its momentum. Allied Market Research added supportive government policies by the government of the Southeast Asian countries and technological advancement by the market players are expected to provide lucrative opportunities for the expansion of the Southeast Asian air transport MRO market.

Read more here 

What You Missed:

GE Aerospace To Establish ‘Smart Factory’ At Singapore Aircraft Engine Repair Facility
Boeing Review Reveals Appalling Disconnect Between Hierachies
Another Black Mark For Boeing For Damaged Wing Discovered Mid-Air
Solar Energy : When Sunlight Becomes Fuel
Global Semiconductor Revenues Decline 8.8% In 2023; AI Promises Gains In 2024
Vietnam FDI Forecast To Remain Strong Through 2024
Japan Sinks Into Recession, Surprising Many Economists
Changi Airport Tests Aurrigo Autonomous Baggage Handling Vehicle
Spirit To Ramp Up Robotics To Reduce 737 Fuselage Problems
Tesla Recalls 2 Million Cars Over Brake System Warning Light
Robotaxi Firm Motional Loses Funding From Aptiv

WANT MORE INSIDER NEWS? SUBSCRIBE TO OUR DIGITAL MAGAZINE NOW!

CONNECT WITH US:  LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter

Letter to the Editor
Do you have an opinion about this story? Do you have some thoughts you’d like to share with our readers? APMEN News would love to hear from you!

Email your letter to the Editorial Team at Christellee@epl.com.sg

The post Charting The Flight Path: MRO Investments To Gravitate Towards Southeast Asia appeared first on Asia Pacific Metalworking Equipment News | Manufacturing | Automation | Quality Control.

In partnership with the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB), GE Aerospace will introduce cutting-edge technologies and processes at the company’s operations at Seletar Aerospace Park to meet surging growth in component demand while maintaining high quality. Once completed, the new technologies will also be leveraged to two plants at Loyang Industrial Park.  

“Our Smart Factory investment represents the next chapter in our longstanding partnership with the Singapore Economic Development Board,” said Russell Stokes, President and Chief Executive Officer, Commercial Engines and Services, GE Aerospace. “This facility will support the government’s broader economic goal of job creation while driving our innovation and competitiveness in the global MRO market to a new level.”

GE Aerospace’s Singapore facility was the first in the world to implement new additive manufacturing technology to the repair of commercial jet engine airfoil components. The Smart Factory will expand these additive technologies and processes focused first on high pressure compressor (HPC) airfoils for GEnx engines, followed by CFM* LEAP engines. Ultimately, the technologies will be leveraged to other engine models including CFM56 and CF34.

The Smart Factory will also introduce advanced technologies including:
•    Automated inspection systems. 
•    Innovative material removal process such as net shape airfoil robotic polishing, net shape airfoil adaptive machining, and robotic airfoil leading-edge re-reprofiling. 
•    Digitalisation including Internet of Things, robotics, cloud storage and data analytics to create a highly connected and intelligent production environment.

“GE Aerospace’s Smart Factory is a good example of how Singapore is partnering with aerospace companies to drive the development and introduction of advanced maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) technologies. It validates Singapore’s strength in innovation that helps maintain our competitive edge as a global node for aerospace manufacturing and MRO. We expect the project to bring about many collaborations between the Smart Factory and our ecosystem on talent development as well as research and development,” said Mr Tan Kong Hwee, Executive Vice President, Singapore Economic Development Board.  

Singapore is GE Aerospace’s largest location for engine component MRO, accounting for more than 60% of its global repair volumes and employing more than 2,000 people over three plants. Other in-region facilities include Systems Facility in Australia, MRO for LEAP engines services in Malaysia, On-wing Support in South Korea and Pune multi-modal manufacturing facility in India.

*CFM is a 50/50 joint business between GE and Safran Aircraft Engines.

What You Missed:

Boeing Review Reveals Appalling Disconnect Between Hierachies
Another Black Mark For Boeing For Damaged Wing Discovered Mid-Air
Solar Energy : When Sunlight Becomes Fuel
Global Semiconductor Revenues Decline 8.8% In 2023; AI Promises Gains In 2024
Vietnam FDI Forecast To Remain Strong Through 2024
Japan Sinks Into Recession, Surprising Many Economists
Changi Airport Tests Aurrigo Autonomous Baggage Handling Vehicle
Spirit To Ramp Up Robotics To Reduce 737 Fuselage Problems
Tesla Recalls 2 Million Cars Over Brake System Warning Light
Robotaxi Firm Motional Loses Funding From Aptiv
DJI’s Releases First Delivery Drone, DJI FlyCart 30 (FC30)

WANT MORE INSIDER NEWS? SUBSCRIBE TO OUR DIGITAL MAGAZINE NOW!

CONNECT WITH US:  LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter

Letter to the Editor
Do you have an opinion about this story? Do you have some thoughts you’d like to share with our readers? APMEN News would love to hear from you!

Email your letter to the Editorial Team at Christellee@epl.com.sg

The post GE Aerospace To Establish ‘Smart Factory’ At Singapore Aircraft Engine Repair Facility appeared first on Asia Pacific Metalworking Equipment News | Manufacturing | Automation | Quality Control.

The autonomous Auto-DollyTug® by Aurrigo, which has new ground handling capabilities and is more maneuverable, will be put through different scenarios to assess its efficiency and speed when it comes to aircraft turnaround times. Combining the utility of a baggage tractor and the unit load device (ULD) carrying capability of an airport dolly, the latest Auto-DollyTug® can rotate in its own length and, using the groundbreaking sideways drive system, move directly sideways and slide into tight spaces, enabling the swift delivery of a single ULD even when other GSE equipment is in place at the aircraft.

In an industry first, the new Auto-DollyTug® also features Aurrigo’s auto-loading and release management system that adds bi-directional robotic arms to the body to allow the vehicle to autonomously load and unload the ULD from itself.

Professor David Keene, Chief Executive Officer at Aurrigo, explained: “Auto-DollyTug® is the result of clean sheet of paper thinking, as we didn’t just want a modified conventional tractor that could tow some dollies to an area near the aircraft without a driver. Our technology can not only carry a ULD on its body, which maximises carrying capacity without increasing the length of the train, it can also autonomously transfer that ULD directly on to a JCPL or High Loader.”

He continued: “This level of capability has been made possible by designing a vehicle to be electric and autonomous from day one. We have never built a diesel-powered airport vehicle so we don’t have to work around the compromises of a legacy GSE vehicle product. This 3rd generation of the Aurrigo Auto-DollyTug® has been designed to incorporate the experience we have gained from the extensive airside testing already carried out with our 2nd generation vehicle at Changi Airport.”

The earlier versions of Auto-DollyTug® have been on trial at Singapore Changi Airport since February 2022. This testing phase gave Aurrigo the opportunity to deploy its autonomous vehicles in a live airside environment and to push the limits of its technology in a hot and humid climate, where extreme rain events are a frequent feature of airside operations.

Photo progression of technology shown at Changi International Airport (Image credit – Changi Airport Group

Ms Poh Li San, Senior Vice President, Terminal 5 Specialised Systems at Changi Airport Group, added her support: “Changi Airport is exploring the use of different vehicles across the airport, especially to automate airside operations. The latest Auto-Aurrigo DollyTug® has made its airside debut at our airport and we look forward to studying how it handles the challenges of a dynamic airport environment.”

What You Missed:

Spirit To Ramp Up Robotics To Reduce 737 Fuselage Problems
Tesla Recalls 2 Million Cars Over Brake System Warning Light
Robotaxi Firm Motional Loses Funding From Aptiv
DJI’s Releases First Delivery Drone, DJI FlyCart 30 (FC30)
Tesla Dethroned By BYD As World’s Best Selling EV Maker
Quang Ninh Industrial Zones Face Electricity Shortage
Siemens And Intel To Collaborate On Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing
Universal Robots Launches 30 Kg Cobot
Charlie Munger, The Man Who Saw BYD’s Potential Passes At 99
LG Energy Solutions And SK On Lay Off Workers As EV Battery Market Slows
Korea Loses Semiconductor Talent Pool To China

WANT MORE INSIDER NEWS? SUBSCRIBE TO OUR DIGITAL MAGAZINE NOW!

CONNECT WITH US:  LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter

Letter to the Editor
Do you have an opinion about this story? Do you have some thoughts you’d like to share with our readers? APMEN News would love to hear from you!

Email your letter to the Editorial Team at Christellee@epl.com.sg

The post Changi Airport Tests Aurrigo Autonomous Baggage Handling Vehicle appeared first on Asia Pacific Metalworking Equipment News | Manufacturing | Automation | Quality Control.

The US Air Force has awarded Optomec a US$1.5 million contract to develop a Metal Additive Manufacturing system and process that enables the repair of oversized titanium components used in aircraft engines. The initial target, called integrally bladed rotors (IBRs, aka “blisks”), are complex, single-piece compressor rotors made of light-weight titanium alloy that are routinely worn or damaged in normal use and can cost more than US$500,000 each to replace with a newly made part.

Savings Over 80 Percent

The implementation of an Additive Repair process for these parts is projected to result in greater than 80 percent in cost savings, which could save the Air Force tens of millions of dollars annually in maintenance costs as well shorten the supply chain for these critical components, used on aircraft such as the F22 Raptor and F35 Lightning II. Optomec’s solution will also benefit the broader commercial aviation market as engine OEMs continue to integrate larger, complex titanium components into their latest, fuel-efficient designs.

Read On For More —-> https://rb.gy/qp4ib8

What You Missed:

Hopium Unveils The Hopium Machina Vision And The Opening Of Its Order Book
US Tech Curbs On China Will Affect Singapore’s Semiconductor Sector: MTI
China Holds Emergency Talks With Chip Firms After U.S. Curbs
Indonesian Nickel Could Be Key To EV Battery Industry
IDC: Vivo Secures The Top Spot In Chinese Smartphone Market For Q3 2022
Samsung’s Smartphone Shipments Drop By 8 Percent In Global Markets In Q3 2022
Versatility Of Waterjet Helps Global Companies
India Signs Deal With Belgium-Based IMEC For Chip-Making
The Investigation Status Quo of the Environmental and Free-Cutting Brass

WANT MORE INSIDER NEWS? SUBSCRIBE TO OUR DIGITAL MAGAZINE NOW!

CONNECT WITH US:  LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter

Letter to the Editor
Do you have an opinion about this story? Do you have some thoughts you’d like to share with our readers? APMEN News would love to hear from you!

Email your letter to the Editorial Team at Christellee@epl.com.sg

The post Optomec Receives US$1.5 Million Contract for Additive Repair Of F35 Large Titanium Blisks appeared first on Asia Pacific Metalworking Equipment News | Manufacturing | Automation | Quality Control.

“Good design is, for people and the planet, an increasingly critical focus,” according to the UK Government’s UK Innovation Strategy. That includes aerospace, where aircrafts of the future will be sustainably made and support net-zero objectives around the world.

Here, Steve Weston, Industry and Tech Centre Manager — Aerospace at Sandvik Coromant, explains why optimised tools and process knowledge will be crucial to sustainability and innovation in aerospace, especially when working with increasingly difficult-to-machine materials.

Sustainable aircraft will rely increasingly on next-generation powder-based heat resistant super alloys (HRSAs) and advanced ceramic matrix composites (CMCs), as they can withstand high temperatures for more efficient fuel burn and low emissions. However, these materials are required to be heat resistant, creep resistant and keep good material properties under extreme temperatures. Hence, this presents challenges at the machining stage.

Sandvik’s Innovation Strategy

The UK Innovation Strategy report says that new technologies and processes will be key to manufacturing and machining these advanced materials at scale. Collaboration within the industry will also be essential, which is already being demonstrated at the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) in Sheffield, UK.

Sandvik Coromant was one of the original members to join the AMRC when it was founded in 2000, along with Boeing and Messier Dowty (today Safran Landing Systems). They were later joined by the likes of British Aerospace, Rolls-Royce, GKN Aerospace and Airbus and, today, the AMRC has approximately 118 members in total.

Most of the centre’s projects are collaborative by nature, funded and selected by all members, and the AMRC now employs over 500 highly qualified researchers and engineers from around the globe. All are devoted to multi-million-pound projects that can support a strong, pro-innovation economy.

Sustainability In Aviation

For aerospace, if we are talking about sustainability then new technologies and processes should focus on the ability to combust new fuel types, like sustainable aircraft fuel and liquid hydrogen, to create lower emissions. As always, the ability to run hotter means there is a more efficient fuel burn.

If we couple this with higher compression ratios, which most new and future engines can support, then the result is greater efficiency. That means less fuel is combusted with increased power and reduced noise.

With aero-engines, the engine’s core is relatively small and the fan on the front is relatively large. As a result, a limiting factor is the speed at which one can rotate the fan.

To remedy this, over the last five-to-ten years, gearboxes have been introduced between the fan and the core of the engine. They enable the fan to run more slowly while the engine core runs faster for high compression and better fuel efficiency.

However, HRSA components are needed to make this work. Such materials are metallurgically-composed to retain their properties when exposed to extreme temperatures but this also means the stresses generated when machining these materials are high. The unique capability of these nickel, iron and cobalt-based superalloys to perform close to their melting point also gives them generally-poor machinability.

Blisks

One part that is increasingly used in aerospace is blisk, a component that comprises both a rotor disk and blades. Unlike traditional disks, which have slots in the outside diameter that blades fit into, blisks combine the disk and blades into a single component and are lighter than conventional disks with blades.

Source: Sandvik Coromant

This decreases the number of components in the compressor at the same time, decreasing drag and increasing the efficiency of air compression in the engine by around 8 percent.

Blisks are generally located on the cold compressor side of aircraft engines and they are usually made of titanium in the initial stage before migrating to HRSA materials when they are closer to the combustion chamber. Machining these components effectively, and to the highest standards, requires optimised tools and process knowledge relevant to these advanced materials.

That is why Sandvik Coromant’s internal project areas focus so strongly on a variety of key aero-engine components and features. They include disks, blisks, shafts and casings among others.

In particular, we are seeing an increased use of blisks in today’s gas turbine engines and expect this trend to continue as the last ounces of potential power and fuel efficiency are extracted from current engine architectures. However, blisks present unique machining challenges because they are often made from HRSAs. The components demand tight dimensional and geometrical tolerances while maintaining high standards of surface integrity and surface finish.

Managing Challenges

In response to these machining challenges, Sandvik Coromant offers a number of tooling solutions to support cost-effective, high-quality machining of aero-engine components. One such method that Sandvik Coromant recommends is high feed-side milling. The technique involves a small radial engagement with the workpiece, which allows increased cutting speeds and feed rates and axial cutting depths with decreased heat, chip thickness and radial forces.

To support this method, Sandvik Coromant has developed the CoroMill® Plura HFS high feed side milling range. The range features a series of end mills with unique geometries and grades that is made up of two endmill families. One family is optimised for titanium alloys, the other for nickel alloys.

Chip evacuation and heat are specific challenges when machining titanium, so the first family presents a solid version of the tool for normal chip evacuation conditions. The second family features an internal coolant and a new cooling booster for optimum swarf and temperature control.

A customer trial was performed to test a 12 mm diameter CoroMill® Plura HFS end mill against a same-sized competing tool. This trial involved machining a low-pressure turbine (LPT) case made from aged Waspaloy 420 nickel-based alloy, using a horizontal machining centre with an increased axial depth-of-cut and reduced radial depth-of-cut.

The outcome was that metal removal rates were increased substantially with CoroMill® Plura, leading to an impressive 198 percent productivity increase for the customer. The solution has also been applied to blisks as well as turbine disks and casings, machining blades and weight reduction scallops.

Other solutions in Sandvik Coromant’s portfolio include their next-generation turning grades, in both carbide and polycrystalline cubic boron nitride (PCBN), which are designed for the high-speed finish turning of components made from ISO S materials. The grades are, in turn, complemented by next-generation ceramic rough turning grades designed for class-leading performance. The latest finishing grades are being tested and optimised by Sandvik Coromant to deliver consistent surface integrity that is demanded by aerospace engine manufacturers, while also producing components with tight tolerances.

What’s Next?

As outlined in the UK Innovation Strategy report, global hubs for innovation, like the AMRC, will continue to see “companies of all sizes creating breakthrough new products, becoming more efficient and scaling to full growth, all with an eye to the global, as well as domestic market.”

HRSA components, such as blisks, will also become more prevalent in tomorrow’s sustainable aircraft. Certainly, one of the leading aerospace manufacturers that Sandvik Coromant works with at the AMRC is developing larger ultra-fan engines, to achieve super fuel-efficient designs that run on biofuels.

Other key innovations include flexible resin-transfer moulded blades that are designed to untwist as the fan’s rotational speed increases. These technologies are already prevalent in mid-sized, single aisled planes such as the Airbus A321. Other future predictions include mid-sized aircraft to be fuelled on hydrogen, while smaller domestic planes to drive electric ambitions.

There are now many small start-up companies that produce smaller electric engines for aircraft, and CNBC reports that the market for flying cars A.K.A electric air taxis could rise to US$1.5 trillion globally by 2040. There might even be regionalised landing points in the future. For instance, passengers may board a hydrogen plane to travel more locally, say around Europe, or a biofuel plane to fly across the globe.

At the component level, these applications will rely on next-generation materials for which Sandvik Coromant’s optimised tooling solutions, and its extensive process and application knowledge, are already well-equipped. Sandvik Coromant and the AMRC will help to ensure that optimised process design remains critical for aerospace’s leading manufacturers, and also for people and the planet.

What You Missed:

Malaysia’s Manufacturing, Construction, Service Sectors May Recruit Workers From 15 Countries
U.S. Senate Votes To Move Ahead On Chip Bill To Compete With China
3D Printed Bone Grafts To Be Approved For Patients In Europe
Solid State EV Batteries Could Cut Emissions By Up To 39 Percent
GM, Ford Seek U.S. OK To Deploy Self-Driving Vehicles Without Steering Wheels
Machining With A Microscope
Close To 1 In 10 Cars Sold In Singapore In 2022 Was Tesla
China’s BYD Electric Cars Headed For Japan
E-Catalogues Revolutionising The Cutting Tool Industry
3D Printing Can Strengthen America’s Medical Supply Chain

WANT MORE INSIDER NEWS? SUBSCRIBE TO OUR DIGITAL MAGAZINE NOW!

CONNECT WITH US:  LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter

Letter to the Editor
Do you have an opinion about this story? Do you have some thoughts you’d like to share with our readers? APMEN News would love to hear from you!

Email your letter to the Editorial Team at Christellee@epl.com.sg

The post Optimised Tools For The Future Of Sustainable Aircrafts appeared first on Asia Pacific Metalworking Equipment News | Manufacturing | Automation | Quality Control.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Boeing projects airlines worldwide will need 41,170 new airplanes over 20 years with half of the deliveries for replacement aircraft, and with single-aisle aircraft accounting for about 75 percent of planes.

Boeing’s new market outlook, released on ahead of the Farnborough Airshow, is down from its previous rolling 20-year-forecast of 43,610 deliveries.

The new estimate excludes the Russian market and its projection of 1,540 airplanes, because of the war in Ukraine and uncertainty about when manufacturers could again sell planes to Russian carriers.

Boeing slightly boosted its forecast for demand over the next 10 years to 19,575 airplane deliveries — a higher projection even excluding the Russian market.

“That’s a function of a depressed environment in 2021 falling off and a new trend year in 2031 being added,” Darren Hulst, Boeing vice president for commercial marketing, told reporters in a briefing ahead of the Sunday release. “It comes very close to our 2019” outlook if Russia was included.

Boeing also dropped its industrywide passenger traffic forecast growth rate slightly to 3.8 percent from 4 percent, but boosted its cargo growth forecast to 4.1 percent from 4 percent last year. It cut its fleet growth forecast to 2.8 percent from 3.1 percent. Its forecast for widebody deliveries over 20 years fell from 7,670 to 7,230.

Boeing still projects the global airline fleet by 2041 will nearly double as it still sees a worldwide aviation demand COVID-19 recovery by early 2024.

Over the next 20 years Boeing said “long-term fundamentals remain intact.”

“Our view of medium-term recovery — when the industry gets back to 2019 levels of global airline traffic — is largely unchanged” since 2020, Hulst said. “Overall, we still see late 2023, early 2024 as the time where the industry recovers to full or at least the level of pre-pandemic traffic.”

Boeing sees strong near-term demand for aircraft despite recession risks.

“The global industry is still on a recovery trajectory back to where the normal relationship of GDP and traffic would be,” Hulst said. “Any small blip from an economy standpoint would be probably overwhelmed by the demand that exists as a result of those normal economic relationships.”

Boeing also projects the freighter fleet will grow 80% by 2041. Air cargo is performing at “historic levels,” Hulst said, saying it is in part “a function of the increasing strategic value of air cargo relative to supply chains that are challenged and shipping that is challenged.”

Boeing sees e-commerce networks as helping to drive a “strategic shift to air cargo even into the medium- and long-term. … This isn’t just a blip in terms of shipping versus air.”

Hulst said the number of routes with more than one airline operating has more than doubled over the last two decades — representing 70 percent of all capacity. It demonstrates “the continuous innovation that airlines need to have to continue to compete at lower costs to attract more and more traffic.”

Air cargo still only accounts for 1 percent of global trade. “A small shift in terms of mode of transportation, of key elements of trade, makes a big impact in terms of demand for air cargo,” Hulst said.

What You Missed:

Micron: ‘It Could Take a Few Quarters For Growth To Re-Emerge’ In Semiconductors, Analyst Says
Region’s First 3D-Printed Home Completed And Sold In South Richmond
Cybersecurity Experts On High Alert With Extremely Hazardous Black Basta Malware
Concept Car AKXY2 Has A Boat-Shaped Bubble And Picnic Area
The Internet of Things: Are We Living Through The Next Tech Revolution?
Saccade Vision Uses Mems-Based Cameras To Improve Measuring And Quality Control
Order Cancellations Strike, 8-Inch Fab Capacity Utilisation Rate Declines Most In 2H22, Says TrendForce
Struggling Industries’ Bid To Hire Young Talent To Fill Jobs With $80k Salaries
Harvard Scientists Develop A Method To Restore Damaged Tendons And Muscles
Bosch Ready To Spend US$3 Billion To Help Solve Chip Demand

WANT MORE INSIDER NEWS? SUBSCRIBE TO OUR DIGITAL MAGAZINE NOW!

CONNECT WITH US:  LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter

Letter to the Editor
Do you have an opinion about this story? Do you have some thoughts you’d like to share with our readers? APMEN News would love to hear from you!

Email your letter to the Editorial Team at Christellee@epl.com.sg

The post Boeing Cuts 20-Year Industrywide Outlook For Planes appeared first on Asia Pacific Metalworking Equipment News | Manufacturing | Automation | Quality Control.

(Reuters): The Russian aviation industry has been in crisis since the West imposed sanctions after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, banning Russian airlines from flying to destinations in Europe, the United States and other countries.

Russian airlines have largely stopped international flights, after leasing companies said they would seize planes in line with sanctions. Moscow has passed a law allowing the seizure of hundreds of jets in response to those sanctions.

Foreign plane makers have also stopped delivering new aircraft, while spare parts for foreign-built planes are in short supply.

“The share of domestically produced aircraft in the fleet of Russian airlines should grow to 81% by 2030,” Deputy Prime Minister Yury Borisov said in a televised meeting of government officials.

Russia has been pushing to localise aircraft production but only the Sukhoi Superjet regional aircraft is mass-produced inside Russia, while a significant number of its components, including vital engine parts, are imported.

Russia is preparing to mass produce the MS-21 medium-haul aircraft, which also has some foreign components. It also expects to begin building a small number of Soviet-designed Tu-214.

According to the programme, Russian airlines should receive about 1,000 new locally-built aircraft by 2030.

The Vedomosti newspaper earlier reported that Aeroflot, the largest Russian air carrier, could soon sign a contract with the state-owned United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) for the purchase of 300 new aircraft.

Neither company could immediately be reached for comment.

What You Missed:
How To Overcome Language Barriers In Manufacturing Factories
India’s Mahindra To Explore More Partnerships For EV Parts
A Microchip Timeline From 1959 To The Current Chip Shortage
A New Heat Engine With No Moving Parts Is Better Than Steam Turbine
Unloved Since Fukushima, Uranium Is Hot Again For Miners
Democratisation Of Commodity Supply Chain Data & Intelligence
GSK Opens Doors At US$110M Biologics Smart Factory In UK
3D Systems And AIPMA Partner To Promote Adoption Of Additive Manufacturing In The Plastics Industry
Singaporean Crypto-Miner Uses Sound to Create an AI-Based Maintenance Solution for Machines
DHL Express Singapore Spearheads Sustainable Logistics With 80 Additional Electric Vehicles

WANT MORE INSIDER NEWS? SUBSCRIBE TO OUR DIGITAL MAGAZINE NOW!

The post Russia To Spend US$14.5 Billion To Boost Local Aircraft Production Amid Sanctions appeared first on Asia Pacific Metalworking Equipment News | Manufacturing | Automation | Quality Control.

By digitally combining aircraft flight data with Pratt & Whitney’s state-of-the-art maintenance engineering algorithms, UBL allows the USAF to plan engine maintenance when it’s actually needed – maximizing both warfighting readiness and maintenance cost savings.

Two F119 engines power each F-22 Raptor in the U.S. Air Force’s fleet. When the F-22 reached Initial Operational Capability (IOC) and was declared combat-ready in 2005, the F119 turbofan became the first operational 5th generation fighter engine in history. One of the exceptional performance benefits the F119 gives the F-22 is supercruise, the ability to fly at supersonic speeds without afterburning, which provides the F-22 exceptional combat performance without compromising mission range. In addition to supercruise, the F119 combines stealth technologies, vectored thrust, and high thrust-to-weight performance to provide unprecedented maneuverability and survivability.

Along with performance, sustainment is a critical part of any engine program, as it’s crucial to maintain readiness at high levels and keep costs within budget. For decades, engine sustainment budgeting and planning was completed largely based on historical data and average mission usage metrics. Without full flight data, maintainers can only make assumptions about how the aircraft was flown and is going to fly and those assumptions are applied to every engine without the ability to tailor maintenance to an engine’s specific needs. As a result, engine maintenance might be performed earlier or later than necessary, leading to inefficiencies over the long run.

Incorporating Usage-Based Lifing, however, allows the operator and Pratt & Whitney to collect large amounts of real-time data on engine components based on how it is actually being flown in the field versus an assumed mission mix. This constant flow of data is continuously re-analyzed and allows the customer to take advantage of the full life of the engine parts while reducing risk to the fleet. By capturing full flight data, UBL allows the operator to assess exactly how the aircraft was flown and apply the appropriate level of lifing capacity that was used – saving time and money while improving readiness.

Pratt & Whitney has partnered with the USAF over the last decade to utilize their combined engineering capabilities and logistics expertise to develop advanced tools sets and to capture the streaming data generated in today’s advanced platforms through the full flight of the aircraft/engine. The data is then transferred and processed through the Pratt & Whitney lifing system using advanced algorithms and logistics management tools. Those results are then passed to the maintainer in an actionable format. In order to reach this historic launch, a detailed validation plan was executed with the USAF. Pratt & Whitney captured and authenticated UBL data for two years to validate system functionality and integration points. 

As part of the UBL launch, the entire F-22 fleet stationed at Nellis AFB has been converted to UBL tracking, vastly improving sustainment capabilities; and the F-22 units at Langley AFB are expected to start the conversion in March. In addition to saving money, successfully implementing this technology across the fleet will provide the USAF a model for applying the UBL process to other engine sustainment programs, which will further reduce costs, streamline maintenance, and improve readiness for the nation’s warfighters.

What You Missed:
Inflationary Pressure In Raw Materials & Logistics, Threatens Car Production
Envision AESC And Mercedes-Benz Announces New Battery Partnership
Intel Selects Germany As The Site For A Huge New Chipmaking Complex
AVEVA x Microsoft: Partnership To Optimise Manufacturing Operations
M&H Expands With The Purchase Of Two Additional SLM280 Twin Machines
Carmakers Sharing Data? Your Connected Car Knows You
Component Sourcing: It’s More Than Just Aircraft Parts
Mumbai Is The First South Asian City To Detail Net-Zero Roadmap
Indonesia Miners Looking To Cash In On The Surging Commodity Prices

The post Pratt & Whitney, USAF Launch Revolutionary Digital Engine Monitoring Technology appeared first on Asia Pacific Metalworking Equipment News | Manufacturing | Automation | Quality Control.