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Aerospace Engineering: End-to-end Manufacturing Process of a Bladed Disk

Renishaw solutions help aerospace manufacturers do repeatable, traceable, and efficient work. We offer solutions throughout the industry in many application areas, and we have expertise in controlling the manufacturing of blades and components for aircraft engines.

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    00:00:00 hello my name is Paul max Ted I'm the director of industrial metrology applications at Renishaw and today we're going to show how initial technology can be applied throughout the manufacturing process of a complex aerospace part so the very first stage of our manufacturing process starts with a turn blank on a military machine so after features have been cut and

    00:00:24 joined CNC machining process the part is loaded to our equator gauging system now this device next to the CNC machine allows us to gauge very quickly features to look at recent history of parts in a batch and to automatically update the tool offsets on the CNC process using our intelligent process control software the next stage of the machining operations machining of the blades

    00:00:48 now our sprint scanning probe on a machine tool allows us to for many tasks in this process the first one you see here is checking the Machine capability so we're checking the Machine kinematics and we're finding the part on the machine absolutely critical for complex 5 axis machining tasks so we locate the part relative to the kinematics on the machine so when the five axis function

    00:01:09 switch on we know the parts can be machined accurately next stage then we bring out the tool and we make measurements on our non-contact laser-based tool set in device to establish the tool parameters so we know where the tool tip is then allows us to semi-finished some of these bladed features on the component the next stage of the process is to bring the sprint

    00:01:30 probe back out again and we can scan the complete surface that we've just machined compare that to our design tolerance and write expected values and then update the machining process so we guarantee them when we finally finished machine these features they're gonna be very accurate so we then carry on we can complete machine the rest of the features on that part ready for it to go

    00:01:50 to the coordinate measuring machine so the final stage of the measurement process is on the quarter measure machine so aerospace parts have to be certified it's mandatory in that industry so we use our Revo scanning probe to very quickly scan the surfaces get lots of data minimize the number of different starter setups for the infinite position

    00:02:07 the multi sensor capability or EVO system allows multiple measurement types to be carried out on the same machine so here we have our surface finish probe being used to measure just machine surfaces and the orientation and the agility of the the head allows you to measure different services with a single status pickup this means that manufacturers minimize the number of

    00:02:26 devices you need on the shop floor and minimize the time taken to completely certified the parts so so Renishaw were actually born out of the aerospace industry to address a measurement challenge in the 1970s the first touch trigger probe was developed and throughout our history lots of the technologies that we've introduced have come from challenges within the

    00:02:44 aerospace industry where it's complex surfaces the scanning with our river systems on machine scanning with our sprint systems all these these challenges have been met by the introduction of eventual technology so if you'd like to learn more about how Rhenish will can help you machine complex parts of the aerospace industry please visit my new show com forward

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