Renishaw Helps Tronosjet Manufacturing Achieve FAA Certification

When Tronosjet Manufacturing wanted to boost its additive manufacturing (AM) capabilities and achieve regulatory compliance for its metallic aerospace parts, it turned to global engineering technologies company, Renishaw, for support. Renishaw supplied multiple laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) AM systems, which Tronosjet uses to produce various aircraft components. These include a safety critical engine thrust control pulley bracket — one of the first additively produced metallic parts to be certified by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) under its Parts Manufacturer Approval (PMA) scheme.

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00:00:28 turbo props namely the Bae 146 -8 and ATR series of aircraft after accomplishing the design and STC approval for the conversion of a passenger jet to an air tanker tronus gained a great deal of airworthiness and certification experience leveraging this we began a strategic move in additive manufacturing we established a dedicated manufacturing facility at the charlot

00:00:51 toown airport where we hold Transport Canada as9100 certification for both design and manufacturer of Aerospace components we certified our first metal printed part in 2023 this part received part manufacturing approval through the FAA and took approximately 2 years with progress obviously affected by the pandemic we chose renesha equipment not simply for its Aerospace pedigree but

00:01:14 also as an active partner helping us to develop robust process capability the 500 Q offers amazing productivity and the flex allows tonos to develop new solutions for emerging market sectors in Aerospace we are working on both Legacy parts to to maintain operational Readiness as well as some new products of our

00:01:42 own renesa is honored to work with tronus an amazing Canadian company a Pei on such a major project that team was able to manufacture the first FAA approved metal additive replacement part in addition to the am250 tronos is also equipped with some of our latest additive machine such as the Rene M500 Q NS Flex ideal if more capacity is needed

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