Aerospace Manufacturing & Supply Chain

Sep 15, 2022
The industry is leaning on technology to handle pandemic recovery, but is that just further hollowing out the workforce?
Sep 15, 2022
Optomec and Acme Manufacturing have developed a new automated work cell to repair titanium compressor blades more efficiently than through traditional processes.
Sep 15, 2022
All F-35 deliveries remain halted until the Pentagon approves a waiver or an alternative source enters the supply chain in late October.
Sep 09, 2022
Never fully realized, many of thes projects laid the groundwork for future breakthroughs.
Sep 08, 2022
Northrop Grumman quietly developed a nickel-alloy combustor that could unlock a decades-long hurdle to rapid propulsion.
Mar 15, 2021
A cruel irony of the downturn in commercial aerospace is that there may not be enough workers to staff the recovery.
Mar 10, 2021
Safran Group is using AR and robotics tools from French startup Diota to improve efficiency and accuracy on the shop floor.
Mar 03, 2021
Kelly Ortberg, the former head of Collins Aerospace who was a key leader in the supplier’s melt-up into Raytheon Technologies, has left its executive ranks, company representatives confirmed.
Mar 01, 2021
A cyberattack on a newly acquired manufacturing asset and a foreign policy shift by the new Biden administration combined to overshadow topsized financial results disclosed by aerospace supplier Kaman on Feb. 26.
Feb 25, 2021
Spirit AeroSystems is growing the defense part of its revenue streams faster than expected, which is mildly helping to offset lost work in making airliners, the company’s CEO said Feb. 23.
Feb 24, 2021
Advanced air mobility startup Lilium has selected Spanish aerostructures supplier Aciturri to build the composite airframe for its electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) air taxi.
Feb 19, 2021
Boeing says that its recently completed deal with Tata-Boeing Aerospace Limited (TBAL) to build 737 vertical fins in India will augment rather than replace existing fin production in China and South Korea.
Feb 19, 2021
How can aftermarket providers use the “more electric” present to prepare for the future?