Technology update
Manufacturing and repair solution for aircraft engine parts
A forged compressor blade has an overfilled abutment face to airfoil surface.
TTL's adaptive manufacturing system machines excess filling leaving smooth blend to both abutment and airfoil.
Exaggerated worn area on nozzle guide vane identified by scanning.
Worn area overfilled with weld to reinstate lost material.
The adaptive manufacturing system machines off excess weld, leaving a smoothly blended surface without damage to parent material.
Making its first public showing at the Paris Air Show, Toolroom Technology Ltd.'s Adaptive Machining Systems provides a comprehensive solution to the problems of manufacturing variable geometry components such as turbine and compressor blades, nozzle guide vanes, combustion chamber components, and airframes.
The Adaptive Machining System can be applied to the manufacture and refurbishment of variable-geometry 3-D components. The generation of data unique to the component on the machine allows the system to automatically manufacture a conforming component. The system can also use data produced on such CAD/CAM systems as CV, CATIA, and Unigraphics. Feature correction is standard in the system, manually or automatically keeping parts within manufacture tolerance.
Gas-washed components such as nozzle guide vanes can be scanned to identify worn areas in need of repair. The area can then be welded, with the system providing post-weld machining using the original scanned data. This will blend the welded repair with the parent material without damaging it. Typically 0.001 in. is left on for final polishing.
A forged compressor blade has an overfilled abutment face to airfoil surface.
TTL's adaptive manufacturing system machines excess filling leaving smooth blend to both abutment and airfoil.
Exaggerated worn area on nozzle guide vane identified by scanning.
Worn area overfilled with weld to reinstate lost material.
The adaptive manufacturing system machines off excess weld, leaving a smoothly blended surface without damage to parent material.