Barnes Aerospace, Connecticut-based supplier of precision-machined and advanced fabricated engine and airframe components (Stand G14, Hall 4), is at Farnborough to show off a range of high-tech capabilities based on a recent major round of investment in advanced tooling.
On the eve of the show the company announced that it had installed a top-of-the line machine tool at its Windsor, Connecticut, facility and a second electron-beam welding machine at the Singapore location of subsidiary Barnes Aerospace Windsor Airmotive Asia. The new machine tool is a Campbell 930V five-axis radial groove grinder.
It was bought to carry out more efficiently work previously performed on manual vertical turret lathes.
"Radial groove grinding eliminates four pre-machining operations and improves single-piece flow," says group VP manufacturing operations Roy Goldsmith.
Other benefits are expected to include reductions in tooling costs and lead and set-up times.
Source: Flight Daily News