Modern Manufacturing with Measure

Abstract

Gas turbine engines have long lives and regimented service schedules, and Rolls-Royce lists sixty-six locations across twenty-six states with a considerably larger supply chain behind them. Many of the components vital to those engines were designed and tested before CAD existed – by engineers working with master craftsmen to produce very highly refined parts with no model to inherit. Geoffrey Gatton's subject is modern manufacturing of aerospace components with the measurement aspect at the centre, and what it takes to keep parts of that vintage in service.