Mark Albert

A new machine series aims to address the immediate and longer term requirements of job shops by lowering cost barriers to acquiring manufacturing technology without foregoing capability or compromising performance.

Data-driven manufacturing gets a boost with a new class of x-ray inspection equipment that outputs a digital twin of a machined part, including complete 3D representations of internal and external dimensions.

<p>“We cut before we cut.” Ryan Patry wasn’t being mysterious when he said this. Patry is a recognized Lockheed Martin manufacturing subject matter expert at Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company. “We cut before we cut” aptly describes advanced manufacturing methodology that the company is developing and implementing at a digital factory in Stratford, Connecticut.</p><p>One fully functioning machining cell embodies many of the most important principles of Sikorsky’s digital factory concept. The ce…

New control technology captures critical data about a machining process and uses it to create a 3D graphical representation of the finished workpiece.