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Aircraft engine
Enabling efficient aero engines to take flight
Smart manufacturing solutions for aero engine design, production and inspection.
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As demand for air travel grows and thousands of new engines are ordered every year, aircraft engine manufacturers are increasingly focused on high-volume manufacturing.
An engine carrying more than 3000 components contains hundreds of thousands of parts that must be designed, produced, measured and assembled to support program ramp-up. These include many complex geometric components such as compressor and turbine blades, blisks, vanes, casings and gears. Hexagon has developed advanced production capabilities to help manufacturers produce these components efficiently and sustainably
Hexagon’s aero engine solutions for aircraft engineers include structural, acoustic and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation tools that provide accurate test environments to optimise designs and processes.
Our production software solutions support all kinds of production simulations.
To help aero engine manufacturers reduce production cycle times and overall cost, Hexagon has helped pioneer the move towards in-line, shop-floor and automated tactile and non-contact metrology for engine component measurement.
Using our statistical process control (SPC) toolset offers aero engine manufacturers options for continuous process monitoring and optimisation. Engine producers also now have the option to use Hexagon's technology in real-time feedback loops for tool path optimisation right at the point of production.
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Data Analytics
Structural Damage Recording and Analysis
Data analysis tools automate and improve the crucial identification, recording and analysis of structural damage. -
Dimensional Inspection
Compressor and turbine casing inspection
Flexible measurement solutions for the fast and accurate inspection of compressor and turbine casing components. -
Production Tools
Probing for aligning turbine wheels
Precise on-machine measurement is required to achieve the tolerances required of wheel turbine grooves, chamfers and radii. -
Reverse Engineering
Reverse engineering of components
Using 3D scanning to reverse engineer parts makes it easier to repair, maintain and overhaul aircraft without CAD data. -
Simulation and Analysis
Nacelle acoustic performance simulation
Acoustic simulation software enables aircraft designers to optimise aero engine nacelle acoustic performance.
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Overview
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Manufacturing
Design and engineering phase
With Hexagon’s innovations in manufacturing technology, users can digitally simulate and optimise product design and engineering to ensure component manufacturability, production productivity and output quality.
Production phase
Maintain a digital thread through production, optimise machine tools, measure environmental variances and prevent downtime with predictive data analyses.
Inspection phase
Automate and digitalise quality measurement with our world-leading metrology hardware and software, creating a bridge between the real and digital worlds.
Digital transformation
Deploy Hexagon’s sensor software systems to transform siloed and disconnected processes into an integrated, data-driven manufacturing ecosystem that captures and creates value across the product lifecycle, enabling new business models and automating workflows to become increasingly autonomous, efficient and sustainable.