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Tim Blaisdell, CEO of Pith Products looks at how aerospace organisations are increasingly relying on tool control best practices to reduce foreign object debris (FOD) damage.

Held from 20-25 February, at the Changi Exhibition Centre, the ninth edition of the Singapore Airshow returns on the 20-25 February 2024 following two editions of trimmed scope and scale due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Serkan Erten, business unit director of Alp Aviation’s Engine Business Unit reveals how the investment in a M40 MILLTURN – supplied by WFL Millturn Technologies – enables the company to become a centre of excellence for civil aircraft engine manufacture.

Cascade Engineering’s sales manager of engineering, Grenville Williamson looks at the use of carbon fibre, whether it can be recycled or produced more sustainably and whether there are usable alternatives coming to market.

CMM controller retrofits enable multi-sensor inspection and ensures that Cross Manufacturing’s co-ordinate measuring machine is still capable of aerospace-standard quality control after 26 years.

Savings that must be seen to be believed, Aerospace Manufacturing hears how seven operations down to two vindicates subcontractor, Oaston Engineering’s second Cincom sliding-head lathe purchase.

Solid-state-based emulators are increasingly replacing floppy drives and other yesteryear storage technologies. Brian McSloy, chief technology officer of Solid State Disks Ltd (SSDL) explains how solid-state-based swap-in drives are keeping host systems operational and delivering new features.

Heading-up JPB Système’s Poland-based operations, Katarzyna Kalisz, looks back on a career in which steadfast determination has enabled her to seize opportunities and confront challenges.

In a Q&A, Boeing’s vice-president, Scott Stocker discusses the power of Lean, and why the company is so passionate about its efforts.

CloudNC tells Ed Hill about its revolutionary new CAM programming software CAM Assist aimed to dramatically reduce CNC machine tool CAM strategy creation.