EDITORIAL
CONTENTS I
Think yourself fitter
5 News
Metallics
Maybe it has something to do with growing old, but I’m finding it
10 Getting creative with carbide tooling –
increasingly harder to lose weight these days. Not only am I advancing
Cutting tools
in years, but I’m advancing in waist size too! It’s the same old problem
12 Aluminium fights back! – Joining
that seems to involve the love of food combined with the lack of
discipline.
Composites
So while there’s fat chance I’ll go on a strict diet, I also realise that
16 Scratching the surface of green technologies –
Green manufacturing
weight loss doesn’t just preoccupy my thoughts; it weighs heavy on
the airframe designer too. Not content with the latest innovations in
Supply chain
‘lightweighting’ aircraft structures by using carbon fibre composites,
18 Get the balance right – Inventory management
today’s OEMs are thinking up new ways of reducing the seemingly
endless amounts of wiring and cabling being used to connect different
Special report
avionics systems onboard an aircraft.
20 Wireless makes sense – Wireless technologies
To help alleviate some of the burden, this issue’s wireless
technologies feature amply demonstrates the important role that
Electronics
the use of vibration and temperature sensors connected within data
22 See the light – LED lighting
transmission networks can play in reducing the huge quantities of
BCI Profile
complex copper wiring harnesses. It’s a technology that certainly
26 Box clever – PWS Ltd
carries some weight in terms of lowering cost as well as in minimising
the huge amounts of testing, instrumentation and retrofitting 28 Industry Roundup
requirements.
Elsewhere, our supply chain feature focuses on why many
Final Approach
companies look to streamline their inventory management by adopting
34 Facing the facts – Dr John Garside,
lean methodologies. Just like my expanding waist, the
University of Warwick
expanse of waste inventory in the supply chain can
display similar undesirable effects. Succeeding in
all that we do comes down to achieving a healthy
balance and a positive mental attitude by thinking
both yourself – and your company, fitter.
Next issue: Airbus A400M, Engines, Design for
manufacture, Machining, Composite development,
MIKE RICHARDSON | EDITOR
Backplanes & boards, Supply chain partnerships,
Aerospace cluster report: Spain
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