Boeing Co. CEO Dennis Muilenburg told CNBC that the aircraft maker wants to build more than 900 planes a year by the end of the decade. In 2017, Boeing delivered 763 commercial aircraft, or one about every 11.5 hours.
CNBC (2/16, Turak) reported Raytheon CEO John Harris’s comments ahead of the Munich Security Conference in Germany, where he argued that cyber threats are “one of largest and most important threats to our nation and to our allies.”
Advanced Manufacturing (2/15) reports that rather than continuing to “bemoan the problem” of a lack of skilled workers, “manufacturers are taking a multi-faceted approach to bridge the gap – not only for next year but also for 15 years down the road.”
At Baker Industries (Macomb, MI) the large scale five-axis EMCO Mecof PowerMill has gone operational.
(LONG BEACH, Calif., Jan. 24, 2018) – SME’s AeroDef Manufacturing event will bring together the leading companies and executives from aerospace and defense manufacturing to explore current technologies and coming trends March 26 to 29 at the Long Beach Convention Center.
French aircraft design and manufacturing group, Latécoère, is deploying Stratasys FDM additive manufacturing throughout its design and production
A major U.S. defense contractor is planning a new facility in Plano.
As augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) technologies come of age, manufacturers are finding easier ways to adopt these technologies on many fronts—from product development, to training, to maintenance and repair, to worker safety.
The San Jose (CA) Mercury News (1/2, Lee) reports augmented reality is “roaring back to prominence as one of Silicon Valley’s favorite frontier technologies,” and notes that Google Glass “made a comeback in 2017 as a niche, industrial product.”
In a post for its ‘Forbes Technology Council’ series, Forbes (1/2, Clemons) reports that although “members of the C-suite may rarely interact directly with smart technologies, they are nonetheless vital to achieving the strategic objectives of the business, including improving customer service, achieving operational efficiencies, innovating for the future, reducing risk, meeting standards and regulations, and improving company management.”