Rather than acquiring manufacturing plant on a piecemeal basis, the practice of companies purchasing and using machine tools of various categories from single, preferred vendors is now firmly established. For example, milling machines of a particular brand would be used by a company, whilst grinding…
Since 1946, Martin Baker has delivered more than 85,000 seats to 91 nations with more than 16,000 seats currently in service in 78 countries across 51 aircraft types. For more than 25 years,
Bushell and Meadows specialise in the production of complex components from a variety of materials including titanium, plastics, aluminium, stainless steel and other special alloys. The company is able to undertake the development of prototypes and carry out production runs ranging from small batche…
As one of the UK’s leading aerospace manufacturing companies, Ford Aerospace administers an all-embracing quality system. Rather than being regarded as two separate entities, the company’s quality regime is inextricably linked to all of its production systems. From the receipt of raw mat…