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...Arconic, which supplies fasteners, airfoils and other parts, said on Tuesday it could face an earnings hit of 2 cents to 4 cents per share, or $9m-$18m, if Boeing continued its production slowdown until...
...“We’ve confirmed that at 8.42am this morning Japan time . . . the touchdown sequence executed normally,” said Takashi Kubota of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (Jaxa)....
...The acquisition will include KLX unit Aerospace Solutions Group, which provides aerospace fasteners, consumables and logistics services....
...Richard Deakin, global head of aerospace at PA Consulting, says other potentially disruptive technologies include lasers, which can deliver data faster....
...This did away with the need for thousands of fasteners to hold it together, helping to cut the weight of the aircraft by 20 per cent....
...On other assemblies, the company has also introduced robots for tasks such as welding and installing fasteners....
...The robots are installed on platforms inside the aircraft, and are used to drill and fill the more than 60,000 fasteners that are traditionally done by human hands....
...He cited the example of the 60,000 fasteners attached by hand on every one of Boeing’s 777 long-range aircraft....
...The midstream and downstream operations, which include rolled products and packaging as well as fasteners and engineering products for industries such as aerospace, automotive and construction, accounted...
...Post-tax operating profits were $96m in rolled products such as aluminium sheet and plate, up 19 per cent, and $155m in engineered products such as wheels, fasteners and forged components, also up 19 per...
...The challenge: One reason for the delay was an industry-wide shortage of aerospace fasteners, the nuts, bolts, rivets and washers that hold aircraft together....
...Those capabilities include expertise in alloys, fasteners and aero engine components....
...Tens of thousands of fasteners were also incorrectly installed on the first of its new 787 Dreamliners after Boeing mechanics apparently misunderstood the installation instructions....
...Boeing revealed last week that several thousand fasteners had been fitted correctly on four 787 test-flight aircraft and two ground-test aircraft, which could aggravate further the beleaguered production...
...Boeing blamed the latest delay on a recent strike by machinists and a disruption caused by the replacement of certain fasteners on early-production aircraft....
...The most recent problem came last month, when it emerged that tens of thousands of fasteners had been incorrectly installed after mechanics at Boeing’s assembly plant in Seattle apparently misunderstood...
...The commercial aerospace industry’s brief century of existence is littered with glorious failures....
...Even the aircraft the company first unveiled at a glitzy launch ceremony in Seattle in July 2007 was later found to have been put together with more than 1,000 temporary fasteners....
...Examples include efforts to design new kinds of ultra lightweight, but strong, fasteners that might be used in aerospace or new kinds of engine component, made with novel casting techniques, for use in...
...Eventually, Boeing was forced to admit that important systems had not been installed and the 787 had been held together with temporary fasteners. It was the first in a series of errors....
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