Paris – Fives will exhibit at the International Paris Air Show in Paris, Le Bourget, June 15-21, 2015, at the Aerospace Valley Midi-Pyrénées et Aquitaine Pavilion, booth B-123. Fives will present its latest innovations in the aerospace sector.
With a wide range of high-end machining and automated composites processing equipment, Fives provides support to major players in the aerospace industry for the complete optimization of their manufacturing systems.
Through its Metal Cutting | Composites product range, Fives deploys solutions in close collaboration with its customers, for the automated production of composite components (lamination and finishing), for producing structural aircraft parts (drilling, milling, and assembly) and for repairing aircraft parts (additive manufacturing by deposition of metal powders). Fives also offers a complete set of services designed to improve the performance of machines throughout their life-cycle.
Fives supplies flexible equipment for all types of production:
• Cincinnati GEMINI DGS dockable gantry system, one platform = two processes: tape laying and composite fiber placement.
• Forest-Liné ATLAS One: two-in-one technology: advanced cutting and simultaneous composite tape laying.
Fives provides innovative solutions that break through the barriers of traditional technologies:
• Electrical, optimized and economical: eADU, the enhanced Automatic Drilling Unit.
• P2M: a range of compact, portable, robotic machines for finishing structural aircraft parts.
Fives leverages its expertise as a manufacturer of machine-tools for precision hard materials machining:
• Cincinnati XT Profiler: the 5-axis / 5 head version in aerospace titanium machining has demonstrated a 100+ cubic-inch-per-minute metal removal rate (MRR).
• Forest-Liné Powermill Ti, Forest-Liné Modumill Ti: 5-axis machining centers designed for roughing and finishing titanium and hard material aircraft structural complex parts. A consistent ram extension provides rigidity and precision required for hard materials machining.
Fives supports BeAM, an innovative start-up in the additive manufacturing field. BeAM uses the CLAD (Direct Additive Laser Construction) process, which was developed for the manufacture and repair of metal parts using 3D manufacturing. Especially suited to the repair of aircraft parts such as turbojet components, it reduces the costs and time required to carry out repairs.
Fives designs, manufactures and commissions for BeAM the 5-axis laser-machine combining the high-precision, high-rigidity and highly dynamic axes required for the implementation of this 3D metal printing process.
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