STARRAG USA’s new LX021 turbine blade machine is an application-based design that maximizes part rigidity with its spindle and sub-spindle part clamping. The turret on the sub-spindle allows multiple ...

65 sq. ft. footprint Working envelope of 550 x 600 x 500 mm (X-Y-Z) A-axis tilts from +45 to -90 degree angles; B-axis has infinite positioning points Mitsui Seiki USA Inc. has designed a specialized ...

The term “hydroelectric power” often brings to mind immense operations driven by purpose-built infrastructure such as dam systems and large turbines with traditionally metallic, propeller-based ...

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) recently named the Pratt & Whitney single crystal turbine blade an historic mechanical engineering landmark. These blades, which can be found in ...

Everyone’s owned a pinwheel at one time or another. I remember riding in the back of my parents’ car, sticking my pinwheel out the window as we traveled down the street. The speed at which the ...

Unprecedented wind energy growth — nearly 30 percent per annum over the past five years — is pressuring wind blade manufacturers to turn out more blades, more quickly, at a lower cost. Many ...

The integration of adaptive machining and reverse engineering has emerged as a pivotal approach in the maintenance and regeneration of aero‐engine blades, components that are critical to both ...

Wire arc additive manufacturing allowed this robot arm at ORNL to transform metal wire into a complete steam turbine blade like those used in power plants. Researchers at the Department of Energy’s ...

Over the last 20 years, the power industry has experienced a shift in steam turbine (ST) maintenance strategies driven by two compounding factors. The first factor has become the overwhelming task of ...

Safran Aircraft Engines has opened a turbine blade research centre at its Gennevilliers site near Paris. The manufacturer says that the facility is capable of carrying out "all development work ...