November December 2022

Departments

• From the Flight Deck: A&D industry workforce challenges – updated

• Checking In: Methods Machine Tools represents OKK throughout North America

• Mike’s Tooling Insights: Are you buying drills or holes?

• Gaining Altitude: The future of aerospace work – revisited

• Just Landed: Cast iron tooling columns for horizontal machining centers

• Up and Soaring: Teal Group predicts worldwide UAS spending more than $374B through 2032

• Cover Shots: CAD/CAM software

• 3D/Additive Manufacturing: Design freedom for aerospace, jet engine components

• Maintenance, Repair, & Overhaul: PAC establishes global HQ in Oklahoma

• Aviation Appreciation: Name that plane

• On the Radar: Laser cutting machine

• 1 Last Look: Saving a winged drone from a nosedive

Features

• Design & Automation Update: Largest-ever metal 3D-printed aerospace parts

• Quality: Cross-functional form measurement

• Machine Monitoring: HMI enhances production uptime and control

• Cover Story: Improving aero machining productivity

Profit Boosters

• 5 steps for improving waste stream processing

• PNAA: PNAA conference: Innovate, collaborate, accelerate

Advertorial

• Ask the Expert: Next-generation PrimeTurning™ – improved for aerospace applications

• 5 Things You Need to Know: 5 Things You Need to Know about Thread Locking in challenging, safety-critical aerospace applications