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News Release from: Brookhouse Holdings | Subject: Strip and build tooling
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 18 May 2004
Strip and build tooling designed for jet
engines
Strip and build tooling to assist in the building of aircraft turbine engines is very high precision, hands-on tooling which facilitates the assembly of various sub-components and modules.
Brookhouse Patterns, of Darwen, is designing and manufacturing strip and build tooling for Rolls-Royce at Derby, to assist in the building of the Trent 900 engine which is used by the A380 Airbus At the same time, Brookhouse SPD Company, of Hyde, is supplying ground support equipment for use in the building of the C-duct and nozzle of the Trent 900
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 14 Nov 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Strip and build tooling is very high precision, hands-on tooling which facilitates the assembly of the various sub-components and modules which make up a complete engine.
These modules are then assembled within the C-duct structure, which holds the complete engine.
The Brookhouse SPD ground support equipment is essentially a large, precision manufactured jig, which contains the C-duct during final assembly or during strip-down.
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Brookhouse is particularly well-qualified to provide this truly integrated and efficiently controlled capability for design and manufacture, following a recent re-structuring of its design, manufacturing and tooling resources, which has seen the management of these resources centralised at its Darwen site.
Its capability includes a recently expanded project management and design department, which offers the latest CAD technology such as comprehensive CATIA Versions 4 and 5 software to allow 3-D modelling to produce detailed images and drawings of jigs and components.
These can then be passed directly to the company's extensive CNC machining facilities for precise, in-house manufacture to tolerances of +/-0.03mm.
There are currently seven large CNC milling machines at the company's two sites, including a 5-axis machining centre, with a 5m x 3.25m x 1.25m working envelope.
In addition, Brookhouse also offers CNC lathe capacity, as well as a wide range of conventional machine tools and jig building and fabrication capability.
To ensure that design and manufacturing tolerances are met, a range of state-of-the art CMM equipment is available, including a large envelope, 5-axis programmable Co-ordinate Measuring Machine (CMM) and a portable Cimcor 3001I.
Both machines offer high quality reporting capability, as complete data inspection reports in Excel, HTML or Word can be automatically generated directly from a series of CMM readings.
Complementing the two pressure sensor machines are portable Leica 3D laser tracking systems, which have a working envelope of 70m.
These are interferometry-based measuring machines, where three-dimensional measurements are taken at a rate of up to 1000 per second and converted, encoded, stored and displayed on an integral PC.
Brookhouse Patterns and the Brookhouse SPD Tool Company are companies within Brookhouse Holdings, which provides the expertise, facilities and resources in design and manufacture to meet the extremely high demands of today's aerospace sector and the general engineering industry.
This total capability includes the production of all aspects of tooling in both composite materials and metals, the precision engineering of tooling, jigs and fixtures, and the manufacture and repair of composite and metallic components to international approval standards.
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