Pratt & Whitney Goes Full-Throttle into Automated Assembly
It’s 7:30 a.m. at Pratt & Whitney’s Eagle Services Asia engine center in Singapore, and it’s time for a robot named Alfred to start its daily double shift.
Working within a 26-by-20-foot pen, its job is to prepare rotors, first by placing them in an industrial oven, then waiting for them to cool, and finally transferring them to a hydraulic stacking system that puts them in alignment.