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Cutting and Stripping Coax

The latest technology for stripping coaxial cable gives engineers unprecedented control

April 13, 2020

Stripping coaxial cables places high demands on processing equipment. Several thin, concentric layers must be carefully removed within a single cycle: insulation, metal braiding, foil and dielectric. The strip length must be exceptionally accurate, since the tolerance ranges of coaxial connectors are narrow.

Fixtures, Mobile Robots Ease Assembly of Jet Wings

Jim Camillo

April 9, 2020

Developing new aircraft is always a challenge, but one that engineers at Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. (GAC) have successfully dealt with for more than 60 years. GAC produces state-of-the-art corporate jets for companies and governments all around the world, with hundreds of them currently in operation.

Boeing Extends Coronavirus Shutdowns Indefinitely

April 6, 2020

SEATTLE—Thirty thousand Boeing employees must start taking vacation or sick time, or apply for unemployment, after the airplane maker decided to keep its Puget Sound plants closed indefinitely.

Gulfstream Closes Two GA Manufacturing Facilities Due to COVID-19

April 3, 2020

SAVANNAH, GA — Gulfstream Aerospace has closed two Savannah-based manufacturing facilities after employees working there tested positive for COVID-19.

UK Aerospace and Automotive Companies to Manufacture Ventilators

April 3, 2020

UNITED KINGDOM — A group of businesses from across the UK’s aerospace, automotive and medical sectors have come together to produce medical ventilators to help Britain’s fight against COVID-19.

Pandemic Disrupts U.S. Manufacturing

At best, the pandemic has been an inconvenience. At worst, it has led to part shortages and plant shutdowns

John Sprovieri

April 2, 2020

How quickly things change. On March 1, I was one of 15,000 people watching the Chicago Cubs play a spring training game at a ballpark in Mesa, AZ. It was warm and sunny, the beer was cold, and I had not a care in the world.

COVID-19 Workforce Health Analysis Solution for Offered for Free

March 24, 2020

SASKATOON, Canada — SafetyTek is offering its COVID-19 Workforce Health Analysis, an extension of the cloud-based Workplace Safety Engagement Platform, to organizations providing essential services.

NY Defense Contractor Considered Critical Infrastructure

March 24, 2020

EDGEWOOD, NY — CPI Aerostructures, Inc. announced that it has been classified as an essential business by New York State and is exempt from the state’s mandate that all non-essential New York businesses close until further notice.

Airbus to Partially Resume Production in France and Spain

March 23, 2020

TOULOUSE, France — Airbus SE announces that it expects production and assembly work to partially resume in France and Spain on this week following health and safety checks.

Beckwood, KOMT Deliver Automated Press for Spirit Aerosystems

March 11, 2020

ST. LOUIS—Beckwood Press Co., a manufacturer of hydraulic and servo-electric presses, and Kansas Oklahoma Machine Tools (KOMT), a machinery distributor throughout the Midwest, recently delivered the first ever press with automated die change to Spirit AeroSystems for use in the aerospace supplier’s Joule Form manufacturing process.