Project 1: Tighter Specification Aerofoils

项目 1：更严格规格的机翼

• 批准号: 110100
• 金额: $ 369.52万
• 依托单位: ROLLS-ROYCE PLC
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Large Project
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2012 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=110100
• 关键词: Project; Tighter; Specification; Aerofoils

The Tighter Specification Aerofoils Project aimed to develop new manufacturing processes that enable cost competitive manufacture of advanced aerofoil designs which rotate at high speeds and efficiently compress the incoming air. These included: new forging methods; optimised machining; improvements to the Superplastic Forming process. The project aimed to achieve 30% improvement in productivity, 100% Right First Time, and significantly reduced process cycle times. This project was a collaboration between Rolls-Royce, the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) and Advanced Forging and Forming Research Centre (AFRC). The project incorporated multiple new tooling and machining technologies, and novel processes to produce great improvements in forging high temperature aerospace materials, to significantly increase die life and accuracy of finished components. These improvements and the development of new form tools have reduced the amount of operations to manufacture the front bearing housing and rear outer casting. There were also significant improvements in the Super Plastic Forming, significantly increasing process understanding, reducing tooling and validation costs and new product introduction lead time.As a result, Rolls-Royce has safeguarded 15 UK jobs and purchased over £4m of capital equipment for aerofoil machining / forging in the Inchinnan facility and super plastic forming in the Barnoldswick facility. Many of the technologies developed in this project will be deployed in the new facility in Barnoldswick where Rolls-Royce is investing over £28m for a wide chord fan blade facility extension. This will provide a significant work to SMEs and local suppliers to provide tooling, fixtures, dies and materials. Rolls-Royce will incorporate the new Super Plastic Forming technologies onto all future SPF blades produced at Barnoldswick, with an opportunity to apply this technology onto legacy components. The first exploitation of the technologies developed will be in the Trent 1000 and XWB engines.“Rolls-Royce, working in conjunction with the Research Centres has overcome significant technical challenges to develop technologies that offer tighter specification aerofoils, helping to significantly improve future aerofoil manufacture at our Inchinnan and Barnoldswick facilities.” Steve Burgess, Director, Manufacturing Technology, Rolls-Royce

更严格规格的翼型项目旨在开发新的制造工艺，以实现具有成本竞争力的先进翼型设计的制造，这些翼型设计以高速旋转并有效地压缩进入的空气。其中包括：新的锻造方法;优化的加工;超塑性成形工艺的改进。该项目旨在实现30%的生产率提高，100%的第一次正确，并显着减少流程周期时间。该项目是劳斯莱斯、谢菲尔德大学先进制造研究中心（AMRC）和先进锻造与成形研究中心（AFRC）之间的合作。该项目采用了多种新的工具和加工技术，以及新的工艺，大大改善了高温航空航天材料的锻造，显著提高了模具寿命和成品部件的精度。这些改进和新模具的开发减少了制造前轴承箱和后外铸件的操作量。在超级塑性成形方面也有重大改进，显著提高了对工艺的理解，降低了模具和验证成本，缩短了新产品推出的时间。因此，劳斯莱斯保护了15个英国工作岗位，并购买了超过400万英镑的资本设备，用于Inchinnan工厂的机翼加工/锻造和Barnoldswick工厂的超级塑性成形。该项目中开发的许多技术将部署在Barnoldswick的新工厂中，罗尔斯·罗伊斯投资超过2800万英镑用于宽弦风扇叶片工厂扩建。这将为中小企业和当地供应商提供重要的工作，以提供工具，夹具，模具和材料。罗尔斯·罗伊斯将把新的超级塑性成形技术应用到Barnoldswick生产的所有未来SPF叶片上，并有机会将该技术应用到传统部件上。该技术的首次开发将用于Trent 1000和XWB发动机。“劳斯莱斯与研究中心合作，克服了重大的技术挑战，开发了提供更严格规格翼型的技术，有助于显着改善我们Inchinnan和Barnoldswick工厂未来的翼型制造。Steve Burgess，劳斯莱斯制造技术总监