Safran Seats - Repeatable Manufacture of Low-Volume Aircraft Seat Components using Additive Manufacturing

赛峰座椅GB，位于南威尔士，生产高端商务舱和头等舱飞机套房。行政座椅生产的小批量特性使其具有灵活的制造技术，不需要定制工具。然而，这些方法仍然必须能够生产出同样高质量、精加工和可重复性的部件，这是赛峰赛座GB的客户所期望的。为了确保将新形式的增材制造成功引入赛峰赛程的成熟生产方法，赛峰赛程英国公司计划利用斯旺西大学ASTUTE中心的专业知识。ASTUTE中心提供的先进测试和分析服务将使赛峰赛seat GB公司能够更好地了解在使用这种最先进的技术创建代表性零件时观察到的几何变化的根本原因。此外，定义可以应用哪些技术来防止失真。成功地将这种制造方法引入赛峰座椅GB将提高生产敏捷性，缩短交货时间，降低成本和重量，并增加赛峰为个别航空公司客户定制产品的灵活性。最终，交货时间、成本和重量的减少，以及通过这项技术实现的增强产品供应，将产生并确保新的销售，这将巩固南威尔士行政座椅产品的持续生产——保护英国先进的工程工作，确保英国在这一细分市场保持竞争力，并提高英国的工业能力和产能。

Safran Seats GB, located in South Wales, manufactures high-end Business Class and First Class airliner suites. The low volume nature of executive seat production lends itself to flexible manufacturing techniques that do not require bespoke tooling. However, these methods must still be capable of producing parts with the same high quality, finish and repeatability that Safran Seats GB's customers rightfully expect. To ensure successful introduction of a new form of additive manufacturing to Safran Seats' repertoire of proven production methods, Safran Seats GB plans to leverage expertise from Swansea University's ASTUTE Centre. The advanced testing and analysis services provided by the ASTUTE centre will allow Safran Seats GB to better understand the root-cause of geometrical variation observed when creating representative parts using this state-of-the-art technique. In addition, defining what techniques can be applied to prevent distortion. Successful introduction of this manufacturing method to Safran Seats GB will increase production agility, reduce lead times, reduce costs and weight, and increase the flexibility with which Safran can tailor its products to individual airline customers. Ultimately, the reduction in lead-time, cost and weight, together with the enhanced product offering realised by this technology, will generate and secure new sales that will underpin the continued production of executive seating products in South Wales -- protecting advanced UK engineering jobs, ensuring the UK remains competitive in this market segment, and advancing the UK's industrial capability and capacity.