MAG innovation could save aerospace projects $100 million
With a reputation for innovation, last year saw MAG awarded fifteen U.S. and European patents, covering new manufacturing technologies for alternative energy, aerospace and automotive components.
One of the largest machine tool builders in the U.S., MAG focuses its R&D on new manufacturing science.
A recent innovative project involved, with the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences, mathematically enhancing the accuracy of large 5-axis machine tools. The Volumetric Error Compensation system received a Defense Manufacturing Excellence Award from the National Center for Advanced Technologies (NCAT). A Boeing team member called it a "groundbreaking process" that will dramatically reduce assembly costs – $100 million a year on large programs like the F-18 or 700 aircraft series.
MAG also received two international awards, in 2009, for composite processing technologies, one involving a method for making hydrogen fuel tanks, for cars.
And, as previously written about on Machinery website here, the company's HyperMach aerospace profiler produced three patents.
