Meeting Tight Development Timelines Without Sacrificing Quality, Reliability, and Mission-Critical Performance
Manufacturing is a balance. In order to hang your hat on timely product delivery that meets even the tightest development timelines, you have to also maintain the highest quality and precision.
5-axis machining enables that speed-to-delivery while producing mission-critical parts and assemblies to support our aerospace and defense partners.
Why 5-Axis Machining Is a Game-Changer for Aerospace and Defense
We understand OEMs are under constant pressure to deliver high-performance parts and assemblies on schedule – and that the safety, quality, and compliance of those products is non-negotiable.
Flight-critical parts can’t just be delivered quickly. They must be delivered right.
5-axis machining is cutting-edge technology that allows suppliers to empower their aerospace and defense customers in meeting tight delivery timelines while ensuring every manufactured part meets even the most stringent industry standards.
Traditional machining processes often require multiple setups, fixture changes, and manual repositioning to achieve complex shapes and tight tolerances. These steps can increase lead times and result in human error or misalignment that impact the final products.
Conversely, 5-axis machining eliminates these inefficiencies by enabling simultaneous movement across five axes – allowing the cutting tool to approach the workpiece from virtually any angle.
The primary advantages of 5-axis machining for flight-critical parts include:
- Reduced lead times with fewer setups: 5-axis machining allows us to machine complex parts in a single setup, dramatically reducing the time spent changing fixtures, repositioning parts, and resetting tools. By streamlining the entire manufacturing process, lead times are significantly reduced.
- Faster production without sacrificing precision: The ability to handle multiple operations in one continuous cycle speeds up production while enhancing accuracy – both of which are essential for flight-critical parts. When microns matter and dimensional integrity must be preserved throughout the manufacturing process, 5-axis machining helps maintain the integrity of every part and assembly.
- Superior handling of complex geometries: Aerospace components often have complex contours, deep cavities, and challenging geometries that traditional 3-axis machining can’t efficiently handle. Conversely, 5-axis machining allows production of these intricate designs with unparalleled precision and surface finish, reducing the need for post-processing or secondary operations.
- Improved tool life and surface finish: With optimal orientation at all times, 5-axis machining reduces wear and tear on tooling and minimizes vibrations, which can impact product quality. The result is better surface finish, extended tool life, and lower overall costs, even on high-performance, complex, or exotic materials and alloys like titanium, Inconel, or heat-treated steels.
Mission-Critical Performance, Delivered On Time
At Primus, we leverage 5-axis machining not just for speed, but for strategic manufacturing agility. Our mission to deliver on time mirrors the needs of our customers as late delivery can delay aircraft rollouts or mission deployment.
Additionally, compressing production times without sacrificing any amount of quality or precision is a key advantage for our aerospace and defense partners.
Quality is maintained through rigorous Lean Six Sigma practices and our deep engineering expertise, including our proprietary Primus Production System (PPS) that enables and ensures quality at every turn.
When you need to deliver flight-critical parts on aggressive timelines, trust a manufacturing partner that’s built for performance under pressure and that utilizes cutting edge technology to get the job done on time and done right.
