AML wins plaudits from Rolls-Royce for blisk manufacture

Machining blisks is challenging at the best of times but when manufacturing solution provider AML won a contract to supply Rolls-Royce with multi-blade variants for the Advance3 aero-engine programme, it chose Siemens NX Turbomachinery software to help optimise part programming and machining.

The solution was recommended by Siemens Industry Software's chosen specialist CAM partner TTL.

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