This investment project aims at the creation of a new production line for shafts for a major new customer of BODAIR.  

The products will then be assembled within upper lift systems and later integrated in the A300neo, A350 and B787 airplanes programs. 
 

Following various successful R&D projects performed over the last years, SOBELCOMP is facing a significant growth of the demand from its customers in Aeronautics, Defense and other industrial sectors. 

This growth is also the result of another investment in a poly-articulated robot acquired in 2013. 

As a consequence, SOBELCOMP must enlarge its production site in order to answer the demand of its customers, but also in order to avoid losing customers that are in a hurry. This should also allow the company to seduce or convince new customers. 

This training project is specifically oriented towards one of the strategic target of Skywin : improving competitiveness of the Walloon Aerospace workforce. 

The “Excellence in Development” part of the project relies essentially on CAD/CAM, numerical simulation and soft skills deployment, whereas the “Excellence in Assembly” axis relies more on processes and quality control.  

The project’s primary target is to setup industrial and competitive tools to perform Additive Manufacturing of aerospace components. 

In order to do this, it is necessary to select and develop the most suitable process related to each type of component.

The first part of the project aims at optimizing process parameters in function of the desired microstructure and mechanical properties. It also a must to put in place the upstream and downstream processes to ensure quality and repeatability of the parts. 

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