MECHANIZATION AND AUTOMATION OF GAS TURBINE ENGINE BLADE MANUFACTURE,

Complex mechanization of blade preparation should embrace all stages of industry from the obtainment of billets to the control of ready blades. Adoption of billets without allowances for the processing by feather profile enables rapid solution of problems of mechanization and automation of mechanical machining processes which is very simplified in this case. Completion of the creation of special equipment will enable mechanization of all operations which will eliminate manual labor, still used in individual operations. By further improving the process of manufacturing blades of compressors and turbines, there should appear automation of mechanical processing, the advisability of which was confirmed by the experimental tasks. Author