Everything About an Aircraft Demands Precision
From turbines and landing gear to fuel systems and avionics, virtually every aspect of a modern aircraft requires aerospace machined parts produced with consistent precision and quality to ensure performance. Whether you’re an aerospace company, or a tier 1 or tier 2 OEM manufacturer supporting the industry, it’s absolute that your machined parts meet the most demanding requirements for precision and reliability.
Even slight variations in part tolerances could lead to issues with how parts interface with other components and create safety issues. Of course, improperly produced parts wouldn’t even be incorporated into aircraft manufacturing and maintenance due to aerospace and defense companies’ strict quality control processes.
Today, more and more aerospace organizations rely on third party partners to support their supply chain due to various factors such as labor shortages, the need for greater visibility and resilience, and risk mitigation around inventory management. Here, we’ll help you learn what influences decision-making for suppliers of aerospace machined parts.
Factors That Ensure a Quality Aerospace Machined Parts Program
- Certifications — First and foremost, any supplier must be AS9100 certified. This certification is one of the most demanding quality certifications for manufacturers of parts that go directly into aircraft. Additionally, for military and defense-related aerospace components, an International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) registration is essential to ensure the safekeeping of sensitive material.
- Capabilities — For aerospace machined parts, the utmost precision is critical. Suppliers must be able to execute parts production using CNC milling, turning, Swiss machining, and more. Moreover, that production must be done reliably to ensure that all parts meet the most demanding tolerance requirements consistently to maximize part performance. Various metals must also be available for selection to ensure part longevity; suppliers must be able to work with various steels (tool, stainless, hardened, etc.), alloys, aluminums, brass, and others.
- Production — This is critical. The ideal aerospace machined parts supplier must have the proper machines, equipment, and production space to execute your parts program with speed as well as quality. They should have appropriate sorting, packing, packaging, storage, and operational failsafes to ensure your program runs at maximum uptime 24/7/365 with virtually no quality issues or delays.
- Assembly — A key need for aerospace organizations today is compressing the supply chain and reducing the amount of time and cost from part order to receipt. To support you in this, ideal suppliers will be able to provide assembly services for components consisting of multiple parts.
- Experience — Last but certainly not least, it’s important to work with a company that has an established reputation for supporting the aerospace industry. With an experienced partner, you not only benefit from expertise in part production and equipment usage, but you also benefit from their knowledge of the market, its unique supply chain, and countless other aspects where true understanding can translate into thousands or tens of thousands of dollars saved, along with significantly reduced time and effort on your part.
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Trust OGS Industries for Aerospace Machined Parts Excellence
For more than 60 years, OGS has supported organizations in the aerospace industry with all of their machined parts needs. We’ve partnered with major brands such as Meggitt, Boeing, Sikorsky, Rolls-Royce, GEAE, and Airbus — just to name a few. We’re ready to support your organization’s aerospace machined parts needs as well.
Our machining capabilities are extensive, with complete capabilities including 3-axis mills, lathe machining on 2–9 axes for sub-8” diameter parts, Swiss machining for parts under 1.5” in diameter, centerless grinding capabilities, and more. And of course, we also offer metal fabrication (laser, punch, forming, and welding), metal stamping (<500 tons along with an in-house tool and die shop), and assembly services.
Let’s discuss ways we can make your aerospace machined parts program a success. Connect with us today to learn more.
