Precision engine assembly requires more than accurate measurement. It requires an understanding of how individual components come together, how their geometric relationships affect the final assembly, and how measurement data can support a repeatable, reliable process.
Beyond a Single Engine Platform
For years, ABTech has applied that understanding to Engine Assembly Systems (EAS) supporting demanding jet engine manufacturing, maintenance, repair, and overhaul applications. Our background includes systems engineered to GE Aerospace specifications, combining ultra-precision motion, measurement, gauging, and assembly capabilities into production-ready platforms.
That experience helped us build the knowledge, processes, and engineering expertise to take the next step.
Today, ABTech is expanding those capabilities beyond a single engine platform through FormStack™, our proprietary approach to engine component measurement.
Building on Proven Experience
When you're measuring and assembling critical jet engine components, repeatability matters as much as accuracy.
ABTech Engine Assembly Systems are built around that reality. Ultra-precision air-bearing rotary tables provide a stable reference axis, while precision gauging, robust system structures, and application-specific fixtures support components with widely varying geometries.
These systems can measure critical characteristics including roundness, flatness, concentricity, parallelism, and perpendicularity while supporting the alignment and assembly processes required for high-pressure compressor and turbine sections.
Producing systems to established GE Aerospace requirements provided an important proving ground for ABTech. It demanded precision, consistency, reliability, and the ability to reproduce system performance for ongoing programs.
For an OEM or MRO organization, a successful first system is only the beginning. The real value comes from partnering with someone who can deliver that performance again and again.
From Established Specifications to a Proprietary Platform
GE Aerospace programs remain an important part of ABTech's engine assembly experience. The knowledge gained through those programs has also helped us expand into additional products supporting Turbine Engine production.
FormStack™ brings critical measurement and capabilities into a proprietary ABTech software environment. As an internally developed program, ABTech’s engineering team has the flexibility to develop systems around other engine manufacturers, engine families, components, and assembly processes.
What needs to be measured? How is the component fixtured? What geometric relationships are critical? How should measurement data be captured, analyzed, and presented? How does the system need to integrate with the customer's existing process?
Those questions are at the heart of the ABTech Proven Process.
Collaboration Starts with the Application
Every engine program presents its own challenges. That's why our approach begins long before a system reaches the production floor.
ABTech works collaboratively with customers to understand the complete application, from component geometry and measurement requirements to operator workflow, system integration, production volume, and long-term objectives.
That solutions engineering approach allows us to bring together precision motion, metrology, fixtures, controls, software, and system architecture around the program.
With mechanical, electrical, and software engineering alongside precision manufacturing, assembly, alignment, testing, and certification capabilities within ABTech, that collaboration can continue throughout development and into production.
The result isn't simply a collection of precision components. It's a complete measurement and assembly solution designed around what the customer needs to accomplish.
Repeatable Precision
An engine assembly system may begin as an engineering challenge, but for an ongoing engine program, it ultimately has to become a reliable production solution.
Our manufacturing infrastructure and established processes allow us to move from application-specific engineering to repeatable system production. Once a solution has been developed and validated, we have the people, equipment, and experience to manufacture additional systems with the consistency an OEM or MRO program requires.
Customers don't have to choose between application-specific engineering and production capability. The objective is to deliver both.
Whether the need is a specialized system or an ongoing program requiring multiple machines, ABTech brings the same focus on precision, repeatability, and long-term reliability from the original design through production.
Built for the Next Engine Program
Our experience with GE Aerospace helped establish a strong foundation in jet engine measurement and assembly. FormStack™ builds on that experience with a proprietary, flexible platform that allows us to apply those capabilities to a broader range of engine programs.
It's an evolution built on experience and driven by the principles behind the ABTech Proven Process: collaboration, application-specific engineering, precision measurement, dependable manufacturing, and long-term partnership.
Because the next engine assembly challenge may look different from the last one.
The precision behind solving it shouldn't.
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