From Progressive Surface

A recent GE Reports news article describes how Progressive Surface has provided special process machinery and technologies for GE's turbine engine programs over the years. Most recently, we installed state-of-the-art coating equipment at the Advanced Manufacturing and Software Technology Center in Van Buren Township, Michigan.

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Progressive Surface - Ultra High Pressure Waterjet Cleaning
Providing waterjet cleaning services for aircraft engine and industrial gas turbine components to remove thermal sprayed coating for overhaul operations CNC robotic system with closed-loop process... (read more)
Progressive Surface - Remove coatings from aircraft engine components
This ultra-high pressure water jet cleaning system is designed to remove coatings from aircraft engine components (e.g. combustors and cases) up to 40" diameter and 36" tall. It offers 5-axes of... (read more)
Progressive Surface - For Grit Blasting Aero Turbine Engine Blades
Aero Engine Multi Robot Cleaning Cell This system is designed to grit blast aero turbine engine blades prior to coating operations. Racked parts are conveyed into the load station where an ABB... (read more)
Progressive Surface - Abrasive Blasting Particle Sensor
Progressive Surface & TECNAR Automation are proud to introduce the ShotMeter, a new industrial flow monitor specifically developed and optimized for the monitoring of shot peening and abrasive... (read more)
Progressive Surface - Medical Implant Robotic Peening System
Precision-built systems are designed for controlled shot peening of medical implant devices. Flexible designs allow for processing a wide range of medical parts. The direct pressure shot peening... (read more)
Progressive Surface - Factory Refurbished Systems Available
Progressive Surface shot peening, grit blasting, thermal spraying, and waterjet cleaning machines are very durable, and often times we have the opportunity to repurchase and refurbish one of our... (read more)
Progressive Surface - Produces Superior Plasma Coatings!
100HE™ Plasma Spray System High plasma spray rates with excellent deposition efficiency Reduced cycle times Single Anode/Single Cathode Construction Long plasma gun component life... (read more)
Progressive Surface - Designed To Peen Small Aircraft Parts
Aerostructure Small Part Peen This single axis shot peen machine is designed to peen a wide variety of small structural aircraft parts. The parts are fixtured onto pins on a 48" diameter table top. (read more)
GE Digital Energy - kV2c Commercial and Industrial ANSI Meters
Whether you are metering the simplest energy rate or collecting critical quality of service and load analysis information on a polyphase or a single phase circuit, there is a kV2c meter configuration... (read more)
 

Topics of Interest

GE Honda Aero Engines LLC has implemented a number of changes in materials and structures in the HF118 turbofan engine following recent tests and is continuing the development program to come up with...

GE's large commercial engine business: a concise history In the beginning of jet technology, there were only military engines. Then there were military engines with changes made to fit them to the...

The breakthrough technology of the TF39 In 1964, the U.S. Air Force had opened competition for engines to power an enormous new strategic cargo plane. Boeing, Douglas, and Lockheed each had a...

Discusses how KLM utilizes world-class surface treatment technology manufactured by Progressive Surface for aircraft engine overhaul, maintenance, and repair. This article first appeared in the Spring...

COMPOSITE POWER After waiting three decades for enabling technology to catch up with its design ideas, GE-Aviation is deeply embedding itself in composite materials as a next-generation answer to...