THE AVIO AERO

PEOPLE’S MAGAZINE

Beyond and after design, there is a world of processes and technologies that requires a holistic vision and great ingenuity, as the expert production engineers can tell us.

The GE Aerospace lean operating model reinforces the approach adopted across Avio Aero's teams aiming at continuously improving and making the way of working agile and sustainable. 

The Avio Aero professionals who deal with electrical and electronic products for avionics or naval applications talk about their work, the innovation that sets it apart, and future challenges.

Digital technology and artificial intelligence experts from Avio Aero talk about their professional experience with the innovation that is redefining technical solutions of the future.

Investments made by the company and the National Development Contract enabled technological innovation, efficient processes, and sustainability to flourish at the Pomigliano plant.

Control and steering systems for next-generation submarines’ route and diving conditions are made to provide reliability and safe performance.

While products and technologies are developed for flight decarbonization, Avio Aero is following in the steps of GE Aerospace to take on the carbon neutrality at its operating sites. 

The ingenuous engineering minds from Poland behind the all-European new turboprop engine and their lifetime technological adventure, from the beginning to the next milestone. 

Lean culture in Avio Aero is enriched with insights and tools, thanks to the guidance of a world-class Lean Transformation expert who spent a week at our Brindisi site.

How Lean techniques helped the second largest Italian Avio Aero plant find its footing, by putting the operators first and drive immediate process improvements.

Weeks of full immersion in Lean culture for Avio Aero teams, from the Leadership Kaizen Week, with over 250 people engaged across five locations, to the Shinji Week in its second edition.

We followed step by step one industrial processes inside the Turin's Rivalta plant to get into the heart of the Lean culture and discover how strategy and daily operations are closer than they seem.

The standards for continuous quality improvement originate from far away and have landed in the aviation sector thanks to Avio Aero professionals, immersed in the Lean culture.

In Pomigliano, alongside technicians and operators, senior management spent one working week of Lean full immersion to learn and transform, finding out how to challenge their limits.

The Lean culture keeps permeating the company’s departments, bringing new opportunities and fostering collaboration between machines operators and digital specialists.

The digital technologies that improve the processes for the LEAP engine combustors at Pomigliano are the result of a global collaboration fostered by the Lean culture.

The Catalyst engine passed the icing test campaign too amidst glacial temperatures, thanks to a team of experienced engineers and their meteorological and even racing skills.

Avio Aero has rethought not only helicopter products, but the entire process and everything that revolves around them, offering safe and innovative solutions for futuristic helicopters.

The new project Italian partnered by Italian Air Force and Avio Aero enhances the digital capabilities of test rooms with new software and huge amounts of data, starting from the base in Cameri.

The first European-born GE engine has achieved another crucial step, once again during that time of the year, ahead of its upcoming first take-off for flight testing.

An inside look at GE Aviation Turboprop headquarters, guided by the local leaders through its heritage, tech capabilities, bright outlook and European integration with Avio Aero.

How the GE Aviation Advanced Technology in Munich is enabling the next generation of quieter turboprops, teaming up with outstanding research and development partners.

The European research project for small air transport has contributed new technologies that will soon fly with the Catalyst engine, whilst looking ahead at driving an even more sustainable future.

Smart Working is not really a brand-new practice at Avio Aero, also thanks to the efficient and seamless speed with which it was recently embedded into corporate culture.

How the Lean Academy has been embraced and adopted across GE Aviation teams in Poland, bringing lean culture to the next level of improvement and involvement.

An innovative assembly line for helicopter transmissions at the Rivalta factory offers ergonomic benefits for the operator and even more value for the final customer.

Inside one of Avio Aero's engine test cells, a special testing campaign helps improve the way airliners’ engines cope with the most extreme natural conditions.

Industrial processes existing since almost a century, restructured and renewed thanks to technology that improves results and sustainability: just like the 3D-printed sand cores.

Industrial transformation takes advantage of the lean philosophy to improve 360° manufacturing operations, from speed to reliability, quality, and, of course, safety.

At the Avio Aero plants, the digital transformation goes on and involves also the teams that guarantee the efficiency and performances of both production and machinery.

In modern factories, furniture and tooling must be functional and, at Avio Aero, are designed by professionals who are inspired even by the greatest inventors.

The evolution of drones knows no boundaries and is drawing more and more curious people, even from outside the aviation sector, while at the last airshow the new Falco Xplorer has been revealed.

In Avio Aero's laboratories, even electromagnetic tests are carried out to ensure and certify that no external field can alter the engine's performance.

A team of European brains is accompanying GE's new turboprop engine towards its first flight, through a myriad of testing sensors and cables, advanced test rooms and a digital twin.

Travelling from one city to another or crossing megalopolis thanks to artificial intelligence, electric propulsion and hybridization is not just Sci-Fi for aviation professionals.

Two engineers, both eager pilots, inside the test facility that allows the most realistic flight simulation for the Catalyst engine, applying real components and weather conditions.

It is not only a whole aero engine is tested, Aviation Industry demands that each and every single component passes the toughest tests to be allowed to fly.

A new form of Engineering-Manufacturing collaboration takes an attractive shape thanks to the design for additive, right where the second Avio Aero additive facility is going to open soon. 

Capture and analyse the sounds coming from inside an aircraft engine thanks to refined sensors and advanced prognostics systems to make the future of flight even safer and more reliable.

Digital transformation involves the way people work, their professions, and even their work tools, both in offices and in factories.

A new technology is facilitating digital transformation in businesses and, despite sophisticated terms, it is much closer to our everyday lives than it seems.

Researchers at the Additive Repair Development Center in Bari are developing a second additive repair technique for aircraft engine turbines.

The Sangone Test Center, inside Mirafiori automotive kingdom, inaugurated two new test cells for engine modules powering A400M and the new Denali.

A new digital tool for one of the special processes performed at Rivalta allows operators, engineers and laboratory technicians to stay connected in daily work.

A new dedicated additive manufacturing facility in the south of Italy, it will build parts for the newly christened GE Catalyst^TM engine.

This isn’t another social network for industry, but rather a new tool on Avio Aero’s path towards digitalization.

Unique test environments where the main ATP engine modules, including their 3D printed parts, are tested in flight before the whole engine test.

In Polonia Aero's enormous testing laboratory, testing began on the turbine for the world’s largest commercial jet engine. 

Welcome to Bielsko-Biala, the Polish facility which is going through a game-changing technological evolution.

The joint efforts of IT and production professionals have proven that it takes time to become an industry 4.0, with much experimentation, development and learning along the way.

One of the most ambitious and impressive research program for a green aero engine becomes reality with engine’s ground test running.

The advance of digitalization continues within Avio Aero’s factories, thanks to IT teams working in tandem with manufacturing specialists.

Take a look inside this factory 3D printing jet engine parts.

The first repair using groundbreaking additive techniques through a special gun has already been performed, inside a University Campus.

Smart glasses, experimentally developed inside the Avio Aero Services area, are opening a new chapter in the industrial digitalization.

Less complexity, costs, wasted material and noise, additive manufacturing in aviation and other industries is optimistically looking ahead to the future, counting on a present that already makes history.

Clean, efficient and robotized, the new lines for the LEAP program in Pomigliano and Bielsko-Biała are astonishing and they’re ready to face the challenge of a striking market demand.

The first additive repair techniques under development in Italy’s Apulia Region are already being adopted in the factory – such as in Brindisi, where one special machine does the job of three.

Work and industrial processes keep on transforming, as step by step the aviation industry becomes more and more intelligent.

There’s a special team working on our digital transformation and evolution, generating ideas and collecting data that will change the way we work.

How 3D printing and digital technologies are altering the face of aircraft engine manufacturing in Italy

The mechanical transmission for a revolutionary rotorcraft is our Engineers’ mission in relation to the most ambitious research project.

La test cell partenopea è pronta per accogliere diverse configurazioni motori grazie a un brillante restyling operativo e funzionale.

Avio Aero opened the first laboratory dedicated to the development of repair procedures for aviation engine components using additive technologies

The Avio Aero ‘Project Integrators’ pilot project is now fully operative also in Brindisi and Pomigliano.