Rorschacherberg – What does the new Aerospace and Turbine Competence Center have to offer? How do I optimise the production of my turbine blades and structural components? And what can be achieved through the closely interlinked interaction of measurement technology and machining? Answers to typical questions such as these from leading producers in the aerospace and energy industries were provided by Starrag and ZEISS in Rorschacherberg in the summer over the course of the three-day Aerospace Technology Days event.

“There wasn’t a single well-known manufacturer of drives and structural components for aeroplanes and power plant turbines who wasn’t present,” reports a satisfied Dr Christian Walti, CEO of the Starrag Group. In spite of a pandemic-related pause, Starrag and its cooperative partner for this year, Carl Zeiss Industrielle Messtechnik GmbH, managed to attract more than 200 participants from 22 countries to Lake Constance for the long-standing insider meeting for production specialists in the aerospace industry and in power plant turbine construction. These included customers of both companies, who came from Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand. The three-day event was made more appealing thanks to the cooperation with the manufacturer Carl Zeiss Industrielle Messtechnik GmbH, whose demonstrations at six of the 14 total stations ideally complemented Starrag’s production technology. “One station milled a structural component precisely down to a few micrometres, and its contour was then checked at the next station using a large 3D scanner,” recalls marketing manager Ralf Schneider. “This close interlinking of ZEISS measurement technology and Starrag machines at the Aerospace Technology Days is a good reflection of reality, since it also occurs in everyday industrial operations. We do the milling and ZEISS does the measurement.” The device used in question was the optical ATOS ScanBox, which supports the manufacturing process with quick and precise measurements for quality control.