The success of a seven-machine Scharmann ECOSPEED F fl exible manufacturing system (FMS) at Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) has led to an order for two additional ECOSPEED F machining centres to be integrated into the system by June 2016 to enable KAI keep pace with its growing Airbus order book.

Supplied progressively the FMS order was placed in 2009; the sixth and seventh machines for the system were installed and started cutting metal at the beginning of 2015 at KAI’s site in Sacheon, South Korea.

The FMS has been used by KAI as part of its successful ramp up of the manufacture of complex structural components for the Airbus A350 XWB international joint development programme, for which KAI is a ‘Top 20 Supplier’.