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Senior Technical Fellow/P&W | Composites | Private Pilot | USAF Vet | Living and Loving the LaminateLife 🙂 ✈

Siloed is silly; integrated is imperative! The production of #composites requires a holistic approach and broad understanding of the many “ilities” - producibility, inspectability, and supportability among others. If the only thing your designers ever do is sit in front of LCD screens, you may need to start mandatory rotations out on the shop floor to have them lay up what they’ve designed. Everyone would benefit from a trip to the #MRO facility to see how tough it is sometimes to pull the product apart to inspect and maintain it. And open and honest communication is critical to build trust and ensure everyone is aligned. Finally: just because you 𝒄𝒂𝒏 do everything on this list doesn’t mean you 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 or that you’ve found the optimal material and process. Listen to the smart and experienced people no matter where you find them, inside or outside your organization. Breaking down silos early is way easier than struggling to build bad parts for decades. #LaminateLife #composite #design #inspection #assembly #maintenance #aerospace #advancedmanufacturing

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Draskovic Tatjana

Retired from the active duty at The Boeing Company

3mo

This should be laminated and given to every engineer being hired into composites field

Bryce Kelford

Experienced Stress Engineer at General Atomics Aeronautical Systems

3mo

Just because you can maintain it doesn't mean there's a business case!

This pretty much sums up composites industry !

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