Valery Teplov, UEC Production Director, noted that digital technologies will reduce the engine production time by half
MOSCOW, July 28. /TASS/. The United Engine Corporation (UEC, as part of the Rostec State Corporation) is introducing computer vision technologies. This was reported to TASS by the director of production of the corporation Valery Teplov.
"A couple of projects have already been launched in this regard, for example, digital vision control at one of the sites in Rybinsk," he said.
According to him, innovative technologies are used in the production of the PD-8 aircraft engine. "There, the control of the blades is carried out using digital vision, certain decisions will be made by artificial intelligence," explained the production director of the UEC.
Teplov said that digital technologies will reduce the production time of the PD-8 engine by half.
"We have a task to make it [the PD-8 engine] in five years. This is twice as fast as we made the PD-14, it is three times faster than all other engines were made in Soviet times, or even four times, if we take some already advanced 1970s, " he said.
According to him, such results were achieved thanks to the introduction of end-to-end digital management. "Somewhere it is more powerfully represented, for example, by designers, somewhere it is less powerful. There are operations where, unfortunately, we have to plan and do it manually, for example, welding in a habitable chamber, " said the production director of the UEC.
According to Teplov, the main proof of the work done is that a full-size sample of the gas generator has already been presented at MAKS-2021, which was held from July 20 to 25 in Zhukovsky.
The PD-8 engine is being developed for regional aircraft, in particular for SSJ-New aircraft. The PD-8 concept provides for the creation of a family of modern gas turbine engines with the possibility of improving the specific fuel consumption and reducing the cost of the life cycle.
