Makino Launches Aerospace Engine Technology Group

Makino (Mason, Ohio) has established an aerospace engine technology group to support customers’ grinding, EDM and machining of machining of exotic aerospace alloys for the jet engine market. The group will deliver the machines, processes and engineering solutions necessary to produce complex jet engine and turbo machinery components.

Billy Grobe will serve as manager of the aerospace engine technology group. Mr. Grobe has spent 25 of his last 33 years in the machining industry at Makino, most recently managing the process research and development group. For the last six years, he has focused on aerospace grinding applications, and has been involved in the development of many Makino aerospace process solutions.

The group will coordinate aerospace engine projects, including grinding, five-axis milling and EDM processes using new  technologies and processes such as the G-Series five-axis horizontal machining and grinding center, and the new EDBV3 EDM machine designed to produce cooling holes and diffuser shapes in turbine blades.