Delta Air Lines Takes Delivery of Advanced 5-Axis Robotic Shot Peening System

Author:  News Release
Source:  The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 13/Issue 3, Fall 1999
Doc ID:  1999094
Year of Publication:  1999
Abstract:  
June 29, 1999 (Grand Rapids, MI): Delta Air Lines technical operations center (Atlanta, GA) has taken delivery of a highly flexible robotic shot peening system used in the repair and overhual of turbine aircraft engines. The system, designed and built by Progressive Technologies, shot peens a wide variety of rotating turbine engine components including turbine shafts. The machine is CNC controlled and has closed-loop computer control of all key process parameters.