Brad Hughes is a Principal Analysis Engineer at GKN Aerospace drawing a on a historical past of various engineering roles throughout the firm to now drive the maturation and utility of Powder Mattress Additive Manufacturing inside GKN’s Engines Enterprise. Based mostly out of the International Know-how Centre in Bristol, Brad’s function spans work in each the UK and Sweden main engineers and researchers to additional GKN’s adoption of AM.
Brad joined GKN Aerospace as a graduate and earlier than becoming a member of the Additive group labored throughout a number of websites and roles together with spells in each manufacturing and engineering, engaged on platforms together with the Airbus A350, Honeywell HTF, and V22 Osprey. Inside the AM group Brad has led quite a lot of know-how growth tasks in each EBM and LPBF overlaying a spread of product purposes and supplies, throughout all the breath of TRL ranges from basic know-how exploration to manufacturing and supply flight trial {hardware}.
Brads present focus at present is defining GKN’s AM know-how technique, offering technical governance throughout the portfolio of AM tasks undertaken inside GKN, and pulling collectively the big selection of educational and industrial companions which might be supporting GKN to attain their additive ambition.
