Brad Hughes is a Principal Analysis Engineer at GKN Aerospace drawing a on a historical past of numerous 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 Expertise 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 workforce 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 workforce Brad has led a variety of expertise improvement initiatives in each EBM and LPBF overlaying a variety of product functions and supplies, throughout your entire breath of TRL ranges from elementary expertise exploration to manufacturing and supply flight trial {hardware}.
Brads present focus at the moment is defining GKN’s AM expertise technique, offering technical governance throughout the portfolio of AM initiatives undertaken inside GKN, and pulling collectively the big range of educational and industrial companions which can be supporting GKN to attain their additive ambition.