AT FIA 2022, BAE Systems was keen to demonstrate its recent moves in developing the latest manufacturing technologies by showcasing a representative military fast-jet fuselage that was designed and built in the firm's '4.0 Factory of the Future' at its Warton facility in Lancashire.This demonstration was intended to show how the technologies developed in the '4.0 Factory of the Future' will help create a step change in design and manufacturing capabilities to deliver the Tempest next-generation fighter, with goals of slashing both development time and costs by 50% when compared with previous programmes."The multi-million pound factory has been used to rapidly trial and test new technologies in a flexible, adaptable and digitally enabled environment," BAE Systems said, adding that that "systems move and adapt to meet the requirement, with room to evolve the design or change the product in the process".On the third day of the Farnborough International Airshow (July 20), BAE Systems briefed journalists on the two-year 'rapid technology demonstrator for combat air manufacturing' project, which essentially serves as a Tempest forward fuselage demonstrator.
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