Purdue, Rolls-Royce, state launch $24M partnership to advance aircraft engines
The Indiana Economic Development Corp. said the Purdue-based partnership will create the nation's most advanced turbine lab for compact gas engines.
The Indiana Economic Development Corp. said the Purdue-based partnership will create the nation's most advanced turbine lab for compact gas engines.
The exhibition featuring aircraft engines dating back to the 1920s emphasizes the manufacturer’s past while also looking ahead.
A United Kingdom judge has approved settlement between Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc and UK prosecutors, resolving a bribery probe spanning three decades of misconduct at the jet-engine maker.
President-elect Donald Trump tweeted Sunday that costs for the F-35 fighter-jet program, the Pentagon’s most expensive weapons system, are “out of control.” The Indianapolis operations of Rolls-Royce are significantly involved in the F-35 program.
With Project Condor, the manufacturer will update its Tibbs Avenue and Raymond Street plants while continuing uninterrupted production of high-precision engines for military aircraft.
At Rolls-Royce, Reginald McGregor is tasked with finding kids who have a fascination with how things work, then molding them into future engineers who will help the company grow.
The London-based company, which has 4,000 employees in Indianapolis, has cut divisions and eliminated more than 600 senior and middle-management positions over the past year. It just hired a new chief financial officer.
In the school year that ended in May, nearly 175,000 students were enrolled in more than 235,000 career and technical classes. That’s an 11 percent increase since the 2012-2013 school year, when Gov. Mike Pence challenged schools to serve students going to work as well as students going to college.
The Aerospace Industries Association plans to host its Supplier Management Council conference in Indianapolis in the spring of 2018, state officials announced Tuesday from a prestigious airshow in England.
Most of the work will take place at the manufacturer’s Plainfield and Indianapolis facilities.
A surge of people retiring from the fields has created a talent shortage, and recruiting and training enough workers remain vexing challenges for companies, according to executives at an IBJ event Thursday.
Proprietary manufacturing jobs—such as those in the aerospace, automotive and life sciences sectors—are likely to even grow as employers seek talent and quality control. But lower-skilled basic production work is on its way out to international markets like China, India and Mexico, where wages are a fraction as expensive.
Dozens of companies across central Indiana are using programs aimed at middle- and high-school students to develop a pool of talented kids who are interested in science, technology, engineering and math to fill the growing number of jobs for which such skills are necessary.
A new annual survey of Indiana manufacturers found 38 percent of companies rate their overall performance as “healthy,” a drop of about 10 percentage points in a year.
Rolls-Royce Corp. is planning a wide-scale modernization of its Tibbs Avenue jet-engine plant in Indianapolis that would be part of an overall goal to invest nearly $600 million in its local operations over five years.
The global firm with extensive Indiana operations plans to occupy a 40,000-square-foot building to be constructed in the Purdue Research Park Aerospace District, a 980-acre technology park in West Lafayette.
When some employers want their people to innovate, they try putting a new twist on the old desk-computer-cubicle combo.
If a tailor-made tax credit is any indication, Rolls-Royce Group plans to spend at least $500 million modernizing its Tibbs Avenue jet-engine factory.
The defense contractor is on the cusp of investing hundreds of millions of dollars to modernize its Tibbs Avenue factory, Rolls-Royce officials revealed Tuesday at IBJ's aviation and aerospace event.
The Indianapolis-area Rolls-Royce production facilities will handle the bulk of the work for three contracts totaling up to $442 million.