Singapore Aerospace Technology Leadership Forum 2024

OUR SPEAKERS PANEL 1 - SMART AEROSPACE

Dr Francis Preli Vice President, Technology Pratt & Whitney

Frank Preli is Vice President of Technology at Pratt & Whitney. He has spent over 40 years at RTX Corporation leading the development of technologies for aerospace and energy markets. At P&W he was Manager of Quality, Manager of Technology and Production Readiness, and Manager of Materials and Mechanics Engineering.

He also spent 10 years as Vice President of Engineering at UTC Power, developing fuel cells for commercial, transportation, residential and space applications.

Preli earned his bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees in Chemistry and an MBA from the University of Connecticut. THE DIGITAL AEROSPACE ENTERPRISE Model based processes, the digital thread, and advanced manufacturing methods promise to improve enterprise efficiency and deliver products that better meet requirements, are safer, are manufactured with higher quality, and are easier to maintain. Throughout the product lifecycle, these tools enable integration of design, manufacturing, product performance and sustainment data into a closed-loop system. Feedback of this product knowledge will be used to continually improve the capability of people, processes and products.

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