Situated in Derby, at the heart of the UK, is one of the largest and most advanced civil aerospace multi-flow line production and testbed facilities in the world.
Home to one of the biggest Rolls-Royce manufacturing teams across the country, our Derby Production Test Facility (PTF) is where we kit, assemble, and test our Trent 7000, Trent XWB, Trent 1000 and Trent 700 engines for the world’s biggest airframers.
Seb Wilkes, Manufacturing Executive of our state-of-the-art facility, said: “Within the PTF there are more than 1,000 people who provide both direct and indirect support to the build, test and despatch of our engines.”
There is a strong sense of pride from everyone who works in the PTF, and it shows.
“In total, the service of our employees is more than 15,000 years which is testament to the commitment and dedication of everyone who works here.”
It takes our team of engineers just a few days to pull together more than 30,000 individual parts to build one engine. So how does it all work?