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>> Greg Zimmerman.

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I'm currently the director of global application
and product engineering for SKF Aerospace.

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SKF is the world's largest bearing manufacturer.

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I am responsible for approximately
65 engineers located

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at about 9 different locations around the world.

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And supporting both the front line customer
activities from the application side and then

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on the product engineering side,
responsible for the day to day design work.

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We're very much working then with the OEM's.

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So these would be starting at, with
the main airframe manufacturers.

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So this can be of course the, the
big ones being Boeing and Airbus

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when you talk about the air framers.

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And of course then on helicopter markets, so
this could be anybody like Bell, Sikorsky,

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Boeing, both commercial and military.

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So we're very much then on
the frontline you know,

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gathering customer requirements whether
it's going to be a new application,

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a new engine that's require for a
plane, a new gear box in a helicopter,

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sometimes new platforms or it
can be upgrades of existing ones.

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And so we would start with gathering those
customer requirements, bringing those back

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into then our design team's
manufacturing units and then looking to see

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if that can be a customer partnership.

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Again you know there's no
catalog for aerospace, so you,

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everything is very much custom engineered.

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So really it, you start of course with a
long history of knowing what works out there

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in the field, but at the same time
everything is redesigned compared

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to the needs of that platform.