Aerospace Manufacturing in 2025: Key Issues
The Royal Aeronautical Society and Protolabs conducted a joint survey on industry trends and challenges for the third consecutive year. Stephen Bridgewater FRAeS analyzed the data.
The annual Manufacturing in the Aerospace Industry survey, first conducted in 2023, saw a shift in emphasis towards meeting defense sector demands in 2025. The survey received 165 responses from RAeS members worldwide.
- 44.4% of respondents were engineers, up from 37.62% in 2024 and 24.98% in 2023.
- 17.28% listed their job title as "Other", down from 19.26% in 2024 but higher than 8.08% in 2023.
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Author's summary: Aerospace manufacturing faces new challenges in 2025.