Cost reduction efforts are driving aircraft manufactures to new assembly methods and strategic sourcing approaches. Global challenges, international competitors as well as increasing wages and salarie....
The demand of fulfilling continually increasing customer requirements forces suppliers to always improve their system solutions to be state of the art. The subject Project Management Approach explains....
With composite skins and structures, the exact thickness of a part stack is indeterminate, and thus the fastener grip length for any particular hole cannot be known with certainty, from engineering da....
Structural panel fasteners have been used in the aerospace industry for longer than the previous half century. This paper presents the new FC43® Panel Fastener with a novel retaining feature which ena....
Offline programming and hardware simulation has been undergoing rapid and dramatic changes as software technologies have provided advanced capabilities. The application of simulation to verify specifi....
Projection systems are an optically projected 3-D sequence of operations that will guide an assembly technician through a set of complex operations with an intuitive instruction set that is portable a....
The use of advanced battery tools substantially improves both ergonomics and quality in aircraft assembly. The Atlas Copco STB family of tools has built-in transducers, which allows the tool to meet t....
The Electromagnetic Bolt Inserter (EMB) is a new tool that combines functions that on previous machines were performed by two tools, a bolt inserter followed by an EMR. By combining the operations of ....
As part of a Composite Wing Manufacture Program, Electroimpact was asked to design and develop a small portable milling machine for machining CFRP. The machine needed to be light so it could be lifted....
Automated assembly of components and parts has been largely applied in aerospace industry due to several advantages such as low cost, high flexibility, reduction of floor space and high repeatability ....
On product design the use of composite materials has been steadily growing on aircraft industry, driven primarily by weight lost on structural components, which leads to better efficiency on fuel cons....
The handheld (HH) electromagnetic riveter (EMR) has proven to be an effective means of installing up to 7/16\mi diameter rivets in aircraft components. These devices are currently installing rivets on....
Unprecedented rates in Boeing 737 aircraft production have driven a need for an increase in capacity in fuselage manufacturing and assembly. This paper will discuss the requirements by Spirit AeroSyst....
Joints represent potential weak points in the structure, the design of the overall structure tends to follow from the design of the joint. To date, metal/composite joints are general in current aircra....
Aircraft design has mainly changed in the past years, introducing new materials such as CFRP at a large scale. Even if this great change brought many advantages: weight, sustainability, reliability… i....
Industrial robot applications are going to reduce cost in capital investment and enhancing the capability. A new concept of drill technology is successfully running in composite trailing edge manufact....
A method of noncontact laser distance measurement is proposed for the digital drilling and riveting of complex surface. By means of measurement resulting from locating devices, the normal direction of....
Flex Track Systems are seeing increased usage in aerospace applications for joining large assemblies, such as fuselage sections. Previous systems were limited to work pieces that allowed the tracks to....
This work presents the EFIP project (Efetuador de Furação e Inserção de Prendedores, Portuguese for “Effector of Drilling and Fasteners Inserter”), a robot end-effector design for implementing an auto....
Although robots and other automation-related technologies have made tremendous improvements in recent years, there are still many cases where a fully automated system is impractical. Reasons for this ....
