Current practice for assembly of wing skins to wing stringers utilizes temporary aluminum lock bolts prior to squeeze riveting. Removing and replacing these fasteners is time consuming and hazardous. We have automated the wing riveters to perform this replacement process. This paper discusses the four areas of development that were carried out to accomplish this: tack fastener installation, machine vision system development, drill development and new tooling. Testing results and new findings will be discussed.
Automated Removal of Temporary Fasteners on Wing Panels
Sae Technical Papers
Automated Fastening Conference & Exposition ; 2000
2000-09-19
Conference paper
English
Drilling , Aluminum , Fasteners , Bolts , Tools and equipment , Fastening , Wings , Assembling
2000-01-3031 Automated Removal of Temporay Fasteners on Wing Panels
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