Aircraft manufacturing is a labor intensive process. Forty percent of the labor cost involved in aircraft manufacturing is dedicated to the drilling of holes and the installation of fasteners. The engineering requirements of regulating this process are restrictive in the maintenance of exacting tolerances. Most aircraft assembly operations are held to plus or minus 0.03 in tolerance or less with minimum allowance for tolerance today are unable to maintain this level of accuracy. However, a modified off-the-shelf robot is successfully working within the plus or minus 0.03 in tolerance. The Lockheed Georgia Company has employed this modified unit in its internal research program dedicated to the development and implementation of automated assembly technology. (Wassmann)
Robotics research and reality in aerospace
Roboterforschung und -wirklichkeit im Luftraum
1979
13 Seiten, 4 Bilder, 8 Quellen
Conference paper
English
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