European industry is constantly under pressure to meet requirements on cost efficiency in competitiveness with the global manufacturing industry. The requirements on development in production also depends on the demands on new product introduction, new materials used, new regulations on environmental effects resulting from production. At the same time, it is a fact that the products produced in the aeronautical industry are products produced in relatively low volumes which will be in operation for 30 years, and sometimes even longer, before they go out of service. This puts strong demands on the equipment specification when making new investments in the production units.

The main task of this project is to create a balanced production unit that is able to deliver a multi-generation, multi-size and multi-product flow of components in the same production facility using and prioritising between the same physical machines.

In the automotive sector automation technology has been developed over a long period of time. It is the intention of this project to utilise the state-of-the-art technology developed in the automotive area and to improve the aspect of flexibility, low volume, multi-product and quality assurance aspects.