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PRECISSION OUTER WING ASSEMBLY DEVICES

Project

PROUD - PRECISSION OUTER WING ASSEMBLY DEVICES


Funding origin:
European
European Union
STRIA Roadmaps:
Vehicle design and manufacturing (VDM)
Vehicle design and manufacturing
Transport mode:
Airborne
Airbone
Transport sectors:
Passenger transport
Passenger transport
Freight transport
Freight transport
Duration:
Start date: 01/09/2011,
End date: 01/02/2016

Status: Finished
Funding details:
Total cost:
€3 000 000
EU Contribution:
€2 250 000

Overview

Objectives:

The proposal approached innovative solutions for the design and manufacturing of the tooling needed for the assembly of two different kinds of configuration for the outer wings within a Smart Fixed Wing Aircraft. The PROUD proposal understood that the main requirement for this wing structural part is based on their high dimensional stability and tight geometrical tolerances to compliance with surface quality for a natural laminar flow condition, and therefore stability control and manufacturing precision over the integration tools to be designed and manufactured shall be strict. The proposal combined a skilled and qualified aeronautical tooling designers and manufacturers, within technology providers, for the specific solutions in manufacturing and metrology for stress or deformation measurements.

With the chance of high precision automatised positioning of parts for the inner structure to be able to introduce robot positioning in the aeronautic sector and reduce the human error added to positioning tolerances.

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