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Until recently most aircrafts, aircraft engines and landing gear as well as other aerospace equipment has been manufactured using essentially traditional mechanical, pneumatic or hydraulic power hand tools maintaining at the same time very strict processes to ensure quality and traceability to a certain level. An increased use of composites, intensified focus on quality and demand for extended traceability, as well as more accuracy, more flexibility, more productivity and more ergonomics in the tooling used during the assembly process has led to many manufacturing shops to invest into wireless battery tools as the best alternative to manufacture aircrafts now and in the future. We will detail in this paper what reasons led some pioneers to choose wireless battery technology to assemble aircrafts. We will describe from our perspective what the next steps are in solutions dedicated to the aerospace industry.

Taking advantage of its understanding of the needs, stakes and requirements of the strong safety and security expectation of Nuclear Plants in France, Nexess and Desoutter Industrial tools start to offer leading edge RFID solutions answering people flow management and integrated tooling traceability. These solutions aim to enhance security and safety whilst offering productivity improvements, by covering namely tooling management with specialized furniture, storage and warehouse flow management supported by software integrated equipment. Additional solutions exist as well for the search of FOD when brought for assembly or repair in critical areas of the aircraft. With the raising of Battery wireless tools and the raising concerns of FOD the demand for proven technologies in the aerospace is growing. The aim of this paper is to address leading edge technologies to answer safety, FOD and tooling management concerns on the aerospace assembly lines and on MRO's activities.

The aerospace assembly process has always been famous to be very demanding in specialized and unique prototyped tooling. But in the recent years, the demand for standardization has grown while the aerospace drilling and assembly environment have remained as diverse as before. However some solutions exist to match those opposite requirements. It is possible to keep most flexibility required by the aerospace assembly floor and at the same time to standardize and reduce customer total cost of acquisition: this is what has been implemented through a wide product range successfully. We will illustrate through this paper how modern modular tooling design (covering namely Drills, ADU, squeezers and Battery Nutrunner) will not only strengthen aerospace assembly process but reduce total cost at the same time.