Technical Paper
Determinate Assembly of Tooling Allows Concurrent Design of Airbus Wings and Major Assembly Fixtures
2004-09-21
2004-01-2832
Use of today’s advance 3-Dimensional CAD systems coupled with the high accuracy of CNC machines enables the success of the determinate assembly approach for aircraft tooling. This approach provides the aircraft manufacturer significant lead-time reductions while at the same time it supports enhanced system flexibility.