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All the chain of supply for the aerospace industry also has to adjust to some strict standards

Portability and precision in the aeronautical sector component manufacturing sector component manufacturing industry

Antonio Ballester, regional marketing manager Spain & Portugal Faro Europe 16/10/2012

The aeronautical sector component manufacturing sector component manufacturing engineering and the aerospace engineering have had historically exigencias difficult to satisfy regarding precision, inspection and calibración 3D during the assembling and the construction of aircraft. The technologies of measurement, like the machines of measurement by coordinates of fixed mulch (MMC) or the systems of portable measurement used in combination with the digital resources (software) suitable, allow to the manufacturers of all the world keep the standards required.

No only the manufacturers of aircraft have to fulfil with said standard, but all the chain of supply for the aerospace industry also has to adjust to them. Besides, the competition and the pressesure for supplying faster and to costs lower also increase the pressesure. The utilisation of technology vanguardista in systems of measurement in this field, makes possible that the challenges with which often find the providers and manufacturers find solution.

Inspection of pieces, assembling and calibración of robots.

The engineers of the aeronautical sector component manufacturing sector component manufacturing and aerospace industry have exigencias notoriously elevated in matter of alineamiento and metrology, that the manufacturers of this sector have satisfied applying technologies of modern measurement for the aerospace inspection, the alineamiento, the reverse engineering and the control of quality of the aerospace components for the construction.

Said industry uses technology like the systems of follow-up laser (laser tracker) for the manufacture, assembling and measurement 3D. These systems no only offer a big precision, but besides they facilitate all these tasks thanks to his portability and simple handle.

Antonio Ballester.

The precision is key in almost all the appearances of the manufacture and the aerospace assembling, and the measurement 3D is essential to attain it. The technology of Faro allows a measurement in 3D of high precision, obtaining of images and comparison of pieces and compound structures inside the processes of production and control of quality. The devices use to inspect components and assemblings, schedule the production, document structures or spaces of big volume in 3D.

The applications in which we find the systems of measurement of Faro in the aeronautical sector component manufacturing sector component manufacturing sector are very miscellaneous. Can divide them in three main:

Inspection. In this application englobamos the inspection of big pieces, very common in this sector, where the first request is the one to measure big fast volumes and precisely. For this the portability of the systems of Faro allows to measure these volumes offering the profit of not having to displace the piece to a centre of measurement, saving like this time and costs in trip.
Assembling. The main request in this case is the one of, with a surgical precision, position two parts of the aeroplane using automatic toolings for the final assembling. The solution to this problem that poses is not another that the utilisation of Faro Laser Trackers in this system of toolings for the assembling, allowing like this realise measurements in real time, validating tolerances and design for an adjust fast and precise.
Control of quality. In the control of quality, uses the Faro Laser Tracker to verify the pieces supplied and optimise processes of manufacture.

Measurement of distance

A laser tracker has usually a fixed base, mounted in a rigid support and weighed with a head giratoria that issues the ray laser in steering to a mobile reflector. The reflector is an aside essential of the system of measurement, since this designed to give back the ray laser to the cabezal of parallel way to his broadcast. The ray reflected returns to the LaserTracker and east registers the exact distance.

Measurement 3D

Two coding angular measure the angles of elevation and rotation while it uses a measurer of absolute distance of high precision to determine the position 3D of the aim.

Follow-up

The aim gives back the ray laser reflected in parallel, but compensated to the system of follow-up, where incide on the detector of position, that calculates the difference between the salient ray and entrante. The servomotors direct continuously (thousands of times by second) the cabezal of the system of follow-up to minimise the difference between the two rays, what gives like resulted dynamic measurements of high speed.

The portability and the precision of the systems of measurement of Faro in the aeronautical sector component manufacturing sector component manufacturing sector allow that companies like Airbus from the year 2010 implement successfully more than 30 units of Faro Laser Tracker for the setting of the main section of the fuselaje of the To380. Besides, at present they use more than 60 units of the Faro Laser Tracker for the setting of the new To350, which is a sample of the reliability of the systems of portable measurement of Faro that are presents in plants of aeronautical sector component manufacturing sector component manufacturing manufacture in of all Europe.

New Laser Tracker Vantage.