An Anecdote - Order of Magnitude Cost and Time Reduction in Delivering an Aircraft Manufacturing Solution Bombardier Aerospace

Format:

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Krofchak, Krofchak, author.

Contributor:

Mack, Ronald J.

Conference Name:

SAE 2013 AeroTech Congress & Exhibition (2013-09-24 : Montréal, Canada)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Warrendale, PA SAE International 2013

Summary:

From purchase order to production womb-to-tomb in 5 months tothe day, Bombardier's Fuselage Assembly line was upgraded andmade into a fuselage automated assembly pulse line. This wasaccomplished with a factory move of the assembly line whilemaintaining production of this legacy line without missing oneaircraft. Early in 2012, a bold decision was made to change theplan from a manual process to an automated process and implementedon schedule. This was applying automation to a legacy aircraftassembly line. It worked. Both technology and recurring costsavings will be addressed in this paper

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2013-01-2335

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