Automated Trimming of Composite Panels

Format:

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Earle, George A., author.

Conference Name:

SAE Aerospace Technology Conference and Exposition (1986-10-13 : Long Beach, California, United States)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Warrendale, PA SAE International 1986

Summary:

An automated system has been developed to net trim large composite panels for the aerospace industry. This system integrates specially developed abrasive water jet cutting equipment with a six-axis gantry robot to perform complex contour trimming of panel edges and integral stiffener blades. An IBM industrial PC/AT acts as a cell controller, handling communication between the other equipment controllers and the mainframe computer where offline programming is performed

Notes:

Vendor supplied data

Publisher Number:

861625

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license