This paper covers the status on present manufacturing and assembly techniques and trends in new manufacturing technologies for the development of future combat aircraft. Aircraft building involves lot of challenges right from a detail component stage to the sub-assembly and assembly stage because of the complexity involved in the design and manufacturing of aerodynamic contour with weight contr...

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The paper presents approaches to modern aircraft manufacturing facilities' competitiveness growth based on innovative technologies of management decisions implementation. The paper establishes a connection between the aircraft industry and the development of the national economy, along with the dependence of the Russian economy on international manufacturers of civil airplanes. Comparative stat...

In conventional “vehicle-focused” aircraft design and manufacturing, aircraft are optimized for a given mission and then manufactured using custom-built tooling. This strategy ensures the highest vehicle performance for any given mission but is inflexible in that accommodating new missions requires the production of new tooling, a time-consuming and expensive process. An alternative, “Adaptable...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the risk of cancer and other diseases among workers engaged in aircraft manufacturing and potentially exposed to compounds containing chromate, trichloroethylene (TCE), perchloroethylene (PCE), and mixed solvents. METHODS A retrospective cohort mortality study was conducted of workers employed for at least 1 year at a large aircraft manufacturing facility in California ...

Rapid manufacturing facilitated customization C. J. Tuck a , R. J. M. Hague a , M. Ruffo a , M. Ransley b & P. Adams b a Rapid Manufacturing Research Group , Wolfson School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University , Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 3TU, UK b Martin Baker Aircraft Company Limited, Higher Denham , Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB9 5AJ, UK Published online: 25...

Y. Jin and R. Curran and J. Butterfield School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Queen's University Belfast, UK BT9 5AH Aerospace Management & Operations, Delft University of Technology,2629 HS Delft, The Netherlands and R. Burke and B. Welch Bombardier Aerospace Belfast, Airport Road, Belfast, UK BT3 9DZ The implementation of effective time analysis methods fast and accurately in the era ...

The extent of knowledge required to perform the task of integrating manufacturing with aircraft design is beyond the expertise of a single engineer. This defines the need for a decision support system, or Knowledge-Based System, to aid the engineer in performing parallel product and process trades. This paper describes a research effort that includes development and integration of a manufacturi...