Stringer machining fixed up: a more than ￡7 million investment at Airbus UK's Broughton site has resulted in a state-of-the-art production facility for A380 stringer machining

摘要

Inside the box-like, grey-clad stringer manufacturing building at Airbus UK's Broughton site in North Wales, there is a smaller grey box that is part of a ￡7 million-plus investment for stringer machining. It represents state-of-the-art stringer production efficiency and brings together a DS Technologic Ecoliner 5-axis horizontal machining centre (with a 24 m x-axis) and novel Roemheld fixturing designed by Fraunhofer Institute of Production Technology at Aachen University, Germany. These support a single set-up, two-operation process that has slashed machining times by some 40 per cent over previous methods.