Despiteaknackfor thinking creatively and maximizing efficiency, a customer of Upland Fab (Ontario, California) was still doing a critical job by hand. The manual job involved trimming complex aircraft doors and skins for an F-22. This customer approached the precision plastics shop in the hopes of improving costs and efficiencies by means of an automated course of action. Because the parts were larger than usual-exceeding 20 inches by 50 inches - and were quite complex, Paul Sapra, general manager at Upland Fab, realized that five-axis machining would be necessary. Because the parts were quite large, fixturing them to tilt/rotary tables would be difficult.
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