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发帖数: 1709 | 1 Boeing abandons its failed fuselage robots on the 777X, handing the job back
to machinists
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boeing-abandons-its-
failed-fuselage-robots-on-the-777x-handing-the-job-back-to-machinists/
After enduring a manufacturing mess that spanned six years and cost millions
of dollars as it implemented a large-scale robotic system for automated
assembly of the 777 fuselage, Boeing has abandoned the robots and will go
back to relying more on its human machinists.
Boeing said Wednesday it is adopting a different approach that “has proven
more reliable, requiring less work by hand and less rework, than what the
robots were capable of.”
The robotic system entailed holding the large curved metal panels that make
up the 777 fuselage sections right-side up in a cradle as the moving robots
stitched the panels together, drilling holes and adding tens of thousands of
fasteners.
Because this was different from the traditional build process in which the
lower fuselage was built upside down, then flipped before the upper fuselage
was added, Boeing awkwardly dubbed it the “Fuselage Automated Upright
Build” process or FAUB. |
