Airbus inaugurated a new, automated A321XLR equipping hangar in Hamburg, Germany, expanding its manufacturing capacity for fuselages for the “extra long-range” narrow-body aircraft. “Airbus’ Hamburg ...

UAL station with a 6-axis robot module and several tools. It’s an accepted fact that manufacturers today must be able to change production processes more frequently than ever before to adapt to ...

The new line in Hamburg, Germany, combines fuselage shells into sections, and assembles individual sections into aircraft fuselages. Airbus inaugurated an automated fuselage-structure assembly line ...

Auto assembly is among the most complex operations in existence, and it requires thousands of parts, people, and machines to make it all work. While early automobiles were built individually by hand, ...

A software-powered simulation for assembly behavior can compensate for the gap in automation by building intuition in the safety of a high-fidelity digital twin. The best way to align a screw is a ...

Download the PDF of this article. When a company automates an assembly process, the fastening pins that will be used during assembly are just as important as the automation equipment. Two of the ...