An Anecdote - Order of Magnitude Cost and Time Reduction in Delivering an Aircraft Manufacturing Solution 2013-01-2335
From purchase order to production womb-to-tomb in 5 months to
the day, Bombardier's Fuselage Assembly line was upgraded and
made into a fuselage automated assembly pulse line. This was
accomplished with a factory move of the assembly line while
maintaining production of this legacy line without missing one
aircraft. Early in 2012, a bold decision was made to change the
plan from a manual process to an automated process and implemented
on schedule. This was applying automation to a legacy aircraft
assembly line. It worked. Both technology and recurring cost
savings will be addressed in this paper.
Citation: Krofchak, L. and Mack, R., "An Anecdote - Order of Magnitude Cost and Time Reduction in Delivering an Aircraft Manufacturing Solution," SAE Technical Paper 2013-01-2335, 2013, https://doi.org/10.4271/2013-01-2335. Download Citation
