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An Anecdote - Order of Magnitude Cost and Time Reduction in Delivering an Aircraft Manufacturing Solution
Technical Paper
2013-01-2335
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
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Abstract
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.
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