Automation solutions for aircraft construction: Pioneering mobile holding fixture for flexible clamping, alignment, and transport of components reduces the workload of production processes ...

Figure 1. Transfer of current manually performed drilling processes at CFRP vertical tail planes (VTPs) to mobile cobots. Photo Credit, all images: Fraunhofer IFAM At its 4,500-square-meter research ...

As part of the “UniFix” joint project — funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) — experts in Automation and Production Technology at the Fraunhofer ...

Learn how the flow of costs impacts manufacturing firms, covering raw materials, work-in-process, finished goods, and cost of ...

New, weight-saving materials and manufacturing processes not only increase efficiency and reduce costs, but in particular represent milestones on the way to climate-friendly flying: in a typical ...

Brush and Maritan write that flow manufacturing "allows a plant to develop its manufacturing capabilities of quality, flexibility and delivery speed with positive feedback on cost and efficiency.