Offline programming and simulation help Boeing use giant automated riveter on C‐17 aircraft
Robert Dale
(Robert Dale is N/C Programming Manager, C‐17 Program, The Boeing Company, Long Beach, California, USA.)
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Abstract
Describes the extensive use of simulation while planning the programming of a very large robot riveter. The riveter is used to assemble the skin panels and fuselage frames of the Boeing C‐17 Globemaster III aircraft.
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Citation
Dale, R. (2001), "Offline programming and simulation help Boeing use giant automated riveter on C‐17 aircraft", Industrial Robot, Vol. 28 No. 6, pp. 478-482. https://doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000006089
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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