Claims
- 1. An airplane fuselage panel, comprising:
- a sheet having peripheral edges routed on routing surfaces, while said sheet is held immobile on a fixture, using a routing end effector carried by a precision computer controlled robot that is directed to the routing surfaces using a digital dataset taken directly from digital engineering part definition records, said sheet having coordination holes drilled while on said fixture using a drilling end effector carried by said precision computer controlled robot that is directed to drilling locations using said digital dataset taken directly from said digital engineering part definition records to accurately locate said hole locations relative to said peripheral edges; and
- parts, including stringers, stringer clips and shear ties, each having coordination holes drilled by computer controlled drills at locations that will match with corresponding coordination holes in said sheet, so that said parts will be accurately located in positions called for in said digital engineering part definition records when said coordination holes in said parts and said coordination holes in said sheet are aligned and said parts are riveted to said sheet in said accurately located positions.
Parent Case Info
This is a division of U.S. application Ser. No. 07/964,533 filed on Oct. 13, 1992, and entitled "Panel and Fuselage Assembly", now U.S. Pat. No. 5,560,102 issued oct. 1, 1996. This invention relates to a method an apparatus for manufacturing large mechanical structures, and more particularly to a method and apparatus for manufacturing panels and major airplane fuselage sections.
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