Building it better—and safer

Frontiers May 2015 Issue

Building it better— and safer Advanced manufacturing shapes the future across Commercial Airplanes By Eric Fetters-Wal p | Photos by Bob Ferguson This is the first in an occasional series on advanced manufacturing technology and the tools and processes designed to help employees make Commercial Airplanes products in a safer and more efficient and productive way, with more consistent quality. Drilling fastener holes by hand up and down the curves of an airplane fuselage section involves working at odd angles while trying to be as accurate as possible. On a routine morning in the Everett, Wash., factory, Ron Masset and Rick Anthony, both mechanics with the 777 program, show a newer way the task can be done. They set up the Photo: From left, Larry Fudge, lead operator; Pat Tomas, Quality Assurance inspector; Sam Dobbs, equipment engineer; and Kurt Bayer, equipment services mechanic, inspect functionality on the wing panel assembly line tool in Renton, Wash. 16 Boei ng Frontiers

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Frontiers May 2015 Issue
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