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A special material supplier to the Aerospace Industry had to transfer heavy duty frames loaded with aluminium sheets having a total weight of 1,000kgs between four process tanks. The first tank was filled with a liquid salt solution heated to 650°C, the second tank was a quench tank to bring the temperature of the material down quickly. The third tank is a rinse tank and the fourth tank was a drier. The overall process cycle time was quite long at 10 minutes, but it was important to transfer the frame from the salt solution into the quench tank in less than 9.6 seconds,meaning that the system needed to move at 2 metres per second.There were also height issues to overcome. Read more ...

Develop and provide the Project Partner with a cost effective, Flexible Lightweight Accurate Platform (F.L.A.P.) for the drilling of Aerospace components on new Commercial Aircraft. Read more ...

The primary purpose of this 12-Axis Resistance Welding System is to create individual structural spot welds and hermetic seam welds in a light gauge stainless steel fuel tank. The spot welds must be located within 1mm of the engineering requirements over entire 15m length of the tanks. Furthermore, the system must maintain this accuracy while reacting the high forging forces necessary to make a high quality spot weld. Read more ...

The objective of this installation is to polish commercial aircraft aluminum skin panels. The quality of the process is strictly correlated to the consistency of the pressure applied by the buffing wheel over the stretch formed skin held by the supporting tool. Read more ...