Industrialization and Qualification of Robotic Metrology Cells for Large Aerospace Structures: A Collaborative Framework for Uncertainty Governance and Scalable Accessibility

Abstract

Rising production rates for composite aerostructures, and the geometric complexity of the assemblies they go into, have exposed the limits of conventional inspection – particularly across large measurement volumes and assembly-driven GD&T. Robotic metrology cells are the answer being industrialised, and this talk is about qualifying them: a collaborative framework in which customer, supplier and OEM share responsibility for uncertainty governance, the gaps that framework identifies, and the evidence that closes the loop. Presented by Boeing with Leonardo and Hexagon, which is the point – the argument is that no one party can qualify a cell alone.