Boeing 737 V-STARS Applications

Abstract

Photogrammetry as daily production work rather than a special project. The Renton Coordinate and Manufacturing Support group – eighteen tool makers across three shifts, three quality reps, two engineers and a boss – ran V-STARS in M/S and Pro Spot modes alongside an ATOS III, a Leica LT500 and a newly arrived laser projector. Brian Campbell shows what they were used for: root-cause analysis and problem solving, trend analysis, dynamic measurements, tool inspections, shim prediction and as-built data collection. Eleven measurements are made on every 737 that comes through, and the talk is about the techniques that made them fast enough to do that.