Abstract
A trim and drill cell for fuselage sections, and an independent measurement system built to check it. The work runs through ten indexes, thousands of drilled holes in roughly twenty sizes, forward and aft periphery trims and about 120 machined cut-outs including the windows. Glen Cork describes how the cell was targeted – floor and ceiling, headstock and tailstock, barrel targets with optical projection, reference targets and the machine head and probe – and what an independent check of a production machining cell has to do that the machine's own controls cannot.
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Glen Cork. Spirit AeroSystems; Geodetic Systems, Inc. Presented at the Coordinate Metrology Systems Conference 2009, Louisville, Kentucky, July 20-24, 2009. Coordinate Metrology Society, reference CMS-2009-003.