Abstract
More than a decade ago, I gave my first brief at CMSC on the current state of 3D portable metrology and potential use cases which would benefit defense aircraft manufacturing. Evaluations of many of the state of the art systems at the time were performed to determine what might be best suited to accomplish common tasks like detail part validation, hole inspection, seam validation, and coating thickness measurement. Since that time, these technologies have grown into a critical piece of Lockheed Martin’s digital transformation and I have been fortunate to ride that wave to a Technical Fellowship.
This presentation will review my previous study, the deployed applications that followed for F35 and other defense aircraft, lessons learned over the past ten years, and where I see 3D portable metrology being used in the future as those technologies and our aircraft platforms continue to evolve.
Cite this paper
Chris Barrow. Lockheed Martin Aeronautics. Presented at the Coordinate Metrology Systems Conference 2024, Charlotte, North Carolina, July 22-25, 2024. Coordinate Metrology Society, reference CMS-2024-003.