库卡航空集团的成就developing sophisticated control systems for the automated technologies to be used in assembling future Boeing 777s and 777X widebody aircraft have earned the company a 2015 Customer Excellence Award from Siemens.
The award, presented at the recent Siemens Automation Summit in Las Vegas, recognizes KUKA’s innovations using Siemens Digital Factory products to develop motion control and process control applications for operating robotic riveting systems for the Fuselage Automated Upright Build process, or FAUB. FAUB, developed by KUKA Aerospace in collaboration with Boeing, will be the baseline manufacturing process employed eventually in assembling the fuselage of the new 777X series, and prior to that for assembling current 777 models.
“A big part of automating airframe assembly is developing exceptional hardware solutions and the sophisticated control systems to adapt them seamlessly to the unique requirements of each project,” says Robert Reno, Group Vice President Aerospace, KUKA Systems North America LLC. “Winning this award says KUKA can do both exceedingly well, using the excellent hardware and software tools Siemens offers.”
FAUB represents the first time Boeing will use such highly automated technology to manufacture wide-body commercial airplanes. KUKA robots and end effectors will do much of the riveting currently performed by workers using handheld tools.
KUKA开发的FAUB开发的控制系统包括最多58个轴的生产单元控制，在携带机器人的自动导向车队上快速漫游无线客户，独特的VLAN连接用于机器人配对以及使用Siemens S7-1500Siemens Simatic IT系统与工厂地板PLC之间的接口作为PLC。运营商安全性，组装质量，模型灵活性和优化地板空间的关键性能指标都得到了改善，并为技术熟练交易开辟了新的机会。
Kuka Systems Group
www.kukaAero.com
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