MIT and NASA researchers have designed an airplane wing assembled from hundreds of identical parts that could add greater flexibility to the manufacturing process, reports Aristos Georgiou for Newsweek. Toulouse’s responsibilities include engineering (general design, systems and integration tests, definition of the structure and more), structure testing and a materials processes development centre, systems organisation, flight tests, the Beluga hangar and one of Airbus’ three delivery centres. However, he added that this system has the capability to do 5m wide and 20m long, but stressed that no one in the world makes fabric that big yet. 400Hz aircraft power is often a critical test requirement. “The wing box is moved by automatic guided vehicle through each step of the process: Structures to Automated Drilling, to Bolting, to removal from the jig.” Specifically, the Airbus technicians assemble the wing’s aluminium framework (the wing box) first. Meanwhile, with the current use of labour-intensive techniques, many manufacturers can only make around six pairs of wings per month, whereas the market requires 100 pairs per month. Then the carbon-fibre fabric is laid out on a 20m-long table and cut into shape with an ultrasonic knife. “If this [system] works, they will,” he said, therefore meaning the NCC could make A320 wings with a single piece of fabric. The NCC says it has a new machine which meets this demand. In addition, more support will be given to engineering and the supply chain for dealing with day-to-day challenges. The Saint-Eloi facility delivers equipped and tested engine pylons to Airbus’ final assembly lines. The whole process … Boeing and Airbus need to speed up production to meet demand. FAA Home Aircraft Aircraft Certification Production Approvals Manufacturing Best Practices. “That’s a big drive for us.”. I would only recommend this project to an more advanced builder. Welcome to part 6 of a series on an Introduction to Aircraft Design. “We can learn lessons here [from the technologies] and transfer them directly out in industry, but we will do it on a machine that is way more flexible,” Giddings explains. The company’s Bremen site is responsible for design and manufacturing of high-lift systems for the wings on all Airbus aircraft. To make the wing, design engineers use digital modelling and simulation, analysing thousands of possible configurations to create a digital pattern book of the layers or ‘plies’. Jet engines operate according to Newton's third law of motion, which states that every force acting on a body produces an equal and opposite force. Its activities include wing skin milling, stringer manufacture, full wing equipping and wing box assembly. [Read part 1 of this series, Thermoplastic composites for aerospace applications, for an overview of thermoplastic composite material properties, manufacturing processes and advantages compared to thermoset composites.] “We’re trying to tune where we put heat into different parts of a structure,” he explains. The aircraft design process is a loosely defined method used to balance many competing and demanding requirements to produce an aircraft that is strong, lightweight, economical and can carry an adequate payload while being sufficiently reliable to safely fly for the design life of the aircraft. It may be shaped differently or assembled in a new way. The company’s second U.S.-based commercial aircraft production facility – an A220 final assembly line – is also located in Mobile; aircraft manufacturing officially began at the site in August 2019. aircraft products in the domestic aircraft design process [2]. In some cases, engineers have been modifying some of the wing’s … The empennage (tail section) absorbs the same stresses and transmits them to the fuselage. Saint-Nazaire also is in charge of equipping and testing these sections before delivering them to various final assembly lines. By continuing to browse the site you are agreeing to our Airbus produces its single-aisle A220 Family aircraft for customers outside of the U.S. at the Mirabel final assembly line in Quebec, Canada through the Airbus Canada Limited Partnership – held 75% by Airbus and 25% by the Government of Québec. Please let us know if you agree to all of these cookies. Located in the south of Spain, Puerto Real specialises in automated assembly of movable surfaces (rudders and spars) for all Airbus jetliner programmes. It receives sub-assemblies to be fitted for the forward fuselage for the A320 Family, the forward and central fuselage for the A330 and A380 families, and the nose fuselage for the A350 XWB. “We hope that our approach improves performance, and thus saves resources, for a variety of future transport modes,” explains graduate student Benjamin Jenett. The global market for composites is predicted to be worth $105.8bn (£82.8bn) in 2020 and growing at 6.5 per year. The A220 programme’s dedicated functions – including engineering, customer support & services and all other support functions – also are located in Mirabel. “So even if we halved our energy input, and halved our carbon intensity in the manufacturing process, we would make a tiny difference to the overall carbon impact of having the aircraft in service.” So what the NCC is focusing on, Giddings says, is making sure plane-makers don’t increase their carbon intensity in manufacturing but are currently doing things that will reduce their carbon intensity. A prudent supply chain model is a baseline configuration, and consists of entities and flow between them. Building aircraft fuselages may not sound like a big deal, but this video will change your mind. We’ve developed all that knowledge to be able to say that we’ve learnt a lesson, this week, and with these parameters, we can tether to your [other industry] machine and help you deploy it.”, The NCC aspires to become more sustainable in its manufacturing process, and Giddings believes that making such processes automated will help limit a manufacturer's climate impact. • Manufacturing utilities — Most aircraft manufacturing has a high reliance on clean, dry compressed air as a primary utility. DETI is a research, innovation and skills initiative – a collaboration of industry and academic partners led by the NCC – which sets out to develop and accelerate digital engineering across multiple industry sectors to benefit future generations of engineers and engineering products, and to help tackle global challenges. Figure 8 shows examples of metal wing spar cross-sections. The supply chain includes flow of network of the external suppliers, an intermediate process which includes local and international facilities, final assembly and next directly to the customers. A twist in the wing can make the plane change shape smoothly, a little like a surfer catching a wave. I agree. According to the NCC, this process combines the structural benefit of a long-fibre reinforced composite sheet with the speed and geometric complexity of injection moulding. This material possesses a high strength-to-weight ratio when used in laminate structures and is resistant to adverse environmental conditions if it is first subjected to a specific preservation treatment. Production facilities for Airbus commercial aircraft, military aircraft, helicopters and space activities can be found within Spain. The braider is also capable of a very high deposition rate: up to 50kg/h. How to produce a Carbon Fibre wing for a lightweight aircraft. It also aims to bring together the wealth of specialist expertise from around the region and harnesses it to maximise opportunities for a better future. Wood is one material which has mechanical and physical properties which meet the criteria required for the manufacture of aircraft components. “The investment in 10 new world-leading composites capabilities will enable us to develop the wings and engines for the aircraft of the future, work on technologies that will define the way we produce and store energy and transform the way we build infrastructure.”. According to the NCC, the Bristol-based centre ensures that Britain is at the forefront of this fast-growing sector. For a single wing skin with 150 plies, there could be up to 14,000 possible combinations of cutting and laying, according to the NCC. This would enable carmakers, for example, to use more of the technology in mainstream vehicles, making them lighter and more durable. Airbus’ Mobile, Alabama-based manufacturing facility features an A320 Family final assembly line. It is a flagship investment which supports the region’s Local Industrial Strategy and is one of the building blocks in creating a Global Centre of Innovation Excellence – bringing together innovative expertise to solve future challenges. We are currently testing and proving out the design, manufacturing and assembly processes for the CSeries aircraft wing. On a structural level, the organisation empowers Airbus plants responsible for delivering aircraft components to the individual Airbus final assembly lines, and provides the necessary resources and leverage. The Institution of Engineering and Technology is registered as a Charity in England & Wales (no 211014) and Scotland (no SC038698), Uber sells autonomous vehicle division to start-up, Affordable curved glass façades in sight with AI tool, A final call for passengers? At the end of January, the West of England Combined Authority (WECA) awarded £5m to the new Centre for Digital Engineering Technology & Innovation (DETI) – to match-fund £5m from West of England businesses who are at the forefront of the manufacturing industry. The work reported in the No one can be quite sure how the next generation of aircraft wing will be. In a similar way to the iCAP programme, the project members will work with leading companies and support industry to reduce carbon emissions by producing better products – products that are lighter, more fuel-efficient and have less waste – through undertaking research and innovation in the virtual world. Manufacturing Aircraft construction is being transformed. These stresses are known as loads, and the study of loads is called a stress analysis. The cooperation of Vought Aircraft and Boeing Commercial Airplane Company is gratefully acknowledged. Giddings said this process may look simple, but to execute it remains a challenge. However, the design process of aircraft structural part is focusing on functionality and lacking of consideration of its manufacturing process which leading to the design process and manufacturing process fracture and increasing the difficulty of manufacturing and production costs. Back in December 2018, the NCC had secured funding for the £36.7m iCAP (Digital Capability Acquisition) programme, under which ten new technologies, tailor-made to the NCC’s specifications, were installed within the facility in order to speed the development of new processes for all forms of composite manufacturing. ... one under each wing, are added. The only two-ring braider in the UK, the NCC braider (pictured above) comprises 288 and 192 spools and is more than twice as flexible as a single-ring braider. Furthermore, Giddings said some of the processes the NCC use are suitable for the reuse of recycled products. This particular wing is intended for an Discus Launch Glider that meets F3k rules and requirements. Giddings also said the NCC is looking at ways to be less energy-intensive in its manufacturing process, for example, in its industrial oven. The braider can create hollow straight parts such as tubes and tanks or complex cross-sections with curved profiles such as ducts, cones and horns. Similar to, but more exacting than, the usual engineering design process, the technique is highly iterative, involving high level configuration tradeoffs, a mixture of analysis and testing and the detailed examination of the adequacy … Meanwhile, the facility’s Overmoulder (see video below) shows how composite components can be mass-produced at rate. Yuvraj Domun. Nantes specialises in the manufacturing and assembly of the centre wing boxes for all Airbus aircraft, and is a leader in the manufacture of Carbon Fibre Reinforced Plastic structural parts – such as the A350 XWB keel beam. The CSeries aircraft programme will help to build on our track record of almost 40 years experience in composites technology. And they need wings for those” Giddings explains. Many different industries follow a similar engineering design map. The aircraft wing has transformed from the wooden and fabric twin-wing set up of the Wright brothers’ Flyer, to the composite materials used in the latest models coming off the production line […] A modern wing is made from composite material – carbon fibre fabrics moulded and infused with resin. It also is responsible for final equipment and delivery to the final assembly line of large, complex structural components – such as the horizontal tail plane and belly fairing of the A380 fuselage, and produces the horizontal tail plane boxes of the A350 XWB. “These fabrics are so delicate that if you gently place your hand on them, you leave a handprint on them,” he explains. Airbus’ Hamburg site manages structural assembly and outfitting of fuselage sections, as well as final assembly for A320 Family aircraft. Extreme E: can motorsport save the planet? In response to this issue, NCC engineers have commissioned two 3m-high robots that work in unison, on either side of the component, to beam ultrasound down high-pressure water jets. Share; Share on Facebook; Tweet on Twitter; What is a Best Practice? The manufacturing of wings themselves has not changed a tremendous amount over the years, unlike engine components, which have had a lot of variation. Working with Airbus and Hexcel, the US company that supplies the composite tapes, GKN devised the manufacturing process in which the head of the fibre placement machine moves both along the length of the spar tool (similar to the way the wing cover machine moves) but also the tool rotates so that the fibres are placed around the U section spar. aircraft are tension, compression, shear, bending, and torsion.Thesestressesareabsorbedbyeachcomponent of the wing structure and transmitted to the fuselage structure. However, the NCC’s partners within the aerospace industry had given them the challenge of creating a method of making this process ten times faster – wanting them to work with dry fabrics to infuse the resin at a later stage. The jet engine is the power plant of today's jet aircraft, producing not only the thrust that propels the aircraft but also the power that fuels many of the aircraft's other systems. The NCC has also rethought how manufacturers test completed composite parts for quality control. DETI will bring together leading companies and tech disruptors to create the design and digital engineering of the future. DETI will help us do that by putting the West of England at the forefront of the fourth industrial revolution and bring together the worlds of digital technology and advanced engineering.”, “DETI will be a nationally important centre, based in the West of England,” he added. Two years on, Peter Giddings, chief engineer of the iCAP programme at the NCC, says the experience has been brilliant. This, therefore, ensures the components meet safety regulations. This problem may be solved by an airplane wing, a method for manufacturing an airplane wing, and the use of a welding process for welding a wing spar, having the characteristics according to the independent patent claims. The UK’s National Composites Centre (NCC) in Bristol has opened a new research and development facility that aims to harness the power of new digital technologies – one of which has the potential to build the aircraft wings of the future. At an event at the NCC on 28 February, it was announced that the NCC and other businesses in the region around Bristol are now embarking on another programme, which aims to put the West of England on the map for manufacturing and aspires to revolutionise the region’s advanced digital engineering sector. It can pick up a piece of material and carefully manipulate it into a 3D shape and then place it on a specially shaped tool and repeat the process. We use cookies to give you the best online experience. Image Credits: Everett Historical/shutterstock.com Wood was the original material of choice in … HPC covered A400M spar manufacturing in 2006, when it was produced at GKN’s site on the Isle of Wight, U.K. (Read more about the A400M spar manufacturing process in “Composite wing spars carry the western world’s biggest turboprop engines," under "Editor's Picks," at top right). A structured design process helps alleviate mistakes in manufacturing. The Airbus A380’s wing leading edge is made of thermoplastic composite comprised of polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) reinforced with glass fibers. The project will develop training courses related to advanced digital engineering, with the aim of increasing the skills and retraining those in the current workforce. Its FibreROLL tool (pictured below) then rolls up the ply and lays it across the shaped tool surface. The plant is the delivery centre for final assembly lines in Toulouse and Hamburg for all the programs with the exception of the A380 – a role it shares with the Puerto Real plant in Cádiz. use of cookies “It will help secure the future of the aerospace and advanced manufacturing industries and is a key part of our Local Industrial Strategy ambition to strengthen cross-sectoral innovation and support our region’s ambition for clean and inclusive growth.”. A350 XWB wings are assembled at Airbus’ Broughton facility in North Wales. All the electronic communications and cabin management systems needed by both crew and passengers are designed and produced at the Buxtehude site in Germany. They can also lay 5m wide strips of composite material, up to 20m long, in one precise movement. Next, ‘The Sequencer’, unique software developed by NCC engineers, creates the instruction manual. In September 2015, Airbus opened an A320 Family jetliner final assembly line in Mobile, along the Gulf Coast of Alabama – officially called the Airbus U.S. Manufacturing Facility. These are key considerations given the long-term shift towards electrification and, beyond that, new models of shared ownership where cars will be expected to do ample mileages. To make the wing, design engineers use digital modelling and simulation, analysing thousands of possible configurations to create a digital pattern book of the layers or ‘plies’. Sign up to the E&T News e-mail to get great stories like this delivered to your inbox every day. Aircraft Design Process Overview. We are making excellent progress and are very pleased with the results so far,” said Michael Ryan. Nantes also is responsible for manufacturing the radomes for the entire Airbus family, the ailerons for the A330 and A380 families and air inlets for the A350 XWB, A380 families and A320neo. Airplane - Airplane - Materials and construction: For reasons of availability, low weight, and prior manufacturing experience, most early aircraft were of wood and fabric construction. Fixed-wing aircraft are distinct from rotary-wing aircraft [1], in which the wings form a rotor mounted on a For a single wing skin with 150 plies, there could be up to 14,000 possible combinations of cutting and laying, according to the NCC. They include the cabin intercommunication data system used to control cabin functions, and the passenger service units for passenger seating system controls. He added that some of the elements around inspection, however, remain a challenge in fully automating the process. Smart technology tackles East Africa’s locust swarms, Book review: ‘Making Art Work' by W Patrick McCray, £7m awarded to ‘high-risk, high-reward’ UK space projects, HS2 receives deconstructed giant tunnelling machines. It also hosts final assembly lines for the A320, A350 XWB and A330 – including the cabin furnishing and painting – as well as the A380’s final assembly and preparation for flight. Currently, most manufactured aircraft have wing spars made of solid extruded aluminum or aluminum extrusions riveted together to form the spar. The composites industry, however, has no process which is fast enough to meet that demand.”. It will also engage with schools, particularly in less affluent parts of the West of England, with the aim to reach 1,000 children and inspire them to pursue a career in digital engineering. “The deal with automation is that you can’t automate what you don’t fully understand,” he explains. ... A newly developed wing architecture could greatly simplify the manufacturing process … Once the pieces of fabric have been cut into a shape they can be filed in drawers or directly placed onto a tool in two ways. Funded, in part, by the Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI), in collaboration with the Local Enterprise Partnership and the High-Value Manufacturing Catapult, the programme has brought composites into the digital age, increased production rates and quality while improving efficiency and reducing cost, its members have said. Weighing 45,000kg and 24,000kg respectively, the robots measure, cut, lift and place pieces of carbon fibre fabric (‘plies’) with millimetric accuracy. “With this investment from WECA, matched by industry, we will spend the next two years building skills, creating jobs and making the West of England the go-to place for UK high value design and engineering – putting the region on the world stage as a globally significant engineering and tech area.”. The Saint-Nazaire plant specialises in structural assembly, equipping and testing of front and central fuselage sections for the entire Airbus family. “The energy we use in making an aeroplane is a couple of per cent of the energy that the plane uses through its life,” he explains. Regarding the process of the Overmoulder, a composite sheet is melted and formed, and then the thermoplastic polymer is injected over the surface in this highly automated process, that can achieve rapid cycle production of less than 5 minutes with potential for under 60-second cycle times for some parts. West of England Mayor, Tim Bowles said: “Our region is a global leader in high-value design and innovation, and we want to make sure we retain that position in the face of global competition. The two rings and a 10m long gantry enable its operators to braid complex circular, rectangular and convex sections, in the widest possible range from 50mm to 800mm equivalent diameter. This ensures a further integration into operations to secure deliveries. This plant also is home to Airbus' A380 major component assembly hall – which houses the structural assembly, equipping of the forward and complete rear fuselage sections, along with cabin furnishing, painting and delivery to customers in Europe and the Middle East. A method for manufacturing an airplane wing comprising:providing a lower wing cover and an upper wing cover,providing a wing spar comprising a first end portion and a second end portion, each of the first end portion and the second end portion respectively comprising a front flange and a rear flange,butt welding the front flange and the rear flange of the first end portion of the wing spar to the lower wing cover; … The jet engine works by drawing in some of the air through which the aircraft is moving, compressing it, combining it wit… “With the most advanced manufacturing facility in Europe, we truly have an unrivalled world-class capability,” said Richard Oldfield, chief executive of the NCC when launching this new phase. In order to give you a better service Airbus uses cookies. The site also makes other carbon fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP) components – such as flaps for single-aisle A320 Family aircraft, and spoilers for the A330. Anand Parameswaran and Ian Thompson, senior executives at Cyient’s Aerospace & Defence division, explore how aircraft wings have developed over the last century. Therefore, providing redundancy, reliability, maintainability, and distribution and access flexibility for compressed air is critical. The components manufactured in Illescas for Airbus models are: the stabilisers, rudders and spars, sections of rear fuselage and landing gear components for the A380, sections of the rear fuselage and internal skin of the wing for the Airbus A350 XWB. “Ultimately for many manufacturing processes, you have to create a lot of force, making things quite hot; both of those require a lot of energy – and you don’t want to be doing that again.”, In an automated process, however, Giddings thinks that manufacturers have a better chance of getting the process right the first time around, which therefore means they won’t scrap components. The process for building the stabilizers is almost exactly the same as building a wing, except its smaller and uses a symmetrical airfoil shape. In the process, two huge robots, both 7m high, run up and down a 26m track, positioning them to within 0.2mm accuracy. 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This organisation is accomplishing these goals through further integration, full cross-functional alignment and even more teamwork in Airbus’ production activities. “So if something has a hotter material, and it’s going to be quite slow to heat up, we can concentrate the energy in that area, whereas for other parts of the component where it doesn’t need that much heat to make it the same temperature, we don’t put that much heat into it.” Therefore, they are balancing off the energy they use to achieve the result and end product they need – not overheating or underheating certain parts. NCC believes this has the potential to revolutionise aircraft production. This is currently a slow and expensive process, which typically involves the destruction of the part being examined. The assembly line is the company’s first U.S.-based production facility; the site began aircraft assembly in 2015, delivering the first Mobile-assembled jetliner in 2016. 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