Development of a reconfigurable fixture for the automated assembly and disassembly of high pressure rotors for rolls-royce aero engines

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

Volumn 315, Issue , 2010, Pages 283-289

  Papastathis, Thomas ^a   Ryll, Marco ^a   Bone, Stuart ^b   Ratchev, Svetan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b ROLLS ROYCE PLC   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERO-ENGINE; AERO-ENGINE COMPONENTS; AUTOMATED ASSEMBLY; CLAMPING FORCE; CLAMPING POSITIONS; CONTROL SOFTWARE; FIXTURING SYSTEMS; HIGH PRESSURE; POST PROCESS; PRECISE CONTROL; RE-CONFIGURABLE; RELATIONAL DATABASE; ROLLS-ROYCE;

AIRCRAFT ENGINES; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES;

POSITION CONTROL;

EID: 76749104349     PISSN: 18684238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-11598-1_33     Document Type: Article

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