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Volume 28, Issue 6
1 December 2001
Industrial Robot: the international journal of robotics research and application Cover Image for Volume 28, Issue 6
Case Report| December 01 2001

Offline programming and simulation help Boeing use giant automated riveter on C‐17 aircraft

Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-5791
Print ISSN: 0143-991X
© MCB UP Limited
2001
Industrial Robot (2001) 28 (6): 478–482.
https://doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000006089

Describes the extensive use of simulation while planning the programming of a very large robot riveter. The riveter is used to assemble the skin panels and fuselage frames of the Boeing C‐17 Globemaster III aircraft.

Keywords: Simulation, Aerospace industry, Welding
© MCB UP Limited
2001
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