... Fuselage structure Variation propagation Multi-station assembly Assembly is the crowning process in manufacturing, bringing together all the upstream processes of design, engineering, manufacturing and logistics to create the product (Whitney, 2004). In the aircraft manufacturing industry...

...Liang Cheng; Qing Wang; Jiangxiong Li; Yinglin Ke Purpose – The aim of this paper is to present a new variation modeling method for fuselage structures in digital large aircraft assembly. The variation accumulated in a large aircraft assembly process will influence the dimensional accuracy...