NI Case Studies Developing Smart Tools for the Airbus Factory

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Developing Smart Tools for the Airbus Factory

Technology Category	Analytics & Modeling - Digital Twin / Simulation
Applicable Industries	Aerospace
Applicable Functions	Product Research & Development
Use Cases	Process Control & Optimization
Challenge	Manufacturing and assembly of aircraft, which involves tens of thousands of steps that must be followed by the operators, and a single mistake in the process could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to fix, makes the room for error very small. Read More
About Customer	Airbus is a division of Airbus Group SE that manufactures civil aircraft. It is based in Blagnac, France, a suburb of Toulouse, with production and manufacturing facilities mainly in France, Germany, Spain, China, United Kingdom and the United States. The Read More
Customer Name	Airbus Read More
Solution	Adding intelligence to the tools and shopfloor systems to help simplify the production process and improve production efficiency by managing and checking the tasks the operator is completing. Using the NI System on Module, we can quickly prototype these smart tools. Software Components - NI Linux Real-Time OS - LabVIEW FPGA Module Read More Log in to view content
Data Collected	Operating Time, Operation Performance, Operator Compliance, Production Efficiency Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Analytics & Modeling - Digital Twin / Simulation

Applicable Industries

Aerospace

Applicable Functions

Product Research & Development

Use Cases

Process Control & Optimization

Challenge

Manufacturing and assembly of aircraft, which involves tens of thousands of steps that must be followed by the operators, and a single mistake in the process could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to fix, makes the room for error very small.

About Customer

Airbus is a division of Airbus Group SE that manufactures civil aircraft. It is based in Blagnac, France, a suburb of Toulouse, with production and manufacturing facilities mainly in France, Germany, Spain, China, United Kingdom and the United States. The

Customer Name

Airbus

Solution

Adding intelligence to the tools and shopfloor systems to help simplify the production process and improve production efficiency by managing and checking the tasks the operator is completing. Using the NI System on Module, we can quickly prototype these smart tools. Software Components - NI Linux Real-Time OS - LabVIEW FPGA Module

Data Collected

Operating Time, Operation Performance, Operator Compliance, Production Efficiency

Impact #1	[Efficiency Improvement - R&D] NI CompactRIO controller (cRIO-9068) allowed Airbus to integrate IP from existing Airbus libraries and open-source algorithms to validate their concepts quickly.
Impact #2	[Efficiency Improvement - R&D] The NI Linux Real-Time OS offers a substantial level of abstraction for developing these tools.

Impact #1

[Efficiency Improvement - R&D]
NI CompactRIO controller (cRIO-9068) allowed Airbus to integrate IP from existing Airbus libraries and open-source algorithms to validate their concepts quickly.

Impact #2

[Efficiency Improvement - R&D]
The NI Linux Real-Time OS offers a substantial level of abstraction for developing these tools.

Benefit #1	Airbus estimates that their time to deliver with the NI SOM is a tenth of the time using alternative approaches.

Benefit #1

Airbus estimates that their time to deliver with the NI SOM is a tenth of the time using alternative approaches.

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Developing Smart Tools for the Airbus Factory

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