Flexible manufacturing system for the production of aircraft parts

The flexible manufacturing system for the machining of integral aircraft components not only comprises control functions for numerical control machines and material flow in the data management and distribution system but also includes a complex processing system for organization data. Especially important is the automatic data feedback from the production line, the prompt availability of data to the associated sectors of the firm contributing towards shorter planning and decision times. The deliberate creation of sub-systems which operate independently, and the material flow control and monitoring system for interlinked machines, also provides the condition which allows them to be used on their own in similar fields of application or as stages in a gradual expansion of a manufacturing system.