Abstract
The following quote was obtained by the news editors from the background informa tion supplied bythe inventors: “On a production line of a manufacturing facilit y, individual components are moved fromone or more component processing station s to an assembly station where the components are assembledwith other component s to form an assembly. For example, in a production line for a composite wing ofan aircraft, pre-cured composite stringers are moved from a stringer processing station such as a stringertrim tool, to a wing assembly station where the comp osite stringers are placed on a composite wing panel.Other components such as w ing ribs and wing spars are also assembled to the wing panel to form a wingasse mbly.
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