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Exploitable results
In technical terms, the project's objectives (now in the sequence of decreasing data abstraction) were:
- Model-based quality control procedures for the processes of manufacturing car-bodies and aircraft parts. (Including: sub-processes, required control data, preventive quality assurance.)
- Software tools for determining quality parameters of manufactured parts. The tools are based on the numerical comparison between computer models and the reality in manufacturing. (Including: quality features and metrics for design and for process control.)
- Software tools for manufactured parts inspection using CAD- and CAE-data together with measurement results. (Including: surface fitting, inspection of characteristics like holes and edges, and regarding the elasticity of big parts.)
- Systems for implementing and execution of measurements using CAD- and CAE-data. (Including: improvement and adaptation of measurement systems for quality data acquisition, planning and execution of the measurement process, interfaces to integrate measurement systems into the IT and QC infrastructure.)
The objectives on all four levels do mainly concern problems of IT and provide an important innovation in the field of quality control of manufactured products and parts in the aircraft and automotive industry.
Besides the above systems, tools and procedures, and in order to ensure these achieve-ment, major deliverables of the project were four pilot installations (one in automotive industry, three in aerospace industry). Initially in the project contract only three pilot installations were planned, but the participation of Leica from Switzerland as Associated Partner allowed to implement a fourth one.
Moreover, the project looked for the next generation of measurement and inspection sys-tems required for quality manufacturing and being a base for each quality process. Particu-larly for aircraft construction, the project investigated solutions avoiding use of jigs at all.
The tools and systems resulting from the project will be marketed as IT services and products by the vendor companies and thus made available to all manufacturing companies. For entirely new tools and methods, it is expected that after the project's end, about one year of additional on-site tests at the premises of end-users and further development will be needed to make the tools and systems sufficiently reliable and user-friendly to function in a production environment. Full scale introduction of the tools in the market will therefore start about one year after the end of the project. For improvements to existing measurement technology, this time interval will be shorter. Some have already been integrated in new software releases during the project.
The project considered the AIT IT Reference Model (referred to as "the ITRM" below) developed by the AIT Pilot Phase (ESPRIT project 7704).
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