(2018 spring)
Students: Pepijn van Eck, Yuk Ho Chung, Schelte van der Horst, Jorge Luis Díaz Onofre, Florens Vernooij
Images 1 through 4: Logos of Fokker Technologies, The Hague University of Applied Sciences, University of Technology Delft and Smart Advanced Manufacturing XL
Introduction
For a combined project, Fokker and the University of Technology Delft requested The Hague University of Applied Sciences to automate the prepolishing process of the leading edges of a G650 Gulfstream aircraft wing. Currently these leading edges are manually prepolished by skilled employees, even though the process of prepolishing is not very complex and can be easily automated. The automation of this process will leave the employee with more time to focus on other tasks like the more difficult finishing polish of the assembled wings.
