Engineering – Aerostructures

Airplanes are placed under incredible stress and the hundreds of thousands of people who fly every day place their trust in the hands of the manufacturers and their suppliers, of which there are many.

Engineering – Aerostructures
About The Project

Airplanes are placed under incredible stress and the hundreds of thousands of people who fly every day place their trust in the hands of the manufacturers and their suppliers, of which there are many.

Our client’s existing tooling supplier was struggling to maintain a consistent level of quality with the tolerances of their countersunk holes. This slowed down assembly because the job was finished manually.

Working with C6 Composite, Allied trialled a new system using an ATEMAG Floating Aggregate Head equipped with Diamond Coated Solid Carbide Countersunk drill bits.

This new approach produced a perfect hole and countersink, critically within a 0.04mm tolerance, every time.

The system proved so successful, the approach is being applied to 30 different hole and countersink size.

Allied Services
  • Visit from Area Sales Manager, Application Engineer and Sales Director and C6 Composite Tooling
  • Trial tooling for testing
  • On-site monitoring of saw blade parameters
Tools Used
  • C6 Solid Carbide Diamond Coated Countersunk Drills
  • ATEMAG Floating Aggregate Head
Project Partners
  • C6 Composite Tooling
  • ATEMAG
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