Aircraft or spacecraft equipment, trainers, simulators and associated parts

Tender description

The Future Automated Aircraft Assembly Demonstrator Phase 2 (FA3D2) will provide an opportunity for UK based aerospace manufacturing businesses to test, demonstrate and accelerate the implementation of new breakthrough technologies, thus allowing them to compete on productivity, quality and cost with rival offshore businesses. The FA3D2 platform will provide open access to a variety of UK companies with a specific focus on support for manufacturing SMEs. It will also support community engagement to attract future engineering graduates to careers in the aerospace industry. Procurement of the system has been split into 2 stages and UoN is releasing stage 1. This includes smart manufacturing (digital infrastructure), reconfigurable automation and precision assembly (large volume metrology). There are a number of individual work packages that can be tendered for individually or combined. The objectives of the project are: — integrate a variety of diverse processes and disruptive technologies, — deliver a step change in human centred assembly automation, — develop smart assembly cell architecture and infrastructure to accommodate seamless product variation, increase capacity and reduce costs, — demonstrate platform utilising industrial scenarios, to evaluate and validate.