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Acknowledgments |
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Introduction |
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End Notes |
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Reference |
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Chapter 1 Historical Perspective: Why Airframes Have Holes |
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1.7 Hand Tools and Drills |
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1.9 Tooling and Composites |
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1.10 On-Assembly Drilling |
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Chapter 2 Airframe Manufacturing Cost Drivers |
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2.2.1 The Value Price Profitability Index Commercial |
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2.4 Identifying Manufacturing-Related Costs |
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2.4.4 Cost Contributors Assessment |
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Chapter 3 Incentives and Disincentives to Automate |
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3.2 Military Automation Disincentive |
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3.2.1 The Means of Production |
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3.2.2 Parceled Application |
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3.3 Military Producers' Incentives to Automate |
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3.4 Commercial Disincentives |
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3.4.2 Geopolitical Global |
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3.5 Commercial Incentives |
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Chapter 4 Types of Drill/Countersink Automation |
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4.2.4 Integration Level I |
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4.3.7 Integration Level II |
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4.4.1 Human Machine Interface |
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4.4.2 Volumetric Compensation Algorithm |
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4.4.3 Integration Level III |
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Chapter 5 Considerations Before Replacing Hand Drilling with Mechanization or Automation |
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5.2 Before the Decision to Automate |
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5.2.1 Feasibility Analysis |
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5.2.2 Cost Benefits Analysis |
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5.3 "Go-Ahead" Decision Criteria |
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Chapter 6 How to Choose the Right Automation |
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6.4 Requirements Document |
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6.4.1 General Information |
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6.4.3 Functional Requirements |
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6.4.5 Performance Requirements |
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6.4.6 Additional System Requirements |
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6.4.7 Equipment and Software |
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Chapter 7 Steps to Installation |
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7.2 Mapping the Existing Process |
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7.3 Mapping the New Process |
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7.4 Requirements Document |
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7.4.1 Identify Stakeholders and Define Stakeholder Needs |
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7.4.2 Categorize System Requirements |
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7.4.3 Interpret and Record Requirements |
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7.5 Platform Specification |
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7.7 Manufacturing Readiness Level Consideration |
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7.8 Performance Measurement Tools |
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7.9.1 Basic Process Control System |
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7.9.5 Safety Instrument Function |
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7.10 Installation and Test |
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Chapter 8 Test Procedures |
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8.2.1 Impact Avoidance Test |
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8.2.2 Aluminum Tape Ink Dot Test |
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8.2.3 Compression Deflection Test |
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8.2.4 Drill Routine Conformance Test |
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8.2.5 Countersink Depth Test |
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8.2.6 Machine Subroutines |
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8.2.7 Final Full Function |
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8.3 Volatile Organic Compounds |
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Chapter 9 Transition to Production |
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9.2 TTP Document and Transfer of RAA |
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9.3 TTP Technology Readiness Levels |
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9.4 TTP Manufacturing Readiness Level |
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9.4.1 MRL 4 Material Solutions Analysis, Milestone A |
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9.4.2 MRL 5 Technology Development, Milestone B |
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9.5 TTP and Product Delivery Team Composition and Selection |
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9.6.1 TTP Final Hole Count and Cost Benefits Analysis |
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9.7 TTP Risk Identification and Assessment |
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9.7.1 Technology and Industrial Base |
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9.8 Validation of System to Production Requirements: Exit Criteria |
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10.2.3 Manufacturing Engineer |
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10.2.6 Cost Center Managers |
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11.2 Complexity---New Normal |
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11.4 Predictive Maintenance |
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11.4.1 Maintenance Integration |
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11.5 Prognostic Health Monitoring |
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11.6.4 Periodic Maintenance |
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Chapter 12 Social Impact of Automation |
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12.2 Pacifying the Human Capability-Machine Experience |
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12.2.1 The Social Concept of Operations |
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12.3 Perception of Ubiquitous Automation |
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12.4 Safe, Secure, and Ethical Automation |
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12.4.3 Ethical Application of Automation |
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12.5 Management of Automated Systems |
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Chapter 13 Future State of Airframes and Automation Summary |
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13.3 Manufacturing Exodus |
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13.6 Fastener Alternatives |
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Appendix A Automated Machine Suppliers for D/C of Airframes |
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Index |
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About the Author |
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