Assembly Department, Commercial Airplanes Division, Commercial Aviation Systems
As the competition between Boeing and Airbus has been intensifying, the market
environment of our main product, large-sized aircraft fuselage panels, is required to change to a
manufacturing and production system that can quickly follow production fluctuations and cost
reductions. As a means to solve the problem, we have reviewed the conventional production
system that is centered mainly on skilled workers and relies on many large-sized stationary jigs,
and then worked on the development of a mixed flow production line incorporating automation
equipment that realizes production flexibility, high quality and labor saving. In this paper, the
newly developed mixed flow production line is presented.
