The Manufacturing Leadership Council recognized Lockheed Martin with four awards in three manufacturing categories.
The company's Automated Drilling and Fastening Systems Integration using Reverse Engineering initiative was recognized in the Innovative Process Leadership category and, as the highest scoring entry in the category, earned the High Achiever Award. The initiative uses structured light scanning as the key enabler for rapidly generating and developing three dimensional models of the "as-built" airframe components to be used in programming and simulation of the new automated systems. The structured light scanning allowed the team to gather detailed definition of the large assemblies that were being automated leading to time efficiencies across all systems.
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