A screenshot from an AAT3D CAPPSNC application that shows a test section of a typical aircraft stringer section.

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Applied Automation Technologies (AAT3D) (Rochester Hills, Michigan) secured a major software contract with a leading North American aircraft manufacturer that will integrate CAPPSNC software to interface directly with controllers on large CNC machines to provide dimensional metrology data for CMM reports, work offsets adaptive and adaptive tool offsets for 3-5 axis closed loop manufacturing.

President and CEO of Applied Automation Technologies Ray Karadayi called CAPPSNC software “Truly Factory 4.0 intelligent manufacturing technology, as it uses metrology information throughout the manufacturing process for adaptive control.”

The software allows simple and accurate configuration of parts and diagnostics of machine axes. This pre-processing approach allows the aircraft manufacturer to define specific work and tool offsets prior to the machining process.

In-process, adaptive manufacturing occurs when software automatically makes machining program corrections with real-time feedback via on-machine probing.

In the post-process, detailed quality reports are created for the machine with SPC analysis and metrology data.

Overall, CAPPSNC is used for on-machine probing or on-machine 3D scanning. It supports sensor interfaces such as CNC touch probes, scanning contact probes, non-contact laser scanners and non-contact CCD cameras.

It provides dynamic feedback for errors due to part offsets, errors due to part mounting, errors due to tool wear, and errors due to thermal effects.

CAPPSNC integrates a wide variety of CNC machines for on-machine inspection and smart manufacturing needs for machining centers, mills and lathes, turret lathes, large-scale 3D printing and additive manufacturing, water jet and laser cutting machines as well as robotic applications.

The most recent aircraft application has been applied in four separate aircraft manufacturing facilities linking twenty different CNC machines with two additional machines to be added later.

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