Boeing is dumping an ambitious foray into automation: the robots that build main fuselage sections for its 777 jetliners and an upgraded version.
Robots are coming to the massive ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, replacing dockworker jobs. But truckers are delighted, since they’ll be able to move cargo faster, earning more money.
Boeing’s fully automated initiative -- known as FAUB, for fuselage automated upright build -- relied on robots working in tandem to drill holes precisely and fasten together metal panels held upright to create the outer frame of the hulking twin-engine jets.The technology was the handiwork of Kuka Systems, a company with deep automobile manufacturing roots. It was intended to replace the human mechanics who used hand-held tools to insert 60,000 rivets into each plane.
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