Domestic equipment for CNC pipe bending machines has started operating at the Voronezh Aircraft Manufacturing Company. The development includes a flexible stacker digital complex for assembling pipelines and an automatic warehouse. They were installed on the company's machines and technical processes were worked out for automatic bending.
After modernization, the plant can assemble pipelines up to 6 meters in size faster. The part is bent on an automatic pipe bender, then installed in an assembly fixture, checked for quality and transferred to the aircraft.
So far, pipes are only being assembled for the actively import-substituted airliner MC-21. But VASO plans to soon provide its products to other aircraft that need domestic parts: Il-96, Il-76, Il-114-300, SJ-100.
Equipment for pipelines of various aircraft systems will also appear. Specialists of the aircraft enterprise have regulations for the development of tooling.
