Wings for the MC-21 aircraft are now being produced significantly faster thanks to a robotic complex for carbon fiber placement. The new technology halves the production cycle and reduces the volume of necessary man-hours fourfold.
Mikhail Yurin, Deputy Head of the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade, announced the implementation of such solutions at the "Improving Labor Productivity" forum in Krasnoyarsk. According to him, the modernization will be part of a large-scale update of the aviation industry.
The ministry expects to modernize more than 16 aviation production facilities. This is anticipated to significantly increase enterprise productivity and the quality of manufactured products.
The robotic carbon fiber placement technology is particularly important for producing wings from polymer composites: the material requires high placement precision, which manual labor does not always consistently provide. The automated complex solves this problem, simultaneously reducing part preparation time and resource consumption.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade emphasized that production modernization is linked with personnel training and standard adaptation – so that new capacities operate at full efficiency from the start.
