Aircraft, automated

Specifically, within the aerospace industry, for aircraft, the airframe manufacture itself is one of the major cost drivers, using the factors already addressed. Let s look at the character of how we would build an aerospace vehicle. There is typically a lot of manpower dependence. The industry itself is cyclic because the demands ebb and flow. There is typically little automation simply because of relatively low production rates, and there are very few customers. But, despite all those characteristics, there is typically also a large capacity that is founded on many highly skilled personnel, and the orientation is much more high tech than that of most other industries. Without product excellence as a driving factor, the whole industry would be an unworkable mess. 

Dias-Lalcaca, P., D. Brunner, W. Imfeld, W. Moser, and J. Staehelin, An Automated System for the Measurement of Nitrogen Oxides and Ozone Concentrations from a Passenger Aircraft Instrumentation and First Results of the NOXAR Project, Environ. Sci Technol., 32, 3228-3236 (1998). 

Corrosion may be monitored by measuring changes in thickness with time using ultrasonic thickness gages. An automated ultrasonic inspection system has been devised and used in monitoring corrosion in nuclear waste containers and typical variations in ultrasonic indications in corroded and uncorroded areas have been recorded successfully. Major types of equipment inspection by ultrasonic technique has been done in mill components, power equipment, jet engine parts, aircraft components, railway materials, automotive components and other machinery components. 

MAJOR PRODUCT APPLICATIONS personal computers, aircraft, rockets, satellites, automation equipment, electrical and electronics parts, mechanical parts, medical instruments, fishing rods, golf clubs, tennis rackets, brake pads, composites, mufflers, surface preparation for electrostatic painting... 

Carbon monoxide is one of the most common and dangerous pollutants present in the environment dne to emissions from automated vehicles, aircraft, natural gas... 

Parasuraman, R., Bahri, T, Deaton, J. E., Morrison, J. G., Barnes, M. (1992). Theory and design of adaptive automation in aviation systems (Progress Report No. NAWCADWAR-92033-60). Warminster, PA Naval Air Warfare Center, Aircraft Division. 

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