Method for temporarily closing openings in aircraft parts
AssigneeAirbus Operations GmbH
InventorMarc Wesseloh
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Abstract
A method for temporarily closing openings in an aircraft part during a manufacturing process by providing a first part that has a first opening and positioning a temporary closure member inside that first opening. The temporary closure member has an RFID tag that has stored on it a unique identification. At a later stage in the aircraft manufacturing process, a scanning device is used to scan for the RFID tag based on the identification. The temporary closure member is removed from the first opening and subsequently replaced by a permanent member.
Claims7
A method for temporarily closing openings in an aircraft part during a manufacturing process, the method comprising:
- a) providing a first part having at least one first opening;
- b) positioning a temporary closure member so as to close the first opening, the temporary closure member having an RFID tag;
- c) associating a unique identification with the first opening and storing the identification on the RFID tag and including a scannable information tag that includes information indicative of an RFID frequency, or the unique identification of the respective RFID tag, or both into technical drawing data;
- d) at a later stage, scanning the information tag from the technical drawing data and finding the RFID tag based on that information, scanning for the RFID tag with an RFID scanning device based on the identification and removing the temporary closure member from the first opening and installing a permanent member in the first opening.
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