Manufacturing system

Abstract

The invention relates to a manufacturing system for producing airplane structural components, comprising a drilling unit (2) for producing bores (3) in a material assembly (4) made of at least two material plies (4a, 4b) for the purposes of inserting fastening elements, in particular rivet elements, and comprising a measuring unit (5) for ascertaining geometry parameters for a previously produced bore (3). It is proposed that the measuring unit (5) comprises measuring electronics (6) with an optical sensor element (7), a measuring optical unit (8) and a measuring lance (9), that the measuring unit (5) produces an optical measurement beam (13) for ascertaining a distance (10) between the measuring lance (9) and a measurement point (11) on the respective bore inner is surface (12), said optical measurement beam emerging from the measuring lance (9) via the measuring optical unit (8) and being incident on the measurement point (11) on the respective bore inner surface (12), that a measurement movement between measuring lance (9) and material assembly (4) is provided in a measurement cycle and the measuring unit (5) cyclically ascertains distance values to various measurement points (11) at a scanning rate during the measurement movement and ascertains at least one geometry parameter for the respective bore (3) from the distance values.

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