The company began to build 777 fuselages in 2015 in an upright orientation, with robots drilling holes and installing fasteners, an initiative known as fuselage automated upright build (FAUB). Boeing had faced delays last year when the FAUB machine was tried out on existing versions of the 777. Instead, the company will switch to “flex tracks” – an automated method to drill the holes along the circumference of the airplane that are then fastened manually. …read more
Source:: Yahoo Finance
