Engine handling job for Rolls-Royce

Exmac Automation has completed an engine handling project for the Rolls-Royce facility in Derby. Besides prefacing a unique method of automated assembly within the aerospace industry, the automated process for the transportation, assembly and build of large aircraft engines also highlights the potential for the transfer of technology between many other industries.

Experience of conveying and handling systems for complex assembly plants can help convince customers that similar assembly systems can be made to work for them.

Moving equipment using automated skillet-based flowline systems, supplemented by AGVs if required for larger components, could represent a step-change in assembly and make static production a thing of the past.