Best-in-class solutions for your drilling applications
Millions of holes are drilled every year in aerospace factories worldwide, This highly critical operation is the field of highly expert engineers and operators, putting all their experience and skills to keep the production flow running
Whatever your challenge, Desoutter & Setitec teams will provide you the best-in-class solutions to any challenge coming your way.
Aerospace players face a large variety of challenges.
Ensure hole quality over time
Reduce cost-per-hole
Overcome accessibility challenges
Address huge diversity of drilling operations
Wide solution range to address your challenges
In the aerospace industry, achieving precise & optimized drilling operations is crucial to comply with high quality standard requirements as well as productivity targets. A strong expertise in materials, cutting parameters, aerospace assembly processes as well as the tooling technology available are necessary to ensure the optimum solution is selected for each application.
Factories usually rely on thousands of pneumatic manual drills. Whilst being well known and effective they come with their drawbacks: Health & safety issues with air hoses lying on the floor, lack of control over drilling speed & cutter lifetime, poor energy efficiency.
Your challenges
Quality & process control : Incorrect drilling speed will impact hole quality and cutter life; exceeding cutter limits yields poor results.
Safety : Prevent accidents by avoiding air hoses on the floor, minimizing loud tool usage.
Sustainability : Moving to CO2 neutral factories will generate strong change to the industry
When aiming for tight hole tolerances, consistency from the first hole to the last, robustness & performance, semi-automated drills answer the needs of the most demanding customers each and every day No wonder they remain the workhorses of aerospace factories. Amongst the thousands of holes drilled every day, few are similar: each application offers a new challenge, and will require a strong expertise to ensure the expected level of performance
Why Setitec semi-automatic drilling solution ?
Cycle time focus : Drilling through multistack materials require solutions to optimize drilling parameters to each phase of the cycle
Expertise of drilling experts to help supporting your challenges
Proven and highly precise drilling solutions
Large range of premium solutions to face every challenge
Aerospace industry is transforming. Production ramp-up, pressure on non quality costs, shortage of skilled workforce, need for better traceability & process control. Moving to automation answers some of those challenges, but how can we maintain a high level of flexibility with creating yet another bottleneck?
Light automation is most certainly a good answer to those challenges
Why use Setitec light automation drilling?
Flexibility : Automation has been for long synonymous with large automation cells, highly efficient, but with the potential to become a bottleneck
Application at core : Aerospace assembly is a complex process. Starting up an automated production cell requires the best experts.
Workflow Integration : Integrated systems to synchronise, robotic arm, drilling end effector & Station control is a highly complex task that can be steamlined