Eliminated design and fabrication of 91 fixtures for $5.1M savings
Reduced skin panel inventory by 50%
Reduced tool storage space by 30,000 SF
Reduced production space 45,000 SF
Reduced ship-set cycle time by five days
Operating 7 days x 22.5 hours for 18 months
Supported production rate of 5.5 ship sets per month for 747
Scrap rate reduced to 0.7%
System uptime on POGOs @ 97% since installation
Operation with third cell of POGOs @ over five ship sets/month
Improved hole tolerance to ±0.007"
Improved trim tolerance to ±0.015"
Eliminated secondary inspection process
Over 20,000 panels produced as of February 2001
Implemented C-17 program within few months
Reusable on future programs