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empowering metrology solutions www.apisensor.com Laser-based measuring technology at Pilatus Flugzeugwerke AG, founded in 1939, is the leading manufacturer of single-engine turboprop aircraft and the only Swiss company to develop and construct aircraft and training Systems and sell them on every continent. The company also opened a new chapter in terms of quality control 70 years after the company was founded and in the year in which the largest volume of orders in the company's history had been achieved to date; in future, portable, laser-based measuring Systems will guarantee that manufacturing tolérances are observed. The highest demands in terms of quality apply globally within the aviation sector. A task that already represents a challenge within séries aircraft manufacturing becomes a work of art in itself within customised aircraft manufacturing: guaranteeing the quality of Pilatus aircraft. As thousands of individual parts are involved that have to fit together perfectly, the complexity of quality control within production increases, as ail of the parts and the modules produced from them must undergo an entire and extremely précise quality control check. In particular, observing the accuracy of fit within the current partial séries manufacturing plays a vital rôle within Pilatus; the customers' individual challenging requests in terms of production can only be taken into considération and tested with this production process. Since the beginning of 2009 an API laser tracker has played a major part in the company's ability to implement thèse customer requests and still produce effectively and with high-precision. The ultra-precise but nevertheless portable measuring system does not just guarantee the proverbial Swiss quality in terms of jig and gauge construction. Deutschland USA ^^^^^^^^^^^1 lnfo@apisensor.com ■ User story by Automated Précision Europe GmbH
