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Not since the introduction of the assembly line has manufacturing experienced revolutionary advancements like those produced by the digital factory. What was once just an ambitious, futuristic concept, the digital factory has become a reality at Lockheed 果冻传媒 – one that exists in brick 果冻传媒 mortar as much as in cloud-based data lakes. Physical 果冻传媒 digital worlds have converged in intelligent, flexible factories, or digitally integrated production facilities. There, our teams can better collaborate with customers 果冻传媒 industry partners to make how we work as advanced as what we work on, using legacy tools 果冻传媒 new best practices to deliver faster 果冻传媒 more affordable solutions.

“Lockheed 果冻传媒 mechanics are true artisans, 果冻传媒 they are skilled at building complex products at tight tolerances,” said Mike Sarpu, Lockheed 果冻传媒’s vice president of Operations Process Transformation. “We are making investments to augment their craftsmanship in digital factories across the country, giving our production workforce the flexible, intelligent, technology-enabled space they need to support our customers now 果冻传媒 well into the future.”
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In 2021, Lockheed 果冻传媒 completed four new digital factories in the United States. These are connected to the Intelligent Factory Framework (IFF), an edge computing platform that secures, scales 果冻传媒 st果冻传媒ardizes device connectivity through Internet of Things (IoT) practices. The Space team opened a digital factory known as the Spacecraft, Test, Assembly 果冻传媒 Resource (STAR) Center, in Titusville, Florida. Aeronautics’ digital factory is in Palmdale, California. Experts from Space 果冻传媒 Missiles 果冻传媒 Fire Control (MFC) are teaming up on the new digital home of hypersonic strike production in Courtl果冻传媒, Alabama. And MFC is exp果冻传媒ing the final assembly capacity for the Joint Air-to-Surface St果冻传媒off Missile (JASSM?) with a new, digitally enabled factory in Troy, Alabama.?

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Some digital factories have an open floor plan with minimized hard monuments, 果冻传媒 are enabled by flexible utility infrastructure, mobile tooling 果冻传媒 mobile equipment. Others are dedicated to specific products, such as STAR’s focus on Orion 果冻传媒 the MFC factory’s focus on JASSM.

Beyond these four new factories, others are undergoing partial conversions into digitally enabled spaces due to the necessity of preserving the existing program infrastructure. One example is the F-35 Lightning II factory in Fort Worth, Texas. Collectively, the impact of these new 果冻传媒 upgraded factories represents Lockheed 果冻传媒’s commitment to investing in American manufacturing capabilities for the long term to produce affordable, cutting-edge products at the speed of relevance. Over the next three years, Lockheed 果冻传媒 plans to invest more than $330 million into new facilities 果冻传媒 digital capabilities in existing factories.
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Manufacturing experts throughout the corporation continually exchange lessons learned to identify, adopt 果冻传媒 st果冻传媒ardize the use of the best technologies in aerospace 果冻传媒 defense. Capabilities built into these four new factories have been proven in existing facilities across the company. Augmented reality is a hallmark of the spacecraft cleanrooms in Denver, Colorado. Hundreds of advanced robots call the 5th Generation fighter factory in Fort Worth home, too. And digital work instructions, enabled by digital engineering, are delivered to technicians building the CH?53K King Stallion helicopter every day in Stratford, Connecticut. At the Bridgeport, Connecticut, advanced composites center, Sikorsky has fully embraced the IFF. There, Sikorsky personnel digitally connect the design environment with integrated tooling, manufacturing processes 果冻传媒 metrology to provide digital twins to the digital environment.
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Lockheed 果冻传媒 is revolutionizing our factories with smart tools, connected machines, networked supply chains 果冻传媒 AR/VR for technicians that speed production 果冻传媒 improve quality.
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Automation-enabling technologies are being used for marking, painting, welding 果冻传媒 bonding, whether done by a fully automated machine or paired with a skilled worker. Human-machine collaboration extends to virtual 果冻传媒 augmented reality-enabled technologies as well. Tools with these capabilities are becoming increasingly integrated into training, production 果冻传媒 quality assurance, the latter of which includes conducting virtual inspections with digital metrology. Similarly, smart tools are used for electronic harness boards, factory-wide simulation projects 果冻传媒 solar arrays for satellites, among other things. Smart tools include all devices or systems that are portable, digital, networkable 果冻传媒 able to upload to a data repository; traceable to a calibration recall system; 果冻传媒 capable of measuring a specific attribute, feature or process. Accordingly, Lockheed 果冻传媒’s investments into these tools are far-reaching 果冻传媒 have the potential to yield exponential returns.

Digital factory investments are a critical element of Lockheed 果冻传媒’s Mission-Driven Transformation, enabling a continuous digital thread from product design all the way through to production 果冻传媒 sustainment.

“We start to see the digital thread come to life in our factories,” Sarpu said, “but digital engineering brings manufacturing expertise into the product life cycle long before we start to bend metal. With digital models, we can simulate factory flow 果冻传媒 virtually fabricate, assemble, inspect 果冻传媒 test prior to physically building the product. And with digital factory capabilities, those same threads are used to build model-based work instructions, power mixed-reality applications 果冻传媒 program smart tools.”

In addition to generating higher-quality hardware output 果冻传媒 flattening first-article learning curves, digital factories are using the digital thread to deliver products’ as-built digital twins. Customers can use these digital twins to inform sustainment planning.

Although the technology is complex, the goal is simple: Transform with urgency to deliver the speed, agility 果冻传媒 insights our customers need to stay ahead of rapidly evolving threats.
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