Premium AEROTEC has introduced orbital riveting for the production of fuselage sections and pressure bulkheads. The riveting robot has the ability to work independently on the entire outer fuselage. This technology garantuees significantly faster processing while maintaining quality.

Premium AEROTEC possesses a high degree of experience in Electron Beam Welding since the Tornado program. This production technology enables the connection of thick and high-stress components. One of the biggest such devices in Europe is being used in Augsburg. Currently once again for welding wing boxes for theTornado and the air break for the Eurofighter.

In the construction of fuselage skin panels Premium AEROTEC deploys new production technologies: laser beam welding replaces traditional riveting methods in certain areas. As regards larger aircraft, such as the widebody Airbus A380, the length of welded seams is 1,400 meter in total for one aircraft. The main areas of the fuselage segments of this and other airbus models are, accordingly, welded by laser beam. Laser technology is ten times as fast as the comparable riveting process and offers significant advantages in weight.