The Airbus Consortium (Toulouse, France) plant in Bremen, Germany, manufactures wing components such as landing flaps, producing approximately 2.5 million metal parts annually for the entire range of Airbus aircraft. It also performs wing assembly for the A330 and A340 jetliners.
For the past few years, it has relied on mobile laser measuring techniques using laser tracking systems from the Metrology Division of Leica Geosystems AG (Unterentfelden, Switzerland) to ensure that its production equipment and products are configured to the correct dimensions.