Solutions

With over three decades dedicated to aerospace and defense industry, AIT brings a wealth of experience as a leading prime contractor and factory integrator to address our customers’ most complex manufacturing requirements.

Factory Planning, Simulation, and Integration

Whether starting with a blank canvas or an existing factory, our team of seasoned aerospace automation and tooling engineers can support each phase of factory planning, layout, and integration. We can build and maintain a comprehensive digital twin or run simulation scenarios for specific production cells.

AIT has spent over three decades partnering with commercial and defense aerospace customers on their most complex, mission-critical production challenges. Let’s build something together.

Positioning and Joining

AIT has been designing, manufacturing, and delivering automated positioning and joining systems for commercial and defense aircraft for over three decades, with more systems operational worldwide than any other company.

We integrate our proprietary positioner designs, multi-axis motion control software, and metrology solutions to achieve micro tolerances while safely handling macro structures. By automating part alignment, load management, and join sequencing, we shorten takt times and eliminate the risk of structural pre-stress or component damage during critical assembly phases.

Mobility Solutions

When moving partially built products, major structures, and precision tooling across the factory floor, standard material handling solutions do not sufficiently protect the product. AIT’s Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) deliver high-capacity, heavy-payload mobility engineered to maximize plant throughput, eliminate bottlenecks, and protect your product.

Built for the World’s Most Demanding Assembly Environments

Omni-Directional Maneuverability: Equipped with multi-wheel synchronized steering and twin drive units, AIT AGVs move axially, laterally, or rotate on their own axis. Safely navigate tight work cells and narrow aisles without wide turn radiuses.
Tandem Synchronization: Transport massive structures with ease. Two or more AGVs can operate in tandem mode, functioning seamlessly as a single synchronized unit to distribute weight and control extreme loads.
Floor-Adaptive Engineering: Multiple solutions such as passive load alleviation to absorb surface variations on factory floors while maintaining level, stable transport.
Integrated Lifting & Positioning: Onboard precision actuators allow AGVs to lift, align, and position structures directly into manufacturing jigs or mating stations.
Intuitive Command & Control: Operate with precision using an easy-to-master GUI touchscreen interface or ergonomic joystick. Transition between drive modes, lifting functions, and tandem operations in seconds.

Final Assembly

No other supplier has AIT’s accumulated experience designing and delivering final assembly lines for the aerospace and defense industry. Our customers trust that we will deliver these mission-critical investments on time and on quality.

Final assembly requires flawless execution. Automated tooling, mobility solutions, drilling solutions, conventional tooling, access platforms, utilities, safety protocols, and other testing/support systems must come together seamlessly to support a high-rate production environment.

Drilling Solutions

AIT’s proprietary flextrack system drills, countersinks, fills, and applies sealant to streamline repetitive manual processes and improve quality. Other production scenarios may require our multi-function end effector which is mounted on a 6-axis robot.

We do not sell machines – our goal is to engineer the best drilling solution to support your production goals.

Tooling, Molds, Fixtures, and Platforms

We design, build, and integrate tooling systems that ensure repeatable accuracy across every production cycle. Our composite tooling install base includes nearly every size and shape of layup tool, trim tool, mandrel, or bonding jig. Conventional tooling solutions include assembly fixtures, transport jigs, drill jigs, work platforms, and everything in between.

Heating and Curing Solutions

Engineered for out-of-autoclave composite manufacturing, our heating and curing solutions deliver precise thermal processing exactly where it’s needed. By bringing localized, highly controlled heat directly to complex structures, we enable reliable co-bonding and co-curing for mission-critical composite assemblies.

We integrate custom thermal delivery systems, advanced monitoring, and uniform temperature control to eliminate the constraints of traditional autoclaves.

Friction Stir Welding

At the intersection of precision engineering and advanced manufacturing, we deliver turnkey friction stir welding (FSW) automation tailored specifically for the rigorous demands of aerospace production.

We seamlessly blend state-of-the-art robotic and CNC FSW machinery with custom-engineered fixtures, adaptive control systems, and robust quality-monitoring technologies. Whether you are fabricating high-integrity rocket fuel tanks, lightweight satellite structures, or next-generation aircraft fuselage panels, our end-to-end integration ensures defect-free, solid-state joints, minimized structural weight, and optimized cycle times.

Complex Fabricated Parts

Our complex fabricated parts serve mission-critical structural roles on premier spaceflight and defense programs where zero-defect performance is non-negotiable.

Examples include rocket panels and structural components for heavy-lift space launch vehicles and other defense applications. We transform complex geometries and exotic materials into high-reliability, mission-ready assets built to withstand the universe's harshest forces.