This month the yearly Aircraft Interiors Expo took place in Hamburg (Germany). 'The place to be' for aircraft industries trade people and all kinds of aviation freaks. We all know about the R&D budgets available within aircraft industry, so I guess we can also expect some hot items over here! Well, here's one which is worth mentioning...
Textron Fastening Systems unveiled its Intevia™ Intelligent Fastening Technology. In a nutshell these guys brought dumb fasteners to life using microprocessor technology.
Where's the fun? Well, their applications sketch "remote (dis)assembly at the click of a button", "fasteners being networked hotspots that continuously monitor a product's status", ''super easy (non destructive) dismantling". All together great stuff for product assembly, recycling disassembly, preventing product failure, etc. Just check out the imagery.
One thing that worries me is: "what if my 'smart fasteners' crash or get hacked? I'd probably be scraping product parts together?" Time will tell... because this stuff is definitely not 'aircrafts only'.
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