Jigs and Assembly Fixtures

Nova-Tech has extensive experience in supplying high-quality precision assembly jigs and fixtures to the aerospace industry. As a turnkey provider, Nova-Tech is adept at working with its customers in defining the assembly process and in providing a complete family of coordinated tools, from sub-assemblies to major assemblies.

Embraer Legacy 450/500 Forward Fuselage Assembly Tooling

  • Turnkey supply: design, build, installation, acceptance
  • Complete family of tools for forward fuselage assembly (52 tool designs)
  • Tools included: assembly jigs, drill templates, lifting devices, handling carts, and work platforms
  • Utilized Brazilian suppliers for tool manufacture and installation

Embraer Legacy 450/500 Center Fuselage Wing Stub Assembly Tooling

  • Turnkey supply: design, build, installation, acceptance
  • Complete family of tools for center fuselage wing stub assembly (33 tool designs)
  • Tools included: assembly jigs, drill templates, lifting devices, handling carts, and work platforms
  • Integrated crane system with main assembly jigs
  • Utilized Brazilian suppliers for tool manufacture and installation

HondaJet Final Mate Tooling

  • Turnkey supply: design, build, installation, acceptance
  • Family of tools to support alignment and assembly of wing and vertical stabilizer to fuselage
  • Tools include: precision NLG index, fuselage scissor lifts and support cradles, vertical stabilizer alignment jig, wing transport & lift dolly, platforms, dollies, lifting devices

Spirit G650 Wing Assembly Tooling

  • Turnkey supply: design, build, installation, acceptance
  • Tools include: spar assembly jigs, wingbox assembly jigs, wing assembly laydown tool, and automated wing join system
  • Wingbox assembly tool with integrated scissor lift work platforms

Workstands and Ancillary Equipment

Nova-Tech provides a wide variety of custom work platforms and ancillary equipment that enhance ergonomic access to the workpiece for a multitude of operations. Nova-Tech access solutions can be fixed or mobile and include either powered or manually actuated deck elevation, sliders, flip doors, etc. among the many possible features.

HondaJet Final Mate Workstand

  • Provides access for horizontal and vertical stabilizer installation
  • Flip doors to close out gap with aircraft

Spirit AeroSystems G650 Scissor Lift Workstands

  • Commercially available powered scissor lift integrated with custom work platform
  • Provides access to all levels of main wingbox assembly jig

Boeing 787 Door Uploader

  • Traveling elevator and deck for loading interior components into the aircraft at doors 1 & 4
  • Integrates with moving line spine
  • Deck adjusts height to match height of aircraft as it moves down the line
  • Repositioned using powered tugs

Boeing 787 Workstands

  • Elevating workstand to provide access to nose of aircraft

Boeing 787 Door Uploader

  • X-axis platform drive system
  • Decks with vertical motion

Lifting Devices

Nova-Tech offers a wide range of overhead lifting solutions that range in complexity from simple spreader beams to complex assemblies with powered motion axes (i.e. rotation and tilt) and on-board vacuum supply.

Spirit AeroSystems Wingbox Assembly Lift Device

  • Handles LH and RH wingbox assemblies
  • Rotation via cranes from vertical to horizontal orientation
  • On-board vacuum supply

Spirit AeroSystems Wing Skin Lift Device

  • Handles upper and lower wing skin assemblies
  • Powered rotation and tilt
  • On-board vacuum supply