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I'm Michael Decker and I'm with um the

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CMXG robotics team at Warner Robins

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and I am the program manager for all

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the robots and CMX G and I also run and

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support all the robots that we use out

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here for production . So this is our

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first of three laser de paint robots

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and the other two are coming within the

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next 4 to 6 months . So this system

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essentially de paints off air frame ,

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flight controls with a defocus welding

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laser . The laser has a tolerance for

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the distance that it can be from the

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asset off the top of my head . I

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believe that's about 4 to 5 inches ,

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which isn't super bad for something

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relatively flat to hand program , but

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even hand programming , something like

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that , you'd have to have some sort of

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system to make sure it was always in

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the exact same place every time you ran

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in that particular system and whether

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that would be fixing or markings on the

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floor or holes in the floor or

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something like that , even still

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writing a program like that , depending

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on what the part is , of course , could

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take anywhere from six hours to several

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days , this system does all of its own

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programming itself . Um It can , it

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depends on the complexity of the part .

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But so far , the most complex thing we

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ran in here is an F-15 Radom and it

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takes it about two minutes to find a

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path to work the entire surface of the

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radar . So this is kind of like our

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first attempt at getting lasers

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approved for assets . Um So I know that

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if we didn't have this , the current

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system that this is replacing is called

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flash jet and for flash Je to de paint ,

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a rad takes at least

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usually about four hours . This can de

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paint a rat and 2.5 to

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3 hours with the current settings we're

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using , but I believe we could probably

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get it down to two hours . So if you're

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hand programming , right , you have to

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worry about like um like joint

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configurations and the relationships

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together , but this thing can take care

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of all that for you in two minutes .

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And so you don't even have to think

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about it . The way this system keeps us

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ahead of the curve for everyone else is ,

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is it completely removes any fixing

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required ? So , because it programs

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itself and is adaptable on the fly ,

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you can roll a part in here on whatever

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trailer they carry it around on , stick

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it anywhere within the arm's reach .

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And then from there , the system is

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able to handle it and process the part .

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And since you're not relying on fixing ,

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you can not only can you put them

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anywhere you want , you can put as many

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of them as you can fit in here as you

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want . On top of that , it is very

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clean . So it has a triple filtration ,

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he a vacuum cleaner on it as well . So

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any smoke that comes off of the surface

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as the paint is getting avoided , gets

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captured by that vacuum . It's , it's ,

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it's , it's both an efficiency thing

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and a safety thing . The primary driver

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for all the robots out here is safety

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if it's , if we want it to be safer and

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if it's as efficient as the previous

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process is great , if it's faster ,

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like this one is all the better , this

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system is the future Robbins , we've

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already got two more of this system

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coming in . One will be going in the

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building just down the street over

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there and another one will be going in

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the other flash jeet building we have

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on base across the base . The future is

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essentially systems like this that

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require no fixing little maintenance ,

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minimal intervention on the part of any

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operators and potentially have the

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ability to run overnight without

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anybody managing them at all . So , in

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a lot of ways , it's going to make

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things a lot cleaner and safer for

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everybody . And I think that's kind of

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what matters