# Chengdu Aerospace orders flexible manufacturing system from Starrag Group

Chengdu Aerospace Plane Aviation Machinery Equipment Ltd. ordered a digitally networked flexible manufacturing system with six ECOSPEED F 2060 machining centers from Starrag Group for its aircraft factory in China. Installation will take place from January 2018 to summer 2019.

- Type: Contract
- Announced: 2017-04-27
- Where: Chengdu, China
- Status: announced
- Products: flexible manufacturing system, ECOSPEED F 2060 machining centers
- Sectors: [Industrial Machinery](https://endata.com/sectors/industrial-machinery.md), [Aerospace Components](https://endata.com/sectors/aerospace-components.md)

## Companies

- [Starrag](https://endata.com/companies/16535.md) (supplier)
- [Chengdu Aerospace Plane Aviation Machinery Equipment Ltd.](https://endata.com/companies/23841.md) (customer)

## Sources

- [airframer.com](https://www.airframer.com/news/release/chengdu-aerospace-industry-4-0-at-its-finest), 2017-04-27: "With a completion date of summer 2019, six ECOSPEED F 2060 are to be installed at Chengdu Aerospace's aircraft factory in China to create one of the most productive and efficient plants in the world."
- [aero-mag.com](https://www.aero-mag.com/chengdu-aerospace-digitally-networked-flexible-manufacturing-system-fms-cell-controllers-s), 2017-06-06: "While others are still romanticising Industry 4.0, the Starrag Group says it is already realising digitally networked production in Southwest China."

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