Fairchild Fasteners Europe - Vsd Gmbh

Jan Dohmeyer

Jürgen Rösing

Torsten Timpe

Meindert Büsse

Birte Berlinecke

Sead Dzebo

Disclosed is a method and a system or assembling a collection of components, in particular a user-specific collection of components used in aviation and astronautics or in the automobile industry or other industries, wherein a collection of multiple components is assembled in a packaging unit or in a tray, and each of the individual components of the collection of components is assigned an identifier which allows the corresponding component to be tracked.

Method for assembling a collection of components, and corresponding system

The invention relates to a fastener () for attaching together workpieces () having aligned holes therethrough, the fastener () comprising a shank portion () and a head portion () provided at one end of the shank portion (), the diameter of the shank portion () and/or of the head portion () being selected such that the fastener () can be installed in the aligned holes in close tolerance. The fastener () further comprises an oversizing structure (), said oversizing structure () being firmly bonded to at least a part of the shank portion () and/or the head portion () in order to oversize at least the part of the shank portion () and/or the head portion () such as to allow the fastener () to be installed in aligned holes () having a diameter larger than that required for the fastener () without the oversizing structure ().

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Gehrden, Germany

Jan Dohmeyer