Patent ID: 6877203

Claim:
A method for regulating a device used for assembling aircraft airframe pieces, where the device comprises a rig comprising main rails that can slide parallel to each other alongside the rig along a first co ordinate x, and on each main rail a number of guide rails which can both slide parallel to each other along the main rail along a second co ordinate y, and axially along a third co-ordinate z, and with a fixing element at the end of the guide rail, where the method involves the following steps: a) a manipulator grasps a a fixing element of a guide rail after which the fixing element is moved by the manipulator in directions x, y and z so that the fixing element is made to adopt a predetermined position in space, b) the position of the fixing element in space is locked in relation to the rig by an automatic locking function, c) steps a and b are repeated for a predetermined number of fixing elements.