Lifting Devices

These tools are tailored to your needs and lead to more efficiency, productivity and safety in handling. Our expertise in design and standardization, as well as in lifting and lowering, allows us to develop certified systems that ensure the necessary functions for precise and sensitive operations. In doing so, we have a significant amount of experience with 0-gravity means, offering improved ergonomics for operators. Through a highly qualified supply chain and a specific control process, we guarantee a high level of quality for the realization of your project and the Factory of the Future.

SHILA Demonstrator

Smart Factory instead of Manual Shimming: SHILA Lays the Foundation for Automated Joining Processes in the Aerospace Industry

Rastede, June 2026 – Broetje-Automation, together with its consortium partners 3D.aero GmbH, Boeing, KEBA Industrial Automation, IPMT – Institute for Production Management and ‑Technology and WZL Aachen GmbH, has successfully completed the research project SHILA – “Shim-free assembly of thin-walled aircraft structures” funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK). The aim of the project was to develop a fully digitally supported and highly automated process chain that enables precise assembly of large-format, thin-walled CFRP structural components without the previous use of shims.

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