Source: United States Navy
MARINE CORPS AIR STATION CHERRY POINT, N.C. – Fleet Readiness Center East is always looking for new, innovative ways to improve its processes. Recently, a group of FRCE engineers and aviation maintenance professionals attended a demonstration of a robotic tool that can clean fiber optic cables more quickly and efficiently than manual processes. Grease, oil and other contaminants can degrade the efficiency of fiber optic cables to transmit data to avionics and flight control systems, and the fiber stands must be cleaned to ensure that light can pass uninterrupted through the cables.