Temple Allen Industries (TAI) designs and manufactures EMMA? (Easily Manipulated Mechanical Arm), a 100% pneumatic mechanical arm used to deploy a variety of pneumatic tools. The first EMMA was installed in 2004 at The Boeing Company?s Renton facility to perform surface preparation on 737NG rudders. Through this first project with Boeing, TAI learned of the demand for an alternative to manual surface preparation in the aerospace industry. Since then, commercial and military aerospace customers (representing both manufacturing and maintenance applications), have approached TAI to implement the EMMA technology into their processes. Drawing on feedback gained from working with customers, TAI?s approach to problem solving evolves to provide versatile solutions featuring the EMMA core technology. With a growing install base, TAI technology continually advances with the goal of EMMA becoming the industry standard for surface preparation in the aerospace industry.