Automated fiber placement has taken a giant leap in Louisiana, thanks to a rare partnership of industry, academia and government that has created the National Center for Advanced Manufacturing (NCAM), ...

The 90-tonne Automated Fiber Placement (AFP) machine has been custom-designed and built for Rocket Lab and is expected to save around 150,000 manufacturing hours in the Neutron rocket’s production ...

Automated dry fiber placement (DFP) and out-of-autoclave processes are listed as the key parameters that will affect the cost of future aerospace composites in the 2015 report, “Carbon composites are ...

The standard square beams are produced from graphite and PAN carbon fibres using CompoTech’s innovative automated, robot assisted filament placement technique, which places continuous fibres axially ...

The Fraunhofer Institute for Casting, Composite, and Processing Technology IGCV’s Samba Pro Prepreg system has found a new home in Hall 43. This is the new artificial intelligence (AI) research hall ...

EVERETT, Wash. — Inside a new building just west of Paine Field in this Seattle-area city, a team of young engineers recently gave outsiders the first glimpse at a technological advance critical to ...

Mukilteo-based aerospace-engineering firm Electroimpact has won the contract to build the automated fiber placement (AFP) machines and systems that Boeing will use to produce the giant carbon-fiber ...

Boeing’s decision to build the giant wing of its 777X jet in Everett has spurred ambitious talk of building a substantial carbon-fiber composites industry in the state. In Moses Lake last month, Gov.

March 23, 2006 There can be no more difficult proving ground than Formula One in the design and rapid prototyping of parts, and we have written before about the advanced techniques employed by Renault ...

The CCR changing system automatically exchanges one end-effector for a second that processes the same width material, using a docking stand outside the work zone. Being more than a machine tool ...