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 ...

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 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), ...

GKN Aerospace has become the first company in the UK to use one of the British National Composites Centre (NCC)'s new automated fiber placement machines. Automation of composite manufacturing in ...

Broetje-Automation has delivered the innovative Automated Fiber Placement System “STAXX One” to VIC-K, a leading international provider of products and services to the aerospace, defense, energy, and ...

Rocket Lab, a leader in low-cost launch services and space systems, has embarked on a new chapter in rocket manufacturing with the installation of the largest automated fiber placement (AFP) machine ...

Few technologies enjoy the high-tech stature of fiber placement and tape laying. The layup speed, the complex cuts, the robotic head's axes of motion and the manufacturing efficiency are impressive — ...

Kanfit Ltd., a manufacturer of fit-to-fly assemblies and subassemblies for the aerospace industry, has completed the production of a u-shaped spar acceptance test part in its Automated Fiber Placement ...

Steven Blencoe, an advanced research technician, operates an early generation automated fiber placement machine at Spirit AeroSystems. Spirit uses the machine to test new and better ways to work with ...

Kip Schmidt, director of special projects, describes the automated fiber placement machine that produces carbon fiber parts at Spirit AeroSystems. Correspondent Inside the gray walls of a ...