Fig. 1. The Institute for Production Engineering and Machine Tools (IFW) at Leibniz University Hannover developed an automated draping system for dry fiber layup through project FlexProCFK. In the ...

GKN Aerospace has optimised automated technology to speed up carbonfibre tape lay-up on the Airbus Military A400M primary wing spar it makes by up to 40 times compared with hand methods. According to ...

The PFE systems come fully integrated to the robot and system configuration selected by the customer. These systems are designed to be expanded as the need arises. Composites are increasingly used in ...

Mikrosam (Prilep, Macedonia) has announced the delivery of its latest single-tape placement head to the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus - Senftenberg (BTU) in Germany, which is an upgrade ...

Within Clean Sky’s Airframe ITD Programme, part of the work is devoted to automated and human/robot collaborative systems for manufacturing, inspection and assembly processes for composites ...

Automated layup is cutting the time required to produce composite structures. But production volumes forecast for the Boeing 787 and Airbus A350 are pressuring industry to accelerate the rate at which ...

JEC Europe 2013 – Mikrosam AD has already delivered ATL and AFP machines around the world, and is now combining both technologies in a single product, significantly easing the ability to program and ...