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), ...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Automated Tape Laying machines are used in the manufacture of high-quality audio and videotapes. These devices are capable of pre-wetting, which means that they can reproduce ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 — ...

As the trend to make things lighter and stronger continues to ramp up across many industries, it’s no surprise that the demand for carbon-fiber (CF) composites is greater than ever, too. However, CF ...

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 ...