It’s a lot more complicated than selling picks and shovels to gold miners, but the idea’s the same. As airplane manufacturers Boeing and Airbus, as well as their emerging challengers, charge into a ...
Inside a new building just west of Paine Field in Everett, a team of young engineers recently gave outsiders the first glimpse at a technological advance critical to the future of airplane making in ...
MUKILTEO — It’s a lot more complicated than selling picks and shovels to gold miners, but the idea’s the same. As airplane manufacturers Boeing and Airbus, as well as their emerging challengers, ...
Although inexpensive, this AFP system takes no shortcuts and is a full featured AFP4.0 lamination system. this system is used in production to manufacture lighter carbon fiber parts. Scorpion layup ...
Factory automation and tooling specialist Electroimpact Inc. has advanced the production of large structural components from thermoplastic composites for aerospace applications through enhanced ...
High-speed Automated Fiber Placement (AFP) equipment from Electroimpact has been enhanced for processing thermoplastic materials with a Variable-Spot-Size Laser heating system. This system uses a ...
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If automated fiber placement (AFP) and automated tape laying (ATL) were the manufacturing processes that enabled widespread application of composites in the Boeing 787 and Airbus A350, then it will ...
Market demand is the reason Airbus and Boeing have announced plans to raise monthly aircraft deliveries by a combined 42% between now and 2020. Factory automation may be the key reason that aggressive ...
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