A production-scale prepreg tape slitting system featuring SAHM winding technology is available for thermoset, thermoplastic ...

An automated fiber placement machine has been used to lay down plies of composite material to create the first 777-8F wing spar. Credit: Marian Lockhart/Boeing Boeing has begun construction of the ...

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 ...

Using the giant, groundbreaking Automated Fiber Placement machine, Rocket Lab can cut down over 150,000 of manual labor to build its next Neutron rocket. > ...

AFT integrates software, materials and hardware to automate fiber tape placement in additive manufacturing (AM) units, followed by consolidation in a fusion module, resulting in the final parts.

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 ...

In October, Electroimpact won a coveted contract from Boeing to develop automated fiber placement machines for building 777X wings. Sales continue to grow so much that Electroimpact plans to ...

For the 777X, Mukilteo-based Electroimpact aims to displace Cincinnati with automated fiber-placement machines it has developed, promising new levels of speed and accuracy.

Goldsworthy made the first tape layer in the early 1970s and the first fiber placement machine in the mid-1980s, but both were hampered by machine-control technology limitations. The emergence of ...

However, the cost of these machines can hold back integration. In addition, the automated machines aren’t completely user-friendly, and there is still a steep learning curve.

Seventy percent of the fuselage of the Boeing 787, for example, is made with Ingersoll's fiber placement machines. And Ingersoll built the rotating base for the world's largest telescope, which ...

Precisely placing layer upon layer of carbon-fiber strips infused with epoxy resin, one of these so-called Automated Fiber Placement machines builds up the 777X’s composite wing skin, producing ...