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 ...

Global Automated Fiber Placements and Automated Tape Laying (AFP- ATL) Machines Market Is Estimated to Account For US$ 439.6 Mn by End of 2028, Says Coherent Market Insights (CMI) ...

Hannah Paulus, Head of Fiber Placement Center at SGL Carbon says: “Already when Cevotec officially joined the FPC at JEC World 2019, it was clear that a Fiber Patch Placement (FPP) system will be ...

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 ...

Kanfit’s new automated fiber placement machine with robotic arm in action Discover more videos on JEC Composites Web TV. The AFP, the first of its kind in Israel, is part of Kanfit’s joint research ...

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

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 ...

Being more than a machine tool builder, MAG recently developed a new system for Boeing Commercial Airplanes’ manufacturing operation in North Charleston, S.C., that automatically exchanges a fresh cut ...

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.

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.

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.

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 ...