Cutting/Kitting

Prepregs 29 Dec 2021

Plant tour: Bucci Composites, Faenza, Italy

A stalwart in Italy’s “Motor Valley” opens its doors for a discussion and exploration of the company’s history in composites manufacturing for high-performance cars and other applications.

Work In Progress 24 Dec 2021

Modular cutting and stacking system advances flexible, fully automated operations

Integration of next-gen cutting and stacking systems into production lines brings new level of efficiency, quality control.

Cutting/Kitting 1 Dec 2021

Cutting and stacking cell from Schmidt & Heinzmann earns ThinKing Award

Lightweight innovation award emphasizes the system’s successful interplay between hardware and software for flexible and precise preform cutting and stacking.

Epoxies 1 Nov 2021

Designing for automated composites manufacturing of low-volume aerostructures

The commercial aerospace industry is heavily focused on design for efficient high-rate manufacturing, but there is still need for automated, affordable fabrication of low-rate aerostructures.

Thermoplastics 8 Sep 2021

Thermoplastic tapes continue to show potential for composite aerostructures

Web Industries reports increased R&D activity within several aerospace markets enabled by the flexibility and advantages of thermoplastic tapes.

Machining/Drilling 9 Aug 2021

CAMX 2021 exhibit preview: Europe Technologies

Europe Technologies highlights its robotic finishing cells and ultrasonic cutting solutions.

Sheet Molding Compound 9 Aug 2021

CAMX 2021 exhibit preview: Schmidt & Heinzmann

Schmidt & Heinzmann showcases its product portfolio, which features the AutoCut 2D free-form cutting unit, Cube digitized SMC line and virtual reality.

Prepregs 5 Aug 2021

CAMX 2021 exhibit preview: Airborne

Airborne’s integrated automated kitting system can pick composites plies directly from the conveyor cutter to sort, sequence and store them in a compact and fast buffer station.