Editorial

Thermoplastics

CAMX 2020 Preview

Transformed into a virtual event, the latest CAMX 2020 preview describes some of the opportunities that will be available for visitors and exhibitors. 

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Aerospace

Thinking machines

Algorithm-based artificial intelligence, once only imagined, is here. It can do a lot of good.

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Medical

When — not if — to pivot

In the business and manufacturing world that CW operates in, we have heard one particular coronavirus vocabulary word very frequently: pivot.

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Pressure Vessels

What will the composites industry's post-pandemic future look like?

We already have the tools needed to help us craft our future, even if we do not know yet how and where those tools might be deployed.

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Aerospace

The black swan events hitting the composites industry

From the Boeing 787 to COVID-19: When the out-of-the-ordinary becomes ordinary — and affects the manufacturing supply chain.

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Aerospace

I have seen the future and it is coming

The last 20 years were good to composites. What does the next 20 years have in store?

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Aerospace

To boldly go . . .

Space travel is a challenge, even if filmmakers like to make us think otherwise.

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Wind/Energy

The R&D we don't see

Shedding light on unrecognized composites manufacturing innovation.

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Aerospace

How much is that composite wing in the window?

With Spirit AeroSystems buying Bombardier’s Belfast operations, the future of composites fabrication for large commercial aerostructures starts to come into focus.

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Defense

CW Top Shops: Meaningful data for composites fabricators

The amount of data produced by manufacturing facilities is increasing exponentially. CW Top Shops' inaugural benchmarking  survey helps contextualize some of that data.

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