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, ...

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 ...

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 advance critical to ...

In a development that has generated great interest among composites manufacturers, Electroimpact has announced the development of an automated fiber placement machine cell that fully integrates ...

Middle River Aerostructure Systems (MRAS; Baltimore, Md., U.S.), manufacturer of composite aerostructures for commercial and military use, decided several years ago that it wanted to improve its ...

MANASSAS, VA- Aurora Flight Sciences announced its decision to make a major investment in Automated Fiber Placement (AFP) technology that will be used to manufacture larger and more complex composite ...

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 ...