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 ...

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 ...

Shown here printing the bay door demonstrator in Fig. 2, the SCRAM cell features a scaled-down, extremely dexterous in-situ consolidated thermoplastic AFP head positioned between two fused filament ...

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 ...

My aerospace career spans 41 years, and manufacturing equipment has been its primary focus. I worked my way through college in an aircraft machine shop, where I operated a variety of metal processing ...

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 ...