SUSTAINABILITY

Dialing in composites performance via dynamic digital twins

Ginger Gardiner | CompositesWorld

Sport Dynamics Lab uses Flexdynamics testing, digital models and AI tools to compare designs, materials and systems, enabling optimization with potential for propellers, drones and vibrational structures.

Flexible, automatic NDT platform for manufacturing composites

Ginger Gardiner | CompositesWorld

IRT Jules Verne, working with Airbus, Daher and French consortium developed a mobile robotic inspection platform that uses less space, water

Plant tour: Hexagon Purus, Kassel, Germany

Ginger Gardiner | CompositesWorld

Fully automated, Industry 4.0 line for hydrogen pressure vessels advances efficiency and versatility in small footprint for next-gen, sustainable composites production.

The pursuit of energy efficiency in composites manufacturing

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld and Products Finishing

In an increasingly energy-driven world, technology developments are being sought after to reduce energy consumption in composites manufacturing, further translating into waste reduction and other efficiencies.

Schrödinger advances materials informatics for faster development of next-gen composites

Ginger Gardiner | CompositesWorld

Cutting time to market by multiple orders of magnitude, machine learning and physics-based approaches are combined to open new possibilities for innovations in biomaterials, fire-resistant composites, space applications, hydrogen tanks and more.

Next-gen composites manufacturing: Combining material, machine and mold cavity data with analytics

Ginger Gardiner | CompositesWorld

Using a sensor, an edge device and machine learning software, sensXPERT sees into processes and is improving quality and cutting scrap, cycle time and energy use for composites customers like ZF and Carbon Revolution.

European SUSPENS project targets green composites production

The 13-partner program will addresses the challenge of reducing the environmental footprint of sandwich and hollow composite structures via bio-sourced resins and carbon fiber precursors.  

Dieffenbacher TailoredPress promotes 70% energy savings

Variable-speed pump drives minimize unnecessary energy consumption during metal and composites forming operations.

Machina Labs unveils Machina Deployable System for agile manufacturing

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld and Products Finishing

Portable system combines AI and robotics for the forming and cutting of custom composite and metal parts.

Large-scale additive system prints industrial molds for composites

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld and Products Finishing

CAMX 2023: The Massivit 10000-G, with gel dispensed printing offers an ultra-fast, sustainable and cost-effective way to digitize isotropic mold production for high-quality and more reliable composite parts.