Machining/Drilling
Thermwood developing large-scale additive manufacturing system
The large-format additive manufacturing machine will produce near net shape parts up to 10 by 10 by 5 ft and provide post-process machining and trimming functions as well.
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Large-format CNC routing for large CFRP parts
5-axis CNC routers can provide fast, precision machining of increasingly larger parts, but also rapid payback.
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Looking for Lindberghs
Every paradigm-shifting invention throughout human history has been met with skepticism. CW editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan says the composites industry has need of those willing to attempt what most believe impossible.
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Incremental thinking just won’t cut it!
Composites industry consultant and regular CW columnist Dale Brosius says if this industry is to have a future that goes anywhere profitable, then we've got to get off the road we're on and map out a whole new way to think about the tasks at hand.
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Exelis Aerostructures: Salt Lake City
Braided composite shafts and struts for aircraft are its specialty, but there’s much more to this Utah, US-based rising star.
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SOURCEBOOK 2015: The online edition
Welcome to the online SOURCEBOOK, the searchable, updatable, Internet-based counterpart to CompositesWorld's annually published print SOURCEBOOK.
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Searching for composites-friendly machine tools
This is IMTS week, where "composites" is a foreign word to much of the machine tool industry. It's not too hard, however, to find suppliers who know their way around composite structures.
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Hole quality defined
In the aerospace industry, drilled hole quality is defined by ISO 286: System of Limits and Fits, a coordinated system of hole and shaft tolerances that is used in both engineering and production.
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Machining update: One-shot dry drilling of stacked materials
Tool design innovations tighten tolerances and cut costs for those who drill composite-metal assemblies.
Read MoreSAMPE Tech Seattle 2014 at a glance
A short compilation of SAMPE Tech Seattle 2014 program highlights.
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