Accudyne Systems (Newark, Del., U.S.) has a long track record of innovating, designing, building and delivering novel composites manufacturing automation equipment and industrial automation solutions. The breadth and depth of its capabilities as a custom equipment manufacturer, and the knowledge of its engineering and technical teams, are best understood through its customer solutions delivered this past year.

These Accudyne Systems deliveries include a stringer preform manufacturing automation cell with lamination, compaction, ultrasonic trim and forming modules; a CMC AFP R&D cell; a laboratory-scale composite winding machine; and a carbon-carbon tape winding robotic cell.  

In the same time period, Accudyne has initiated several equipment programs to address emerging needs in the civil and military aircraft sectors as well as thermal protection system manufacturing automation solutions for space and hypersonic vehicles. These programs span new-start civil and Department of Defense programs, as well as platforms in production for years that are in search of operational improvements and cost savings to carry them farther into the future.