The 90-tonne Automated Fiber Placement (AFP) machine has been custom-designed and built for Rocket Lab and is expected to save around 150,000 manufacturing hours in the Neutron rocket’s production ...

A leading space company turned to Electroimpact to build large composite structures for a reusable carbon fiber rocket. In this project, REDEX precision gear racks and slew bearings power the motion ...

Rocket Lab is making innovative strides in space travel with the Neutron medium payload rocket – namely, it's the largest composite rocket ever made. Initially, hundreds of layers and thousands of ...

California-based Rocket Lab USA Inc. Friday announced it has begun installation of the largest automated fiber placement (AFP) machine of its kind into the company’s Neutron rocket production line in ...

Firefly today announced a substantial commitment to increase its manufacturing capacity by transitioning large parts manufacturing to Automated Fiber Placement (AFP) Mongoose Hybrid systems from ...

Fives, a global leader in industrial engineering solutions, is proud to announce the launch of its innovative In-Process Composite Inspection technology, “COAST: Composite Optical Automated Surface ...

DETROIT, April 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Stratview Research announces the launch of a new research report on AFP/ATL Machines Market by Machine Type (AFP, ATL, and Hybrid AFP/ATL), by End-User Type ...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Automated Tape Laying machines are used in the manufacture of high-quality audio and videotapes. These devices are capable of pre-wetting, which means that they can reproduce ...

Figure 1. SimuReal simulation with heat mapping. Heat mapping is integrated into Coriolis Composites’ SimuReal software, correcting for IR camera incidence angle (IR camera seen at far top right) to ...