The manufacturing of large-scale structural components is still dominated by manual labor in many sectors of the modern composite industry. Efforts are being made to establish an automated layup technology for complex ...

For achieving high quality of in situ consolidation in thermoplastic Automated Fiber Placement, an approach is presented in this research work. The approach deals with the combination of material pre-heating and sub-ultrasonic ...

For the successful production of high quality parts by selective laser melting, various process steps are required. Besides the SLM process itself, different pre- and rework steps are needed to produce a final component. ...

Self-optimizing process planning is an essential approach for finding optimum process parameters and reducing ramp-up times in machining processes. For this purpose, polishing is presented as an application example. In ...

Due to increasing consumption of fiber-reinforced plastics (CFRP) especially in aerospace applications also production processes such as Automated Fiber Placement (AFP) gain in importance. However, manual visual inspection ...